Race Report

Chicago 2008: Evans Cheruiyot and Lidiya Grigoryeva win in fine styleThe 2008 Chicago Marathon champions are Evans Cheruiyot and Lidiya Grigoryeva. In two very different races, the Kenyan and Russian triumphed in times of 2:06:25 and 2:27:17, respectively.For Cheruiyot, it is the first major marathon win of a career that promises to deliver great performances. For Grigoryeva, it's the latest in

It is all over again ... On Saturday I participated in my first Duathlon with a Mountain Bike (my old yellow banger). I opted in to take part in the Sprint Duathlon which is a 5K run, 12K MTB and another 2K run. The event is held near the Gibraltar barracks in Hawley lake in Camberley. The course track is hilly, muddy, wet and with overgrowing branches. This made the course track Xtreme and for me

We just returned from the Big Cow Sprint triathlon in Olney and I'm pleased with the results. At this moment I'm feeling a little bit too tired to write up a whole race report but I will in the next 24 hours. In summary I ended up 3 minutes worse then expected in 1:28, the official times are not published yet and I'm fearing that my bike and run results are not recorded.  I was out of course on

We just returned from the Big Cow Sprint triathlon in Olney and I'm pleased with the results. At this moment I'm feeling a little bit too tired to write up a whole race report but I will in the next 24 hours. In summary I ended up 3 minutes worse then expected in 1:28, the official times are not published yet and I'm fearing that my bike and run results are not recorded.  I was out of course on

Well the Nokia Royal Windosor triathlon was the first Sprint Triathlon for me and hopefully many to follow. The build up to the event went along with some nerves days before, the nerves were mainly caused because of the problems I have been having with my left leg. The race was in a great race venue, beautiful scenery along the biking track and running next to the castle of the Queen of England,

Ryan Newman Scores Top 10 at Sonoma June 23, 2008 SONOMA, Calif. (June 22, 2008) - Ryan Newman and the No. 12 Penske Racing Alltel Dodge team scored a seventh place finish at Infineon Raceway on Sunday in the Toyota/Save Mart 350. It was the team's sixth top-10 finish of the season. "Our strategy got off a [...]

This is the elevation chart for the race I ran yesterday, the Fort Worth Komen 5K Race for the Cure. You can see the big hill I blogged about. At about 2.5 miles in, this thing hits you. You turn off of Forest Park Boulevard onto Weatherford Street.At this point in the race yesterday, I was averaging a 6:45 mile pace. Well on my way to setting a 5K pr.Then I hit this hill. It was .58 miles. Elevation, according to my Garmin Forerunner 305, was 68 feet. So basically, I had to climb a five-story building. (Didn't Batman need to pull himself up a rope to do this kind of thing?)It took me 4:21 to get up this hill, a 7:48 pace. My heart rate soared from 90 to 95 percent max. My total minute-per-mile pace slowed from 6:45 to 7:04.I sprinted the rest of the way in to shave a few seconds off my to

My time: 21:56Not a pr, but with the last 3/4 of a mile uphill, I feel pretty good about what I did. And the time is better than the last three 5ks I've done, and those were all flat courses.I'll write a more detailed report later, but here are the splits...1: 6:45 (was feeling good)2: 6:55 (pacing myself for the hill to come)3: 7:31 (ok. this hill _ on Weatherford Street _ is ridiculous)3.13 :45 (Sprinted in and tried not to throw up on the slow person cutting the chip off my shoe).More later....

Zogaib and Dalziel take top ten at Homestead Homestead, FL –(March 30, 2008)– Henri Zogaib and Ryan Dalziel scored a tenth place Daytona Prototype class result with the No. 2 Cigarette Racing/The Miami Garage Samax Motorsport BMW after an eventful GAINSCO Grand Prix at Homestead Miami Speedway on Saturday. The Homestead race marked the debut outing for the Dinan-prepared BMW powerplant [...]

263 Total Starters roar in Mexico Las Vegas’ Brian Collins roars in Dodge Ram 1500 to Overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck win at 22nd Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 Schwarz/Christensen capture Class 1 in Jimco-BMW, Bell/Campbell ride Honda to Overall Motorcycle & Class 22 win SAN FELIPE, Mexico–Second-generation veteran Las Vegas desert racer Brian Collins roared through the rugged [...]

Sampey Exits Gators in Round 2 The reunion tour of three-time NHRA POWERade champion Pro Stock Motorcycle driver Angelle Sampey and six-time champion tuner George Bryce got its start this past weekend at the Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida. And while things could have gone better for the Rush Racing team, their results at the Gators have often been worse. “The [...]

In the overall scheme of things, the Turkish Grand Prix was not a great race and it will not be remembered fondly by anyone (except perhaps the Massa Family). The crowd was small and the action sparse and while Felipe Massa drove a perfect race, most of the attention was still centred on the rivalry [...]

This local trail race was really easy to get to, it turned out to be about 1hr15min drive from my house. The race started in Malibu Creek State Park, the course offered great views of the ocean, and some interesting rock formation. I was also told parts of the TV Series M*A*S*H where filmed here... Although that Hit TV show series was before my time, I took their word for it.I had a fantastic time with my race running partner Kim French. We have not ran together since Lake Hodges. She has been plagued with some foot problems and took several months off. But we pretty much picked up where we left off... I feel real fortunate to have running partner like Kim, I think we are a great team, it really felt like we were in synch... our breathing patterns were the same, and other aches and pains. I officially signed up for the 25K, and Kim registered for the 50K, which is a second loop of the first loop. Months ago when I signed up I knew Aug was typically a very Hot month, so I wimped out a

The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard may be one of the biggest races of the year in the NASCAR Cup Series, but for Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 12... Please visit my site for the complete story with links to data and sources. Go #12!

Gambling will only get you so far. It is nice to win but a lot of the time luck has nothing to do with it. You win by working at it, doing the homework and not because the cards fell in your favour. Monaco is a city built on a casino, on the foundation that [...]

Recap: LA 5K March 4, 2007 Leading up to the race, was an interesting week. First the whole family had the flu, leading up to the race I was in my third day of recovery. Nonetheless I still felt like it was in my chest. On Friday March 2nd, I was invited to attend a group dinner at Lucianos in Dana Point. The guest speaker was Dave Scott. Dave Scott is a 6 time Ironman Champion, he is an engaging speaker. He had a little talk on Success in sports, I found it to be very informative and motivating. Dave was in down for the weekend for a triathlon clinic for the Orange County Triathlon Club. On Saturday March 3rd, I participated in a group trail run with my fellow Orange County Trail Runners. The run was located in Aliso Woods which included a 11mile loop. We had a great turn out, 17 trail runners were in attendance. The purpose of the trail run for me was to get a good idea of how the legs felt. The leg turnover was not there, and my coughing persisted turning the run. On Sunda

Well it’s officially the end of Black History Month, a contrived attempt at helping white folk realize that the world doesn’t revolve around them. I doubt we were any more successful at it this past year than when they got rid of slavery. I’m a fan of Black History Month, because I’m a fan of being intentional. I say this a lot in the community we live in, that we need to intentionally carve out time and space for things to occur, until they become a natural part of what we do. Until the integration and celebration of Black History is as much a part of the education of every student as any sort of euro-centric history, until that is true, there will be a need for Black History Month. It was suggested on a podcast I was listening to recently that Black History Month should serve as an assessment time, as a chance to give our society a report card on how we’ve done in the past year as it relates to racial integration and race relations, in our current and h

Stevenson Pontiac GXP-R Takes First-Ever Win In Mexico The #57 Stevenson Motorsports — BryanMark Financial Pontiac GXP-R made history this weekend at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City, Mexico. Running in just its third race ever, in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16, the Stevenson Pontiac led the GT field [...]

RETIREMENT WITH A FEW LAPS TO GO FOR MATTEO BOBBI IN MEXICO The ‘Mexico City 250′, third round of the Grand-Am 2008 championship, showed the first positive notes on the development of the Coyote-Pontiac of the Team Cheever. Matteo Bobbi, during Friday’s qualifying, obtained in fact the eighth position (1:20.890), a result still far from the objectives both of the driver and [...]

Dirk Werner driver, Farnbacher Loles Racing No. 87 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup The event started very well, as we were fast right from the beginning. It was soon clear that my teammate for Mexico — Pierre Kaffer – was a premium choice. We were on top of the timing lists in two of the three free practice sessions, and in [...]

Thomas fourth in the rank, if only the safety car. SILVERSTONE (GBR) - It would have been a well-deserved podium, but the safety car has spoiled the new adventure start of Thomas Biagi in FIA GT Championship; it went down in the racetrack to reshuffle and to make people stare at it and not for a concrete need: in [...]

It was Bas Leinders who took the start of the race by passing 5 cars in the first lap. Belgian Racing opted for an aggressive strategy by pitting after one lap for the first mandatory pitstop. Renaud Kuppens drove for 50 minutes before giving the car back to Bas Leinders. The Gillet Vertigo was the first car on slicks [...]

The Lizards continued their podium streak with 2nd, 3rd, and 7th place finishes for the three-Porsche, GT2 squad at yesterday’s Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach. In a hotly-contested race, with the GT2 lead pack running nose to tail across the finish line, the No. 45 Lizard Porsche of Joerg Bergmeister and [...]

Montreal (CA). It is done! Non-stop celebrations for the BMW Sauber F1 Team: The maiden win for the young team turned out to be a double victory when Robert Kubica crossed the line ahead of his team mate, Nick Heidfeld, at the Canadian Grand Prix. Kubica now leads the drivers’ championship. In the constructors’ standings the BMW Sauber [...]

1 PODIUM 6 POINTS 4th in CHAMPIONSHIP Car 9, DAVID COULTHARD, (Finish Position 3rd, Start Position: 13th) “I’m delighted to get a podium for the team, they’ve had a lot of work on at the previous races and back at base. You can expect some unusual results here, so we fuelled it long; but we expected the incidents would occur on [...]

Madison, IL (September 7, 2008)-Shane Sieg in the No. 51 Miccosukee Resort Toyota Tundra took to the track at the Gateway International Raceway Saturday, September 06, 2008 for the running of the Camping World 200 in the 11th place position after posting a time of 34.220 seconds at a speed of 131.502 mph. Right off the truck Sieg was fast [...]

IDAHO NATIVE QUALIFIES 3RD FOR CAMPING WORLD 200 Madison, IL — Brian Scott’s day started with a bright ray of sunshine. The 20 year-old Boise, ID native busted off an impressive lap in Saturday morning’s qualifying session for the Camping World 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Gateway International Raceway. Scott toured Gateway’s 1.25 mile oval in 33.989 seconds wh

SCOTT THUNDERS TO A THRILLING 7TH PLACE at TALLADEGA Talladega, AL (October 4, 2008) — NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series rookie of the year candidate Brian Scott made the most of his first series start in Saturday’s Mountain Dew 250 at the famed Talladega Superspeedway. Scott drove his No. 16 Albertsons Toyota Tundra to the front of the pack on several [...]