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Distance runners tend to be Type A personalities. They weigh their food, chart their mileage and obsess over everything from sleep to stretching. Then there is easygoing Abdirahman, a Somali native who moved to the U.S. as a child. He eats what he wants, likes to party and runs fewer training miles than other marathoners, occasionally skipping workouts altogether. Full Article

Soon to be 2012 US Olympic Marathon Olympians Meb Keflezighi, Ryan Hall, and Abdi Abdirahman are running Saturday's UAE Healthy Kidney 10K in Central Park. On Thursday, the Olympic trio met the media atop the Empire State Building. Full Article

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Wallace Spearmon, Jr. had tried more than once to break the 200-meter Drake Relays record set 15 years ago by Michael Johnson, partly because Johnson was an idol to Spearmon growing up. That Spearmon was able to do it in such chilly conditions bodes well for the rest of his outdoor season. Spearmon finished in 20.02 seconds...Read More

(25-Apr) -- It's been five years since Deena Kastor has run 10 kilometers on the track, but that will change on Sunday night when she pulls on her spikes to compete at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational meeting at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.  Kastor, 39, the American record holder for the marathon, is using the race to qualify for June's Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., where she hopes to make her fourth Olympic team by achieving a top-3 finish. Full Article

Olympians Ryan Hall of the United States and Kim Smith of New Zealand have confirmed that they will run in the ING New York Marathon in November, race officials announced Wednesday. Full Artcile

April 25, 2012 Bring Back the Mile’s podcast series, 4 Minutes with a Miler, presents its second installment with 2011 World Champion and 4:25.91 Miler, Jenny Simpson, who is based in Colorado Springs and coached by Juli Benson. Full Article

Talking with Abdi Abdirahman, it's clear his outlook on running embodies Rudyard Kipling's admonition to "Meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same." "I never get too down on myself after a bad race, go home and beat myself up by training twice as hard," Abdirahman says. "Just like I'd never use a good race as a reason to get satisfied and train less. I've had a lot more good races than bad ones, so I know there's always another race I can do well in." Read More

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -  "Two laps, fast." That's what Maggie Vessey says she does. MAGGIE VESSEY Maggie Vessey runs the 800-meter.  Photo by Paul Merca VIEW LARGE The 30-year-old Aptos runner is training vigorously to win the 800-meter track and field race at the Olympic trials in June. Vessey and her coach, Rose Monday, are hopeful she will make it into the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London...Read More

Bothell, Wash. – Apr. 18, 2012 – After a storied college career that includes eight NCAA Division II national championships, Neely Spence is joining the professional running ranks. After forgoing her senior season on the track, Spence set her sights on Olympic glory and has chosen the elite running group, the Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project (ODP) and leading footwear company, Brooks Sports to help her reach her goals.   “I have spent the last few months visiting training groups and talking to both coaches and at...

ARLINGTON -- Wallace Spearmon is tasting his breakfast for the second time this morning. Having just finished another 350-meter sprint, he is leaning over a fence at the new Oakridge School track, trying to calm his stomach Read More Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/04/18/3895209/olympic-hopeful-wallace-spearmon.html#storylink=cpy