Quote Of The Day
– Galen Rupp speaking after the 2014 Bislett Games in Oslo about how you don’t need to be African to excel at distance running.
2014 NCAAs Start Wed. In Eugene *Live Results / Start Lists / Schedule *TV/Streaming Info *LRC Video Interviews *TFN’s Men’s Picks*TFN’s Women’s Picks *Event-By-Event “Info Sheets”
LRC 4-For-4! Edward Cheserek Runs 24.8 Last 200 To Blow Away Field In NCAA 10,000 Final King Cheserek waited until the final 250, but boy was it special as he remained undefeated for his life at NCAA champs.
*MB: Cheserek – 24.71 last 200!!! Wow!!!! (EOM)
LRC 1:45 Man Edward Kemboi Fails To Advance In 800; Favorites In Women’s 800, Steeple All Advance The favorites in men’s and women’s 800 and women’s steeple all looked great.
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More Oslo
- Jessica Judd On Sub-2: “I can’t quite believe it. I was petrified beforehand. It’s the first trip I’ve done on my own so it was a bit daunting.”
- Judd Hails Paula Radcliffe For Helping Her Through Injury Hell Judd slipped during the winter and fractured her sacrum.
- Ashton Eaton Makes History By Being First Victorious Decathlete At A Diamond League Meet Although it technically wasn’t one of the scored Diamond League events.
- Allyson Felix Continues Comeback With 200 Win However, her winning time of 22.73 was more than a second off her 21.69 PR and her main challenger Murielle Ahoure ran a horrible race finishing 5th.
- IAAF Recap: Sandra Perkovic And Renaud Lavillenie Stay Perfect
- IAAF: Novlene Williams-Mills And Kaliese Spencer Show Jamaican Style In Oslo
How Much Do The Non-Runners Of The Sporting World Run?
- Do You Think You Train As Hard As A World Cup Soccer Referee? Apparently They Run 6 To 8 Miles Per Game Just Doing Their Job They literally have to train with tempos, sprints and fartlek workouts to be able to keep up with the ball during the game.
- Interesting:Distance Run Per Game In Non-Track Sports Of the listed sports, soccer is the most at 7 miles. Baseball players on the other hand will cover .46 miles if that. Football receivers do about 1.25.
We’re Not Making This Up
- Tim McGraw Wears A Nike Oregon Project Shirt At A Concert In Ohio
A picture is certainly worth a thousand words in this case.
MB: Tim McGraw is a Rupp Fan?!?
Archive:Why Do Celebrities Like Tim McGraw And Hugh Jackman Lie About Using Steroids? - 91-Year-Old World Record Marathoner Underwent Radiation Treatment For Skin Cancer A Month Before Race She’s raised more than $90,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
- Commonwealth Games Is Already $365 Million Over Budget They are running into funding problems as they’ve already dipped into the “emergency fund” before they’ve started as costs have ballooned to $945 million.
Sprint News: VCB 100 WL, 22.80 For HSer Whitney, Gatlin 10.05
Veronica Campbell-Brown Runs World-Leading 10.86 100 In Florida- High School Sophomore Kaylin Whitney Runs #3 All-Time 200 (All-Conditions) With 22.80, Finishing 2nd To VCB Her slightly wind-aided time (2.1 m/s) puts her only behind Allyson Felix‘s 22.51 and Marion Jones‘ 22.67. She also ran a US-leading 11.30 100.
- Full Results From 2014 Star Athletics Sprint Meet In Clermont, FL: Justin Gatlin Wins 100 In 10.05
- US Sprinter Reggie Dixon Gets Doping Suspension For Missing 3 Out Of Competition Tests Dixon has a 10.21 100m PR and was second in the 60 at 2013 US Indoor Champs.
- Ariana Washington Wins 100/200 Double At California State Meet For 3rd Straight Year, Running 11.22 And 22.96
LRCHow Seven Olympians And 55 Other Pros Ended Up Racing At A High School Track Next To A Playground
A vision, cause and nearly $20,000 from Hoka One One go a long way in attracting stars.
LRCLeo Manzano Upset In Mile; Wins For Cas Loxsom, Dana Mecke, Violah Lagat And Amy Hastings At 2014 Adrian Martinez Classic
Talk about an upset. Eric Finan had a 4:04 PR coming in (including his converted 1,500 best) but chopped off 6 seconds and took down Manzano in the process. Plus Morgan Uceny came up just short of getting the outdoor world lead in the women's mile.
LRCMassachusetts High Schooler Garrett O'Toole Runs U.S. #1 4:01.89 Mile
The Princeton-bound O’Toole, a LetsRun.com message board poster, ran 58 over the last lap to move into the top 15 all-time in the HS ranks and come close to sub-4 on the 50th anniversary of Jim Ryun‘s first sub-4. We caught up with him after the race.
*MB: HSer Garrett O’toole runs 4:01.89
Pre Day 2 Photo Gallery Is Here*Prefontaine Day 1 Gallery (Galen Rupp American Record Here)
Emma Coburn
Anna Chicherova
Kirani James and Lashawn Merritt
The Olympic Stadium track will always bring fond memories for Manzano
Will Ndiku, shown here at Pre last year, have reason to celebrate on Friday?
Souleiman had reason to celebrate after a big win last year
Amos will look to repeat at Pre
Galen Rupp coming to you live on NBC
2014 IAAF Oslo – ExxonMobil Bislett Games Is Wed. *Results/Schedule/Entries*TV/Stream Info (2pm ET) *IAAF Full Preview
LRCEvan Jager Runs Boldly, Just Misses American Record In Steeplechase By .16Evan Jager bravely went out on the heels of the rabbit, on sub-8 pace. He ended up with a career-best 2nd place finish.
*MB:JAGER – 8:06.97
LRC Men’s 5,000: Galen Rupp’s AR Attempt Fails To Materialize As Yenew Alamirew Outkicks Caleb Ndiku For Win The field never went for a fast time, they went for the win as Rupp ended up 3rd.
*Galen Rupp Reaction After Running 13:03.35 For Third In Oslo: “There are no short-cuts in distance running.”
LRCMen’s Mile: Ayanleh Souleiman Notches Another DL Win As Nick Willis And Germany’s Homiyu Tesfaye Join The Sub-3:50 ClubAyanleh Souleiman held on for yet another victory as Nick Willis nearly went from last to first to get under 3:50 for the first time in his career. Matthew Centrowitz went in the other direction in this one.
*MB:Nick Willis 3:49.83 Welcome to the Sub 3:50 Club
LRC Women’s 800: Eunice Sum Keeps Her Undefeated Streak Going As Ajee Wilson Gets Season’s BestEunice Sum won her 11th straight, America’s Ajee Wilson had a great runner-up showing as Brenda Martinez struggled.
MB: OFFICIAL 2014 Oslo Diamond League Discussion Thread
*2014 Oslo Diamond League Video Highlights Bislett Games
More Day 1 NCAAs
- MB:Official 2014 NCAA Day 1 Live Discussion Thread Things have started awfully for Oregon as the Ducks dropped the baton in the 4 x 100 and then Annie LeBlanc failed to make 800 final.
- Oregon Women Try To Rebound After 4 X 100 Relay Disaster They misplaced their “go” marks for one of the exchanges and ended up DNFing with a missed baton pass.
- .2 m/s From Sub-10 Seconds: Baylor’s Trayvon Bromell Runs Barely Wind-Aided 9.92 In 100 Prelims
- Register Guard: Texas’ Two-Time Defending 400 Champ Ashley Spencer DNFs In 400 Heats, Phyllis Francis Comes Back From 4 X 100 Bobble To Make 400 Final Article doesn’t mention it, but Oregon almost had another disaster as Francis let up at the line and finished 3rd in her heat, but made it on time.
- VideoInterview With Oregon’s Robert Johnson On Team Points After Day 1
- Texas’ Ryan Crouser Wins NCAA Shot Put, But Hurts Foot On Final Throw He was on crutches in the mixed zone and said he was going for X-rays.
- Oregon’s Jenna Prandini Gets Oregon 10 Points By Winning Women’s LJ
- Princeton’s Julia Ratcliffe Wins NCAA Hammer Title
- Gator Fawn Miller Wins NCAA Javelin Tltle
2014 NCAAs Pre-Meet News/Previews
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3 Great Distance Athlete Profiles:
*Register-Guard: Edward Cheserek Anchors Oregon’s NCAA Title Hopes Profile piece that follows Cheserek from when he was a boy in Kenya who had to once run 60 miles to take his final exams to get a scholarship to go to school in the US.
*Shelby Houlihan Aiming To Become First ASU 1,500 Champ Houlihan deals with a hereditary blood disorder and says having constant trips to the hospital when she was younger gave her her mental strength and “toughness” now.
*Idaho Statesman: Emma Bates’ Coach, Cory Ihmels, Says She’s “Starting To Believe She’s Really Good” Bates has been putting in 80-90 mile weeks and her “big goal” is to win the 10K.
*Mac Fleet Eyeing 1,500 Repeat At NCAAs “I’m definitely not going out to get second or third.”
*Providence Sophomore Julian Oakley, Who Just Ran 3:58 Last Week And Beat Manzano, Only Started Running At Age 16 Somehow he was only 33rd in the East regional and isn’t at NCAA finals.
From Over The Pond
- Latest Sub-10-Second Brit Chijindu Ujah (9.96) Looking Forward To Having The Credentials To Actually Run In The Same Race As Usain Bolt The only time he’s met Bolt previously was when he took an “awkward selfie” with him in 2012.
- Score One For The Media?Glasgow 2014 Backs Down On Internent Charges For Media After Worldwide Protest They were going to charge a ridiculous $158 for wifi for journalists, but now they’ve cut it by 50% to $79. Still crazy and they’re still charging photographers $440. What if the media just decided not to go?
- GB Names Squad For European Team Championships: TJer Phillips Idowu A Surprise Inclusion Idowu had announced last year that he was taking a break from track for the “foreseeable future.” The team also includes Greg Rutherford, Adam Gemili and distance women Jenny Meadows, Hannah England, Kate Avery and Julia Bleasdale.
- 2:28 Scottish Marathoner Freya Ross Pulls Out Of Commonwealth Games With Injury
- Ireland’s 1:44 800 Man Mark English Looking For Coaching After Amicable Split With Longtime Coach Teresa McDaid
- Northern Ireland Names 14 Athletes For 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games
Sunday Distance Action: Lagat And Brenda Martinez At FBK Games, Mo Aman Wins Again And Josh McDougal Races For First Time Since 2009
FBK Games: Cornelius Kangogo Wins 3K In World-Leading 7:41.27, Beating Augustine Choge (7:41.57) And Bernard Lagat (7:41.94); Brenda Martinez Takes 800 In 1:59.24 The top 3 in the women’s 800 went sub-2 with Caster Semenya way back in 9th with 2:06.35. Kenya’s Robert Biwott won the 800 in 1:44.75, the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan won the 1,500 in 4:01.79 as GB’s Laura Muir was 2nd (4:02.91). Ashton Eaton ran a big PR of 49.07 in the 400H to finish 2nd to Worlds silver medalist Javier Culson (48.66).
*British Sprinter Chijindu Ujah Runs 9.96 Seconds To Become Only The 5th Brit To Crack The 10-Second 100 Barrier He finished 2nd in this race, losing to Trinidad and Tobago’s Richard Thompson (9.95) and now ranks 3rd on the all-time British list.
*Full Results- Bohdan Bondarenko Breaks African All-Comers HJ Record And Misses In 3 Attempts At WR In Morocco He cleared 2.39 to beat Russia’s Ivan Ukhov (2.33). In distance action, Dawit Seyaum PRed by almost 10 seconds and set an Ethiopian Jr. record to win the 1,500 in 3:59.53, Mohammed Aman beat Abubaker Kaki by .03 to win in 1:45.58 as Erik Sowinski was 5th (1:46.95). Lolo Jones won the 100H (12.74) over Kristi Castlin (2nd) and Kellie Wells (6th). *Full Results
- Full Results From 2014 Music City Distance Carnival: Josh McDougal Makes Comeback To Racing With 4:10 Mile McDougal was 4th in his heat while the fast section was won by Nate Brannen in 3:55.65 over Cory Leslie (3:57.20). Natoya Goule won the 800 (2:01.29), Nicole Bush the steeple (9:34.76) and Christy Cazzola the women’s mile (4:36.99).
*MB: Josh McDougal comeback? Coach Steve Magness?
NCAAs On The Boards
Farah Will Do 2 Events At Glasgow 2014
Non-NCAA Weekend Action: adidas GP, NBNO, NY Mini 10K
- 4:01 Miler Garrett O’Toole Leads LOADED adidas Grand Prix Boys’ Dream Mile
We’re not sure if we agree with meet organizers when they say O’Toole (4:01.81) leads this field as it’s loaded – 5 US #1s are in the field, including Blake Haney (8:46.80), Ricky Faure (1:48.14) and Foot Locker champ Grant Fisher.
*LRC Article On O’Toole’s 4:01 At The Adrian Martinez Classic Last Week
- Saturday’s NYRR New York Mini 10K Puts Defending Champ Mamitu Daska Up Against Linet Masai And A Deep American Field Top Americans included Molly Huddle, Desi Linden, Amy Hastings, Lauren Fleshman, Annie Bersagel, Amy Van Alstine and Deena Kastor. UK’s Gemma Steel and Ethiopia’s Bronx local Buzunesh Deba are also in the race.
- Girls’ Dream Mile At adidas GP Led By Stephanie Jenks As Alexa Efraimson Is In The Pro 1,500 Race And Elise Cranny Has Pulled Out
- Entries For This Weekend’s New Balance Nationals Outdoors
*Live Webcast – Fri. 10AM ET, Sat. 9:15AM, Sun. 8AM*Meet Schedule *Results*Meet Home
Josh McDougal On The Comeback Trail
Recommended Read: Josh McDougal Blogs About His Comeback From 7 Years Of Injury, Which Got Going Sunday Night With A 4:10 Mile At The Music City Distance Carnival “… We felt there was no better way to start back than jumping in head first. Would it be pretty? … Probably not! But all new stories have to begin somewhere.”
*MB: Josh McDougal comeback? Coach Steve Magness?
Kenya Names Its Commonwealth Games Team: No Kiprop Or Kiplagat
Kenya Names Its Team For Commonwealth Games As Trials End With Slew Of UpsetsJoseph Kitur was a surprise winner in the 5,000, beating a field that included Isaiah Koech and Caleb Ndiku. Ronald Kipkemboi won the 1,500 in 3:34.6 as Asbel Kiprop was a DNF. Eunice Sum beat out Janeth Jepkosgei (2:01.5 to 2:01.8). Hellen Obiri won the 1,500 in 4:04.8 as World Jr XC champ Faith Kipyegon was 3rd (4:05.4). Mercy Cherono took the 5,000 (15:19.1). Purity Kirui won the steeple over world silver medalist Lydia Chepkirui.- David Rudisha And Ezekiel Kemboi Get Kenyan Commonwealth Games Wild Card Spots Neither competed at the trials. Asbel Kiprop and Silas Kiplagat are not on the team as Kiplagat didn’t compete.
- Kiprop On DNF: “My body was tired and after the bell, I felt a slight strain in my left calf and decided not to risk further damage. I’m disappointed …”
- Road News: Goeffrey Kipsang Wins Mattoni Ceske Budejovice Half Marathon In The Czech Republic In 60:09
Men’s Doping Poll Results *World Record Doping Polls*Female Stars Doping Poll
LRCWho Do You Think Is “Dirty”? Who Do You Think Is “Clean”? Male Track And Field Stars Doping Poll Results What 3 US-based stars have 50% more speculation than virtually everyone else?
*MB:LRC Male Stars “Clean” or “Dirty” Doping Poll Results
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