Lauren Wallace Wins Road Mile in Maui
Lauren Wallace former Ukiah high and UC Davis runner story here Results
In athletic competitions, what qualifies as a sporting chance?
Back in the days when the Redwood Empire was turning out National cross country champions, for what seemed like every year, there was a joke about what was in the water around here. After reading this story maybe our water should be tested, ha ha. Click on the link below [...]
Skandera update
The Skandera brothers didn't improve their mile bests at the last All-Comers track meet but that was probably because of some fine running on the beach two days earlier. Skandera's at Salmon Creek Beach 2 Mile race August 4, 2013 The Skandera family took 7 of the top 16 places [...]
2013 Kenwood Foot Races
Former SRJC star Kevin Jones lost his 27 year old Course Record of 31:06 for the challenging Kenwood Footrace course in California's oldest 10K today by Michael Crouch, setting a new standard of 30:51, a 4:58 mile pace. Crouch beat out some top runners, here are the top 6. 1 [...]
Random running stuff
U.S. High School Best Marks Lists – June 6th Sprints phenom Lauren Williams to attend LB Poly in the Fall of 2013! A few from our area made it to state this year by marks rather than top 3 at MOC. Here is what it will take next year. North [...]
James Withers 3:58 Mile
Santa Barbara State Street mile Elite Men June 2, 2013 Plc Finisher Age Time 1 Michael Coe 25 Oakland CA 3:49 2 Forest Braden 30 Beverly Hills CA 3:50 3 Aric Champagne 22 San Luis Obispo CA 3:52 4 Juan Paredes 23 Goleta CA 3:53 5 Tetlo Emmen 29 Santa [...]
Bowen sisters at Carlsbad 5000
13 year old Rylee Bowen of Santa Rosa and her 11 year old sister Kate, placed 8th (18:21) and 21st (19:46) respectfully at the Carlsbad 5000 race out of 437 women runners. Results
Conley 30th at Worlds
Former Montgomery runner and Olympian Kim Conley placed 30th at the World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Conditions included snow, tight turns, and four foot high speed bumps. Complete Results Video of final 6 minutes, all Africans shown no Conley.
1984 vs today: Legend and Prodigy
As I reported before Julia "Stamps" Mallon would be competing today in the Napa Marathon. Julia won her age division and was the 4th fastest female of the 861 women, in 2:58:39. As good as that is I was more interested in what happened in the 5k race they held [...]
Blast from Past: 1979 SRJC XC
A former teammate of mine posted a photo on Facebook of the 1979 Santa Rosa Junior College Men’s cross country team. This was one of the great local teams for any sport made up of mostly locally grown talent. This group won the 1979 Northern California Community College [...]