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Quote Of The Day

“It’s here now. We’re going to talk about it probably ad nauseum until the meet. It’s something that never has been done. It’s also special and unique. And we’re up for the challenge to try to do that. … Oregon is going to be a target whether you’re 50th or you’re first, just by being here. It’s something we welcome because we are blue collar in nature and work for everything we get.”

– University of Oregon coach Robert Johnson talking about the women’s team’s pursuit of the elusive triple NCAA crown.

An LRCer Wins The Comrades Marathon

USA’s Camille Herron Is Your 2017 Comrades Marathon Champion Herron becomes the first American woman since 1997 to win the 56-mile ultra.
*MB:Camille Herron (jaguar1) WINS Comrades Marathon!
After Previous Finishes Of Third And Second, South Africa’s Bongmusa Mthembu Wins Men’s Race At Comrades Marathon

International Results

Kenyans Justus Kangogo (62:47) And Agnes Jeruto Barsosio (69:53) Beat The Heat To Win Ceske Budejovice Half Marathon In The Czech Republic Wilson Kipsang was a DNF due to a calf problem.
Poland’s Joanna Jozwik And Martyna Galant Help Thrill The Home Crowd In Bydgoszcz Jozwik set a 600m world lead with 1:26.74 while Martyna won the 1,500m in 4:08.8.
Brazil’s Darlan Romani Breaks South American Shot Put Record With 21.82m Olympic pole vault champ Thiago Braz da Silva got a surprising loss to his countryman Augusto Dutra while Anita Wlodarczyk won the hammer with 78.00m over USA’s Gwen Berry (73.37m). *Results
A Result We Missed:Jo Pavey (32:57) And Andrew Butchart (29:18) Won The Vitality 10,000 In London Pavey says she hasn’t given up on qualifying for UK’s Worlds squad even though she didn’t get one of the auto spots at the trials.

High School Corner

Sydney McLaughlin Breaks Her Own 400H World U20 Record With 54.03 In NJAfterwards, McLaughlin doubled back and ran 51.88 to win the 400m, completing the third-best 400/400H same-day double of all time.
*Sydney McLaughlin Breaks New Jersey State 200m Record With 22.96
*MB:Sydney McLaughlin 54.03 400h, 51.88 400
Tara Davis Runs Wind-Aided “All Conditions Best” 12.83 To Win The California State Champs 100H Davis also won the LJ in 22’1″ to break Marion Jones‘ state record and took the TJ. She actually nearly won the meet for her team on her own as she scored 30 points, 1 short of the winning 30.
Thomas Burns Runs The Second-Fastest High School 300m Hurdle Of All-Time With 35.25 At The Great Southwest Classic Burns broke the MR held by Robert Griffin III while Tyrese Cooper broke the 400m MR with 45.38.

Comrades Is Sunday

RIP

Jack Griffin, Olympic Coach In ’64, ’76 And ’84 And Frederick County, MD Track And Field Royalty, Dies At 89He never left Frederick despite getting a ton of college offers. *MB: RIP Jack Griffin – Olympic Coach (64, 76, 84)
Shock As Athlete Dies 7km Into Training Run In Kaptagat, Kenya
*MB: RIP: David Kiprotich – Kenyan Athlete Collapsed And Died 7km Into His Training This Morning

Oregon News: King Ches Goes Pro

MB:Edward Cheserek Goes Pro, Signs With Chris Layne At Total Sports
Alan Abrahamson:“If a track meet happens in the forest, does it make a sound?” Abrahamson thinks if the sport is ever going to be popular, we need to stop holding every meet in Eugene.
*Ken Goe Responds:“Don’t Blame Eugene For The State Of The Sport In The US” Goe says it’s “not Eugene’s fault” that Pre is the only DL meet in the US, pointing out other big meets like the adidas GP in NYC didn’t survive.
Race Day Make-Up Is A Big Thing For Raevyn Rogers Rogers spends an hour-and-a-half of her pre-race routine on her appearance. This emphasis on looking “girlier” goes back to when she was in middle school and people compared her to a boy because she was good at sports.
Kelly Sullivan Retires After 14 Years Coaching At Oregon State

Jamaican Sprint Stuff

The Gleaner:“Salute To A Legend” – Big Celebrations Including Fireworks Planned For Usain Bolt’s Last Race In Jamaica Bolt will run his final race in Jamaica next Saturday at the Racers Grand Prix.
Top-Level Security Will Be In Place For Racers Grand Prix Meet With Bolt, Farah And Van Niekerk In The House
Usain Bolt Is Ranked 7th Most Popular Athlete In The World In ESPN’s Latest World Fame 100 List Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is ranked #1.
Usain Bolt Is Retiring After This Year, But His Coach Glen Mills Is Not Mills will keep coaching and wants to build a new stadium in Bolt’s honor.
Huffington Post Interview With Usain Bolt Bolt says his favorite toast to give when drinking with friends is, “Just shut up and drink.”
Jamaican Journalist Thinks Elaine Thompson Has Been Racing Too Much And “Needs A Breather” All we can say is she hasn’t raced any more than one of her biggest competitors, Olympic silver medalist Dafne Schippers.
June 10:Yohan Blake “Feeling Good” Ahead Of Racers Grand Prix
August 18:Elaine Thompson Will Compete At The Malmo Games In Sweden

Behind-The-Scenes Look With Team New Balance Boston

LRC Workout Day With Team New Balance BostonOlympic Trials 6th placer Liz Costello and 5-time Swedish national champ Anna Silvander share a 3-minute video on what a workout day is like for them.

Team USA Wins 1st-Ever Bolder-Boulder Title

Men: Bolder Boulder 2017: Gabriel Geay Of Tanzania Edges Leonard Korir For Individual Title But Team USA Wins 1st-Ever TitleLeonard Korir was 2nd, Sam Chelanga 3rd and Diego Estrada 9th as Team USA edged Ethiopia 13-15.
Women: Ethiopia’s Mamita Daska Wins Fifth Crown As Ethiopia Edges Team USA By 1 Point In Team Standings
Former 4-Time Colorado State XC Champ Paul Roberts Runs 32:25

Pro Sprint/Field News

Santa Monica Part II? Carl Lewis Launches A New Pro Track Club Called Team Perfect Method “I am focused on getting Americans ready to make the Olympic team. Most of the athletes who run for Team Perfect Method will be UH athletes, and UH is allowing us the opportunity to allow athletes to stay in Houston and train here and be part of it.” They also will be marketing to recreational athletes.
Jenn Suhr Is Still Raising The Bar At Age 35 “Any time I think I shouldn’t be doing this anymore, I go in the weight room and realize, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I just benched more than I ever have.'”
Teen Pole Vault Star Duplantis Doesn’t Want To Say He’s Better Than Lavillenie And Kendricks, But Will Say He Has A Shot To Beat Them At Worlds
Track And Field News’s Men’s Best-Ever Marks-For-Place For All Events Want to know the best time that ever finished third in a 5000? They’ve got you covered.
Garry Hill Was For Scrapping The World Records … 17 Years Ago It would have been cool to start over in 2000.

Monday Was Memorial Day In The US

2017 Pre Classic ResultsEvent Hub *Photo Gallery

adidas Boost Boston Games Are Friday And Sunday In Boston Schedule, TV And Streaming For 2017 adidas Boost Boston LRC Preview

LRC Friday Recap: Muktar Edris Rips 13:01.04 5K; Charlene Lipsey (1:59.57) Keeps Rolling In 800; Gabe Grunewald Runs Final Race Before Beginning Chemo Edris outdueled Kenyan Cyrus Rutto (13:03.44). Other winners included Chris O’Hare (3:39.31 1,500) and Brandon McBride (1:45.36) over Donavan Brazier & Robby Andrews in the 800.

LRC Chasing Usain Bolt: After A Historic Year, Wayde van Niekerk Finally Has Permission To Run The 200 Usain Bolt doesn’t want to face van Niekerk this year at 200. We can’t really blame him. But a Bolt-van Niekerk matchup would be epic.

LRC adidas Boost Boston Games Preview

Sprint Stuff

US’s Lauryn Williams Looks Back At The Controversial Finish In The 2007 World Champs 100m When She Had To Wait 30-Minutes To Find Out Who Won Williams and Veronica Campbell-Brown finished with the exact same time with the the scoreboard first flashing up VCB as the winner, then Williams and back to VCB.
Justin Gatlin Isn’t Convinced Usain Bolt Will Retire After This Season “I would like to buy into [Bolt’s plans to retire], but I’m thinking at this point in time, I’m kind of on the fence about that.”
Oh No, Say It Isn’t So:Carmelita Jeter Won’t Race In 2017 Jeter says she isn’t retired and is still training “just to stay in shape,” but won’t race this season.
After Two Injury-Hit Seasons, 2008 Olympic 110H Champ Dayron Robles Says He Is In Good Shape And Targeting London Worlds Robles has only ran 13.66 this season, still a ways off the 13.48 needed for selection.
1984 Olympic 400H Silver Medalist And HS Coach Danny Lee Harris Arrested On Suspicion Of Contacting A Student “With Intent To Commit A Sex Crime”
Usain Bolt Took More Than 2-Weeks Off To Mourn The Loss Of A Good Friend

News From Oregon

Oregon Coach Robert Johnson Says The Team Embraces The Pursuit Of The Triple Crown “It’s here now. We’re going to talk about it probably ad nauseum until the meet.”
Register-Guard:“Newcomers Have Made A Big Impact On The Oregon Ducks” A look at the transfers and freshmen who will make an immediate impact for Oregon in their first year in Eugene.
As Longtime Coach Kelly Sullivan Retires, Ken Goe Explains Why Being The Coach At Oregon State Is Such “A Tough Gig” Whether it’s the UO Ducks or OSU baseball, Oregon State has a lot of competition for attention/support.

More Weekend / Upcoming Track Action

World Indoor TJ Champ Yulimar Rojas Leaps 14.96m To Win In Spain In the rarely run 2,000m steeple, Kenya’s Benjamin Kigen ran 5:18.67, the fastest time in the world in 10 years.
Saturday:Brazil’s Olmpic Pole Vault Champ Tiago Braz Da Silva Highliths Field For Brazil IAAF World Challenge Meet
June 15:Deep 400H Field Set For Oslo Bislett Games With Olympic Champ Kerron Clement, World Champ Nicholas Bett And Euro Champ Yasmani Copello
July 12:South Africa Names Team For World U18 Champinoships

The Sprints / Hurdles News That’s Pretty Interesting

Even Though Justin Gatlin Is Only The 11th-Fastest US Sprinter This Year, He Tells Reuters He Considers Himself To Be The Man To Beat At USAs At Age 35 And TFN Agrees Gatlin’s 10.14 is misleading as it was run into a huge headwind and he has run 9.97 windy.
Matthew Hudson-Smith Reminds People He Ran 44.48 Last Year At Age 21
Dayron Robles, 2008 Olympic Champ, Is On Comeback Trail At Age 30 After Missing 2016, Remaining Loyal To Cuba He hopes to emulate Allen Johnson, who was still going strong at age 37. And he loves his native Cuba and has opened a gig where tourists can stay with a real Cuban family.
Long Jumper Luvo Manyonga Is Doing Stockholm DL On June 18th – Swedish National Record Holder March Torneus Says Manyonga Will Break The WR “I am partly coached by Dwight Phillips and we are both sure that Manyonga is going to break Mike Powell’s world record.”
Sally Pearson Recalls Her Days As A Junior Star She won her first U-20 Australian crown at 14 and then went on to win World Jr. 100H gold and place 5th in the 200.
After Regionals, TFN Has The Oregon Women Winning By 18 Over USC
After Regionals, TFN Still Has Texas A&M & Florida In A Virtual Tie In Men’s Team Battle

More Distance News

Brett Larner Compares The Spring Marathons And Determines Tokyo – Not London – Comes Out On Top (At least in terms of sub-2:10s) 12 guys broke 2:10 in Tokyo whereas only 6 did it London. 9 did it Paris and Rotterdam. London clearly led the world in sub-2:28 women’s performers this year.
Stockholm Marathon Preview: Yuki Kawauchi Racing Shumi Dechasa, Who Is Racing A Marathon For The 1st Time Since Finishing 5th At 2015 Worlds
77 Runners Have Entered Next Weekend’s European 10,000m Cup, Led By Aras Kaya (27:48.53)
Wilson Kipsang Is Racing A Half This Weekend In The Czech Republic In his first race since running 2:03:58 in Tokyo, he ran 28:26 in Manchester last week.
Anti-Doping Agency Of Kenya Says Athletes Who Skipped A Recent Anti-Doping Seminar Might Be Banned From The The Trials There is no way this happens.

News From Kenya

After Pre, Asbel Kiprop Says He’s Only At 40-45% Fitness
A First Time For Everything:Athletics Kenya Says They Will Vet And Punish Any Athletes Caught Age Cheating At The Trials For The World Under-18 Championships
June 8:Conseslus Kipruto And Jav Thrower Julius Yego Eye Success At Rome Diamond League
IAAF Ratifies Multiple Distance World Records, But They All Belong To Joyciline Jepkosgei In case you forgot, Jepkosgei set three other records (10K, 15K, 20K) enroute to her 64:52 half marathon WR.

Non-Pro Running News

The Future Of Women’s Sports Is At Risk: MB:Transgender Athlete Wins Connecticut Girls’ 100m And 200m State TitlesAndraya Yearwood is a transgender sprinter who competed as a girl for the first time earlier this year. While we support Yearwood’s right to identify as she chooses, a biological man competing against women without hormone treatment is blatantly unfair.
Brandon Miller Runs National Freshman Class 800m Record At Missouri State Champs Miller ran 1:50.84 to win his first state title.
MB: Two University Of Minnesota Sprinters Come Out As Gay, In A Relationship
Cute Video:Little Kids Don’t Know How To Break The Finish Line Tape In Road Race
5K Road Race To Take Place On Ohio Airport Runway

BBC/ProPublica Take Another Look At Alberto Salazar And Dr. Jeffrey Brown

BBC/ProPublicaDr. Brown Also Doctored Steve Magness’ Medical Records Magness has revealed that the records that Dr. Brown turned over to USADA do not match the ones that Dr. Brown gave him. Dr. Brown changed them to make it look like he gave Magness a full medical exam prior to giving him L-Carnitine.
*MB: BBC/ProPublica Strike Again – Dr. Jeffrey Brown also doctored Magness’ medical records before giving them to USADA

More Doping News:

IAAF Approves Three More Russians To Compete As Neutral Athletes Sprinters Kseniya Aksyonova and Vera Rudakova and javelin thrower Vera Rebrik can now compete unattached.
Russian Race Walk National Champ Pyotr Trofimov Gets 4-Year Doping Ban Trofimov was caught with the biological passport.
Help Make Our Sport More Honest:IAAF’s Athletics Integrity Unit Is Hiring

NCAA Start Next Week

Despite Regional Hiccups, The Oregon Women Are The Strong Favorites Going Into NCAAs Arkansas and LSU stay in the #2-3 spots.
Texas A&M Remains Ranked #1 Going Into NCAAs Florida and Alabama are ranked 2-3.
Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From Regionals Weekend The fastest steeple times for the weekend came from Louisville’s Edwin Kibichiy (8:32) and New Hampshire’s Elinor Purrier (9:50).
Full List Of NCAA Qualifiers

NCAAs Finals Start Next Week In Eugene

Distance News

Abbey D’Agostino Reveals She Won’t Race This Season Due To A “Minor Setback”
Nick Symmonds Announces His Season Opener At The Portland Track Festival On June 11
Ken Goe Hopes That Nick Symmonds Qualifies For USAs In His Final Season Goes says Symmonds is one of the reasons why he’s had so much fun covering track and field.
Eliud Kipchoge Believe Sub-2 Hours Is Still Possible And Might Try Again In The Future

More US Weekend Action

RRW:Patience Pays For Sara Hall As She Beats A Solid Field At The Freihofer’s Run For Women 5K Hall didn’t take the lead until the last 30 meters, but that was all it took to win in 15:48 over Aliphine Tuliamuk (15:50). Lindsey Scherf (16:09) and Becky Wade 16:15) were 3-4. *Results
MB:Marta Pen Freitas (4:05) And Izaic Yorks (3:38) Win Furman Elite 1,500 On the women’s side, 4-women got under the 4:07.5 World qualifying standard.
Connor Clafin (4:06) And Jamie Morrissey (4:43) Win Monumental Mile In Downtown Indianapolis

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.”