RRW: Will Keira D’Amato’s Breakout Year Have a Fairy Tale Ending at The Marathon Project?
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(18-Dec) When 2020 began, Keira D’Amato was hardly a household name in elite running circles. The then-35 year-old, a full-time realtor from Midlothian, Virginia, was a long-ago collegiate miler for American University with a career best time of 4:38.74 set back in 2007. Born Keira Carlstrom, when the name “Keira D’Amato” began popping up in road race results in 2019 many did not connect D’Amato with her collegiate past. She had literally not run a high level race in over nine years.
RRW: A Win Would Mean More Than A Fast Time to Fauble At The Marathon Project
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(17-Dec) When Scott Fauble lines up for Sunday’s The Marathon Project in Chandler, Ariz., scoring a fast time will only be at the back of his mind. Sure, it would be nice to improve on his career best of 2:09:09 from the Boston Marathon in 2019, but the 29 year-old who lives and trains with the Hoka Northern Arizona Elite team in Flagstaff wants the win even more.
“I just want to compete to win,” Fauble told reporters via video conference yesterday from Flagstaff. “I think we can get focused on times, we can get focused on splits and stuff like that, but all my PB’s have come from racing. So, I’m going in there with the goal of winning, and I think anything great that comes from that will be a product of the racing. Like, the win’s not going to come from trying to run a fast time, but it would be the other
RRW: The Marathon Project Gives Elite Athletes A Lifeline During The Pandemic
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(16-Dec) Against the backdrop of a global pandemic which is generating over 200,000 new COVID-19 cases every day in the United States alone, 54 men and 44 women will mask-up and travel carefully to Chandler, Ariz., to compete this Sunday at The Marathon Project, a one-off elite-only marathon which will be held on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Run on a flat, 6.86-kilometer course, the race offers a lifeline to North America’s elite marathoners who have seen nearly every important marathon in the world this year shut down after mid-March.
A Main Line Neurologist Studies the Intersection of Faith and Science
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Dr. Andrew Newberg may be a pioneer in his field, but he also understands that, when it comes to spirituality and the brain, it’s OK to say, “I don’t know.”
As a child, Dr. Andrew Newberg peppered his father with some serious questions about the concept of reality. “But he was very good at throwing it back at me,” Newberg recalls.
So he would have to find the answers on his own. In the months between his graduation from Haverford College and heading to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, Newberg often meditated as he walked. Then he’d simply sit and think. Some of what he experienced he can’t explain to this day. It led directly to his studies on the impact of religious and spiritual experiences on the brain. This unconventional field is known as neurotheology, and Newberg is one of its pioneers.
RRW: World Athletics Gave Member Federations Flexibility On New Shoe Rules
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(11-Dec) On July 28 World Athletics announced amended regulations governing competition shoes. The much-anticipated rule change was “designed to give certainty to athletes preparing for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and to preserve the integrity of elite competition,” the world governing body for athletics said in a statement. The rules, which were to take place immediately, limited the stack height (essentially the thickness of a shoe’s sole and midsole) to 25mm for track events of 800m and above (and cross country), and 40mm for road events.