In her first-ever competitive wheelchair race, Dawna Callahan placed fourth in the women’s open division at the Los Angeles Marathon’s Wheelchair Race on March 2. 

Serious mountain bikers looking for a challenge might consider entering a race in the Suzuki 24-Hour National Point Series, a series of six team relay races held at various locations throughout the country. 

Registration is now open for Couples Relay, a new series of running events in Denver, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins that will benefit the Blazeman Foundation for ALS.  

On June 28, official Spinning facilities across the country will simultaneously conduct four consecutive one-hour classes with the goal of raising $1 million to benefit a trio of charities. The event, dubbed Spinning Nation, is the first-ever nationwide Spinning fundraising event. 

USA Track & Field hosted a media teleconference featuring Team USA men's squad members for the 2008 Olympic Marathon in Beijing, China, Ryan Hall and Dathan Ritzenhein.

New Zealand’s Michael Aish ran to his first career marathon victory Sunday at the P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona Marathon in a time of 2 hours, 13 minutes 20 seconds. Returning women’s champion, Adenech Zekirios from Ethiopia, broke the course record of 2:31:33 in her repeat victory, finishing in 2:31:14. Also in the women’s race, seven American women qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Women’s Marathon.
by Ian Monahan
photos by: Brian Myers

The Portland Marathon, which will host its 37th event on Oct. 5, 2008, is encouraging participants to “plug in” and use their MP3 players, iPods and cell phones despite recent controversy surrounding the use of electronic devices in long-distance running and walking events.

After Levi Leipheimer (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and his Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team claimed overall titles in the inaugural USA Cycling Professional Tour, the national governing body announced today its second-annual, season-long professional road cycling calendar.

The 2008 Ironman race schedule kicks off Sunday in South Africa, beginning an international circuit that will visit 16 countries. The 51-race circuit is comprised of full-length Ironman triathlons as well as a growing number of increasingly popular 70.3 races, which debuted in 2005 and have taken off since.

With the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games just months away, USA Triathlon is set to kick off the fourth and final year of its annual Haul to the Great Wall Elite Race Series.