During his second term in office, President Barack Obama was vilified for his policy of “leading from behind” in Libya. Whether such a strategy is viable in… Read more “LEADING FROM BEHIND?”
Tag: IAAF World Cross Country Championships
CAN RUNNING PULL ITSELF BACK FROM THE BRINK?
With a Warrior Games like course that has jaws dropped throughout the Twitter-sphere, there’s a real excitement for Saturday’s IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark.… Read more “CAN RUNNING PULL ITSELF BACK FROM THE BRINK?”
WORLD CROSS COUNTRY – NO MARCH MADNESS
Competition is an examining tool, a measuring stick. It is an auger to uncover the known from the proposed. Unfortunately, in the world of distance running the… Read more “WORLD CROSS COUNTRY – NO MARCH MADNESS”
WHEN WORLD CROSS FIRST CAME TO POLAND
Tomorrow, Poland will host the IAAF World Cross Country Championships for a third time, the second in four years in the city of Bydgoszcz. But in 1987… Read more “WHEN WORLD CROSS FIRST CAME TO POLAND”
CARLSBAD MISSING ITS LEAD-IN
The granddaddy of all marathons is less than three weeks away in Boston, but the progenitor of the modern road race is up this weekend in… Read more “CARLSBAD MISSING ITS LEAD-IN”
DISTANCE RACING HAS HIT THE WALL
Politically incorrect or not, the truth is both indisputable and self-evident: The utter domination of distance running by athletes from East Africa, a continuing trend which has seemed to… Read more “DISTANCE RACING HAS HIT THE WALL”
WANDERING IN A RUNNING WORLD 