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Team Overview The Austin Track Club is seeking current or aspiring professional middle-distance runners. Founded in 2010, the Austin Track Club has trained professional athletes such as Leo Manzano, Kyle Miller, Jacob Hernandez and Shannon Rowbury while supporting its mission of promoting healthy lifestyles and advancing the sport of professional running in America. Austin TC coaches and athletes embrace a no-frills, blue-collar training philosophy that allows them to balance intelligent and gritty performances on the track with a ...
Need a break from marathon training? Looking to put your endurance to good use, but without having to “endure” quite so many miles? Come train with the Austin Track Club, Austin’s only middle-distance training program, to find out how fast you can run the classic race: the Mile. Our coaches will take you through the workouts, drills and strength exercises that you need to get quick legs, a powerful stride and a strong finishing kick. Workouts will be twice a week, plus long runs with the Austin Track ...
Are you ready to become a citizen of Mile City, USA? Here’s how to do it: Come out and run a mile with the Austin Track Club at any of the Mile City Series events. You’ll get points just for participating. If you place in the top 4 in your age group, you’ll get even more points. At the end of the year we’ll total up everyone’s points, throw a party and present awards to Austin’s finest milers. The Mile City Series Event &nb...
As part of the Austin Track Club's Professional Track and Field Summit, we're hosting a free track and field clinic for middle- and high-schoolers. The clinic will be at Stephen F. Austin High School at 5pm on December 6. Come learn from America's top T&F athletes like Adam Nelson, Amy Acuff, Amy Yoder-Begley, Leo Manzano and more! Click here to register: https://www.signmeup.com/site/online-event-registration/88320
Rule 40. Tattooed shoulders. Professional athletes going into debt to do their job. We all know the why. The question now is “What’s next?” The Austin Track Club is presenting the Professional Track and Field Summit on December 6 in Austin, Texas. We’re bringing together athletes, coaches, sponsors, running stores, fans, race directors, sports media and whoever else we can think of to come together in one room (or, thanks to Flotrack, one live stream session) to lay out the next steps our sport needs to ...
MILE NEWS Bring Back the Mile Launches Club Support Program September 10, 2012 Austin Track Club first training group to receive a percent of BBTM merchandise sales to help support their aspiring Olympians SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – (September 10, 2012) – As the 2012 London Olympic Games closed, aspiring Olympic athletes quickly turned their gaze to Brazil and the 2016 Rio Games. Many of these hopefuls will need support from the various training groups established across the country. One such club is the Austin Track Club, which ...
Leo gets it done in London!!! The Olympic silver medal is coming home to Austin. Photofinish Rk Bib Athlete Mark + 1 1008 MAKHLOUFI Taoufik 3:34.08 + 2 3234 MANZANO Leonel 3:34.79 SB + 3 2456 IGUIDER Abdalaati 3:35.13 + 4 3210 CENTROWITZ Matthew 3:35.17 + 5 2596 INGEBRIGTSEN Henrik 3:35.43 NR + 6 1687 GEBREMEDHIN Mekonnen 3:35.44 + 7 2299 KIPLAGAT Silas 3:36.19 + 8 3078 OZBILEN Ilham Tanui 3:36.72 + 9 2612 WILLIS Nicholas 3:36.94 + 10 1...
See complete article here By Joe Rosato Jr. Friday, Jul 6, 2012 | Updated 8:05 AM PDT Olympic runner Shannon Rowbury came to athletics through an odd combination of injury and culture: Her future kicked off early with shattered bones and her Irish grandmother. “I broke my leg in kindergarten,” Rowbury said between workouts at a San Francisco track. “She decided to put me in dancing to strengthen my bones and I fell in love with Irish dancing.” From the ages of six to 16, Rowbury’s mother curled he...
EUGENE, Ore. -- On the final day of the Olympic Track & Field Trials, Leo Manzano won the final of the 1500m to earn the opportunity to represent the United States at the Olympic Games for the second time in his career. Manzano crossed the finish line in 3:35.75, nine tenths of a second ahead of hometown favorite Matthew Centrowitz, for his first national championship in the 1500m. "This has been the best team that I've made without a doubt, just because of six years of work, pain and a lot of sacrifice to get to this moment," Manzano sa...
Lea Wallace qualifed to the Olympic Trials semi-finals today. The semi-finals will take place June 23. Women's 800 Meter Run Prelim Event Records Record Tag Time Athlete Affiliation Date World W 1:53.28 Jarmila Kratochvilova CZE July 26 1983 American A 1:56.40 Jearl Miles-Clark Reebok August 11 1999 Meet M 1:57.04 Meredith Rainey Foot Locker AC June 17 1996 OG A & 1:59.90 Advance 16 -- Top 3 + 4 on time to semis Place Athlete Name Affiliati...