2019 Falmouth

LRC Leonard Korir Becomes First American to Win Falmouth Road Race Since 1988 On a hot and humid day in Massachusetts, Korir finally got the victory he so badly wanted after finishing in the top 3 each of the last 4 years. In the women’s race, Sharon Lokedi, the 2018 NCAA 10,000 champ, was the surprise winner and American Sara Hall the even more surprising runner-up.
*MB: 2019 Falmouth Road Race Thread: Edward Cheserek added to elite field
*Toni Reavis’s Falmouth Photos

LRC After A Year Of Ups And Downs, Josh Thompson & Cory McGee Stay Red Hot And Claim 2019 Falmouth Mile Titles Earlier this year, Thompson ran 9:02 for the steeple but now he’s one of America’s best in the 1,500. As for McGee, just weeks ago she was DQed at USAs. But both have been running amazingly of late and it continued tonight at Falmouth.
*MB: Official 2019 Falmouth Mile and Road Race Discussion Thread

Guardian Mile In Cleveland: MB: Nick Willis (3:58.12) and Shannon Oskia (4:27.20) win 2019 Guardian Miles in Cleveland Willis still needs the 2019 WC standarad but he’s #45 on the descending order list and they take 45.

• 2019 Is The 1st Falmouth Without Legendary Race Founder Tommy Leonard Back in the ’70s and ’80s, the bartender at the Eliot Lounge had Red Sox pitchers and the world’s best runners loving his company.
• Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Toni Reavis, Bob Hodge And Others Remember Leonard In New England Runner
• Toni Reavis’ 47th NB Falmouth Road Race Men’s Preview Reavis expects a Kenyan-born, but NCAA-trained athlete to win – either Sambu, Cheserek or Leonard Korir.

Sprint / Jump News

• Olympic Long Jump Champ Tianna Bartoletta Finished 17th Out Of 17 At USAs – Here’s Why – How Heavy Periods Caused Olympic Long Jump Champion’s Shock Collapse A few weeks after USAs, she passed out in a doctor’s office. “The doctor told me I didn’t just have low iron, I essentially had no iron,” she says. “He wasn’t sure how I was functioning.”
  *MB: Cool story: Anti-doping authorities sent Tianna Bartoletta an email letting her know she had a SERIOUS medical condition
• Recommended Reads Will Claye Writes About Why He’s In The Form Of His Life And The 4th-Best TJer In History – Strength From Above He gives big credit to his recently deceased grandmother, who survived civil war in Sierra Leone, and wife Queen Harrison.
• Jamaica Puts Danielle Williams On WC Team Even Though She Was DQed At Nationals They are claiming since the Jamaican nationals were never completed in her event it’s perfectly legal. If this was the US, there would be a lawsuit.
• Dutch Athletics Reeling After 2 Sprinters Arrested In Separate Cases For Drug Dealing They were dealing recreational drugs and one of them had 29 pounds of crystal meth and 43 pounds of ecstasy.
• Sean Burrell, Who Ran 20.78/45.88 As A Sophomore In HS, Gives Up Football To Focus On Track This year as a junior he didn’t run as fast as he was injured a lot and figured it’s best to focus on just track as a result.

Articles That We Found Interesting

• Meet Joe Whelan – The Guy Who Was Working 30-70 Hours A Week As A Texas Ranch Hand – But Still Managed To Run 2:13 At CIM
• Alexa Efraimson Missed A Lot of Time Before USA With An Injury – PRP Therpy Got Her Back For Medal At Pan Ams The article says she was in 4-flat shape based on her workouts.
• Sponsorship Scorecard From USAs: Nike 124, adidas 53, Hoka 30, Brooks 26, New Balance 21, Saucony 6, Asics 7, Puma 3, Under Armour 2, Reebok 2.
  *MB: How much longer must we tolerate New Balance’s sexism? NB sponsored 19 women, 2 men at USAs
• Sexism Is Real: Only 7 Of 54 African Athletics Member Federations Now Have Women In Top Decision-Making Positions – A Look At 2 Of Them
• 1972 Olympic Trials Marathoner Dave Russell Sells Pair Of 1972 Nikes For At Least $50k To A Eugene Hotel
• Catching Up With Britain’s 1st Olympic Black Gold Medalist, Tessa Sanderson, 35 Years After Her Javelin Gold In LA “Some think if you’re over 50, you’re done. No forget it, we’re there to kick ass,” says Sanderson, who has fairly recently adopted children.
• Athletics Weekly: Older Runners, You Should Really Work On Your Balance

4 Recommended Reads

• Fantastic Read: UT’s Jonathan Jones, Who Ran 44.63 As A Freshman This Year, Started His Career As A 1,500/3k Guy
  *MB: HOLY SHI*: UT freshman Jonathan Jones who ran 44.63 this year ran 1:48.16 at age 17!! And started his career as 1,500/3k guy 
• JRN: One Month Until The Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials – A Quick Breakdown Of Who Made The Trials And How It Will Work The top 2 are guaranteed to make the team but the third placer will get axed if someone runs sub-2:05:49 or 2:22:22 this winter.
• 3 Years Ago, Beatie Deutsch Was A Non-Runner And Mother Of 4; Now She’s The Israeli National Marathon Champ And Mother Of 5 With hopes of making it to Tokyo 2020.
• A Year Later: Dave Devine Takes An In Depth Look At The Senseless Death Of Kristian Marche He was set to depart for Penn State the very next day on a track scholarship but got between two teenage burglars behind his house and was murdered.

More Links That Meet The Standards Of The LRC Algorithm Human Editor

• Stephen Schwarzman Gives Out $829,000 To US Track Athletes, Including $25k Each To Brazier, Chelimo, Engels, Houlihan, Sisson He’s giving nearly $3 million out in total.
• Chip Kelly Is Happy Defensive Lineman Otito Ogbonnia Also Stars In Track And Field As A SP/Discus Guy “That track background that he has has been really beneficial to him as a football player, and I think his work as a football player has been beneficial to him as a track guy, so I think it really goes hand in hand,” said Kelly of the USATF and Pan AM U20 gold medalist in the SP.
• Akani Simbine Wants To Win World 100 Gold To Show “… the world that a South African boy can be the best in the world.”

Depressing Mid-Week News

• Former Welsh National Athletics Coach And UK Indoor 1,500 Champ Phil Banning Jailed For 7.5 Years After Admitting To “Regime Of Sexual Abuse” Against Teenage Girls In 1970s And ’80s He abused girls as young as 10, sometimes with his wife in the other room. *AW
• Kenya’s Track Team For African Games In Morocco Is Thrown Out Of Hotel Rooms (But Prevented From Leaving) For Not Paying For Rooms World champ Julius Yego was not happy.
• Doping Controversies Move To The Trail: 3 Of The Top 7 Finishers At Sierre-Zinal Had Tested Positive In The Past

NCAA Updates

• MB: NCAA 1,500m champ Sinclaire Johnson going pro Johnson finished 4th at USAs with a 4:03.72 PR and will be represented by Ricky Simms.
• Three Men’s 110 Hurdlers Transferring From Oregon USATF U20 champ Eric Edwards Jr. is transferring to Louisiana State, 2018 PAC-12 champ Braxton Canady to Florida State and NCAA qualifier Joseph Anderson to a school TBD.
• MB: Bobby Lockhart as new Cal XC/Distance coach