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2009 Gate River Run USATF 15k Cha...

By Ron on March 15, 2009

Images from USATF and flotrack.org Saturday, March 14th 2009, Jacksonville, FL: Olympians Anthony Famiglietti and, Amy Begley were victorious at the 2009 USATF 15k Championships held at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville Florida yesterday...

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  2009 Gate River Run USATF 15k Championships

  By Ron on March 15, 2009 | No Comments

  Images from USATF and flotrack.org Saturday, March 14th 2009, Jacksonville, FL: Olympians Anthony Famiglietti and, Amy Begley were victorious at the 2009 USATF 15k Championships held at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville Florida yesterday morning. A $5000.00 bonus was paid to the overall winner wi...
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  What is VO2 max?

  By Ron on February 28, 2009 | No Comments

  By: Tinman Layman’s Definition VO2 max is the maximum amount of oxygen consumed by a runner during a graded exercise test (a test in which the intensity is increased in stages, often using a treadmill). A runner with a “high VO2 max” has a strong heart, plenty of red blood cells t...
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  Recovering Faster: A Master’s Perspective

  By Ron on February 23, 2009 | No Comments

  By Tinman Recovering from structural damage takes longer for master’s runners than young runners; primarily because androgen levels are lower with age. Androgen’s, such as human growth hormone and testosterone are affected by overall health, age, and nutritional status. Although age ca...
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  Reebok Boston Indoor Games

  By Ron on February 8, 2009 | No Comments

  Shalane Flanagan en route to her US 5000m indoor record (Victah Sailer) Ejigu and Flanagan go to the wire (from the IAAF Website) Shalane Flanagan and Sentayehu Ejigu in the closing stages of a dramatic 5000m race. Flanagan, who led the race from the moment pacemaker Marina Muncan stepped off a...
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  Gebrselassie aims to break his own world record this ...

  By Ron on January 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

  Haile Gebrselassie is confirmed to run in the $2 million standard chartered Dubai marathon this Friday, January 16. In his first major race since breaking his own world record in the Berlin Marathon running 2:03:59 in 2008 Haile’s back at it again. His goal, as always is to break his own worl...
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  Dedication

  By Ron on January 10, 2009 | No Comments

  Welcome to January in North East Ohio! Another day, another 20 miles! This winter will definitely go down as one to remember (or forget more likely) here in the great white north. Winter came early this year, in fact it started rearing it’s ugly head in late October and really has never gone a...
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  Happy New Years!!

  By Ron on December 31, 2008 | No Comments

  Happy New Years to all from TheRunZone.com.  Things have been quite hectic here for the last month or two and website updates have been at a minimal. Our parent company, TC-Web has divided into two separate companies and it ended up being a much bigger project than expected. Well, it looks like thi...
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  New York City Marathon Preview

  By Ron on November 1, 2008 | No Comments

  2008 ING New York City Marathon Upper 30’s, low humidity and winds of less than 10mph make for what could be a great marathon tomorrow morning. A cold front moving through New York City this afternoon is going to bring the temperatures overnight to just above freezing and take away any moistu...
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  Post Chicago Marathon Wrap Up

  By Ron on October 15, 2008 | No Comments

  The 2008 Bank of America Chicago Marathon It was about as unlikely as getting an extra vacation day from work that two years in a row the temperatures could reach or exceed record highs for the running of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. And though 2007 was a bit hotter and did eventually get...
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  Chicago Marathon Preview

  By Ron on October 7, 2008 | No Comments

  As of today (Tues. Oct. 7) it appears the 2008 Bank of America Chicago Marathon is going to be on the warm side once again. Not quite as bad as last year, but close with a forecast afternoon high of 77. With an average high of 62 and a low of 46, once again, this year looks to be anything BUT averag...