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SAVANNAH, Ga. - (February 25, 2013) - At the Running USA Hall of Champions Dinner & Live Auction on Monday evening at the Hyatt Regency Savannah, the fourth Allan Steinfeld Development Award winner and two Hall of Champions inductees were celebrated and feted. The evening presented by Competitor Group was part of Running USA 2013: The 10th Industry Conference that opened to a record registration of nearly 500 attendees in the Hostess City of the South. ZAP Fitness was announced as the fourth Allan Steinfeld Development Award recipient. The dev...

Third year ZAP-Reebok athlete Cameron Bean and newcomer Mary Ballinger took down the ZAP-Reebok steeplechase records last month at the Payton Jordan Invitational in Palo Alto, CA. For Bean it was his first steeplechase of the season and a 5 second personal best. Bean set the ZAP-Reebok record last year of 8:37, a time that left him narrowly missing a spot in the Olympic Trials. Bean will not miss the Championships this year as his run of 8:32 not only was a personal best, but was an "A" standard for next month's USATF National Championships. B...

Sarah Crouch turned in one of the finest performances of her career at the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler last month in Washington D.C. The race doubled as the US Women's 10 Mile Championships. Crouch covered the course in a time of 54:15, an average of nearly 5:25 per mile. Her time was faster than the previous American Record for an all women's race, held by the late Sally Meyerhoff. Her time was good enough to secure her 3rd place in the US Championship field, behind Olympian Janet Cherobon-Bawcom and Brianne Nelson. It was Crouch's best finish ev...

ZAP Reebok athletes traveled to Jacksonville, FL this past weekend to contest the US 15k Road Championships at the Gate River Run. The US 15k Championships is always one of the most competitive national championship events on the road every year as it brings together athletes from a wide range of backgrounds, from the shorter track distances all the way up to the marathon. This year proven no different as there were several records set for depth on both the men's and women's side. Veteran ZAP Reebok athlete, Alissa McKaig, toed the line as her ...

ZAP-Reebok sent four athletes to St. Louis to contest the 2013 US Cross Country Championships this past weekend: Alissa McKaig, Sarah Crouch, Tyler Pennel, and Cameron Bean. The group, along with Pete and Zika, were able to visit with Zika's alma mater high school, MICDS, the day before the race and talk to the young athletes about what it takes to be a distance runner. The following day when the action began, the ZAP women started things off on the right foot. The women's race covered 4 loops of the 2000m course and Alissa was a fixture in th...

ZAP sent five athletes to compete in the HCA Virginia 8k this past weekend. Both the men's and women's fields were unusually deep as a few of the athletes, including ZAP athlete Cameron Bean, scheduled to compete at the New York Dash to the Finish 5k competed in Richmond after the NYC event was cancelled last weekend. The athletes enjoyed a great early morning in Richmond with the race kicking off at 7am to beautiful racing weather. In the women's race, 2nd year ZAP athlete Sarah Crouch (formerly Sarah Porter), was out with the early pace and ...

Third year ZAP athlete, Esther Erb, ran to her second personal best of the year October 7th at the Twin Cities Marathon. Erb's run of 2:36:24 was good enough to garner her a 7th place finish as well as take over a minute off her previous best run at the Olympic Marathon Trials in January. Esther methodically worked her way through the pack, crossing halfway in 1:17:34 before approaching the tougher uphill section at 20 miles. Erb continued to work her way through the field of men and women up and over the hills heading into downtown St. Paul. O...

Go West East, Young Man by ZAP/Reebok Resident Athlete Tyler Pennel               My first two weeks at ZAP Fitness have been a big change for me. The biggest and most obvious is that for the first time I am going to be living out of my home state of Colorado. For those of you who don’t know me, I grew up in Golden, Colorado, just west of Denver. I earned a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Sociology at Western State College of Colorado (now Western State Col...

The ZAP Fitness Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of Tyler Pennel to its’ resident roster. Pennel, the 2012 NCAA Division II 10,000m Champion while at Western State University (CO), had a storied career in Gunnison finishing as the NCAA Runner-Up 5 times before winning the 2012 10,000m title.   Pennel did not debut at the 10,000m distance until this season (2012) and did so with a time of 28:23.54, the 7th fastest time in Division II History. He has also run 13:51 for 5,000m and was the NCAA XC Runner-Up in 2011, helpin...

The Olympic Track and Field Trials begin this weekend in Eugene, Oregon with the men's and women's 10,000m Finals highlighting the first day of competition. ZAP athletes David Jankowski, Sarah Porter, and Alissa McKaig will all be competing. Jankowski will kick things off at 6:45pm local time when he toes the line in what will be arguably the best 10,000m Olympic Trials field in history. Jankowski is coming off a tune-up 1500m race in Indiana on June 13th where he ran 3:47 in a tactical, rough and tumble race that almost saw him go down with 5...