This is our high school pal Dylan Wykes qualifying for this year’s Olympics. He looks happy and we’re happy for him. Rep Canada son! Photo Credit: Pim Ras/John de Pater

This is our high school pal Dylan Wykes qualifying for this year’s Olympics. He looks happy and we’re happy for him. Rep Canada son!

Photo Credit: Pim Ras/John de Pater
  1. Date Posted Icon 28th April 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 4
    3. Tags Icon #dylan wykes#olympics#running#marathon
If anyone needs us over the next three days we’ll be pretending we’re in Xuhui, Shanghai, China for the Nike Festival of Sports. “Considered to be the most comprehensive sporting event in China since the 2008 Summer Olympic in Beijing, the Nike Festival of Sports is the embodiment of tenet set by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, “If you have a body, you are an athlete”. In this celebration of athletes and athleticism across the board, spectators are asked to participate in a number of venues, each sponsored by divisions like Nike Soccer, Nike Running, Nike Women, Nike Tennis, and even Nike Mixed Martial Arts. And for those not wanting to break a sweat, they can become audience members to see star athletes like LeBron James, Amare Stoudemire, Kyrie Irving, along with players from both Duke and Georgetown Universities, and local U19, U22, U25 basketball teams in action…” If anyone needs us over the next three days we’ll be pretending we’re in Xuhui, Shanghai, China for the Nike Festival of Sports. “Considered to be the most comprehensive sporting event in China since the 2008 Summer Olympic in Beijing, the Nike Festival of Sports is the embodiment of tenet set by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, “If you have a body, you are an athlete”. In this celebration of athletes and athleticism across the board, spectators are asked to participate in a number of venues, each sponsored by divisions like Nike Soccer, Nike Running, Nike Women, Nike Tennis, and even Nike Mixed Martial Arts. And for those not wanting to break a sweat, they can become audience members to see star athletes like LeBron James, Amare Stoudemire, Kyrie Irving, along with players from both Duke and Georgetown Universities, and local U19, U22, U25 basketball teams in action…”

If anyone needs us over the next three days we’ll be pretending we’re in Xuhui, Shanghai, China for the Nike Festival of Sports.

“Considered to be the most comprehensive sporting event in China since the 2008 Summer Olympic in Beijing, the Nike Festival of Sports is the embodiment of tenet set by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, “If you have a body, you are an athlete”. In this celebration of athletes and athleticism across the board, spectators are asked to participate in a number of venues, each sponsored by divisions like Nike Soccer, Nike Running, Nike Women, Nike Tennis, and even Nike Mixed Martial Arts. And for those not wanting to break a sweat, they can become audience members to see star athletes like LeBron James, Amare Stoudemire, Kyrie Irving, along with players from both Duke and Georgetown Universities, and local U19, U22, U25 basketball teams in action…”
  1. Date Posted Icon 18th August 2011
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 9
    3. Tags Icon #nike#sports#soccer#running#basketball#tennis#MMA
How to hack a marathon if you’re not a runner… 1. Don’t plan on running the whole thing 2. Take 4 Advil an hour before the race 3. Take a walking break at every mile marker 4. Eat half a banana whenever you see one 5. Take two waters at ever water station 6. Eat no more than 3 Gu energy packs because our stomachs didn’t like them 7. Take bathroom breaks 8. Walk every hill 9. Meet interesting people and use conversation to kill the pain 10. Put bandaids on your nipples to prevent bleeding Thanks Andrew!

How to hack a marathon if you’re not a runner…

1. Don’t plan on running the whole thing
2. Take 4 Advil an hour before the race
3. Take a walking break at every mile marker
4. Eat half a banana whenever you see one
5. Take two waters at ever water station
6. Eat no more than 3 Gu energy packs because our stomachs didn’t like them
7. Take bathroom breaks
8. Walk every hill
9. Meet interesting people and use conversation to kill the pain
10. Put bandaids on your nipples to prevent bleeding

Thanks Andrew!

  1. Date Posted Icon 25th January 2011
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 11
    3. Tags Icon #running#marathon

With 200 meters remaining in a Marathon in Japan and with the runners in their final sprint, front runner Natsuki Terada takes a wrong turn near the finish line. Marathon fail.

  1. Date Posted Icon 5th January 2011
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 1
    3. Tags Icon #running#marathon#sports#fail

Holland Reynolds a 16-year-old Junior and a top Cross Country runner for San Francisco University High School secures a State Championship by crawling across the finish line. Btw when did David Letterman start commentating high school cross country races? (The unbelievable determination starts at 1:30)

(Source: abcnews.go.com)

  1. Date Posted Icon 4th December 2010
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 8
    3. Tags Icon #cross country#running#sports#track and field