Archived Homepage For May 01, 2016
Archived Homepage For May 01, 2016

Stanford Payton Jordan *Live Results

Stanford: Lagat Wins 10,000m Debut in 27:49, Izaic Yorks Beats Pros in 1500, Courtney Frerichs Dominates Steeple Brief comments on the races and full results on 1 page.

Lagat at Carlsbad 2016

This Weekend’s Other Action *All NCAA Results

Less Than 100 Days To Rio

Doping News

Pre-Meet Penn News

 

US Jumping News

100 Days Until Rio

Sprint Stuff: Two Greats Are Retiring

NCAA Updates

More From The Weekend – Distance

Saturday Morning Action *Results

LRC Christo Landry (62:52) And Tara Welling (70:25) Win 2016 US Half Marathon ChampionshipsDesi Linden was 2nd in the women’s race.

Drake Relays *Live Results*Schedule*Meet Home *LRC A Fan’s Guide To The 2016 Drake Relays*USATF Preview Of Drake

Saturday: MBNCAA Champ Clayton Murphy Takes Down World Indoor Champ Boris Berian
*MB: Kendra Harrison (12.56) wins loaded women’s hurdles
*MB:Omar McLeod crushes everyone in men’s hurdles (13.08)
*Sandi Morris Wins Rio Preview PV With 4.70m It moved indoors because of weather and Morris took three attempts at breaking Jenn Suhur‘s indoor WR.
*After Finishing 2nd In Two Events, Stephanie Jenks Leaves Drake With Win In Girls 1,500, Giving Her A Record 9 Individual Titles No other woman had won more than 8.
*The University Of Illinois Men Won Their Foruth Consecutive Hy-Vee Cup
*Texas And Baylor Women Tie For Hy-Vee Cup

James was terrific on FridayFriday: LRC Kirani James Blazes 44.08 World Leader, Jenny Simpson (4:06.44) Outkicks Kate Grace In 1,500 As Mary Cain Is 8th (4:12.62) Was Jenny Simpson hurt over the winter? It sure seems like it, but she got the win nonetheless. Kirani James‘ time, run in 48-degree temps, was the second-fastest ever in the month of April, behind only Michael Johnson‘s 43.75 in 1997.
*Jenny Simpson Is Well Aware That No American Woman Has Ever Medalled At The Olympics In The 1,500
*Good Des Moines Register Article On James And Rest Of Pro ActionAries Merritt didn’t want to kill himself in the cold weather. Bershawn Jackson raced wearing a necklace holding the ashes of his recently-deceased father.
*Aries Merritt Gets Huge Newpsaper Feature, Says He’s 85% Fit – And Fitter Than Last Year
*Video interview With Aries Merritt
*Full Des Moines Register Coverage Of Drake Relays

Earlier Action

LetsSprint.com

LetsRun Nation, Your Help Is Needed

nieto-do-not-useLRC Olympic High Jumper Jamie Nieto Paralyzed After Attempting Back Flip At Practice – Please Consider Donating Now A terrible tragedy for Nieto, who always finished his competitions by waving to the crowd and performing a back flip or a back handspring.

Payton Jordan Is Sunday *Full Entries

Traditional Super-Deep Fields Set For Payton Jordan Edward Cheserek, Evan Jager, Lopez Lomong, Chris Derrick, Jordan Hasay and Sally Kipyego among those competing.

Olympic News

Very Cool

Puma-BeatBot-BoltLRC The Future Has Arrived – PUMA Unveils BeatBot – A Personal Robotic Pacer Do you hate working out alone? Or seeing races ruined by people going out too fast or slow? Puma has the answer.

Another Exclusive From Kenya – LetsRun.com Goes To Kenya

Kiprop put on another tremendous performance as he cruised through the 1500 semisLRCAsbel Kiprop, Elijah Manang’oi And Vincent Yator Put On A Show At The 2016 Kenyan Police Championships Get the inside scoop on how Kiprop and Manangoi, who went 1-2 at Worlds last year in the 1,500, totally toyed with the fields en route to 1,500 and 800 titles. Yator pulled off a tough double, winning the 5,000 and 10,000 within the span of 90 minutes. You’re lucky we aren’t charging you to read this 5,500-word masterpiece.

Another American Legend Hangs Up The Spikes

Week That Was

Upcoming Action: T. Dibaba Comeback And Pre Will Be Awesome

Road News

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