Quote Of The Day

"Boston is a war of attrition. You have to run really smart. It doesn't really start until 21 miles at the top of the hills."

"I'm just glad I'm American as the crowd really pushed me. They really supported me and helped with my performance today."

- Un-sponsored American Jason Hartmann after moving from 9th at 35k to finish 4th in Boston for the second straight year. We celebrate Hartmann and all of the fine pro performances a week after the fact, as due to the bombings we only gave a cursory coverage of the race last week.

We Celebrate The 2013 Boston Marathon's Pro Race A Week After The Fact *Top 25 Results *Boston Photos *Boston Pre-Race Photos

Women's Race Recap & Analysis
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The Seven-Year Itch Is Met: Rita Jeptoo Closes Hard To Win Her Second Title Hometown favorite Shalane Flanagan closed hard but not fast enough to give the US its first win since 1985.


LRC Shalane Flanagan And Kara Goucher On The Beauty And Emotion Of The Boston Marathon Even before the bombings, emotions were running high for Goucher and Flanagan. We talk about their tears, the pro-American crowd and media, the incredile Joan Benoit Samuelson and even what Kara and Shalane do when there isn't time to go to the Porta Potty but a race you've trained a lifetime for is about to start.

Boston Bombing News

More Sad News: University Of Buffalo Track Athlete Found Dead In His Apartment

Pre Classic Will Feature Women's 400H With Olympic Champ Natalya Antyukh And World Champ (London Silver) Lashinda Demus Also in the field is the 2012 bronze medalist Zuzana Hejnova and the woman ranked #1 in 2012 by T&F News, Kaliese Spencer.

Running USA Releases National Survey Results On Demographics/Stats Of "Core Runners" Some interesting stats including motivation for running and most popular race distance (half-marathon).

The Virgin London Marathon - The World's Most Competitive - Was Sunday *Top Results LRC: Photo Gallery

Women's Race: LRC Priscah Jeptoo Finishes First In Women's London Marathon Marred By Wheelchair Collision Jeptoo was very special over the second half, but the race was marred by the fact that Olympic champ Tiki Gelana was wiped out from behind in a horrific collision with a wheelchair racer.
*Top Results LRC: Photo Gallery

More London: *
Video Of Wheelchair Collision
Good News:
Wheelchair Racers May Start Before Professional Women Next Year
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Joe Cassidy (Wheelchair Racer Who Hit Gelana): "One of these years a woman is going to have a leg broken, a career ruined."
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London Honors The Victims In Boston
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Some Are Selling Boston Memorabilia On EBay And Giving Proceeds To Charity

Recommended Read: Paula Radcliffe And Her Husband Reflect On Her 2:15:25 Marathon WR, Which She Ran At London 10 Years Ago Her physio at the time, Gerard Hartmann, says she has the highest pain tolerance of anyone he'd ever worked with. "She would hurt me rather than me hurt her. She would actually break me down because I'd have to go so deep into the sinews, I would have to ice my thumbs afterwards I was in such pain."

Kansas Relays

Pre Race London

More Boston News

Bolt Will Definitely Be At London Anniversary Games

Yohan Blake Out For Up To 6 Weeks With Hamstring Injury The injury occurred during the UTech Classic meet where Blake DNFed, grabbing his right hamstring.

The 117th Boston Marathon *Top 25 Results *Boston Photos *Boston Pre-Race Photos

LRC Top 25 Boston Results: Rita Jeptoo And Lelisa Desisa Win The action was exciting as Portugal's Anna Dulce Felix was reeled in after having a 1+ minute lead at 35k. The men's race ended up being a 3-way sprint for home between Gebre Gebremariam, debutante Micah Kogo, and Desisa. Shalane Flanagan and Jason Hartmann led the American charge with 4th-place finishes. The American men, thanks to Daniel Tapia and Craig Leon, place 3 in the top 10!

Race Recaps/News:

We Celebrate The 2013 Boston Marathon's Pro Race A Week After The Fact *Top 25 Results *Boston Photos *Boston Pre-Race Photos

Men's Race Recap & Analysis
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2013 Boston Marathon Men's Race: Lelisa Desisa Wins 3-Way Kick For Title And Remains Undefeated At The 26.2 Distance The race ended up being a fan and promoter's dream - a 3-way kick between 3 big names for the title. Since the local CBS station went to commercial, we hype up the finish for you and ask if marathoning has a new #1 in Desisa? John Kellogg explains to you why the times were slow (2:10:22 FTW) and we point out how the slowest guy won the kick and just how special our predictions were. Plus Jason Hartmann (4th), Daniel Tapia (9th)Craig Leon (10th) and Rob Watson (11th) meant four North Americans in the top 11.

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Long-Time Track And Field Official Tommy Meagher Reacts Heroically To Boston Marathon Bombings Many of you certainly recognize Meagher - who in many ways is the "face" of running in New England. He passed the guts test with flying colors.

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LetsRun.com Visitor Will Brown Talks About The 2013 Boston Marathon Terrorist Attacks The 60-year-old marathoner was just 2.5 blocks away and says "it was the biggest sound" he'd ever heard - so loud he "thought it was possibly a plane crash."

More Post London News

The Virgin London Marathon *Top Results

Men's Race LRC Marathon Gods 1, Distance Runners 0: World And Course Record Attempts Disintegrated As Everyone Bonked After A Crazy-Fast First Half The totally loaded men's field tried to live up to hype as they went out on WR pace, but in the end it proved to be a destructive pace. Course record holder Emmanuel Mutai had a 28-second lead at 40km but ended up losing by 29 seconds as three different people had the lead in the last 4 miles. In the end, Ethiopia's Tsegaye Kebede was the winner.
LRC: What Happened to World Record Patrick Makau? He Didn't Stay With Leaders for 10k
*Top Results
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Imagine if a in-form Ryan Hall had run London this year...
LRC: Photo Gallery

More London Men: *Side Stitch May Have Helped Kebede Come From Behind To Victory Independent
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Mo Farah Will Run Full London Marathon In 2014
*Editorial: Half A Mo Better Than No Mo Telegraph


Hamburg: 2003 5,000 World Champ Eliud Kipchoge Wins Debut In 2:05:30 The fastest marathon of the weekend.
*MB: HAMBURG MARATHON LIVE - ELIUD KIPCHOGE DEBUT

Weekend Track Action *Mt. SAC Saturday Results *Thursday/Friday *All College Weekend Meet Info/Results

RIP Sean Collier *One Fund Boston Charity

The Horror In Boston *Channel 7 News Update (Video) *Video Of Explosion *CNN Photos (Warning: Some Intense Images) *Boston Race Photos

Eventually, They Get Caught Did USADA Waste Its Time?

MB: 2004 Olympic 200 Champ Shawn Crawford Gets 2-Year Doping Ban It's not a surprise that Crawford, who worked with Trevor Graham but was never busted, is now out for 2 years for missing 3 drug tests. However, Crawford supposedly retired last year. Crawford should have notified USADA so as not to blemish his record and then USADA wouldn't have to waste its resources on this. *WADA Statement *More

Today In Des Moines: Leo Manzano And Shannon Rowbury Headline Fields For US 1 Mile Road Championships Hosted At Grand Blue Mile Manzano will face a stacked field including Will Leer, Matt Tegenkamp, Miles Batty, Craig Miller, Garrett Heath, Ryan Martin and Jeff See. Rowbury is up against Alice Schmidt, Geena Gall, Christin Wurth-Thomas and Gabrielle Anderson.

This Weekend: Webb & Solinsky running Stanford 5k on 28th

Questions On The Boards

Jamaican Sprinting News

More News From The Weekend

Blue Collar/ Inspirational Runner Of The Week

LRC Meet Conner Paez: "Please don't cut off my leg. Please just don't amputate my leg. I can't lose my leg. I need to run." Two years ago, Conner Paez was on top of the world as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania (8:16, 14:18). Then his life turned in a second as he was broadsided by a car while on his motor bike. The injuries were bad, very bad. He almost lost his leg, then some toes. Doctors told him he'd never compete again. What's he doing this weekend? Competing again.

Prince Harry And Richard Branson In London (Flash Gallery, More Coming)

Non-London Weekend Road Action

MB Haile Gebrselassie: Happy 40th Birthday!

On 40th BDay - Haile Recaps His 5 Favorite Races And His Biggest Racing Regret Haile's favorite race? The Sydney 10k. His one regret? No Olympic gold in the marathon.
*10 Of Haile's Greatest Races

Boston Marathon Race Photos

2013 BAA Mile And 5,000 Photos

Carlsbad Photo Gallery

2,000+ World Cross-Country Photos Now Up

Thank you, Mike Scott.

Learn From The Pros

LRC Ten Training Tips From Bernard Lagat, Dathan Ritzenhein And Abdi Abdirahman The American men took center stage at the NYC Half on Thursday. You can watch video interviews with the top American men (Lagat here, Ritz here and Abdi here) and we will have more on their race preparations on Friday, but in the meantime we compiled ten training tips from Bernard, Dathan, and Abdi that you can use in your own training.

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