Pro Track is Back *NBIGP Results *Dr Sander Results

NBIGP LRC Donavan Brazier Dominates, Bryce Hoppel Starts a New Win Streak, & More Thoughts from the 2020 NBIGP Jessica Hull won a tight 1500. Pro track and field is back.
*NBIGP Live Thread
*Post-race interviews

Dr. Sander Invite LRC Mary Cain and Katelyn Tuohy Struggle in 3000, Cain Reflects On Her Biggest Regret at NOP Mary Cain and Katelyn Tuohy struggled on the track. Then Cain offered advice to Tuohy and got emotional when talking about her biggest regret with the NOP.*Discuss Cain and Tuohy
RRW: Dr. Sander Distance Recap: Early World Leader for Nikki Hiltz, Ajee Wilson, Isaiah Harris, Jordan Gusman Win
*Dr Sander Post-race interviews

Boots On The Ground In Boston
LRC Profile Trayvon Bromell Is Back; Hoping That This Comeback Will Be His Last

LRC In Response To Diamond League Changes, Emma Coburn Will Not Run ANY DL Steeples In 2020 Coburn does not like the steeple being excluded from the DL final and will skip the entire DL circuit. Plus Donavan Brazier wants to race David Rudisha. *Discuss Here

Edward Cheserek Update

MB: Breaking: King Ches to Compete for Kenya Ches will go for a World Indoor qualifier this weekend and says he’ll compete for Kenya if he makes the World Indoor and/or Olympic team.

Looking Ahead At The 2020 Track Season

• World Athletics: Ten Cities Across Four Continents To Host Gold Meetings In 2020 Continental Tour It starts with Nairobi on May 2nd which will be the first African host city.
• European Athletics: Eight Anticipated Highlights Of The Indoor Permit Meeting Series

We Reveal The $ecrets Of The Sport

LRC How To Turn Pro In Track & Field, Part III: Case Studies Of Grant Fisher And Morgan McDonald What does the timeline look like for a top NCAA star as a senior? We walk you through how Morgan McDonald and Grant Fisher reached decisions on their professional futures in the final part of our series on how to turn professional in track & field.

Previous: Part II: Signing The Shoe Contract So you’ve hired an agent. Now it’s time to secure a shoe deal. Do you go for the biggest offer, or the one that lets you work with your preferred coach? Do you chase bonuses or go with a smaller, more secure contract? And what about that reduction clause thing? We explain it all in Part II.

Part I: Finding An Agent What happens between an athlete’s final NCAA race and their professional debut? From finding an agent to signing a contract, our three-part series tells you everything you need to know.
*MB: LRC Investigates: How To Turn Pro In Track & Field

Related: From The 2018 Archives: LRC Pro Runners’ Salaries: How Much Do Professional Runners Make? We Unveil One Of The Sport’s Biggest Secrets

World HJ Champ Maria Lasitskene Continues To Bash Russian Fed; Might Sue

• Maria Lasitskene Considering Filing A Lawsuit Against The Russian Athletics Federation “Their actions have been detrimental and are resulting in my deprivations in moral, reputational and financial aspects. According to my preliminary estimations, it should be a multi-million lawsuit in case I completely miss this winter season.”
• Eight Russian Track Athletes Added To RUSADA’s Testing Pool; Maria Lasitskene Fears This Is A “Bad Sign” Lasitskene thinks this was ordered by World Athletics so they could remove her from the international testing pool and revoke her neutral status.
• Maria Lasitskene May Train Abroad Ahead Of Tokyo, But Says She’ll Never Try To Compete For Another Country

Links That Passed Our Vetting Process As They Were Interesting Or Informative

• UK Anti-Doping Issues Press Release Saying They Haven’t Refused Any WADA Requests In Regards To Mo Farah That’s not really the point. The whole furor arose because their head said she might not hand over samples without “credible evidence.”
• Inside Hitomi Niiya’s Japanese Half Marathon NR, Pacer Tsuyoshi Ugachi Shares His Thoughts: “It was important that she have the moment to shine all to herself.” The Japanese covered all the details in Houston as her pacer, who has PRs of 27:40, 60:58, and 2:10:50, spent a week with her in Houston.
• 3-Time Alaska State XC Champ And 6-Time Track Champ Kendall Kramer Becomes First American To Win Individual Medal In Cross-Country Skiing At Winter Youth Olympic Games
• Dina Asher Smith Writes Column Looking At Track Stars Who Have Made Statements With Their Appearance Over The Years From Gail Devers‘ nails to Cathy Freeman‘s bodysuit, Asher-Smith thinks the results are empowering.
• Ever Heard That You Aren’t Firing? That’s Probably Not True Strengthening your calves is way more important anyway.

Boston Is Going To Entertain In April And This Weekend

RRW 2020 Boston Marathon Field Released: 8 Sub-2:21 Women, 10 Sub-2:07 Men Scheduled To Race The field also includes Ethiopian half marathon record holder Jemal Yimer (58:33), who will be making his marathon debut.
*MB: Boston Elite Field Announced

World Athletics Indoor Tour Begins This Weekend With New Balance Indoor Grand Prix – Here’s How You Can Follow The Tour On TV/Online

London Will Entertain Twice As Well – Once In March And Then In April

Mo Farah To Race Kenenisa Bekele At Vitality Half Marathon In March Bekele has only one career half marathon in his career on his resume, but boy oh boy was it a classic.
*MB: Mo Farah set to get spanked by Kenenisa Bekele at Big Half

Kenyan Distance News

• Brigid Kosgei Will Race RAK Half On Feb 21 If her shoes aren’t banned by then, we imagine the WR will be CRUSHED. Mosinet Geremew and Julien Wanders are in the men’s field.
• Hellen Obiri Will Go For Her Ffth Kenya Defence Forces Cross-Country Title On Friday
• Recommended Read: Eliud Kipchoge Talks About A Slew Of Topics, Including Keeping A Training Diary, Kenyan Doping, Making Lots Of Money And Facing Kenenisa Bekele In London Talking about living a relatively modest lifestyle despite his wealth, Kipchoge said, “I don’t envy people with big cars, helicopters and everything … that’s their life. What I want is to inspire someone … I don’t think I need a one million-dollar car to drive around.”
• World Bronze Medalist Amos Kipruto Using The Tokyo Marathon As Buildup For Tokyo 2020 That is, assuming the 2:05:43 man is selected for the team.
• Choosing The Tokyo 2020 Marathon Squad Is Leaving Athletics Kenya Bosses With Sleepless Nights
• Robert Keter’s 13:22 World Record From The Urban Trail Lille 5k In November Ratified By World Athletics The road 5k has only been officially recognized as a WR since November 2017. The fastest recorded time is Sammy Kipketer‘s 13:00 from Carlsbad in 2000.

Anti-Doping News

• Mo Farah Sys He’s Happy To Have His Samples Re-Tested And Says He Has Nothing To Do With UKAD Refusing To Hand Them Over To WADA UKAD has officially lost this one in terms of PR.
• Jessica Judd Rips UKAD Over Reluctance To Release Mo Farah’s Samples She called it “embarrassing” and said it’s no wonder why “athletics is dying a drug-fuelled death.”
  *MB: UKAD is ready to fight any attempt by WADA to seize its stock of Sir Mo Farah’s urine and blood samples
• Russia Accuses UK Anti-Doping Of Creating A “Wall Of Mistrust” Over Mo Farah Samples Denial It’s never a good day when Russia can call you out over anti-doping failures.
  *RUSADA Cites Where The WADA Code Says They Can Carry Out “Additional Analysis Of Doping Samples … Solely On The Instructions Of WADA”
• Kenyan Newspaper Hits Back At GB’s The Times After They Ask If It’s Time For “Disgraced Kenya To Follow Russia To Follow Russia In Exile?” This writer correctly points out that Russia was banned because of state-sponsored systematic doping whereas a WADA study has concluded that Kenyan doping is “unsophisticated, uncoordinated and opportunistic.”

More Results From The Weekend

• Eilish McColgan Wins BF&M 10k In 33:28 In Bermuda She doubled back from winning the Butterfield Front Street Mile the night before in 4:46.
• Fast Rising Emmanuel Kiprop Wins Nyandaru XC Meet In Kenya Mercy Chepkurui won the women’s race.
• Jacques Sallberg Defends And Lorilyn Bloomer Wins At The USATF Masters XC Championships
• Nagano Wins National Men’s Ekiden Team Title

USA XC And Houston *USA XC Results

LRC Comeback Queen Hitomi Niiya Breaks Japanese Record (66:38), Jemal Yimer Wins (59:25), 14 American Men Go Sub-62, 7 Women Sub-70:00 At Houston Half Marathon Hitomi Niiya‘s comeback story is pretty cool and Jemal Yimer believe it or not crossed the line first for the first time ever on a day that saw 14 American men go sub-1:02 and 7 women go sub-1:10 as Jared Ward was 1st American and Sara Hall beat Molly Huddle.

• Hitomi Niiya Says She Owes A Lot To Her Pacer Tsuyoshi Ugachi And “The American Guy In Yellow Socks Who Helped Out”
• RRW: Hitomi Niiya Dominates Aramco Houston Half-Marathon, Sets Japanese Record
• Cool Story: Two Runners Who Became 1st To Break 3 Hours In Marathon In 6 Different Decades Crossed Line Holding Hands In Houston

• MB: Houston half: Great day or not for the Americans? Not a single American came close to Kipchoge or Kosgei’s marathon pace
• MB: Who’s Hitomi nitya? Houston half winner
• MB: Is Sam MF Chelanga coming out of retirement??? Runs 61:52 in Houston

LRC 2020 USATF XC Results: Natosha Rogers And Anthony Rotich Dominate It was a good day for the Army WCAP team as their Kenyan Americans went 1-2-3 in the men’s race.

• USATF Recap
• NAU Freshman Corey Gorgas And High Schooler Brooke Rauber Win USATF XC Junior Titles
• MB: USA XC champs are this weekend – Do you recognize any of these entrants? One will be a natl. champ.