KIMbia Athletics

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.

Bear with us: full-blown cheese ahead. But really, there’s no better time to think big, to think positive thoughts, and to get excited than the start of a new year. So, here are the things that get us pumped for 2012, in no particular order.

Watching members of Team KIMbia try to realize Olympic Dreams in Houston
So many storylines to follow! Jason Hartmann probably has the highest ratio of realistic chances-to-amount-of-attention-received, of any entrant. Brent Vaughn has the talent to be in the hunt, and the naivete to take a chance and go for it. After big wins in 2010, Fasil Bizuneh (US 10-Mile) and Sean Quigley (US 20k) are looking to rebound from challenging 2011s. Shalane Flanagan is a total stud, but will be competing in only her second 26.2-mile race. And more…

Announcing an exciting new multimedia project, early this year
For the past months we’ve been hard at work on our biggest and best project, to date. We’ll have news to share in the next few weeks. Read the full article

There’s nothing better than surveying the previous fifty-two weeks of your life and realizing how fun and gratifying they were. Here’s a look back at just a handful of the memories we at KIMbia Athletics will take away from 2011. If you had your own memory from the year that included us or our athletes, please share it below!

10. Tim Nelson Steps Down and Beats Top-Flight 3000m Field in Seattle
Who doesn’t love a good underdog story? Nelly shocked American running fans when he dispatched middle-distance specialists German Fernandez, Alan Webb, and World Championship bronze-medalist-to-be Matt Centrowitz in a 3000m far below his comfort zone distances… and with a blistering kick, to boot. Read the full article

Follow Delilah DiCrescenzo at PumaRunning.com as she trains with the legendary Coach Gags, lives it up in the Big Apple, and chases her World Championship and Olympic dreams! The trailer for Delilah launches this week, and new episodes will run every Monday, beginning on June 27th.

Yes, that Shalane Flanagan.

With most management partnerships being struck when an athlete is coming out of college, it’s almost unheard of for an agency to add an athlete so accomplished at the international level, right in the prime of her career. Yet we are pleased to be able to welcome Shalane Flanagan — she of two current American records, an Olympic Bronze Medal, a New York City Marathon Runner-Up Finish, and countless US Championships — to the KIMbia Athletics family. Having had the opportunity to work closely with Flanagan since she joined KIMbia’s OTC athletes under the guidance of Jerry Schumacher — and well as through her co-starring contribution to last fall’s Rookies Vs the World — our respective teams developed a mutual respect and admiration for each other. Now, we will have the opportunity to directly contribute to a continued success that is mutual as well.

“I have big goals and dreams,” Flanagan explained, Read the full article