Please enjoy the video from USATF on the Reebok Boston Indoor Games 2010. In this viewers' mind, I can not remember a better indoor track meet! The 5,000 meter men's race, with Galen Rupp & Bernard Lagat was superb! Enjoy!
Wallace Spearmon, Jr. is introduced to the Saucony corporate family by Richie Woodworth, President of Saucony, Inc. , photo courtesy of Saucony communications.
Saucony has always been the sleepy, New England running shoe company that could have done this, should have done that. Several years ago, Saucony was purchased by Payless.
Payless was then purchased by Collective Brands, about a year later. What would happen to the venerable running shoe brand? One needed to look no further than Saucony President, Richie Woodworth, for the answers. Woodworth has, as someone once said, "that vision thing."
Yelena Isinbayeva and Asafa Powell, IAF Gala, November 2009, photo by PhotoRun.net.
Yelena Isinbayeva cleared 4.60m, 4.75m, 4.85m, then tries at 5.01 and 5.02m....Rbk BIG meet was probably best ever, in terms of competition, interaction between crowd and announcing (Toni Reavis and Coach, the Celtics announcer,
were great). ESPN2 show was very good on Sunday!
USATF Indoor at Albequerque at end of the month. Team for Doha should be good. As with any first time event, some challenges, ticket sales are slow, no promotion of event from anywhere, and seems like local meet management and head office are having some challenges. Super fast Mondo track, from Staples Center, in Albequerque. US Indoor champs needs to be in place that makes it special, but USATF needs to examine, how the meet is put on, where it is put one, what goals are, as it is not fair to just bring into new environ. No promotion (just like Boston past four years), and Championship events do not celebrate sport.
I have to say, the best indoor meet in country, in my opinion, year after year, is Rbk BIG. Why home office does not just hire Global Athletics & Marketing, and work with Reggie Lewis team, confuses the heck out of me. One can not do everything well, note the successful operations, use them, move on, and make it a memorable event! Our sport can not afford mediocre events.
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RN Photo Gallery, courtesy of RunningNetwork.com, photos by PhotoRun.net.
At the end of the ESPN2 two hour broadcast on the Rbk BIG meet, announcer Lewis Johnson noted that the Reebok Boston Games lived up to its reputation: BIG! And it did! We hope that you enjoy the gallery and watch for some more coverage!
Bernard Lagat, mid race, Rbk BIG Men's 5,000m, photo by PhotoRun.net.
Bernard Lagat had won his eighth Millrose mile the weekend before, sprinting by Asbel Kiprop, the Olympic champion, over the last lap and one half. Galen Rupp had run a personal best in the mile, taking second, then, coming back to win a 3,000 meter, also on last Friday, at the UW Invitational. Their race tactics, their training came to play an attempt to get the 5,000 m American record.
My view from press seat, Reebok Boston Indoor Games, Sold out!, February 6, 2010, from my I-phone
Welcome to the fifteenth annual Reebok Boston Indoor Games! The meet starts at 5.10 pm, with the first heat of the VISA 60 Mete and ends at 8.05 p.m. tonight with the Women's 5,000 meters.
Here is how we cover the meet here: We update each event on RBR, twitter it out and will follow up tomorrow with a play by play analysis of the RBK Boston Indoor Games! As famed announcer Toni Reavis says, " Hello Boston!
Continue reading "2010 Reebok Boston Indoor Games, Event by Event Updates, by Larry Eder" »
Blanka Vlasic, Greece 2009, photo by PhotoRun.net
World Champ Blanka Vlasic set a new Croatian record of 2.06m today. She also cleared 2.02m in an earlier jump. This report was from Alfons Juck, and EME news twitter account.
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New world leader in the weight throw by A.G. Krueger set on Friday, February 5, 2010:
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Nick Willis winning the Rbk mile in 2009, photo by PhotoRun.net.
In a wide ranging series of interviews, it was quite obvious that the Reebok Boston Indoor Games 2010, like the fourteen that have preceeded it, will be a barn burner. Three hours of great competitions, and three hours with some amazing athletes showing their stuff. RBR spoke to Bernard Lagat, Nick Willis, Anna Willard Pierce and Tirunesh Dibaba at today's Press Conference. Here is what they had to say. One thing, do not be surprised if Nick Willis, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist at 1,500 meters, runs a bit faster than the 3:53.43 mile he ran last year!
Jeremy Wariner, adidas outdoor Classic, May 2009, photo by PhotoRun.net.
Congrats to Jeremy Wariner, as TFN named him the U.S. male athlete of the decade!
