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NorCal Track anf Field athletes in the news...

SLV runners head to state indoor track championships (Press-Banner.com)

Baring Their Soles: Athletes try barefoot running at Scotts Valley clinic (SantaCruzSentinel.com)

St. Helena distance runner goes the distance to see Giants (NapaValleyRegister.com)

Jason Coupe qualifies for inagural indoor meet (LodiNews.com)

(From SantaCruzSentinel.com)
TRACK AND FIELD
Aptos sophomore Nikki Miyashita posted a 5-foot, 1-inch mark in the high jump at a qualifier at Los Gatos High to advance to the California Indoor Invitational on Feb. 6 at Fresno State University's Save-Mart Center.

Prep wrestling: Madson, MacDonald lead pack of Marin girls bound for state championships (MarinIJ.com)

More than a half dozen Empire athletes qualify for State Indoor meet (PressDemocrat.com)

Articles I missed? Send them to albertjcaruana@gmail.com and I will add them to the list above.

Letsrun.com interview with Brett Gotcher...

If you have 90 minutes available, here is an audio interview with former Aptos/Stanford runner Brett Gotcher along with his current coach, Greg MacMillan.

This is the 3rd edition of Training Talk by the world famous running website.

Humans are biologically capabable of running up to 40 mph: study

Listen up, joggers: No matter how hard you’ve been pushing yourself, you’re nowhere close to running at 40 mph - the fastest speed at which a body can biologically move, according to scientists.

That’s the rate man’s muscle contraction speeds permit him to run, according to Wyoming University biomechanics expert Dr. Matthew Bundle, as reported in The Telegraph.

At 40 mph, a runner would sprint across the finish line in a 100-meter race in 6.67 seconds – which is how long it took Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt to reach the 60-meter mark, says The Telegraph. Bolt was clocked at nearly 28 mph in the 100-meter sprint, which sounds impressive until you consider that lions run at 50 mph when in pursuit of prey, and a cheetah’s speed approaches 70 mph.

Read the rest of the article at the following link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2010/01/26/2010-01-26_humans_are_biologically_capabable_of_running_up_to_40_mph_study.html

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Northern California Preview 2010 courtesy of Keith Conning...

http://theconningtower.blogspot.com/2010/01/northern-california-preview-2010_25.html

Pictures from Los Gatos All-Comers Track and Field Meet...

Thanks to Margaret Gallagher and Spencer Allen.

Go to following link:
http://www.sportsimagewire.com/SIWportfoliopage.html

and results:
http://www.dyestatcal.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/2010/lgac_3.htm

Flotrack jumps in the fray interviewing Brett Gotcher...

Christopher Kelsall

January 23, 2010

Brett Gotcher has gone from regular fast guy with Olympic dreams and a part time job to regular fast guy who is spending his post-marathon recovery time answering more questions about his training (in one week) than he has had to his entire life - maybe. And all he did was run a marathon. Mind you it was the fourth fastest debut marathon in US history, 2:10:36. Not too shabby for a surfer-dude from Aptos California.

Leading up to the Chevron Houston Marathon, Brett ran equally well when he won the National 20km Championships in September 2009 (58:57) and in the Aramco Houston Half Marathon (62:09) in January 2009. However, marathon running is risky business and getting everything to go just right on race day is a task requiring all the right moves, patience and a little good fortune – kind of like surfing – well maybe not exactly. Coach Greg McMillan is there to help guide the way, complimenting his blossoming talent and helping to foster Brett’s strong commitment to achieve more.

Brett took the time to answer a few more questions, exhibiting that rare level of patience successful marathon runners possess. Here is our interview.

To read the interview, go to the following link:
http://www.flotrack.org/articles/view/1685-brett-gotcher

Anatomy Of A Breakthrough (Another interview with Brett Gotcher)

Courtesy of http://running.competitor.com

Our exclusive interview with new 2:10 marathoner Brett Gotcher.

Interview by: Duncan Larkin

Twenty-six-year-old Brett Gotcher knows what it means to run a breakthrough race. Last year, he upset a stacked field to win the U.S. 20K Championships. After a disappointing world half marathon showing in Birmingham, England last November, where he placed 64th, Gotcher resumed his streak of breakthrough races. Last weekend in Houston, Gotcher ran the fourth-fastest American debut marathon (2:10:35). Gotcher is coached by Greg McMillan. He lives and trains in Flagstaff, Arizona.

http://running.competitor.com/2010/01/features/anatomy-of-a-breakthrough_7945

New CCS CBEDs for 2010 XC...

Thanks to Hank Lawson (for posting) on his website (www.lynbrooksports.com)

http://www.cifccs.org/playoffs/cbeds/09-10%20c-beds%20-9-12%20generic.pdf

Per Ernie Lee (Gunn) these are the changes:
If I counted correctly (not guaranteed since I ran out of fingers and toes), here are where the breaks will be for next year's cross country season:
DI Boys - 1879 and up (Fremont smallest DI. Note, Gunn now DI)
DI Girls - 1851 and up (Leland smallest DI. Note, Gunn remains and Paly now DI)
DII Boys - 1480-1853 (El Camino smallest, Paly largest)
DII Girls - 1479-1841 (Pajaro Valley smallest, Santa Clara largest)
DIII Boys - 1140-1479 (Riordan smallest, Pajaro Valley largest)
DIII Girls - 1125-1477 (Soledad smallest, Mills largest. Note Santa Cruz now DIII)
DIV Boys - 533-1132 (Santa Cruz largest)
DIV Girls - 533-1115 (Gunderson largest)
DV Boys and Girls - 496 and under

Note also that Gilroy is currently in DI but will most likely drop to DII since they will probably have a greater than 15% change (this year they went from 2475 to 2059 with the opening of the new high school in Gilroy).