World champions Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone & Shericka Jackson are both in the 60 while Grant Holloway is debuting in the 60 hurdles. Plus Connor Burns vs Simeon Birnbaum vs Aaron Sahlman in a LOADED boys HS mile.
NBIGP is Saturday
Sydney Gets A "This is Sportscenter" Ad
Friday Night's Action
- Karsten Warholm (45.31) and Mondo Duplantis (6.10) open seasons with world leads in Europe Both men were competing in meets named after them (Karsen Warholm Invitational and Mondo Classic). 6.10 is the best opener for any human, ever.
- MB: UW women break NCAA dmr record in Boston - 10:46.62 And Sonia O'Sulivan's daughter was on the leadoff leg. We saw it live.
*LRC Post-Race Interview with the record-setting quarter
On The Boards
On The Boards
NBIGP Polls
NBIGP Polls
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6 Interesting Reads
- UK Athletics wants to ban transwomen but said they don't think can legally but the Equality and Human Rights Commission issues a statement saying they are mistaken This isn't that complicated people: #sexnotgender. If only they had read this website.
*MB: UK Athletics bottles it on trans regulations. - TFN catches up wih Sage Hurta-Klecker, who had never broken 2:00 until last year when she did it 8 times.
- Moving forward, the Atlanta Track Club will be broadcasting all of its races for free, moving forward & Toni Reavis has some thoughts The more broadcasts the better but it's hard for non-runners to learn about streams says Reavis.
*ATC Press Release - 20 years ago, Berhane Adere shockingly broke the indoor 3000 WR in her first-ever indoor race Her 8:29.15 was the the 1st indoor sub-8:30 and came just after the meet's tv window ended but meet organizers still paid out a €25,000 WR bonus.
- Catching up with former NCAA star Laura Roesler The 1:59 performerand 2014 Bowerman winner is a mom now who watches every track meet she can.
- NCAA marks will no longer count at all for Worlds unless the meets agree to be held under WA rules and pay a $100 fee There are only 3 rules that are different. 1) No cheater shoes. 2) There must be video review of fair/foul jumps 3) Two steps on the inside your lane = a DQ.
Wetmore & Burroughs Get Some Love
44 ex-Colorado runners have publicly come to the defense of Colorado track and field and cross country coaches Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs, voicing their support and sharing their positive experiences at the University of Colorado. Many of the biggest CU stars are on the list, which includes 12 of the 14 NCAA champions coached by Wetmore.
Woody Speaks
Woody Kincaid is charting his own path in the running world for the first time as a professional. He opens up why he left Bowerman, his desire for American records, and a lot more including Shelby Houlihan.
Nuguse Dreaming of Olympic Gold
Yared Nuguse surprised the world by getting one American record last weekend. By the time, the winter is over, he may have 3. Nuguse joined the LRC podcast to talk about his dreams, goals, training with the OAC, and his unorthodox start in the sport.
London 2023 Is Going To Be Great
London 2023 Is Going To Be Great
Jonathan Gault analyzes the historically deep fields, Sifan Hassan's debut, Emily Sisson vs. Keira D'Amato, & Mo Farah's farewell?
"I just want to be with the best and see how I run," Hassan said. "...I’m just a curious person."
- MB: London Marathon has the Greatest Women's Field Ever?
- MB: Sifan Hassan to make marathon debut in London
- MB: Ruth Chepngetich - the world's #1 marathoner in 2023 - isn't in London or Boston or Tokyo. What are her plans?
Bonus Podcast
Both American record holders opened up on a special edition of the LetsRun.com Track Talk Podcast. Highlights to come.
Distance News
- Eilish McColgan On Trans Debate: "Even if it is a one per cent advantage, then it is too much." We agree.
- Runner's World Interview With Katelyn Tuohy After She Broke The NCAA Mile Record Even though it was her first time running the mile in college, she was confident she could get the record after she ran 3:16 (4:22 pace) for a 1200m time trial a week and a half before the race.
*MB: Tuohy 1200m time trial 4:22 pace - Jake Wightman Might Miss The Indoor Season Including Euro Champs With Foot Injury He sprained his midfoot while doing a plyometric workout and is in a walking boot.
*MB: Jake Wightman out of NB Grand Prix (in a walking boot) - MB: Ultrarunner Camille Herron: "Long runs are over rated." She says she only does one or two long runs a month (nothing over 22 miles) and she never does back-to-back long runs.
Coaching News
- DyeStat: Indiana Coach Ron Helmer Making Most Of Bell Lap To Complete Storied Career Helmer will be retiring this year after more than 50-years of coaching. He gets praise from star runners like Andy Bayer as well as NAU coach Mike Smith who says Helmer was a "big influence" on him going into coaching.
- Ben Thomas Update - Former Oregon Coach Is Still Training Cole Hocker And Others In Eugene Thomas is coaching the reorganized Oregon Track Club after OTC Elite was disbanded last year.
Doping News
- Four scientists From Norway Are Raising Concerns About WADA's Techniques Testing EPO; Likely To Be Called On By Peter Bol's Lawyer, Paul Greene One of the scientists said he believes there is some ambiguity with the method WADA uses to test for EPO. Bol has requested WADA use two methods when testing his B sample.
- The Guardian: "Peter Bol's Positive Drug Test Feels Like A Bad Dream. It Will Be A Real-Life Tragedy If Confirmed." We're still waiting for Bol's B sample to be tested.
- Another Kenyan Gets Doping Ban - Georgina Rono (2:21:39 Marathon PB) Gets 4-Year Ban For Evading Doping Test
Upcoming Action
- Woody Kincaid Back On The Track Again This Weekend In The New Balance Indoor GP 3000m In Boston Triple European champion Femke Bol leads the 500m.
*MB: World's Fastest Indoor Track Set to Debut on Saturday (2/4)
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Laura Muir, Noah Lyles, Shericka Jackson, Grant Holloway All Racing At The New Balance Indoor GP This Weekend
- MB: WTF CENTRO planned to race in Australia! Matt Centrowitz is running some races In Australia over the coming weeks. An 800m next weekend, a mile on February 23 and a 3000m on March 11.
- Sub-4 High Schoolers Connor Burns And Simeon Birnbaum Lead Field For Boys International Junior Mile At NBIGP
- Dina Asher-Smith Will Face Compatriot Daryll Neita Over 60m At The Birmingham World Indoor Tour On February 25
Jamaican Sprint Star Updates
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Possibly Dropping 200m And Focusing On Just The 100m Moving Forward She said, “The double is very hard. It is strenuous. The workload that you need to do it is definitely hard but I don’t know. I think last year I said that was it. And it may possibly be it for me for real and I’ll just focus on the 100m.”
- Usain Bolt Fires Business Manager Over Investment Account Scandal Considering $12.7 million of Bolt's money went missing, yeah, that sounds fair.
Scary Running News; Be Careful Out There
- Nashville Woman Shot While On A Night Run She was shot multiple times in the arm and leg by two men who tried to rob her. She "fought back" and sustained serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
- Arizona Man Arrested After Woman He Attacked On Jogging Trail Fought Back She "aggressively" fought off the attacker and was able to escape after he tackled and sexually abused her.
- Orlando Runner Hit By Driver, Waits Five Hours For Police To Show Up The driver fled the scene and police ultimately said there was nothing they could do without a license plate number.
London Is Stacked As Ever
This will be the first marathon ever to include two men with PBs under 2:02 and four who have run sub-2:03. Kenenisa Bekele lines up against Geoffrey Kamworor, debutant record holder Kelvin Kiptum (2:01:53), Birhanu Legese (2:02:48) and Mosinet Geremew (2:02:55). Plus defending champ Amos Kipruto and world champ Tamirat Tola. *Discuss
Week That Was
Move over Woody and Yared, it is time to break down some of the other amazing action from this weekend including a great run by Keely Hodgkinson and some amazing runs from collegians including Katelyn Tuohy.
Track Talk Podcast
The LetsRun crew breaks down an amazing weekend of track and field action.
The Latest LRC Exclusive
On Athletics Club head coach Dathan Ritzenhein talked to LetsRun.com about a great weekend for his club and how they are exceeding his wildest expectations.
Paywall lifted
Kincaid says BTC coach Jerry Schumacher advised him not to leave the team but Kincaid told him, "Hey, I can do this and I think it's what I have to do."
World XC Champs Are Later This Month
- Australia Names Their World XC Squad Men's team is lead by Ollie Hoare and Stewart McSweyn while the women have Jessica Hull.
*MB: Ky Robinson/Stanford Named to Aussie World XC Team - GB Announces Team For World XC; All The Big Names Give This One A Skip They're not even sending a scoring senior men's team. Shame.
*MB: Only one British man will go to World Cross Country
Post-Weekend NCAA News
- Washington Men Jump Up To #1 In Updated NCAA Rankings Texas Tech stayed #2 while Arkansas and Tennessee jumped to 3-4.
- Updated Women's NCAA Rankings See Arkansas Jump To #1 And Florida #2 Texas moved down to #3 and Alabama stayed #4.
- MB: Matt Boling 20.32 at Texas Tech Open
- MB: Marquette to remove track scholarships
- Oregon Weekend Track Round-Up
- Drew Bosley And Katelyn Tuohy Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks From Last Week
A Debut And A Swansong At London 2023
Farah said it will be his last London, but not sure if it'll be his last race before he retires. He said, "I am very proud of what I have achieved and I just want to give myself one more shot and see what I can do. But I have nothing to prove. I'm not going to go to the Olympics and I think 2023 will probably be my last year."
- Commonwealth Games 10,000m Champ Eilish McColgan Will Make Her Marathon Debut At The London Marathon "My mum always told me 'one day you'll be a marathoner'. To be honest that petrified me as a kid but I think deep down I knew that was where my career was going."
International Indoor Results
She broke the 19-year-old 1:23.44 record set by Russia's Olga Kotlyarova.
*MB: Keely Hodgkinson Breaks World Indoor 600m Record With 1:23.41 In Manchester - Video
- World Athletics Weekend Indoor Recap: Poland’s Pia Skrzyszowska Highlights ISTAF Dusseldorf With 7.84 60H Win Poland's Ewa Swobodoa won the 60m in 7.18 and US's KC Lightfoot the PV in 5.76m. In Stockholm, Sweden’s Andreas Kramer won the 800m in 1:45.90.
- Kate O'Connor Breaks Irish Indoor Pentathlon Record With 4396 Points In France
Video of Week - THE Woody Kincaid Interview
Photo of the Week
American Record Madness in Boston / Super Fast Times in USA on Friday
American Record Madness in Boston / Super Fast Times in USA on Friday
BU = Super fast
Kincaid used a 26.27 final 200 to come from behind and blow Joe Klecker's doors off and obliterate Grant Fisher's 12:53.73 American record in the process in his first race since taking a break from Bowerman TC. NAU's Drew Bosley (7:36) broke Nuguse's NCAA record in the 3k. Plus Sam Atkin broke Mo Farah's British 3000 record.
*3k race video *5k race video
*LRC Post-race interview with Nuguse *Kincaid
- Canadian Lucia Stafford Sets National And North American Record With 2:33.75 at BU The time puts her #9 on the all-time indoor list. Olivia Baker won the 800m in 2:00.79.
Dr. Sander Invite
Ajee' Wilson won the biggest race of the day over Sage Hurta-Klecker with a big kick on the final lap. In the mile, Katelyn Tuohy got the NCAA record while finishing 3rd.
- Lilac GP Results - Sinclaire Johnson, Cole Hocker, Amos Bartelsmeyer, Noah Kibet, Kaela Edwards, Ella Donaghu Dominate Only the men's 800 was decided by less than a second. All the other races were blowouts.
UW = The Mile
What a race and what a way to cap a very fast night of track and field as Joe Waskom led the way in 3:51, the #3 mile time in NCAA history. *Video
- UW's Brian Fay Runs Fastest Mile By An Irishman Since 2000 (3:52.03)
- High Schooler Hana Moll Beats Her Sister Amanda In Washington Indoor Invy Pole Vault With 4.54m Hana said she was inspired by all the sub-4 miles the day before and had a close attempt at breaking her sister's high school record.
MB Talk
- Yared MF Nuguse just broke the American Record in the 3000 at BU - 7:28.24!!
- Woody MF Kincaid - Is 12:51 good for an opener?
- Woody Kincaid- Jerry (Schumacher) told me "I think you're throwing away your career by leaving"
- Grijalva 3:53i
- UW Mens mile - Waskom 3:51.90 as 5 UW guys run 3:53 or faster and 8 break 4:00!! The NCAA champ delivered.
- Indoor track is HERE big time this weekend. Official 1/27-1/28 discussion thread.
- BU Terrier Classic 5k Early Predictions
Razorback And Other US Indoor Action
- Abby Steiner PRs Again To Win Razorback 400m In 50.59 Over Shamier (50.64) Steiner moved to #8 in US indoor history. In the 3000m, Casey Clinger broke the BYU school record (set by his coach, Ed Eyestone in 1985) with 7:43.96 to win over Stanford's Cole Sprout (7:44.50). OSU had four sub-4s in the mile lead by Fouad Messaoudi (3:54.98) and Ryan Schoppe (3:55.63) going 1-2. Arkansas' Christopher Bailey set a men's 400m world lead with 45.09.
*MB: Abby Steiner indoors 400m 50.59
- MB: Aleia Hobbs 6.98 60m in Arkansas!! She's only the 13th in history to go under 7 seconds and the fastest US time since 1999.
- Stanford's 800m super frosh rock DMR legs at Arkansas "Juliette Whittaker produced the second-fastest collegiate indoor 1,200 split in history by clocking 3:18.96... with Roisin Willis achieving the fastest 800 split in world indoor history at 2:01.06." They ran 10:55.15 as a team. Ok. State won the men's DMR in 9:29.
- Christian Coleman runs 20.64, wins 200m at Razorback Invitational
- Georgia's Kyle Garland racks up 6415 points in heptathlon at Texas Tech That makes him No. 2 in collegiate history, No. 3 in American history and ties him for No. 8 in world history.
- MB: Florida, OK State, Stanford @ Razorback Invitational (1/27-28)
Oh Yeah, the WA Gold Meets Started Friday in Karlsruhe, Germany
Dina Asher-Smith set a British record of 7.04 to take the 60 as 23-year old George Mills dominated the 1500 in 3:35. World indoor champ Lemlem Hailu won a stacked women's 3k that featured 5 global medallists in 8:37.55 and a 17-year-old Ethiopian won the men's 3k in 7:40.35. Brit George Mills dominated the 1500 in 3:35. *Results
The LRC Rankings
Some picks were easy (Eliud Kipchoge in the marathon), others were impossible. Here's where we ranked the world's best distance runners in 2022.
Some choices for World #1 were easy (Athing Mu in the 800, Faith Kipyegon in the 1500), others much tougher. Find out where we ranked all your favorites in 2022.
None of the top six finishers in the women's race had made a Worlds team before. 3rd through 7th in the men's race were separated by 0.8 of a second.
Leo Young got sweet redemption after blowing up at NXN and Irene Riggs continued her dominant XC form.
We Look Back At 2022s Highs Month By Month
2022 was a year that saw Grant Fisher break out, Sydney McLaughlin explode, and Eliud Kipchoge break the WR (again). Here's what else stood out according to Jonathan Gault.
The Year's Not Over: Japensese New Year's Corporate Ekiden Will Be Broadcast at 7pm ET New Year's Eve - Watch It Live/Race Preview
Merry XMAS - Paywall lifted
In a decade, Valencia has gone from afterthought to host of some of the world's fastest races. How did the third-largest city in Spain emerge as a global capital of running? Jonathan Gault journeyed to Spain's Mediterranean coast to find out how.
Rojo and Mara Yamauchi Editorial
For nearly 40 years, the NYC Marathon has been known for being a trailblazer that paid its male and female athletes the same prize money. Sadly, that changed on Sunday. Guess what sex dominated the new non-binary gender division at Sunday's 2022 New York City Marathon? Olympian Mara Yamauchi joins Robert Johnson in this guest column.
Trials Awarded
What will the course be like? What type of weather can we expect? We break it down for you.
Kipchoge loving the LetsRun Shirt in Berlin
Coogan's New Balance Boston team had 3 Olympians in 2021 and 2022 could be the biggest year yet for the program with 2 new additions and the TRACK at New Balance coming on March 1st.
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign.
American Marathon Record
American Marathon Record
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
This morning Keira D'Amato, the 37-year old mother of two who spent 7 years away from the sport, became an American distance running legend.
After walking and stuffing her face with gummy bears of the final miles, D'Amato had to sprint to outkick the 3:50 pace group in her debut at the 2013 Missoula Marathon.
2021 Awards / Rankings
2021 Awards / Rankings
Best of Jon Gault
Best of Jon Gault
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
LetsRun Classics
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