The Racing Snail Running Club

2008 Olympic Games Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:58:00 +0000

Check out the video section! We have the 100m, 200m, 400m, 3000 Steeple, 1500m, and Shot Put Finals.

You can also watch other events over at the NBC Olympics Track videos.

If you have any requests for other videos from the Olympics let me know!

2008 Olympic Trials and More New Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:40:00 +0000

Better late than never, to get you excited about the Olympics here are the three best races from the Olympic Trials, in pretty good quality: 400m - 800m - 1500m. If you are dying for the other races, let me know (e-mail or comments), and I'll try and provide those as well. I do have limited disc space for this website, so I only got the ones that I thought were the best.

And an old/new video from last 2007 season: Remember when Alan Webb out kicked Bernard Lagat and Craig Mottram in the final 100m of the mile and left both of them looking absolutely silly? Yeah, I know... I'm not even making this up. It's a pretty exciting race of one of Alan Webb's better days. Download here

Also this is worth watching: grainy, old, no audio footage of Jim Ryun running 3:58 against high school only competition. It's ridiculous to see just how much he beats the rest of the field (use your imagination. 3:58 versus high schoolers!). According to Wikipedia: "His 3:58.3 to win the mile at the 1965 Kansas High School State Meet is still the record for the fastest time ever in a race that includes only high school competitors." Download here

...And I finally found an excellent quality video of quite possibly one of the greatest Olympic races: 2004 Athens Olympics 1500m. Really if you have never watched this video, well let's just say that it is easily my most favorite track race of all-time. And you should watch it! Download here

Lisa Koll new Women's Colleigate 10K Record

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:28:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:19:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:41:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:01:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:00:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:13:00 +0000

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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

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)

Featured YouTube Video: Sebastian Coe - Born to Run

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:28:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:42:00 +0000

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