RossRunning News

11/14/2025

A generational talent. She has to be one of the favorites to capture the NCAA title next week as a freshman!

Headband Jane 🔓

The BYU star takes down defending 5000m and 10,000m champion Pamela Kosgei for the Mountain title by 42 seconds in 19:06.6!

📸: Will Nelson

11/14/2025

Wishing a very happy 25th birthday to Jacob Kiplimo!

He’s the defending world cross country champion (2023 and 2024) and the Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist at 10,000 meters.

He’s the world record holder in the half marathon (56:42) and recently ran 2:02:23 at the Chicago Marathon.

11/12/2025

World Cross Country Championships 1983. A veritable who’s who of the best runners in the world at the time.

From left to right :

Bekele Debele (ETH), the eventual winner of the race.

Alberto Cova (ITA) would finish 10th and would go on to win the 10,000 meters in the World Track and Field Championships in 1983 and in the 1984 Olympic Games.

Carlos Lopes (POR) would finish 2nd and would win the World Cross Country Championships the following year. He would also win Olympic gold in the marathon in 1984.

Pat Porter (USA) would finish 9th and move up to 4th in the following year. He also ran in the Olympic 10,000 meters in 1984 and 1988.

Some Muge (KEN) would finish third. He was Kenya’s first ever medalist at the World Cross Country Championships (that’s hard to even fathom now.)

Dave Clarke (GBR) would finish seventh. He ran in 12 different World Cross Country Championships from 1977 to 1995. He competed in the 5,000 meters at the World Track and Field Championships in 1983 as well.

Alberto Salazar would finish 4th. He had gotten 2nd the prior year, making him the last American to make the podium in the World Cross Country Championships.

Antonio Prieto (ESP) would finish 5th. He was a three time Olympian for Spain at 10,000 meters (80, 84 and 88) and ran in the 10,000 at the World Track and Field Championships in 1983 and 1991.

Rob de Castella (“Deek”) would finish 6th. He’d go on to win the Rotterdam Marathon that same year (2:08:37) and win the gold medal in the marathon at the inaugural World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki.

It was the closest finish in the history of the race:

12 kilometers

1. Bekele Debele 36:52
2. Carlos Lopes 36:52
3. Some Muge 36:52
4. Alberto Salazar 36:53
5. Antonio Prieto 36:56
6. Rob de Castella 37:00
7. Dave Clarke 37:05
8. Ezequiel Canario 37:10
9. Pat Porter 37:12
10. Alberto Cova 37:17

11/12/2025

One of the most famous races in the world, the Cinque Mulini cross country race in Italy. The race name means five mills in Italian and it passes along or through five water mills over the course of the race.

It’s been a veritable who’s who of international runners and has seen many Olympians and world record holders take part.

A few past champions:

Michael Jazy
Billy Mills
Gaston Roelants
Kip Keino
Dave Bedford
Frank Shorter
Emiel Puttemans
Rob de Castella
Alberto Cova
John Ngugi
Fita Bayisa
Paul Tergat
Kenenisa Bekele
Jacob Kiplimo

Women:
Grete Waitz
Lynn Jennings
Annette Sergent
Faith Kipyegon
Letesenbet Gidey
Winfred Yavi
Beatrice Chebet

11/12/2025

Wishing a very happy 70th birthday to Herb Lindsay!

He was the top American road racer from 1979-1981 and is the former world record holder in the half marathon.

11/11/2025

A good article with all of the age group qualifying times for all of the marathon majors:

https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a26788073/time-qualifying-standards-for-major-marathons/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=likeshop&utm_content=www.instagram.com/p/DQ7BcIWjOSu&fbclid=PARlRTSAOAmHJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacGwi_2FROsJ5uWS_QWYxGtkDkWCut1J301VUxppsD0UqCJ0LKmslWNe0Ri_g_aem_cL38D0lgoiYTcqR4B9wyrg

Keep these standards in mind for motivation on race day.

11/11/2025

Suspended a year and a half ago and we are just now hearing about it?

Breaking News: Olympian and multi-time World Silver Medalist Marvin Bracy-Williams has been suspended for 45 months following anti-doping rule violations regarding testosterone and tampering, which he was initially provisionally suspended for back in February 2024.

The 45-month ban includes the provisional suspension from Feb 5, 2024 up until now. He will be out-of-suspension in November 2027.

11/10/2025

As we are in the thick of cross country season across the United States we look back at a couple of women who also had great success at cross country and carried it over to the marathon.

Grete Waitz was a 5 time World Cross Country champion (1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1983) and won the New York Marathon 4 out of those 5 years. She also won the London Marathon AND the World Track and Field Championships marathon in 1983.

Ingrid Kristiansen won the World Cross Country Championships in 1988 and carried that fitness over to win the London Marathon.

11/09/2025

A whirlwind trip to Pasco, Washington this weekend for the Washington State High School Cross Country Championships.

When his mom reached out to me about coaching Tanner this season I was pretty excited. I love coaching at the high school level, although I’ve coached at the age group, high school, collegiate and post collegiate level.

I knew Tanner would have a ton of genetic talent passed down from his parents. Both were stand out runners in high school and college.

It’s crazy because I don’t think that I’d seen his parents in close to 30 years. We’d all ran on a loaded co ed team in the Rainier to Pacific Relay back in the mid ‘90s and they also worked for me over holiday break one year when I was managing a sporting goods store back in Lewiston, Idaho.

When we started I told them that my number one priority with any athlete (and it should be the top priority for any coach) is to keep the athlete healthy. The next step is gradual progression to watch for improvement throughout the season.

Tanner ran in a lot of the same meets and same courses that he ran on last year and saw a pretty massive improvement in his times this year.

Looking at last year’s state results I knew that Tanner was the 2nd fastest returning runner. He faced that same runner two other times this year and he beat Tanner both times, including last week at regionals where a travel lagged Tanner was third.

The plan for this week was to stay relaxed, get caught up on rest and a short sharpening workout on Tuesday. The race plan was for Tanner to change his race strategy and be the hunter instead of the hunted. Stay with the leader but never take the lead until the finish line was in sight.

The plan almost worked. He was second at the mile and stayed there throughout the race. The leader was the third fastest returning runner from last year’s state meet and he had a breakthrough race himself.

Tanner ended up 2nd, 25 seconds faster than last year on the same course. He beat the top returner from last year, who was also the regional champ last week.

To say that we’re all pretty proud of him is a huge understatement.

11/07/2025

Pretty cool. Two great men.

11/06/2025

That’s a pretty impressive resume. The GOAT.

11/06/2025

An amazing performance

In 2003, Paula Radcliffe ran a marathon in 2:15:25—and forever changed women’s running.

At the London Marathon, she ran alone for most of the race. No pacers. No competition close behind. Just her, the road, and the clock.

She averaged 5:09 per mile (3:12/km)—faster than most elite men—and over a minute faster than the existing women’s world record at the time.

Even more remarkable? She looked in control the entire way. No dramatic struggle, no fading—just smooth, powerful running to the finish.

Her record was so far ahead that it took 16 years for another woman to break it—and only with male pacers under perfect conditions.

For many, Radcliffe’s 2003 performance remains the greatest women’s marathon ever run, raising the bar for what women can achieve in distance running.