Podcast #1 Of 2019

LRC 2019 Podcast #1: Houston Half Preview + LRC Answers The The Big Questions Ahead Of 2019 Season + Listener Audio & Fake Ryan Hall The LRC crew unveils its first podcast of 2019 and takes a look ahead at 2019, plus the great action at this weekend’s Aramco Houston Half, and for the first time has listener audio with some real and fake guests, and the threads of the week.

Houston Half And Full Take Place On Sunday

LRC 2019 Houston Half/Full Marathon Preview: Hot Fields, Cold Temps, The American Debut For Sally Kipyego And The Return Of Kara Goucher Houston is always one of the highlights of the winter for US fans and this year’s races could be extra special as Olympic silver medalist Sally Kipyego races for the 1st time since declaring she’ll represent the US moving forward and Kara Goucher races a marathon for the 1st time as a 40-year-old. The problem is the weather forecast doesn’t look good but what does look good is the international fields in both the men’s and women’s halves as they are LOADED with talent.

LRC Parker Stinson Heads To The Houston Half Marathon With A New Coach: Dathan Ritzenhein Stinson and Ritzenhein have a relationship that stretches back a decade. They try not to worry about the fact that, should all go well, they’ll be racing each other for an Olympic berth next year.

NCAA Highlights From The Weekend

• Penn State’s Danae Rivers Crushes Collegiate 1,000m Record With 2:38.58 At The Nittany Lion Challenge The previous record was 2:40.79 set by Kaela Edwards in 2017.
• Two Indoor American Junior Records Go Down In The Pole Vault And 300m Stephen F. Austin’s Nastassja Campbell cleared 4.39m at Texas A&M while Virginia Tech’s Jacory Patterson ran 32.49 in the 300m.
• Event-By-Event Top 10 Marks Of The Collegiate Weekend There were three sub-4:40 women’s miles led by Katie Rainsberger‘s 4:37.30
• Jacory Patterson And Danae Rivers Get NCAA Athletes Of The Week For Their Respective Records

Doping News

• Former Commonwealth 10,000m Champ Lucy Kabuu (2:19:34 Marathon PR) Gets Two-Year Drug Ban After Testing Positive For Morphine Athletics Kenya chairman Jackson Tuwei has claimed that from now on any Kenyan who has served a doping ban will not be able to represent the country internationally (effectively giving a lifetime ban).
• Bahrain’s Former World Indoor 400m Champ Kemi Adekoya Is Provisionally Suspended After Testing Positive For Steroids
• “Reasoned” Decisions Involving Russian Athletics In Sochi 2014 Doping Scandal To Be Published This Month CAS will outline why they overturned doping sanctions against 28 out of 39 Russian athletes who had been banned from the Olympic Games for life, with their results from Sochi 2014 being reinstated.

Weekend Highlights *Results: *Great Stirling XC *UW Preview

• Yomif Kejelcha Runs 3:52.61 Mile And Defeats Clayton Murphy Over 1,000m To Highlight UW Indoor Preview Kejelcha dominated the mile and beat out Murphy in the 1,000m 2:18.34 to 2:18.64. Shannon Rowbury ran her first track race since giving birth with a 9:03.00 in the 3,000 behind winner Eleanor Fulton (9:02.84). Konstanze Klosterhalfen won the 1,000 (2:43.07) and the mile (4:29.06) in her first races for NOP. Craig Engels ran 7:50.79 to defeat Brooks Beasts’ Dillon Maggard (7:51.84), and Josh Kerr took the 800 (1:49.61).
  *MB: WHO TF IS AMOS BARTELSMEYER!?!? The UW volunteer assistant was 2nd in the mile (3:55.32).
• Katelyn Tuohy Runs No. 6 All-Time 4:39.15 Mile At NYRR Millrose Games Trials She was clocked in 4:19.72 for her 1,500m split, which is the 4th fastest all-time.
  
• Despite Wrong Turn, USA’s Hillary Bor Wins Hard-Fought Men’s Great Stirling XC Title With 600m to go, six men were still in contention, but Bor moved up to take the win over Team Europe’s Napoleon Solomon and Adel Mechaal, while USA’s Leonard Korir, Garrett Heath and David Elliott took 4-6 (the top six were separated by 12 seconds). Team Europe won the overall team competition.
  *IAAF Recap
• Germany’s Elena Burkard Helps Team Europe To Great Stirling XC Victory She beat out GB’s Charlotte Arter by 5 seconds. Anne-Marie Blaney was the top American in 11th place.
• Laura Muir Leads Great Britain To Great Stirling XC Relay Win Team Europe was second and the US third in the co-ed relay.
• Race Video (USATF.TV Subscription Required)
  *Great Stirling XC Video Interviews
• DyeStat Great Stirling Recap

NCAA News

• Former Georgia All-American Tara Davis Transfers To Texas Davis will have to sit out the 2019-2020 track season as she wasn’t released by Georgia. It was a bit of a strange process as Davis’ former Georgia coach, tweeted that she was transferring to Texas before it was official and Davis posted a response video saying how that had negatively affected her.
  *MB: Tara Davis transferring from Georgia
• Pre-Season Bowerman Men’s Watchlist Grant Fisher and Morgan McDonald are the two lone distance runners on the ten-person list.
• Men’s Pre-Season Indoor NCAA Rankings Texas Tech, Florida and Florida State are ranked 1-3.
• Pre-Season Women’s NCAA Rankings Have Arkansas, Florida State And Texas A&M 1-3

2020 Olympic Marathon Trials 418 Days Away

LRC The Olympic Trials Course Is Here And Here’s What You Need To Know About It – With Elevation Chart It’s a loop course and we’ve got an unofficial elevation chart.

*Runner’s World Says That As Hilly As The Olympic Trials Marathon Course Is, It’s Not As Hilly As It Was Originally Designed They also point out how already 140 men and 262 women have qualified for the Trials and there is still a year to go.

Olympic Sex Abuse Scandals

• Group Of Olympians Call For “Near Complete” Resignation Of USOC Board Following Report That The USOC Had Facilitated Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Scandal Among its findings, the report accused former USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun and chief of sport performance Alan Ashley of being aware of the accusations more than a year before they became public.
• Dick’s Sporting Goods Ends Their USOC Sponsorship They cited “new investment focus” as the reason for not renewing their sponsorship, but it is suspected it is related to the USA Gymnastics sexual-abuse scandal.
• AP: Dutch Athletics Federation Bans Track Coach For Life For Sexually Abusing Young Girls They were not able to press criminal charges because victims did not want to go to police.

Looking Ahead To Future Championships

• Atlanta Track Club Unveils 2020 US Olympic Trials Marathon Course The course consists of three 6-mile loops and one 8.2-mile loop and includes 1,000 feet of elevation gain.
• The IAAF Hypes Up 2019 World XC Champs On March 30th A gritty XC course, a potential Geoffrey Kamworor hat trick and a championship race open to the masses are some things to look forward to.
• IAAF Analyzes Some Cool New Innovations Coming To 2019 Worlds Special air conditioning in the stadium, a pink track and a midnight marathon will all come to Doha 2019.
• USATF And Toyota Sign Sponsorship Deal Through 2020

Mary Cain Training In Mammoth With Deena Kastor (Discuss Here)

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LetsRun.com’s 2018 World And US Rankings Are Complete

LRC M Marathon: Eliud Kipchoge (Duh) & Galen Rupp Are World & US #1s The unparalleled Eliud Kipchoge tops the marathon rankings yet again.

LRC David Graham’s 2018 Marathon Rankings And Musings LRC visitor David Graham is back with his annual men’s marathon musings. This year, he comes in at a record 4,823 words.

LRC W Marathon: Vivian Cheruiyot & Des Linden End Year As World & US #1s 2018 was the best year in the history of the women’s marathoning. Coming into the year, only five women in history had ever broken 2:19 but six different women did it 2019.  Plus 11 times a woman broke 2:20 in 2018, the most in history.

Previous LRC’s 2018 Rankings: M3k/5k *W3k/5k *MSteeple *WSteeple *M1,500 *W1,500 *M800 *W800

• Athletics Weekly‘s Top 3 World Rankings For 2018: *Women *Men
  
• Athletics Weekly‘s Top 3 British Rankings For 2018: *Women *Men
• TFN’s World #1s For 2018: *Women *Men
• College Rankings: Sydney McLaughlin & Michael Norman Named Dyestat College Performers Of The Year McLaughlin was the people’s choice, Norman was the editor’s choice.
• HS Rankings: Katelyn Tuohy & Armand Duplantis Named Dyestat High School Performers Of The Year Tuohy was the people’s choice, Duplantis was the editor’s choice.