Archived Homepage For January 19, 2019
Archived Homepage For January 19, 2019

2019 Houston Half And Full Take Place On Sunday *Free Stream At 8:01 AM ET *Tracking & Results 

MB: Official 2019 Houston Discussion Thread 

RRW Emily Sisson Has Her Eyes On Molly Huddle’s American Half Marathon Record At Sunday’s Aramco Houston Half Marathon Sisson: “I’m going to take that as a compliment that (Molly) thinks I’m fit and ready to run fast.”

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. Updated with time stamps.
*Discuss: Texas Runner Girl, Fake Ryan Hall and Fake Mike Rossi Joined Us on Our Podcast 

LRC2019 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.

LRCParker 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.

Doping Updates

 

The Pre Classic Will Have A New Home For 2019

The Pre Classic Is Relocating To Stanford For 2019 Hayward Field will still be under construction, so the USA’s only Diamond League meet will be at Stanford for this year on June 30th.

British News

Kipchoge Vs. Farah At London

More Weekend Results *All NCAA Results

Upcoming Distance Action: Boston International Field Released

LRC Analysis Breaking Down The 2019 Boston Marathon International Field, Plus What Does The Addition Of Sally Kipyego Mean To The US Field? The Boston field is out and we help make sense of it all.
*MB: 2019 Boston Marathon Elite Field Is Released – 5 Sub-2:05 men, 4 Sub-2:20 women will battle + AMERICAN Sally Kipyego.

John Hancock Announces 2019 Boston Marathon International Elite Field – Sally Kipyego Will Make Her Debut For America The race for top American honors (and the battle for the 2020 US Olympic team) just got more interesting with the addition of Sally Kipyego, who will run for the US for the 1st time. In addition to Kipyego, previously announced defending champions Yuki Kawauchi and Des Linden are joined by World champ Geoffrey Kirui, NYC champ Lelisa Desisa, and sub-2:20 women Edna Kiplagat and Aselefech Mergia. Other notables include former Boston champions Lemi Berhanu, 2:04 man Lawrence Cherono, 2015 World champ Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, 2015 World champ Mare Dibaba and 2:19 woman Worknesh Degefa.

Doping Updates

99 Days Away – The 2019 London Marathon Will Be Spectacular

MB: 2019 London Marathon Fields Are Released And Are Unreal – Greatest Women’s Field In History The women’s field has to be the greatest in history as it includes 7 sub-2:20 women, including the reigning champs of Dubai, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York. It also includes Americans Molly Huddle, Emily Sisson and Allie Kieffer. The men’s field isn’t too shabby either as it includes the top 5 of our 2018 world rankings and is of course led by the GOAT – Eliud Kipchoge.

LRC Analysis The Greatest Women’s Marathon Field Ever, Is This Molly Huddle’s Last Chance To Run A Fast Time, & More Thoughts On The 2019 London Marathon Jonathan Gault also breaks down Chris Derrick‘s sub-2:10 and says that Eliud Kipchoge will slow down, eventually.

US Distance News

Week That Was

LRC WTW: Young Guns Ready To Replace Mo Farah, Three Sub-2:10 Marathoners At 1 Japanese High School, Canadian 5k Record Destroyed Some fast times have been produced the last couple of weeks with the Ethiopian 10k road records falling along with the NCAA 1k for women. Updated with improved 1k to 800 conversions.
*Discuss: 1 Japanese High School Coach Has Produced More Current Sub 2:10 Marathoners Than All of the United States

Russian Doping Updates

Random / Bizarre News

Japanese Distance News

Looking Forward To 2019 Racing

Centrowitz Picks A Coach

LRC Olympic 1,500m Champion Matthew Centrowitz To Be Coached By Jerry Schumacher, Will Train With Bowerman Track Club The rivalry between Alberto Salazar and Jerry Schumacher just got a little more interesting as one of NOP’s most successful athletes – who also happens to be the reigning Olympic champion – has traded in the skull of NOP for the red and black of Bowerman.
*MB: Centro to Bowerman!? 

It’s Official:Matt Centrowitz Announces He’s Joined The Bowerman Track Club Part of Centro’s statement read, “At this time I would like to thank Alberto and the Nike Oregon Project for everything they have done for me over the past six years … I please ask you all to be respectful to me and both groups with my decision at this time.”

Floyd Landis Big Talk Part II

LRC Floyd Landis On Life After Cycling, Runners Vs. Cyclists, CBD Products, Running A Business, And Donald Trump Landis shares some of the secrets he’s learned from his crazy life in part 2 of our recap of our talk with him. From a Mennonite upbringing, to crossing the line at the Tour first, to a doping suspension, denial, depression, and now fatherhood and a successful new business, Floyd has seen a lot.

Miss Part I? Part 1: Is There Any Hope For Anti-Doping? Floyd Talks Doping Then, Now And What Can Be Done Landis is one of the most notorious dopers in American sport, and the man who helped bring out the truth about Lance Armstrong. He’s got a lot of interesting things to say.

A Big Loss For The Running World

More Virgin London Marathon

NCAA Highlights From The Weekend

Doping News

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

NCAA News

2020 Olympic Marathon Trials 418 Days Away

LRCThe 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.