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From New York City to Oregon to Holland and Switzerland, 2011 has been a big, whirlwind season for Delilah DiCrescenzo. Qualifying for her first US team on the track, setting a PB, and mixing it up with international fields the world-over, she has her sights set on making an Olympic run next season. Thanks to all you viewers for following along on this journey!

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Three KIMbia athletes took to the track in a much-anticipated Diamond League meet bringing — among other attractions — one of the hottest 5000m races imaginable. Below are some photos depicting the scene at the stadium.

Matt Tegenkamp, Chris Solinsky, Tim Nelson and Andrew Bumbalough journeyed to Australia for a fast, uber-competitive early season 5000m in Melbourne, and got just that. Of course, going half a world away, they got much more, as well.

Tim Nelson took many beautiful photos throughout the trip and we’re happy to share them below. (A hat-tip, as well, to Pascal Dobert who photographed the quartet in a race-week training session at the stadium.)

Of course, in order to show the guys themselves, we had to enlist outside help, and we extend many thanks to Athletics Victoria and RunnersTribe.com for graciously allowing us to share several of their photos from the proceedings in Melbourne: Read the full article

Matt Tegenkamp, Chris Solinsky, Tim Nelson and Andrew Bumbalough have journeyed to Australia for a fast, uber-competitive early season 5000m in Melbourne, Thursday March 3rd.  During this week, we will share some reports from them…

Tim Nelson shared the following pictures, along with some brief description.

Believe it or not…

…[the picture of the stained-glass ceiling] is not the hotel lobby.  There was a Subway sandwich shop that we went to on the first day, just to the right. [Turns out there are over 1200 Subway locations in Australia... --Ed.]  I’m not sure what the building was called.

Also, here are a few shots from an alley just down the street that was all tagged up.  I thought it was pretty sweet.  Plus, we didn’t get mugged. Read the full article

Yesterday, Simon Bairu, Tim Nelson and Shalane Flanagan spent the afternoon answering questions in our first “Rookies Vs the World” Live Chat, hosted by our interactive partner Runnerspace.com. In addition to showing an exclusive deleted scene of Simon Bairu discussing his 12th place finish at the World Cross Country Championships**, we enjoyed a lively discussion covering quite a range of questions: the three athletes fielded queries about marathon prep, how they will define “success” in New York, and, bedazzled waterbottles… among other things.

One highlight was Tim Nelson offering a comment on Simon’s video reflection: Read the full article