Running

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Organizers say they've prepared extra security measures for Saturday's 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in Indianapolis. The expected 35,000 runners and walkers are being told not to have backpacks or duffel bags and bring personal...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Officials say bomb sweeps, bag searches and an increased police presence are planned for the Fifth Third River Bank Run in West Michigan following the Boston Marathon bombings. Police are asking runners and spectators to...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. -- Nearly a thousand miles away from Boston in the St. Joseph area, a group of runners is reaching out to the marathon bombing victims and their families. Most of us will never forget the moment we first heard about the Boston Marathon...

A group of runners from Michiana finished the Boston Marathon just minutes before the deadly explosions. Tracy Eaves of Niles and Lisa Smith of South Bend ran the race along with two other friends who are members of the Michiana Runners Association....

Until Monday's first bloody blast, about a block away, it was John Firth's dream day. The veteran of 10 marathons was clenching a bucket-list item that he'd worked on for 21/2 years: his first Boston Marathon. He could tell from his watch that he hadn'...

WARSAW – We may be expecting a big temperature drop Tuesday evening, but the weather during the day was unseasonably mild, making it a perfect day for the Kosciusko County YMCA's Frigid 5K Road Race in Warsaw. And they were off. With no wind to...

STATEN ISLAND - A Notre Dame graduate student was among hundreds of runners who didn’t get to take part in the cancelled New York City Marathon, and instead chose to help victims of Superstorm Sandy. “It wasn’t how I thought I was going...

ELKHART – Every runner counts. If they didn’t believe it before, every runner in the Northern Indiana Conference should now, following Saturday’s league championship meet at OxBow Park. Penn won the boys team title because its No. 6...

Anna Rohrer's reign as the fastest high school girls cross country runner in Hoosier history lasted exactly one week.   Defending state champion Ashley Erba of Warsaw, a senior, bettered Rohrer's time by four tenths of a second on Saturday at the Culver...

SOUTH BEND -- Financially, this is a big weekend for downtown South Bend. In fact, with 10,000 people expected both Friday and Saturday for the 29th annual Sunburst Races and other events, such as Friday night's Jerry Seinfeld appearance at the Morris...

SOUTH BEND - In the world of track & field and cross country, South Bend St. Joseph's senior Joey Zielinski is a superstar. "He's one of the better athletes to come through," boasts St. Joe coach Mike McCarthy. "What Skylar Diggins did for women's...

The Sports Xchange Staff Report, NASCAR Wire Service Triathlons or 600-mile stock car races: No problem for Johnson Distributed by The Sports Xchange May 23, 2013: Weekend Preview Long distances don't scare Jimmie Johnson. It doesn't matter...