What a great start to our 2018 XC season!!! Both our men’s and women’s teams took the wins in dominating fashion…our ladies took the top-11 places, while the men went 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th! Read all about it here: The DBU Men’s & Women’s Cross Country teams each opened the 2018 season … More DBU XC Opener — Recap

Did you know that Priscilla Welch started running at the age of 35 after smoking ‘a pack a day’ of cigarettes and by the time she was 39 years old she made an Olympic team in the marathon and at the age of 42 ran 2:26:51 in the marathon? It’s never too late to get … More Did you know?

4 x 880 yards Recovery: 220 yards jog recovery  Splits: 2:02 average  Frank Shorter, Summer, 1972 From Mike Sandrock’s Running with the Giants… In Oslo, Shorter ran another workout of 4 x 880 yards with a 220 jog recovery, averaging 2:02. In a practice meet in Oslo, Shorter also ran 7:51 for 3,000 meters, beating milers … More Workout of the Day — Frank Shorter

Saturday morning — September 1st Men’s University 8000 meters — 7:30AM Women’s University 5000 meters — 8:15AM Mansfield Sports Complex 920 N Holland Rd Mansfield, Texas

Taken from Mike Sandrock’s book Running with the Legends.  Frank ran some good indoor races during the winter of 1971-1972, as fast as 8:26 for two miles. With the 1972 Olympic trials looming, Shorter went to 8,000-foot Vail, Colorado, to train, along with buddies Jack Bachelor and Jeff Galloway. They lived solely for training for six … More An Experiment of Three

Whatever moves the other runners made, I knew I could respond…I felt if I had to, I could fly. — Grete Waitz Grete Waitz won the NYC Marathon nine times from 1978 to 1988 and was the first woman to dip under the 2:30 barrier. I love this quote from Grete…she would get so strong … More Learning From the Greats — Grete Waitz

Today I have the pleasure of introducing Eduardo Rodriguez as a member of the 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials Project. Eddy, as I call him, was a terrific runner at the University of Texas. While at UT he qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships and had some amazing PR’s on the track. I officially … More 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials Project — Eduardo Rodriguez

Every year, typically right before our home opener (Saturday, September 1st), I write an honest preview of our upcoming cross country season…and let me tell you…this year I am extremely excited to write about our 2018 DBU XC Season!!! Last year was historically the best season our men and women have had. We qualified both … More 2018 DBU XC — An Honest Preview

6 x 1000 meters  Recovery: 200 meter jog Splits: 2:59, 2:55, 2:55, 2:54, 2:54, 2:50 Trent Phelps, April 2017 Trent is the all-time best DBU runner over 1500-3000 meters (including the steeplechase). He owns every school record in those events — 1500 meters, Mile, 3000 meters, and 3000 meter steeplechase. The workout above came three … More Workout of the Day — Trent Phelps

If you’ve followed this site for a while, then you know that I love doing 200 meter reps throughout the training cycle…I call it speed maintenance, but really, it’s just about doing something other than logging miles and doing longer and steadier ‘stuff’. Every Friday, if we are not racing, we want to get on … More Every Friday — Speed maintenance