Greater Texas Track Club

08/11/2012

A little pre-race action this morning! Rachel will be racing the 10k tomorrow at the Hottest Half in Dallas!

07/26/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#1 - El G finally gets his Gold Medal! Athens 1500 Meter Final!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgqiZ2on0U

Hicham El Guerrouj on his way to winning the 2004 Athens Olympics 1500m final.

07/26/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#2 - El G's 5000 Meter Gold Medal Run at the Athens Olympics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEht_JTLtIk

Morocco celebrates following an exciting men's 5000M competition at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games. Athletes featured in this video : EL GUERROUJ Hicha...

07/24/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#3 - Peter Snell's double gold effort in Tokyo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK0woLEtQQA

07/23/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#4 - Said Aouita going for the Olympic Triple; winning the 800m, 1500m, and 5000m. However, it was a young Kenyan, named Paul Erang, that took the gold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqmRLeDxnjU

1988 Olympic Games Men's 800 meters Said Aouita was the third place.

07/23/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#5 - Jeremy Wariner's Gold Medal 400 Meter Run in Athens. The torch was passed to America's next greatest 400 meter star at that time. He was a graduate of Quarter-Miler U.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnCc4pl3cvs

Jeremy Wariner becomes 400m Olympic Champion in Athens 2004 with 44.00 to win his first ever gold medal. 2nd was Otis Harris with 44.16 and 3rd was Derrek Br...

07/21/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#6 - El G's second Olympic heartbreak. Sydney Olympic 1500 Meter Final.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUH0Hp_sv0w

Gold: Noah Ngeny Silver: Hicham El Guerrouj Bronze: Bernard Lagat Olympic champion Noah Ngeny announces retirement http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=368...

07/20/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#7 - The 2008 Beijing Olympic Women's 800m Final. Pamela Jelimo's rise to prominence was a fast one and it culminated with her Olympic Gold Medal run in Beijing. Pure dominance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgQ9pVNfeIo

GOLD KEN (PAMELA JELIMO)

07/19/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#8 - The 1968 Mexico City Olympics produced 6 world records in 10 events. It was an astounding performance of athletics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sej9pXHxhZ4

It's unlikely there will ever be an Olympics like the 1968 Mexico Olympics again....the rarified air giving the shorter distances a huge advantage.This led t...

07/18/2012

Top 30 Olympic Countdown:
#9 - Jesse Owens defeating Hi**er's Olympics. I can't even imagine what it would have been like being in that setting, but it was a time for one of America's all-time greatest athletes to take center stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCmvDwDocrw&feature=related

School project The song is: Time composed by Hans Zimmer

07/18/2012

4 mile runs followed by track intervals

07/18/2012

Solid practice by the GTTC crew tonight! Blessed with some clouds to shade the track!