D2R 2011 Video!

Thanks to Tarik Al Bahrani to edit this great video!

D2R – School Prize Board

Dear all,

Here you have a table with the School Team results so far in D2R. I want to express my gratitude and indeed to encourage for the next events the people involved to make possible young runners in the race; teachers, coaches, parents, friends, school staff,… and for sure a very big list. I hope next year, more schools will be participating is this amazing event.

D2R ALLTHE TIMES – SHOOL TEAM PRIZE
YEAR	SCHOOL TEAM NAME	TIME	DIFF.	Km/h
2011	ICS – Team A	15:29:50	0:00:00	15.62
2011	King’s Academy -Supersonic Lions!	15:53:00	0:23:10	15.24
2011	King’s Academy – Dead to Bed	16:43:20	1:13:30	14.47
2011	ICS – Team B	17:57:24	2:27:34	13.48
2009	King’s Academy	18:20:27	2:50:37	13.19
2011	IAA School – 2012Vers	18:23:25	2:53:35	13.16
2010	ICS	18:46:25	3:16:35	12.89
2009	ICS	19:41:18	4:11:28	12.29

King’s Academy Lions @ Dead2Red 2011

Click here to go to: Dead to Bed team or Supersonics Lions! team

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This year King’s Academy has been running with an extraordinary participation in the 14th edition of Dead2Red; a total of 4 teams divided in 2 students and 2 faculty teams gathered in this remarkable competition.

Thanks to Ms Reem Abu Rahmeh who suggested to open a major co-curricular activity to prepare this race; 18 students with different performances signed up to participate in D2R. Trainings started slowly, and unfortunately we lost 2 good members 2 weeks after; Karim AlHaddadin suffered a sprain in his ankle and Leanne Conway started to feel a shin pain, she knew she cannot run.

Students were training 3 days a week with Mr Bowman on Sunday, with me on Monday and alone (!) on Wednesday. Although I wasn’t sure about their commitment to work alone, they showed a very mature attitude to prepare the race with a liberty they all enjoyed. So once a week, we met to designate who will lead on Wednesday and in which work out they will work with; Mansoor Ghoto and Yursa Bitar played a decisive role to help and deal with that. The weather didn’t help to have good moments to train, many times we were force to do workouts in the gym based on abs; when they were alone, few times I saw the students running under the rain; I was really moved.

Time ran and at the beginning we were thinking to have only one team; and here is where we had some difficulties, because 6 of very committed runners cannot participate. Some people suggested to choose the best runners, but between other factors we took into account the grade of commitment and also the ones who tried to participate in 2010, whatever their performance was. Between elections and coaches opinions we design the 10 runners’ team who will represent KA. But soon, and thanks to Ms Julianne, Dr John and Coach Iyad we started to work to have 2 teams, so everybody will participate in the race, and here was when one of my dreams came true: run with the students, most provably my last D2R. All this happened a week before the race… yes, how stressful!

In 2009 my policy was not to interfere with a 100% student’s team and show them they can do it alone; also it was and is still important for me to have a coed team. Due to this year 2 teams was possible to meet, I decided to run with them; being both teams coed. In the last week Zahira Shaban gave up due to a backache so to complete the second team we invited 4 students selected from a mile test; and in the very last training where we relayed even with the bus, Joseph al Nimri dislocated one finger; Reema Lateef spent 2 days in bed because flu… we were at 2 days before the race… Finally everybody was in shape on Wednesday and here are the teams and their names in alphabetical order:

KING’S ACADEMY STUDENTS TEAMS
Dead to Bed		Supersonic Lions!
Anvisha Azmat	1	Carlos Abellanosa
Asem Maayeh	2	Faisal al Tell
Ayman Barghash	3	Hamdi Alaud-din
Fawzi Itani	4	Hamza Al-Serhan
Joseph Younis	5	Izzat Mukattash
Mansoor Ghoto	6	Jooho Shin
Mohammad Sarhan	7	Joseph Al Nimri
Noor Eddin Amer	8	Reema Lateef
Qxhna Titcomb	9	Sarah Muhtaseb
Yusra Bitar	10	Tarik Bahrani

Click on the teams name to read more details about our experience and anecdotes during the race.

We went there thanks to many people who has been working hard to be able to have two students teams. We want to thank: Ms Rita Naber (for her magic wand to have two buses with drivers), Ms Dana Adwan (in charge of the accommodation at Tala Bay), Ms Ola Bseiso and Mr Bassam Amer (for the meals); Ms Julianne (for all the support); and the athletic department Ms Ghadeer Diab, Coach Iyad and Dr. Khalid Zeidan (for the first aid kits). I can’t forget the drivers who patiently and safely drove for us before, during and after the race: Hassan Abded Khalaf Al-Hawawsheh, Aref Omar Salah Iben Taree, Abdullah Husni Johar Al-Harethy and Ibrahim Salim Hasan Abu Mousa.

I am sure I forgot someone, even I am not aware how many people was involved, for all of them: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Dead2Red 2011 – Running Results

Big great event! Awesome record from Aramex and very impressive results from ICS (Congratulations!) and King’s Academy considering on kids and teenagers runners. (I’m sure I’d never done something like this). Thanks to D2R organizers, one more year to organize this great event.

D2R 2011 – RUNNING – FREESTYLE
#	NAME – TEAM	TIME	DIFF.	Km/h
1	ARAMEX	13:56:34	0:00:00	17.36
2	Gjwaibeh Village	14:17:42	0:21:08	16.93
3	ICS School – Team A	15:29:50	1:33:16	15.62
4	King’s Academy – Supersonic Lions!	15:53:00	1:56:26	15.24
5	King’s Academy – Dead to Bed	16:43:20	2:46:46	14.47
6	BMI Flyers – British Embassy	16:45:50	2:49:16	14.44
7/1	Great Amman Municipality*	17:04:00	3:07:26	14.18
8	Road Knights	17:25:22	3:28:48	13.89
9	Haddadins	17:27:42	3:31:08	13.86
10	NYUAD Purple (Int. Team)	17:48:38	3:52:04	13.59
11	Orange	17:48:50	3:52:06	13.59
12	We’re sort of a big deal	17:49:00	4:45:27	12.75
13	ICS School – Team B	17:57:24	4:00:50	13.48
14	Wu7oosh (The Beasts)	18:06:36	4:10:02	13.36
15	La Détente France 1	18:12:30	4:15:56	13.29
16	2012vers – IAA School	18:23:25	4:26:51	13.16
17	Whatever It Takes	18:27:25	4:30:51	13.11
18	Sindbad	18:29:48	4:33:14	13.08
19	Peace Corps Jordan	18:34:16	4:37:42	13.03
20	La Détente France 2	18:35:52	4:39:18	13.01
21	Orange	18:36:34	4:40:00	13.00
22	People with Managed Expectations	18:42:14	4:45:40	12.94
23	NYUAD Black (Int. Team)	18:48:55	4:52:21	12.86
24	Chicken & Rice	18:58:45	5:02:11	12.75
25	Run For Silwan (Int. Team)	19:08:39	5:12:05	12.64
26	CIEE – Cool Running	19:15:12	5:18:38	12.57
27	CIEE – Jamz	19:16:03	5:19:29	12.56
28	The Gumps	19:41:20	5:44:46	12.29
29	Al Fawanees	20:13:15	6:16:41	11.97
30	Average Joes – US Embassy	20:17:45	6:21:11	11.92
31	The Disappointments	20:26:34	6:30:00	11.84
32	Yalla Shabab	22:16:30	8:19:56	10.86
33	Shisha Sprinters	22:41:28	8:44:54	10.66
34	Bad Idea	23:13:54	9:17:20	10.42
Running: 39 Registered Teams / 36 Started the Race / 34 Finished the Race

Gjwaibeh Village

*Great Amman Municipality, got 7th position in the general ranking and 1st in the semi-marathon style.

WHO’S NEXT!? Part 2 (Try-out)

Time runs and we are here again; enjoy this slideshow of the bus try-out.

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Thanks Ms Linde Behringer for the great pictures.

D2R – Team leaders meeting

On Sunday all teams met in ICS to pick up bags and car numbers, but overall to meet each other and receive some instructions and recommendations. Samir Farkouh led the speech and Maria Hoyez attended us patiently with the final registrations.

THANKS A LOT for organizing this and MABROUK for the big success in this 14th edition: over 40 running teams!!! (and what a mess of cars!!!).

Teamwork Windows

Relaying during the D2R practice. Click on the images to discover to whom belong these hands…

Dead2Red 2011 Training

Thank you guys for the great job you did today! I hope we can repeat an outing like this soon. Click on the pictures to have them bigger, you may find a surprise…

Runners meeting!

Someone who couldn’t stand anymore…

A nice CD cover picture… [Click on it to see it laaaaaaager]

Mansoor! Enlighten us!

Cross Country Tournament @ King’s – PICTURES!

Happy New Year 2011!

Here you have some pictures from the last Cross Country tournament. Congratulations to all the first positions [click here to see the results]; and thanks everyone involved to help in the organization, and also Ms Ghadeer to share all these pictures. (Click on them to see them bigger).

Alex Heupers facing the last meters of the race in first position.

Runners taking the last curve before to go to the Stadium.

Mr. Stephen Morison spotting with the bike. Thank you!

Mixed ages girls running together.

A young runner escorted by his father? coach? Bravo!

Tarik as always: positive attitude!

Is Yusra concentrated on the race or is she karaoking?

A great spirit from young runners.

A group of runners waiting for the prizes.

More runners waiting the results. Thank you Ms. Emily Allen to be with them.

A great moment to share: the Girls Under12 y-o winners.

A group of finalists.

We hope to meet again soon!

Cross Country Tournament – King’s Academy

Last Saturday 11th of this month King’s Academy hosted the last tournament of the Fall Term. Here you have the results in the different categories:

UNDER 12 – 4 Km / 2.4 Mi – GIRLS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Talia Morison-Allen	ACS	0:19:10	0:00:00	12.5
2	Aya Aywsi	ABS	0:22:59	0:03:49	10.4
3	Rahman Ez Fahuum	ABS	0:28:26	0:09:16	8.4
3	Zeina Aloul	ABS	0:28:26	0:09:16	8.4
5	Deema Darwazeh	ABS	0:32:44	0:13:34	7.3
6	Naya Said	ABS	0:46:20	0:27:10	5.2
7	Haia Zaru	ABS	DNF
8	Jarah Tabbaa	ABS	DNF
9	Tamara Farradj	ABS	DNF

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Under 12 – 4 Km / 2.4 Mi – BOYS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Selle Boaaert	ICS	0:17:21	0:00:00	13.8
2	Grys Aromas	ICS	0:17:43	0:00:22	13.5
3	Louis Hoyez	ICS	0:18:58	0:01:37	12.7
4	Karim Darwazeh	ABS	0:19:29	0:02:08	12.3
5	Izhaliz Arnys		DNF

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4 Km / 2.4 Mi – Under 14 years old – GIRLS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Yasmeen Kathuda	ICS	0:19:39	0:00:00	12.2
2	Nadia Heupers	ABS	0:21:13	0:01:34	11.3
3	Jude Abu Shaqra	ABS	0:32:44	0:13:05	7.3

Jude Bawarza

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6.6 Km / 4.1 Mi – Under 18 years old – GIRLS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Qxhna Titcomb	KA	0:36:47	0:00:00	10.8
2	Leanne Comway	KA	0:36:48	0:00:01	10.8
3	Jude Bawalsa	ABS	0:38:30	0:01:43	10.3
4	Adele Belanger-M’Murdo	ICS	0:42:12	0:05:25	9.4
5	Sneyda Rimmer	ICS	0:42:13	0:05:26	9.4
6	Zahira Shaban	KA	0:46:55	0:10:08	8.4
7	Yusra Bitar	KA	0:48:00	0:11:13	8.3
8	Ane Sheepers	ICS	0:49:36	0:12:49	8.0
9	Diina Khalil	ICS	0:54:50	0:18:03	7.2
10	Tikah Malek	ICS	0:56:29	0:19:42	7.0
11	Sara Rimmer	ICS	DNF

Jude Bawarza

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6.6 Km / 4.1 Mi – Under 18 years old – BOYS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Alex Heupers	ICS	0:32:38	0:00:00	12.1
2	Faisal Alrifai	ICS	0:33:30	0:00:52	11.8
3	Mansoor Ghoto	KA	0:33:34	0:00:56	11.8
4	Nadeem	MAS	0:35:42	0:03:04	11.1
4	Noor-Eddin Amer	KA	0:35:42	0:03:04	11.1
6	Giles Bajazt	ICS	0:36:25	0:03:47	10.9
7	Aseem Maayah	KA	0:36:46	0:04:08	10.8
8	Andrew Wilson	ICS	0:42:40	0:10:02	9.3
9	Tarik AlBahrani	KA	0:45:42	0:13:04	8.7

Jude Bawarza

Congratulations to all first places!!!

WICK – Widmer Integrated CirKuit

The WICK (Widmer Integrated CirKuit) is the King’s Academy dirty track for multiple activities like cross country, biking or simply walking. Mainly, the track runs along the inside perimeter of the campus beside the walls. Here you have some data, the map (click on it to have it bigger) and the track profile. WICK was used several times for training and tournaments from last year, but it was on October 29th of this year when King’s Academy organized the first extra scholar tournament based on the WICK track.

TRAIL DISTANCE: 3 Kilometers / 1.8 Miles

Elevation min: 768 meters, max: 800 meters

Accum. height uphill: 22 meters, downhill: 28 meters

Kind of surface: almost 100% dirty track

Click on the map to have it bigger.

If you want to know more about the WICK track click here. Notice that the track crosses several times a road, be careful at that points. The profile starts at the proposed START in the map; this start point uses to be the start line for tournaments.

Thanks to Mansoor Ghoto and Hasan Abu Kharma to measure the track with the measuring wheel getting the accurate distance of 3,027.5 meters.

New page “\(ʘ_ʘ)/Photos!”

In order not to overload the posts with pictures, we have opened a page named \(ʘ_ʘ)/Photos! for those extra pictures you may want to share with the community. Upload pictures to the blog is quite manual so be patient and it will be great if you can title the set of pictures, write an intro or some comments.

STOTAN has a flickr account, but we found it not very useful due to it is not possible to open more than 3 sets, having at the end all the pictures together from different events.

Administrators reserve the right to upload or refuse the pictures they consider.

Red Sea Aqaba Marathon 2010

King’s Academy runners went to run to the Red Sea Aqaba Marathon last 3rd December. We had a lot of fun, although it was quite hard to move from Amman to Aqaba, dinner, sleep and wake up early to run… Are we mad? Keep reading to know why yes, but for running.

Do not try to guess who is the freshman at the right side, he was a local kid just wanting to be in the picture…

The race was very well organized and the circuit was totally different from 2008 where we ran down Wadi Yetum. This time the circuit consisted of several comigs and goings in town (for the 21 Km. race) having smooth uphills and downhills. Although we started very early it was very hot, we felt we were in summer time. Participation in general was no so popular like in Amman or Dead Sea; a pity for the fundraising, but a pleasure for runners (personal comment).

5:38 AM – Almost ready to leave, (5:00 AM was the 21 Km wake up…)

6:06 AM – Walking to the gathering point.

6:11 AM – Warming up or pushing down the breakfast…

6:22 AM – A smile before to start. Next time we’ll do better posing in numerical order…

8:36 AM – Loungers!!!

9:09 AM – Mohammad finishes his race.

9:16 AM – Tarik completes the 21 Km.

9:22 AM – The arrival environment.

9:25 AM – Students can’t wait for their prizes…

10:45 AM – Spontaneous, team picture.

11:00 AM to 1:30 PM – Showers, naps and an icy dip in the pool, SUPER!!!

From here we want to thank all the people involved to make this possible from King´s Academy, having all logistics arranged and very well organized. Thank you Ms Reem to chaperon and help with the organization and thanks driver Yahya Abusubhieh to drive for us safely.

I can not finish this post without the memory of which was my first long trip to run with the King’s Academy Cross Country team; it was here in Aqaba on December 2008 with that anecdote… how time flies…

Cross Country Tournament – International Community School

Last Saturday 27th of November we particpated in a Cross Country race organized by the International Community School (ICS); having 2 different categories according to the ages; Under 14 y-o a circuit of 4 Km and Under 18 y-o a circuit of 6 Km. The track was traced mainly on asphalt, but the big challenge was the ‘strong’ or at least harder relieve we use to run on; uphills and downhills were more or less double from our circuit. Here you have the results in different categories and some pictures of the event.

4 Km / 2.5 Mi – U14 – GIRLS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Nadja Heupers	ICS	0:19:04	0:00:00	12.6
2	Aya Ayoubi	ABS	0:20:26	0:01:22	11.7
3	Yara Abu Khadra	ABS	0:22:42	0:03:38	10.6
4	Haya Zaru	ABS	0:27:22	0:08:18	8.8
5	Sarah Tabbaa	ABS	0:28:18	0:09:14	8.5
6	Zeina Aloul	ABS	0:28:38	0:09:34	8.4
7	Zara Al Lovei	ABS	0:28:44	0:09:40	8.4
8	Sarah Ghosher	ABS	0:33:50	0:14:46	7.1

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4 Km / 2.5 Mi – U14 – BOYS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Jelle Bogaert	ICS	0:15:23	0:00:00	15.6
2	Gray Thomas	ICS	0:15:34	0:00:11	15.4
3	Louis Hoyez	ICS	0:16:34	0:01:11	14.5
4	Omar Salih	ICS	0:20:23	0:05:03	11.8
6	Ahmad Kamal	ABS	0:20:25	0:05:02	11.8
7	Fahed Fanek	ABS	0:21:29	0:06:06	11.2
8	Laith Hijazi	ABS	0:24:45	0:09:22	9.7
9	Tareq Batayneh	ABS	0:26:58	0:11:35	8.9
10	Qais Hijazi	ABS	0:33:22	0:17:59	7.2

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6 Km / 3.7 Mi – U18 – GIRLS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Jude Bawalsa	ICS	0:31:18	0:00:00	11.5
2	Adele	ICS	0:33:43	0:02:25	10.7
3	Aya Al Jalamdeh	KA	0:38:18	0:07:00	9.4
4	Dina	ICS	0:43:59	0:12:41	8.2

Alex Heupers, clear winner of the U18 with an excellent time.

6 Km / 3.7 Mi – U18 – BOYS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Alex Heupers	ICS	0:25:08	0:00:00	14.3
2	Mansoor Ghoto	KA	0:27:53	0:02:45	12.9
3	Aseem Maayah	KA	0:28:06	0:02:58	12.8
4	Noor-Eddin Amer	KA	0:28:58	0:03:50	12.4
6	Karem Darwazeh	ICS	0:29:27	0:04:19	12.2
7	Seifeddin Mehyar	KA	0:31:40	0:06:32	11.4
8	Gilles Bogaert	ICS	0:31:51	0:06:43	11.3
9	Ayman Barghash	KA	0:35:20	0:10:12	10.2
10	Tarik Al Bahrani	KA	0:35:23	0:10:15	10.2
11	Ahmad ElWalid	ICS	0:40:56	0:15:48	8.8
12	Andrew Wilson	ICS	DNS	—	—

Aya	Mansoor	Aseem	Noor-Eddin
Seifeddin	Ayman	Tarik

We want to thank ICS to organize the event, and from here we want to encourage other schools to participate in upcoming events. Thank you Ms Reem to come, help and support the XC team.

Beautiful words from Ms. Reem

Dear Cross Country Team,

I am sad I missed the picture!  Yalla, Next Time!

You guys were all great!   I really enjoyed getting to know you better during practice.  It was a highlight of my day to come down to the track and see you all willing to push yourselves a little further each time.  Willing to run that extra lap, to shout a cheer to one of your mates, to encourage that runner who is about to drop out….

I appreciated your team spirit, your sense of humor, your perseverance, your commitment and discipline. Each one of you has so much potential and so much to give to our community and so much to teach others about running races.  I was thinking about this, our years here at Kings are like a long distance race, and the skills that we need in our Life Race are the same as what we were learning in the XC training sessions.  We had to be patient with ourselves, we had to understand and know our strengths and abilities, we had to take care of our bodies, we had to train hard, we had to keep going even when we felt like we did not want to, we had to sometimes force ourselves to show up and commit, we had to strengthen our minds as well as our bodies… we also all needed each other at some point to make the run more enjoyable or more bearable. How similar is life?  I hope that you will carry this experience with you as this season ends and  know that you are truly unique members of King’s.  I am very proud and privileged to have had the chance to work with you all this term.

Ms. Reem Abu Rahmeh

Two pictures from our off-time training yesterday to prepare ICS tournament: ¡Venga chic@s!

Cross Country Team Fall 2010

The term is over and with that the Cross Country training. Thank you so much, all of you for your great mood. Here you have the picture(s) we took today; it is a pity that not everybody is in the picture.

Click on the picture to have them bigger.

Yoga Session!

Click on the pictures to see them bigger

Thank you Ms Shane for so great Yoga session!!!

Running outside KA

A short, but nice running outside KA; spectacular sunset we had! and spectacular nails stuck I have in the arm…  Click on the pictures to see them bigger.

Thanks Ms. Rita Naber to organize the bus service.

Thanks Yusra for the picture, which illustrates very well the dog harassment we suffered yesterday.

Cross Country Tournaments @ King’s Academy

Yesterday and today King’s Academy hosted one of the first Cross Country encounters for young runners of this academic year 2010-2011. On Friday 29th October, the National Orthodox School (NOS) ran with us in an open age race of 3.5 Km / 2.2 Mi on the WICK track, by the way this is the first competition on our own track. These were the amazing results:

3.5 Km / 2.2 Mi – GIRLS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Mira Shami	NOS	0:18:41	0:00:00	11.2
2	Maheer Azmat	KA	0:22:55	0:04:14	9.2
3	Hana Mufti	KA	0:23:46	0:05:05	8.8
4	Yara Awad	NOS	0:23:51	0:05:10	8.8
5	Raya Abu Jamous	NOS	0:26:12	0:07:31	8.0
6	Katrina Nemri	KA	0:26:13	0:07:32	8.0
7	Maheera Hussein	KA	DNF
8	Anvisha Azmat	KA	DNF

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3.5 Km / 2.2 Mi – BOYS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Aseem Maayah	KA	0:16:58	0:00:00	12.4
2	Spiro Khnouf	NOS	0:17:17	0:00:19	12.2
3	Qais Khraisat	KA	0:17:56	0:00:58	11.7
4	NoorEddin Amer	KA	0:18:01	0:01:03	11.7
5	Tarik Al Bahrani	KA	0:22:18	0:05:20	9.4

And today 30th October, part of the Amman Athletic Conference came to KA to run different distances and ages. I am very proud of all runners; nobody complained running sometimes in the rain on a muddy surface: BRAVO! These are the great results:

Click on the picture to see it bigger.

Sorry not to have more pictures, but checking-list, stopwatch and camera at the same time it doesn’t work.

3.5 Km / 2.2 Mi – Under 14 years old – GIRLS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Jude Bawarza	ABS	0:19:14	0:00:00	10.9
2	Aya Ayuubi	ABS	0:23:24	0:04:10	9.0
3	Yara Abu Khadra	ABS	0:30:58	0:11:44	6.8
4	Seema Darwazeit	ABS	0:31:12	0:11:58	6.7
5	Sarah Tabbaa	ABS	0:32:00	0:12:46	6.6
6	Haya Zaru	ABS	0:32:06	0:12:52	6.5
7	Amira Farradj	ABS	0:32:19	0:13:05	6.5
8	Zeina Aloul	ABS	0:34:31	0:15:17	6.1
9	Sarah Ghosher	ABS	0:37:22	0:18:08	5.6
10	Arije Abu Hassa	ABS	0:44:33	0:25:19	4.7

Jude Bawarza

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3.5 Km / 2.2 Mi – Under 14 years old – BOYS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Louis Hoyez	ICS	0:18:01	0:00:00	11.7
2	Gray Thomas	ICS	0:18:08	0:00:07	11.6
3	Alex Gonye	ICS	0:18:59	0:00:58	11.1
4	Jelle Bogaert	ICS	0:19:09	0:01:08	11.0
5	Arshag Orfali	ICS	0:20:02	0:02:01	10.5
6	Hashem Souob	ABS	0:20:25	0:02:24	10.3
7	Marcus Stabell	ICS	0:23:34	0:05:33	8.9
8	Basil Mansour	ICS	0:23:47	0:05:46	8.8
9	Nicholas Jonsson	KA	0:23:48	0:05:47	8.8
10	Laith Hijazi	ABS	0:26:22	0:08:21	8.0
11	Tareq Batayneh	ABS	0:26:32	0:08:31	7.9
12	Qais Hijazi	ABS	0:32:18	0:14:17	6.5
13	Ahmad Kamal	ABS	0:36:09	0:18:08	5.8
14	Saad Badri	ICS	DNF

Jude Bawarza

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6.6 Km / 4.1 Mi – Under 18 years old – GIRLS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Anvisha Azmat	KA	0:41:01	0:00:00	9.7
2	Jin Seul Jun	KA	0:41:12	0:00:11	9.6
3	María Garzón	KA	0:45:52	0:04:51	9.6
4	Hana Mufti	KA	DNF
5	Maheera Hussein	KA	DNF

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6.6 Km / 4.1 Mi – Under 18 years old – BOYS
#	RUNNER NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	DIFF.	KM/H
1	Mansoor Ghoto	KA	0:31:11	0:00:00	12.7
2	Alex Heupers	ICS	0:31:58	0:00:47	12.4
3	Ahmad Saleh	ICS	0:35:49	0:04:38	11.1
4	Fuad Farradj	ABS	0:35:51	0:04:40	11.0
5	Noor-Eddin Amer	KA	0:36:05	0:04:54	11.0
6	Ayman Barghash	KA	0:37:17	0:06:06	10.6
7	Karem Darwazeh	ABS	0:37:28	0:06:17	10.6
8	Aseem Maayah	KA	0:38:27	0:07:16	10.3
9	Gilles Bogaert	ICS	0:39:36	0:08:25	10.0
10	Federico Faverio	ICS	0:39:47	0:08:36	10.0
11	Andrew Wilson	ICS	0:40:45	0:09:34	9.7
12	Kareem Al Saudi	KA	0:40:55	0:09:44	9.7
13	Tareq Al Guff	ICS	DNF

Jude Bawarza

Congratulations to all first places!!! I want to thank ICS and ABS coaches to come even with this weather conditions, a great way to show that is possible to go ahead in any situation. Also I want to thank Hilary Smith who help us as spotter on the track; Maheer Azmat and Yusra Bitar were helping during the runners reception; Coach Iyad, Ghadeer, Faisal and Khaled for their support and help. Also the few parents who were encouraging runners, no matter if they were their son or daughter. And also Mansoor Ghoto who took care on the timing when I did my race to attend the parents meeting (I broke my record, neither Superman will change clothes so fast…).

I hope there is no spelling mistakes on the names.

Amman International Marathon 2010

Three days ago King’s Academy was in the Amman International Marathon. A very well organized event, except for the medals souvenir deliver which was very chaotic… and the anecdotic police member lifting up the tape allowing people to short cut at the very last U-turn… Here we uploaded some pictures of the event and something more…

If you want to check your time: click here.

The head of the race! Orange t-shirt runner (#8889) got Gold, red one (#6718) second place and I guess the hidden runner at the back of the group the third position.

Other runners close to the head.

Jack Jone

Sebastian Litchfield

Mr. Devon O´Rourke

Hilary Smith

Suhayb Al-Jawhari and Qxhna Titcomb showing a great attitude

Spontaneous picture needed

Jin Seul Jun and Anvisha Azmat

Noor-eddin Amer

Ms. Anna Steim

Ms. Reem Abu Rahmeh

Maheera Hussein (acting…) and Ahmad Ahmad

Cycle training

A great souvenir, thanks to Basil Jayousi, from the cycle “training” outing last week, click on the picture to enlarge it. I am sure you enjoyed it, but we need to improve not to spend too much time just to pick the bikes and helmets up… also we have to avoid to ride over 80 Km/h like Marah did on the way back…

Thanks Mr. Manny to take the picture, your presence eclipse us!

…and for the people who was not cycling I know you did a good training: bravo! and you took the opportunity to ride a bike for first time ever: BRAVOIN! Thank you Ms Reem to be in charge of this group.

You will not be the first one

In 12 days we have a running meeting at the Amman International Marathon; this uses to be a very crowded race and from this perspective, we ask ourselves which can be our goals, if even we do not feel we are ready to run.

Principally PARTICIPATE, spend a weekend day doing something we do not use to do with a lot of people, friends,…; it is an organized event, we get a t-shirt and also we help for a good cause. But far from the simple fact to participate, it has to have anything more, any kind of salsa to add. Arrive the first one can be terrific, but in this life there is always someone who trained more, who has much more experience or simply has a better body metabolism set from factory than ours.

There is always a first time for everything and this can be a great personal objective I am sure if you overcome it you will never forget. Assuming that you signed up for the 10 Km., this race can be the first time that:
- you participate in a professional organized competition, will you forget this first time? I am sure not.
- you run 10 kilometers non-stop; for better even for worse (maybe you finish exhausted), I am sure you will not forget , but you did it!
- you intend to finish taking less than one hour. You arrive to the finishing line, raise your head and the stopwatch marks 00:59:19 –> You will feel like the real champion of the race.

But, where are the medals? Just change them, reward yourself with another thing. When I was young it used to be to go with friends to eat together, sometimes a vinyl record, nowadays I’m more dull, but a huge tonic drink uses to be a great reward, with friends much better.

Set goals helps us to put in a lot of effort, improve and progress; make us to follow a vertical growth line. At your next race your goals will be others: “I know what 10 km. is and now YES, I am not going to stop at all…” or “This time I will finish between 50 and 55 minutes…” or “I am ready to run 21 km…”, and so on. Then, one day you will go to run and you will realize once you overtake other runners that now you are the one who was training more, who has more experience and overcame your limits expectations.

You will not be the first one, but you can definitely break your personal records. Enjoy and go get ‘em!

¡Venga chic@s!

Our first week of Cross Country 2010-2011!

Dear runners, thank you so much for this great week we have. I hope you are fine after those fantastic sprintings, collisions and slips… it was very funny. Next week more activities. Here I want to share with you some pictures I took this week. Enjoy! 

Yusra and Sandy during the first meeting day

Maheera leading the stretching session

Mr Manny warming up during the second day

Katrina followed by other runners warming up in the track

Maheer leading the 3rd day stretching session

Stretching session

Catch and run! Playing "El pañuelo" game

Fortunately there was no collision this time!

Hana and Dima fighting for Sr. Carlos' socks... UNBELIEVABLE!

The WICK track

The last months of the last academic year Mr. Mark Payton launched the idea to create our own Cross Country track inside campus. People involved in running were very excited with the idea, but it lost strength when we exposed the plan to administration in order to have an estimated cost. Few weeks later and promoted by the students we designed t-shirts to fundraise the project; we were sure that we will not cover the total costs, but at least to start the process.

We printed and almost sold 70 t-shirts between faculty, students and staff. Thanks all of you for that great response. But this story it does not finish here because during that time we received the visit of Dr. Meera Viswanathan. She showed very enthusiastic about the project and decided, with a beautiful gesture of support, to present to King’s Academy the whole amount necessary to cover the costs of the track in honor of our Headmaster founder Dr. Eric Widmer was leaving his post at the end of the academic year. The track became a reality.

The works on the track started in July, and although at the day of today it is not finished, it is possible to run/walk on it. In general lines the work required was/is: to trace the track, remove the plants and clean the surface, pack the soil, construct wooden bridges to save the rain water canals at the borders of the asphalt roads, enclose the track borders with stones, paint crosswalks with broken lines to advise drivers, signs and many other things and steps I am sure I have no idea.

-So what does WICK means? Widmer Integrated CirKuit, in honor of Dr. Eric Widmer.

We had no words to appreciate your support and from here we want to express our gratitude, indeed to Dr. Meera and Dr. Eric for their definitive contribution; THANK YOU. Also Mr. Mark Payton and Mr. Barry Nabholz who work altruistically giving ideas and monitoring the project. Ms. Ola Bseiso and Mr. Salah Abu Teen who implement and (still) carry out the work; also those anonymous workers, labors of this project. Mr. Faris Raba’ who was helping in the purchase and delivery of the t-shirts and the students who were involved in the t-shirt design brainstorming. And all of you who anonymous help or just encourage to make this project a reality.

I cannot wait to inaugurate officially this track! We hope it will happen soon.

Cross Country ’10

By Yusra Bitar (’11)

September 26, 2010 marks the day of the first ever cross country meeting of the 2010/2011 academic year. I CAN’T WAIT!!! Bye senior.

Run for Water in Jordan and Dunes Club Amman Fun-Run

Last Sunday the Hashemite Hash House Harriers group organized a Dow Live Earth Run for Water in Amman. Due to the short time we have received the information and that I was not feeling well we were not able to participate. So, no news or comments about the event we hope it was a success. The place selected was the SportCity track. We keep all the coordinates for future events.

Also to announce the 4th Annual Fun Run/Walk of 5K organized by the Dunes Club Amman. This family event will happen on Friday 23rd of May at Dunes Club; for further information about time, fees and categories: (06-4125290 / 0795678307 / 0797123131).

Dead Sea Marathon 2010

By Mutasem AlDmour (’1o)

Last weekend, I had an amazing experience participating in the Dead Sea Marathon. I chose to run the 10K, but there were also more (21K) and less (4.2k).

The run was magnificent. I got 1 hour and 9 minutes, which is less than what I expected. The most marvelous aspect of the Marathon is the location. “Running down to the lowest point on Earth” was certainly quite an experience. The Dead Sea on the right of the track was quite attractive. The organization of the race was not perfect, but many said it was better than last year. Our 10K race started 30 minutes late. Distributing the bags at the end was also quite a mess, but thankfully the King’s Academy option, recommended by Sr. Carlos, made things easier. Also many of the buses were late, but again using King’s transportations made things easier, and gave us more time to rest.

The marathon was quite an appeal to people. Most were not close to being athletes, especially those who smoked. I think the Marathon should be funded by a Health Awareness company or an anti-smoking campaign. The track was well organized. There were police who had the cars under control. No car stepped in my way. We did not join the beach party after the race. But, I was told it was very crowded. There was water every 3k. I think the water distribution was pretty good. The problem was that it was very hot. They were also giving out bananas, but I missed all of these, or they were just for the long, really long, runs. At the finish line, they gave out medals, apples, and water. There was medical help, and many places to sit under the shadow. The participants were from all ages. The oldest were mostly foreigners. The youngest joined their parents for either a slow jog or a nice long walk. There were many King’s Academy students. There was a lot of promoting. There was music at every starting point, and at the finish line. Those students who went came by the buses of the marathon had to wait six hours until they could go home.

King’s Academy team Dead2Red 2009

A quite late video… but always our great experience.

Dead2Red 2010 – Running Results

And here the running results!

Once again, mabrouk for those who got first places, and all the teams who finished this big event.

RUNNING – FREESTYLE
#	NAME – TEAM	TIME	DIFF.	Km/h	TM#
1	ARAMEX	14:13:33	0:00:00	17.01	18
2	Amman Municipality	14:33:01	0:19:28	16.63	10
3	Dashing Dudes	14:38:55	0:25:22	16.52	1
4	Jets Scouts	16:57:33	2:44:00	14.27	26
5	Haddadin	17:16:16	3:02:43	14.01	9
6	Wild Cats	17:24:22	3:10:49	13.90	16
7	Flying Squirrels	17:26:37	3:13:04	13.87	24
8	ICS School	18:46:25	4:32:52	12.89	25
9	Pmetot	18:48:31	4:34:58	12.87	15
10	Chicken & Rice	18:50:01	4:36:28	12.85	2
11	La Detente Sous Le Shams	18:57:55	4:44:22	12.76	7
12	RoadKill	18:59:00	4:45:27	12.75	8
13	Twelve Terrific Teachers	19:04:48	4:51:15	12.68	21
14	Ay Punks – CIEE	19:23:21	5:09:48	12.48	6
15	Gumps	19:24:13	5:10:40	12.47	20
16	Puke & Rally	19:31:42	5:18:09	12.39	12
17	Air Jordan – CIEE	19:33:27	5:19:54	12.37	4
18	Ze Bibiz – NYIT	19:45:27	5:31:54	12.25	11
19	Fun & Run – CIEE	19:46:43	5:33:10	12.24	3
20	Chapter 11 – Total	20:02:46	5:49:13	12.07	17
21	Bonjourein	20:06:57	5:53:24	12.03	22
22	Witness The Fitness	20:08:35	5:55:02	12.01	19
23	Are We There Yet?	20:13:43	6:00:10	11.96	13
24	Transjordan Caravan	20:40:56	6:27:23	11.70	14
25	Drenched & Burned-CIEE	21:57:36	7:44:03	11.02	5
26	DNA	DNS?/DNF?	- – -	- – -	23
26 Sign Ups / 26 Started the Race

Dead2Red 2010 – Cycling Results

Hi all, here you have the results, firstly divided in categories and a big one with all the cyclists together.

Mabrouk for those who got first places, and all the cyclists who finished this big event.

CYCLING – INDIVIDUAL
#	NAME – TEAM	TIME	DIFF.	Km/h	TM#
1	Dominik Kugler-Samsung 4	7:57:18	0:00:00	30.42	48
2	Mustafa Jubeh-Samsung 1	7:57:20	0:00:02	30.42	51
3	Gary Leeman-Samsung 3	7:57:25	0:00:07	30.41	50
4	Stephan Kugler-Samsung 2	8:12:36	0:15:18	29.48	49
5	Salameh Shatnawi-Cycling Jo.1	8:22:36	0:25:18	28.89	63
6	Arizona-Cycling Jordan	8:22:37	0:25:19	28.89	65
7	Mohammad Foda-Bike Rush	10:30:15	2:32:57	23.04	38
8	Elizabeth Aranow-Bike Rush	10:41:35	2:44:17	22.63	34
NN Sign Ups / NN Started the Race

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CYCLING / 2-3 CYCLISTS TEAM
#	NAME – TEAM	TIME	DIFF.	Km/h	TM#
1	Samsung 3	7:57:18	0:00:00	30.42	52
2	Asha Team – Bike Rush	8:56:42	0:59:24	27.05	41
3	Cycling Jordan 3	9:02:19	1:05:01	26.77	64
4	Drugs Don’t Work-Cycling Jo.	10:22:51	2:25:33	23.31	55
5	KilomEaters (2 cyclists)	10:24:20	2:27:02	23.26	36
6	Risky Bussines CJ	11:20:22	3:23:04	21.34	32
7	DNA Wheels	11:20:55	3:23:37	21.32	47
NN Sign Ups / NN Started the Race

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CYCLING / 4-5 CYCLISTS TEAM
#	NAME – TEAM	TIME	DIFF.	Km/h	TM#
1	Samsung Team of 5/A	7:57:18	0:00:00	30.42	53
2	Samsung Team of 5/B	7:57:20	0:00:02	0:00:02	54
3	INTRACOM-Cycling Jordan	9:11:00	1:13:42	26.35	59
4	Cycling Jordan 2	10:10:25	2:13:07	23.79	62
5	Teamunity-Cycling Jordan	10:27:35	2:30:17	23.14	61
6	Mood FM Hurricane	10:35:18	2:38:00	22.86	60
7	Gladiators	11:13:07	3:15:49	21.57	40
8	Ali Pharaon-Cycling Jordan	11:41:31	3:44:13	20.70	57
9	Ele, Come on!-Cycling Jo.	11:42:18	3:45:00	20.67	42
10	The Walabies-Cycling Jordan	11:57:38	4:00:20	20.23	45
NN Sign Ups / NN Started the Race

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CYCLING – ALL CYCLISTS TOGETHER
#	CAT	NAME – TEAM	TIME	DIFF.	Km/h	TM#
1	SOLO	Dominik Kugler-Samsung 4	7:57:18	0:00:00	30.42	48
1	2-3	Samsung 3	7:57:18	0:00:00	30.42	52
1	4-5	Samsung Team of 5/A	7:57:18	0:00:00	30.42	53
4	SOLO	Samsung Team of 5/B	7:57:20	0:00:02	0:00:02	54
4	SOLO	Mustafa Jubeh-Samsung 1	7:57:20	0:00:02	30.42	51
6	SOLO	Gary Leeman-Samsung 3	7:57:25	0:00:07	30.41	50
7	SOLO	Stephan Kugler-Samsung 2	8:12:36	0:15:18	29.48	49
8	SOLO	Salameh Shatnawi-Cycling Jordan 1	8:22:36	0:25:18	28.89	63
9	SOLO	Arizona-Cycling Jordan	8:22:37	0:25:19	28.89	65
10	2-3	Asha Team – Bike Rush	8:56:42	0:59:24	27.05	41
11	2-3	Cycling Jordan 3	9:02:19	1:05:01	26.77	64
12	4-5	INTRACOM-Cycling Jordan	9:11:00	1:13:42	26.35	59
13	4-5	Cycling Jordan 2	10:10:25	2:13:07	23.79	62
14	2-3	Drugs Don’t Work-Cycling Jordan	10:22:51	2:25:33	23.31	55
15	2-3	KilomEaters (2 cyclists)	10:24:20	2:27:02	23.26	36
16	4-5	Teamunity-Cycling Jordan	10:27:35	2:30:17	23.14	61
17	SOLO	Mohammad Foda-Bike Rush	10:30:15	2:32:57	23.04	38
18	4-5	Mood FM Hurricane	10:35:18	2:38:00	22.86	60
19	SOLO	Elizabeth Aranow-Bike Rush	10:41:35	2:44:17	22.63	34
20	4-5	Gladiators	11:13:07	3:15:49	21.57	40
21	2-3	Risky Bussines CJ	11:20:22	3:23:04	21.34	32
22	2-3	DNA Wheels	11:20:55	3:23:37	21.32	47
23	4-5	Ali Pharaon-Cycling Jordan	11:41:31	3:44:13	20.70	57
24	4-5	Ele, Come on!-Cycling Jordan	11:42:18	3:45:00	20.67	42
25	4-5	The Walabies-Cycling Jordan	11:57:38	4:00:20	20.23	45
NN Sign Ups / NN Started the Race

Dead2Red 2010!!!

Dear all, Dead2Red 2010 is here!

Unfortunately this year there is no school team due to final exams immediately after the race. But faculty set a dream running team and others, between teachers and students signed up to cycle it! These are the participants and the different categories:

Chicken & Rice (10 Runners TM)
Gabi Wintner
Mady Bech
Ruba Haddad
Hannah Ryan
Chris Bossie
Geoff Popadiuk
Steve Uydess
Barry Nabholz
Bob Belknap
Bowman Dickson
Accompanied by Yaser Sakaji, Arthur Clement, Nadeem Sarha, Emily Haug and Charlie Wagner.

Gladiators (3 Cyclists TM)
Coach Iyad Abu Touq
Ben Walsh
Hasan Abu Kharma
Accompanied by Iyad’s wife and son.

Kilom-Eaters (2 Cyclist TM)
The one who is writing this post
Elisabeth Lictevout
Accompanied by Hakim Tamimi.

Sponsored by Bike Rush and as individual cyclists:
Elisabeth Aranow – ERA
Mohammad Foda
James ‘Nick’ Lee
Accompanied by Charlie Hopkins, Mrs. Lee and Hussam Sweidan.

Amman Road Runners opened a new website to inform, register, check results… all about the Dead2Red race, click on the banner to go to their page:

Also to inform you that the track of the race is available in WikiLoc, where you can download it to upload it in your GPS device. The intermediate points are placed every 25 Km from the starting point of the race. Click on the following screen shot of the page to see the fully details track:

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! More news about the race soon…

Happy Birthday Stotan!

On January 20th Stotan is one year-old!

Created by the Cross Country team to organize, inform and show running events from King’s Academy and Jordan; and indeed for the organization of the Dead2Red race in 2009, still been a baby-blog which we hope grows up providing and sharing good news and information about the world of running.

Our effort doesn’t look useless when statistically Stotan has received in this first year 2.248 visits from 52 countries!

We take the opportunity to wish you a happy running 2010!

MET Cross Country Tournament – Jan, 16th 2010 King’s Academy

Great and lovely day we had during the XC tournament organized here at home in King’s Academy; it was a quite hot day with a little bit of wind, closer to spring time than winter. There were 3 different races covering different ages: Primary School with 2 Km, Secondary School with 5 Km and High School race with 8 Km, with a total of 37 runners from ABS, ICS and KA schools.

Jaafar Al-Tell sprinting for gold

From KA, we got some medals; GREAT JOB to Alia Suleiman, Jaafar Al-Tell, Radja Badr El-Din and Mohammad Foda. BUT I would like to thank our runners who were there in the name of King’s Academy, sweating the t-shirt doing their best unfortunately without medal award: Sandy Fahel, Juman Tabbalat, Maheera Hussein, Anvisha Azmat, Faisal Al-Tell, Johoo Shin and Hasan Abu Kharma.

8 Km race podium. Congratulations!

Runners from ICS in the uphill outside the school

Also thanks to the coaches Sonny Lim from ABS and Pascal Hoyes and Mohamed Awad from ICS to come and enjoy with us spreading a good mood. And thanks to all the people involved to succeed this great event; funior fellows, Doctors, the security staff, drivers and the Athletic department; sure I forgot names, please receive as well this gratitude message.

Runners from ABS facing the slope up before to go in the school

A great start

Hi all, thank you everybody for so nice week we had, I know we started hard, but remember we have a race competition soon. It is a pleasure to announce the new possible signing up: JABER AL-SABAH. XC is finishing the arrangements and contracts so maybe he will join us next time, insha-Allah.

And here you have the marks you got last Sunday that many of you asked for. The circuit was finally 2,1 Km or 1,3 Mile:

Position	Athlete	Mark	Difference
1	George Steele	08:13	00:00
2	Saleh Abdellateef	08:29	00:16
3	Jonathan Khuri	08:41	00:28
4	Hasan Abu Kharma	08:53	00:40
5	Lawrence Shweifat	09:13	01:00
6	Suhaib Mohaidat	09:28	01:15
7	Reed hGandour	09:55	01:42
8	Farah Atari	10:26	02:13
9	Raed Khouri	11:25	03:12
10	Lana Alkury	11:32	03:19
11	Alia Suleiman	12:23	04:10
12	Maheer Azmat	12:38	04:25
13	Dima Alhourani	13:00	04:47
14	Maheera Hussein	16:26	08:13
15	Yusra AlBitar	16:35	08:22
16	Lubna Faraj	17:10	08:57
16	Zahira Shaban	17:10	08:57

Also a picture from the last training.

Beginning of the year –Try outs

Hi all, ¡Venga Chicos!^TM is on the track again!

Yesterday we were running one LOKA to warm up and wake up the beginning of this year. The track keeps intact with the same dogs, camels and neighbors on the way.

Let me explain quickly the plan for this year:

- Run is the main activity we will do with the objective to enjoy and improve your endurance. I will do my best that the training sessions will develop in real Cross Country circuits: country side on soil tracks; so also we can enjoy the nature. Starting شوي شوي I hope you will be able to run a Demi-Marathon (20 Km. – 12.42 miles) at the end of the season. We will meet every Monday and Wednesday at the regular co-curricular time.

- Last year we introduced all about muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones involved in running with Mr. Khaled Zaidan; and I hope this year we can organize a nice workshop about this subject.

- Parallel we learnt some massage techniques I would like to improve this year with extensive stretching exercises.

- I want the team be involved to run in any, for sure scholarship or external event; and why not to participate actively to create new races.

- In addition, this year I have planned to organize an Orientation Race; basically a race where you have to follow a path never ever done before taking intermediate marks to reach the finish line, if you skip or miss a mark you are disqualified or score less points. How we do it? With the help of a compass and a map. So we will have few sessions to know how to read a map, use a compass, create profiles, organize and participate in this kind of event. For sure in the nature.

Tomorrow, Wednesday 29th we will meet again for the XC tryouts; actually everybody can join the team, and once it is formed we will decided if is necessary to divide it in: very strong students, much more strong students, super-ultra strong students… Show 17:15 or earlier in the Stadium to shake a leg.

Thank you and have run.

Stotan in Flickr

Hi all, just to announce that we open a Stotan Flickr account. We inaugurated it with a set of the 37^th World Cross Country Championships. So, if you want to see the whole picture report click here.

World Cross Country circuit try out!

Our "professional" runners stretching in the start line

Hi all, yesterday we went to run the same circuit as professional runners from all around the world did in the 37th World Cross Country Championships. Thanks to Ms. Julia Bisharat from Bisharat Golf Course to give us this opportunity. Many things changed from last Saturday: no advertisings, no music, no spectators, no TV… but the track keeps on intact, for few days because bulldozers are returning the area as the usual golf field.

Raja and Faisal leading the race

We decided to run the Junior Men or Women Senior race: 8 Km, but this time with more or less 25° C instead of 13° C last Saturday did. The circuit was really hard, very simetric with a long way down (straight) and parallel a very long uphill (with curves), finishing the last lap even higher. And these were the results…

Position	Athlete	Country	Mark	Difference
1	Faisal Al Tell	JOR	39:45	+ 0:00
2	Raja Badr-El-Din	JOR	40:21	+ 0:36
3	Mansour Ghotto	PAK	46:10	+ 6:25
4	Jooho Shin “Michael”	KOR	46:22	+ 6:37
5	Hasan Abu Kharma	JOR	48:23	+ 8:38
—	George Steele	USA	DNF	—
—	Carlos Abellanosa	ESP	DNF	—
—	Mohammad Foda	JOR	DNF	—
—	Noor Masannat	JOR	DNF	—
—	Reed Gantour	USA	DNF	—

We need to mention that Faisal Al Tell did an amazing job! In the World Championship the last junior runner finished the race in 34:02, “only” 5 minutes and 43 seconds less than Faisal! The Raja’s mark was also excellent. More details about official results: here.

George still smiling, Mansoor just behind and Micheal at the background trying to control his iFrog...

…and about team results, of course King’s Academy Team won the prize of 10 minutes lie down on the grass! See you next year in the 38th World Cross Country Championships 2010 in Bydgoszcz, Poland!

(Let’s start training how to pronounce the city…).

Amazing Race!

 

Yesterday Amman celebrated the 37^th World Cross Country Championships, all runners did their best in a very hard circuit. All categories were leading by Ethiopia, Kenya and Eritrea. The organization was excellent, just it was a pity not to see more spectators. For full details about individual and team results click here: IAAF/WXC2009

World Cross Country Championship

The 37th IAAF World Cross Country Championships take place in Jordan on Saturday, March 28th 2009. Fil mish-mish to participate… this is only for immortals; but a good oportunity to see the strongest legs in the world. For more information click on the banner:

You can become a volunteer! And probably see them so closer than you can ask them if they really drink cheetah milk with biscuits every morning! For volunteering click here

Dead-2-Red results

Hi everyone,

congratulations to the two King’s Academy teams for finishing the Dead to Red relay race: Team Al-Wahdah and the King’s Academy student team.

 

The King’s Academy student team completed the 242 km of the race in 18hrs: 20mins, finishing 6th place out of 16 teams and winning the ‘Best School Team’ award.

Team members (from left to right):

1- Noor Masannat
2- Reed Ghandour
3- Sarah Al-Muhtsaseb
4-Faisal Al-Tell
5- George Steele
6- Raja Badr El-Din
7- Hasan Abu- Kharma
8- Carlos Abellanosa (Team Captain)
9- Mohammad Foda
10- Ghaith Sandouka
11- Mansour Ghotto

Team Al-Wahdah which was composed of King’s Academy teachers and junior fellows completed the race in 18hrs: 8mins, finishing 5th place out of the 16 teams that participated.

 

Team members (from left to right):

1- Tifanny Norman (front row)
2- Nancy Ann B Little (front row)
3- Lindsey Mischner (front row)
5- Georgia Jewett
6- Patrick Dean
7- Joe Zych (volunteer driver)
8- Yasser Sakaji (volunteer driver)
9- William Newman-Wise
10- Samuel Walsh
11- Nayab Khan
12- Pamela Paniagua
13- John Aloian

RUNNERS RESULTS D2R 2009
1st       ARAMEX 14h 57′ 32”
2nd     DASHING DUDES 15h 19′ 32”
3rd      HADDADIN 16h 57′ 25”
4th      POTASH PACERS 17h 21′ 56”
5th      AL WAHDAH 18h 08′ 39”
6th      KING’S ACADEMY (School) 18h 20′ 27”
7th     YALLA FOR GAZA (UNRWA) 18h 25′ 28”
8th      WILD CATS 18h 30′ 44”
9th      JET SCOUTS 18h 52′ 10”
10th   THE SKWINCHYZ 18h 54′ 44”
11th   THE INCREDIBLES 19h 03′ 12”
12th   FRENCH DÉTENTE TONIC TEAM 19h 23′ 57”
13th   ICS (School) 19h 41′ 18”
14th   DNA 20h 00′ 30”
15th   FRENCH DÉTENTE COMIC TEAM 20h 40′ 17”
16th   FULBRIGHTEEN 22h 26′ 35”

Related links:

Official D2R site
King’s Academy article

Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

Hope to see you there next year

16th Dead Sea ultra marathon

Hi everyone,

Dust off your running shorts, our next date is April 10, 2009–The Dead Sea ultra marthon. It will be on the first day of the Spring break, which gives you no excuse to miss this unique event.

“Run To The Lowest Point On Earth & Raise Money For The Society for Care of Neurological Patients”

General info:

“The 16th Dead Sea Ultra Marathon will take place on April 10th 2009, more than 3500 participants are expected to participate.”

Categories:

4.2km junior marathon, 10km fun-run, 21km half marathon, 42km marathon, 48km ultra marathon

Registration fees:

Juniors (8-18 yrs old): 8.0 JD

Adult Jordanians and residents: 13.0 JD from now till March 31st, 2009. 20.0 JD from April 1st to April 8th 2009

The course will open at 6:30 am and will close at 1:30 pm. See the schedule.

For more details, go to the Dead Sea Marathon official website, where you can find all the information you need about the race. You can also register online.

hope to see you there

Item List for D2R

Hi everyone,

 

here is a list of all the items you’ll bring to the race. Feel free to add your comments or suggestions. Good luck to everyone

 

Clothes:

 

Breathable fabric is the best to wear as you will be sweating a lot and moving many times from the warmth of the car to the cold of the desert. 

 

Hat (1)

Scarf (1)

Jacket (1)

Sweater (1)

Windbreaker (1)

Gloves (1)

Running shirts (3)

Running shorts (2)

Running pants/ tights (1)

Running shoes….please keep wearing them from the morning on the day of the race

Socks (4-5 pairs)

Underwear (4)…no time to dry

Pants/ jeans… to wear after the race

Foot wear…to put on after the race (sandals recommended)

Towel (1)

Tissues

Wet wipes

 

 

Other:

 

Blanket (1)

Pillow

Water Bottle (1)

Flash light

IPod (optional)

Book (optional)

Cell phone

Plastic bags (for wet clothes)

Camera (optional)

Ursa Mayor

Yesterday, with the students team we run Ursa Mayor and we found the well full of water! At the well a villager defied us to a 200 m. race, and who won? The good vibes that all we had: shoukran. Once we finished the work out, we were playing wellstone: a rustic basketball style where we proved how useless we would be as shepherds…

Although it was raining the path is dry and this time no dogs showed.

I love running cross country… On a track, I feel like a hamster

Hey Pam, thats not mine its from Robin Williams… Want more? Click here

New route: Mari’s Path-14 Km / 8.7 Miles circuit

(Click on the picture for large view)

Mari‘s Path:

Description
Distance:14 Km / 8.7 Miles
Surface: Dirt/Asphalt
Approximate time to run: 60-75 minutes
Other: wild dogs in some parts, but none are dangerous.
For an extended run, instead of cutting across the dirt towards campus in the last 2 kilometers, keep running straight to the Madaba highway, then turn right and follow the road all the way down to King’s Academy.
We reccomend that you run this route with someone who knows the course well (Mr. Patrick Dean, Ms. Lucy Michael, and myself) at least once before running it alone.

Magic Potion*

Trying to find the Asterix’s Potion Magic? Mix this now!

One orange juice
One lemon juice
6 soup-spoons of sugar
A little bit of sea salt (preferentially)
One liter of water

…and to mix it we propose Jump In Line (Shake, Shake Señora) by Harry Belafonte.

Far from be unpleasant, once you drink it: or you don’t go to the toilet (so you needed it) or you go; if it’s transparent: habibi your battery is fully charged!

*It has been scientifically proven that pass all antidoping tests. This post is not intended as a medical reference, consult your pediatrician.

Today Students Test!

Hi all, today we will run 3 LOKAs to test the endurance of the students who signed up for the race. Only 10 will be our heroes out of 24! The final team will be formed by 3 girls and 7 boys.

Good luck!

What: Dead2Red tryout 3 laps outside the Campus.
When: on Monday 9th
Where: meeting in front of the Admin. building
At what time: 3.30 pm sharp
Special needs: a sweater and water

New header

Hi all, I hope you like the new header. Are your trainers identified with the picture after your training?

Thank you Juman Tabbalat to borrow your trainers! I tryed to clean them after the fire and they just smell a little bit of gasoline. Shoukram!

Running GEAR: Trainers

Somebody ask me where to buy trainers. Firstly, if you need to change your trainers please do it ASAP, there is nothing worst than use new trainers to celebrate the event.

City Mall offers a good option, ka-ching! in Foot Locker. Any mall offers good options.

For low budgets your place, but not many options is American Close Out in Swefieh, (this is the waypoint for GoogleEarth 31°57’32.36″N / 35°51’59.04″E). Find it downstairs in the corner.

Also in Swefieh you have Sport Land, but if I don’t remember bad they offer for basketball and rappers. (Waypoint: 31°57’26.93″N / 35°51’55.19″E).

Hi World! First overseas visitor!

Our first overseas visitor from London, UK. Marhaba! come to Jordan to get your champagne!

More details at: STOTAN Visitor Locations (Roll the page down to see the countries)

Another circuit to run Ursa Major: 9.5 Km / 5.9 Miles

Hey! Mohammad and me were running on a straight line during 30′ (so 1 hour go and back). This is the Google Earth map with the circuit, and just to advise you about very scary dogs at the end of the track (a good reason to run by the way…). I call it Ursa Major if you close the KA perimeter, it should be the same distance.

Click on the picture to see it bigger; and here you have the UTM coordinates for the Well Waypoint in GoogleEarth (sorry, but I cannot upload a kmz doc):

Well:  31°47’4.79″N  /   35°50’14.57″E

Training Essentials

Hi all,

Below are some links that will help you enjoy your runs and will make you become a better runner. (For the full list of running tools, click here. We hope this will help.

Running Essentials (please try reading these links, as some of the information here will save you money, effort, and time by preventing you from falling into fatal running mistakes):

1-Foot Diagnostic- Learn your foot type

Running shoe basics

2-Running shoe finder

3-Stretching

4-Running form (watch video here)

5-Running injury diagnosis

6-Understanding the runner’s body

7- Common running mistakes

Other useful links:

Running humor

Staying motivated

Essential foods for runners 1

Essential foods for runners 2

Meal plans

Recipe finder

Free online training log

Smart Coach

Essentials for winter running

Find the right running clothes to wear for the current weather condition

Yoga for runner’s

Music for runner’s:

– Page 1

– Page 2

– Page 3

The pros and cons of running with music

The “Monster Month” plan

Lights and reflective gear for runners

Safety tips for running:

1- running in the cold: Page 1 / Page 2 / Page 3

2- running in the dark

3- general safety tips: Page 1 / Page 2

Training plans:

Since each runner will be running 24.4 kilometers, the best training plan to follow would be the half-marathon plan. However, you can also choose to create your own training plan using the “Smart Coach” tool (see “other tools”).

Runner’s world ultimate half-marathon training plan (with separate plans for beginners, intermediate, and advanced runners).

Ryan Hall’s training plan: Ryan Hall is an American Olympic marathoner. Following this training plan, Ryan became the American half-marathon record holder. In this training plan you can choose between a “short” program or a long program (use this quiz to determine which program will best suit you

Ryan Hall’s training plan

Where to run – LOKA 3.3 Km / 2 Miles

Ok, this page and category ‘WHERE TO RUN’ will help you to find tracks to run. One of the best options is what the Cross Country team called LOKA (Lap Outside King’s Academy). The outside perimeter of the campus starting and finishing at the main entrance is 3.3 Km (2 Miles). It should take between 15 to 20 minutes for one LOKA.

Bonjour! ¡Hola! !مرحبا Hello! Sok Sabaai! !שלום Ciao! Ahoj! байна уу! Kumustas! 你好! Hallo! Olá! γειά σας! こんにちは! Hej! Привет! Dia Dhiabh!…

Hi all, this is just a STOTAN welcome. This blog has been created to organize off campus events.