Daily News Roundup: Spring Is Coming

March 11, 2014 | Jesse Squire

We’re not heading into Franklin Field for the Penn Relays just yet, but it’s coming.

Usually I lead into this late afternoon roundup of news items with a thought or two about track and field or road racing. Today I … Read More

Athletech: Chris Nickinson, Editor-in-Chief of RunnerSpace.com

March 11, 2014 | Jim McDannald | One Comment

Welcome to Athletech, where we discover the gear and technology the running and track & field community uses to get stuff done. If there is someone who you’d like us to feature, tweet their name to us @DailyRelay with the … Read More

Daily News Roundup: Analyzing Team USA Performance

March 10, 2014 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

How did the US team do at the World Championships? And how do we figure that out?

How do you analyze a “team” performance in a sport that is essentially a collection of individuals? There’s no teamwork to look at … Read More

The Monday Morning Run

March 10, 2014 | Kevin Sully | 2 Comments

Typically, we begin the Monday Morning Run by awarding gold, silver and bronze to three best performances of the week. In a weekend where they handed out actual medals, that exercise didn’t seem as useful. Instead, we recap the World Indoor … Read More

The Weekend’s Best Matchups

March 6, 2014 | Jesse Squire | 2 Comments

This weekend is the IAAF World Indoor Championships, to be held in the Ergo Arena in Sopot, Poland. Of course all the weekend’s best matchups come from this meet.

The IAAF’s meet website has schedules, start lists, live results, and … Read More

Athletech: Jon Mulkeen, Web Editor for IAAF

March 6, 2014 | Jim McDannald

Welcome to Athletech, where we discover the gear and technology the running and track & field community uses to get stuff done. If there is someone who you’d like us to feature, tweet their name to us @DailyRelay with the … Read More

World Indoor Championships Over/Unders

March 6, 2014 | Kevin Sully | One Comment

The year’s first, and only, comprehensive world championship is upon us.  Sure, the World Indoor Championships aren’t nearly as prestigious as the outdoor version or the Olympics, but if the competition is anything like the season thus far it will … Read More

Daily News Roundup: Some Oversight?

March 5, 2014 | Jesse Squire

The 2014 USATF Indoor Championships might be a turning point in the organization’s history.

If you’ve been paying any attention at all to professional track and field in the last two weeks, you know that two high-profile disqualifications happened at … 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

5 Questions with Erik Kynard

March 4, 2014 | Jesse Squire | One Comment

Photo: Dane Schubert

Welcome back to 5 Questions, where we pick the brains of people from all areas of the track & field scene. Today we caught up with high jumper Erik Kynard, who recently won his first USATF indoor … Read More