Kipchoge At Berlin 2018

MB:It’s Official: Eliud Kipchoge to go for it again at 2018 BMW Berlin Marathon He’ll be joined by Wilson Kipsang and Zersenay Tadese.

2018 NCAAs *Schedule & Results *TV & Streaming *Post-Race Interviews *Running Warehouse Prediction Contest

MB: Official 2018 NCAA Day 4 Live Discussion Thread 

LRC USC Women Bring The Curtain Down On Hayward Field By Clinching The National Title In Dramatic 4 X 400 Relay Jonathan Gault provides his take on what was likely the final major race at Hayward Field.

LRCDistance Recap: Sammy Watson Gets Her First NCAA Title, Karissa Schweizer Her Last, Allie Ostrander #2 And Jessica Hull #1  The great NCAA career of Schweizer came to an end while Sammy Watson got title #1.

LRC Miss NCAAs On Saturday? Race Videos And Highlights

LRC Sydney Goes Pro Sydney McLaughlin did what we expected: turned professional.

• Saturday On the Boards (recaps coming):
• OH MY G*! USC WINS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Sydney McLaughlin’s Split in the 4×4
• Sammy MF Watson!
• John Anderson of ESPN please stop the jokes 
• John Anderson – PLEASE continue with Track and Field 
• It’s Official: Sydney McLaughlin has turned professional

High School Action

• Katelyn Tuohy Breaks New York State Champs Meet 1,500m Record With 4:14.75 Victory The sophomore won the race by more than 13 seconds to complete the 1,500/3,000 double.
• Quick Two-Mile Victories By James Mwaura (8:48.76) And Taryn O’Neill (9:54.40) Highlight Brooks PR The top 8 boys broke the 9-minute barrier (sophomore class record for Cole Sprout in 2nd with 8:49.46) while the top 5 girls went sub-10. Mile wins went to Dustin Horter (4:04.68) and Mariah Castillo (4:41.40). Sprint action included 400m wins by Sean Burrel (46.97) and Jan’taijah Ford (53.06). *Results
• Katelyn Tuohy Breaks Aisling Cuffe’s New York State 3,000m Record With 9:09.71 Victory To Win The NY State Meet The time also broke her own 9:15 national sophomore class record.
  *MileSplit: NY State Meet Day 1 Highlights
• MB: Biological boys go 1-2 at girls state finals in Connecticut… awkward finish (video)

NCAA Recaps From The Local Media

• Nike Designer Tinker Hatfield And Supporters Of Preserving Hayward Field’s East Grandstand Meet In Eugene 50 supporters met to discuss what legal and historical preservation options they could use to save the East grandstand.
• Register-Guard:USC Trojans Win Final Event To Edge Georgia Bulldogs For Team Title By 1 Point The meet was ridiculously tight with Stanford just one more point back in 3rd and Kentucky 7 points off USC in 4th.
• The Oregonian:USC Claims NCAA Women’s Title As Oregon Ducks Wilt In The Rain Oregon was hoping to contend for the win, but ended 7th in the team standings.
• Austin Meek:It Was An Oregon Weather Day On The Final Day Of NCAAs Meek writes that they expect the rain, but could have done without the hail which hit runners so hard they couldn’t see the finish line.
• Register-Guard:Oregon Were Thinking Big Things Were In Store For Their Final Meet At Hayward Field, But Were “Left Instead Wondering What Might Have Been”
• The Oregonian:Georgia Wins, Records Fall, The Oregon Ducks Barely Register In NCAA Men’s Champs Georgia scored 52 points to finish 10 ahead of pre-meet favorite Florida. Oregon had its worst team finish in 16 years to finish with 8 points in 35th.
• Register-Guard:Record-Setting Men’s Final Day Doesn’t Include The Oregon Ducks

Sprint Stuff

• Noah Lyles Says He’s Eyeing Usain Bolt’s 19.19 World Record – “I dream about it every night.” Lyles also talked about Jamaican sprint dominance: “Doesn’t feel good. Seeing Americans not at the top hurts my soul.”
• Court Drops Multiple Charges Against High School Sprinter Tyrese Cooper Cooper won’t face any legal action for multiple felony charges after his alleged involvement in two car robberies.
• Wayde van Niekerk Still Recovering From Injury, Won’t Race At All In 2018
• China Vs. Canada: Can Precise Passing Conquer Raw Speed? That’s the question that will be decided when these two 4 x 100 squads clash at the Harry Jerome Invitational on June 26-27.

Adrian Martinez Classic

LRC 2018 Adrian Martinez Recap: Ce’Aira Brown Goes Sub-2 Again, Marta Freitas 4:25 Mile, And After 15 Tries Leo Manzano Goes Sub-4 Congrats to Leo for sticking with it.

• MB: Dude dives at line to go sub 4 for the first time and comes up …. short
• MB: He’s BAAAAACK baby. After 15 straight 4:00+ miles, Leo Manzano breaks 4:00 at Adrian Martinez Classic 

Paavo Nurmi Games And Other Recent Results

• IAAF Paavo Nurmi Games Recap:Magnus Kirt Wins Javelin Showdown With Estonia NR Of 88.73 Kirt beat out German duo Thomas Rohler and Johannes Vetter, but didn’t pass the 93.09 Finnish record, so did not get to win his own island. Other winners included Meskerem Mamo in the 3,000 (8:38), Youness Essalhi in the 1,500 (3:38.39), Sergey Shubenkov 110H (13.18), Ramil Guliyev 200m (20.23) and Sandra Perkovic discuss (66.22m). *Results
• Connor Clark (3:54) And Tracee Van Der Wyk (4:29) Win State Street Mile Titles In Santa Barbara Van der Wyk just beat out Kim Conley (4:30) while Clark won a close race over Reid Buchanan and Craig Lutz, who also both ran 3:54 (top 11 all were sub-4).
• 10-Year-Old Arielle Avina Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll San Diego 5K In 19:20 She’s the youngest female to ever win a RnR series 5k event.

More Hayward Field News

• Bill Bowerman’s Sons Are So Against The Hayward Field Design They Made Phil Night Take Take Their Father’s Name Off The Nine-Story Tower Knight admitted that the criticism from the Bowermans and Steve Prefontaine‘s sisters has been disappointing and hard to take.
• Daily Emerald:40 Advocates Of Preserving Hayward Field’s East Grandstand Host A Discussion To Take Action Former Oregon coach Peter Thompson: “We’re not against the renovation at all. … The university right now is not working with the community. We don’t need something sleek and glitzy – we need something Eugene.”
• Ken Goe Says Phil Knight And His Wife Should Get Final Say On The Hayward Field Reconstruction Since They Are Putting Up Most Of The Money He should get say, but it’s at a public university on their property and will affect thousands of athletes and fans for years to come. It should not just be his call.
• Oregon Campus Will Lose One Street And 115 Parking Spots Due To Hayward Field Reconstruction
• Final Track Town Tuesday Of 2018 Season Will Be At Hayward Field With A Tribute To Former Oregon Coach And Three-Time Olympian Bill Dellinger

Weekend US Action

• LRC Solid Distance Results At The 2018 Music City Distance Carnival Highlights included Emily Richards (2:00.67) and Thomas Staines (1:45.57) taking the 800 wins and steeple wins from Genevieve Lalonde (9:38) and Anthony Rotich (8:34). 4:05.69 win by Marta Freitas in the 1,500.
  *DyeStat:Caitlin Collier (2:00.85 800) And Brodey Hasty (8:00.92 3,000) Come Up Big At Music City Distance Carnival Collier: “This was a much bigger mental battle against myself. I realized I could go out and run against all those other women.”
  *MileSplit: Caitlin Collier Runs #5 All-Time 800 With 2:00.85
  *MB: Caitlin Collier 2:00.85
  *MB: Brodey Hasty Runs #3 All-Time 3000 With 8:00.92 At Music City
• RRW:Sarah Pagano Wins Freihofer’s Run With Big Final SurgeDiane Nukuri had a small lead towards the end, but Pagano surged past her in the final kilometer to win in 15:48 with Stephanie Bruce 2nd (15:53) and Nukuri 3rd (15:56).
• MileSplit Video Interview:Anthony Schwartz Runs 4th All-Time High School 100m With 10.09
• MB: Sophomore Matt Strangio Closes In 57 To Win California State Meet 3200 In 8:56
• Anna Hall Breaks National High School Heptathlon Record with 5798 She destroyed Kendell Williams‘ record by 220 points and she’s only a junior in HS.
• Katelyn Tuohy Runs Double US#1s Ahead Of New York State Meet 4:22 for 1,500 and 9:15 for 3k at the same HS meet is pretty darn impressive.
• MB: Zach Miller’ Amazing North Face 50 Miler Finish

Sprints And Jumps

• Recommended Read:Dawn Harper Nelson Tells The Story Behind Her 2008 Olympic 100H Gold Harper talks about coming back to the athlete village and sharing a room with teammate Damu Cherry, who was 4th. “All night she was crying in bed and I am in the other bed knowing I am Olympic champion, bursting with emotion.”
• Bahamas 400 Runner Steven Gardiner Shares The High And Low Of His Career Apparently third time was the charm for Gardiner as e won World silver last year after having the two lows of his career at Rio 2016 and Beijing 2015.
• IAAF:100 Years After Her Birth, Francina “Fanny” Blankers-Koen’s Legacy Lives On She is most remembered for winning four golds at the 1948 London Olympics in the 100, 200, 80m hurdles and 4 x 100.
• Jamaica’s Commonwealth Games TJ Champ Kimberly Williams Explains Her Love For The Sport “The best thing about triple jump is that it is very technical and it feels easy when you do it right. I often know it is a good jump when I’m going into the jump phase because it feels like I have been in the air forever.”