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President Obama Rips Ultra Successful Nike Oregon Project In one of his first public appearances since his health care bill passed the House, President Obama praised the "blue-collar" Hansons Brooks running group and called on Nike to rein in spending on $75,000 anti-gravity treadmills.

Russian Officials Question Effectiveness Of Blood Doping President Medvedev: "We're getting left in the dust. Spending millions on Soviet-era doping has left us leading the world in doping positives but way behind in medals. We're in desperate need of an upgrade."

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World Shocked To Discover Some Women Athletes Are "Manly" The public is flabbergasted as "our whole notion of gender has gone out the window" after they saw a video of Caster Semenya.

Third Brojo Found His name is Moisés, but we call him Mojo.

Employee #1 Joins Record Number Of Unemployed Teh first ever LetsRun employee was let go for to many typos on the front page.

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Athletics World In Panic As Bolt Leaves Club Early
Diamond League meet organizers and Usain Bolt fans are scrambling to find out what is wrong with the King of Sprints after he inexplicably left a Kingston club at 2AM last Thursday night. Coach Mills: "I'm speechless. I thought Usain could really party."

UK Athletics And USATF Vow Never Again To Send Male Teams To IAAF World Cross Country Championships USATF CEO Doug Logan on the decision: "Since there is no chance we’ll ever win a medal again on the men’s side at world cross country, we’ve both made the painful decision to stop sending teams and athletes to the world cross country championships.”

April 1st, 2010

Colorado Woman Says She Has No Plans To Run A Marathon Her neighbors and fellow parishioners are appalled: "She's really talented. We would kill to have sub 6 hour speed like her... and to just throw it away."

Training Advice

Advice From The Pros

Top 10 Training Tips
LetsRun.com's Weldon Johnson gives his top 10 training tips in this letsrun.com classic when the site first launched. They helped him knock 1:22 off his 10k pr in one race and will definitely help you too.

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LetsRun.Com coaching consultant John Kellogg outlines his basic coaching approach and gives the four principles to correct training for elites. LetsRun.com co-founder Robert Johnson translates Mr. Kellogg's approach so that it is beneficial for the masses.

Wejo Speaks:

Why I Sucked In College Perhaps Wejo's most popular training article ever. Wejo explains why he was only a mediocre college runner, yet ended up running 28:06 for 10k.

"In running however, there are not bonus points for running 'hard.' The point is to run fast. There is a difference. Don't forget that."
- Letsrun.com's Wejo explaining "Why He Sucked In College" but went on to be 4th in the country in the 10k.

The LetsRun.com Party Archives

The Party Scene In Eugene We got way back in the archives to relive the 2001 USATF Nationals party scene.

2006 USATF LetsRun.com/Reebok XC Post-Race Bash We upped our game a bit and sponsored the official post-race party after the biggest race in Boulder's fabled running history.

Highlights From Our Archives

Best Running Movie Of All Time We opened it up to our esteemed viewers and they picked the best running movie of all time and the top 10 running movies of all time.

Inspirational Running Poem

Kenya:

LetsRun.com's Wejo went to Kenya for the World XC Championships and then he toured the country and explored the secrets of some of the Kenyan greats. See some of his insights on this incredible country.

Controlled Chaos Read about incredible one-of-a-kind 2007 World XC Championships in Mombasa, Kenya. Tens of thousands of people packed like sardines, hanging in trees, in oppressive heat, all to see the Cross-Country Championships for the first time in Kenya. There will never be a party like this one again.

Kenyan Distance Running Part I: Kenya, The Land Of Opportunity You've seen the highly praised photos, read the incredible race recap, now learn about the Kenyan distance phenomenon. In this article, Wejo looks at the motivations of Kenyan runners. Running in Kenya is by-and-large about one thing: money opportunity.