European Road Races - BIG 25 Berlin And Prague Marathon
- WR Watch: Mary Keitany To Chase World Record At BIG 25 Berlin Give her decent weather and she'll smash it.
- Emil Zatopek The Inspiration Behind Sunday's Prague Marathon Nice matchups in both genders at this high level race.
Conference Champs - The HEPS!
HEPS *Best Meet Website HepsTrack.com Heading to Princeton, Cornell men ride 7 straight outdoor Heps wins. Princeton women broke Cornell women's streak last year. The rivalry continues ...
*Princetonian: Tiger Men Out For Revenge, Women For Triple Crown
PAC-10 (Decathlon/Heptathlon only) *Sat/Sun Results WR holder Ashton Eaton takes the stage.
Recommended Read: HepsTrack.com Runs Multi-Part Series On 1970 Heps And War Protests, Kent State Killings 40 years ago, outdoor Heps was held at Yale. It was no ordinary event, as the League was divided. Divisions formed within teams and within schools as Americans learned of new bombing campaigns in Cambodia and students were shot and killed at Kent St. The multi-part series uses the Heps (a league of Ivy schools plus Army and Navy at the time), the competitors and coaches to relive an interesting time in American history.
News From Oregon
Galen Rupp Says Good Competition From Americans Is Important Rupp: "I've sat on other people
before and then outkicked them. That's part of the game."
Oregon Twilight Entries Trevor Dunbar races Oregon boys in the 1,500; OTC elites in 5,000
Eugene Register Guard Runs Piece On Angela Bizzarri NCAA outdoors are in Eugene this year and they're running some pieces on top competitors.
LRC The Week That Was In Running - Chris Solinsky And The Epic Stanford 10k Normally we cover the wide world of running, but this week we focus almost exclusively on the Stanford 10k and Chris Solinsky's 26:59. Thanks to our hard-working research elves, we analyze Solinsky's unusual dimensions, debate whether an American will ever medal at Worlds in the 10,000, ask for a USA "Dream 10,000" and even predict when an American
will break 26:00.
Solinsky.com Continues *LRC 10k Photos *More Photos *Stanford Results *Videos
LRC Chris Solinsky Is The Tallest And Heaviest Sub-27 Man In History The results are in as LetsRun.com has looked up the height and weight of every sub-27 man in history ... talk about busting a stereotype!
Solinsky The Forgotten Phenom - Beat Nelson, Rupp, Trafeh, Curtis In Foot Locker By Over 20 Seconds He also won 5 NCAA individual track titles.
*Solinsky Almost Ran Steeple At Stanford, Thought About DNF With Side Stitch Youngsters, this race is a great lesson - so many things had to come together for 26:59 to happen (Rupp to Stanford, steeple/10k switch, side stitch going away, perfect weather ...). But the first thing was years and years of consistent work.
*Blogger: Solinsky/Rupp Was Like Keflezighi/Kennedy 9 Years Ago We hadn't thought about this comparison. Blogger talked to Meb, who says his best days are still ahead of hiim.
LRC Solinsky Teleconference And Live Chat Top 10 In a Tuesday live web chat, Solinsky answered 10 questions that many LetsRunners have been asking on the message boards, including some training talk and of course compression socks.
Solinsky Will Race Loaded Prefontaine 5,000 Field - Go For 1st American 12:xx On Home Soil He hasn't set a PR over 5,000 since NCAA senior year, 2007.
Alberto Salazar Talks About Disappointing Stanford 10k Salazar set it up perfectly.
Updated: LRC Full Men's 10,000 Photo Gallery Bairu Canadian record, Rupp 27:10, Chelanga NCAA record 27:08, Solinsky photos, more.
LRC Other Payton Jordan Top Winners Vessey 400m win, Cas Loxsom 1:46 win, Rowbury over Shalane, Huddle 10,000 win, Barringer over Uceny.
Stats Geek Ken Nakamura On Track 10,000 Debuts, All-Time:
1. Eliud Kipchoge 26:49
2. Kenenisa Bekele 26:53
3. Leonard Patrick Komon 26:57
4. Chris Solinsky 26:59
Sub-27 American Record For Chris Solinsky The race was billed as a Galen Rupp American record attempt, but Chris Solinsky had something up his sleeve in his 10k debut.
Solinsky went to the front with 900m to go and powered home the last
800 in 1:56 to smash the American record and break the magical
27-minute barrier. Rupp? He did get under the old record, running 27:10
for 4th. Sam
Chelanga beat Rupp in 27:08 to get the collegiate record by 20 seconds.
*Video Evidence
*Splits, Discussion, Play-By-Play: Men's 10,000 Splits
*LRC 10k Photos *More Photos
2 Weeks Ago: Solinsky Running the 10K at Stanford Read what people were predicting for Solinsky 12 days ago when he announced his planned "glorified tempo" at Stanford that had more people interested in whether teammate Matt Tegenkamp would run.
*Chris Thompson Now #3 All Time On Great Britain List After 27:29 Debut
*Simon Bairu Sets Canadian Record
Great night for Schumacher's men.
*More Stanford Photos
Recommended Read: Excellent Track Announcer, World Champion Sprinter Ato Boldon Continues adidas Grand Prix Series Boldon dishes candidly on what Bolt will run in the 100/200/400, why he thinks he's clean, and a reminder that Bolt's 200 time as a 17-year-old was fast enough to win Olympics.
Funniest News Of Last Week
Malawi National Team Arrives For African Championships 3 Months Early Unfortunately, this is not a joke.
Mike Hurst Updates Caster Semenya Saga With Interesting Info Insider says IAAF gobbling up time and money to shore up rules to prevent another question mark like Semenya from competing before test results are final. Also - why would Caster say she's going to quit the sport when 1 race in Europe earned her $60k?
Boston Marathon Champ Teyba Erkesso Will Return For Albany's Freihofer's 5k Run For Women
Marathoner Tera Moody Writes For The NY Times About Her Sleep Deprivation
Kenya News
Recommended Read: Stephen Mayaka - The First Kenyan HS Runner In Japan JapanRunningNews.com's Brett Larner has released an extensive interview with Kenyan Stephen Mayaka, the first Kenyan runner to come to Japan to train in the Japanese high school system. Now a mentor to Sammy Wanjiru and many other top Kenyans, the entire interview with Mayaka is available if you sign up to purchase the "jrnpremium" subscription.
Joseph Ebuya Will Return To Track In Ostrava 3k, Likely Facing Lagat
"Wanjiru's Track In Total Mess" Headline from The Standard.
Kenyan Athletics Leaders Burning Midnight Oil To Make African Champs Go Off Smoothly
Pro Moves
- Good Read: Writer Observes Semenya Training, Talks To Athlete And Coach
- Allyson Felix Moving Up To 400 This Year
- Christine Ohuruogu's Younger Sister Rising Through The Ranks
- Jessica Ennis Urges British Schools To Introduce More Kids To Track
Random News
Oops National HS Sport Federation Considering XC National Champs ... In the Summer They miss the mark by 5 months.
Omega Inks $32 Million, 5-Year Deal With Diamond League As First Worldwide Sponsor
US 25km Champs And Other US Race News
- US 25km Championships Return To Grand Rapids This Weekend - Elite Entrants 4 years ago, Fernando Cabada set the US 25km record and people were going nuts on the message boards.
- USA Half Marathon Champs Will Go To Grandma's In 2012, 2013
- Heart And Sole Elite Mile This Friday
Big Names In The Sport
What Do Pros Think About Barefoot And Minimalist Running? Answers From Geb, Hall, Kara ... Article from Racing Weight author Matt Fitzgerald.
No Fun On Top: Isinbayeva Says She'll Return To Sport Next Year Not having any fun (aka losing), Isinbayeva is taking some time off not long after signing some huge sponsorship deals.
Asafa Powell Has Gay And Bolt In Sights Powell secretive when asked about why he didn't run Penn Relays.
Drug News Too Interesting To Ignore
- Unnamed Jamaican At Indoor Worlds Returns A-Sample Positive Bolt wasn't at indoors so the sport is okay.
- Austrian 800m Oly Medalist Says She Won't Let Negative Energy Of Doping Probe Get To Her
- Austrian Marathoner Partnered With Former Dope Scandal Coach Skips 1-Hour Rule Test, Accepts Ban She says the 1-hour rule is too invasive. It's people like her husband who are responsible for that rule.
Interesting Odds And Ends
French Athletics Federation Supports World Champ Eunice Barber As She Faces Court In 2006 Altercation With Police (article in French) Barber, 35, is a 5-time Worlds medalist born in Sierra Leone. She had a physical altercation with French police in 2006.
Wesley Korir To Throw Out First Pitch At LA Dodgers Game In June 2-time L.A. Marathon Champion Korir follows in the footsteps of Pamela Anderson and Victoria Beckham.
British PM Gordon Brown Promises More Medals If Elected A big if.
Good Read: London Marathon Digested - Dave Bedford Praised, Transportation Worrisome As 2012 Olympics Approach
American Distance Women Speak
*In-Depth Jenny Barringer Interview Pre-Boston interview with newly-situated Barringer.
*Lauren Fleshman Getting Back On Track
Stanford Payton Jordan Previewed
LRC Fans'
Guide To Stanford's Payton Jordan Invitational: Will The Men's 10k AR Fall? What About The Women's 5k?
We preview Saturday's top distance events. Everyone is talking about Galen Rupp's attempt at the 10k American record, but the women's 5k is pretty hot as well and another possible American record attempt by Shalane Flanagan (it's got Shalane Flanagan, Shannon Rowbury, Amy Begley and Lisa Koll).
*Boards: Weather not Rupp-certified
*Rupp 10,000 meter prediction thread
*Rupp 100% Running Stanford: Weather Update
Training, Racing, Sport News
- Good Read: Brief Chat With Nagano Marathon Champion Lisa Weightman
- Columnist's Enthusiasm For Bolt Tempered By Suspension Of LaShawn Merritt
- Profile Of Oregon Miler Mac Fleet, Who Ran Well On 3 Relays At Penn
- Tyson Gay To Race At Both British Diamond League Events This Summer
- 3 Kenyans, Including 19-Year-Old Paul Tanui, Run Under 27:20 In Kobe 10,000 Track Event
Pro Track Circuit 2010 - No Worlds, No Olympics ...
Lauryn Williams Compares 2010 To Year Without A Super Bowl "Why would you want to play the other 17 games if
there's no Super Bowl at the end?"
Picture Of Usain Bolt Surrounded By Eager Fans In Jamaica
Play On ... Jamaica International Recap - 40,000 Watch Bolt, Gay, Jeter, Howard Run And Jump To Top Performances Track is popular, just not in rich countries.