Will Battershill chose to spend his end of season break getting a humbling from the best in Japan. Representing the Ivy League, the 2023 British 3000m Steeplechase champion took part in the annual Izumo Ekiden. “They have unbelievable depth. In Japan I think everyone’s a 13:40 guy and they’re so…
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Phil Norman seeks Paris tonic for Commonwealth pain
It’s been another busy day for 2021 Olympian Phil Norman. As a pole tester for Openreach, the Barnstaple resident spends his days climbing wooden poles checking for sign of rot and decay. A physically demanding role, as his profession ends so another starts. Returning home, Norman heads out for his…
Peres Jepchirchir – New York footsteps to an Olympic defense
The 2023 women’s World Half Marathon race at the inaugural World Road Running Championships reaches its crescendo. Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi leads as they enter the final kilometres. Her stride imperceptibly opening, it is a face of struggle that appears to stalk her. Peres Jepchirchir has won this title two times…
Adam Fogg hopes to be the metric mile’s forgotten man
Adam Fogg is his country’s 40th fastest 1500m runner of all-time. 68th in the current world rankings. Unfortunately for the 24-year-old he is also from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Seven British men have run faster 1500m times this year than the 3:35.70 Fogg clocked in winning the Merck Laufgala…
Two years of hurt, Tom Mortimer seeks Olympic solution
Tom Mortimer breaks the news that once more his achilles has let him down. For two years now the Stroud AC athlete has battled against inflammation. Ten days out from the World Road Running Championships, it has afflicted him again. It’s been a testing couple of years for Mortimer. The…
“Win or lose, it’s good for me to find out” – Sifan Hassan on her Chicago experiment
“Sometimes I hate myself.” Sifan Hassan jokes as she dials in from her home of six weeks, Park City, Utah. The double Olympic champion is in the midst of one her most daring experiments to date. Hassan’s August consisted of a triple World Championship bid. Six races, nine days. Bronze…
Remember the name, Luvo Manyonga
On 13th August 2016 a twenty-five year old from Paarl in the Western Cape of South Africa stood at the end of a runway. A camera to his right and 130 feet of polymetric rubber in front of him. All around him a dark Rio de Janeiro night. The scattered…
One last push for Tokyo’s GB marathon hopefuls
With the Olympic Marathon trials fast approaching in Kew Gardens on Friday 26th March, there will be plenty of storylines to keep an out for throughout the day. With plenty on the line for a whole host of ambitious athletes, and the ultimate reward a place on the plane to…