Week That Was

WTWZane Robertson = Ryan Hall, Alberto Salazar= Bill Belichick, Mo Farah = His Twin Brother, Will Claye ≠ Canadian

• IAAF Says That The Doping Bans Of Russians Yuliya Zaripova And Tatyana Chernova Are “Illustrations Of The Robustness Of The IAAF Anti-Doping Program” The IAAF says they won’t comment on the sanctions until they receive the full decision from RUSADA.
• Infographic By The The Huffington Post: All The Olympic Athletes Who Lost Medals For Doping Since 1968 Doesn’t include the most recently banned like Russian steepler Zaripova.
• Other Sports Publicly Try To Find Doping Loopholes:South Korean Top Officials Actually Met To Discuss A Strategy To Help Their Top Swimmer Avoid A Doping Suspension That Will Keep Him Out Of Rio 2016

Armory Special Section*Results

LRC What A Day For Cam Levins: 3:54 Dominant Mile Win And Then 30 Minutes Later He Takes Down Rupp In 2-Mile Cam Levins started out with a bang in the first big pro meet in the US in 2015.
On The Boards: CAM LEVINS FINALLY BEATS RUPP!!!
Pre-Race In Depth: Cam Levins: “I’m as fit as I’ve ever been.”

LRC 9:19.93! Centrowitz, Mike Berry, Erik Sowinski And Pat Casey Destroy DMR World Record A tremendous leadoff leg for Centro got it going.

LRC Jordan Hasay Kicks Home To Win Women’s 2-Mile; Ajee Wilson Wins Women’s 800

*RRW Meet Recap

*Special Section For 2015 Camel City Elite Races*Schedule, Streaming And Television Info *Live Results

LRC Shannon Rowbury Runs 4:22.69 In Women’s Mile, Becomes 5th-Fastest Performer Ever Jenny Simpson, you may be world #1, but you’d better be training hard as Rowbury is on fire to start 2015.

MB: He’s Back !?! Brandon Johnson destroys field, sets meet record at Camel City Elite in 1st indoor race since 2012 Johnson won by nearly 1.5 seconds over 2 of the top 5 guys from the US in 2014.

Men’s Mile: MB: Cory Leslie takes down Will Leer and Leo Manzano, wins in 3:56.99 Leslie gapped the field early and managed to hold on for the win as the others were closing hard.

*RRW Meet Recap
*Bring Back the Mile Recap

Saturday In Karlsruhe, Germany *Women’s Results*Men’s

Shannon Rowbury, Jenny Simpson Pay Attention: Sifan Hassan Runs 4:02.53 World Leader In 1,500 – One Of  6 World Leads Russia’s Yelena Korobkina ran 8:47.61, Kenya’s Paul Kipsiele Koech 7:45.41, and Turkey’s Tanui Ozbilan 3:38.05.

Friday’s Top Action

• Penn State: Georgetown Wins Penn State DMR In 9:28.22The all underclassmen team crushed the old school record of 9:31.19.
• Armory Track Invitational Day 1 Recap With Tweets And Images For the high school action, click here. Day 1 full results here.
• Razorback Invitational Results Oklahoma State ran 9:30.65 to beat Stanford in the DMR.
• Washington Husky Invite Meet Results The Bowerman TC team of Evan Jager, Lopez Lomong, Andy Bayer and Ryan Hill only ran 9:42.66. They probably lost all the time on the 400.

Weekend Action Got Started Early In Germany

Six World-Leading Marks Highlight Thursday Night PSD Bank Meeting In DusseldorfNixson Chepseba won the 3,000 in 7:44.72 over Paul Kipsiele Koech, Poland’s Adam Kszczot won the 800 in 1:46.48 over countryman Marcin Lewandowski (1:46.74), German Arne Gabius won the 5,000m in an indoor NR of 13:27.53, and Switzerland’s Selina Buchel won the 800m in 2:01.87. In the 1,500, Bethwel Birgen won in 3:40.58 while Silas Kiplagat was last in 3:49.97. *Full Results
*Kszczot Will Try To Become The First In Almost 50 Years To Win Three Consecutive Euro Indoor 800 Titles The 2015 championships are in Prague March 6-8.

Friday’s Random But Interesting

• Matthew McConaughey To Star In Movie Adaptation Of Christopher McDougall’s Best-Selling Book “Born To Run” McConaughey reportedly has some experience with running in triathlons.
  *MB: Born to Run – Two movies, one with Matthew McConaughey
• Runner Gets Creative Applying For A Job At Strava, Spelling “HIRE ME” Over An 8.1-Mile Run Other popular “Strava art” has included a Thanksgiving turkey, a marriage proposal, a San Francisco Giants logo, and a “big bike.”
• RunnersWorld Model Nikki Delventhal Loses Mud Race On TV Show “The Bachelor,” Goes Home Early She considers herself a “mud run enthusiast” but blamed the large wedding dress she wore on losing the race.
• RW’s Superbowl Runoff: Which Is The Better “Running City”? Boston Or Seattle? They give Boston the edge although Seattle is a better place to actually run.

Boston Strong

• Image Of Man Shoveling Off Boston Marathon Finish Line During Blizzard Goes Viral There was a city-wide search via social media to find the man, identified as bar tender and runner Chris Laudani. Laudani said, “I think it’s cool that a ton of people have gotten behind the idea and support the idea that the finish line isn’t just a strip of paint in the road …”

LRC Remembering LRCer Van TownsendThe running world lost one of its bright lights this week with the death of Van Townsend.
*MB: RIP Van Townsend: Share Your Respects Here