RossRunning News

10/08/2025

Wishing a very happy 28th birthday to Josh Kerr!

He’s the 2023 world champion over 1500 meters and the 2024 Olympic silver medalist. He was the 2024 world indoor champion over 3,000 meters and holds the world indoor record over 2 miles.

10/08/2025

Two years ago today Kelvin Kiptum set the marathon world record in Chicago, running 2:00:35.

He tragically lost his life in an automobile accident early the next year. I think that this record will stand for quite some time.

10/08/2025

Happy 78th birthday to former world record holder at 3,000 meters, 5,000 meters and Olympic silver medalist Emiel Puttemans!

10/05/2025

Haven’t done this for a while. Portland Half Marathon tomorrow morning. Hoping to get through without any scars.

10/03/2025

That’s a serious amount of forefoot Zoom X foam added to the new Alphafly 4.

10/02/2025

The incomparable Grete Waitz would have been 72 today.

A fierce competitor who held many world records and owned many championship medals, she is most remembered for her grace and her groundbreaking impact on women's long distance running.

R.I.P, Grete. You are missed.

09/29/2025

Wishing a very happy 69th birthday to one of my favorite athletes, Lord Sebastian Coe!

He was the Olympic gold medalist at 1500 meters in 1980 and 1984 and in 1981 he set world records at 800 meters (1:41.73), 1,000 meters (2:12.18) and the mile (3:47.33.)

09/28/2025

What a great photo of the 1500 meter medalists from Tokyo!

This is the Tokyo25 trending photo.
This was after the women's 1500m finals

FAITH KIPYEGON 🇰🇪
DORCAS EWOI🇰🇪
JESSICA HULL🇦🇺,

09/28/2025

A stellar run for Eilish McColgan!

London 10,000 hat-trick! 🎩🏃🏼‍♀️🏅

30:35 to take the win today! My 3rd fastest time ever on the roads, and fastest since 2022. Really happy to be finding my feet again. 🙏

09/28/2025

My run yesterday through a suburb of war ravaged Portland. It was brutal.

It got up to about 57 degrees and the sun was shining so I had to take off my shirt. We saw a group of about half a dozen ladies running by us in the opposite direction and felt compelled to say “good morning” to them.

Afterward we stood around huddled in a group near our vehicles with an open tailgate on one of them. We fueled up on Gatorade, Coke and IPAs waiting for the next wave of attacks.

Under the circumstances I almost felt compelled to stop and buy donuts on the way home so that we’d have enough to last us throughout the week. Instead I opted to make pancakes with bananas and pineapple on top and smothered in coconut syrup. After all, if we are going into battle one should always fuel properly.

These are cruel times here in war ravaged Portland. I hope that you’re all able to manage. Oh and RELEASE THE FU***NG EPSTEIN FILES!!

09/28/2025

Wishing a very happy 23rd birthday to Parker Valby!

She was the 2023 NCAA cross country champion and won both the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters at the 2024 NCAA Championships. She is the NCAA meet record holder and collegiate record holder at both distances and holds the indoor collegiate record at 5,000 meters as well.

She made the U.S Olympic team at 5,000 meters and completed in the 10,000 meters at the Paris Olympic Games.

Although she’s been injured for most of this year and hasn’t competed there’s still a bright future ahead for this young lady.

09/26/2025

Wishing a very happy 63rd birthday to the legendary Steve Moneghetti!

The Australian was a 4 time Olympian in the marathon and the winner of the 1990 Berlin Marathon in 2:08:16. He also won the Commonwealth Games marathon in 1994. He’s still running fast and setting new age group world records!