The sprint times in Memphis were sensational. Former Olympic champ Athing Mu-Nikolayev wasn't sensational but she took a step in the right direction. *Full broadcast replay
Not everyone can run Monaco - Sunset Tour & Ed Murphey Classic Were Saturday
Bailey Hertenstein (14:48.91 pb) outkicked Taylor Roe (14:49.91 pb) to win the 5k as Karissa Schweizer and Lauren Ryan also broke 15:00. American record holder Alicia Monson ran 15:01.63 in her return to racing. Meghan Hunter (1:58.21) won the 800, where 4 women ran 1:58. Navasky Anderson (1:44.40) won the men's 800, where Hobbs Kessler was only 4th (1:44.77). NCAA champ Brian Musau dominated the 5000 in a big 12:59.82 pb as Rocky Hansen also PR'd in 2nd in 13:07.77. Drew Hunter picked up a big win in the men's 1500 (3:33.41), winning by 0.46 while Josette Andrews crushed the women's field by nearly 2 seconds in 4:00.10 as Katelyn Tuohy ran 4:08.
Ed Murphey & Sunset Tour MB Talk
- MB: Ed Murphy Streaming & Official Thread
- MB: QUINCY MF WILSON 44.10: "I went out there and shot out like a bullet."
- MB: Athng Mu-Nikolayev looks much better - Runs 2:00.42 for 6th at Ed Murphey Classic, Akins 2:00.76 for 8th
- MB: SML pulls out of Ed Murphey Classic - Who is shocked?
- MB: WILL SUMNER IS BACK THREAD He ran a big pb of 45.42 in the 400 out of lane 1.
- MB: Official 2025 Sunset Tour Live Discussion Thread
- MB: DREW MF HUNTER - 3:33.41 FTW at Sunset Tour
- MB: The Drew Hunter Dilemma
- MB: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Pulled Out Of Ed Murphey Due To A Fever
- MB: Alicia Monson comeback 15:01
- MB: 16 year old Sam Ruthe runs 3:39.17! He improved upon his own New Zealand U18 record.
- MB: Brian Musau 12:59, Rocky Hansen 13:07 @ Sunset Tour
On The Boards
On The Boards
Distance News
- Amanda Vestri Wins USATF 6k Champs In Ohio She won in 18:29 over a field that included Marathon Trials winner Fiona O'Keeffe (3rd, 18:38) and former NCAA XC champ Edna Kurgat (5th, 19:04). *Results
- MB: Jordan Hasay Has A Son She gave birth to her first child, Micah Leighton Hogan, on July 5th after her water broke while running on July 4th. Congrats to the happy family!
- MB: Sad News - Former Georgia Gatorade Runner Of The Year (FSU Freshman) Passes Away
Doping News
- Can AI Help Detect Sports Doping? Scientists believe AI can help "find patterns that are hard to detect by humans" with respect to the Athlete Biological Passport which monitors biological variables over time. However, they also think cheats are already using AI to beat existing doping tests.
- Tokyo Olympic 4x4 Gold Medalist Randolph Ross Is Returning To Competition After 3-Year Doping Ban Ross was banned in 2022 for missing three out-of-competition tests and then "tampering" with the date on an email to try and get out of it.
- In Swimming, Russian And Chinese Athletes Were Tested Twice As Much As Other Countries This Year
Distance News
- Keely Hodgkinson Withdraws From The London Diamond League Hodgkinson still hasn't opened her outdoor season and actually hasn't raced since winning Olympic 800m gold in Paris last year. She says she's back in full training after suffering a minor injury setback in June.
- High School Phenom Jane Hedengren Gives Some Good Advice On Going For It Even When You Don't Feel 100% Talking about breaking the national 3000m record at Nike Outdoor Nationals even though her body felt "a bit wrecked" she said, "It was great to have that experience and to know that I can still be tough and really work my way through the race even when the conditions aren’t perfect, because oftentimes they won’t be perfect. That’s the beauty of it—I don’t think they should be perfect and if you’re chasing perfection, you’re just going to be disappointed and fragile."
- MB: Villanova's Marco Langon Wins Cork City Mile In 3:54.59 With Early Celebration (Video)
- Ireland's Cian McPhillips Runs Big 1:44.19 PB To Win Morton Games 800m In Dublin Moves him to #2 on the Irish all-time list. Lithuania's Gabija Galvdyte won the women's 1500m in 4:00.71 ahead of Canada’s Gabriela DeBues-Stafford (4:01.19).
The men's 800 was better than the Olympic final and Wanyonyi showed why he's the Olympc champ. Wanyonyi now has six career sub-1:42s in the 800, one shy of David Rudisha's record, while Hoey is now 5-0 against rival Bryce Hoppel in 2025. In the 1k, Nelly Jepchirchir got the win in 2:29.77 as Addy Wiley broke her own AR. Yomif Kejelcha dominated the 5k. In the 400h, Femke Bol has also had a world lead (51.95). In the 5 also were world leads in the Jordan Scott (17.44 tj), Woo Sanghyeok (2.34 hj) *Youtube show *WA Recap
- Monaco Talk: Monaco Diamond League Official Thread
- Josh Hoey 1:42.01!
- Wiley another AR - 1000!
- Did we just witness the dirtiest 800m in history?
- Kejelcha most underrated distance runner OAT. He should be lauded like Pre.
- What was Arop thinking? 25.6, 51.2
- Don't doubt Noah in the 200!
Sad News: RIP
- Texas XC Runner Chloe Childress Died In Recent Floods She was a counselor at Camp Mystic, where 27 campers and counselors died in the flood.
- 60-Year-Old Michigan Trail Runner Dies During The Hardrock 100 The Hardrock 100 is known as one of the most difficult 100-mile trail runs in the world with 33,197 feet of elevation gain and descent and an average elevation of 11,000 feet.
Gender Battles Continue
- European Court Of Human Rights Rules That Caster Semenya Did Not Get A Fair Hearing In Her Appeal To The Switzerland Supreme Court They said Semenya had some of her rights to a fair hearing violated, but declined to rule on several aspects of her case including whether or not she was discriminated against. Her case will now go back to the Swiss courts. The ECHR ruling does not overturn any World Athletics rules, but it did award Semenya $94,000 from Switzerland for "costs and expenses."
- Trump Administration Sues California Over Allowing Men To Compete In Women's Sports The lawsuit alleges that California’s transgender athlete law violates Title IX and cites governor Gavin Newsom’s comment earlier this year that it was “deeply unfair” for transgender athletes to compete in girls sports.
European Under-23 Champs Are Next Week
- Niels Laros Tops 10 Athletes To Watch List At The European U23 Champs Next Week Laros is running a very interesting 800m/5000m double.
- Euro U23 Champs Men's Track Preview Niels Laros faces Ireland's Nick Griggs in the 5000m and eight sub-1:45 runners in the 800m.
- Euro U23 Champs Men's Field Preview
- Euro U23 Women's Track Preview Switzerland 800m Audrey Werro highlights the distance action coming in as #3 in the world this year thanks to her 1:57.25.
Stars in the News
- SAFP gets cover treatment by Marie Clarie and finally talks about why she didn't show up for her Olympic 100m semi After the two-time Olympic 100m champ was denied entrance to the warmup track, things spiraled out of control.
- MB: Jakob Ingebrigtens pulls out of showdown with Josh Kerr on July 19th in London Since he was shown cross training on June 20th, this is far from a shock. “Jakob still needs a little more time to heal the injury he has been struggling with lately. He would have liked to have participated in London, but does not want to risk anything. He must therefore sit out the event.”
- A ruling this week in the Caster Semenya case could reignite the issue of sex eligibility in sports In our minds, this isn't that complicated. Only biological females should be allowed to compete in women's sports. Semenya was a rare case of someone actually being assigned the wrong sex at birth based on her genitalia. PS. The idea that the "European Court of Human Rights" has spent 2+ years on this when Semenya is South African is wild.
The Latest Distance News
- MB: Parker Wolfe signs with Nike, will join Ethan Stand in Flagstaff and be coached by Mike Smith
*MB: Which PARKER Has Brighter Running Future? Valby or Wolfe - 2-time European U20 cross country champion and 19-yr-old vegan Innes FitzGerald blogs about her 1st DL appearance in Stockholm where she surprisingly finished 3rd in 8:32 She only got into the meet as an alternate.
- World record holders Kipyegon and Chebet call on Kenya to improve its facilities “When I was preparing to go and try to be the first woman to run under four minutes, I went through a lot, I was so disappointed that Kipchoge Stadium was closed. Sometimes I feel so emotional to talk about it,” said faith Kipyegon. “We don’t request a lot. Only a track,” says Chebet. “We achieved sub-14, sub-3:49 on a murram track. Just imagine what we can do with proper ones.”
- Arthurd Lydiard was born 108 years ago - what is his legacy?
Plus the coaching merry-go-round among the top US women's 1500 runners this year and thoughts on the NBC broadcast, which disappointed.
- MB Awful Announcing on PRE Broadcast
- MB NBC "story" vs. international feed "race"
- Trackerati: Prefontaine Classic was not just sold out - it was rocking and fairly young - “It felt like 1972 again.” “This was a young crowd,” noted Bruce Mortensen, the 1965 NCAA steeplechase champion for Oregon.
More Post Pre News
- When you factor in wind, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden's 10.75 (-1.4) at Pre was the 7th best 100m ever run by a woman. And only 4 women have ever run faster if you factor in wind.
- 2019 NCAA xc champ Edwin Kurgat realizes he's got a lot of work to do before Worlds after punching ticket to Worlds at Pre as top Kenyan He's correct as he was only 5th at Doha DL, 6th at GST Philly and 4th at Pre.
- BBC's Sportsworld interviews Cole Hocker for 45 minutes - How Cole Hocker won Olympic 1500m gold Around the 45 minute mark, he still speaks positively about GST even though LA was cancelled and many athletes haven't been paid.
*MB: Cole Hocker: "There's nothing up for debate. Olympic record, Olympic gold. I don't even care how people view me. I know what I've done at that point." - New Mexico's Ishmael Kipkurui went pro with Nike and then promptly made the Kenyan WC team
Other News That Passed Our Human Filter
3 finalists for women's Bowerman award named and they are all very deserving - Fan voting now open What a trio. Pamela Kosgei was undefeated outdoors, won 2 NCAA titles, and ran the #2 time ever in the 5k and 10k. Doris Lemngole SHATTERED the steeple record and broke 9:00. Savannah Sutherland ran 52.46 in the 400h and broke SML's NCAA record.
*Fan voting now open and runs through Thursday, 2 p.m. ET
- Bowerman's men's finalists named - all sprinters Jordan Anthony won the 60/100m for Arkansas and ran a windy 9.75, while Baylor's Nathaniel Ezekiel ran 47.49 and won the 400h. Auburn's Ja’Kobe Tharp ran 13.05 and won tbh 110h.
- Jamaica tried and failed to qualify for Worlds over the weekend in the men's 4 x 100 and mixed 4 x 400 The men's team didn't have Thompson obviously and ran 38.46 seconds, falling short of the 38.20 qualifying mark. The 4 x 400 clocked 3:15.06 in their win — well short of the 3:11.00 needed.
Sifan Hassan Stepping Way Down In Distance Later This Month
- Sifan Hassan Announced For London Diamond League Mile On July 19 Hassan said she's moving back down from the road to shorter distances for the track season explaining, "Last year my curiosity pushed me to take a risk and compete in three distances at the Paris Games. I know I’m probably a bit crazy to mix it up so much, but I like the combination of track and road and I want to see what is possible."
Non-Distance News
- Greece's European Indoor Champ Emmanouil Karalis wins Fly Athens PV meet with 6.00m GB's Molly Caudery won the women's with 4.80m.
- 2021 world jr champ Imaobong Nse Uko of Baylor blames Nigerian federation for her whereabouts ban “I struggled for months with the online system meant to report my whereabouts,” Uko wrote. “Despite reaching out to AFN repeatedly for help, I was met with excuses and silence. When I was ultimately suspended, I was devastated.”
- Mississippi State's NCAA Decathlon champ Peyton Bair transferring to Oregon Bair also won the heptathlon at NCAA Indoors and is just the 7th male to win both multi events in the same year. Oregon now has landed him and the decathlon WR holder in the discus.
- Puerto Rico’s Ayden Owens-Delerme (8478 Points) and Colombia’s Martha Araujo (6451 Points) win Decastar multin Talence
- Former Oregon, current Texas HJer Osawese Agbonkonkon has published a sci-fi book You can check out Psychic Suit here.
More News Of Note
- India To Bid For Both 2029 And 2031 World Championships World Athletics will announce the host of both those championships in September 2026.
- New Short Film Focuses On The "Real Heroes" Who Finish At The Back Of The Pack At The NYC Marathon Talking about the recent string of Netflix series that follow elite athletes from various sports (like Drive To Survive and Sprint) one amateur runner from the film said, “That’s kind of boring. It’s just another guy who figured out what he was best at in middle school, and didn’t go to high school with normal kids, and maybe went to college, and dropped out and became a millionaire tennis player.”
- Washington State AD Claims Cutting Program To Mostly Distance Wasn't For "Financial Reasons" She said, "The decision was made not for financial reasons as much as for competitive success and the ability to provide a high-level experience." But one would think if finances weren't an issue, they'd be able to afford to provide a high-level experience for all event groups.
- Shannon Rowbury Officially Upgraded To 2012 Olympic 1500m Bronze By The IOC We've known this was coming since last year when Russian Tatyana Tomashova was banned, but now the IOC has officially updated the results.
- New Women-Only Event At GB's Crystal Palace Will Combine A Fashion Show And A Track Meet The athletes will be take part in the fashion show before competing on the track.
Laros edged out Yared Nuguse by .01 in a thrilling Bowerman Mile while Mu finished last in her return to the 800 in 2:03.44.
For the first time in 32 years, two outdoor women's distance world records on the track fell on the same day. Chebet is the first woman under 14:00 for 5000m on the track while Kipyegon broke the 1500 record for the third time. *WA Recap
*Cornell grad Rudy Winkler breaks US and Diamond League record with 83.16m heave in hammer
What a meet. Full results as well as race replays.
Pre on the MB
- Official 2025 Prefontaine Classic Discussion Thread
- Niels MF Laros. Steals it from Nuguse. Bowerman mile win 3:45.94!!! Nuguse WENT for it but tied up and got nipped at the line. Hocker 4:37. Fisher 3:48.'
- Jefferson-Wooden (10.75) takes down Alfred (10.77) at 2025 Prefontaine Classic as Sha'Carri Richardson is DFL - 11.19
- Athing Mu-Nikolayev looks HORRIBLE. Runs 2:03.44 for DFL. Dugume wins in 1:57.20.
- To the women just lapped in the Pre Classic 5000, please turn in your pro cards What a race. Chebet led the whole thing and ran 13:58.06 WR!!
- Owen Powell 3:58.12 @ Pre Ethan Strand DOMINATED the B mile in 3:48.
- The Bowerman Mile has been bumped: 2025 Pre Classic will now finish with the women's 1500 -- WR incoming for Faith Kipyegon?
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Protecting Women's Sport
- Trump Administration Releases $175 Million In Federal Funding To UPenn After They Erase The Records Of Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas UPenn President J. Larry Jameson also said they "will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect at the time."
*MB: Donald Trump 1: U Penn 0. Penn agrees to remove Lia Thomas from school record books. - New IOC President Kirsty Coventry Says The IOC Will Actually Take A Stance On Trans Issue Previously the IOC left it up to individual sport federations, but now is working to establish an overall policy. It's very simple, hopefully they don't screw it up.
Non-Pre Weekend Action
- Japan's Yuki Takei Wins Gold Coast Marathon In Course Record 2:07:33 Japanese men took the first 6 spots while Ethiopia's Tegest Ymer won the women's race in 2:29:27.
- The Netherlands' Minke Bisschops Runs 10.89/22.39 Sprint Double In Greece The 100m was wind-aided (3.2m/s).
- Kenya’s Valentine Jepkoech Rutto Wins Uphill And Classic Mountain Race Double In China On the men's side, Germany’s Lukas Ehrle won the uphill race and Kenya’s Michael Selelo took the classic race.
- Puerto Rico’s Ayden Owens-Delerme And USA’s Taliyah Brooks Lead After Day 1 Of Decastar Multi-Event Meet In Talence, France
Outside Pre Coverage
- Mondo Duplantis Narrowly Misses Breaking His Own PV WR At Pre He took three attempts, but said the wind at Hayward made it difficult. “Sometimes the wind was unbelievably good. I was excited to use the pole I was on for my last attempt. But it wasn’t really as good of a wind as my first two attempts. It was a bit unfortunate.”
- World Athletics Full Pre Classic Recap
- Kishane Thompson Dominates Pre 100m In 9.85 Ahead Of Zharnel Hughes And Trayvon Bromell
- USA Today: Sha'Carri Richardson Finishes 9th (DFL) In Pre 100m
- DyeStat: From Spectacular To Sublime To Surprising, Performances Dazzle At 50th Prefontaine Classic
- The Register Guard Shares Their Best Photos From Pre
Track Drama
- Inside Source Says Grand Slam Track Still Owes Athletes $13 Million In Prize Money And Appearance Fees One source said that the GST isn't taking much longer than the Diamond League to send out payments, but rival track meet, Athlos, says they paid athletes in "just a few business days" after the meet.
- MB: USATF is SUING its former Board chair Mike Conley. This could get REAL interesting. Former USATF board member Jim Estes is suing USATF over the mess that was the disqualification of Chattanooga from the 2024 Marathon Trials bidding. USATF is suing Conley, alleging that he colluded with Estes and has refused USATF's request for documents, impeding their ability to defend themselves in the Estes lawsuit.
Distance News
- Ireland's European 1500m Champ Ciara Mageean Has Been Diagnosed With Cancer She posted the news on Instagram and revealed she's already started treatment.
*MB: Ciara Mageean diagnosed with cancer - Andy Buchanan Sets Australia All-Comers' Record With 61:08 Win At The Gold Coast Half-Marathon He won in a close race with Japanese runners Kenya Sonota (61:10) and Naoya Sakuda (61:11). Aussie Leanne Pompeani won the women's race in 69:14.
- Sarah Tait, The First Recipient Of Eilish McColgan's "Giving Back to Track" Program Ended Up Breaking Her Scottish Steeplechase Record Tait ran 9:27 to finish 4th at NCAA Champs this year.
- World Athletics Ratifies Tigist Assefa's 2:15:50 "Women's Only" Marathon World Record She won the London Marathon this year which has a separate start for women (as opposed to the Chicago Marathon where Ruth Chepngetich ran her 2:09:56 alongside the men).
RIP To A Legend
As an athlete, Dellinger, 91, was an NCAA champion, American record holder, world record holder and Olympic medalist As a coach, he won four NCAA XC titles as coach at the University of Oregon, where he coached legendary athletes such as Steve Prefontaine, Alberto Salazar, and Matt Centrowitz.
Meet Phanuel Koech
Koech's coach Claudio Berardelli says his talent could be comparable to that of his two biggest stars, marathoner Sabastian Sawe and Olympic 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi. "I’m still trying to figure out exactly what happened and what is the potential of this boy," Berardelli said.
Breaking-4
Kipyegon gave it a go but after hitting 1200 in 3:01.84 (4:03.82 mile pace), she faded to a 63-second last lap. *Full race video
- MB: Faith Kipyegon breaking-4 official discussion thread
- MB: I've timed it twice - I'm pretty sure Faith Kipyegon didn't run a 4:06.42 mile today in Paris. What was here real time?
- MB: What did Nike actually spend on the sub 4 mile attempt? The numbers we are hearing may shock you.
- MB: Nike claims that in a pre-race test, another Nike pro ran 3% faster in mile with pacers and speedsuit. So what happened?
- MB: This Faith Kipyegon thing illustrates something that really bothers me with how women are marketed to/treated in general
- MB: Whoever came up with the idea of Faith Kipyegon breaking 4min should be fired
- MB: Faith Kipyegon Not Even Close to Sub 4
Non-LRC coverage Breaking 4 Coverage
- Toni Reavis: You can't hurry love - or, a 4-minute mile "Ater Paris today, we—at least, I—didn’t come away thinking a sub-4-minute mile is imminent for women. In fact, it seems to have quite a long way to go."
- Outside: Faith Kipyegon Didn’t Break the 4-Minute Mile. But She Ran a Damn Good Race.
- NY Times: Faith Kipyegon falls short in attempt to break four-minute mile
- Independent: Faith Kipyegon agonisingly close to Breaking 4-minute mile goal We can't believe multiple media outlets acted like she was close.
- The Guardian: Faith not enough as Kipyegon misses four-minute mile barrier by six seconds
Live LRC Watch Party & Reaction Show
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Freeman found incredible success in an event that has often plagued American relay squads, but USATF chose not to renew her contract at the end of 2024. Why? Jonathan Gault investigates.
The 800 Gets LetsRun Love
The 800 Gets LetsRun Love
Kersee doesn't talk often to the media but he talked to our Jonathan Gault about his plans for Athing Mu. Kersee said he believes racing the 1500 will help make Mu a better 800 runner but said he also hopes she can run more 400s moving forward and that she can eventually break 49 seconds in that event.
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." (SC paywall lifted)
Portland Track Festival - Brazier's Back Baby!
Donavan Brazier is running in the 1:43s after only 2 races in his comeback. This one was a beautiful victory that reminded us of the Brazier of old. In other action, former high school phenoms Katelyn Tuohy and Drew Hunter got wins, as current high schoolers Owen Powell and Josiah Tostenson ran 3:36 (#2 and #3 on the HS all-time list). Justyn Knight and Luis Grijalva returned to action.
- MB: DONNY MF BRAZIER: In case you weren't convinced. He's officially, officially back. 1:43.81 negative split
- DyeStat Recap: "Donavan Brazier Makes Triumphant Return To Portland Track Festival With Fastest Time Since 2020"
- MB: Owen Powell and Josiah Testosterone 3:36
- MB: Katelyn Touhy 15:04
- Donavan Brazier Video Interview
- Portland Track Festival Day 1 Results UA Dark Sky's Isaac Updike (8:13) and Gracie Hyde (9:24) won the steeplechases. NAZ Elite's Abby Nichols (31:52) took the women's 10,000m.
GST LA Cancelled
After the most successful meet of the year in Philly, there will be no meet #4 in 2025 as it was abruptly cancelled 2 weeks before it was to take place. GST did not give a reason for the cancellation, but claimed there will be a meet in 2026 in LA.
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.
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."
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
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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.
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