– Andrew Wheating talking after running 1:48.70 in the Oregon Twilight Meet 800 to finish second, right behind Matt Centrowitz. Wheating says he’s become more patient and mature since switching to Mark Rowland for coaching in 2013.
One of the sport's greatest ambassadors has officially retired after being at the top for two decades.
Share Your Thanks Here: Thank you Haile: The Great One Haile Gebrselassie Has Officially Retired
Bernard Lagat ran 27:48 to get another world record. Discuss: Lagat just ran 27.50
Business Insider’s List Of “50 Most Dominant Athletes Alive” Renaud Lavillenie (#47), Genzebe Dibaba (#13) and Usain Bolt (#5) make the cut.
The World Relays are gone until 2017, Stanford is in the books until next year, we take a deeper look at both and even go way back to the 1984 Olympic Trials 1,500 and a dive for the line by Chuck Aragon. Why? His daughter just ran a 4:16 1,500m in high school.
Feature On Midnight Mission – A Los Angeles Running Club For The Homeless
LRC It’s Gold! U.S. Quartet Of Duane Solomon, Erik Sowinski, Cas Loxsom & Robby Andrews Win 4 X 800 In 7:04.84 Erik Sowinski ran like a beast on leg #2 and the rest was history as all 4 guys did a great job.
More In Depth: A Mature “Cool And Calm” Robby Andrews Anchors US To 4 X 800 Gold Andrews ran like a pro on the anchor and talked maturely about being back with coach Vig and the rest of 2015.
LRC The US Women Dominate And Set A New World Record Of 10:36.50 In Women’s DMR Total and complete domination by the US, which nearly had the best leg on every leg.
Jared Ward And Lindsey Scherf Win USATF 25K Titles At Fifth Third River Bank Run Ward added another US title to the one he won at the LA Marathon as he beat Christo Landry by 5 seconds. Abdi Abdirahman was another 25 seconds back in 3rd. Sara Hall was a distant 2nd in the women’s race. *Full Results
Oregonian’s Ken Goe Talks To PAC-12 Network Coordinating Producer About Difficiulties Of Having Track On Live TV Will O’Toole: “It’s definitely a challenge. Things are so spread out and so much is happening.”
And is Jeremy Wariner back? He thinks so.
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.
Q&A With Valerie Adams About Her Comeback From Injury As She Had Two Surgeries Over The Winter She won’t be competing in the early season, but still plans on being ready to defend her world title in Beijing.
New Studies Highlight The Importance Of Protein In A Runner’s Diet It isn’t all about the carbs.
Incredible Journalism: 5,000+ Words On ESPN On The Tragic Passing Of Madison Holleran Holleran, a UPenn freshman, seemingly had it all – looks, brains, athleticism, a loving family – but her life ended in suicide last year. ESPN’s Kate Fagan tells her story.
*MB: ESPN Story About Madison Holleran
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Saturday: LaShawn Merritt And Kirani James To Clash With Each Other At Jamaican Invitational
Kenya's Ferguson Rotich (47.84 first 400 on 800 leg) and Timothy Cheruiyot (51.96 first 400 on 1,600 leg) ran like mad men while the quartet of Kyle Merber, Brycen Spratling, Brandon Johnson and Ben Blankenship (3:51.24 anchor) ran superbly to get the win and the world record in a race like no other.
The US repeated as World Relays 4 x 800 champs in American record style with only Chanelle Price returning from last year’s team.
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