It’s Relays Weekend! 2018 Drake And Penn Relays *Schedule, Results *TV & Streaming (12:30-3:00 PM ET Sat.)

LRC Relays Weekend Preview: Jenny Simpson Goes For 2-Mile AR, Sydney McLaughlin Set For 400H Debut, & Andre De Grasse Is Back It’s relays week – normally one of the greatest weekends of the year for college track fans – but this year’s calendar has us a little depressed as the big guns aren’t competing with each other. Instead of everyone going to Penn or Drake, a few are now going to Arkansas, others to LSU and others aren’t going anywhere. Still, there are a few amazing races that we are really excited about but most of them are ironically individual races.

More On Semenya And IAAF Testosterone Rule

• Caster Semenya Stays Quiet After IAAF Hyperandrogenism Rule Announcement Semenya tweeted a quote saying, “How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged.”
• Recommended Watch:Ross Tucker Analyzes The IAAF’s New Hyperandrogenism Policy With Regard To Caster Semenya Tucker believes there needs to be regulations that “protect the boundary” between men’s and women’s sports, but doesn’t think the science is strong enough to hold up in court and predicts that the IAAF regulations won’t stand up to a legal challenge from Semenya or someone else.
• Dutee Chand Has Offered Caster Semenya Her Legal Team It was Chand’s legal challenge against the IAAF’s original hyperandrogenism rules that got us to where we are today when CAS suspended the IAAF regulations.
• Deadspin:“The Only Point Of Track’s Dumb New Testosterone Rules Is To Make It Illegal To Be Caster Semenya” Whatever your take on the IAAF’s new regulations, there is no way they are as dumb as this headline.
• Seb Coe Says New Testosterone Rules Could Be Extended To Other Events
• Q&A With IAAF Doctor Stephane Berman On New Testosterone Rules Apparently the new IAAF rules won’t necessarily apply to smaller level competitions so Caster Semenya could hypothetically still compete at SA Nationals without hormone treatment.

Previous Relay News

• NCAA History Lesson: Of The 16 Collegiate Relay Records, 7 Of Them Have Been Set At Penn Or Drake
• USATF Drake Relays Preview Distance action includes the women’s 2-mile with Jenny Simpson, Brenda Martinez and Alexa Efraimson.
• Riley Masters (4:03.1) And Emily Lipari (4:32.9) Win USATF 1 Mile Champs At Drake Relays’ Grand Blue Mile Lipari just beat out Brenda Martinez by .2 while Masters beat out Eric Avila (4:03.9).
  *Video Interview With Masters *Video Interview With Lipari *USATF Release
• Jenn Suhr (4.80m) Defeats USA Indoor Champs Katie Nageotte (4.70m) And Sandi Morris (4.70m) To Win Drake Capital Square Pole Vault On the men’s side, Andrew Irwin cleared 5.60m to got an upset victory over Shawn Barber (5.60m, lost on countback) and Sam Kendricks (5.50m).
• Pre-Race Q&A With Mikey Brannigan And His Coach When training with the American Distance Project, Leonard Korir refers to Brannigan as the “Young Lion.”

USATF News

• Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex On Staten Island Announced As Hosts For The 2019 And 2020 USATF Indoor Championships
  *USATF Release
• RIP:USATF Official George Kleeman, 78

Assorted Distance News

• Toni Reavis Analyzes The Pacing At London 2018 And How They Went Out Too Fast For The Conditions “I know that modern runners have out-trained the distance, at least on a benign day, but can they be so dismissive of the distance and the records that they think basic physiological norms no longer apply?”
• Short Q&A With Paul Chelimo Chelimo says he tries to live by the Vedic hymn, “Go hard or Suffer the rest of your life.”
• World Record Holder Dennis Kimetto Meets Austrian President After DNFing The Vienna City Marathon Kimetto said, “I was in great shape and my body was feeling okay when I started the race. Things started falling apart after the halfway mark when the calf injury recurred. I still have high hopes and I intend to come back stronger.”

Mark Your Calendars

• USATF Release: Atlanta To Host The 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Atlanta won the bid over Chattanooga, Tenn.; Austin, Texas; and Orlando, Florida.
  *MB: Atlanta to host 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials Start training now. Feb 29, 2020 will be here before you know it as it’s only 678 days away.

London On The Message Board

• Official 2018 London Marathon Live Discussion Thread 
• Kipchoge needs to win New York and/or Boston (real marathons) to secure his legacy as the GOAT We guess the poster forgot he crushed everyone at the Olympics.
• Mo Farah – Greatest Range of Any Distance Runner Ever? Farah, who has a 3:28 1,500 PR, ran 2:06:21.
• Does today’s race mark MO FARAH as competitive on the world stage? 
• Can we please stop with the WR attempts at London? We 100% agree. And if they are going to go for the WR, can they at least go at the right pace?
• MO FARAH wants to fight Motorbike guy! 
• Kennenisa Bekele – Interview after the race – No excuses given Bekele was sixth in 2:08:53.
• Bekele is officially TOAST

There’s Always The Crazy At London
LRC Meet The Real Life Forrest Gump: Rob Pope (82nd Place In 2:36) Has Nearly Completed Gump’s Epic Quest Of Five Runs Across America
Discussion: LRC Sleuths- Fellow LetsRun Visitor Rob Pope Has Nearly Completed Forrest Gump’s Five Runs Across America And Wants Scrutiny

LRC 15 Years On, Paula Radcliffe Reflects On Her 2:15:25 Marathon World Record “The longer it’s gone on, obviously, the more attached I’ve become to it. And it’s started feel a little bit like part of the family. But it’s inevitable it’s going to get beaten at some point.”
*MB: Paula Radcliffe’s WR could go down this weekend, what questions would you like us to ask her this weekend?

Full London Coverage In Our Virgin Money London Marathon Special Section

Weekend Track Action *All NCAA Results

LRCNew Mexico’s Josh Kerr Runs 3:35.01 To Break NCAA 1,500m Record As impressive as Josh’s run was, Jim Ryun ran 3:33.1 as a collegiate sophomore 51 years ago but it wasn’t during the collegiate season. In our minds, anything achieved before you go pro or up through the NCAAs of your senior year is the real collegiate record.
Discuss:*Josh Kerr breaks NCAA record 3:35.01!! @Clay Invite
*Why Isn’t Jim Ryun’s 3:33.1 in 1967 the American Collegiate Record?

• Grenada Invitational:Justin Gatlin Runs 10.05 To Win 100m Over Isiah Young (10.11) And Mike Rodgers (10.17); Tori Bowie Wins 200m In 22.75 Other winners included LaShawn Merritt (200 – 20.57), Hannah Cunliffe (100m – 11.42), Shamier Little (400 – 51.45) and Kori Carter (100H – 12.79).
• Mt. SAC Relays: USC’s Twanisha Terry Runs Fourth-Fastest Under-20 100m In History With 10.99 At Mt. SAC Recent world indoor record setter Michael Norman won the 400 in a PR of 44.53 while World U20 silver medalist Lynna Irby won the women’s race in 50.95. Other winners included Brianna Rollins in the 100H (12.43), Fred Kerley in the 200 (20.48), Olympic champ Dalilah Muhammad in the 400H (55.25), Jeff Demps in the 100 (10.08).
  *Results Georgia’s Jessica Drop won the 5,000 in 15:38 while Japan’s Yuki Fukuda took the 1,500 in 4:16.64 over Charlene Lipsey (4:16.76).
• World Champions Justin Gatlin And Tori Bowie Headline At Saturday’s Grenada Invitational
• Thursday @ Bryan Clay:Evan Jager (13:24) And Marielle Hall (15:39) Start Seasons Off With Wins As DII’s Sydney Gibaduday Beats D1’s Matthew Baxter For Top NCAA Honors Nice run by Gibaduday for top NCAA honors. Acceptable rust buster for Jager in our book, but at least one guy disagrees.
  *Discuss Meet*Jager Looked BAD