Falmouth And The Fastest 3k For 7 Years

• NCAA 10,000 Champ Ben Flanagan Becomes First North American Man To Win The Falmouth Road Race In 30 Years Flanagan beat Scott Fauble by 2 seconds as Olympian Leonard Korir was another 5 seconds back in 3rd and Stephen Sambu 4th. On the women’s side, Kenya’s Caroline Chepkoech got her third consecutive victory, dominating by almost a minute. *Results
• World Indoor Champion Yomif Kejelcha Runs 7:28.00 For 3,000m At The Goteborg In Sweden It was the fastest time in the world since 2011. Sweden’s Andreas Kramer ran 1:45.23 to win the 800, just missing his national record of 1:45.03. Russia’s Olympic/World HJ champ Mariya Lasitskene won in 1.97m. *Full Results *Discuss
• Craig Engels (3:58.88) And Rachel Schneider (4:27.23) Win Falmouth Mile Josh Kerr did most of the early leading, but Engels surged from midpack to blow by him and Ben Blankenship in the final straight. So did Cristian Soratos to take runner-up in 3:59.19. Schneider won a close race with Helen Schlachtenhaufen, who fell at the line and got up just in time to take 2nd. *Results *Discuss
• Rob Krar And Katie Arnold Win Leadville Trail 100 Mile Run Krar won the notoriously difficult ultra for a second time, finishing more than an hour ahead of second place.
• David Angell (15:45) And Laurie Knowles (17:29) Win USATF Masters Road 5k Championships

Upcoming Action

• Sunday: Mo Farah Going For A Fifth Successive Great North Run Half-Marathon Title Farah won last year in 60:06.
• August 30/31: With Qualifications Now Concluded, IAAF Diamond League Final Fields Taking Shape The DL finals are on August 30th in Zurich and August 31st in Brussels. Some highlights will be Noah Lyles vs World champ Ramil Guliyev in the 200m and Mondo Duplantis vs Renaud Lavillenie in the PV.
• September 8-9: African Team Named For IAAF Continental Cup In Ostrava Nijel Amos and Emmanuel Korir in the 800, Elijah Manangoi in the 1500, Hellen Obiri in the 3000 and Caster Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba in the women’s 800.
• Trophy For Continental Cup Unveiled Looks like a bowl of candy. *European Athletics: Each Member Of The Winning Team Will Get Their Own Piece Of The Trophy It’s a pretty cool/unique design.

NCAA News

• Attorney General Of New Mexico Says It Will Take University Of New Mexico To Court Over Elimination Of Four Sports They are accused of violating state laws on open meetings and are being asked to reconsider the decision or face court action.
  *MB: New Mexico to cut athletic programs
  *MB: University is New Mexico Track/XC still alive, but forced to reduce track/XC roster size
• MB: Head Coach Al Cantello To Retire At End Of August After 55 Years At Navy
• Colorado State University’s Newly Renovated Track No Longer Open To The Public Or Non-Track Athlete Students Apparently there was issues with homeless people sleeping there and the track being too crowded during practice. Sounds like an obvious solution would be to lock it at night and block access during practice hours?
• MB: What D1 programs should be great but aren’t?
• MB: Preseason NCAA D1 Men’s Cross Country Podium Picks

Week That Was

LRC Week That Was: A 17-Year-Old Is Dominating Europe, Everyone Is Medaling In North America, And What Is The Real American 1,500 Record? A look back at an interesting week in the track and field world.

Sprint Stuff

• Good Read: You Can’t Say He Isn’t Entertaining: Noah Lyles Believes He Can Run 9.41 Seconds For 100m Lyles also talks about “transcending the sport” and says he’s had a lot of kids come up to him and saying they’ve only heard his rap songs, but not seen him run.
• Reuters: Christian Coleman Ready For A Bright End To A Rough Season In Birmingham Coleman didn’t have much of a season as he was dealing with hamstring injury, but the 9.98 he ran for the win in Rabat shows he’s at least in a place to challenge Noah Lyles.
• The Guardian: “Sprinting Needs Another Hero And Noah Lyles Puts Up His Hand” Lyles says he’s sad he didn’t get to race against Usain Bolt at least once before he retired.

African News

• Ethiopia’s Olympic Marathon Silver Medalist Feyisa Lilesa Invited Home After Reformist Prime Minister Takes Power Lilesa has been in self-imposed exile since he held up his arms in protest of the Ethiopian government when he crossed the finish line at Rio 2016. *2nd Article
• Recommended Read: The Guardian: “Why Ethiopia’s Running Success Is About More Than Poverty And Altitude” A UK writer talks about his training adventures in Ethiopia which included things like 3AM hill repeats and six hour round-trips by bus. A good read, but he is discounting the genetic factor when he says Brits could have similar distance success if they trained like the Ethiopians did.
  *MB: Guardian article on Ethiopian Training Philosophy
• Emmanuel Korir Believes He Can Break David Rudisha’s 1:40.91 World Record And Even Go Sub-1:40 Korir is also already thinking ahead to 2019 Worlds: “I can’t go and sleep even after the season ends. I have to work harder to be ready for Doha. It is a title that I long for …”
• Video: Olympic 400m Champion Wayde Van Niekerk Recounts The Race Of His Life When He Broke The WR At Rio 2016
• Athletes Eulogise Nicholas Bett At His Burial Asbel Kiprop was among those to say some words.
• Top Three Moments From The History Of The Birmingham Diamond League The list includes Kenya’s former javelin World champ Julius Yego‘s 91.39m African and Diamond League record.

News From Kenya

• Daily Nation: Tears As Athletes And Family Pay Their Final Respects To Former World 400H Champ Nicholas Bett Among those who came to pay their respects were Eliud Kipchoge, Asbel Kiprop, former 800m world champions Janet Jepkosgei and Eunice Sum, Sally Kipyego, Augustine Choge and others.
• Athletics Kenya Not Happy With Team Chosen For Continental Cup By Confederation Of Africa Athletics (CAA) They weren’t happy that only 9 Kenyans were chosen for the team despite Kenya topping the medal standings (with 11 golds) at the recent African Championships.
• Gladys Cherono Won’t Give Up Her Berlin Marathon Title Without A Fight Cherono knows she’s up against tough competition with Tirunesh Dibaba and Edna Kiplagat in the field, but she’s still determined to get Berlin title #3.

Upcoming Diamond League Action

• August 18: Laura Muir And Katarina Johnson-Thompson Lead 14 European Medal-Winning Brits At The Birmingham Diamond League Muir is going to try go break Kelly Holmes‘ 21-year-old 2:32.55 UK 1000m record. The 1,500 will have Caster Semenya vs. Sifan Hassan.
  *Birmingham Provisional Entry Lists
• August 30: Noah Lyles Vs. World Champ Ramil Guliyev Over 200m

The European Ingebrigsten Champsionships

Saturday: LRC Final: The Best Distance Runner In Europe Is 17 Years Old: Jakob Ingebrigtsen Runs 54.09 Final Lap To Complete Euro 1,500/5,000 Double Jakob took the lead with 1k to go and never gave it up, cruising home to win in a PR of 13:17.06. Brother Henrik got the silver.

LRC 17-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigtsen Wins European 1,500m!!! There was only one Ingebrigtsen on the medal stand – the youngest one, Jakob, with the gold. *IAAF

• On The Boards: MB: Jakob MF Ingebrigtsen X 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 54.09 Final lap to dust field in 5000
• MB: What will Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s 1500 and 5000 PRs be at the end of his career?
• MB: Jakob ingebrigtsen… FOR THE WINNN!!!!
  
• MB: Jakob: This is ridiculous, I should do well in the 5 k tomorrow
• MB: Getting ready for Friday’s European 1500 men’s final – Can the Ingebrigtsens sweep? Who has the edge?

The Inside Scoop / Coverage From Norway (Translated)

• The Ingebrgitsens’ Father Says It Has Been Very Hard To Be Both Their Father And Coach Apparently, their main rule is the kids come up with the goals and the dad figures out a plan for them to achieve them.
• Norwegian Journalist Raves About The Amazing Ride The Ingebrigtsens Have Given Him During The Last 6 Years 6 years ago, Henrik had so little funding he couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel in Flagstaff and had to sleep on a couch.
• Dad/Coach Left Tactics Up To The Brothers But Is Stunned That Jakob Won, Saying It Was The Least Likely Scenario
  
• Dad Says Jakob Will Celebrate 1,500 Gold With A Warm Glass Of Milk
  
• Filip Ingebrigtsen Said He Knew Early On He Didn’t Have It But Wanted To Maintain His Good Position To Help His Brother He thinks if he was his normal self, the brothers would have swept the medals as he ended up boxing in Henrik who was following behind him.
• Filip Ingebrigtesn Withdrew FromWith 5k Final With Back Injury

More Coverage

• Filip And Henrik Ingebrigtsen Bask In Jakob’s 1,500m Success In Berlin Filip: “I told him he deserved it because he has been working every day since he was nine or 10 for this.”
• Reuters: Oh Brother! Jakob Ingebrigtsen Beats Sibling For Historic Win It was also a good day for the Borlee twins as Kevin and Jonathan won silver and bronze in the 400.

Improved 2018 BOA Chicago Marathon Elite Fields Released

LRC Analysis Props To Chicago: Galen Rupp Will Battle Strong International Field As He Tries To Repeat At Chicago Marathon The international fields for the 2018 Chicago Marathon are out and this year we have no fears about whether Chicago is being watered down to ensure a victory by Galen Rupp. If Rupp is to defend his crown, he’ll have to defeat the winners of the following marathons in 2018: Dubai, Tokyo, Rotterdam, Paris and Boston. The American hopefuls on the women’s side, Jordan Hasay and Amy Cragg, also face increased competition as well.
*MB: 2018 Chicago Marathon elite fields are out and both are much improved from 2017 – Can Galen Rupp repeat?

• Toni Reavis Is Upset That 2018 Chicago Field Is So Good He wants to see a Mo Farah vs. Galen Rupp grudge match.
  
• Jordan Hasay Doesn’t Just Want To Win Chicago, She Wants To Run Fast “This year, I’ll definitely be trying to shoot for the win, but also trying to run fast. That American record is definitely in my sights.”