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Samuel Wanjiru is on track to become the greatest Kenyan marathoner of all-time. His greatest achievement was winning the Olympic marathon in Beijing, but he has also set the world record in the half-marathon three times (current 58:33) and the world...

Abubaker Kaki Khamis is a Sudanese 800 meter runner who recently broke the Junior World Record by running 1:42.69 in Oslo, Norway. He is an Indoor World Champion, the 5th fastest 800 meter runner indoors, and the 13th fastest 800 meter runner outdoor...

Kenenisa Bekele is the current world record holder for 5,000 and 10,000 meters. He is the three time reigning world champion and two time reigning Olympic champion at 10,000 meters. He is also the five time short (4k) and six time long (12k) course w...

Haile "The Emperor" Gebrselassie was born April 18, 1973 in Asella, Arsi Province, Ethiopia. He stands 5 feet 5 inches tall (1.65 meters) and weighs 123 pounds (56 kg). Oh yeah, he's set 26 world records, too. Haile currently lives and trains in Addi...

Chris Derrick is one of the brightest young stars in US distance running. He won the Nike Team Nationals in 2007 and finished 2nd at the Footlocker High School Championships as a senior in high school and was named 2007-08 Gatorade Cross Country athl...

Alan Webb has had a record-breaking career, and he is still just 26 years old. He holds the National High School indoor and outdoor mile records, the American mile record, and is the former holder of the two-mile record. He ranks among America's elit...

Shalane Flanagan is the American Record holder for the indoor 3,000 meters, the indoor and outdoor 5,000 meters, and the 10,000 meters. She has won five national cross country championships and five national championships on the track, including her...

German Fernandez is arguably the best high school runner ever. He demolished the CIF state meet record in cross country (14:24 for 5k), won the USA Junior Cross Country championships (24:18 for 8k), ran the best distance double in high school history...

Ryan has had success on the track, but he owns the roads. He is the American Record holder for the half-marathon (59:43), he ran the fastest debut marathon in US history (2:08:24), he won the US Olympic Marathon Trials and ran 2:06:17 in London! In B...

Lauren Fleshman is one of the best American 5,000 meter runners ever. She won three straight NCAA championships over 5,000 meters, setting US Junior and NCAA Records in the process. She won the 2006 US Outdoor Championships 5,000 meter title and is c...

Kara Goucher is one of America's best distance runners competing today. She won the bronze medal at the World Championships in the 10k in 2007, ran the fastest half marathon by an American woman (1:06:57) and is on the all-time US top-10 list for 3k,...

Mebrahtom "Meb" Keflezighi is the American record holder over 10,000 meters (27:13.98) and a silver medalist in the Olympic marathon (Athens, '04). He is a four-time NCAA champion, a three-time U.S. 10k champ, and a three-time U.S. cross country cham...

Luke Puskedra may be the next great Oregon distance runner. As a freshman at Oregon, he was one of the top cross country runners in the collegiate ranks, finishing 5th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships. He also finished 6th in the NCAA Indoor 5...

Dathan Ritzenhein is the reigning USATF Cross Country Champion. He is a two-time high school XC champion (99-00), an NCAA XC champion (03), and a two-time USATF XC champion (05, 08). He is also a two-time Olympian and holder of various national track...

Galen Rupp is arguably the best young distance runner in the US today. He set high school or US junior records from the 2000m to the 10,000m. And though he is still a student at the University of Oregon, Galen has participated in the World Championsh...

Jordan Hasay is a two-time Footlocker Champion, a two-time Junior Cross Country Champion, a three-time CA state champion for 3200m, an Olympic Trials finalist in the 1500m, and the holder of numerous age-group records in track and field. She has run...

Matt Tegenkamp is a phenomenal runner. The American record holder for two-miles, he has also run the fourth fastest 5k all-time in America. He has won USA cross country titles, indoor track titles, and come within four hundredths of a second of medal...

Jon Rankin is the fastest miler you've maybe heard of. If you've lost to him, that is! The graduate of UCLA has consistently run 3:36 for 1500m and finished 6th at the Olympic Trials, just missing a spot on the Olympic team. He is an avid supporter...

The Genius in the Design is, like The Devil in the White City, part biography, part history, and part architecture. It is at once about Gianlorenzo Bernini (pictured) and Francesco Borromini, Rome's two most accomplished architects of the 17th centur...

In the history of comic book movie action figure ninjas, two characters reign supreme: Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow. A member of the G.I. Joe, Snake-Eyes fought the Cobra in the battle for Good. Storm Shadow was a member of the Cobra, an assassin who...

What is The Ninja Effect? No, it's not the situation whereby you meet a ninja, and end up dead. That's technically The Ninja Result. The Ninja Effect is something different. It is the capacity for a ninja to make exponentially cooler whatever it is...

Michael Phelps vs Usain Bolt Michael Phelps swam 5 individual races and 3 relays in Beijing. He won 8 golds and set 7 world records and 1 Olympic record. Usain Bolt ran 2 individual races and 1 relay in Beijing. He won 3 golds and set 3 world records...

America has had its share of great marathoners. But there hasn't really been a clear way of determining where they rank. I set out to answer that question, and this lens shows my results. It's a dynamic list, though, and with every performance by pre...

This is a list of the top 25 Olympic distance performers ever. Except I've only nailed down the top 24...I need your help to choose the final person! Each athlete in this list had a remarkable career. But that's not what this list is about. This lis...

Steve "Pre" Prefontaine was born on January 25, 1951. He died on May 30, 1975. In those 24 years, he became a legend. He won seven NCAA titles, set eight American records at distances ranging from 2,000 meters to 10,000 meters, and inspired a running...

Emil Zatopek redefined distance running. The Czech runner's brutal interval workouts and strategic approach to racing helped him to win four Olympic gold medals, including three (5k, 10k, and marathon) at the 1952 Helsinki Games. He set 18 world reco...

Hicham El Guerrouj is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (1500m, 5000m), a four-time outdoor World Champion in the 1500m, and a three-time indoor World Champion (1500m, 3000m). He currently holds five world records in the 1500m (3:26.00, 3:31.18i), the...

If you're a runner, chances are you're a reader, too. And if you're a runner and a reader, chances are you're a reader of running books. And if you're a reader of running books, this is the lens for you! There are currently 105(!) books on this list...

First, there was the Complete Lens of Running Books. It was an epic endeavor that soon grew too large for Squidoo to support. So it has now been broken down into multiple lenses, of which this is one. This lens lists every running biography ever wri...

If by "complete" you mean complete, then this will never completely be The "Complete" Lens of Running Blogs. But it can be the Complete Lens of Running Blogs that I actually read regularly! So that's what it is. Only, rather than use a feed reader th...

Oscar Pistorius is fast. He's run 46.25 for 400 meters, 21.58 for 200 meters, and 10.91 for 100 meters. And he's done it all with no lower legs. Using his "Cheetah Flex-Foot" blades, Oscar has run 26 world record performances, and now he has started...

UCLA vs USC Two schools. One city. No love lost. This debate is about more than just a cross-town rivalry. It's about Public vs. Private. Basketball vs. Football. "Beat 'SC Week" vs. "Conquest". It's about the Lexus Gauntlet, Olympic sports greatnes...