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The confirmed heat sheets have been released for the USATF OXY High Performance meeting to be held at Occidental College in Los Angeles on Friday night. This meeting is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in the middle distances so far this season with the 1500m field being split into three relatively equal heats which will all be targetting the Olympic A standard time.   In the 1500m Zane Robertson is listed in Heat two up against the two leading Candians, Nathan Brannen and Taylor Milne, as well as 3:51 miler Andrew Baddel...

Young Waikato distance runner Aaron Pulford returns to competition after a long injury break this Sunday when he defends his Huntly Half Marathon title. But' in the interim, his Commonwealth and Olympic Games' goals have become clearer. Huntly will be his first half marathon since he won the event for the second year in a row last year in a personal best 66 minutes 1 second, only to find the race had been measured 600 metres short. In the leadup he had won the Rotorua Half Marathon in 67:35 in a solo run and after his Huntly success headed to ...

Some hard slog at the Nick Willis training school is paying dividends for Wellington runner and Olympic hopeful Hamish Carson. Carson's flowing golden locks and springy running style have long been a feature of the New Zealand athletics scene and he is now making his move internationally. The Scottish Harriers athlete has spent the last month with Willis at his Michigan training base and yesterday shaved 2.48 seconds off his 1500m personal best in Philadelphia. In a race paced by Olympic silver medallist Willis, Carson ran 3min 38.04s in finis...

In his first race on US soil Hamish Carson has set a new PB and broken the 3:40 barrier for the first time with his eighth placing in the Tuppeny Invite 1500m at the Swarthmore Last Chance meet. Carson's time of 3:38.04 is just outside the IAAF 'B' standard of 3:38.0 and edging closer to the Athletics NZ Olympic standard of 3:35.5. His previous best was 3:40.52 which he ran in Sydney in 2011. The next race for Carson maybe the OXY HP meet in California on Friday, pending acceptance into the elite field. Zane Robertson is also entered to run thi...

Nick Willis has been confirmed as the pace maker, and Hamish Carson as a starter, for a quality 1500m race which is scheduled as part of the Swarthmore College Last Chance meeting tomorrow. The Tuppeny Invite 1500m has been organised by New Zealand's fastest ever 5000m runner, Adrian Blincoe, who is an assistant coach at nearby Villanova University in Philadelphia. With the field including Nathan Brannen (2006 Comm Games 1500m Silver Medalist) and nine other sub-four minute milers the pace should be right for Carson, who is currently training i...

The new-look Christchurch Airport Marathon is poised to become another great earthquake recovery story. Following the February 2011 aftershock, last year’s event almost didn’t go ahead. But a last-minuteorganisational effort saw more than 3000 participants support a make-shift event at Lincoln. While pleasing for organisers, this was a far cry from the almost 6000 participants from 12 countries that had turned out in 2010. Entries for 2012, however, indicate a return toward the popularity of what has been the South Island...

Six New Zealand athletes are entered to compete in the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford University on the 29th of April.  Zane Robertson is in the fastest heat of the 1500m and fresh off his 3:56 Mile last week at the Mt San Antonio College Relays he will be expected to be knocking on the door of an Olympic Games qualifier. The same expectation wil be on Nick Willis and Jake Robertson who are both running in the fast heat of the 5000m and Adrian Blincoe on the 10,000m. Top Kiwi steeplechaser Fiona Crombie is also lining up alongside...

After an emotional record-breaking fifth win at the Rotorua Marathon to usurp his running hero, Dale Warrander is focused on continuing his own legacy in the iconic race. The then 37-year-old passed Scott Winton during the final stages of the 2011 Rotorua Marathon to claim the record from the late Jack Foster, who won four titles in the 1970s, to become the most successful runner in the past 47 years of the event. Soon after, he dedicated his win to the man he took the record from. "I regard the late legendary Jack Foster as a role model," sai...

Adrian Blincoe and Kim Smith ran in the Boston AA 5km races on the 15th of April. The 5km is run as part of the Boston Marathon race weekend which also includes a road mile and culminates with the historic marathon. 1 13:41 Ben True 26 M 1 Hanover Nh New Record 2  13:43 Sam Chelanga 27 M 3 Eugene Or  3  13:46 Lani Rutto 23 M 6 Kenya  4  13:46 Adrian Blincoe 32 M 8 Bryn Mawr Pa  1 15:12 Werknesh Kidane 31 F 42 Ethiopia New Record 2 15:21 Aheza Kiros 26 F 43 Ethiopia  3 15:26 Kim Smith 30 F 40 Providence Ri ...

Zane and Jake Robertson both competed in the Athletics Kenya meeting in Kitale on the weekend. Running in Heat 1 of the 1500m Zane lead the field before fading to fourth place in 3:55 with Jake winning Heat 5 in 3:51. "This is my first victory in Kenya and I am delighted about it because I am building up for Olympics. I have been in Kenya for the last five years," Robertson said.  In the final the next day Zane again ran agressively only to be passed in the final 100m, but still finished with an impressive time of 3:45.1 in fourth place. ...