Live streams/broadcasts for Saturday 11th September to Sunday 12th September:
Well, it's the best weekend of road racing for over 18 months (with several other good races not being live streamed) and it's set to only get busier and better over the next 3 months.
It's been a real challenge during COVID to keep track of all the reschedulings, especially of road races, since they've often been "Postponed Indefinitely" with the new date TBD. However, in one respect it's been good in that it's forced me to change my system of managing all the event dates from year to year (something I should have done long ago!) and, come the new year, I'm hoping to see some time benefits from that.
Saturday
Next major post on Sunday evening for Monday's Men's Shot Put by the fountains in Zagreb, and on Tuesday the WACT meetings in Zagreb & Bellinzona (both look likely to be loaded) and the Memorial Ludvíka Daňka in the Czech Republic.
Well, it's the best weekend of road racing for over 18 months (with several other good races not being live streamed) and it's set to only get busier and better over the next 3 months.
It's been a real challenge during COVID to keep track of all the reschedulings, especially of road races, since they've often been "Postponed Indefinitely" with the new date TBD. However, in one respect it's been good in that it's forced me to change my system of managing all the event dates from year to year (something I should have done long ago!) and, come the new year, I'm hoping to see some time benefits from that.
Saturday
- Belfast International (Belfast, NI) - EAP circuit meeting; Bit of a mixed up timetable for this with age group races inbetween the senior races; Not great fields it has to be said (this meeting has been better in the past) but the W 800 looks decent with Katie Kirk, Scaunet (BEL), Sloot (NED) and Jenna Brommell (IRL)
- Golden Roof Challenge (Innsbruck, AUT) - International M + W Pole Vault & Long Jump street meeting; Nice fields in 3 of the 4 events (the Men's LJ is a bit "meh" though) - Sidorova, Zhuk & Knoroz are amongst the W PV entries with Morgunov, Obiena, Ludwig & Volkov amongst the men's. Included in the W LJ are Mironchyk-Ivanova, Tara Davis, Sawyers, Gardasevic & Klishina
- Finnish Relay Championships (Oulu, FIN) - This is a fun event with all sorts of relays for Seniors, U20s, U18s & U16s; Included are Shuttle Hurdle relays, 3/4x800 and DMRs as well as the traditional relays
- Adizero Road To Records (Herzogenaurach, GER) - International 5km, 10km & Half Marathon; Just check out the startlists for this new event at adidas HQ - these races are absolutely loaded!!
- ? Minsk Half Marathon (Minsk, BLR) - This has been a decent race in the past; No idea of who's competing this year though
- Vienna City Marathon (Vienna, AUT) - WA Label race; Pretty good fields here with Getahun & Abraham heading the men's line-up and Gelete Burka, Fabienne Schlumpf and a number of mid-2:20's Africans in the women's
- Great North Run (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR) - Big Bren has been splashing the cash a bit it seems! These elite fields have a bit more depth than usual and the women's race in particular is strong domestically
- Opole High Jump Festival (Opole, POL) - Protsenko, Nabokau & Yakovenko (2.30 PB) head the men's field and in the women's there's Licwinko, Zhodzik & Haradskaya (1.90 PB)
- ISTAF (Berlin, GER) - WA Continental Tour Silver meeting; The usual kind of Berlin-y line-ups, some events stronger than others but a lot of stars competing; The official stream needs a VPN (for Poland) but the meeting can be viewed without geo-blocking on the unofficial stream link provided
- 5th Avenue Mile (New York, USA) - Really good fields as usual although one many-many-time-winner of the event isn't running it (see below); Going for GB are Wightman, Heyward, Grice, Reekie & Markovc
- Giro Podistico Internazionale Città di Pordenone (Pordenone, ITA) - International 5km road races (3 laps of 1.666km); Seems to be Italian-based athletes only this year but in amongst those you have some pretty good Africans such as Rodgers Maiyo, Hosea Kisorio & Veronicah Maina
- Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run incl USATF 10 Mile Championships (Washington DC, USA) - The big story here is surely the long-distance road debut of Jenny Simpson. Very interested to see how she goes against a field that includes Sara Hall, Natosha Rogers, Emma Bates, Grayson Murphy, Diane Nukuri and good recent collegians, Paige Stoner & Annie Frisbie; The Men's field has a lot of the usual suspects at these USA road championships, headed by the likes of Simbassa, Emmanuel Bor, Shadrack Biwott, Chris Derrick & Frank Lara; Amongst the international entrants expected to figure at the sharp end are Stephen Sambu, Edwin Kimutai, Caroline Rotich & Iveen Chepkemoi
Next major post on Sunday evening for Monday's Men's Shot Put by the fountains in Zagreb, and on Tuesday the WACT meetings in Zagreb & Bellinzona (both look likely to be loaded) and the Memorial Ludvíka Daňka in the Czech Republic.
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