Oslo DL
And George Mills broke the British record in 4th (12:46.69) as 9 guys brorke 12:50 and 13 broke 13:00. Young's time is the fastest ever outdoors by an American and trials only Grant Fisher's 12:44.09 world indoor record on the all-time US list. Today's run was the first time in nearly 50 years that an American man has gone to Europe and won a 5000 while running within 10 seconds of the world record. Way back on July 4, 1978, Marty Liquori won in Stockholm in 13:16.21 when Henry Rono's WR was 13:08.4.
- Nico MF Young. Holy shit. Nico Young 12:45.27 FTW in Oslo outdoor AR!!!! George Mills British record!! Young wins WR attempt in Oslo. Wow.
- When is the last time, if ever, that an American went to Europe and won a 5000, running within 10 seconds of world record?
- Official 2025 Bislett Live Discussion Thread
- What new drugs are all these American runners taking?
US distance fans. Pinch yourself. An American-born athlete has won a LOADED Diamond League 5000. Wow. We break it down for you above.
Other action: WA Recap: Karsten Warholmd breaks 300h world record (32.66), takes down Benjamin and dos Santos I the 800, Emmnauel Wanyoni held on and won a thrilling 800 in 1:42.77 as Sedajti returnde with a 1:43.06 (3rd). Isaac Nader (3:48.25) wins Dream Mile comfortably in 3:48.25 as Cam Myers was 2nd in 3:48.97 as 11 broke 3:50. Faith Cherotich edged Yavi in women’s steeple 9:02.60. Sprints: Julien Alfred "cool and calm" 10.89 (+1.1), Isabella Whittaker took the 400 in 49.58 as Henriette Jæger breaks the Norwegian record (49.62), Cuba's Reynier Mena won the 200 in 20.20 (+1.5), and Dalilah Muhammad crushes field in 400h (53.34)
2025 NCAAs (Wed-Saturday)
Ready, set, pick. The NCAA Championships are Wednesay to Saturday in Eugene. Final start Friday. First event closes Friday at 8:12pm eastern.
Kipkurui is the first Kenyan winner since Edward Cheserek in 2016 as Kenyans went 1-3-4-5. Furman's Dylan Schubert was the top American in 7th.
The very first individual track race produced a shocker as NCAA indoor mile champ Abel Teffra & NCAA 1500m record holder Liam Murphy were both eliminated.
- MB: NCAA Day 1 Thread
- MB: Ishmael Kipkurui DOMINATES NCAA 10,000 New Mexico went 1-2 to boost their team chances but this one was no contest over the last 400.
- MB: Men's 1500 &#@$@#: Teffra and Murphy go home devastated
- MB: JACK MF CRULL Stayed on the rail and dominated heat 1 of the 1500.
- MB: Tinoda Matsatsa DNS - What happened to Georgetown? A quad injury kept the sophomore phenom from running while the indoor mile champ Abel Teffra failed to make the 1500 final along with NCAA record holder Liam Murphy.
- MB: Liam Murphy disappoints His 51.1 final 400 wasn't enough as it was quite tactical.
Sprint Recap - Auburn's Kanyinsola Ajayi ran 9.92 (+1.6) to lead 100m qualiifers Arkansas' Jordan Anthony only got into the final as the final time qualifier on time after finishing 4th in the same heat (10.06). In other sprint action, Auburn's Makanakaishe Charamba led the 200m qualifiers with a 19.94 (+0.9), while his teammate Ja'Kobe Tharp ran 13.15 in the 110 hurdles, Bayor's Nathaniel Ezekiel ran a 47.86 400h. In the field, Minnesota went 1-2 in the hammer to give themselves a shot in the team hunt.
On The Boards
On The Boards
Jakob should have been leading the Oslo 5000
Jakob Ingebrigtsen speaks optimistically about his achilles injury - calls it "just an irritation""My injury was just an irritation in the Achilles tendon," Ingebrigtsen told AFP on the sidelines of the Oslo Diamond League, which he will miss. "So the injury itself is not that critical. But if you're not cautious and don't take it that seriously, it can develop to be something serious. And of course, I'm not interested in that.
*Ingebrigtsen coy on when he'll return to competition
LetsRun.com's World-Famous Messageboard In The News
- Outside magazine raves about Norwegian singles training method - one developed by Sirpoc84 on the LRC forums Most people don't have the time to doubles like Jakob. How can you incorporate Jakob's training into your own? This 271-page thread with more than 5,400 posts can tell you: MB: Modifying the Norwegian approach to lower mileage.
- Ingebrigtsen brothers start a new track club & nutrition company - will invest at least $3 million into omega-3-based nutrition The press release gives a shout-out to the LetsRun.com forums without mentioning them directly. The new club's name - Spring Run Club. Sign up now.
Pre-NCAA News
Some of the fastest women in the history of the NCAA are entered all over the women's events. Who will take home the titles?
NCAAs start on Wednesday in Eugene and the men's 1500 is shaping up to be an incredible race with Ethan Strand, Nathan Green, Abel Teffra, Liam Murphy, Gary Martin, and Adam Spencer all in the mix.
- Athletes from 66 countries will be at NCAAs - hard to believe Canada isn't in the top 5 The top 5 NCAA producing countries are US (546), Keny(46),Jamaica (37.), UK (17) and Australia (15).
- As Coaches prepare for NCAAs, impacts of house vs NCAA settlement remain murky
- Iowa regularly has 60+ on roster but coach says they were going to reduce spots anyways as it's impossible to score in 18-team Big 10
- Texas Tech's 59:37 man Solomon Kipchoge enters the portal Not a surpirse as he didn't run like a 59:37 guy (DNF at NCAA xc, no NCAAs in track).
Pre Oslo Coverage
An American man hasn't even been on the same track in an outdoor 5000m WR race in over a quarter century so we are super pumped about tomorrow's race. We talked to coaches Mike Smith and Alex Gibby and both were bullish about the fitness their protégés. Mike Smith: "I think you will see Nico position himself right in the mix to compete in this race." Alex Gibby: "I wouldn't bet against Graham in any capacity at any distance in any event."
*MB: Official 2025 Bislett Live Discussion Thread - 5k WR attempt at 3:14 pm ET + Live reaction show at 4 pm ET
*MB: Are you ready for Thursday's 5000m WR attempt in Oslo - Any chance Nico Young breaks it?
Random News That Passed Our Vetting Process
- Column: Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track is revolutionizing track & field — whether critics want to admit it or not An ironic title since there is no field at GST and even more ironic now that it may be bankrupt.
- Olympic 10,000m finalist Benard Kibet provisionally suspended for doping in ABP case He was 5th in the 10,000 in 2023 and 2024. He also is the holder of the wold's best for 10,000 - 44:04.
- Joyciline Jepkosgei (15:23.60, Wesley Yego (28:37.53) reign supreme at KDF Championships
- Anna Hall suprrised herself with 7,032 point score - “We were just looking for 6750 points or so.”
More Pre-NCAA News
- DyeStat Preview: 10 Men's Storylines To Watch At NCAA Champs Of the top seven teams projected to be in contention for the NCAA title, four have never won and a fifth, Minnesota, hasn't won in 77 years.
- DyeStat Preview: 10 Women's Storylines To Watch At NCAA Champs The 800m has seven sub-2 women with defending champ Juliette Whittaker, 2023 champ Michaela Rose, NCAA indoor champ Makayla Paige and 2023 NCAA indoor champ Roisin Willis.
- Butler's Matthew Forrester Qualified For NCAAs With One Shoe After Losing With 5 Laps To Go In The 5000m He suffered from massive blood blisters, but he gutted it out to make his first NCAA championship as the 12th and final qualifier from the east region.
- NCAA Coaches Talk About The Impact Of The House Vs NCAA Settlement Jerry Schumacher said, “We have some guidelines now that the judges have made that ruling… I think we’ll see where that kind of plays out for track and field and the NCAA. I don’t think any of us know, really. ...I hope it allows us to move into a place where we can do more team track. I think that’s the best thing for the future of college track.”
- World Athletics: Under-20 Athletes To Watch At NCAA Champs Five sprinters and three jumpers make their list.
- Missouri Western State University Reinstates Track Program Two Week After Being Discontinued
RIP
The former Alabama runner died from cardiac arrest. He set an NCAA 1500m record when he ran 3:33.74 in 2022.
US Skipping Pan AM Junior Champs
- USATF Not Sending A Team To The Pan American Under-20 Championships In Colombia Next Month The location for the championships was apparently only announced last week which created multiple logistic and safety concerns for USATF. One of the issues is that the US State Department lists Colombia as “Level 3 – Reconsider Travel” country and government employees aren't allowed to use taxis or public transport in Colombia due to safety concerns.
Euro Women's Results
- 17-Year-Old Brit Jess Lark Runs 2:02.43 At British Milers' Club Meet She is coached by Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows (Keely Hodgkinson's coaches).
- UK's Morgan Lake High Jumps 1.95m To Beat Serbia's Euro Silver Medalist Angelina Topic At Filothei Women Gala In Greece
Olympic News
- Inauguration For Kirsty Coventry As Next IOC President Will Be On June 23 Current president Thomas Bach steps down after 12 years in power.
- Doha, Qatar One Of The Leading Contenders To Host The 2036 Olympics?
Hengelo Was Monday
- MB: Mark English just took the Irish record under 1:44 in Hengelo - 1:43.92!!! That's a nice pb for the 32-year-old. The Irish record and his pb coming into the year was 1:44.53, which he ran in Madrid last year but he ran 1:44.34 in Bydgoszcz, Poland on May 30. In other action, Femke Bol won the 400h in 52.51 (she had opened at 52.46 a few weeks ago), Cordell Tinch dominated the 110h in 13.10, Anais Bourgoin won the 800 in 1:59.52 as Sage Hurta-Klecker was third in 1:59.77, Peruth Chemutai dominated the steeple 9:07.79, and Chase Jackson (20.62) had a world lead in the shot. *Results *WA Recap
Distance News
- Some Kenyan Athletes Are Protesting Using The Pre Classic As The World Trials For The Men's 10,000m And Women's 5000m Athletes are complaining about lack of notice and transparency around the decision. They also say the move favors established stars who already have US visas and hurts young and upcoming runners who won't be able to make the trip.
- World Athletics Looks Back 60-Years-Ago At When France's Michel Jazy Broke Peter Snell's Mile World Record He ran 3:53.6 to break Snell's 3:54.1 record in June 1965 and actually broke three other WRs in that same month.
World XC Will Be Here Before You Know It - Make Your Travel Plans Now
This is a good idea as you'll save money and have a built in crowd. Plus you'll expose the current edition of US HS talents to the pros. The event will be used to pick the team for the World XC champs to be held in Tallahassee in January 2026. For the U20 teams, the top four finishers at USAs will get a spot, with the final two spots reserved for the NXN and Foot Locker champions.
NCAA Champs Start Wednesday
- DyeStat NCAA Men's Formchart - South Florida Predicted To Win Over Texas A&M And USC By One Point Includes a short blurb previewing each event.
- DyeStat NCAA Women's Formchart - Predict Georgia To Win Over USC And South Carolina
- Register Guard: Who Are The Top Men To Watch At NCAA Champs This Week? Their list includes Ethan Strand, Habtom Samuel, Liam Murphy and Geoffrey Kirwa.
- Register Guard: Who Are The Top Women To Watch At NCAA Champs? Pamela Kosgei and Doris Lemngole are the two distance runners to make their list.
- T&F News: A History Of The NCAA Championships, 1921–2024 T&F News has been has spent years on this project compiling all the top team/individual results since the NCAA Championships inception in 1921.
- 2025 NCAA Champs Schedule
- Arizona Names Andrew Dubs As New T&F/XC Head Coach
- Lee Wood Hired As New Director Of XC/T&F At Western Kentucky
More Results From The Weekend
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- Navasky Anderson Sets New Jamaican 800m Record With 1:44.61 At Mission High Performance Meet In Baltimore
- Italy's Leonardo Fabbri Throws 22.31m Shot Put World Lead At Lucca International Meet Kenya's Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech won the 1500m in 3:32.
- China’s Zhang Jiale Throws 75.14m To Break World U20 Hammer Record In Germany
- European Weekend Round-Up: Paris Silver Medalist Malaika Mihambo Jumps 6.71m Long Jump In Germany
- Toyo Breaks 4x400 Collegiate Record (3:03.64) On Final Day Of Japan National University Championships Kairu Yamaga broke the men's 800m meet record with 1:46.79.
Brooks PR - Have We Already Found The Next Brazier?
Michael Granville's 29-year-old record of 1:46.45 (Granville never ran faster by the way) is history. Owen Powell was 2nd in 1:46.63. Watch it above. In other events, Jane Hedengren's amazing season continued as she ran yet another HS record - this time a 9:17 full 2 miles, which is right in line with her 14:57 5000. NJ's Paige Sheppard ran 2:01.50 in the 800, Texas's Mia Maxwell ran 11.04 (+1.2) in the 100, and middle schooler Camryn Dailey ran 51.67 in the 400.
- DyeStat Boys Recap: Cooper Lutkenhaus Surpasses 29-Year-Old National High School 800m Record
- DyeStat Girls Recap: Jane Hedengren Runs Another Mind-Boggling Record For 2-Mile
- MB: Jane Hedengren “the GOAT” 2 mile in 9:17.75 = #8 all time US woman
- MB: Can Lutkenhaus get the U18 and U20 800m world records?
- MB: Middle School Girl runs 51.67 for 400
- MB: 2 mile High School girls showdown at Brooks PR: Hedengren, Engelhardt, Ritzenhein, Blade, Macchia, (more)
Recommended Read
- Recommended Read: The curse of Kenya’s long-distance runners An excellent piece by Jonathan W. Rosen for The Economist on how many of Kenya's stars struggle after finally making it.
*MB: The tragedy of Kenya Distance Runners: You've missed this grreat story. Read it.
Upcoming
- Full Entry Lists Published For Oslo And Stockholm DL Oslo is Thursday and Stockholm on Sunday.
*MB: 5000 m WR attempt in Oslo - This Week In Europe Preview: Four World Athletics Continental Tour Meets
He's Back
Wow. The US distance community is buzzing about this result as most people had no idea the 2019 world champ was racing today. And in the process, he beat Shane Streich by 2.5 seconds and former NCAA champ Will Sumner by 5.10 seconds.
*Video snipped of race #1 *Video snippet #2
*MB: Donny braz is back baby! Brazier 1:44.7.
From The Archives:
NCAA Court Case Finally Approved
- Judge Approves $2.8 Billion House V. NCAA Settlement; Landmark Decision Opens Door For Revenue Sharing In College Athletics One of the biggest concerns for T&F was roster limits and at the judge's request to "grandfather in" current athletes, attorneys amended the agreement so that schools "have the option to keep current players on their rosters and temporarily exceed new limits until their eligibility expires."
- College Coaching Associations Issue Statement, Urge Congressional Action To Protect Broad-Based Sports In their statement they say, "We are concerned that the new financial obligations placed on schools will force administrators to divert their attention and resources away from non-football and non-basketball sports – the programs where the majority of NCAA student-athletes participate."
- RW: "New NCAA Roster Limits Just Got Approved. Here’s What It Means for Track And Cross-Country." The article mentions that exceeding the roster limits for current athletes is an option, not a mandate and that last month Notre Dame was the first school to commit to grandfathering in all athletes.
- MB: NCAA vs. House Ruling: Realistic Projections for the future of NCAA Track & Field/Cross-Country
Saturday Night Sprinting in Jamaica
World champ Shericka Jackson took the women's 200m in 22.53 and world U20 champ Tina Clayton the 100m in 10.98. In the 110H, Olympic bronze medalist Rasheed Broadbell beat out US's Trey Cunningham, 13.06 to 13.08.
Get Ready For NCAA Champs Next Week
- T&F News' Men's NCAA Formchart - Predict Texas A&M To Beat Out New Mexico By 2 Points Minnesota and South Florida are predicted 3rd and 4th, but the point totals are really close between the top-7 teams.
- T&F News' NCAA Women's Formchart - They Predict Georgia To Win Over Texas A&M And USC They have Georgia winning by a 27 point margin. South Carolina is ranked 4th.
- Bowerman Award Men’s Pre-NCAA Champs Watch List Distance runners take up half the list with BYU's James Corrigan, New Mexico's Ishmael Kipkurui, Villanova's Liam Murphy, New Mexico's Habtom Samuel, and North Carolina's Ethan Strand.
Championship News
- Branding/Logo Revealed For Oregon 2026 World Under-20 Championships It uses the same triangle from the World Athletics logo stacked on top of each other to make a tree.
- Canada Pulls Out Of Pan-Am Under-20 Champs In Colombia With Less Than 5 Weeks To Go Athletics Canada cited safety concerns as their reason.
- Los Angeles Times: "Three Years Away From The Olympics, LA Is Tripping Over Hurdles And Trying To Play Catchup" The writer's concerns are mostly about the budget.
- LA 2028 Officials Says Trump Travel Ban Won't Disrupt The Olympics
Japan National University Championships
- Tomonori Yamaguchi And Sarah Wanjiru Complete Distance Doubles On Day 3 Of Japan National University Championships Yamaguchi ran 13:40 to complete the 1500m/5000m double and Wanjiru ran 15:30 to complete the 5k/10k double. Mao Shimano ran 13.02 to break the Japan 100H collegiate record.
- Day 2 Highlights Tomonori Yamaguchi (3:40) and Airi Tajima (4:14) won the 1500s.
- Shadrack Kipkemei (28:07) And Sarah Wanjiru (31:48) Take 10,000m Titles On Day 1 Kipkemei won by less than a second while Wanjiru lapped the entire field.
Rome DL
Chebet ran 14:03.69 to move to #2 on the world all-time list while Bromell ran a world-leading 9.84, his fastest 100m time in three years. Plus Josette Andrews ran 14:25.37 to move to #3 on the all-time US women's 5,000 list. Azeddine Habz won the 1500 in 3:29.72 as 5 broke 3:31 (NRs for Germany, Sweden), Ireland's Sarah Healy won her 1st DL 1500 in 3:59.17 after the Ethiopians ran like idiots yet again, Quincy Hall won in a photo finish in 44.22, & more. Watch our post-meet reaction show here or join the Supporters Club to get it as a podcast. *Full Rome Results *WA Recap.
*Ireland's Sarah Healy thrilled to have won her 1st DL race "I know I’m good at hard, fast races, but races like this were more where I struggled so I’m really, really happy to win – it’s really cool.” In the men's 1500, Cathal Doyle moved to #2 in Irish history at 3:32.15 but that only placed him 14th.
Mastercard NYC Mini 10k
Obiri covered the up-and-down back half of the race in a blistering 15:09 and won $10,000 in prize money.
*LRC: Post-race interviews with Obiri, Kelati, Popehn, Roe, Vestri.
More Distance News
- It's official: Alysia Montaño will soon be an Olympic bronze medallist as Russia's Ekaterina Guliyev's appeal of her doping ban is dismissed by CAS
- Ethiopian Tadu Teshome, who ran 2:17:36 at 21, is banned for 22 months for 3 whereabouts failures She got a reduced punishment for admitting guilty.
- USA Marathon Team announced for Worlds Clayton Young, CJ Albertson and Reed Fischer are the men. Betsy Saina, Susanna Sullivan and Erika Kemp are the women.
2025 HOKA Festival Of Miles
And that was with a 67.04 last lap. Her 1500 split of 4:04.68 was just 0.06 off Mary Cain's HS record of 4:04.62. Christina Aragon narrowly won the pro women's mile in 4:29.38 over Krissy Gear's 4:29.43
*MB: Jane Hedengen: G.OA.T high school track season deserves BLACK PAGE
*MB: HOKA Festival of Miles 2025
*MB: Hoka Festival of Miles Underwhelming
- Iowa HS junior Quentin Nauman runs 3:58.65 and wins with a 54.72 last lap The Oregon commit, who went sub-4 for the 1600 at his state meet, beat 5 sub-4 guys in the process. Craig Engels won the pro mile in 3:56.28 with a 55.10 last lap
Pre-NYC Mini News
The field includes marathon stars Hellen Obiri and Sharon Lokedi and Gotytom Gebreslase as well as US Olympians Weini Kelati, Emily Sisson, Emily Infeld, and Dakotah Popehn. Watch the race live in the player above or on demand.
- Women-only New York Mini started 2 weeks before Title IX and has grown to 10,000 + finishers in 2025 Did you know the 1st race was won by 17 year-old Jacki Dixon, who covered the then-six-mile course in 37:02? She's now mayor of Loveland, Colo., with the married name of Jacki Marsh.
Can Mantz Get Another American Record?
Khalid Khannouchi's 2:05:38 has stood since 2002. We break down why the time is right for Mantz to attack the AR and why he chose Chicago over Valencia.
- MB: Conner Mantz announces he will try to break 2:05:38 American record at 2025 Chicago Marathon
- MB: Can Conner Mantz run a Marathon in Valencia to finally break Khannouchi AR?
This Week's Pod
Clip on Nico Young at link. For full podcast click here.
No. But they might be #2. Ethiopia has to be #1 even though they haven't medalled in the event since 2019. But Fisher, Young, Hocker Teare, Blanks, Nur, Wolfe, Jacobs, Kincaid, Beadlescomb, etc. is an impressive group.
Distance News
- Cole Hocker Vs s Barega Highlights Stockholm DL 5000m Next Week (June 15)
- Colleen Quigley Launches Athlete-Owned Team Based In Boulder The group is called Meridia and will be coached by Juli Benson.
*MB: Colleen Quigley launches new pro group (Team Meridia) - Kenya To Select Their Men's 10,000m And Women's 5000m World Champs Team At Pre Classic But they'll pick the men’s 5000m and women’s 10,000m teams at their normal trials in Nairobi.
- Trond Mohn Games Recap: Germany’s Florian Bremm Upsets World 1500m Bronze Medalist Narve Gilje Nordas In 3000m (7:44.43 To 7:44.80) In the 300m, Norway's Euro indoor 400m silver medalist Henriette Jaeger came close to the European best with a 35.55 victory.
- RIP: Scotland's 1970 Commonwealth 10,000m Champ Lachie Stewart Dies At 81 Years Old
Sprint Stuff
- Video: Girl Wins 100 Hurdles At Oregon State Meet By Somersaulting Through The Finish Line Brooklyn Anderson was way ahead, but clipped the last hurdle and fell. Rather than stopping though, she rolled through to the finish and still won the race.
- FanDuel Betting Site Bans Bettor For Heckling Gabby Thomas During GST Philly The bettor who bragged about making "Gabby lose" so his bet would win will no longer be able to bet on the site.
*MB: Gabby Thomas heckled at Grand Slam Track by Sportsbettor - DII 100m/200m Champ Alexi Brown Transfers To South Carolina She ran an impressive 10.93/22.35 double at DII nationals this year and will have one more year to use in DI.
Other News
- Tokyo 2025 Unveils Official Medal Design With 100 Days To Go Until World Champs The back features a blank plate where the athlete's name will be engraved.
- USTFCCCA Breaks Down Some Stats On The 2025 NCAA Champs Qualifiers Southern California has the most men's entries at 17 and Georgia has the most women's entries with 14.
- The Bowerman Women’s Pre-NCAA Champs Watch List Distance runners on the list are Oregon's Şilan Ayyildiz, New Mexico's Pamela Kosgei, Alabama's Doris Lemngole, LSU's Michaela Rose.
Doping News
- Kenyan Anti-Doping Blocks 20 Athletes From Competing At World Championships Trials For Failing To Provide Their Whereabouts For Out-Of-Competition Testing Only athletes who have undergone three mandatory tests will be allowed to compete at Tokyo Worlds.
*MB: 20 athletes locked out from the Kenyan trials for avoiding testing - Enhanced Games Will Pay Legal Fees Of Any Clean Athletes Who Want To Compete The president of the Enhanced Games accused World Aquatics of protecting a “monopoly” and using "bullying tactics" when it said it would ban athletes, coaches or officials linked to the Enhanced Games.
Post GST Philly News
- Grand Slam Track Philly's attendance was good but TV ratings dropped from 249,000 viewers in Miami to 224,500 in Philly Those are per day averages.
- Noah Lyles says the offer he got from GST was "not a fraction of what my worth is right now." But he says he's open to doing it in 2026.
- Runner's World Evaluates The New Format For GST And Asks "Did the ‘long distance’ group get screwed?" They think the changes GST made for Philly were mostly good, but that a 3000m for the "long distance" group didn't work. They got half the prize money (since they were only running one race) and a 3k isn't a long distance race, nor an event at Worlds or the Olympics. Cole Hocker said that he would have raced the 5000m for this meet if they had it, but he didn't see the point in running a 3k.
- Grand Slam Track Investigating Gabby Thomas Heckler Their statement said, "We are working to identify the individual involved and will take appropriate action as necessary."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer: "Grand Slam Track Is A Franklin Field Homecoming For Penn Relays Veterans Who Are Now Pros" A lot of pros enjoyed the nostalgia of returning to Franklin Field after racing Penn relays in HS and college.
Lots of Team NB Boston News
MacLean, who improved incredibly from 4:19 to 3:58 under Mark Coogan, was extremely grateful for her time on the team. Team NB Boston will be without 3 Olympic 1500 runners this summer as 1500m Olympian Emily Mackay also recently left and Elle St. Pierre just gave birth.
The news comes as a surprise as Mackay excelled while training with the group, improving from 4:08 to 3:55 and making the Olympic team in 2024.
Team NB Boston is hopeful Valby can rejoin the team at altitude camp and run USAs.
Marathon Trials
Men's standard lowered from 2:18 from 2024 while women's standard stayed the same.
"Save Girls Sports"
- The Telegraph: Transgender Athlete AB Hernandez Wins Three Medals At California State Championships In response to backlash the state meet changed the rules this year so that Hernandez "shared" medals with the girls who should have won (so each event had four medalists). That didn't stop protests though as there were some people with shirts and signs saying "Save girls sports" and a plane circled the stadium pulling a banner that read, "No boys in girls sports!"
- The Seattle Times: Washington Transgender Athlete Veronica Garcia Booed After Repeating As State 400m Champion 55.70 for 400m won't make varsity as a boy, but it can win a girls state title by more than a second.
*MB: Transgender 400m runner repeats as state champion in Washington and gets booed, tells critics: "I hope they get a life."
- The Oregonian: Transgender Sprinter Who Won An Oregon State Title Last Year Might Move To Canada To Get Less Attention When Dominating Girls Races Ada Gallagher hopes that a transgender athlete winning girls races won't be as controversial in Canada. Also, the NCAA has banned transgender athletes from women's sport, but Canadian universities have not.
- MB: Bravo - Two female athletes refuse to stand on the podium after a male pretending to be a girl won the Oregon girl’s high jump
- MB: A historic day for transwomen - May 31, 2025 - Biological males win state titles in CA, Oregon and Washington all on same day
- World Boxing Enacts Sex-Testing Policy In Response To Paris Olympic Controversy They say that boxer Imane Khelif, the athlete who won gold in Paris despite reports showing the presence of XY chromosomes, will not be allowed to compete without undergoing sex testing.
GST Philly is Sat./Sun.
GST's successful run in Philly came to a close Jefferson-Wooden (10.73) and Bednarek (9.86) both ran PBs/world leaders in the 100 while Young (8:01.03) won his GST debut in the 3,000 thanks to a 25.61 last 200 after Grant Fisher scratched. Josh Kerr (3:34.44) and won the 1500 for the men while Diribe Welteji (1:58.94) completed the 1500/800 double for the women.
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Day 1 Podcast
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Marco Arop and Kenny Bednarek totally BOSSED their fields as Arop won with a negative split 1:43.38 and Bednarek won by 0.55 in 19.95.Jamal Brit pulled off a big upset in the 110h with a 13.06 win. In the women's 200, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden upset Gabby Thomas, 21.99 to 22.10. Other winners included Paulino (49.12), Welteji (3:58.04) and Agnes Ngetich (8:43.61).
- MB: Grand Slam track Philly day 1 thread (day 1 reaction show at 10 pm et)
- MB: Grand Slam Philadelphia: Josh Hoey’s coach says he can run 1:41, LET’S Go
- MB: Marco Arop BOSSES Hoey, Kessler, et. al & then says: "Marco Arop: "I want to not just win races, I want to DOMINATE them."
- MB: Jessica Hull offers to pace Faith Kipyegon to mile WR and wants to pace her to a historic first sub-8 3k We talked at length with Hull about Kipyegon's sub-4 chances.
- Josette Andrews reveals she has BIG PLANS for Rome after finishing 3rd in Philly
- Georgia Hunter-Bell reveals she may do 800/1500 double or just 800 at Worlds
Who?
Jonah Koech wasn't even supposed to be in Sunday's 1500. As they approached the bell, he was in 13th out of 17. A lap later, he was the champion. He is just the third American man to win a Diamond League 1500/mile and the first runner sponsored by Under Armour to win a DL race. His 3:37.27 pre-race pb is also the slowest of any man to win a DL 1500/mile.
How Josh Hoey Rose To The Top Of The World
For five years, Hoey cylced through coach after coach but barely improved from his 1:47.67 high school 800m pb. Learn why he moved around so often -- and why he never gave up. Part I of JG's 7,000+ word feature.
*MB: Josh Hoey profile by JG
- Part II: SC How Josh Hoey Went from Also-Ran to World Indoor Champion, Part II: Going All-In With Justin Rinaldi & The Fast 8 Track Club Hoey's career had stagnated until connecting with Rinaldi in 2023. Within minutes of seeing him train in-person, Rinaldi knew he was special: "I said, if I can’t get this guy to run 1:44, there’s something wrong with me."
Valby Update
"She is on the mend,"said Parker's father and agent, Kyle. "I don’t want to get into [the specifics of the injury] at this point, but she is in good shape...I’ll be able to share more [about racing plans] in the future, we’re just waiting on a few things relative to her health. She’s in a good spot mentally."
Kipyegon opens her season in Xiamen with nearly a WR But...
On Wednesday, Nike announced that Kenya's Faith Kipyegon will attempt to break four minutes in the mile on June 26 in Paris. Spoiler alert. She's not going to break 4. And it's not going to be particularly close. Did you know the 1k time she ran on Saturday where she just nearly broke the WR is still below sub-4 mile pace?
Shoe News
Taylor Roe broke 15:00 for the 1st time in her career today, racing in the shoes for the 1st time. 5k man Amon Kemboi also loved them. "You kind of feel the bounce only," Kemboi said. "So even though you are tired, you feel just the drive it gives you when your legs are tired."
More From The Ten
Bekele and Sound Running's Jesse Williams, meet director for The TEN, explain why the Ethiopian star Telahun Bekele, who is racing GST this weekend, missed the start on Saturday night and how he hit the World Championship standard anyway.
Shelby Speaks
Last week, Houlihan spoke with LetsRun.com for more than an hour with no questions off the table. Houlihan shares which supplements she took at the time of her positive test, why she said she didn't know what nandrolone is, running a 30:31 10k in practice, and her hopes for World Indoors and the rest of 2025.
Stop Obsessing Over Your Diet
The US indoor 1500m/3000m champion overhauled his fueling in workouts before the 2024 season. Now he swears by his routine.
The Record Books Are Getting Rewritten In 2025
In the span of one week in February, runners broke five world indoor records and every American men's middle-distance record from 800m to 5000m. Jonathan Gault spoke to some of America's top athletes and coaches to find the reasons behind all of the fast times.
One More Look at a Legendary Race
From novice fans to running diehards, there was something for everyone (except perhaps Brits and Norwegians) to enjoy about one of the greatest middle distance races ever run.
Blanks = NCAA XC x 2
Just before Blanks chases a 5,000m pb and collegiate record in what is likely his final NCAA race at Boston University on Saturday, he told LetsRun about the key session of his 2024 XC season -- one he described as "probably the best workout I've had so far in my career."
Jonathan Gault pays tribute to two legends
Simpson and Centrowitz, who both 1st medalled in 2011 and retired in 2024, leave the sport as two of the faces on the Mt. Rushmore of American 1500m running after piling up a combined eight medals at global championships. And despite not ever finishing in the top 3 on the yearly 1500 list (Simpson's best was 4th, Centro's 9th), they will be remembered as two of the better milers of their generation.
Your latest American stars share their insights.
American Record Holders
American Record Holders
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
Sisson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast after she became the first American to go sub 67 in the half marathon on a record-eligible course. Podcast highlights above. Full pod here.
Woody Kincaid joined us after he broke the American record indoors at 5000. He talks above why he left the Bowerman Track Club. Podcast highlights and link to full podcast here.
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.
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
LetsRun Classics
Matt Lawton writing for The Times in an article originally titled "Michael Johnson calls emergency meeting over future of Grand Slam Track." (Now updated to confirm the LA meet is cancelled)
MB: Update: Grand Slam Track LA Cancelled