Lisa Koll new Women's Colleigate 10K Record

Congratulations to Lisa Koll tonight for setting a new Collegiate 10K record tonight at the Standford Invite... and she's only a Sophomore!

Here is the last lap of her record race on RunnerSpace.com

Here is Lisa's post race interview

...And here's the Men's 10K video, this is worth a watch. Sean Quigley runs an awesome final lap for the win. RacingSnailClub.com is also a huge supporter of NCAA 10K and Indoor 5K Champ Shadrack Songok, who finishes 5th in this race.

Paul McMullen's Video Hits YouTube

Here is a video posted on YouTube today about the running career of Paul McMullen. If you don't know Paul has his own (very good) website called: www.trackandfieldradio.com. Just like the name suggests, he does audio interviews with former and current track and field athletes from college to pro. It's great stuff and I highly suggest you check out his site.
Anyways this video documents Paul's running career... and is crazy amateurish. It has ridiculous music selections (Coldplay WTF) and features Paul himself reading the narration sounding like he's bored watching his own video. It does however feature great race footage throughout Paul's career (including some good high school and college track videos with his dad screaming in the background) and his story is fairly interesting. So it's an okay watch, I wouldn't mind seeing more videos like this about current runners.

By the way, the video is actually called, "I DARE YOU TO RUN". So can you guess what song loved by high school girls everywhere gets over played in this video?


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Kenya vs Ethopia Documentary & Texas Relays

Another cool video the collection of YouTube user, 1981Alan. This video is Part 1 and there's 5 parts. This is a really awesome video on the history and rivalry of these two countries in distance running, it's long but well worth the watch! If anyone wants me to compile this series into a single video segment like I did with the others just let me know.





The Texas Relays are this weekend, and they kicked off today. Head on over to FloTrack.com because they are going to have videos of every single race!

Also, now is a good time to let everyone know if you are having trouble downloading videos from this site (they won't play, incomplete downloads, etc) PLEASE let me know! I obviously don't have the time go go through and check every single video. Sometimes they get cut off when uploading and they get uploaded incompletely, so if you come across a video like this please let me know so I can fix it. Thanks again for visiting this site!

Welcome to the new RacingSnailClub.com

Welcome to the new and improved Racing Snail Running Club website! I've obviously decided to take a more blog style approach to this website now and will continue to do so for its future. It makes it easier to update and be able to quickly post new videos and information around the world of Athletics. So allow me to introduce you to the main sections of my site:


The Video Collection
This website is almost two years old! Back when I first started this website there were a few websites on the internet that hosted race videos for downloading. Over the years I collected all these videos and decided that I wanted to put them all in one place. So I purchased this website with that sole intention. The collection of videos that I have downloaded over the years is still going strong. If you ever have any new running videos that I have no posted about, feel free to share them in the comments section! What makes this website special is the huge video index full of classic Track & Field videos, and here they are: www.racingsnailclub.com/video

Track Race Pace Calculator
Another new thing I added to the website was a Race Pace calculator that I created in Microsoft Excel. I found that there are a lot of good ONLINE calculators out there, but not very many ones that can be used offline very quickly. So I created my own and now I have this: http://www.racingsnailclub.com/runcalc.xls This calculator is mainly useful for track races as it gives splits for every lap and every mile, kilometer, and so on. The calculator itself is very easy to use. In the black input boxes on the spreadsheet you enter in the time in the HH:MM:SS format. Which means if you just ran a mile in 4:45 you enter it as: 00:04:45. See? Pretty easy. There is a "Read Me" box on the spreadsheet itself with better instructions. If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask me personally in the comments section or send me an e-mail.


My Training Log
The first thing I ask whenever I meet any new runner is usually, "What kind of training plan do you follow?". So in fairness of the question, I readily offer up my training log for all to see. I highly encourage you to post your own training log in the comments section for me to look at. I love to talk about training ideas and workouts, so if you ever want to have any discussions my log or yours feel free to e-mail me or post a comment!

Featured Video: 2008 IAAF Cross Country World Championships

Okay, this video is another language and was apparently recorded off of someone watching the race on their own television. So we're not talking about super quality stuff here, but this is the best you're going to get for now. I'm sure the World Championship Sports Network is going to post the full race or have highlights in the near future, but for right now this video is what's available. You can read about the race here: http://iaaf.org/WXC08/news/kind=100/newsid=44253.html

Here's the YouTube Video Part 1:


And here is the entire 5-part race video YouTube video hosted on RacingSnailClub.com
08WorldXC.wmv (77 MB)

Featured Download: The Super Milers Documentary

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This great in-depth video documentary about greatest milers of all time was uploaded by user 1981aLaN on YouTube. You'll want to give his channel a look, he has over 400 Athletics videos and has some really great stuff that you probably have not seen anywhere else! I went ahead and compiled the entire "Super Milers" documentary into one 45 minute .WMV file. The file is massive but well worth the download to own on your computer.

Download File:
SuperMilers.WMV
(161 MB)

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Featured YouTube Video: Sebastian Coe - Born to Run

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YouTube Video: Top Gear - Marathoner vs Fiat Panda in London Traffic

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Best of LetsRun Message Board

I'm just going to keep a running thread of great posts that I see on LetsRun. You can see this as the "RacingSnailClub.com funny posts list" or something. So whenever I find a gem on the forums I'll post it here. It'll be a nice collection of funny stuff to laugh about.

???????	RE: Mile time??? 4/5/2008 10:26PM - in reply to runnersfan
	runnersfan wrote: Not too bad. Listen, don't push yourself too hard. As a freshman, you have plenty of years in high school to improve. Many other girls at your age push themselves too hard and end up injured, so just shoot for slow and steady improvement. Who said i was a freshman?? Who said i was a girl??

the fluent idiot guy again

RE: Is it just me or is it obvious what Wejo's ad on the front page mean? 4/4/2008 8:28PM - in reply to So obvious it hurts

So obvious it hurts wrote: Thank you for correcting me. Now I feel stupid. What a foolish mistake. Of course, I intended to type "beer" and not "bear". Here's the thing. This mistake didn't happen by accidentally hitting the wrong key. It was not a typo. This didn't happen because you were unfamiliar with the word and missed a silent consonant, or due to a complex English nuance such as the letters "gh" representing an "f" sound. You actually mixed up your homophones. That's an egregious error on par with writing "their" or "there" instead of "they're" and shows that you are a dumbass. Probably the only thing worse would have been to mix up "its" with "it's", which would have demonstrated a lack of understanding of the English language.

i kinda like running	RE: Moen wins again 4/4/2008 7:17AM - in reply to The 3:30 Thonster
	http://www.falteisek.com/photos/index.php?image=11%2015%2005%207%20101.jpg&list=My%20Pictures/Brandon/Modeling&page=1 Question: When did this guy run for Minnesota?

ChiTown Hustler	RE: Moen wins again 4/4/2008 7:27AM - in reply to i kinda like running
	He never did. Just like the other kids in those wrestling photos never wrestled for Iowa or any other "college singlet" they're in. I mean an American flag in the middle of the jersey. Thanks, didn't know what country that was in.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2426573

My strategy.	RE: How do you run a 10k on the track? 3/24/2008 8:41PM - in reply to bulldog t
	I start by taking a left turn, then I run straight, then take another left turn, then straight for a little while longer. And I repeat that about 25 times. I also like to try to do that as fast as I can. But you can try whatever you like.

mytwocents	RE: How do you run a 10k on the track? 3/25/2008 6:40AM - in reply to bulldog
	The advice I got when I asked this question for the first time was 'if you feel anything bad at all at 2 miles, you're in deep shit'.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=2412096&thread=2412020