Wayland Patch 10/9/12: Results Are In: Seventh Annual Wayland XC Festival. The seventh annual Wayland XC Festival drew runners from around the region to participate…

Wayland Patch 8/4/12: Wayland High Alum Coaches Great Britain to Gold, USA to Silver. On Saturday, two of Alberto Salazar's trainees, Mo Farah of Great…

bigleadsports 4/13/12: Q&A With Alberto Salazar. Alberto Salazar made his marathon debut at the 1980 New York Marathon. He won the race again in 1981 and 1982 but his ’82 race at the Boston Marathon where he defeated Dick Beardsley in the race dubbed, “The Duel in the Sun,” was his introduction to legendary status in New England. Born in Cuba, reared in Wayland, Massachusetts, Salazar currently lives in Oregon. The new book, 14 Minutes, is the memoir of Alberto Salazar, the most accomplished, charismatic, and controversial marathoner in history.

Wall Street Journal 4/6/12: Book Review: 14 Minutes. Alberto Salazar was the last in a troika of American male distance runners—along with Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers—who ruled the roads in the decade from 1972 to 1982. Mr. Salazar, who had been a high-school champion, won his debut marathon in New York in 1980 while attending the University of Oregon; the next year he broke the marathon world record. A year after that, he was done. Plagued by injuries and illness, Mr. Salazar would never recover his earlier form. The dreams of U.S. distance running died with him. Since that time, no American man has been ranked first in the marathon or won an Olympic gold medal in any distance event.

The fifth annual Wayland XC Festival, presented by Baldwin Insurance Agency, was held on Sunday, October 10 at the Wayland High School. It was a…

Twenty-seven Wayland residents are running the Boston Marathon on Patriot's Day this year. You can track their progress at the official Boston Marathon website. Bib…

Phoebe Morss Wins National Cross-Country Title”. Phoebe Morss, an eighth grader at the Wayland Middle School, capped off an impressive cross-country season with a gold medal at the AAU Junior Olympics National Cross-Country Championships in Orlando, Florida on December 5. Morss went undefeated this year in dual meets running for her middle school team. After the middle school season ended she continued training and competing with the Nitehawks Sports Club. In addition to her middle school victories, the young runner also had impressive victories at the Mayors’ Cup in Boston and the Wayland XC Festival.