Nick Willis Archives | Fast Running https://fastrunning.com/all-about/nick-willis Running news, opinion, races & training tips Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:59:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Nick Willis set for BMC Loughborough http://fastrunning.com/events-and-races/events-news/nick-willis-set-for-bmc-loughborough/17183 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:40:26 +0000 https://fastrunning.com/?p=17183 The New Zealand Olympian joins Britain’s Jo Pavey at the latest British Milers’ Grand Prix event. Nick Willis, a two-time Olympic medalist and former Commonwealth Games champion, will compete at the BMC Grand Prix in Loughborough on Saturday (June 23). The 35-year-old middle-distance star won 1500m silver at the Beijing 2008 Olympics and eight years […]

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]]> The New Zealand Olympian joins Britain’s Jo Pavey at the latest British Milers’ Grand Prix event.

Nick Willis, a two-time Olympic medalist and former Commonwealth Games champion, will compete at the BMC Grand Prix in Loughborough on Saturday (June 23).

The 35-year-old middle-distance star won 1500m silver at the Beijing 2008 Olympics and eight years later picked up bronze in Rio. Willis also won world indoor bronze in 2016 and has three Commonwealth medals to his name, including gold at Melbourne 2006.

He leads the entries in an exciting men’s 800m A race where he will face Micheal Rimmer and 16 year-old Max Burgin. The teenager set an 800m world age best of 1:47.50 at the BMC Grand Prix opener in Manchester’s Sportcity last month. Willis boasts an 800m PB of 1:45.54 from 2004 and this year has a season’s best of 1:51.17.

RELATED: Max Burgin runs fastest ever 800m by a 15 year-old

Photo: Pete Brown

Also set to start is Ireland’s John Fitzsimons, who won bronze at the European U20 Championships last year, Jamie Williamson, winner of the U23 1500m title at the England U20/U23 Championships last weekend and Daniel Rowden, the European under-23 silver medalist.

2014 European champion Pavey will be joined in the women’s 5000m race by Mhairi MacLennan, Northern Ireland’s 5000m and 10,000m record holder Emma Mitchell, and BUCS 5000m silver medalist Philippa Bowden.

The excitement shouldn’t end there and other notable names expected for the third GP event include Jess Judd, Claire Duck, Kate Avery, Stephie Pennycook, Emily Hosker-Thornhill and Amelia Quirk in the women’s 1500m event.

In the women’s 800m Lynsey Sharp will get ready for next weekend’s British Championships against Khahisa Mhlanga, Sweden’s Lovisa Lindh and Ireland’s Ciara Everard.

John Travers is the fastest entered for the men’s 1500m. In February, the 3:37 man became the first Irish athlete to run an indoor sub-4 mile in Ireland. Fellow Irish athlete Kieran Kelly makes the trip across to Loughborough with Josh Carr and Andrew Heyes set to race too.

The leading name in the men’s 5000m A race is Norway’s Per Svela, who has a PB of 13:41. Luke Caldwell, Abel Tsegay, Ollie Lockley, Jack Gray, Ben Bradley are also among the entries.

The action gets underway at 5pm and will be streamed live on Vinco.

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]]> Jake Wightman leads the social media moments this week http://fastrunning.com/opinion/easy-reads/jake-wightman-leads-the-social-media-moments-this-week/11815 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:05:45 +0000 https://fastrunning.com/?p=11815 Another week has gone by and more and more elite runners have been allowed back on Twitter and Instagram. Here are some of our favourites from the last seven days. Jake Wightman may have been showing off to someone in the gym with his jumping skills. What do you reckon about the timing? She wasn’t […]

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]]> Another week has gone by and more and more elite runners have been allowed back on Twitter and Instagram. Here are some of our favourites from the last seven days.

Jake Wightman may have been showing off to someone in the gym with his jumping skills. What do you reckon about the timing?

She wasn’t too impressed…

Jake-in-the-box 🤡

A post shared by Jake Wightman (@jakeswightman) on

Easy mistake to make

That bloke Ieuan Griffiths is a great marathoner we hear…

Health and safety hazard 

Lily Partridge had a great start to 2018 on the roads, settting a course-record at the Seville half marathon. That finish line though…hopefully Lily escapes in time for the London Marathon.

Keeping training simple

Irish marathoner Paul Pollock has been trying something new in training this week. 10 miles on Sunday, 20 miles on Monday, 30 miles on Tuesday, 40 miles…today?

Chapter: Minimalist to Be a Maximalist

“The key to being a minimalist is making a routine out of just about everything that is not core to your mission. When decisions are automatic, you skip the conscious deliberation and associated brain activity.”

Sub 4 anyone?

Sir Roger Bannister may have been first but now 500 Americans have dipped under the four minutes mark – funny how the first and 500th clocked the exact (almost) time.

In a showdown, you’d like to give Don Bowden the benefit of the doubt as he was probably running in hobnail boots after a full day’s work.

That’s Sir…Nick Willis

At 34 years old New Zealand athlete is being treated with respect by the youth of America. How do you think Sir Mo Farah feels Nick?

Don’t give up the day job

Not too sure if mountain runner Kilian Jornet has mastered the skills of farming yet…

“Sorry, I’ve forgotten my barcode”

parkrun Ireland CEO Nick Pearson made a rookie error and forgot his barcode for the Saturday morning run, which led to this public shaming on Twitter. Never again eh Nick? Maybe we’ll see you next in our top 10 fastest parkrunners?

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