Team Run Eugene News Today

The World Athletics Championships didnt arrive in Eugene by mistake. Behind the choice of venue for its debut on U.S. soil is a deep connection that permeates the citys reputation.

The individual and collective efforts of the speakers in this program reach into the history of Eugene’s running culture and also toward its future.

Kevin Morris Isaac Updike ran the steeplechase for the first time in 2011, when he was a college freshman at Eastern Oregon University. When the team was doing hurdle mobility drills, his coach plucked out a few who looked at ease and steered them toward the steeple. Updike was among them. In his first attempt at the event, at the Northwest Nazarene Open in Nampa, Idaho, he ran 9:46.05—an underwhelming result that would have put him about a lap behind the best runners in the NCAA. A decade ...