Let’s start close to home.

Bryan Glass of the 180 Energy Runners finished first in the Lake Run 12K near Bloomington, Ill. Glass beat a field of nearly 800 runners, finishing in 38 minutes 50.1 seconds. Here’s the full story,…

We covered the nuts and bolts of the Brigette Schutzman Festival of Miles in Tuesday’s paper. Here’s the link in case you missed it. For a slideshow of the evening, click here.

Congratulations to Vianney and Mizzou grad Neville Miller, both on…

OK, how many of us have had a subpar workout or race and the first thing we do is reach into the old bag of excuses? Kenenisa Bekele had a boatload Sunday at the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh,…

We’re a bit stunned that in the 54 years since Roger Bannister first broke the 4-mile barrier, no one has broken the mark outdoors in Missouri. The organizers of the Brigette Schutzman Festival of Miles hope to end the drought.…

St. Louisan Jillian Petersen has joined Sarah Haskins at the Olympic triathlon training center in Colorado Springs for elite athletes.

Petersen got 2008 off to a good start, finishing 3rd last weekend in the International Triathlon Union’s Pan American Cup in…

Haile Gebreselassie, the world’s fastest marathoner, has decided not to compete in the event in the Beijing Olympics. The reason: Gebreselassie suffers from asthma, and he thinks that the pollution in Beijing poses a health threat. He’ll compete in the…

Christian Cantwell of Columbia became only the second shot putter to win two World indoor titles with a toss of 21.77 meters _ that’s 71 feet 5 1/4 inches _ in the world indoor track championships in Valencia, Spain last…

Former Berkeley High and Lindenwood University sprinter Michael Rodgers has burst onto the national track scene, just in time to create buzz for the Olympic Trials.

Rodgers stunned the field by winning the 60-meter dash in 6.54 seconds at the…

Reader Rudy Schwarz wanted a little more detail on the Frostbite series half-marathon, how Mike Farrell beat Zac Freudenburg by just one second, in 1 hour 11 minutes 22 seconds. So, we went straight to one of the sources for…

Though the season is young, a couple records fell at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games over the weekend.

• Meserat Defar of Ethiopa crushed the women’s indoor world record in the 2-mile, finishing in 9 minutes, 10.50 seconds. The time smashed…