• RRW: Frank Lara Goes Home For Marathon Debut In Houston “I mean when I watched the Houston Marathon when the Olympic Trials were here when I was in high school… it was kind of always a dream to run a marathon here."
• Stephanie Bruce Will Begin The Final Year Of Her Career At The Arizona Rock 'N' Roll Half-Marathon On Sunday After being recently diagnosed with a heart condition, 38-year-old Bruce has decided to make this the last year of her career with “a mixture of bucket list and favorite list” races.

• Noah Lyles, Ronnie Baker And Erriyon Knighton To Clash Over 60m At New Balance Indoor GP On Staten Island February 6 Also announced for the meet is Elle Purrier vs Emma Coburn, Gabriela Debues-Stafford and Amy-Eloise Markovc in the 3000m.
• #2 All-Time Indoor 800m Runner Elliot Giles Will Face Swedish Record Holder Andreas Kramer In Karlsruhe On January 28
• World Indoor Record Holder Grant Holloway Vs World Indoor Champ Andrew Pozzi In The 60H At The Muller Indoor GP On February 19
• USTFCCCA: Will The 2022 Indoor Season Alter Collegiate History Even More? There's been one indoor collegiate record so far this season (Abby Steiner over 300m); how many more might fall?

We originally had Seidlel outside our world top 10 but upon analyzing it during Wednesday's podcast, we bump her up to #10.

• Craig Engels contemplated quitting the sport, but he's now reinvigorated and just signed a reported 9-year deal with Nike And he's got a plan for life after running as the theatre major just completed his MBA.
  *MB: After Trials devastation, Craig Engels thought about quitting....... Reinvigorated, he just signed a long-term contract with ...
• Over 100,000 tickets already sold for World Athletics Championships Oregon22 in Eugene We're not sure why that is viewed as a big number for a Worlds. In comparison, 705,000 tickets were sold overall for the 2017 World Championships in London.
• American-born and raised World U20 200m champion Udodi Onwuzurike of Nigeria will make his collegiate debut this weekend for Stanford His sensational breakout 2021 campaign means his 100 and 200 HS pbs are better than the Stanford school records.
  *Milesplit: Behind Udodi Onwuzurike's Road To Success At World U20s

Bekele vs Kamworor vs Lawrence Cherono and the defending champ and NY champ. 4 of the top 10 in the world plus Jake Riley, Scott Fauble, Collin Bennie, Elkanah Kibet and more. Updated with analysis.
 MB: It's on! Bekele vs Kamworor in Boston 

• RRW: Olympic Bronze Medalist Josh Kerr Leads Men's Wanamaker Mile Field Against Ollie Hoare, Nick Willis And Hobbs Kessler Also Clayton Murphy and Craig Engels.
• Ollie Hoare Ahead Of Millrose: "Coach (Dathan Ritzenhein) and I are happy with where I am right now and I'm confident that I can take on whatever comes at me. Don't be surprised if you see some very fast mile times come out of New York.”
• Jakob Ingebrigtsen Announced For Lievin 1500m On February 17th Ingebrigsten opened his season here last year, breaking the European 1500m record with 3:31.80. His brother Filip is also in the field.

• Mondo Duplantis Recently Underwent Laser Eye Surgery To Correct His Vision Up until now Duplantis wore contacts, but always worried that he'd have a problem with them in the middle of an important competition.
• vWhat makes the BYU women’s athletic teams so successful? They root for each other "Our locker rooms are kinda right next to each other, so we have that interaction with each other every day. That creates a nice sense of community and a good sense of excellence.”
• Tributes continue to pour in for Deone Lendore, even from Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister
• Athletics Weekly Does Some Quick Book Reviews Including One Looking Back At GB's 2004 Olympic Men's 4x100m Gold The team of Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis beat out the US team of Justin Gatlin, Shawn Crawford, Coby Miller and Maurice Greene by just .01.
• South Carolina's Anthony Greenhow Jr. And UConn's Taylor Woods Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week At the Clemson invy, Greenhow ran the US's 4th fastest 200m mark of the year so far with 21.18 and also was runner-up in the 60m and 4x400. Woods won the LJ at the Beantown Challenge with 6.26m, #2 in the NCAA this season.
  

• UK Government May Remove "Elite Sport Exemptions" For Athletes Who Aren't Vaccinated Currently elite athletes are exempted from strict lockdown rules which force people to quarantine for 5-10 days after returning to the UK from a foreign country.
• Q&A With Health Expert And Former Elite Rower About Training And Menopause