KIMbia Athletics

Brent Vaughn: runner, father, music-lover.

Brent is the latest athlete to be featured in a RunnersWorld series that shares music playlists from distance runners, and Vaughn’s entry landed him on the front page of RunnersWorld.com.  The accompanying interview, conducted by friend of KIMbia, Peter Vigneron, explains the influence that the youngest Vaughn — daughter Ciara — has had on the music her dad listens to, while the playlist showcases Brent’s penchant for beat-driven ditties.

The full piece can be seen here, while Vaughn’s playlist is available for iTunes download here.

With a wedding to plan and a marriage to start, it’s been a busy winter for Chris Solinsky — to the point where it might be forgiven if he started 2010 showing a little rust.  Yet a new house, wife, and home life seem to be agreeing with the Stevens Point native, as he ran 3:55.75 at the UW Invitational in Seattle, on Saturday.  Opening the season indoors, Solinsky defeated Galen Rupp by a little less than half a second.

His 3:55.75 is a facility record at one of the fastest tracks in the world; a PB of over a second, indoors or out; his first time under 4:00 indoors; and is just .11 seconds off the current world leader.