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No one would have expected a full-time nurse from Philadelphia to keep pace with the elites at one of the top marathons in the country, but that’s just what Samantha Roecker did in December. At the California International Marathon (CIM), which saw 99 women qualify for the Olympic Trials, the top three women finished almost exactly one minute apart. Emma Bates, who recently signed on with Asics, won in 2:28:19. HOKA Northern Arizona Elite’s Stephanie Bruce finished second in 2:29:21. Then Roecker, an unsponsored runner, crossed the Sacramento finish line in 2:30:25. “The race was all a blur,” Roecker, 27,...

GLENDALE, Calif. — A homeowner's security camera captured unbelievable footage in California. A deer, running for its life from a mountain lion, splashed straight into the backyard pool, with the big cat following right behind. Advertisement See the incredible video above

Here are (what I like to call) “snapshots” of the Chinese New Year celebrations in February 2019. The Chinese use a lunar calendar, and the New Year started on 5FEB19, and started the week-long celebration. This celebration is profoundly different than anything experienced in the West. It is a time of family and friends. It is a time of crazed dancing, and orgy of food, and prolonged heavy drinking. It is also a time when you will see friendships renew, relationships expand, and families strengthen. The cultural aspects of this event are (in large part) unknown in the West, but...

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are backing legislation to establish an office of outdoor recreation to promote hiking, climbing and fishing throughout New Mexico. They said Tuesday that they want the Land of Enchantment to challenge Utah, Montana and other states known for attracting outdoor enthusiasts from all over the country. The proposal would also create an “outdoor equity grant program” aimed at helping low-income families in New Mexico enjoy skiing, camping and the outdoors. The proposal, Senate Bill 462, calls for $1.5 million in funding to run the division and $100,000...

HELLO, Race Fans and Welcome to the FR Home for NASCAR Racing 2019. I'm going to try this Season running one Thread and breaking in for each Week adding to this one Thread. We may change that after We get rolling that plan doesn't work so well but I want to try it for a while.

The mountain lion that mauled a Colorado runner on Monday was later devoured by other animals — possibly other mountain lions — which made it difficult for officials who later conducted a necropsy, or animal autopsy, to identify the big cat’s gender and official weight. Ty Petersburg, a terrestrial biologist with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife, told the Coloradoan the feline’s organs had been eaten just two hours after officials had received the initial call about the man, who has not yet been identified publicly, being attacked. ..." The victim, said to be in his 30s, was attacked from behind...

One of the mysteries of China, and there are many such mysteries, is what it is like living in the hinterlands of China. Rural China. People see pictures of the skyscrapers of Shanghai, and the high-tech modern world of ultra-futuristic Shenzhen, but what of the rest of the country? What is it like? Is the mainstream media narrative that it is a devoid and barren wasteland correct? Well, in this post we try to show what China is like outside of the big mega-cities. It’s kind of difficult, as China is just rife with mega-cities. In fact, many a village...

“I don’t like that full feeling when I’m running, so I don’t drink that much.” For Judy Williams, a 56-year-old single mom from Riverview, Florida, this statement doesn’t hold true anymore, at least not after a life altering hospital visit in 2015 after she ran the Gasparilla Distance Classic. Williams has been racing in the Classic since 1989, and she loves doing all four challenges: the 5K, 8K, 15K, and half marathon over the course of two days. She even ran while pregnant with her two daughters, Kelly, 19, and Abby, 18. The Classic is the race Williams looks forward...

Scientists in New Zealand say they have found a USB memory stick containing holiday photos inside a frozen slab of seal poo. The scat, valuable for studying the health of leopard seals, had been stored in a freezer for a year before it was thawed out for analysis, the researchers said. “Concealed deep inside the scat was a USB stick,” the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said on its website. The stick was in good condition, “considering where it had come from”, and the researchers let it dry out for a few weeks. It contained photos of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - North isn't quite where it used to be. Earth's north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists say that past estimates are no longer accurate enough for precise navigation. On Monday, they released an update of where magnetic north really was, nearly a year ahead of schedule.

Fort Collins, Colo. -- A man is recovering after he fought off and killed a mountain lion that attacked him during a trail run in northern Colorado... the man was running alone when he was attacked from behind Monday afternoon at Horsetooth Mountain Open Space, a mountain park some 66 miles northwest of Denver, near Fort Collins. The runner, whose name has not been released, fought off the cougar, hiked out of the area and drove himself to a hospital. He suffered facial cuts, wrist injuries and puncture wounds to his arms, legs and back. The bites were severe... Wildlife...

New York City resident Todd Aydelotte has come up with an inventive way to make long runs in the city interesting: Turn them into a history lesson. It started about two years ago, when he started running longer distances. Inspired by ultrarunners like Tommy Rivers Puzey and Timothy Olson, who seem to run wild, free, and connected to the land, Aydelotte wanted to bring that to his own runs. But running in canyons and near streams is not easily feasible in the concrete jungle. Aydelotte needed to find a different way to motivate himself to go farther and distract himself...

the plan calls for something the world has never seen before: a submerged floating tunnel. "Wind, waves and currents have hardly any influence there," Arianna Minoretti, a chief engineer at Norway's Public Roads Administration, She said 50 international experts "are doing detailed simulations and detailed measurements of wind speed, current, undersea landslides, bedrock geology, etc." to make sure the plans, as well as the tunnel, is rooted in "the real-world environment."

At a Glance A meteorite landed in western Cuba on Friday afternoon.Residents in the town of Viñales said they spotted the object streaking across the sky.No injuries were reported, though there are unconfirmed reports of damage.The meteor was seen on satellite and radar before hitting Cuba. Residents of a town in western Cuba said the area was rocked by what is believed to be a meteorite strike, and windows might have been blown out in some homes nearby. The meteor was seen on satellite and radar just before hitting Cuba. "We’re receiving reports that a meteor was seen in the...

For a few long minutes, Camille Herron thought her life could end at any moment. Crumpled into a ball while hanging helplessly upside down, Herron was trapped inside of her car, which had flipped over after a rogue driver crashed into her. The driver was later charged. “I thought I was going to die from suffocation. I couldn’t breathe, and I was worried about the car setting on fire because I could smell oil and smoke,” Herron told Runner’s World. “It just smelled like something burning.” The ultrarunner, who recently set the 100-mile world record, was on her way to...

The wait is almost over. Batteries recharged, the teams and drivers will soon return to competitive action for the highly-anticipated 2019 season, but before then, they get to trial their new challengers at pre-season winter testing in Barcelona. And as we’ve seen in the past, anything can happen as the drivers, whether it be familiar faces or F1 debutants, get to grips with their latest machinery. So, on that note, we’ve dug through the archives to re-live five of the biggest shocks in winter testing.

A 25-mile commute through Russian traffic and a powerful two-wheeled samurai sword, and you get a video showing the "quick" way to work. Sometimes this two-wheeler even becomes a one-wheeler as rare empty stretches of road disappear when the nose goes skyward. Hang On !!

You may be bundled up during the polar vortex that’s sweeping the nation, but for some outdoor enthusiasts, it was the perfect temperature for this year’s Arrowhead 135 ultramarathon. The a race is purposely held in late January or early February each year to line up with what they hope is the coldest temperatures of the year. It runs roughly 135 miles between International Falls, Minnesota, to Lake Vermillion in Minnesota along the arrowhead State Trail. This year, they were right on the money, as temperatures dropped as low as -30 degrees Fahrenheit. “It’s supposed to be coupled with this...

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — A Minnesota team won't be at the U.S. National Snow Sculpting Championship this week after two of its proposed pieces — including one depicting President Donald Trump — were denied due to political overtones and inappropriateness. The team — state champs Dusty Thune, Kelly Thune and David Aichinger — had created a snow sculpture of Trump last year at the event in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, that showed Trump's hair and neck as a twisted pile of feces featuring his tweets. It was called "Peep" and meant to evoke the president's vulgar comments about African countries. So...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN—While out shoveling his drive Wednesday morning, local Minnesota man Carl Manders was forced to warm himself inside the carcass of his recently deceased Tauntaun, sources confirmed. Manders got to the end of the drive and realized he would never make it back to the house alive. His tauntaun froze to death and collapsed on the spot. In a tough situation, he made the difficult decision to slit the beast open and slip himself inside its hot, steamy entrails. Before he headed outside, his wife reportedly warned him that his tauntaun would freeze before he reached the...