Today, 30 August 2021, marks the 30th anniversary of Mike Powell’s other-worldly long jump duel with Carl Lewis at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. In that… Read more “TAKING A MEASURE FROM THE PARALYMPICS”

In the first 2-mile race of her professional career, Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba beat Ethiopia’s 5000m world record holder Letesenbet Gidey by six seconds in Friday’s women’s 2-mile… Read more “TESTOSTERONE AGAIN”

There has always been a tension between the rules makers and rules breakers, a tension whose roots lie deep in the Garden of Eden beneath the Tree… Read more “SHA’CARRI”

(The following is a reblog of a May 3, 2011 post offered as a happy birthday nod to the running boom’s original hero who turned 73 today,… Read more “VALUE OF A HERO II”

First, it was the new, high-stack, carbon-plated shoes that had everyone losing their shit, now it’s the Wavelight pacing technology people are beginning to question. Fine, the… Read more “OLD WAYS OR NEW DAYS?”

The expectations for London’s bubble marathon last Sunday were perhaps a little overblown. Maybe that was predictable with world record holders Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei headlining… Read more “A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT SEX”