– Nick Willis, the bookmakers’ second favorite (yes, you could bet on the race), after powering away from Zane Robertson over the final 600m to win the Auckland Track Classic 5,000m on Thursday in one of the most anticipated duels in decades in New Zealand.
LRCMatthew Centrowitz Ready To Move On From Birmingham, Treniere Moser Feels At Home In The 1,000: Highlights From The USATF Press Conference Centro talks about the NOP double peak philosophy and trying to get his first indoor crown. Moser has indoor PRs at 800, 1,000, and the mile this year. More: 2015 USATF’s Quotes From Press ConferenceTreniere Moser, Sharon Day-Monroe, Natasha Hastings and Mary Saxer.
RRW:Treniere Moser Eyes 1,000m Crown To Cap Off Indoor Season
Women’s Preview LRCMother Alysia Montaño Returns To Face Ajee Wilson + The Shannon Rowbury Show Ajee Wilson vs. Alysia Montano in the 600; Treniere Moser in the 1,000 (with high school senior Alexa Efraimson); & Shannon Rowbury and Jordan Hasay in mile/2-mile double.
Men’s Preview: LRC A Stacked Mile With Centro Vs. Leo (And Others), AR Vs. WR at 600 + A BTC Civil War At 2 Miles A WR holder and an American record holder clash in the men’s 600; the BTC trio of Chris Derrick, Ryan Hill and Evan Jager square off with Ben Blankenship in the 2-mile; & past USA Champs Matthew Centrowitz, Leo Manzano and Lopez Lomong vs. rising stars Blankenship and Pat Casey in mile.
*MB: 2015 Men’s USA Indoor meet is loaded – Who you got?
Conference Action This Weekend:Schedule And How To Watch All The Conference Champs This Weekend
LRC The LetsRun.com Civil War: Is Mo Farah The Greatest Of All Time? With 5 world titles and now a world record, there is no doubt that Mo Farah is currently the king of the track, but is he up for GOAT? The LRC team got into a heated argument about this topic. One even argued Farah isn’t as good as Sileshi Sihine.
*MB: With 5 world titles and a WR, is Mo Farah the GOAT (Greatest of all-time)? We say yes…(and hell no)
Drake Relays Presented By Hy-Vee Announces First Wave Of 2015 Athletes And Events A highlight will be the addition of an elite women’s 800 with Brenda Martinez andAjee Wilson. Other top names competing include Renaud Lavillenie, Jenn Suhr, LaShawn Merritt vs. Kirani James, and a deep 110H and HJ competition.
Defense In Oscar Pistorius Case Is Challenging Judge’s Decision To Allow An Appeal By The Prosecution The prosecution thinks the judge made a misinterpretation of the law with her original rule of “culpable homicide” for 5 years.
LRC Mo Farah Gets His First World Record, Runs 8:03.40 2-Mile The critics can shut up for quite some time now. Farah went 3:59 for his 2nd mile to get the WR.
*Farah: Vernon Row Got Me Going
LRC Andy Vernon Calls Out Mo Farah On Twitter: “I would just rather watch a race than the Mo Show.”
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
A Big Win For Athletes:IOC To Scrap Rule 40, Which Prevented Athletes From Doing Advertising With Non-Olympic Sponsors During Olympics The IOC under new leadership is starting to get it. If this rule wasn’t changed, we were going to encourage major athletes like Usain Bolt to violate it. Nick Symmonds and Sanya Richards-Ross were two athletes who spoke out against rule 40 at the last Olympics. For more on that, click here.
Asafa Powell’s Management To Sue Supplement Company Epiphany D1 For $8 Million For His Positive Drug Test Powell’s manager, Paul Doyle, also criticized the IAAF for not stepping in and acting quicker.
Auckland:Nick Willis Powers Away Over Final 600m For Convincing Win Over Zane Robertson In New Zealand The bookies (yes, you could bet on the race) in New Zealand had Zane as the favorite, but he’s had a slight injury. Andrew Wheating 1:48.40 over Ryan Gregson 1:49.21 in 800. Discuss Willis, Roberston here.
Previous – Metz, France: Bernard Lagat Runs 7:37.92 – New Masters WR He took down some big names – Paul Kipsiele Koech, Nixon Chepseba, Bethwel Birgen. *Metz, France Results
LRC Tsegaye Kebede Vs. The USA, Don’t Positive Split The Marathon, Worlds Is Coming, An Improved World Marathon Majors, NCAA Men Vs. NCAA Women And More We recap the week in running.
LRCTokyo 2015: Negesse And Dibaba Get First Major Wins, Stephen Kiprotich = Hero In 2nd, Japanese Twitter Erupts, Lauren Kleppin Risks It All Ethiopians Endeshaw Negesse and Birhane Dibaba got the major marathon season underway with their first major wins as Stephen Kiprotich showed the Olympic spirit in second, Tariku Bekele bombed in his debut, Japanese twitter went nuts over the marathon, and Lauren Kleppin took a shot at greatness but bombed. *IAAF Recap
LRC Genzebe Dibaba Smashes Indoor 5,000 WR By Over 5 Seconds With 14:18.86 In Stockholm Dibaba now holds indoor WRs at 1,500, 3,000, 2 miles and 5,000 thanks to a stupendous performance, during which she hit 2 miles faster than Jenny Simpson‘s AR. *Video
*MB:Genzebe Dibaba Smashes 5000 WR – Runs 14:18.86!!
*IAAF Recap Sifan Hassan and Homiyu Tesfaye ran world-leading 1,500 times of 4:00.46 and 3:34:13; Qatar’s Musaeb Balla ran a WL 1:45.13 and Qatari teen Abadalleleh Haroun ran 45.13; plus a 6.99 WL in the LJ.
IAAF Recap Of Russian Champs: Anzhelika Sidorova Clears World-Leading 4.76mYelena Korobkina won the 3,000m (8:50.39) and 5,000 (15:47.09) but the times were modest in most events (2:02 in w800).
A Step In The Right Direction:USATF Acts Quickly And Reinstates Sisu Club XC Nats Video Last week, USATF got their video taken down off YouTube, saying it was copyright infringement. Max Siegel put out a statement recognizing clubs should be encouraged (not prevented) from promoting the sport.
LRC The Story Behind The Alaskan Flip-Off: The 2013 LRC Photo Of The Year
LRC What’s Your 2014 Running Photo Of The Year? Have you taken a photo or seen a photo that could be the running photo of the year (2014 until now)*. Submit or tweet your entries to us. Winner and/or person who tells us of winner wins $100.
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