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LRCGalen Rupp Excited To Take On North America's Best Milers - 4 Takeaways From Friday's Men's Press Conference

LRC5 Takeaways From the Women's NBIGP Women's Presser

LRC Leo Manzano Reveals He’s Now Self-Coached, Hoping To Represent USA At 2014 World Indoors We flew up to Boston a day early and are glad we did as the pre-race press conference certainly was informative. Ryan Ponsonby is no longer coaching Leo, who is looking to hit it hard in indoors this year. Guess what he ran recently for 1k in practice?

• LRC Galen Rupp, Leo Manzano And Nick Willis Talk About Where They Keep Their Silver Medals
• LRC Jenny Simpson Talks About Genzebe Dibaba’s World Record And Her Own Fitness Prior To 2014 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Simpson thinks she’s in real good shape, but reveals she won’t be doing World Indoors.
  *RRW: Jenny Simpson Ready To Run Only 2014 Indoor Race In Boston Tomorrow
• LRC Mary Cain Talks About Alexa Efraimson And A Possible American Record In The 1,000 Tomorrow Cain reveals she’s willing to skip graduation to run, but not her AP exams.
• LRC Kim Conley Says She Won’t Do World Indoors, Is Focused On Running Fast 10,000 At Stanford
• LRC Emma Coburn Is Hoping To PR In Mile Next Week At Millrose
• Lots More Coming Later (Videos Uploading)

Two-Time World Champion Edna Kiplagat Isn’t Worried About Tirunesh Dibaba Making Her Debut At The London Marathon Kiplagat said, “It’s good we are having Tirunesh as a debutante but it will not be easy for her. Marathon is four times what she has been running, 10,000m. She has to make a lot of sacrifice to make sure she is going to handle the marathon.”

News From East Africa

• Geoffrey Mutai Wants To Prove His Boston 2:03 Was No Fluke When He Races In London 2014  The 2005 Helsinki World 5,000 champ Benjamin Limo said, “Mutai is a dangerous runner and his 2.03.02 should not be taken lightly. He is not happy being referred as the unofficial fastest runner over the distance and that is why I believe he’ll be out to upset everyone in London.”
• Two-Time World Marathon Champ Abel Kirui Talks About Bouncing Back From Injury At Tokyo This Month Kirui missed most of 2013 with a stress fracture but says his form is coming back around. Talking about Kenya’s poor performance at Worlds (their first runner was 9th), he actually said they should have spent more time in the AK training camps, advocating for 4 months there.
• Spikes-Mag: “10 things we love about Genzebe Dibaba” They point out she’s raced older sister Tirunesh Dibaba 5 times and never beat her.

Queens Of The Vault

• IAAF Q&A With Jenn Suhr, Who’s In Such Good Shape It’s Throwing Off Her Vault Because She’s Not Used To The Extra Speed/Strength She’s training in Colorado Springs this winter to avoid the harsh NY weather as she gets ready for World Indoors. She also talks about France’s Renaud Lavillenie and says she thinks he can get the WR this season.
• Yelena Isinbayeva To Return To Training In 2015 To Go For Gold #3 In 2016 She hopes to have children before Rio 2016 as well and unofficial reports earlier in the week were she was pregnant already.

Craig Virgin Calls For More Transparency With Supplements/TUEs

LRCRunning Legend Craig Virgin Calls For More Transparency Revealing The Medications And Supplements Athletes Are On: "In Sight It Must Be Right"

Kenyan News: Anti-Doping Task Force Is Broke

• Lost Cause: Kenyan Anti-Doping Task Force Appointed To Investigate Kenyan Doping Is Out Of Money And Won’t Finish It’s Report Apparently the government is refusing to give them any more money and according to this article they’re asking for $207,000.
• Amos Mitei Wins Nike Discovery Half Marathon In 62:49 Peris Chepchirchir won the women’s 10k in 31:53. Apparently one of the Mutais did poorly in the men’s race, finishing in 14th place (64:43), but based on the phrasing it’s unclear if it’s Geoffrey or Emmanuel.
• Good Blog Post: US Olympian Janet Bawcom Blogs About “Accidentally Racing” The Discovery Kenya 10k She did it as a hard workout and finished 11th in 34:27.
• Recap Of Kenyan Western Region XC Championships

• Lolo Jones Speaks Out About Bobsled Team Selection Controversy “I don’t know, just gotten to the point for some reason being popular … I don’t know how that comes across as being negative (or) how people will try to use that against you. Like, ‘She has too many Twitter followers, so now we hate her.’”
• Salty Running: What Would Your Favorite US Track Stars Be Doing If They Were In The Winter Olympics? See some funny photos of Kara Goucher curling, Shalane Flanagan on hockey skates and Mary Cain and Galen Rupp figure skating.
• List Of Top Former Track Stars That Are In Sochi For Men’s Bobsled Among the top sprinters are GB athletes Craig Pickering (10.14) and Joel Fearon (10.10).
• Sochi 2014 Found To Be Killing Stray Cats And Dogs Even Though They Had Promised Not To The owner of the company hired to kill the animals said, ”Dogs must be taken off the streets even if that means putting them to sleep. … Let’s call things by their real name. These dogs are biological trash.”
• Cool: Pieces Of Russian Meteorite To Be Given To Sochi 2014 Gold Medal Winners On Anniversary Of Meteorite’s Fall
• President Obama: “Sochi safe but I can’t discount the risks.”
• Australia To Restrict Movement Of Athletes During Sochi 2014 As Safety Precaution

Saturday’s US Track Action: Alexa Efraimson Breaks HS 3k Record *Results: *UW *Camel City *Penn State National *IU Relays *New Mexico *All Weekend NCAA Action

• LRC Alexa Efraimson Breaks Mary Cain’s High School And US Junior 3,000m Record With 9:00.16 High school junior and 16-year-old Alexa Efraimson came in 4th place in the 3,000m at the UW Invy, breaking Mary Cain‘s 9:02.10 record. We share a few quick thoughts on Efraimson’s extremely impressive run and tell you where it stacks up compared to Cain.
• Alexa Efraimson’s Coach Said He Wasn’t Surprised By Her 9:00 3k Record He thinks she has a chance of breaking 4:30 in her race against Mary Cain and other pros at the Millrose Games. For reference, Cain recently set a mile PR of 4:24.
• University Of Washington Invy: Lawi Lalang Destroys 3k Field With 7:44 Lalang won easily with Stanford freshman Sean McGorty 2nd (7:59) and Chris Solinsky a DNF. Luc Bruchet ran 3:57.71 to take down Evan Jager and Dan Huling as Alan Webb was way back in 4:03. Amanda Winslow ran 8:56 to win the 3K and Lauren Fleshman continues comeback from pregnancy with 4:42 in the mile for 2nd.
  *MB: Solinsky with another DNF
• Camel City Hilton Garden Invitational: Nick Symmonds Opens Season With 1:48.64 Victory Symmonds beat a field that included Brooks Beast TC teammates Mark Wiezorek (3rd) and Cas Loxsom (4th) as Heather Kampf ran 2:04.28 to beat Phoebe Wright by .01 and Maggie Vessey was 5th. Sara Vaughn won the mile in 4:35.07.

Un-American Quote Of The Day? Nick Symmonds Isn’t Going To Watch The Super Bowl “Apparently, it is called the ‘Super Bowl,’ and several hundred million people will sit down to watch it. I know I’m in the minority, but I must be honest: I couldn’t care less about this particular game or the sport of football in general.”

2016 Trials Go To LA *2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials Coverage

RRWLos Angeles To Host 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials