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LRC 2017 Prague HM Recap: Joyciline Jepkosgei Sets WR (64:52) To Become First Woman Ever Under 65:00 As Jordan Hasay Runs 67:55; Tamirat Tola Destroys Men’s Field In 59:37 JIn one of the greatest road performances in history, Jepkosgei started fast from the gun and wasn’t too far off the 5k WR of 14:46 as she ran 14:53. Jepkosgei also set road WRs at for 10k (30:04), 15k (45:38) and 20k (61:25) en route. The NOP team member having a great race wasn’t named Galen Rupp; it was Jordan Hasay, who joined Molly Huddle and Deena Kastor as the only Americans under 68:00 on a record-eligible course. Rupp was 11th in 61:59.
*Jepkosgei Reacts After Her WR She said she didn’t even realize when she dropped her competitors. “I was running my own race and my body was feeling good.”
*RRW: After Struggling In Prague, Galen Rupp Reveals He Had “Discomfort” In His Foot – “Hopefully, my foot will be OK for Boston.”

MB: Official 2017 Prague Half Live Discussion Thread
MB: Galen Rupp wtf Prague Marathon almost 62 minutes
MB:  Jordan Hasay is running 100 miles a week just 2-3 weeks out from Boston

NCAA Action *All NCAA Results

Texas Relays: Top Sprint Action Set For Texas Relays *Live Results *Live Stream *Schedule

• PV: Mondo Duplantis Breaks Pole Vault World Jr. Record With 19’4.25″ At Texas Relays! It’s also a Swedish national senior record for the Louisiana junior.
• Mile: HSer Sam Worley Beats Leo Manzano In Texas Relays Mile – Runs 4:00.61!
• 800: Michael Saruni (1:45.82) Guns Down Donavan Brazier (1:46.11) As Leo Manzano Runs 1:50 

• Texas A&M’s Lindon Victor Breaks Collegiate Decathlon Record With A Score Of 8,472 Points He broke Trey Hardee‘s mark from 2006 by 7 points. Afterwards Victor said, “I don’t think my record will last as long as Trey’s did. I think it will only last a few months, until I do my next one.”
  *A&M’s Ioannis Kyriazis Throws NCAA #2 All-Time In Javelin (288’9″ – 88.01m)
• Carl Lewis Says He Prefers The Texas Relays To The Penn Relays

Florida Relays: Live Results / Schedule

• Oregon Ducks Break 4 X 100 And 4 X 200 Collegiate Records The new records are 42.34 and 1:28.78. In the 4 x 200, Dafne Schippers ran down Ariana Washington.
• Oregon’s Alaysha Johnson Destroys Oregon School Record As Well As NCAA 60H Champ With 12.69 At Florida Relays Oregon’s women’s sprint squad is so good it’s amazing as their previous school record holder – Sasha Wallace (NCAA 60H champ) – was 6th in the race.
  
• Florida’s Eric Futch & TJ Holmes Both Break 50 In 400H
  
• Florida’s Clayton Brown Cleared A Nation-Leading 2.21 Meters (7 Feet, 3 Inches) In HJ, Then Jumps 25 Feet (7.62m) In LJ Less Than 30 Minutes Later
  
• Veronica Campbell-Brown Runs World-Leading 200m With 22.60 At Florida Relays

Stanford Invitational: Live Results / Entries / Schedule

• 18-year old Juco runner Quincy Hall runs 45.32 world lead at Stanford!! The kid is a talent as at age 16 and 1 month, he ran 46.71 in HS.
• 10k: Anna Rohrer Runs 31:58.99 In 10k Debut For Win At Stanford! Abbabiya Simbassa (28:03) Wins Men’s Race Rohrer got the WChamps standard and is the 7th-fastest collegian ever. Stephanie Bruce, who was 22nd at World XC last week, was 2nd in 31:59. Stars Edward Cheserek (28:46) and Molly  Seidel (33:19) won the slow heats.
  
• 5ks: Amy-Eloise Neale (15:39.30) Beats Karissa Schweizer To Win Stanford 5k, David Elliot (13:36) Wins Men’s Race 
  
• Steeple: Allie Ostrander Runs 9:55 FTW In Her Steeple Debut Michael Jordan won the men’s race in 8:33.
  
• 1,500s: Fresno State’s Annemarie Schwanz (4:13.82) And Ok State’s Josh Thompson (3:41.80) Win
  
• MB: Runners Slam Into Official In Men’s 1,500 At Stanford (Video)

Gonzaga Coach Pat Tyson (And Former HS Legendary Coach) Says He’ll Never Retire

A Ton Of Other Quality Road Racing Is Taking Place This Weekend

• RRW: Americans Shannon Rowbury, Paul Chelimo To Take On International Rivals At Sunday’s Carlsbad 5,000 Rowbury faces Viola Lagat, former All-American Dominque Scott and Neely Gracey while the men’s race has 2012 Olympic silver medalist Dejen Gebremeskel, Will Leer, GB’s Andy Vernon and Aussie Collis Birmingham.
• Berlin Half Marathon Preview: Men’s Race Led By Sub-60 Minute Kenyans David Kogei, Gilbert Masai And Daniel Chebii Sarah Hall is in the women’s field which is lead by the race’s past two winners Elizeba Cherono and Cynthia Kosgei.
• MB: Michael Wardian Set to Race Barkley (Ultra) Marathons After Running 2:29 Marathon On Indoor Track Last Week For some good reads on this epic ultra race which has way more DNFs than actual finishers, go to our Barkely Marathons archive page.
• $62,000 In Prize Money Up For Grabs At The Cooper River Bridge Run 10K In Charlotte, NC Fields include last year’s winner Monicah Ngige, former NYC Marathon champ Firehiwot Dado, Amy Van Alstine, Becky Wade, Jen Rhines for the women and 2-time defending champ Dominic Ondoro, Shadrack Kipchirchir, Jon Grey, Kirubel Erassa for the men.
• Past Winners And Top American Set Headline Strong Field For Credit Union SACTOWN Run 10 Mile The men’s race includes Aaron Braun, Andrew Lemoncello and Fernando Cabada while the women are lead by Kenya’s defending champ Jane Kibii.

Japanese News: Kawauchi Corner

• Recommended Reads: Lengthy 3-Part Blog Series By Japanese Citizen Runner Yuki Kawauchi In the first part, Kawauchi talks about the “miracle in Fukuoka” where despite a sprained ankle, he fought through to finish 3rd (top Japanese man) and make the 2017 World team.
  *Part 2: Kawauchi Clarifies That He Isn’t Retiring After London, Just Not Seeking National Team Berths “Unless you give up the fight, there’s no retirement for amateur runners.”
  *Part 3: “The Lessons Of The Past Are Not ‘Outdated'”
• Yuki Kawauchi Butted Heads With Japan National Long Distance Head Toshihiko Seko At Worlds Meeting Kawauchi had some witty remarks to Seko’s speech and Sekio criticized Kawauchi thinking too much about being weak in the heat. An interesting exchange for sure.
• The Japan Times: Change To Japan’s Marathon Team Selection In Works For 2020 Games They’re considering taking a page out of the US book and having the top two finishers at a trials race qualify automatically with a third being selected based on whoever has the fastest qualifying time.

Drug Busts

• Russia’s Mariya Savinova Launches CAS Appeal Over Her Doping Ban And Stripped Medals Savinova was banned for 4 years and lost her 2012 Olympic, 2011 World and 2010 European golds.
• Dopers, Watch Out: Craig Reedie Says More Whistleblowers Are Talking To WADA Reedie says he has been told that a number of whistleblowers are working with WADA, but he himself doesn’t know the specifics because it remains confidential.
• Former Hammer World Record Holder Gulfiya Khanafeyeva Among Four Russians Diqualified From London 2012 Olympics Khanafeyeva, another hammer thrower, a triple jumper and weightlifter were sanctioned after being caught in doping retests.
• Jamaica’s Riker Hylton Files For Dismissal Of His Provisional Doping Ban

Looking Ahead On The Track

• May 13: Shanghai Diamond League Meet WIll Have 13 Olympic Champions Distance headliners include David Rudisha, Faith Kipyegon, Ruth Jebet and Almaz Ayana.
• May 27: Eugene Assembles Its Best-Ever Women’s Javelin Field Pre will have all three Olympic medalists, the World champion, the European champion and the 2016 Diamond League winner … amazingly they are all different people.
• June 13: World Champ Julius Yego, 2012 Olympic Champ Keshorn Walcott And 2007 World Tero Pitkamaki Added To Paavo Nurmi Games Javelin Field They’ll face off against Olympic champ Thomas Rohler.

Sprints, Jumps And Throws

• Even Sprinters Can’t Touch Her At Their Own Event: Caster Semenya Takes Down Former World 400m Champion Amantle Montsho In South African 300m Race Semenya ran 37.22 seconds to just miss beating the 17-year-old SA national record by .20. Montsho was .22 back in second while World 400H finalist Wendal Nel was third.
• LA Times: Brian Oldfield, Free-Spirited Olympian Who Excelled At Shot Putting And Partying, Dies At 71 The former WR holder had an amazing and interesting story which includes starting the spinning throw shot put technique, taking a cigarette break during the Olympics, appearing in Playgirl magazine, competing in the “World’s Strongest Man” competition, and once sparring with Muhammad Ali.
  *MB: RIP Brian Oldfield *USATF Release
• At 30 Years Old, GB Long Jumper Greg Rutherford Believes He’s “Still Got A Lot To Give In The Event” Rutherford says he isn’t limiting himself to just jumping this year either as he plans on doing some sprint races as well and adds that he’d like to do some road races once he retires.
• US’s Olympic Shot Put Champion Michelle Carter Shares Her Advice For Sport And Life Carter says you need to listen to your parents and trust your coach, which is perfect for her as her father and coach are one and the same.

Three Quote Of The Day Worthy Reads

• Good Read #1: Wayde Van Niekerk Has His Sights Set On A Sub-43 Second 400m “I’m not someone that necessary likes counting my chickens before they hatch, but at the age of 24, achieving a record that’s been there forever … you still feel that you’ve got so much more to prove.”
• GR #2: Australia’s Olympic Racewalk Bronze Medalist Dane Bird-Smith Tells Story Of How Meeting His Fiancee At A Party In 2012 Was His Inspiration To Get Serious About The Sport “I took a hard look at myself. I needed to cut out the parties and the social life. If I wanted to be the best in the world, I had to want it more than anybody else.”
• GR #3: IAAF Profile: With Second World XC Title Secure, Geoffrey Kamworor Now Turns Focus To London “In 2015 … I got silver, so I am not satisfied yet. I want to win the title. I am working so hard for it. That’s really my big dream and I will work for it until I fulfill it.”

2016 Was A Record Year For Us In Terms Of Traffic – Thanks For Visiting

An Inside Look At How LRC Operates How a Ragtag Crew Of Almost Journalists Created Running’s Most Controversial Website Author Charles Bethea embedded himself with us during the US Olympic trials and got a behind-the-scenes look at how we operate. His article in Outside magazine includes some really nice quotes from Tim Layden, “… their best quality is that they don’t give a shit about offending people,” and Nick Willis, “It gave me a ton of inspiration. LetsRun is one of the primary reasons high-quality coaching and training have improved in ­America.”
*MB: Long Article on Letsrun… in Outside Magazine

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