Adrian Martinez Classic And St. Louis Festival Of Miles *Adrian Martinez Results *St Louis Results

LRC Reed Brown Runs 3:59.30 Mile To Become 10th US High Schooler Under 4:00 At St. Louis Festival Of Miles Brown sits at #4 all-time in the high school ranks thanks to a 57 last 400. It’s the 5th time in 3 years that a HSer has broken 4:00.
*Good Read:Reed Brown Says Becoming First Texas HSer To Break 4-Minutes Is “Pretty Unreal” Brown comes from an athletically talented family as he is the brother of former NFL kicker and has another brother who’s a kicker at Nebraska.
*MB: Reed Brown breaks 4!
*MB: It’s been 50+ years since Jim Ryun ran 3:55 as a HSer, how has only 1 American high schooler beaten that since then?

LRCAdrian Martinez Recap: David Torrence Blasts 3:53.21 Mile To Lead 8 Men Under 3:57; Nicole Tully (4:30.22 Mile) & Marielle Hall (8:55.55 3K) Nab Big Wins A great day of racing outside of Boston. Other winners include Ryan Martin (1:46.03) and Ce’iraBrown (2:01.10) as Ole Miss redshirt Robert Domanic ran 3:54. Plus we have a Leo Manzano update.
*MB: Adrian Martinez – Top 10 under 4:00, 8 break meet record. 
*MB:ADRIAN MARTINEZ USES WRONG MILE START LINE?!?!?! We’re not going to lie, the picture looks very shady but we’re on site and have confirmed the correct start line was 100% used.
*MB: Is David Torrence the fastest Peruvian miler of all time?
*MB: Chris Giesting, Hoka NJNY 1:46 in first season!

Week That Was

LRC Why NCAA Regionals Should Not Be Cancelled, Jakob Ingebrigtsen Becomes The Youngest To Break 4:00* And Team USA Wins Its First Title At Bolder Boulder* We look at some crazy fast times at Regionals, plus the big American win and payday at Bolder Boulder.
*USTFCCCA: Where Are The NCAA Qualifiers From? The coaches’ association lists the hometown of all NCAA qualifiers. In terms of media markets, LA (39), Houston (30), New York (30), DFW (25) and Atlanta (24) are the top 5.

Opening The LRC Inbox

LRC Emails Of Month: April Fools / David Kutania Update, Criticism Of Our NOP Coverage, LetsRun.com Japan, And Horses Riding To Death We lift the veil on some of our readers’ emails.

adidas Boost Boston Games Is Friday And Sunday In Boston *Schedule, TV And Streaming For 2017 adidas Boost Boston

LRC Big Weekend Of Track In Boston: adidas Boost Boston Games PreviewBoston is the PLACE TO BE this weekend as there are some great names entered in these two events. From sprint stars like Wayde van Niekerk, Yohan Blake, Tori Bowie, and Shaunae Miller-Uibo to mid-d and distance stars like Robby Andrews, Leo Manzano, Donavan Brazier, Dejen Gebremeskel, and Muktar Edris. Plus can HSer Casey Clinger break 4:00 in the mile?
*Deep Fields Set For Boys’ And Girls’ adidas Dream Miles At Boost Boston Games Two-time NXN champ Casey Clinger leads the boys’ race while the girls’ has the top 4 in the country, headed by Taylor Roe (4:45) and NXN champ Brie Oakley.
*A Look At Where 2013 adidas Grand Prix Dream Milers Are Now – All 15 Of THe Men Are Very Good Collegians
*US’s #1 HS Sprinters Anthony Schwartz (10.15) And Symone Mason (11.24) Will Both Be In Sunday’s Dream 100s

Non-African Distance News

• Laura Thweatt Withdraws From US World Marathon Squad With Injury
• Recommended Read: IAAF Profile On The Youngest Sub-4 Miler Ever, Jakob Ingebrigsten Considering Ingebrigsten and his two older brothers are all elite milers, you may be shocked to know neither of their parents have any background in athletics. But that didn’t stop their dad from learning everything he could so he could coach them.
  *MB:The Ingebrigtsen brothers all run Sub 4 at Pre – Have 3 Brothers ever run Sub 4 on the same day?
• Good Read:The Telegraph:Laura Muir Goes The Extra Mile In Bid For London Glory Muir is known for being a work horse as she says, “I can’t remember the last time I could physically stand at the end of a session. I pretty much run as hard as I can every time.”

Doping News: Farah Splitting From Salazar?

• Source Says That Mo Farah Will Distance Himself From Alberto Salazar After 2017 Worlds Farah will reportedly work with British Athletics coaches as he transitions to the marathon.
• Good:Yelena Isinbayeva Resigns From Her Post As RUSADA Chair – Sort Of This was one of WADA’s requirements for RUSADA to be reinstated as Dick Pound said appointing her was like giving WADA the middle finger. We’ll see how WADA responds as she’ll “remain a member of RUSADA’s supervisory council despite her resignation as chairwoman.”
• 16-Year-Old Indian Javelin Thrower Rohit Yadav Tests Positive For Steroids Yadav won silver at the Asian Youth Championships.
• Ukraine’s Former World Indoor 800m Silver Medalist Natalia Lupu Gets 8-Year Drug Ban For A Second Doping Offense Why not a lifetime ban for a second offense? Also, while it was announced by USADA in 2014, the IAAF confirmed an 8-year ban for Jon Drummond.
  *AP:The IAAF Announce Six Russian/Ukrainian Drug Bans
• IAAF Doping Review Body Rejected 28 Russian Applications To Compete As Neutrals 27 more cases are still under review.

Shhh … The Pros Have Revealed A Few Secrets

LRC Asbel Kiprop Tries The Steeple, Andrew Wheating & Clayton Murphy Are Training Buddies – What We Learned From Being In Eugene For The 2017 Pre Classic There are some things that can only be learned from being on the ground at a meet. Get the inside scoop from the 2017 Pre Classic, including learning what changes Emma Coburn is making in 2017 now that she’s being coached by Joe Bosshard and not Mark Wetmore/Heather Burroughs.

Upcoming Distance Action

• June 28:Olympic Champ Conseslus Kipruto Will Headline Steeple Field At Ostrava Golden Spike Meet
• July 4:American 10K Record Holder Shalane Flanagan To Return To The Roads At The 2017 AJC Peachtree Road Race This will be Flanagan’s first race since she finished 6th in the Rio marathon.
• July 9: Mo Farah Confirmed For Anniversary Games 3,000m At The London Olympic Stadium

More Distance News That Makes The Cut

• Celliphine Chespol Had No Idea She Broke 9 Until After The Race – Says She Now Wants The WR It’s also revealed that she has the same coach as Ruth Jebet.
• David Rudisha Calls His 2015 World Gold – Not 2012 WR And Gold – The Most Satisfying Moment Of His Career Coming back from injury and proving the critics wrong is always nice.
• 40-Year-Old Philo Saunders Set To Challenge Bernard Lagat’s 1,500 40+ WR Of 3:41.87 In June Pretty impressive if he does it as his PR is 3:41.22 and dates to 2005. He’s also hoping to break 4:00 in the mile for the 1st time in his life.
• Kenyan Runners Are Accused Of Being Rude While Training – The Pros Say The Taxi Drivers And Pedestrians Are To Blame Some runners have been accused of slapping people who refuse to get out of the way.
• Q&A With Cecilia Barowski, Whose Collegiate PR Dated To 2014 But Has Gone From 2:02.14 To 2:00.90 In Her First Year As A Pro With HOKA NJNYTC
• Boston Red Sox To Hold Marathon Inside Fenway Park It will take 112 laps and you have to raise at least $5,000 for charity as it’s being limited to 50 runners.
• A Look At The Georgia HS XC Team That Has Won 3 Straight XC State Titles Thanks To Its Diverse Team Makeup This years’ team had runners from Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, and Ethiopia.

Maybe Everyone Should Train For The Multi

• Spikes Takes A Look At Individual Event Stars Who Have Done Multis Over The Years From Barbora Spotakova to Nia Ali and Renaud Lavillenie.
• European Hurdles Champ Cindy Roleder Credits Her Improvement To The Fact She Decided To Train For The Heptathlon She points out that Dafne Schippers best year came after she was training for the multi.