26 thoughts from Olympic Trials Marathon

February 16, 2016 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

Some leftover thoughts from Saturday’s Olympic Trials. Be sure to check out Jesse’s takeaways from the race, Brendon’s look at social media and our recap podcast featuring Sports Illustrated’s Tim Layden.

1) I know a good number of you thought Rupp … Read More

Sunday a reminder that, even for elites, marathoning hurts

November 4, 2014 | Daily Relay

Photo: New York City Marathon Facebook

The sheer number of people who complete marathons every year – 541,000 Americans in 2013, according to Running USA – can obscure how difficult the task is. All of the runners in … Read More

The New York City Marathon a trial for the Trials

November 1, 2014 | Daily Relay | 2 Comments

Deep elite fields of American men and women will have their feet planted on the New York City pavement for Sunday’s marathon, but you’ll have to forgive them if the back of their minds are somewhere in the cloudless skies … Read More

The Monday Morning Run: New York City Marathon Over/Unders

October 27, 2014 | Kevin Sully

Photo via Wikimedia Commons

We waited through the pacers of Berlin and the wind of Chicago to finally arrive at the end of the fall marathon season. The New York City Marathon is Sunday, with the women starting … Read More

Monday Morning Run: World Champs bidding heats up, NYC Marathon look ahead and Symmonds’s world record

October 21, 2014 | Kevin Sully

Photo via TrackTownPhoto

The Monday Morning Run waited until Tuesday this week to make way for Jesse’s comprehensive NCAA recap with news and notes from two mammoth races on the collegiate slate. For the professionals, it was a slow … Read More

Kara Goucher Sponsorship Decision Flowchart

March 4, 2014 | Jim McDannald | 4 Comments

Kara Goucher recently left Portland and moved back to Boulder to join up with Coach Wentmore, Jenny Simpson & Emma Coburn. Her contract with Nike has ended and she’s “becoming less and less concerned with dollar figure and more and more … Read More

Daily News Roundup: Cain shooting for a World Junior Record?

January 9, 2014 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

Mary Cain holds no World Junior records…yet. (Photo by TrackTownPhoto)

The New Balance Indoor Grand Prix announced a few of their star entries yesterday, and one of them was young Mary Cain. She’ll be running an odd distance, the 2000 … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

December 16, 2013 | Kevin Sully | 2 Comments

Photo courtesy of TrackandFieldPhoto

Later in the week, the Daily Relay will proudly present our end-of-year-awards. Pat, Jesse and I will give our “best-ofs” in 15 different categories. In putting them together, we realized that 15 weren’t enough. … Read More

5 Questions with Emily Infeld

October 22, 2013 | Pat Price | 3 Comments

photo: TrackAndFieldPhoto.com

Welcome back to 5 Questions, where we pick the brains of people from all areas of the running scene. Today, we were lucky enough to catch up with Emily Infeld as she continues her strong season on … Read More

5 Questions with Jason Hartmann

September 20, 2013 | Pat Price

photo courtesy: Facebook

Welcome back to 5 Questions, where we pick the brains of people from all areas of the running scene. Today, we were lucky enough to catch up with Jason Hartmann as he builds towards the New … Read More