Blacksburg Striders News

  • Downhill Draper Mile continues to grow in popularity by Cody Owens (Collegiate Times, on page 8 of the August 3, 2011 edition).

  • Dave Brewer, a runner from our area who now lives in Herndon, was featured in the November 8, 2010 Newsweek article: Addicted to a run? The point of the article is that he has run at least two miles every day for a quarter century. I wrote Dave asking, “Were any of your runs inside when there was three feet of snow?” Here is his reply.

    I have done some treadmill runs during horrific weather (and when my son was a baby). But I love running in deep snow, and have run a few times with 20-30 inches of the snow on the ground. My neighbors get a kick out of that. A former VT runner from the 80's named Ron Kulik called me during the 25-inch blizzard of 1996, and said, “I know you're running today, want to go run in a parking garage with me?” He was quite upset when I replied that I had already run that day.
    Here is a copy of that article. (No, we did not cut off his head when we scanned the article.)

  • This article is about James DeMarco's High Performance Distance Academy held in July 2010 at Virginia Tech. Phil Latter, of ESPN/RISE, embedded himself as a coach in James' six-day camp and wrote this report as Part 3 of a series on summer running camps.

  • In June 2010, two US outdoor track records were set by runners from Blacksburg.

    • On June 12, in Raleigh, NC, at the Southeastern US Masters meet, John Hosner set a new 85-year-old age-group record. Even though the temperatures were in the mid-90s and the weather was sunny and humid, John ran 8:22. The old record was 9:18 (Bill Benson, age 85, Durham, NC '05).Complete meet results.

    • On June 19, at the New Balance HS Nationals Meet in Greensboro, NC, the Blacksburg girls set a new US outdoor high school record in the distance-medley relay. Their time was 11:31.26 (old HSR 11:31.81 Warwick Valley, Warwick, NY, ’08). Three of the girls set PRs. The splits were Kathleen Stevens 3:31.46 (1200m), Sarah Dorrell 58.97 (400m), Hannah Brown 2:12.61 (800m), Joanna Stevens 4:48.14 (1600m). (Photo by Victah Sailer) | Click here for a video of the race.

  • Runners banded together for ‘great cause’ by Jared Turner The Roanoke Times; 28 October 2007)

  • Q and A with John Hosner (John Hosner) by Brittney Davis (from the Collegiate Times; 4 August 2006)

  • A reputation for being competitive (John Hosner) by Hart Fowler (from the Roanoke Times; 8 September 2006)

    Here is a photo of the winning Lynchburg 10 Miler 50-and-over male relay team from about 10 years before the race mentioned in the article. As a test: identify the runners.

  • 25th annual Draper Mile runs strong by Herb Fowler(from the Roanoke Times; 30 July 2006)

  • Planned extensions to the Huckleberry Trail (June 2006)

  • 81 and still running (from the News Messenger; 924 June 2006)

  • Hitting the Wall — and running right past it (from the Roanoke Times; 9 March 2003)

  • The Running Myers (from the Roanoke Times; 18 July 2002)

  • Seniors Invitational Mile Run — On February 26th, 2000 John Hosner broke the WORLD RECORD in the Indoor One Mile for his age group! See the attached PDF file linked above for news about the first world record set on the VA Tech indoor track!

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