Wayde van Niekerk 43.3 min

Wayde van Niekerk is a South African runner born in 1992. He is running the 400 m in 46.43 min. We will be hearing more about him in Tokyo 2020, I am sure. Found an interesting video in YouTube. Wayde van Niekerk won gold medal in the 400 m Rio Olympics 2016, running the lap in 43.03 min. Interestingly, no runner in lane eight had ever won in the 400 m Olympics games. 

YouTube Video. 

Amana Freezer 5K 2019

Surprisingly, organizers did not cancel the race. Race started at 10:00 AM.  Temperature was 9 F. Roads were covered with some snow/ice, but it wasn't too slippery, just enough to run cautiously. I did not see Andres at the start line, but I tried to follow Craig Brophy.  As usual, he was a little bit too fast, but I tried to stay behind him. I think he went way ahead of me at first. I just tried to have a steady pace and tried not to slow down. Nate Hopp's last year's time was 16:45 min. This time he ran it almost one minute slower.

The first three winners:
Nathan Hopp, 17:38 min, 5:40/m
Justin Hajek, 18:46 min, 6:02/m
Sam Kepford, 19:13 min, 6:11/m

GARMIN LINK
Amana Freezer 5K Run Results 2019

Coe College Indoor Track

Iowa Running Company organizes a group run on Thursdays at 6:00 PM. The temperature has been in the single digits with wind factors that get the temperature to negative numbers. The roads are icy and cannot run without slipping. For this reason, IRC organized a workout indoors!

The workout consisted in one mile warm-up followed by some dynamic stretches. We the ran 800 m intervals. I ran with this young girl Erin. She just moved from Des Moines and she works in TransAmerica. We then ran about a mile to cool down. 

LINK to GARMIN-CONNECT

Monday Feb 4 2019

Weather improved a little bit today. Temperature is still low and it doesn't help making me run. However, I did go out and run to the track. The track was partially covered with ice and snow in some places which made it a little bit hard to run.

I did a couple of 400's and then did a couple more on my way back home. I listened to VO2max Podcast on improving the running form. Sage said, that running fast is a good way to improve the running form because nobody can run fast with bad form. I agreed to it for the most part. 

February 4, 2019

400 m	2:37 min	10:28 MPM	168	0.91 m
400 m	2:28 min	10:06 MPM	174	0.91 m
400 m	2:16 min	9:10 MPM	183	0.92 m
400 m	2:02 min	8:13 MPM	187	1:10 m
400 m	2:10 min	8:43 MPM	189	1:03 m

GARMIN

Maraton de Culiacan 2019

El dia 20 de Enero se celebro el maraton XXX de la Ciudad de Culiacan, Sinaloa. El maraton fue transmitido en vivo por FaceBook gracias al Coach Hector Flecha Hernandez. Tambien fue grabado y editado por el Prof. Juan Jose Martinez y fue subido a la plataforma de Vimeo. Estos videos del Prof. Martinez son de magnifica calidad en todos los sentidos. Esperemos que esta lista de videos en el canal de Vimeo se agrande cada vez mas. me parece interesante que casi todos los corredores que se colocaron en algun lugar se pueden encontrar en las paginas de la International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). 

	MARATHON	time	pace
1	Abraham Arteaga Gomez (Garcia?)	2:25:09	5:32
2	Pedro Espinoza Perez	2:26:29	5:35
3	Jose Guadalupe de Jesus Puga	2:27:22	5:37
1	Anabel Martinez Lopez	2:49	6:27
2	Misha Elena Ruiz Fernandez	2:53:36	6:37
3	Viola Chelengat Kimetto	2:56:22	6:44
	HALF MARATHON
1	Hesiquio Flores Romero	1:04:13	4:54
2	Dario Castro Perez	1:04:19	4:54
3	Fernando Cervantes Caudillo	1:06:12	5:03
1	Citlali Cristian Mascote	1:15:36	5:46
2	Marisol Guadalupe Romero Rosales	1:18:16	5:58
3	Margarita Quintero Petris	1:20:03	6:06

LINK VIDEO VIMEO

La Enchilada 12K

Hoy 27 de Enero del 2019 se corrio la esperada gran carrera de La Enchilada 12K alla en Tijuana, Baja California. Esta fue la edicion numero nueve de esta dificil carrera. Tuvo la participacion de un gran numero de corredores elite con la actuacion estelar del corredor Juan Jose Esparza quien rompio record de esta ruta con un tiempo de 37:23 min. Los primeros cinco Km de sta carrera son planos, pero luego viene un kilometro y medio de subida que no es para cualquiera. El tiempo de Esparza es impresionante, ya que tuvo un paso de 5:00 min por milla. 

LINK CARRERA LIVE en FACEBOOK

Chevron Houston Marathon

The Houston marathon was held last Sunday. Three elite Mexican runners ran the race and did very well. Nice to see Mexican runners with the leading group.

5th place, Juan Joel Pacheco #15, time: 2:10:58
8th place, Jose "el munneco" Santana Marin, #13, time: 2:13:20 (DOB 1989)
14th place, Daniel Vargas #3576, time: 2:15:54 (DOB 03/06/1984)
18th place, Juan Alberto Mena #414, time: 2:18:31

LINK TO THE FULL RACE VIDEO

Juan Jose Martinez en FaceBook

Juan Jose Martinez en VIMEO