Archived Homepage For May 16, 2016
Archived Homepage For May 16, 2016

The US’s 1st-Ever Street Meet Is In Boston In 1 Month

LRCMeet Director Mark Wetmore Explains Why The adidas Grand Prix Moved From New York To Boston And Became The US's 1st-Ever Street Meet

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh also was on hand to pump up excitement for the United States' first-ever street meet, which will be free for all on the Boston Common.

Sunday / Monday US Track Action *Results: *Portland Twilight*Swarthmore

MB: 3:37.75 for Awad at Swarthmore. 0.01 off the NCAA lead In a race rabbited by Nick Willis, Awad got his OTrials qualifier but the race was won by David Torrence, who picked up the Olympic Games standard of 3:36.20 with a 3:36.02. Julian Mathews also got it as Hamish Carson missed it by .05.

The “Blade Debate”

Pre-Bolt Opener News

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The Latest On The Tokyo / Diack Corruption

Other News Of Note

Huge Russia Doping Conspiracy At Sochi 2014?

General Doping News

We’d Be Scared To Death To Pull A Mike Rossi / Kip Litton In North Korea

UK Road Races Coming Up Short

Mid-D News

We Knew 100% They’d Screw It Up

LRCAthletics Kenya Does It Again And Butchers Third Selection To Both Men's And Women's Teams - Kenyan Olympic Marathon Team Announced

Good news, Galen Rupp and US women’s marathon fans – it just got a lot easier to medal in Rio as Athletics Kenya picked a 2:24 woman and a man who is about to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of his last sub-2:10 clocking (May 25th) to the Olympic team. Stars like Edna Kiplagat and Mary Keitany will be sitting at home. Updated with new stats for Dickson Chumba and Bernard Kipyego and the fact that Wilson Kipsang didn’t want to go to Rio.
*Eliud Kipchoge In Search Of Elusive Olympic Gold In Rio Kipchoge has won Olympic silver and bronze, but never gold.

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Olympic News

“60 Minutes” Does Russian Doping Piece

High School – The Drew Hunter Show Continues (And The McGorty And Lomong Brother Show Begins)

Drew Hunter Celebrates 3:58.25Junior Brandon McGorty Edges Drew Hunter And Alex Lomong In One Of The Deepest High School 800s Ever Brandon is the brother of Stanford runner Sean, Lomong is the brother of US Olympian Lopez and Hunter is the sub-4 high schooler who, after lowering his 800 PR by nearly 4 seconds, came back to run an 8:43 3,200m.

*MB: Michael Slagowski 48.54 open 400.
*MB: Drew Hunter 1:48.64/ 8:43 3,200m Double

More on Oregon Twlight & Cheserek’s Loss Friday

Sprints/Jumps: Bolt Opener

Screenshot 2016-05-14 at 21.07.57LRC No Need To Panic, Bolt Fans – Usain Bolt Opens Season With 10.05 100m At Cayman Invitational With video. Bolt opened with a 10.09 in 2013 at this same meet. In other action at this meet, Kendra Harrison ran 12.42 in the hurdles, giving her the 3 fastest times in the world in 2016, and Jenna Prandini got the 100 /200 double (11.16 / 22.63). *IAAF Recap

NCAA Action Galore *All Conference Meets*All NCAA Results






  • IC4A/ECAC:Results Former prep star Eddie Owens has won the steeple in 8:46.

International: Inaugural Adidas Boost Meeting In The Books *Results

Bureaucracy 1, Athletes 0

Symmonds_NickFV1-USAout15LRCFederal Judge Dismisses Nick Symmonds’ Run Gum Lawsuit; USATF And USOC Can Restrict Non-Apparel Logos At Olympic Trials USATF and the USOC won at least the temporary legal battle but have they won the war? Will athletes stand for being told USATF has the legal authority to prevent them from monetizing a logo that USATF does not even attempt to monetize itself?


Keep Chasing Your Dreams:At Just Shy Of 41, Marathoner Scott Westcott Will Become Australia’s Oldest Track Olympian When He Competes In Rio This will be Westcott’s first Olympics as he missed being selected at the three previous Games despite running qualifying times.

US Road News *USATF 1 Mile Results

Sprint Stuff

The Myth Of The Sub-2-Hour Marathon?

Recommended Read:NY Times: Man Vs. Marathon Meet Yannis Pitsiladis, the scientist behind the Sub2 Project who is trying to raise $30 million and challenging the validity of every training principle out there to try and get a man to run a marathon in under 2 hours. He thinks it can be done by the end of 2019.

Part 2: An Unknown To Most Of The World, Yannis Pitsiladis Was A Huge Factor In Kenenisa Bekele’s Comeback At The 2016 London Marathon Pitsiladis worked with Bekele, giving him a rehab program and restricting his diet down to 1,000 to 1,500 calories a day to help him lose the excess 25 lbs. he had put on.
*MB: Good Lord, the Bekele London Training Stuff Was True*LRC Archives: The Myth Of The Sub-2-Hour Marathon

Olympic News: Another Major Scandal?

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Upcoming Action

Upcoming DL Action: Pre Classic In A Little Over 2 Weeks

More Road Results

Sunday Road Results

Rec Running News

Track And Field’s Opening Day – 2016 Doha DL *Results 

LRC Was Caster Semenya’s Final 100m In Doha The Fastest Ever Run In A Women’s 800? Crazy as it sounds, she closed in 13.6.

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2016 Doha Recap LRC A Day Of Distance Dominance: Asbel Kiprop, Conseslus Kipruto, Almaz Ayana & Caster Semenya Earn Big Wins On Track & Field’s Opening Day The 2016 Diamond League season opened with a bang in Doha as favorites Asbel Kiprop, Almaz Ayana and Caster Semenya won in utterly dominant fashion. The men’s steeple wasn’t as kind to the favorites as Jairus Birech lost and Ezekiel Kemboi got embarrassed. American Ameer Webb looked fantastic in the men’s 200, Dafne Schippers ran fast but lost the women’s 100 to Tori Bowie, and a number of Americans picked up their first-ever DL victories in the field events. *Full Results 

MB: Official 2016 Doha Diamond League Discussion Thread

The Negative Side Of The Sport

2016 UAE Healthy Kidney 10k In Central Park *Results

RRW $25,000 Buys A Lot Of Diapers: New Dad Lucas Rotich And Cynthia Limo Win UAE Healthy Kidney 10k In New York And Pick Up $25k Each Zane Robertson (4th) and Laura Thweatt (6th) were the first NAFBs across the line. *Results

Our Weekly Recap

WTWPraise For The 800/1,500/5k/10k & 4 X 400 Quintuple, What's Wrong With Edward Cheserek? Boring Track Uniforms And Nick Symmonds Doesn't Think Highly Of A Lot Of You

We span the track and field globe and ponder if Edward Cheserek is now an underdog at NCAAs while discussing fashion choices and intersex athletes.

African Distance News

Sprint News

Maybe USATF Should Hire These Young Women To Coach The Rio Olympic Team

Olympic Stuff

Sprint Stuff

Post-Weekend NCAA News

Weekend Pro Action *Golden GP*Jamaica Invite Results*Oxy Results (link fixed)

Golden Grand Prix: Justin Gatlin Clocks 10.02 Into A .4 m/s Headwind
*Tianna Bartoletta Gets 100-LJ Double Win; Shawn Barber Takes PVErik Sowinski won the 800 in 1:45.92 while Ben Blankenship (7:52.80) was 2nd in the 3K. Caroline Chepkurui took the steeple in 9:31.
*Gatlin Says That Racing Usain Bolt Has Made Him “Smarter And Wiser”

Jamaica Does the BoltJamaica Invite: Jamaica Invite Recap: Elaine Thompson Blasts To Wind-Aided 10.71, Powell Wins 200m, Alexa Efraimson Wins 1,500m Thompson said she wants the 100, 200 gold in Rio. Efraimson won the 1.500 in a meet record 4:08. *IAAF Recap

Texas Invite: Trayvon Bromell Runs Wind-Aided 10.00, Ashley Spencer Runs 55.75 In Hurdles Spencer ran 54.70 in the hurdles two weeks ago, which is the #2 in the world right now and would have made her #16 in world last year.

Oxy Invite Meet Results:Brenda Martinez 2:01 800, Carmelita Jeter 11.42 100m

College Action *Heps Results: *Men*Women*All NCAA Results

About Half Of The NCAA Conference Meets Are This Weekend *All NCAA Results

ches-losesLRC Oregon Twilight: Edward Cheserek Beaten By Guy You’ve Never Heard Of At Oregon Twilight, Mary Cain Runs 2:08 800, Edward Kemboi Wins 800 High schooler Katie Rainsberger lowered her PR to 4:14.20. Video of Ches’ finish. *Results

A Big Pro Time In S. Africa: Wayde van Niekerk Runs 44.11 400m In Low-Key Meet In South Africa