07.06.2009 2:58 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Thanks to the folks who volunteered to coach runners and walkers interested in training and participating with Team Challenge and in the Las Vegas Half-Marathon on December 6.
For more information, contact Rhonda Sciarra, rsciarra@ccfa.org or at 314-863-4747.

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06.30.2009 9:54 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation is joining the ranks of charities that use running events as fund-raisers. The group has chosen to recruit and train a group to participate in the Las Vegas Rock and Roll Half-Marathon on December 6.
Training for the…

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06.24.2009 9:40 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WATCH LIVE WEBCAST ON FLOTRACK
East St. Louis’ Dawn Harper and Eldon, Mo. native Christian Cantwell return to Eugene, Ore. ,site of last year’s Olympic Trials, for the USA Track and Field Championships, Thursday through Sunday.
Harper went on to win a…

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05.09.2009 11:16 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I’ve been impressed with the way that Fleet Feet St. Louis, organizers of the Lewis and Clark marathon, have handled the adversity that Mother Nature hurled at them last year in the form of Hurricane Ike. They had to shorten…

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04.19.2009 8:20 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Three individuals set course records at the GO! St. Louis events Sunday. So, hats off to Zac Freudenburg (2:23:57), Megan Earney (2:51:20) and Rotich Kipruto (1:07:19), winners of the men’s marathon, women’s marathon and men’s half-marathon, respectively.
Perhaps the most impressive…

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04.14.2009 10:48 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Good news for organizers of the GO! St. Louis half-marathon: the race has reached its cap of 10,000 participants. It’s grown quite a bit from its inception in 2003, when just over 2,000 participated.
Bad news for procastinators, though.
In addition, online registration…

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03.24.2009 9:33 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jeff Trammel of GO! St. Louis offers a couple of very good reasons to sign up soon.
First, the half-marathon, presented by National City, is nearing the limit of 10,000 participants. The sooner you sign up, the more likely you are…

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03.04.2009 1:43 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The organizers of the GO! St. Louis Family Fitness Weekend, April 18 and 19, are proving that good health trumps hard economic times. Registration is up for all of the weekend events — a great sign of the area’s commitment…

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02.17.2009 2:06 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
GO! St. Louis president and founder Nancy Lieberman earned the Trailblazer Award, presented by Women’s Running Magazine at the annual 2009 Running USA conference in La Jolla, Calif., earlier this month. The Trailblazer Award is presented to the woman who…

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01.20.2009 10:51 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Brian Lyons, race director of GO! St. Louis, finished 26th overall in the Houston half-marathon Sunday. The Houston half attracts the most elite field of the winter marathon/half-marathons: Olympic medalist Meb Keflezghi, who finished first in 1 hour, 1 minute…

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