Mtn. View’s Kimberley Ficenec blisters 800 at Southern Track Classic; Georgetown Visitation wins another ISL title; Bowie, Wise impress at P.G. meet.. (via )

Usain Bolt ended his six-month relationship with a Slovakian fashion designer in order to focus on the upcoming Summer Olympics. News reports suggest Bolt's breakup with Lubica Slovak, 28, was because of his desire to repeat his double-gold/world-record Olympic performance … Continue reading → (via )

Kimbers runs an Olympic Trials B standard in the women's 200-meter dash

TRACK AND FIELD | Georgetown Visitation freshman Emily Kaplan cruises to a win in the 1,600 meters in Alexandria. (via )

Lopez Lomong is the U.S. champion at 1500m, but is trying out the 5000m. Since he's still getting used to the event, he had an embarrassing moment in the race at Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational. [Related: Olympic mascots through the … Continue reading → (via )

TRANSITION GAME | For athletes, social media can be a powerful tool in creating a brand. It can also cause problems if you’re not careful. (via )

MORE THAN A GAME | Sophie Chase used to run alone in practice. Now she has a training partner, and competition, from Hannah Christen. (via )

PHILADELPHIA - Team USA on Saturday dominated the biggest international field ever assembled for USA vs. the World to sweep all six races at the 13th edition of the event at the Penn Relays. (via )

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TRACK AND FIELD | Bulldogs 4x800 relay team earns finals berth. Annandale’s Ahmed Bile finishes fifth in mile on Day 2 of Penn Relays. (via )

TRACK AND FIELD | Old Mill’s Alexis Franklin and Lake Braddock’s Sophie Chase turn in impressive performances in their events. (via )

Alexis Franklin finished fifth in the 400-meter hurdles at the Penn Relays two years ago and took second last spring. But the Old Mill senior took it to another level Thursday in Philadelphia. (via )

  NDIANAPOLIS - With less than 100 days until the 2012 Olympic Games, a record number of athletes and countries will compete at the 13th edition of USA vs. the World at the 118th Penn Relays in Philadelphia, this Saturday.    

Although the U.S. is expected to lose the medal count at the London Olympics, there's still one event Americans are expected to dominate: the decathlon. (via )

Scary. It can describe the future of a world-class athlete after a diagnosis that could've ended her track days. Instead, Sanya Richards-Ross pushed p... (via )

  MileSplit now offers live results hosting FREE for all meets! For Hytek Meet Manager... Hytek Meet Manager has long offered live results as a part of their pro software package. However, it has traditionally only been reserved for use by professional timers and only for the biggest meets. Why? Well partially because it required some technical knowledge and resources to set up an FTP server. "An FT-what?" you ask! Our point exactly. Well now we want to make that easier so that any meet (with an internet connection at the event) can easily offer live results. Don't worry, even if it looks intimidating at first... we've made it relatively painless now. Just follow these instructions... Login to your meet's administration page on MileSplit you'll see a new "Live Results" section with the technical details. Set a password (6-16 characters) there and then click save at the bottom of the page. Now fire up your meet in Hytek and go to the "Run" screen. Click on the "Web" option at the top, which will bring up a new window with the live results settings. Enter the information provided in our meet manager page: site address (host), user name, password, and working directory. Click "Test Website Connection" to verify that everything worked. Click "Upload Event Schedule" to publish the base pages for the meet. Click the "Upload Default Result Pages" to publish the base pages for each event. You can click "Upload Heat Sheets or Performances Lists for Rounds Not Done" if you want, which will either upload the heat sheets (if meet is seeded) or upload the entry list (if not yet seeded). Once the meet is running you can press the F11 key to send updated heat sheets or the F12 key on your keyboard to send the event's results. A list of all meets that are publishing live is available at http://live.milesplit.com and your meet will be on the list. This site is mobile friendly, so you can tell people at the meet to access it. (Hytek's meet pages are, however, not mobile-friendly... but still "kinda" work on mobile... we're working on a solution for this... stay tuned) For RaceTab 3... We've made it really easy and even automatic for RaceTab users who download their meets from MileSplit. Here is an instruction video showing it off...      

Running Man: Usain Bolt readies for London 2012 Olympics 100 days from now, the Olympic flame will be lit in London.  Arguably no spotlight is greater than the one shining on Usain Bolt, the fastest man on the planet. NBC's Lester Holt traveled to Bolt's homeland of Jamaica to meet the king of the track.  Watch Lester Holt’s full report, “Running Man” Wednesday April 18 at 9/8c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.  

Dee Dee Trotter has had a wonderful career. She has notched national and world championships, a professional contract, and an Olympic gold medal as part of the 2004 4x400 Team USA. Since then she has struggled with injuries and overcome obsticles, but off the track she's had an amazing impact through her foundation "Test Me I'm Clean" whose mission is to stamp out the epidemic of performance enhancing drugs.

  After last year’s initial success, the Art Madric Hall of Fame Invitational looks to continue to grow this spring in its second year of existence in becoming the best outdoor track & field invitational. As we continue to grow and improve the quality of the meet, we also are searching for sponsors to help us put on a first rate event for coaches, athletes, and parents.   In partnering with this event, a potential sponsor would gain great exposure to a large audience between the great number of competitors and spectators expected for this event as well as additional exposure on a larger audience found on meet host Milesplit's network of affiliates, which consistently averages well over 500,000 page views a day. Read more for sponsorship packages for this year's meet.

COLUMBIA -- Kiah Seymour, a senior from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C., set a new U.S. no. 1 mark in the high school girl’s 400-meter hurdles Saturday, crossing the finish line in 1:01.95 and beating the previous mark of Jennifer Cannon of Tennessee High School of 1:02.60, which she ran last weekend at the Beach Run Invitational in Myrtle Beach.  

We interupt our district coverage, just to bring you another quick reminder about FloCoach. We partnered with our friends at FloTrack to help them promote their new series of training and technique videos because we believe it is really quality content that can help you improve.

I wrote this a while ago but finished it yesterday after getting three different versions of “Stop Rolling Your IT band”.  Please let me know what you think. Is Foam Rolling Bad for Yo... (via Michael Boyle's Strengthcoach.com Blog)

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University of Maryland men�s track team still facing possible elimination, but revised fundraising plan might save program (via Gazette.net Gazette Maryland Community News)

Coverage of the 2012 Olympics in London by NBCOlympics.com includes exclusive video, results, schedules, athletes, news, photos, & TV Listings. (via www.nbcolympics.com)

The Redskins cornerback bet cash against a gold medal on a 100 m race. (via Washington Post)

Rather than slowly pick himself up off the track, Vasconcellos segued directly into 'the worm,' which might be the coolest dance move on the planet. Continue reading → (via Yahoo! Sports)

The scenario is so ludicrous, it need only be put forth in a straight sentence: The nation's best prep long jumper, a two-time reigning state champion, will spend his junior season on his school's junior varsity team. The player caught in such bizarre circumstances is Devin Field, a DeSoto (Texas) High athlete who was recently declared ineligible because of residency regulations by Texas' University Interscholastic League, which governs scholastic extracurricular activities in the Lone Star state. Continue reading → (via Yahoo! Sports)

  Need your meet results passed along to a local newspaper? Just ask! I received a few questions last weekend about passing results to local newspapers. This has not been my role in the past, but I'm happy to do that for you. So, if you're a coach (I need to limit the requests just to coaches, please) and would like results from your meet forwarded to a local newspaper, please send me an e-mail in advance of the meet and give me the contact information (especially the e-mail address) of the local newspaper contact(s) to which you would like your meet results sent. Assuming I get those results the day of the meet--which happens in most cases--I will forward those results to the newspaper. Most larger newspapers, however, are reluctant to publish results later than the day after the meet. Newspapers are also perfectly welcome to copy results from this site. Meet results are public domain and no copyright issues are involved. So, it may be easier to train your local sports editor on how to visit the site and find the required results directly. It is my intent to retain mutually beneficial relationships with all newspapers in the state. Meet directors are, of course, welcome to distribute meet results directly to newspapers on their own. Many meet directors already do this faithfully. Thanks!

Usain Bolt reckons London's thriving Jamaican community could help propel him to another monumental Olympic performance as the sprinter seeks to repeat his triple gold-medal haul from Beijing four years ago. (via www.universalsports.com)

An amazing final Sunday with many great performances across multiple events! Complete saturation coverage inside! (Photo by Don Rich)

Harry's cool runnings: Prince 'beats' Usain Bolt in race (via The Sydney Morning Herald)

The Georgetown University women's track & field program enjoyed a trio of honors as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) named its regional award winners today. All-American Emily Infeld (University Heights, Ohio/Beaumont) was named the Mid-Atlantic Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year while Director of Track & Field / Cross Country Patrick Henner was named the Mid-Atlantic Region Women's Head Coach of the Year and Associate Head Coach for Track & Field / Head Women's Cross Country Coach Chris Miltenberg was named the Mid-Atlantic Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year. (via www.guhoyas.com)

Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive running game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android. (via Zombies, Run!)

Florida Gator Christian Taylor has a world championship in the triple jump in Korea last summer under his belt, going along with his numerous NCAA and World Youth titles and medals. Christian shares the one tip he wish he knew in high school in this exclusive (free) video. (via FloTrack)

Coaches, here's a short guide to all you need to know in order to manage your team page, rosters, and schedule.

The Georgetown women’s team earned its seventh BIG EAST Indoor Track & Field Championship title on Sunday, using the final event of the weekend to clinch the victory. , News (via www.bigeast.org)

Trey Hardee, Alabama State Champion from Vestavia Hills, eventually went onto to become an NCAA and World Champion out of University of Texas. In this video series he goes into details and explains his training regimine for the event. 

'Carmelita Jeter takes five strides in the time it takes to say (via The Washington Post)

    Working on updating the 2012 outdoor track meet calendar on Milesplit DC with all meet dates, information, and any meets looking to setup their meets with the MileSplit online registration. Thank you to those meet directors opting to use the online registration system for their meets as 50% of the online registration proceeds go to support Milesplit DC and its coverage. Check the below link for any meets missing and information missing as well. Remember we also offer free meet management software    2012 Outdoor Track Meet Calendar

Prince Harry hopes to line up on the starting blocks next to sprinter Usain Bolt during his diamond jubilee tour of the Caribbean and Central America, it was announced today. (via mirror.co.uk)

On Nov. 27, 2010, a rainy, unseasonably cold Saturday in Fresno, Calif., Holland Reynolds pulsed through the 3.1-mile course upright, trailing only the race’s leader. (via NY Daily News)

Carroll’s Kiah Seymour powers to three impressive victories, but Seton pulls out the girls’ title while Gonzaga wins its fourth straight boys’ championship. (via Washington Post)

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TRACK & FIELD | London Freeland won four medals as the Crimson Tide swept the girls’ and boys’ titles at P.G. Sports & Learning. (via Washington Post)

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  Today is February 1st, national signing day! Athletes around the country (and world) can now make their college commitments official.

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Mind over matter? Or nature over nurture? What is it that separates Olympic legends like Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps from the millions of enthusiastic amateurs around the world? (via CNN)

  Send Your Signings Updates   National Signing Day for cross country and track is February 1st. This time marks the first day that an athlete can sign a national letter of intent to their college destination.  Athletes have until August 1st to announce their choice.   DC Milesplit wants to know where you’re headed!  Send us your news and photos of your announcement and we will share it with the running community. Email slee@milesplit.com

INDOOR TRACK | Wise’s Champ Page was one of several local athletes to turn in top performances at the Virginia Tech Invitational. (via Washington Post)

The American University men's and women's indoor track and field teams will compete at the George Mason Patriot Games on Saturday, January 28.

Phil Wharton is one of my heros in the sport of track and field. He’s extremely knowledgable, extremely passionate about his craft and his compassion for athletes is tremendous. He works with his father Jim at Wharton Performance, working with athletes from a variety of sports. He and his father are best know for their Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) with ropes – “the rope stretching” – but as you’ll hear in this podcast, there is so much more to Phil’s approach than just rope stretching. (via www.coachjayjohnson.com)