Schedule for 2009-10 Season Released Oct 29, 2009
Crowds should enjoy the excitement on the Frank Shorter '69 track during this indoor season well. Entering into the post-season of indoor track, the Bulldogs will travel to Dartmouth for the Heptagonal Championships, at which they placed fourth last year. (Goyalebulldogs.com)
Easy sledding for Pyeongchang in bid for ’18 Winter Olympics? Oct 28, 2009
Rodgers, who last competed in the Apple in 1988, and old friend Frank Shorter will run the last few miles of the race along with George Hirsch, the NYRR s 75-year-old board chairman. Joan Benoit Samuelson will run the whole route to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles. (Boston Globe)
UMass grad second in Falmouth’s women’s race Aug 10, 2009
The race s Big 3 - Olympic marathon champions Samuelson and Frank Shorter plus Bill Rodgers - all made it to the finish line yesterday in various degrees of distress. Samuelson, who won the race six times between 1976 and 1985, finished 18th in the women s race (41:27), behind son Anders (39:28) but ahead of husband Scott (49:48). (Boston Globe)
They like to move it, move it May 13, 2009
The 61-year-old Ratey has studied the effects of exercise on mental health since the mid-1970s, when U.S. runner and Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter helped spark a nationwide running boom. Ratey has long viewed exercise as a way to deal with depression, anxiety and attention deficit disorders. (Honolulu Advertiser)
26 more miles for Boston Billy Apr 15, 2009
When Rodgers was in his prime, the Americans were at the top of their game, with the likes of Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter, Don Kardong, Tom Fleming, and Alberto Salazar. "We had scads of 2:08-2:12 guys," recalls Rodgers. (Boston Globe)
Many turns on the road to runaway popularity Apr 14, 2009
Later that year, Frank Shorter won the Olympic gold medal in Munich and the running boom soon followed. In three years, the Boston entry list doubled to nearly 2,400, then doubled again by 1978. (Boston Globe)
Theme cruises suit your needs Feb 11, 2009
Frank Shorter, the 1972 gold medalist in the Olympic marathon, was on board, and when you have Frank Shorter on your cruise, the locals meet the boat. When the ship docked in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, it was greeted by upward of 100 area runners, who gladly introduced the cruisers to trails that most tourists never see. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Bulldogs Turn In Fast Times at Giegengack Invitational Feb 8, 2009
For Duncan, the opportunity to run at the Giegengack Invitational was a chance to achieve the ECAC qualifying time that she missed making by only 11 one-hundredths of a second at the Lidlifter Invitational also hosted by Yale on the Frank Shorter '69 Track at Coxe Cage. Duncan, who was already the school record holder in the 500-yard dash, again improved on her time, setting a new Yale record of 1:13. (Goyalebulldogs.com)
