"The objective for this season for me is to be able to medal [in the Olympic marathon]....I’m trying to get myself into -- 2:20 or sub-2:20 shape going into Tokyo, and I think if I am in that kind of shape, my chances are pretty good at medaling."

What a show. We recorded this right after Grant Holloway's WR. Our featured guest is Ben True who tells us how he just ran a 26+ second pb of 27:14 at age 35. Yes, the shoes helped but True reveals he's become rejuvenated by paying Dan Curts $20,000 a year to train with him. Plus is a marathon in True's future?

Centro talks about a number of topics including Tokyo 2020, learning the stock market building a gaming PC, and some interesting details on how his training has changed under Jerry Schumacher.

• T&F News: "Sam Tanner Balancing Olympic Dreams And NCAA Goals" Tanner says that his breakthrough season and running 3:34.72 "changed his outlook" on running and realized he can go pro after college.
• World Athletics Profile: Energized By World Indoor 1500m Record, Gudaf Tsegay Sets Sights On Next Target Talking about breaking Genzebe Dibaba's record, Tsegay says, “I had this record in my mind for a long time – maybe six or seven years."

• Oklahoma State Tops Tulsa In OSU Winter Open Dual Meet Lead by individual wins from Isai Rodriguez and Molly Born, OSU beat Tulsa by one point for the men and 19-points for the women.
• RRW: After Trials Disappointment & COVID, Matt Llano Ready To Race In Atlanta Llano talks about how he was really worried about the potential for heart damage after coronavirus so worked with a cardiologist to come back to training conservatively.
• Athletics Weekly Looks Back At The Top 20 Races Of All-Time GB Distance Great Dave Bedford
  *Dave Bedford's Finest 100 Races In Chronological Order
• Sean Wade Broke Four American Masters Age Group Records This Month After setting men 55-59 records for 12k, 15k and 10 mile during a 10 mile race in early February, Wade ran 26:11 last weekend to break the 8k US record and tie the world best.

3 can run. Men: Kipchoge, Amos Kipruto (world bronze), Boston champ Lawrence Cherono, Valencia champ Vincent Kipchumba. Women: Brigid Kosgei, World champ Ruth Chepngétich, half champ Peres Jepchirchir and Vivian Cheruiyot.

• Kenyan Olympic Teams To Start Training In Specialized Bubble Camps In Early March In Run-Up To Tokyo
• World Half-Marathon Champ Peres Jepchirchir Wins Kenyan Sports Personality Of 2020 Award

• Has Wayde Van Niekerk Made The Right Call To Leave Longtime Coach To Move To Florida? Van Niekerk announced last week that he's leaving his 79-year-old coach Tannie Ans Botha to train with Noah Lyles' group in Florida.
• Tannie Ans Botha Says There Are No "Ill Feelings" Between Herself And Van Niekerk "...Everything is good between us. I am happy that I have contributed something to his professional and personal life."
  

• European National Champs Round-Up: Ewa Swoboda Wins Polish Indoor 60m Title In 7.10 Marcin Lewandowski won the 1500 (3:40.14) and there was a big upset in the 800 400m hurdles specialist Patryk Dobyk beat out Adam Kszczot 1:47.12 to 1:47.35.
• GB Micro Meetings: Holly Mills Scores 4557 Pentathlon To Move To #5 On UK All-Time List Distance wins included Guy Learmonth (1:47.81), Piers Copeland (3:52.17) and Holly Archer (4:13.02).
• Phil Healy Highlights Irish Indoor Micro Meet With Second Fastest 400 In Irish History (51.99) Georgie Hartigan ran the #2 indoor 800m by an Irishwoman with 2:01.48.
• Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic Jumps 6.75m To Win Balkan Indoor LJ Title

• Mistake By Officials May Have Cost Spanish Long Jumper A National Title 19-year-old Maria Vicente was in tears after officials raked away her LJ mark after mistakenly thinking she fouled. She finished 3rd with 6.24, but her lost jump appeared to be over 6.50m.
• UK Head Coach Christian Malcolm Says Katarina Johnson-Thompson Will Be "100% Ready" For The Olympics She was recently in a walking boot for an achilles injury and is skipping the indoor season.
• World Athletics Animated Video With Yulimar Rojas Talking About Breaking The World Indoor TJ Record Last Year

• BTC's Marc Scott, 800m Runners Elliot Giles And Keely Hodgkinson Lead Strong British Team For Euro Indoors
• Mark English And Ciara Mageean Lead Irish Team Of 24 For European Indoor Champs
• Olympic Heptathlon Champion Nafissatou Thiam And Decathlon WR Holder Kevin Mayer Headline Euro Champs Multi-Events

• Cathal Dennehy: "Welcome To The Age Of The Super Shoes" Dennehy points out that the six fastest 800m indoor times in history by Irishwomen were all run in the past month.
• Sean Ingle: "Super Spikes Are Causing A Seismic Shift - So Why Won't Athletes Admit It? Nick Willis acknowledged the shoes let him run a 1200m time trial 2-seconds faster than he expected, but other athletes like GB's Elliot Giles said suggesting it was the shoes is "nonsense and a bit of an insult."
  
• Euro 800m Silver Medalist Jamie Webb Ditched Super Shoes In Training Because He Couldn't Measure Himself Against Previous Training Sessions

• Recommended Read: T&F News: "Craig Engels Ready To Move Up At Least A Spot From 2016 Olympic Trials" Engels talks about his training, how fast he hopes to run in his 5000m race at the Texas Qualifier on Friday, and shares what he has tattooed on his butt.
• World Athletics Profile: Huwe Burton, From Wrongly Convicted Of Murder To Marathoner Burton was convicted of killing his mother when he was 16, but 28-years later was exonerated and ran the 2019 NYC Marathon as a free man.
• World Athletics Looks Back At The Career Of All-Time Mile Great Eamonn Coghlan Eamonn's specialty was indoor mile racing, setting the WR multiple times and winning seven Wanamaker Miles, earning him the nickname "Chairman of the Boards."

• US Representative John Katko Urges President Biden To Boycott Beijing 2022 Games The government is already trying to ruin women's sports, why not the Winter Olympics too?
• Tokyo Reports Fewer Than 200 New Coronavirus Cases In A Day For First Time Since November 179 people were positive out of the 5,197 tested.
• Montreal Olympic Stadium To Become Mass Vaccination Center
• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Supports Japan's Plans To Go Ahead With The 2020 Games
• Spanish Olympic Committee President Alejandro Blanco Is Optimistic Tokyo 2020 Will Go Ahead

• Oregon Still #1 In Updated NCAA Rankings As LSU Moves To #2 Arkansas and FSU are ranked 3-4.
• Arkansas And Texas A&M Women Stay 1-2 In Most Recent NCAA Rankings Texas moved up to #3 and Georgia down to #4.
• Adidas High School Indoor Nationals Starts Friday In Virginia Beach
• MileSplit Adidas Indoor Nationals Boys 200m Preview Jaylen Slade starts as the favorite after breaking Noah Lyles' indoor prep record with 20.62 on Sunday.
• 2021 Drake Relays Will Have A Iowa High School Division Meet director Blake Boldon said this was especially exciting considering many other top collegiate events like the Kansas and Florida Relays already announced they won't host high schoolers this spring due to COVID.
• North Carolina Bidding To Host The 2027 World University Games
• Event-By-Event Top-Ten NCAA Marks From Last Week

The time put Felix 18th on the all-time US indoor list and she also finished runner-up in the 60m (7.28). Former NCAA champ Michael Saruni (1:45.34) and Heather MacLean (2:00.98) won the 800m races.