–Emily Sisson talking about her goals for Sunday’s Aramco Houston Half Marathon.
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2019 London Marathon Fields Are Released And Are Unreal – Greatest Women’s Field In History The women’s field has to be the greatest in history as it includes 7 sub-2:20 women, including the reigning champs of Dubai, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York. It also includes Americans Molly Huddle, Emily Sisson and Allie Kieffer. The men’s field isn’t too shabby either as it includes the top 5 of our 2018 world rankings and is of course led by the GOAT – Eliud Kipchoge.
LRC Analysis The Greatest Women’s Marathon Field Ever, Is This Molly Huddle’s Last Chance To Run A Fast Time, & More Thoughts On The 2019 London Marathon Jonathan Gault also breaks down Chris Derrick‘s sub-2:10 and says that Eliud Kipchoge will slow down, eventually.
LRC WTW: Young Guns Ready To Replace Mo Farah, Three Sub-2:10 Marathoners At 1 Japanese High School, Canadian 5k Record Destroyed Some fast times have been produced the last couple of weeks with the Ethiopian 10k road records falling along with the NCAA 1k for women. Updated with improved 1k to 800 conversions.
*Discuss: 1 Japanese High School Coach Has Produced More Current Sub 2:10 Marathoners Than All of the United States
WADA Confirms Data Extraction From Moscow Lab Still Proceeding, But Admits Process Is Taking Longer Than Expected A WADA spokesperson said, “The quantity and complexity of the data, as well as the fact the servers and hard drives being accessed are not all brand new, means it is simply taking longer than originally anticipated.”
The Vatican Launches Their Own Track Team With An Eye On The Olympics The 60-person team includes priests, nuns, workers and a 62-year-old librarian. The team’s president says they dream of seeing the Holy See flag flying at the Olympic Games.
February 3: Defending Champions Betsy Saina And Edward Waweru (60:31) Return To The Kagawa Marugame International Half Marathon, But Not Necessarily As The Favorites Mao Ichiyama (69:14) has the fastest PR in the women’s race; Sara Hall is also in the field. World marathon champ Geoffrey Kirui highlights the men’s field that has five sub-61 minute men.
January 25: Former Champions Lemi Berhanu (2:04:33) And Worknesh Degefa (2:19:53) Returning To The Dubai Marathon Berhanu won in 2015 and Degefa in 2017.
LRC Olympic 1,500m Champion Matthew Centrowitz To Be Coached By Jerry Schumacher, Will Train With Bowerman Track Club The rivalry between Alberto Salazar and Jerry Schumacher just got a little more interesting as one of NOP’s most successful athletes – who also happens to be the reigning Olympic champion – has traded in the skull of NOP for the red and black of Bowerman.
*MB: Centro to Bowerman!?
It’s Official: Matt Centrowitz Announces He’s Joined The Bowerman Track Club Part of Centro’s statement read, “At this time I would like to thank Alberto and the Nike Oregon Project for everything they have done for me over the past six years … I please ask you all to be respectful to me and both groups with my decision at this time.”
LRC Floyd Landis On Life After Cycling, Runners Vs. Cyclists, CBD Products, Running A Business, And Donald Trump Landis shares some of the secrets he’s learned from his crazy life in part 2 of our recap of our talk with him. From a Mennonite upbringing, to crossing the line at the Tour first, to a doping suspension, denial, depression, and now fatherhood and a successful new business, Floyd has seen a lot.
Miss Part I? Part 1: Is There Any Hope For Anti-Doping? Floyd Talks Doping Then, Now And What Can Be Done Landis is one of the most notorious dopers in American sport, and the man who helped bring out the truth about Lance Armstrong. He’s got a lot of interesting things to say.
RRW Emily Sisson Has Her Eyes on Molly Huddle’s American Half Marathon Record at Sunday’s At Aramco Houston Half-Marathon Sisson: “I’m going to take that as a compliment that (Molly) thinks I’m fit and ready to run fast.”
LRC 2019 Podcast #1: Houston Half Preview + LRC Answers The The Big Questions Ahead Of 2019 Season + Listener Audio & Fake Ryan Hall The LRC crew unveils its first podcast of 2019 and takes a look ahead at 2019, plus the great action at this weekend’s Aramco Houston Half, and for the first time has listener audio with some real and fake guests, and the threads of the week. Updated with time stamps.
*Discuss: Texas Runner Girl, Fake Ryan Hall and Fake Mike Rossi Joined Us on Our Podcast
LRC 2019 Houston Half/Full Marathon Preview: Hot Fields, Cold Temps, The American Debut For Sally Kipyego And The Return Of Kara Goucher Houston is always one of the highlights of the winter for US fans and this year’s races could be extra special as Olympic silver medalist Sally Kipyego races for the 1st time since declaring she’ll represent the US moving forward and Kara Goucher races a marathon for the 1st time as a 40-year-old.
LRC Parker Stinson Heads To The Houston Half Marathon With A New Coach: Dathan Ritzenhein Stinson and Ritzenhein have a relationship that stretches back a decade. They try not to worry about the fact that, should all go well, they’ll be racing each other for an Olympic berth next year.
Penn State’s Danae Rivers Crushes Collegiate 1,000m Record With 2:38.58 At The Nittany Lion Challenge The previous record was 2:40.79 set by Kaela Edwards in 2017.
Former Commonwealth 10,000m Champ Lucy Kabuu (2:19:34 Marathon PR) Gets Two-Year Drug Ban After Testing Positive For Morphine Athletics Kenya chairman Jackson Tuwei has claimed that from now on any Kenyan who has served a doping ban will not be able to represent the country internationally (effectively giving a lifetime ban).
Yomif Kejelcha Runs 3:52.61 Mile And Defeats Clayton Murphy Over 1,000m To Highlight UW Indoor Preview Kejelcha dominated the mile and beat out Murphy in the 1,000m 2:18.34 to 2:18.64. Shannon Rowbury ran her first track race since giving birth with a 9:03.00 in the 3,000 behind winner Eleanor Fulton (9:02.84). Konstanze Klosterhalfen won the 1,000 (2:43.07) and the mile (4:29.06) in her first races for NOP. Craig Engels ran 7:50.79 to defeat Brooks Beasts’ Dillon Maggard (7:51.84), and Josh Kerr took the 800 (1:49.61).
Former Georgia All-American Tara Davis Transfers To Texas Davis will have to sit out the 2019-2020 track season as she wasn’t released by Georgia. It was a bit of a strange process as Davis’ former Georgia coach, tweeted that she was transferring to Texas before it was official and Davis posted a response video saying how that had negatively affected her.
LRC The Olympic Trials Course Is Here And Here’s What You Need To Know About It – With Elevation Chart It’s a loop course and we’ve got an unofficial elevation chart.
*Runner’s World Says That As Hilly As The Olympic Trials Marathon Course Is, It’s Not As Hilly As It Was Originally Designed They also point out how already 140 men and 262 women have qualified for the Trials and there is still a year to go.
The Pre Classic Is Relocating To Stanford For 2019 Hayward Field will still be under construction, so the USA’s only Diamond League meet will be at Stanford for this year on June 30th.
Athletics Weekly: Why Mo Farah Can Beat Eliud Kipchoge Kipchoge has won 10 out of the 11 marathons he’s run, but assuming he doesn’t retire, he’ll have to lose one day. But that day probably won’t be this April.
World Record Holder Eliud Kipchoge Will Return To Defend His Title At The 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon This means that Kipchoge will race against the previously-announced Mo Farah. The London event director Hugh Brasher says, “Everyone has been talking about another head-to-head between Mo and Eliud … I cannot wait to see who comes out on top.”
World Junior 10,000 Champ Rhonex Kipruto And World 5,000 Champ Hellen Obiri Dominate Juan Muguerza XC Race In Spain Kipruto beat out 12:43-man Selemon Barega by 22 seconds while Obiri won by 20 seconds as Uganda’s Commonwealth Games 10,000 champ Stella Chesang was 2nd, steeplechase WR holder Beatrice Chepkoech 3rd and three-time Euro XC champ Yasemin Can 4th.LRC Analysis Breaking Down The 2019 Boston Marathon International Field, Plus What Does The Addition Of Sally Kipyego Mean To The US Field? The Boston field is out and we help make sense of it all.
*MB: 2019 Boston Marathon Elite Field Is Released – 5 Sub-2:05 men, 4 Sub-2:20 women will battle + AMERICAN Sally Kipyego.
John Hancock Announces 2019 Boston Marathon International Elite Field – Sally Kipyego Will Make Her Debut For America The race for top American honors (and the battle for the 2020 US Olympic team) just got more interesting with the addition of Sally Kipyego, who will run for the US for the 1st time. In addition to Kipyego, previously announced defending champions Yuki Kawauchi and Des Linden are joined by World champ Geoffrey Kirui, NYC champ Lelisa Desisa, and sub-2:20 women Edna Kiplagat and Aselefech Mergia. Other notables include former Boston champions Lemi Berhanu, 2:04 man Lawrence Cherono, 2015 World champ Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, 2015 World champ Mare Dibaba and 2:19 woman Worknesh Degefa.
Better Late Than Never? Russia Says WADA Team Will Return To Moscow For The Required Data On January 9th On this, USADA head Travis Tygart said, “We are all holding our breath as to how this one will end … whether WADA will be finally given the data on the roughly 9,000 presumptive positive tests results on over 4,000 Russian athletes that hopefully have not been destroyed.”LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”
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