Chris Chavez
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@CitiusMag Founder | Writing & podcasting about track & field + all things running | Writing THE MARATHON BOOK for @penguinrandom – [email protected]
New York City
Joined August 2009
🗣️ "That is the fun part for me – being able to be pushed to my limits, be out there doing it with other strong women, working off each other, and having a great coach and support staff. That’s so fun to me: the really, truly hard work. There’s just so much I love about this
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Results from The Marathon Project this morning in Chandler, Arizona Hansons-Brooks Distance Project's JP Flavin 🇺🇸 takes the men's win in 2:09:18. 🇰🇪 Kenya's Priscah Cherono, the 2007 World Championships bronze medalist at 5000m, wins the women's title in a personal best of
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From @TheAthletic: “A blessing and a curse” is how Harry Aikines-Aryeetey describes the “Hercules gene” that makes his body carry more muscle mass than the average human. It sounds like a benefit for athletes, but the reality is far more complicated. https://t.co/Qzq9rjZhUl
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The Bowerman announcement and victory speech by Razorback Jordan Anthony
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Here are your official results from the 2025 Kalakaua Merrie Mile 🌺 WOMEN'S RACE 1 – 🇺🇸 Sinclaire Johnson, 4:21.66 2 – 🇺🇸 Nikki Hiltz, 4:24.50 3 – 🇰🇪 Susan Ejore-Sanders, 4:26.47 4 – 🇺🇸 Weini Kelati, 4:29.83 5 – 🇯🇵 Nozomi Tanaka, 4:30.04 6 – 🇺🇸 Dani Jones, 4:31.94 7 – 🇺🇸 Sage
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.@sinclaireeee's winning time of 4:21.66 at the #MerrieMile was: . @usatf national record . Course record . All-comers record . 2025 world leader Course is @WorldAthletics - certified and record eligible. Photo timing by Record Timing Photo: @JaneMonti1 for Race Results Weekly
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SINCLAIRE JOHNSON SMASHES THE AMERICAN RECORD FOR THE WOMEN’S ROAD MILE IN 4:21.66 TO WIN THE KALAKAUA MERRIE MILE! 🇺🇸 That’s the fastest performance ever on U.S. soil and moves her to No. 2 on the world all-time list behind Diribe Welteji’s 4:20.98 world record. Johnson now
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Tokyo Olympic 800m champion Athing Mu-Nikolayev has parted ways with coach Bobby Kersee, according to a report by LetsRun's Jonathan Gault. She had been coached by Kersee since November 2022. Kersee told LetsRun that Mu-Nikolayev has moved to Dallas with her husband. Kersee
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Forever a Cardinal 🌲 Congrats to Roisin Willis as she moves on to the next chapter of her career! #GoStanford
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Saturday's #MerrieMile, which features 4 world champions and 12 Olympians, will be broadcast LIVE and FREE via @CitiusMag on YouTube. Here is the link: https://t.co/dSNYLgFwQ1 Broadcast begins at: 7:00am HST 12:00pm EST 5:00pm GMT 6:00pm CET
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Excited to get back behind the mic for this race tomorrow! Tune in and join us!
🌺 The most decorated road mile of the year takes place on Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki on Saturday, Dec. 13th. Mark your calendars and set your reminders as we stream it LIVE on the CITUS MAG YouTube channel. The Merrie Mile stream will start at 7:00 am local time (that’s 12
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Grand Slam Track, the high-profile track & field startup league that promised to revolutionize the sport with a record-setting $12.6 million prize pool and major backing, has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. At launch, Grand Slam boasted $30M in funding, headlined by
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On a random Wednesday, the BYU women go out and run 10:41.85 — which converts to a 10:33.10 (which would be a world record) after you factor in the altitude of Provo and the 323m indoor track. Goodness!
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🤓 Currently reading Hunter S. Thompson’s “The Charge of the Weird Brigade” piece on the Honolulu Marathon that ran in the 1981 edition of Running. Off to Hawaii for the weekend! 🌺
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Here are the nine national marathon records that were set at the 2025 Valencia Marathon Men 🇩🇪 Amanal Petros, 2:04:03 🇳🇴 Awet Kibrab, 2:04:24 🇯🇵 Suguru Osako, 2:04:55 Women 🇧🇪 Chloé Herbiet, 2:20:38 🇫🇮 Alisa Vainio, 2:20:48 🇦🇺 Jessica Stenson, 2:21:24 🇦🇹 Julia Mayer, 2:26:09 🇳🇵
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I think the coolest part to this is the arc and progression by several of these women. A few of them hit the sub-2:45:00 standard for the 2020 Trials but then only to fall heartbreakingly short when the bar dropped to 2:37:00 for the 2024 Trials. They didn’t quit. They stayed
The field for the 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials just got a little bit bigger thanks to the California International Marathon. 55 women ran under the qualifying standard of 2:37:00‼️ Here’s who hit the standard on Sunday morning in Sacramento: Molly Born – 2:24:09 Sara Hall
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🇨🇦 Malindi Elmore runs 2:24:53 to finish 12th at the Valencia Marathon this morning at 45 years old. That's the 4th-fastest Canadian women's marathon performance. Ellmore now owns 6 of the top 10 Canadian women's marathoning performances. 🇨🇦 Updated Canadian All-Time
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