Updates From Africa

• Troubling: Former 5,000 World Champ Benjamin Limo Resigns Position As Athletics Kenya Branch Chairman Over AK’s Unwillingness To Combat Doping Limo claims that AK does not look out for athletes’ interests and protects managers and coaches who are connected with doping.
• AK Boss Isaiah Kiplagat Says There Might Be Some Foreign Agents Banned Or Arrested Next Week
• Moses Kipsiro May Flee Uganda Due To Death Threats From Coach Peter Wemali
• PAAK Launches “Run Clean” Campaign To Fight Doping In Kenya

Jumps News

• Athletics Weekly Profile Of HJer Mutaz Essa Barshim Barshim talks about winning bronze at London 2012, going for the WR and how he got his start in track as a race walker.
• Interesting:Study Finds Male High Jumpers And Pole Vaulters Embrace Risk More Than Women Male jumpers in top-level athletics events are more likely to pass on heights and the tactics often pay off.
• Yelena Isinbayeva Has Sights Set On A Spectacular Farewell As She Wants To Set A Pole Vault WR That Will “Stay For 100 Years” “I have a 5.10m jump on my mind but at the same time, I think that 5.15m is the limit for women.”

Very Interesting Running Science Articles

• Exercise Physiologist Ross Tucker Explains The Pain And Pacing Strategy Of The 800 Meters Tucker talks about the fine line between going out hard, but not too hard. “If you run an even-paced 800, you’re under-performing. The guy who slows down the least is usually the winner.”
  *MB: The PAIN of the 800 meters explained by an exercise physiologist
• Science Looks At The “Second Wind” … Does It Exist And What Causes It? Very likely it involves either neurochemical or psychological factors.

Throws News

• High School Javelin Record Holder Haley Crouser Among Several Athletes Leaving The Oregon Track Team Also distance runner Ryan Pickering.
• Official At Meet In New Jersey Impaled In The Heel By A Javelin Firefighters had to cut the javelin with a saw before he could be put into an ambulance. His injuries weren’t considered life threatening.

LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running Shoe The running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it . We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews.

A Documentary On The Terramura Comes Out Saturday

Documentary On Tarahumara Running Tribe Is Being Released Out On Saturday Digitally On Vimeo On Demand
The name is “Goshen: Places of Refuge for the Tarahumara Tribe.” Rent for $4.99, buy for $12.99. Watch here.

Runners Old And New Making News

• 81-Year-Old Anne Garrett Sets 5K Record Of 28:37
• Running Times Tells You How To Age Grade Your Times
• 8-Year-Old With Brain Tumor Runs 33 Miles In Utah Trail Race

Important Administrative News

Moses Kipsiro Says Coach/Policeman He Accused Of Rape Has Murdered Another Athlete That Spoke Up Against Him & Tried To Abduct Kipsiro’s Brother The policeman denies everything and says it’s all made up, even the sexual assaults, by Kipsiro, who votes differently than him.
*Moses Kipsiro: “I am fearing for my life and my family. Yesterday one of my brothers (Ayeko Simon) was arrested over an incident.”
*Daily Mail: Mo Farah’s Training Partner Moses Kipsiro Receives Death Threats After Accusing Coach In Uganda Of Raping Young Female Athletes

Sergey Bubka Makes His Case For IAAF Head – Promises Complete Review Of Athletics If ElectedHis “Vision 2025” document is now out.
*Athletics Weekly On Bubka

Australia And New Zealand Name Initial Teams For IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 Memo to those down under – Worlds are in August, not April. As a result, Australia currently has zero men from 1,500 through 26.2.

WADA Needs Your Help

Have An Idea On How To Improve WADA? Get Paid: WADA Issues Call For Proposals For 2016 Social Science Research Grant Program

In The World Of Controversy

• Good News For Dathan Ritzenhein:WADA Issues Statement On NOP L-Carnitine Usage – Doping Rules NOT Broken With 2011 AdviceThe Sunday Timeshad previously implied that Ritz might have inadvertently broken doping rules. *Denver Post Article
• Bad News For Journalism: LRC PAC-12 Network, World’s Biggest Track Fan Fall For LetsRun.com April Fool’s Day Hoax (updated with video)
• Bad News For Asian Women: Indian Sprinter Dutee Chand Cleared To Compete At Asian Champs While Awaiting The Verdict In Her Gender Controversy Case With CAS Like Caster Semenya, Chand has hyperandrogenism and her body naturally produces testosterone above guidelines set by the IAAF.
• AP: Ugandan Athletics Federation Investigating Moses Kipsiro’s Claim That Coach Peter Wemali Made Death Threats Against Him Shouldn’t the police be investigating?
• Kenyan Article Says Kipsiro Took His Overseas Allowances For World XC And Then Stepped Off Team Bus And Disappeared This article also says he received a death threat from a woman.

Spring Marathon Season Is Coming

• April Fools? Two-Time World Marathon Champion Edna Kiplagat Thinks The WR Could Go Down At This Month’s London Marathon The article came out on the 31st so we assume she’s serious when she said, “The world record is very possible with proper pace setting and conducive weather.”
• Q&A With Kara Goucher Talking About Her Last Year Since She Moved To Colorado And Making The Team For 2016 “The only race on my calendar is the Olympic Trials Feb 13, 2016. Anything else is secondary to that goal.”
• Video:Shalane Flanagan Talks About Her Strategy For This Year’s Boston Marathon
• Yuki Kawauchi Wins Nerima Kobushi Half Marathon In 65:39 He’s still on the comeback from injury saying he’s at about “75% of normal.”

More Distance News

• US 800 Runner Molly Beckwith-Ludlow Talks About How She Got Lost On A Run During Her First Trip Overseas She left the apartment at 3PM for a 45-mintue run, but didn’t end up getting back until 7:30PM.
• Video Highlights From World XC, Carlsbad 5,000, Prague Half And Berlin Half If you weren’t crazy dedicated enough to stay up until 3:30AM ET watching World XC Champs, check out some of the highlights.
• HSer Austin Tamagno Runs 4:06.26 Full Mile At Azusa Pacific Meet Of Champions
• RIP:George Spitz, Who Sparked Idea For Five-Borough NYC Marathon, Dies At 92

LRCCorrection See Below: Sunday Times Says Alberto Salazar's Group May Have Inadvertently Broken Anti-Doping Rules With L-Carnitine Injections

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The Search For A Better Running Shoe

LRCThe Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30Thousands of you filled out our detailed running shoe survey in the fall and more of you ran in the Nike Pegasus+30 than any other shoe. Only problem is all of you need to find a new shoe, help us out below:

LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running ShoeThe running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it with data. We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews from you on the latest shoes.