Who Knew? Mark Twain Was A Distance Nerd!
– Mark Twain talking a long time ago. His actually quote said “suffering” instead of injuries but Matt Tucker thinks the quote is perfect for running if you just replace that one word. We agree.
- 30:22 guy has moved to Flagstaff to pursue the dream, lives out of his van in Walmart parking lot
- Hallelujah: Athletics Kenya head Isaiah Kiplagat calls for lifetime ban for drug cheats
- Did i not get the memo? Has Wisconsin cancelled it's men's track team? They have 0 marks for 800, steeple and 10k this yr.
- Awesome: Not a hobby sprinter. 98 year old at Penn Relays was pissed he only ran 33.09
- Carl Lewis has a son! He just graduated from basic training.
- RIP: Vic Holchak
2015 IAAF World Relays Are Sat./Sun. *Schedule, Results And TV And Streaming Information *Entries*Facts & Figures
LRCThey Did It Again: USATF And Its Board Think Doper Dennis Mitchell Is The Best Man In America To Coach Team USA Shameful, but the USATF Board has shown it is out of touch. Jakob Larsen, Danish Athletic President, says it best, “I don’t get it – should be possible to find another skilled relay coach in the US.Wonder how the US athletes feel about it?”
MDMR LRCThis One Should Be Crazy Fun – With No Asbel Kiprop, The U.S. Has A Shot In A Wide-Open Race(updated with info on Jeff Riseley) The US has a shot for gold but so does Australia, Germany, Kenya and Poland. Can ‘Nova’s Jordan Williamsz stun the world like he stunned Cheserek last week?
*Asbel Kiprop Shoots Down Rumor He Skipped World Relays To Retaliate Against AK For Suspending His Agent “I felt slight pain in my hamstring like the one I had before London. This time, I decided not to risk seeing what happened at the Olympics and I informed the coaches and left camp to go to my doctor.”
WDMR LRC With Possibly The Best Runners On All 4 Legs, The U.S. Women Are Set To Dominate The DMR With Ajee Wilson and Shannon Rowbury at the end, no one should be able to stop the USA – not even the World Record.
IAAF Previews: *W 4 X 100 *W 4 X 200 *W 4 X 400 *W 4 X x800 *W DMR *M 4 X 100 *M 4 X 200 *M 4 X 400 *M 4 X x800
- World 100m Leader Elaine Thompson (10.92) Withdraws From Team Jamaica
- Full Jamaican Team – Bolt Is The Headliner
- Jamaican Coach Likes Age Balance On Team: “This team is a great balance between the experienced and those who are coming (up).”
- 10 Distance Medley Relay Trivia Questions
- MB: Asbel Kiprop is OUT of IAAF 2015 World Relays – Double gold for Team USA in DMR and 4 x 800?
- Ferguson Rotich Says Kenya Will Do Well In 4 X 800
- Five Races To Watch At The 2015 World Relays
Track And Field Has Lost Two Of Its Journalist Legends
Vic Holchak Has Passed At Age 74 Credentialed as an Olympic journalist at age 16, he went on an television acting career but always loved track and was loved by the founders of LetsRun.com for being the voice of 1-800-94-Track .
800 News
Profile Of NCAA Indoor 800 Champ Edward KemboiPhoto Galleries: *London*Boston*BAA 5k American Records
Random News
- Dude, Where’s My Car?Man Running Manchester Marathon Forgets Where He Parked And Doesn’t Find His Car For 9 Days A stranger actually found it for him after it appeared on the local news.
- Epic Fail:Race Official At Glass City Marathon In Toledo Sends Race Leader The Wrong Way, Costing Her An Olympic Trials Qualifying Mark Samantha Bluske still won in 2:47:20, but ran about an extra mile, thereby missing the 2:43 standard.
- Bravo: Local Restaurant Tries To Help Save UNCW Track Team Even before the restaurant fundraiser, the team had saved $150,000 of their $250,000 goal.
- Wonder What He Thought Of The 4 X Mile? Reports Say Vice President Joe Biden Was At Penn Relays
More Weekend Distance Results
On The Roads:Former World XC Champ Japhet Korir Wins 10K In Würzburg In 27:47 While Caroline Chepkemoi Wins Women’s Race In 32:36James Rungara wins half in Nice, France in 60:12; Ednah Kimaiko wins women’s race in 70:45.- Japan Running News Weekend Track Round-Up: Kenyan William Malel Runs World-Leading 27:42 10,000
- Elisha Barno Wins Kentucky Derby Festival Half Marathon In 1:01:44Pius Nyantika was 2nd in 1:01:46. Askale Merachi won the women’s race (72:08) while HS pro Alana Hadley ran for 3rd (1:18:43).
- Yuki Kawauchi Wins Sado Toki Half Marathon In 66:14
- IAAF Recap: Kenya And South Africa Impress At African Youth Championships The 3,000 titles were taken by (a different) Emily Chebet (9:10) and Davies Kiplangat (7:56).
- Adam Roach And Malia Crouse Win Big Sur International Marathon
NCAA Stuff
- Blogger Defends Edward Cheserek’s 4 X Mile Tactics: “The Leader’s Dilemma”
- Ken Goe: “Count the Penn Relays 4 x Mile as a lesson learned for the Oregon Ducks.”
- Top NCAA Marks In Each Event From The Weekend
- Teams Shift Dramatically In Updated D1 Rankings:Texas A&M Men Stay #1, But Southern California Women Move To #1 As Texas A&M Drops To 9th
- USTFCCCA: Clarification On Demi Payne’s Collegiate Pole Vault Record Long story short, it counts even though it broke some random rules.
London Women *Results*Video Highlights
Women LRCForget About Kenyan “Fantastic Four;” Ethiopia And Tigist Tufa Reign Supreme In London The “Fantastic Four” and “Fabulous Five” got all the pre-race love but Tufa, a 25-1 longshot, was patient this time and got the win over Mary Keitany in 2:23:22.
Paula Radcliffe Has Emotional Goodbye To Competive Running Video of Paula’s finish, interview with her, and article. Recommended read/watch.
LRC Video Highlights Of 2015 London Marathon
*RRW: Recap *IAAF
Payton Jordan Is This Weekend But NOP Won’t Be There *Entries
2015 IAAF World Relays Are Sat./Sun. *Schedule, Results And TV And Streaming Information *Entries*Facts & Figures
W4 X 800:LRCThe U.S. Has A Great Chance To Defend Its Crown The US is the most dominant 800 nation in the world. Want proof? We’ve got it.
M4 X 8: LRC Men’s 4 X 800: Can The U.S. (Or Poland) Upset Favored Kenya? Can Team USA upset Team Kenya, which nearly coughed up a huge lead last year? If you were the Team USA coach, who would you anchor? Robby Andrews or Duane Solomon?
Training Science
- NY Times: Studies Show Two Groups Of Rats Can Train, One Will Improve By 40%, The Other Will Deprove By 2%
MB:NY times article on science behind the talent of improving with training - Runners, You Will Get Injured – How You Deal With It Will Define You
Efraimson In The News
- Mike Hickey’s Hoping To Expand His Training Group To More Than 2 People – John Cook Is Now Advising HimMB: John Cook’s back in the game – helping coach Alexa Efraimson
- Meet Alexa Efraimson’s Training Partner McKayla Fricker
Fricker was a DII champ at Seattle Pacific last year in a PR of 2:06.18 but is thriving with Efraimson and just ran 2:03.
Marathon News
- 2015 BOA Chicago Marathon Lottery Acceptances Announced – 2015 Chicago Marathon By The Numbers 36% of lottery entrants got in. 15% of the field were guaranteed to charities.
- Athletics Weekly Editor Says London Is The Best Marathon “In my view, the race has clearly the best elite fields, the best course, the best and most enthusiastic crowds and the best organisation,” said Steve Smythe, who is a bit biased as he’s run it 34 times.
- Man Runs 2:29 In London Dressed As Spider-Man
*MB: Man – i mean moron – ran 2015 London Marathon in 2:28 dressed as superman
Distance Updates
- Athletics Kenya To Name Beijing World Marathon Team Next Week
Phoebe Wright Blogs About A Solid Third Place Finish In The Drake Relays 800 Wright has struggled in recent years and said she “forgot what it feels like to run well.” Here, her 2:01.65 time wasn’t super fast, but she got a lot of scalps and won a big (both in size and amount) check.- Running Times Q&A With Leah O’Connor, Who Says “I’m Just Now Falling In Love With Running” O’Connor talks about how she got her start in running, making big improvements and becoming a steepler, and goals for this year including making Worlds.
- Good Read:Kyle Merber Blogs About Training In Flagstaff This Winter Reads more like a story than a blog.
- Extensive Gary Cohen Q&A With US 1980 Olympic Marathon Team Member (The Year We Boycotted) Benji Durden Benji talks about finishing 3rd in 2:09:57 at the 1983 Boston Marathon behind 2 Americans, the 1980 Olympic boycott and more.
Sprint Stuff
Q&A With Carl Lewis On His Botched National Anthem Rendition In 1993, Jamaican Doping, State Of US Sprinting Lewis on the entitlement culture of student-athletes today: “We’ve got kids now who are used to getting rewards for mediocrity.”- Carl Lewis’s Son Graduates From Basic Combat Training Apparently he struggled with the physical training when it came to pushups/situps, but then blew everyone away in the run (he did 2 miles in under 13 minutes).
- Fox News Profile On Top US Hurdler Aleec Harris: “From Troubled Teen To Olympic Hopeful”
- Former Top Jamaican 400 Runners Fear Lack Of Training Knowledge Is Hurting The Future Of Top High Schoolers Former Jamaican Olympians say that coaches overtrain their 400m runners.
- Jamaican Columnist Proclaims Sherone Simpson Is “Back” After Dealing With Career Of “Adversity” Two weeks ago she pushed Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the 200, finishing only .01 behind.
Post-London News
Wilson Kipsang Says Eliud Kipchoge Beat Him Because He Has More Fat “Towards the last kilometre, Eliud was a bit stronger than me because I couldn’t resist the cold. Since I have less fat, it was not easy to resist such a pace in such conditions …”- Eliud Kipchoge: “A champion is not made when he succeeds, a champion is made when you look back at the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months he has spent preparing.”
- Tigist Tufa Will Use Her $70,000 In Prize Money To Buy A Car And Help Her Family
- Kipchoge Plans Low-Key Celebrations In Kenya “I’ve won races a lot over the last couple of years and I am a low-key person so there will be no big celebrations.”
- Some Bizarre Events / Costumes From The London Marathon
*More Crazy Costumes From London - The Telegraph: “Why The Best Sports Stars Struggle To Retire” We’re glad Paula Radcliffe got to go out with one last run.
- How Did Celebrities Do At The London Marathon
- Video:Runner Stops To Propose To His Girlfriend During The London Marathon
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Non-London Road Action
Despite Fall, Annie Bersagel Wins Dusseldorf Marathon In New PR Of 2:28:29Marius Ionescu of Romania won the men’s race in 2:13:19.- Lucas Rotich (2:07:17) And Meseret Hailu (2:25:41) Win Hamburg Marathon Titles
- Ethiopia’s Hayle Lemi Berhanu Takes Warsaw Marathon In 2:07:57 As Top 6 Finish Within 32 Seconds Of Each Other Ethiopian Fatuma Sado won the women’s race in 2:26:25.
- Kenya’s Ezekiel Kiptoo Chebii (2:12:00) And Monica Jepkoech (2:33:42) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Madrid Marathon
- Kenyans Ernest Ngeno (2:11:47) And Helena Kiprop (2:31:36) Win Yellow River Estuary Marathon In China
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.
3 World XC Getty Images Photo Galleries:
1) Pro Photos From Getty Images
2) New Rojo’s Women’s Photos
3) New Rojo’s Men’s Race Photos
2015 Worlds Will Be In Beijing In August And These Athletes Should Be There
- Kiwi Shot Man Tom Walsh Has Quit Day Job To Focus On Throwing
- World 5k Silver Medalist Mercy Cherono Is Skipping Shanghai 5,000, Will Open At Pre
- Q&A With Former UF Steepler Genevieve LaCaze
- If The Top Japanese Man Is Top 8 At Worlds, He Is Guaranteed An Olympic Spot
- Former Nebraska Thrower Chad Wright Gets IAAF “A” In Discus For Jamaica (65.03m)
Week That Was
WTWLarry Bird's Underwater Treadmill, Why The Slow 4 X Mile At Penn Rocked, Masters Dopers, Tadese's Latest Excuse, And The Annie Leblanc Train Keeps Gathering Steam
What a week it was with London, Boston, Drake and Penn. Annie LeBlanc kept rolling at Penn, we’ve got an excuse for Zersenay Tadese, we tell you why so many of you hate sit and kick races, talk Larry the Legend‘s underwater treadmill, masters doping and more.
*DailyRelay’s Penn And Drake Recap
*DailyRelay’s 26 Thoughts On The 2015 London Marathon
*10 Reasons Why The Drake Relays Are Popular
Doping News
- Runner’s World Calculates That Liliya Shobukhova’s Doping Cost Irina Mikitenko $530,000 And Edna Kiplagat $507,000 Of course, this assumes they themselves were/are clean (no reason to say they aren’t).
- EPO Cheat Wilson Erupe’s Bid For Korean Citizenship Is Causing Controversy In Korea No one seems concerned he’s an EPO cheat – rather that he is Kenyan.
- Isaiah Kiplagat Plans To Make The Fight Against Doping A Top Priority If Elected VP Of IAAF The sport is in serious trouble if this guy gets elected.
Sprint News
- Usain Bolt’s Buildup To The Rio 2016 Olympic Games And His Planned Retirement In 2017 Is Set To Be Made Into A Feature-Length Documentary
- Adam Gemili Says It’s Absurd To Think That An Arsenal Footballer Is Faster Than Richard Kilty, Let Alone Usain Bolt “If they were to actually have a race then Kilty would breeze it. The Arsenal guys would have no chance.”
- After “Rest Year” In 2014, Christine Ohuruogu Relishes Return To Hard Graft As Briton Prepares To Defend 400m World Title In Beijing She purposely didn’t take the whole year off but was only at “half” of her normal fitness by design: “With the 400m you can’t have complete time off. Too much rest is a bad thing.”
- Sanya Richards-Ross And Allyson Felix Will Clash In 400 At Pre Classic
- Usain Bolt Will Race 200m In Ostrava On May 26th
Doping News
Liliya Shobukhova Doping Hearing Cancelled By CAS The IAAF was appealing to make her 2-year ban a 4-year ban, but reports are saying that the IAAF and Russian athletics federation reached an out-of-court settlement.- Jamaican Opinion Piece Arguing For Lifetime Drug Bans In The Wake Of Usain Bolt’s Comments Against Ban Reductions “… I do also believe that every mentally competent individual works out the cost or benefit of whatever action he or she contemplates …”
- WADA Has Set Up Online Site For Whistleblowers To Report Information About Doping In Russia
- WADA To Monitor Russian Lab Work During World Swimming Championships
The 2nd Annual World Relay Championships Are This Weekend *Entries
$1.4 Million In Prize Money Up For Grabs At World Relays In The Bahamas- Provisional Entry Lists
- St. Kitts And Nevis Names World Relays Squad Former world champ Kim Collins was offered a spot on the team, but turned it down.
- Blessing Okagbare Leads Nigeria Team
- 669 Athletes, 43 Countries For 2nd World Relays
Training Talk
- Interesting Look At The Difference In Training Between Sprint- And Endurance-Based 800 Runners Includes quotes and example workouts from Phoebe Wright (sprint/speed) and Heather Kampf (endurance/strength).
- Running Form Analysis Of The Elites At The Boston Marathon Could have some small arm swing changes have changed the outcome of the race?
IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With TJ World Champ Caterine Ibarguen In this interview series, she’s probably the 100th athlete to name “herself” for the question about her “greatest rival.” However, in this case we think it was the right answer since she hasn’t been beaten since 2012.
2015 Virgin Money London Marathon*Results *Video Highlights
Men LRC London Lives Up To The Hype As Eliud Kipchoge Takes Down Wilson Kipsang In Final Mile To Win In 2:04:42 (updated with QTs) This one was packed with drama as with 5 miles to go, it was down to the Big Three of Kipchoge, Kipsang and WR holder Dennis Kimetto plus ’14 runner-up Stanley Biwott. After a 4:33 25th mile, it was Kipchoge vs. Kipsang and after a 4:33 26th mile, Kipchoge was the winner – Kipsang finally breaking with 800 to go.
London On The Boards:
Bruce Jenner Sex Change
Bruce Jenner Says His “Brain Is More Female Than It Is Male” Jenner talks about reaction from his family, not being gay, and sexual reassignment surgery. “I’m not this bad person. I’m just doing what I have to do.”- Bruce Jenner: “For all intents and purposes, I’m a woman.”
- Bruce Jenner Interview Gets “Mixed Bag” Of Reactions
- Billie Jean King To Bruce Jenner: “We learn from you to be courageous.”
LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”
Runners World Honors You and the Brojos
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American Strong: The Untold Story of How American Teamwork Helped Meb Keflezighi Win Boston
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A Real Running Hero:
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Flo Has Now Won the Medal of Honor
