By Clay Shaw New York, NY, March 19, 2023, United Airlines New York City Half Marathon—You have to be the most elite of athletes to win World Cross Country. Hellen Obiri of Kenya, who won World Cross in Aarhus, Denmark… Read More ›
by Clay ShawPhotos by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 18-19, 2023, World Masters Athletics Cross Country Championships—April Lund of Bismarck, North Dakota and Ben Bruce of Flagstaff, Arizona had convincing wins at the USA XC championships in… Read More ›
By Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 18, 2023, World Athletics World Cross Country Championships—Three men with big resumes were in serious contention for the senior men’s race (10K) title. Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda had won the junior race… Read More ›
By Clay ShawPhotography by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 18, 2023, World Cross Country Championships at the Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit—Emilio Young from Newbury Park, CA who won in Richmond, VA, was the first non-East African… Read More ›
By Clay Shaw New York, NY, March 19, 2023, United Airlines New York City Half Marathon—You have to be the most elite of athletes to win World Cross Country. Hellen Obiri of Kenya, who won World Cross in Aarhus, Denmark… Read More ›
by Clay ShawPhotos by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 18-19, 2023, World Masters Athletics Cross Country Championships—April Lund of Bismarck, North Dakota and Ben Bruce of Flagstaff, Arizona had convincing wins at the USA XC championships in… Read More ›
By Freddi Carlip Marty Cooksey…Julie Brown…Nancy Conz…Grete Waitz…Joan Benoit Samuelson…Lorraine Moller…Lynn Jennings…names that have passed my lips in reverent, awed tones. Some women dream of becoming the next Cindy Crawford or Claudia Schiffer. Not me (I’m too short anyway). I… Read More ›
by George A. Hancock March Wednesday begins a March run We’re nearing that spring sun The first is meteorological spring It’s for record keeping we sing. The first quarter ends the last day 2023 is moving along so make way… Read More ›
By Maxim Furek In 2022, another Run for the Diamonds’ Local Age Group Record was broken — this time, in the 80 and over division. Lifelong runner and athlete Frank McDonald, who had just turned 80 on November 23, ran… Read More ›
By George Banker The travels of Richard G. Nealis over the years went from the streets of South Philadelphia to the “Crossroads” of Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA. At one point Nealis entertained thoughts of becoming a priest and having… Read More ›
By Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 18, 2023, World Athletics World Cross Country Championships—Three men with big resumes were in serious contention for the senior men’s race (10K) title. Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda had won the junior race… Read More ›
By Clay ShawPhotography by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 18, 2023, World Cross Country Championships at the Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit—Emilio Young from Newbury Park, CA who won in Richmond, VA, was the first non-East African… Read More ›
By Clay ShawPhotography by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst Australia, February 18, 2023, World Cross Country Championships 2023—Four high school runners from the USA ran like seasoned vets and helped earned USA their first team medal in World XC… Read More ›
By Clay ShawPhotography by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 18, 2023, World Cross Country Championships, Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit—The Mixed Relay was the first of the main events in the 2023 edition of World Cross Country… Read More ›
By Clay ShawPhotography by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 18, 2023, World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 23—Beatrice Chebet of Kenya was seemingly resigned to a second-place finish in the senior women’s 10K. (Note to readers: ‘Senior’… Read More ›
by Clay ShawPhotography by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Bathurst, Australia, February 17, 2023—It’s really far away, and it’s been a long wait. We lost a day flying to Australia from Philadelphia. Covid-19 postponed the event from 2021 to 2022,… Read More ›
by George A. Hancock February Wednesday begins the new show As February begins amidst a glow Winter’s days are slipping away Soon we’ll have some spring play. But first, February does get cold With only the dedicated road bold Getting… Read More ›
By Clay ShawPhotography by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Mechanicsville, VA, January 21, 2023, USATF Cross Country Championships—Ten minutes prior to the start of the men’s master 8K race at Pole Green Park, Ben Bruce was a proud dad watching… Read More ›
By Clay ShawPhotography by Clay Shaw and Karen Mitchell Mechanicsville, VA, January 21, 2023, 2023 USA Cross Country Championships—April Lund, 40, of Bismarck, North Dakota was an easy winner of the master’s women 6K. She finished in 22:03, leading from… Read More ›
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