Jessica Ennis-Hill, CityGames15, Manchester, photo by Dan Vernon Photography for Great Run Company
SHEFFIELD (GBR): Olympic heptathlon champion Jess Ennis Hill will compete at the Gotzis heptathlon at the end of May, report Athletics Weekly. The British athlete said that she was happy with her “promising” early season performances and that her body responded well to competing at the Loughborough International. “I felt pretty good the next day and my Achilles felt fine which is brilliant,” said Ennis-Hill, who won in Gotzis in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Her main goal is to achieve the Olympic qualifying standard.
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.
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