At 13:07.00, Lopez Lomong‘s 5000m run on Friday night became the new American Indoor Record. It makes him the #11 performer in world history, and is the fastest performance ever run indoors on US soil. Also, he jumps two spots among Americans, regardless of venue, as the 8th-fastest man, indoors or out.

For the Jerry Schumacher-coached crew, the race started off hot with perfect pacing from Travis Mahoney of the local NJ*NYTC, followed by Dan Huling who towed the line of teammates from 2000m out beyond 3 “K.” After the first ten laps started right on 13:15 pace — their intended target and the World Championships “A” standard — Huling began to gradually squeeze down on the throttle. The slight quickening made for a painful grind the last two kilometers… but also made Lomong’s record possible, as he hit the 4-kilometer mark at 10:32.64 — checkpoint for a 13:10. The final kilometer featured three laps of under 31-seconds, and Lomong had the record. Despite beginning Friday as the national leader in the 800 for 2013, this record was earned on the back of his strength, as he held on for a final lap of 30.58, according to LetsRun.com.

Behind him, teammates were all en route to PB’s. Andrew Bumbalough ran Read the full article

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One of the finest runners to ever compete on the roads passed away on November 1st. Joseph Kimani of Kenya and KIMbia Athletics won virtually every road race that mattered on the American circuit in the mid-1990′s, setting records as he went, before dying of pneumonia at age forty.

In 1996, Kimani left the track for the roads and found eye-popping success. Front and center in a litany of achievements was his nearly-unthinkable 27:04 at Peachtree, to set the AIMS-recognized world’s best for 10k on the roads — an improvement over the 27:20 world’s best he had run in Cleveland just weeks prior which had already taken an incredible fourteen seconds off of the standing world record. That Peachtree run was an improvement of a staggering 52-seconds over the previous course record and remains the fastest performance in the history of this prestigious event, with no athlete coming within even 18-seconds of the mark. The next year he would run 33:31 for 12k in Evansville, IN to collect the world record at that distance. As a world’s best, Kimani’s 27:04 stood for six years: it wasn’t until the legendary Haile Gebreselassie ran 27:02 in 2002 that Kimani’s mark was bettered.

Much like his history-making run at Peachtree, Kimani’s win at the 2000 Bolder Boulder showed just how peerless the Kenyan was when fit and feeling good: Read the full article

Eleven times an All-American, Georgetown Hoya and NCAA Champion Emily Infeld is joining the ranks of KIMbia Athletics.

The Ohio native enjoyed a sterling senior season in which she went undefeated at 3000 metres, winning the Valentine Invitational and Big East Championship, before topping things off with her first individual NCAA title. In addition to a PB — and Georgetown record — of 9:00.13 in that event, Infeld carries a lifetime best of 4:07.77 in the 1500 and demonstrated her aptitude at that distance throughout 2012 — a Big East title in the mile indoors, a conference runner-up finish in the 1500 outdoors, and an NCAA runner-up finish in the 1500 in Des Moines.

However, her best performance yet might have come later in the summer when she stepped up in distance at the US Olympic Trials, making the 5000m final, before setting a new Georgetown school record of 15:28.60 — good for an 8th-place finish Read the full article

Former NCAA Champions German Fernandez and Elliott Heath are joining KIMbia Athletics.

Fernandez has been one of the most talked-about young American talents since a spectacular prep career that culminated in knocking almost two seconds off one of the oldest high school records on the books: Jeff Nelson’s 29-year-old mark of 8:36.3 for 2-miles. However, Fernandez’s 8:34.40 — which came in a high-school-only competition — might only be his second most impressive high school performance when compared to the eye-popping double at the 2008 California State meet. There, the Riverbank-native ran 4:00.29 for 1600m, breaking Ryan Hall’s state record, followed by 8:34.23 for 3200m, just three hours later. The following year at Oklahoma State yielded even more impressive results. Read the full article

This spring, KIMbia Athletics will continue its tradition of storytelling in an entirely new way. With the eyes of the world on London in 2012, we go over to the UK to explore the story of THE BRITISH MILER. Following seven British athletes on a quest to represent their country at the home-soil London Olympics, this documentary mini-series will interweave the story of contemporary milers and the legends who came before them, exploring the goals, the sacrifice, and the pressure that is shared between them all.

Look for full, half-hour episodes beginning in April… with new details and developments announced here in the meantime.