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1 day ago | 
lincolnshireworld.com | Alison Wade
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowCelebrate the rich local history of our county at the first Lincolnshire Libraries Local History Festival. This new history festival will travel across the county's vast rural landscapes, covering the Wolds and Coast, the Fens, the Kestevens and the Lincoln Cliff, seeing renowned east midlands historians present their discoveries in your local Lincolnshire libraries.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
lincolnshireworld.com | Alison WadeContributor |Alison Wade
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowPop in to Boston Library every Saturday before Christmas to take part in our free Christmas crafts. Suitable for the whole family, the Christmas crafts take place between 10am and 12pm. 7th December - Make a glittery Christmas star14th December - Make a dancing Christmas dog21st December - make a Christmas decoration using papercraft. There's no need to book, just drop in!
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
fastwomen.substack.com | Alison Wade
Susanna Sullivan, a sixth-grade math teacher in McLean, Virginia, began working at a new school over the summer, so it took a little time for word to spread about her other job. She didn’t tell the students she teaches that she would be racing in the Chicago Marathon’s elite field on October 13. “Sixth grade is such an interesting age,” she said in a phone call with Fast Women.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
fastwomen.substack.com | Alison Wade
Watching Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich run the Chicago Marathon was an exercise in imagining what’s possible for women. When she hit 5K in 15:00, on pace to run a 2:06:35 marathon, that seemed outrageous. (The world record at the start of the race was Tigst Assefa’s 2:11:53 from the 2023 Berlin Marathon.) Chepngetich hit 10K in 30:14, on 2:07:31 pace, which still seemed unrealistic. But then she spent enough time hovering in the 2:08–2:09 pace range mid-race that such a time began to seem possible.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
fastwomen.substack.com | Alison Wade
Full disclosure, I slept through the first half of the Berlin Marathon, and by the time I figured out how to access a livestream, I only caught the last 64 minutes of the race. I’ve watched enough Berlin Marathons over the years that I knew we weren’t going to see much of the women’s race. The race coverage is consistently disappointing in that regard.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
fastwomen.substack.com | Alison Wade
A pack of five runners pulled away early in the USATF 10K Championships, hosted by the Cow Harbor 10K in Northport, New York. Amanda Vestri, Erika Kemp, Natosha Rogers, Emma Grace Hurley, and Jess McClain each took turns leading. In the third mile, Kemp began to drop back, and shortly after three miles, Vestri lost contact as well. During the fourth mile, McClain began to push the pace, and she opened up a sizable gap over Hurley and Rogers.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
fastwomen.substack.com | Alison Wade
During the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials, I’ll be sending out newsletters more frequently, so I can cover all the action in a timely manner. Fast Women will return to its regular once-a-week schedule on Monday. If you ever want to feel every emotion in a two-minute span, just watch the replay of the Olympic Trials 800m final (which already has more than 400K views, by the way). The race was thrilling, heartbreaking, and cruel, as this sport can be at times.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
fastwomen.substack.com | Alison Wade
Before I jump into the latest news, I wanted to thank you wholeheartedly for your generous response to my appeal for support last week. Keeping a venture like this afloat is never going to be easy, but your kindness helps tremendously, and I appreciate it so much. In the senior women’s 10K race at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships, the Kenyan women were so good that they took the suspense out of the team race early.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
fastwomen.substack.com | Alison Wade
Fast Women is in need of 2024 sponsors. If you’re interested, please reach out and we can see if it’s a fit. After winning the 800m at the USATF Indoor Championships on February 17, Allie Wilson cried tears of happiness during her post-race interview. She felt like she finally performed her best when it mattered most. Until that point, she often excelled in small meets with lower stakes, but at championships events she would fall just shy of her goals.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
fastwomen.substack.com | Alison Wade
Working for $14,000 a year or less. Getting stuck in entry-level jobs. Breastfeeding in porta potties. Working for head coaches who behave unprofessionally or unethically. And dealing with athletic directors who are skeptical that women can successfully coach male athletes. These are just some of the reasons why so few women hold collegiate cross country and track & field coaching jobs. Across all NCAA women’s sports, the number of female head coaches is increasing, but slowly.
