Focus on Childhood Obesity Takes Center Stage at ING KiDS ROCK LA

1,500 local kids participate in youth fitness program; former Lakers' great AC Green, WNBA legend Ruthie Bolton and Sparky, the LA Sparks mascot, join ESPN’s Bonnie Bernstein and celebrity chef Antonia Lofaso to celebrate runners

By ING KiDS ROCK LA 

After weeks of training, the finish line...

The Next Chapter: Alan Webb

By Doug Binder, Armory Track

As Alan Webb drove into the teeth of a North Dakota rainstorm last Wednesday night, the U.S. record holder in the Mile was looking forward to new horizons on his latest trek west.

Webb is a new father and has set his sights on new goals. For more than a decade he...

Alberto Salazar Is Coaching High Schooler and Mile Ace Cain

By John Brant, Runner's World

For Mary Cain, it began with a hero-worship photo-op at the Olympic Trials last June. For Alberto Salazar, it began later in the summer, when he watched a YouTube video on his laptop computer. From these seemingly humble seeds a potentially mighty tree has...

OTC Elite Week, Day 6: The Year of Aisha Praught

By The Trailer

EUGENE, Ore. – It’s a small race in Gent, Belgium, and Aisha Praught is freezing. It’s pouring rain, and it’s windy, and these are probably the worst conditions you could try to run a steeplechase in.

Praught, of Moline, Ill., is devoid of her college team, running one of her...