Archive for the ‘Running’ Category
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
By Laura Pappano
SOMETIMES YOU LOSE – AND IT’S OK. The Women’s World Cup championship game between the U.S. and Japan honored the rise and intensity of women’s soccer. The back story was compelling: The U.S. Team’s dramatic run-up with Abby Wambach’s YouTube-play-it-again (and again) headers versus the determination of a ...
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Lately, major marathons have become a showcase for record-breaking male performances and today’s New York City Marathon was no exception: Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai finished in 2:05:05, setting a new course record (all three top male finishers broke the record).
So much men’s record-breaking has been going on, in fact, ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
The international track federation’s (IAAF) decision to nullify women’s marathon records from mixed-sex events reflects a crude double standard: Men can have rabbits; women can’t.
The use of pacesetters is common in running, from short track distances to marathons. Boston and New York no longer allow pacesetters, but many ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Yes, we’ve heard the exciting Chicago Marathon results. Despite the heat (78 degrees according to my iPhone) Moses Mosop set a course record (2:05:37) and Liliya Shobukhova finished in 2:18:20, making it her third straight Chicago win, and her the second-fastest woman behind Paula Radcliffe who holds the ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Last July when Federal District Court Judge Stefan Underhill found Quinnipiac University violated Title IX, in part, because it counted cheerleading as a varsity sport, most of the debate was about – you guessed it: Is cheerleading a sport?
The decision, however, also discussed the school’s “roster management” practices ...
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Whether or not the IAAF decides to recognize as a new world record Geoffrey Mutai’s win in the Boston Marathon, crossing in 2:03:02 – 57 seconds faster than Haile Gebreselassie’s 2008 record of 2:03:59 – is, in some ways, immaterial.
He was fast. He was so thrillingly fast (and ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Just in time to save us from seasonal affective disorder, writer and blogger Mina Samuels has published Run Like a Girl, a relentlessly optimistic book (doesn’t mean there aren’t trials) about the transformative power of sports.
Yes, sports can make you happy. (And more successful. too!)
In her part-memoir, part-girlfriend/life ...
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
By Elizabeth Chabner Thompson
Each August a group of running/eco-challenge lovers, trudge through surf and sand of Nantucket to make the 50-mile Rock Run around the island (the course changes yearly with beach erosion and tidal variances). As race director Hector MacDonald, puts it, “You can count on sand and sun ...
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
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By Davi-Ellen Chabner
On this morning of the 2010 Boston Marathon, I‘m thinking about where I have been for the past nine years: At the starting line in Hopkinton, wondering if I have it in me to run through ...
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
By Laura Pappano
It has become a provocative theme: Marathons and motherhood. Five of the top six women to cross the finish line in the 2009 ING New York City Marathon are moms.
1. Winner Derartu Tulu, 37, of Ethiopia – an two time Olympic gold medalist at 10,000 meters in 1992 ...
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