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2012 London Is History *Top results *Live Splits  *Video Highlights *On Universalsports TV At 1pm ET  *Worldwide TV Viewing Info *Mary Keitany Photo Gallery From Kenya *Getty Images Photos From Kenya

Latest London: LRC  Mary Keitany Runs Fastest Final 10km In Marathon History To Repeat & Become The #3 Performer In History The Kenyan certainly came to play when it was time to battle it out for the title and London Olympic spots as they went 1-2-3-4-5, but in the end, everyone was left talking to about Keitany who used a 5:07 23rd mile and 4:59 24th mile to pull away from world champion Edna Kiplagat and mark herself as the Olympic favorite. *Men's Recap coming later.

LRC Flash Recap Mary Keitany & Wilson Kipsang Are The Winners of The 2012 Virgin London Marathon Both Keitany and Kipsang were sensational but in contrasting styles. Keitany was patient before running a sensational last half of 67:44 with a 4:59 22nd mile. Kipsang was aggressive as he used a 4:30 14th mile to grab the lead after a brisk 62:12 first half.
*Live Update Thread *Top Results *Video Highlights
On the boards: Kenyan Olympic team  PreRace: Makau won't start on Sunday and Kirui will win

LRC Meet Wilson Kipsang: "If I had to compare him to an NFL quarterback, I'd compare him to Peyton Manning." link fixed We share with you this unpublished segment on Wilson Kipsang from Employee #1s final piece in the 8 Days of Glory Series. Short segment with video interview with Kipsang overlooking the Rift Valley.

Dave Bedford Rips British Coaching For Lack Of British Marathoning Success - Says Guys Need To Run More

Employee #1 Goes To Kenya
LRC Meet Mary Keitany The half marathon world record holder destroyed the best women's field in the world last year in London. Then on the hilly New York course, she went out faster than Paula Radcliffe during her world record before falling apart miserably. Now she has to qualify for the Olympics in London. Get to know Mary Keitany.
*Keitany Photo Gallery *Getty Images Photos From Kenya

LRC The Electrifying Abel Kirui The two-time World Champion has dominated non-rabbited races. Can he do the same in London on Sunday? Learn about his training and his set-up in Iten as he talks about phantom planets and more - from Employee #1's trip to Kenya.
New: Renato Canova Talks About Abel Kirui (Video)

IAAF London Preview: London Glory & Olympic Spots On Line At World's Most Competitive Marathon The London field is stacked once again as it includes 10 sub-2:06 guys and stacked women's field. *Fantastic Marathon Stats By Ken Nakamura

Worth A Read: The Cool Story Of How Scott Overall Made The British Olympic Marathon Team A year ago he was selling shoes and about to quit the sport. Now he's an Olympic marathoner.

*Mary Keitany: "I don't fear the marathon."
*101-Year-Old Fauja Singh Running London And Sister Says It's Racist Guiness Book Won't Recognize Him

From The London Media Center:

Laid-Back Kenyans Shrug Off Olympic Pressure
*Experience Is Key, Says Gharib
*Teamwork's Key For Britain's Men
Video: *Interview With World Champion Abel Kirui
Video: Interview With Berlin Marathon Champion Florence Kiplagat
Video: Interview With British Marathon Runner Claire Hallissey

More: 2:15 Brit Phil Weeks Withdraws With Hamstring Injury He's obviously devastated as his home Olympic dreams are over.

Paula Radcliffe's Friend Liz Yelling Says She Doesn't Think Radcliffe Will Run London Olympics Unless She's 100% "I think if she's injured she won't put herself through that again. She can't stand on that line 90%, 80% fit anymore and hope that she's going to have a good run." *More On Yelling/Radcliffe

Non-London Marathon News

RRW: Neely Spence Joins Hansons-Brooks Updated The D2 star is Hansons-Brooks biggest pickup ever.
*Discuss On The Boards

Meet Glenn Randall
LRC The Story Behind Glenn Randall (The Guy Who Led Boston) Who was that dude leading the first 10k of the Boston Marathon? Believe it or not, he's an NCAA champion (in another sport). LetsRun.com talks to the guy who made the first 10k of the marathon entertaining. His frontrunning was no stunt and has paid off big time in the past. This time it resulted in a 2:37:13 61st place finish.

A Brief Chat With 2:10:47 Canadain Olympian Dylan Wykes Random facts from article:
1) After dropping out of Lake Biwa, he couldn't get into any other marathon but Rotterdam 2) He was never an All-American at Providence 3) He's given up being a vegetarian.

Jason Hartmann Still On Cloud 9 "If I never accomplish anything else in the sport of running again, I can look back at this and be really happy with my running career."

• Other Post-Boston News: Boston Organizers/Athletes Happy To Have The Hot Race Behind Them Wesley Korir: "When they took off, I wish I had an opportunity to tell them, 'You guys are crazy.' I was not going to go with them. I thought about my daughter. I thought about my wife. I didn't want to go to the hospital. I wanted to go home."
• Good Article On How Korir Battled Typhoid Back In February And 58 Days Later Won Boston Maybe Emmanuel Mutai is right not to be worried ahead of London.
• 1980 Marathon Trials 3rd Placer Kyle Heffner Won His Age Group (55-59) At Boston With 2:48:36
• One We Missed: Jenn Rhines (74:05) Second To Alemtsehay Misganaw (73:25) At More/Fitness Half Marathon In NYC On Sunday

London This Weekend; Yuki Kawauchi Racing A Marathon Next Weekend Followed By A Half Two Weeks Later

• Some Thoughts From Emmanuel Mutai And Abel Kirui Ahead Of London Kirui: "Everybody shall run his own race and at the end we shall run the best time and we shall run without any fear (of the others)."
• Ejegayehu Dibaba, Sister Of Tirunesh, Running In Her Second Marathon At London She's hoping to break out of her sister's shadow and improve on her 2:22 from Chicago last year.
• April 29th: Yuki Kawauchi Racing Düsseldorf Marathon The field is led by Ethiopian Seboka Diriba Tola (2:06:17 in Dubai for 9th). Then on May 13th, he's among the elite field for Sendai International Half Marathon along with sub-60 minute Kenyan Mekubo Mogusu and Olympic marathon team member Arata Fujiwara.
• This Weekend: Craig Mottram And Jeff Risley Running Victorian XC Relay Champs
• May 9th: Yohan Blake Will Highlight Inaugural Cayman Invitational Carmelita Jeter will also be there.

Post-Boston/Bekele News

• Full Race Video For Bekele's SPAR Great Irish Run Win Women's race starts at 15:15, men's at 34:00.
• Kenyan Newspaper: "Stop any American in the streets and ask them whom they thought was likely to win the marathon and the answer, without any hesitation will be, 'Kenyans.'" Someone should warn them that 2012 is so far the year of the Ethiopians in the marathon.
• Doctor Asks If Boston Should Have Been Postponed Definitely not.

Upcoming: Emmanuel Mutai Running London After Recovering From Typhoid, Haile G At Great Manchester Run

• London: Emmanuel Mutai Still Running London Despite Recently Recovering From A Bout Of Typhoid Fever Another variable to throw into the Kenyan Olympic selection analysis.
• At Home This Weekend: Loaded Mid-Distance Events At Oregon Relays 1,500: Tyler Mulder, Kevin Chelimo, Ian Dobson, Chris Thompson, Trevor Dunbar and Elijah Greer. Sally Kipyego leads for the women. Women's 800: Some Oregon All-Americans vs. World Indoor team member Sara Vaughn.
  *Oregon's NCAA Champ Brianne Theisen Won't Open Season Until PAC-12 Meet
• May 20: Haile Gebrselassie To Go For 5th Victory At Bupa Great Manchester 10k Run
  *Old News: Haile Won't Run In The 2012 Olympics If it wasn't official before it is now, as his manager said "[Haile] has given up on the Olympics with pain in his heart."
• May 6: IAAF Preview May 6th Seiko Golden Grand Prix In Japan Allyson Felix, LJ World champ Dwight Phillips highlight.

The 8 Days Of Marathon Madness Has Begun
Boston Marathon Monday *Men's Results/Splits *Women's Results Splits *Winners Photo Gallery *Video Highlights

Recommended: Excellent Post By Science Of Sport On Boston Conditions: The Surge Between 25 And 30k And The Sun Did The Leaders In We'll have more LRC analysis but this post does an excellent job of explaining what happened. Also read this post that explains why telling people to over-prepare for the heat may not be the best idea. And only 427 people deferred to next year's race.

RRW: Wesley Korir Comes From Behind For Shock Victory Korir, the former University of Louisville, Ron Mann-coached athlete was 57 seconds behind the leaders with less than five miles to go. Then the heat took its toll on leader Levy Matebo and Korir stormed to victory in 2:12:40 as American Jason Hartmann used a similar tactic to get 4th in 2:14:31. The winner was nearly 10 minutes slower than last year. Crazy.
*Top Results/Splits *Winners Photos *Video Highlights

More Men's Boston:

• Jason Hartmann On Getting 4th: "This is the body God gave me. I have no control over that, and I just try to do the best with the abilities I've been given." Denver Post
• Champ Wesley Korir And Jason Hartmann Talk About Prevailing In The Heat, Geoffrey Mutai Not Too Upset About Dropping Out Hartmann: "I circled this on my calendar and every day this is what I prepared for. I wasn't gonna fail today. I came here to do something, fortunately for me it worked out."
• A Race Of "Redemption" For Jason Hartmann In Boston (Article And Video) RW
• RW Takes A Look At Retro Win For Wesley Korir Post-race interview as well. Korir may do a lot of his training in Mennonite country in Canada but he is a great hot weather runner as he showed Monday.
• Geoffrey Mutai Dropping Out Complicates Kenyan Olympic Picture "Time Plus" will be a key factor for selecting the team. And Wesley Korir won't be on it.
  
  Boston On The Boards: Official Boston Thread
• Jason Hartmann Looks a Lot Heavier than 160
• Would Ryan Hall Have Won Boston Today?
• OK - Which year at Boston was hotter - '12 or '04?
• How many of your friends are FLOPPING at Boston right now?
• Pull a "Glenn Randall" (GR)
• Kellog is more lucky that smart

Other Weekend Action

• Rotterdam:LRC No WR - No Kenyan Win: Ethiopia's Yemane Adhane Spoils The Party & Wins 2012 Rotterdam Marathon In 2:04:47 2011 was unofficially the year of the marathon for the Kenyan men, but 2012 seems to belong squarely to the Ethiopians who now have the top 5 times on the year. Moses Mosop's WR attempt was "stopped" as was his bid for victory. After a 1:01:37 1st half, the pace slowed in windy conditions, but Yemane Adhane emerged victorious in 2:04:47 over compatriot Getu Feleke (2:04:50) as Mosop was third (2:05:02). Ethiopia's Tiki Gelana became the 4th-fastest women in history the with a stellar 2:18:58. *IAAF
  *MB: Rotterdam Marathon live stream *New huge PR for Moses Mosop!
  *New: Canova: Calf Injury Ts To Blame For Mosop's Struggles Canova said Mosop ran on hard pavement the last 3 days in Kenya. The Ethiopians credited their success to a change in their training regime to feature more speedwork.
  Marathon Mission's Catriona Jennings Gets "A" Standard In Rotterdam
  
  Pre-Race: LRC Moses Mosop Goes For Glory: "Moses Has Speed That Has Never Been Seen"
  Interesting Read: Learn About "Marathon Mission:" Ireland's Version of Marathon Group Training
  
  
• Vienna: Haile G (60:52) Beats Paula Radcliffe As Radcliffe Runs Slowest 13.1 Of Her Career (72:03) Radcliffe came in after recently having bronchitis but was expecting better. Meanwhile, Kenya's Henry Sugut won the marathon in 2:06:58.
  *Paula To BBC: "I am at a loss to explain why it was quite so bad. I still would have expected and hoped for a time in the 69s."
  *Classic British Press Over-Reaction: Tearful Paula Radcliffe Sees Hopes Of Olympic Medal Fade In Vienna
  *Geb On Paula: "Paula is an inspiration but I would ask all British people not to expect too much of her. I don't expect Paula to win the Olympics."
   
• Dublin: MB Kenenisa Bekele Looks Majestic In His Return He destroyed the field and impressed at least once message board poster who seemingly watched the race.
  *27:50 Destroys Mottram's Course Record By 46 Seconds On Hilly Course
  *IAAF: Bekele sparkles with 27:49 10km in Dublin Bekele was happy afterwards: "The good news is that all of my training which has been based towards to the track season, has shown to be successful here also."
  *Pre-Race: Irish Times: "One of the sport's all-time greats is in town, but it's not creating much of a stir - and that's the way he likes it,"  Writes IAN O'RIORDAN
  
  

• Paris: Kenyan Stanley Biwott (2:05:11) And Ethiopian Tirfi Beyene (2:21:39) Set Course Records Despite Swirling Winds And Chilly Temperature
• Nagano: Kenyans Get Wins In 2:09:02 And 2:34:22 In Paris

Worth A Read

LRC 8 Days For Glory - A Kenyan Flavored Preview Of The Upcoming Men's Marathon World Record Assault Over 8 days starting this Sunday, six Kenyan men - the four fastest marathoners of all time (Geoffrey Mutai, Moses Mosop, Patrick Makau and Wilson Kipsang), plus double World Champion Abel Kirui and Virgin London Champion Emmanuel Mutai - will fight for three Kenyan Olympic spots on the streets of Rotterdam, Boston, and London.

Miscellaneous News

• Debate Over Women's Road Racing Records Still Continues Desiree Davila: "It's like getting into baseball statistics where you say, 'It's the first home run in a Wednesday game when the sun was at 45 degrees. If we're going to qualify all these different things with the record, it's going to start becoming silly. I feel like it kind of takes away from it."
• Matthew Centrowitz And His Father Talk About How He Learned Strategy For The 1,500 Washington Post Matt Centro Sr. talks about how he used reverse psychology on his son to get him into track in the first place.
• Much Of London Opening/Closing Ceremonies Music Won't Be Performed Live Also, there is a rumor that the Spice Girls will be playing during the Games.
• Is The Use Of Hi-Tech Shoes & Uniforms Cheating?
• Where Are They Now?: Greek Drug Cheat Kostas Kenteris Talks about his career and staged motorcycle crash and history of missing drug tests.
• Q&A With Yelena Isinbayeva She refuses to reveal what she says when she's seen talking to her pole.

Recommended Read

Recommended Read: Meet 2:19:44 Marathoner Florence Kiplagat, Who Is Focused On Winning London The former World Cross and World Half star was a soccer player in school who picked up running after being told do so by her uncle - 2:06:50 marathoner William Kiplagat. Her goal was to come to school in the US, but that didn't work out and the rest is history. A year ago, we wondered prior to Boston if she'd be the world's new marathon star. The answer seems to be yes. Her 66:38 half from February proves she is fit.

Weekend US Track Action *Stanford Results *Florida Results

Jeremy Wariner Runs 1st 400 Of Year - 45.64 - Leaves "a little disappointed." Last week, he split 44.58, so we understand why he's upset. He did say, "My strength is where I want to be at."

Stanford Invite: Nice IAAF Recap Of Stanford: Areson Makes Up 35m Gap And Catches Lisa Uhl & Gets World Lead; Ritz Wins And More Dathan Ritzenhein won the 10,000m in 28:21 in his first track race in 2.5 years, Jackie Areson got an Olympic "A" qualifier in the 5,000 (15:18.31) as Lisa Uhl just missed (15:21). Chris Derrick won his slower section of the 1,500 in 3:41.17 to beat Evan Jager and Lawi Lalang, and Kevin Castille ran 28:57 10k at age 40!

Florida Relays Marvin Bracy False Starts, 7th Grader Daesha Rogers Runs 2:09.44 Orlando Sentinel
*Results Alan Webb's 2012 struggles continued as he ran 1:54.17 for 800m and then 40 minutes later 3:54.08 for 1,500m.
On The Boards: 3:54 Webb? Really?, 7th Grade Girl Wins Florida Relays 800

A Racewalker That Would Make Jimmy Wyner Proud

Kiwi Olympic Racewalker Was DQed For Doing Forward Somersault At Finish Line Of 1st National Champs "Some people might get upset about [the disqualification], but I did what I set out to do and I wasn't too concerned whether they gave me a medal or not."

High School Big News

17-Year-Old High Schooler Cayla Hatton Runs 33:17 10,000m Olympic Trials "B" Qualifier The prodigy only started running full-time this year. Now she's putting up a time that would make her 5th in the NCAAs last year. Truly ridiculous. The time is so fast some were wondering if it was a lap short, but this video proves it's legit and shows she ran every lap (16:30-16:46).
*A Q&A With HS Prodigy Cayla Hatton Two years ago, she was in awe of Kara Goucher and asking for her autograph. Now she'll be racing against people like her at USAs in the 10k.

World Indoors *Results *Video Highlights For US Visitors *UK Visitors *Yahoo Photos

LRC Men's 3,000m Final Lives Up To The Hype World 5,000m champion Mo Farah squared off with two-time world indoor champion Bernard Lagat and 2012 World leaders Augustine Choge and Edwin Soi of Kenya. Once again, Bernard Lagat was too good. They were all in contention on the final lap. There was some contact, two guys running on the infield, a DQ and a resintatement, but none of that stopped Bernard Lagat from showing he's the best 3,000m runner in the world.

LRC 800s: Pamela Jelimo Is Back As USA's Erica Moore Gets Bronze, 18-Year-Old* Mohamed Aman Gets Gold The last time Pamela Jelimo was any good, Erica Moore wasn't an 800m runner. They both left World Indoors pleased, as Moore made her first sub-2:00 clocking count with a bronze medal. In the men's race, 18-year-old* favorite Mohamed Aman got gold. On The Boards: Erica Moore 800m at Worlds

LRC Hellen Obiri Stuns Four-Time World Champ Defar link fixed Obiri Closes In 4:06.6 For Gold Get used to the name Hellen Obiri. Last year, she ran internationally for the first time and won the Kenyan 1,500m championships. This year, in the fourth 3,000m of her life, she came from behind to stop Meseret Defar from getting her 5th world title.

IAAF Final Day Recap: Brittney Reese Is Incredible, Aries Meritt Upsets Liu Xiang, Will Claye Wins Brittney Reese had her back to the wall in the long jump, so what did she do? Unleash a jump that made her #3 all-time to win.

Relay Season/NCAA Action Heats Up *Mt. SAC Live Results *More NCAA Results

Mt. SAC - Day 3: LRC Walter Dix 9.85!!! Duane Solomon Crushes NCAAs Best, Molly Beckwith Remains Undefeated Outdoors & Jeremy Wariner Loses Walter Dix's time was wind-aided but impressive nonetheless. Jeremy Wariner broke 45 but lost as Duane Solomon crushed a strong 800 field that included Charles Jock, Ryan Martin & Cas Loxsom. Beckwith's 2:00 was easily best of the ladies 800s. Plus Jason Richardson, a 17-year-old winner in the women's 400, and more.
*AP Recap Of Day 3

LRC Cam Levins 13:18.37 Outkicks Lawi Lalang The Southern Utah legend Levins, known for his 160 miles/week, used a 55-second last lap to become the first collegian to defeat Lalang at a distance over 1,500m this year. Former NCAA Champ and LRC Puma Faas Challenge Winner David McNeill also got an Olympic "A" qualifier (sub-13:20) in 3rd. Molly Huddle won the 5,000 at Mt. SAC as Abbey D'Agostino and Lucy Van Dalen were third and fourth in the 5,000. Jenny Barringer did not run. Canada's Hilary Stellingwerff (4:31.04) and French drug cheat Jamal Aarrass (3:52.21 ahead of Taylor Milne and Nate Brannen) won the Puma Miles and $2,500.
*Last Lap Or Full Race Of Levins' Win

S. Africa: Semenya Runs 1:59.98 To Qualify For London, Mulaudzi Comes Up Short

Kenya: IAAF: Kenya Meet Day 2 (Rudisha DNS, Jelimo Another 53.6)
Rudisha Runs 45.8 400, Asbel Kiprop 3:35.0 1,500m, Jelimo 54.5 400m

Oregon: Sally Kipyego's 4:08.59 World-Leading 1,500 Highlights Oregon Relays Jordan Hasay faded to 4:15.00 as discussed in this thread. *Results

Princeton: Cayla Hatton, HS Senior, 16:14 Win Against Collegiates After the Indiana steeplers put up the #1, 2, 5 and 10 times in the country, Princeton's steepler Donn Cabral responded by looking incredible in the 1,500 as he had his way with NCAA 4th placer in the mile Sam McEntee. *Results *Live Results

ACCs: Saturday: Virginia Tech Men Win 1st Ever Title, Clemson Women Win Congrats to Vtech. *Full ACC Reults (PDF)
Day 2: Virginia Tech Men Maintain Lead, Duke Women Grab First Place Clemson's Alyssa Kulik impressed in the steeple (9:52.90).

*Dayron Robles Hopes To Compete In America At adidas Grand Prix: "This is the home of hurdling, and the Americans are the kings of the event."
*Wallace Spearmon Profile In Ft Worth Star Telegram Wallace is back in case you didn't know.

Friday Night Track On The Boards:

• Cayla Hatton, HS Senior, 16:14 win against collegiates
• CAM LEVINS H#@% S#$%
• Abbey D'Agostino, Lucy Van Dalen, Sheila Reid, 15:23
• Puma Mile No Joke at Mt. SAC!!!
• Sophomores Abbey D'Agostino and Katie Flood are new queens of the NCAA
• Jordan Hasay 4:15 season opener
• Katie Flood 4:11 NCAA leader!
• Caster Semenya Qualified For London Today

Previous Mt. SAC

Mt. SAC Relays: Live Results
LRC: Evan Jager Throws Down Last Lap Of 64, Wins Steeple Debut In Olympic B Standard Of 8:26 updated Jager's steeple debut was a big success as he crushed WC team member Dan Huling. There no doubt is room for improvement as he closed in 64 seconds and this was his steeple debut. In the 10k, Stephen Sambu ran 28:06. *Track Focus On Jager *Post-Race Interview With Jager *Jager's Last 2 Laps

*Oregonian: It looks like OTC/Portland's Evan Jager has found an event Jager: "I know I'm a pretty good 5k runner, gut on the world stage, I think the steeple would be my best event. So that's why we ultimately made the decision to switch to it."

On The Boards: Evan Jager runs 8:26.14, wins steeple, 64 last lap, gets Olympic B standard

Quick Look At Mt. SAC Friday Nice women's 5k with Molly Huddle, Jenny Simpson, Sheila Reid, Sara Hall, Julie Culley, and the Puma miles with $2,500 for 1st.
*Nice Article On Molly Huddle's Preparations From Her Hometown Newspaper

More Track Action

ACCs: We love to call it "the conference that doesn't care about track, so they put the outdoor conference meet before Penn Relays to save money."
*Virginia Tech Men Maintain Lead, Duke Women Grab First Place Clemson’s Alyssa Kulik impressed in the steeple (9:52.90).
*Live Results/Stream *Schedule/Meet Home *MB: Discuss
*VTech Men, UVA Women Lead After Day 1
*UVA Excited To Be Hosting At New $14 Million Facility New man Fetzer is talking big like Vinny and wants to turn UVA into the Eugene of the East.

Kansas Relays: Results
*Reese Hoffa Wins Kansas Relays Downtown Shot Put As He & Cantwell Both Throw Over 71 Feet *More On Hoffa
*Janay Deloach Jumps #3 In World (6.61m) To Win Downtown Long Jump

OK State's Good News: German Fernandez Running Again, Hoping To Be Ready For Big 12s

Oregon: Meet Oregon's Big-Kicking Becca Friday, Who Got 5th At NCAAs Outdoors Last Year/4th Indoors The 4:15.17 performer will be looking to improve her 800 PR (2:05.89).
*Oregon's Bronwyn Crossman Is Pumped To Be #3 All-Time At Oregon In 10k At 33:18  Hard to believe that's slower, though, than HS sensation Cayla Hatton.

More College News:
Only CU Students Will Have 4/20 Fun: Judge Says It's Okay For CU To Close Campus To Visitors On 4/20

Sprint, Hurdle, Pole Vault News + Kenya 400 News

Recommend Read: Ultimately All Tyson Gay Wants Is Happiness But He's Not Sure If Even Beating Bolt Would Give Him That A confident sounding Gay talks about his mom's influence in his life, a cocky Maurice Greene, and why he thinks he should have already run 9.62.

David Rudisha & Pamela Jelimo To Run 400s In Kenya On Friday

Good Hurdle News: Robles: "I am completely recovered from my injury."

Jamaica Gleaner: Glen Mills Is Right - Usain Bolt Is Back

Yohan Blake To Run In Cayman Islands On May 9th

Oscar P Is One Of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World
*Time

PV Star Isinbayeva Says Her Body Is Getting Old & She's Getting Tired Of Training & She'll Retire In 2 Years

USA Today's 100 Athletes, 100 Days Features Natasha Hastings

Sammy Wanjiru's Blood Line Continues; Battle Over His Assets Gets Complicated

DNA Tests Confirm Sammy Wanjiru Had A Son With Second Wife Judy Wambui Wairimu came forward last year, proclaiming to be his second wife and pregnant with his child. He also had a son and daughter with his first wife, Triza Njeri.

More Wanjiru: Wanjiru's Mom Claims He Was Executed By Police

Batman Jackson Throws Down The Gauntlet, And Other US Stuff

• Bershawn "Batman" Jackson Has Some Harsh Words For UK World Champ Dai Greene "You're talking about a guy who won the Worlds in 48.2. The time he ran with wasn't outstanding ... He wrote a check that he can't cash and I'm coming and you're going to know I'm in the race."
• Arkansas And Oregon Men Will Have Dual Meet Within A Meet At Next Year's Oregon Relays Vin Lananna said, "It will be a full lineup, all-out, get it done. There will be no excuses about they rested this kid or rested that kid. We won't rest anybody."
• In Case You Missed It: Learn How To Run The 1,500 From Matthew Centrowitz And His Father This Washington Post article breaks down 1,500 race strategy and does a lap-by-lap analysis (with some cool diagrams) of Centro's Daegu run.

First Round Of Kenyan 10k Olympic Trials A Complete Farce *Top 10 Results

• 2009 World 10k Bronze Medallist Moses Masai Wins Kenyan 10k "Mini Trials" Out of the 31 invited, only 17 showed up, and 15 finished, 13 of which are heading to Eugene. Masai won in a tactical 28:10 over Olympic 5k silver medallist Eliud Kipchoge (28:11.0) and Lucas Rotich (28:17.4). In a sign of stupidity, Olympic 10k bronze medallist, Micah Kogo (6th) and Daniel Salel (11th) were cut because they don't have the Olympic "A" standard (27:45). So if you showed up and had the "A" standard, all you had to do was finish.
• Awesome: Kenyan Javelin Olympic Qualifier Turned To Youtube Videos To Learn How To Throw He's known in Kenya as the ‘YouTube Man’.
• Kenyan Head Coach Julias Kirwa Disappointed That Only 17 Showed Up For The Race Maybe more would have showed up if they didn't hold it smack in the middle of four big-time marathons.
• IAAF: Distance Runners Upstaged By A Javelin Thrower In Kenya! Julius Yego threw a Kenyan NR in the jav to get the Olympic B standard and qualify for London.

Boston Women *Women's Results Splits *Men's Results/Splits *Winners Photo Gallery *Video Highlights

Sharon Cherop Outkicks Jemima Sumgong Cherop was third last year and third at the World Championships but she got the huge win here as she outdueled countrywoman Jemima Sumgong. Believe it or not, this was the 5th straight year the women's race has been decided by 3 seconds or less.
*Top Results/Splits  *Video Highlights Including Exciting Women's Finish
*RunnersWorld Article On Cherop's Win, Post-Race Interview As Well
*40-Year-Old First American Sheri Piers Is From Maine But Was Ready For Heat Thanks To Training On A Treadmill Text and interview.

Non-Rotterdam/Boston Marathon Weekend Action

BAA 5k: LRC Course Records Fall As Ben True Outkicks Sam Chelanga For BAA 5k Title; Werknesh Kidane Wins Women's Race Olympian Desi Davila was only 10th in the women's race but wasn't too upset afterwards.

BAA Mile: Morgan Uceny & Collis Birmingham Earn Wins The times may not appear fast but remember it's on a 500-meter long block with 90-degree turns.

Pre-Race: LRC Quest For $100,000 Begins At BAA 5k Believe it or not, Sam Chalenga has a good shot at winning not this race but $100,000 and is up against Ethiopia's Ali Abdosh and defending champ Ben True.

George Mason: LRC Alan Webb Redeems Himself With A 3:43 1,500m/ 14:15 5,000m Double, Robby Andrews Opens With 1:49 Win Alan didn't win the 1,500m, but his performance was so much better than last weekend's 1:54/3:54 debacle that all Alan Webb fans like this guy can breathe a sigh of relief. And the message boards went nuts with Webb: here, here, here, here.
Update: Video On Webb's Race

Jamaica: Usain Bolt Blasts Asafa Powell In 4 X 100 To Open Season World 100m champ Yohan Blake ran a super-impressive 9.90 to open the season as well and didn't even get mentioned in the Reuters article.
*IAAF Recap Of Bolt/Blake's Run With pics of small crowd.
*Video Of Bolt's 4 X 100 Win Over Powell *Video Of Blake's Opener

S. African Champs: Oscar P Only Runs 47.28, LJ Van Zyl Only Runs 51.00, Semenya Runs 2:02.68 To Win, Mulaudzi Runs 1:45.68 To Win Sounds like Oscar didn't try very hard, saying, "I felt like I was at the verge of pushing it into the red. I didn't see the point of really doing that."
Semenya Wins But Doesn't Break 2:00 - Says It's Key She Doesn't Panic "It was okay for me. I retained my title but the race was a bit disappointing because we were hoping for a qualifier but unfortunately I didn't make it, but the time will come. I just need to be patient."

Austin: Jeremy Wariner Runs 46.43 For 400m It was really, really windy.

Australian Champs: Melissa Breen Misses Olympic Qualification By .02 In 100, Tamsyn Manou Wins In 2:02.01
*Results *"B" Standard Is Not Good Enough For Tamsyn Manou To Go To Olympics

High Schooler Haley Crouser Sets National Javelin Mark (Her Brother Set The Javelin Mark 2 Years Ago And Her Cousin Set The Discus Mark Last Year)

South Africa National Champs

• Oscar P Makes 400m Final With Slow Times At SA Champs This article says he "eased" to 48.34 and 47.91 in the semis. However, another article says he looked "sluggish." Caster Semenya didn't race as there were enough scratches to cancel the heats and advance her automatically to today's final.
• Stephen Mokoka Wins And Gets 10k Olympic "A" Standard At SA Champs He won in 27:40, but is leaning towards doing the Olympic marathon which he already qualified for.
• Aussie Champs: Recap Of Day 1 Of Aussie National Champs

US News From A Retired Runner, Alan Webb, And The 2nd-Fastest HSer In The Country

• Alan Webb's Wife Julia Says He's Healthy & This Past Weekend's Races Aren't Indicative Of His Training
• Recommended Read: Adam Goucher Writes On Walking The Line Between Tough And Stupid
• Foot Locker Runner-Up Futsum Zeinasellassie Commits To Northern Arizona University
• US's World Indoor 60m Hurdle Champ Aries Merritt Credits Success From Change To "7 Step" Approach He says with US depth, the Olympic Trials is harder than the Olympics, but that's definitely an exaggeration as he won't have to race Liu Xiang or Dayron Robles at the Trials.
• Would Steve Prefontaine Have Become A Legend In An Era With Few College Dual Meets?

Interesting Olympics News

• Seb Coe Says China Will Top Overall Olympic Medal Tables He predicts China, US, and then Russia and hopes UK could be 4th.
• Good: Japanese Comedian Hiroshi Neko May Be Ineligible For Cambodian Olympic Marathon Team The guy who deserves to go is Hem Bunting, who will be trying to break the 2:18 Olympic B standard at Sunday's Paris Marathon.
• Kenya 4 X 4 Team Will Get Some Experience At The Penn Relays
• Group Creates Fake Version Of London Games Website To Protest BP's Olympic Sponsorship
• NBA Players Ray Allen And Dwyane Wade Say They Should Get Paid To Play For Team USA At The Olympics LeBron James says he's happy to play for free, though.
  *Columnist Says No Way Olympic Players Should Be Paid "The chance to lean over, and have someone slip a gold medal over your head. For many, it will be the most cherished day of their sporting lives. That's not enough for someone? Then why be there?"
• Sprinter Delano Williams Defends Decision To Try Out For GB Olympic Team Because His Native Nation Isn't Eligible For London 2012
• After A Poor 2011, UK Olympic 400m Champ Christine Ohuruogu Is Clocking Better Times In Training Than She Did Before Beijing
• Kenya To Spend ~$5.5 Million Marketing Itself At London Olympics Mary Kimonye: "These games are very important to the country considering that we have won more than 50 per cent of the medals since the Games began." Not sure where that stat came from, but it's clearly wrong.

US Track News

• April 21st: Deep Mile Field For Kansas Relays Field has Nick Symmonds, Will Leer, A.J. Acosta, Russell Brown and Lee Emanuel.
• A Revised Fundraising Plan May Save Maryland Men's Track And Field Calls for no indoor team and an outdoor roster of only 14 opposed to 27.
• Chris Solinsky Says He Never Realized How Easy He Had It Until Trying To Come Back From Surgery/Injury
• Article On OP's Jackie Areson, Who Set A 33-Second 5k PR To Get The Win And Olympic "A" At Stanford Apparently she had no idea what pace she was on until the last lap as her coach told her not to look at the clock until 400 to go.

Alberto's Book On Sale Now, Buy It From Our Partner Amazon And Support LRC

Great Read If You Didn't Read It Yesterday: Alberto Salazar Unplugged - Part II This interview with Amby Burfoot is great. From Ritz's struggle in the marathon, to Ritz's form change, to Alberto's competitive relationship with Jerry Schumacher, to Galen Rupp's marathon future and, to Alberto's biggest regrets, Amby Burfoot leaves no question unasked and Alberto doesn't shy away from any of them and talks about Rupp running 12:45 and in the 26:20s.
*Part I: Alberto's Book & The "Duel In The Sun"
MB: An Incredible Amby Burfoot Interview With Alberto Salazar

*The Wall Street Journal Positively Reviews Alberto Salazar's New Autobiography Pre-order the book today here (it's released tomorrow) and get Amazon price guarantee.

Ryan Hall Movie

LRC Ryan Hall Feature Film In The Works A full length film on Ryan Hall's quest for glory in London 2012 is in the works. Learn more about the film "41 Days," watch a trailer, and learn how you can help support the film and get some Ryan Hall memorabilia. Image below.
On The Boards: Ryan Hall's Big News

Khannouchi's Retirement

LRC Carey Pinkowski Reflects On Khalid Khannouchi's Career: "He Was The Absolute Best I've Ever Seen" The Chicago marathon director talks about the man who made his name in the Windy City. Plus quotes from London Marathon director Dave Bedford and a tweet from Ryan Hall.

LRC Marathon Legend Khalid Khannouchi Officially Retires Khalid Khannouchi, one of the greatest marathoners of all time, has told LRC that he is officially retiring from competitive running. Khalid helped revolutionize the sport of marathon running, setting two world record in the span of three years, including his final one at the "Greatest Marathon Ever Run" - the 2002 London Marathon matchup that featured Khannouchi, Paul Tergat and Haile Gebrselassie.

Lisbon Action *LRC Updated Full Photo Gallery

Shalane Flanagan Wins Lisbon Half, Tadese Three-Peats Updated with IAAF story The American got the big upset win (just as we predicted) and Zersenay Tadese got the win but not the world record (just as we predicted - a broken clock is accurate twice a day). Flanagan ran 68:51 for the win.
OTB: Flanagan wins Lisbon. Lock for Olympic gold?
*Will there be an official Lisbon half-marathon thread?
*Letsrun...seriously your picking Shalane Flanagan to win the 2012 Lisbon Half Marathon?
*Full Photo Gallery
*LRC Lisbon Half Marathon Preview

US Women's Olympic Trials Marathon News *LRC Vote Totals *Men's Results *Women's Results *Yahoo Flash Photos

Flanagan Over Davila, Goucher Gets Third As Top 4 All Break Old OTrials Record Flanagan (2:25:38) pulled away from Davila (2:25:55) and Goucher was third in 2:26:06. Amy Hastings broke the old Trials record at 2:27:17 but didn't make the team. Deena Kastor was 6th in 2:30:40.

• New: Amy Hastings Reacts To Fourth Place Finish Obviously disappointed, but a good run for Amy.
• Post-Race Reaction None of the four former Olympic marathoners in the race made the team. Hear from the top 3 and them.
• Women's Results
• Goucher: "I never imagined myself winning this race based on the short period of time I had to train." Oregonian

US Men's Olympic Trials Marathon News *LRC Vote Totals *Men's Results *Women's Results *Mile-By-Mile Splits *Yahoo Flash Photos

LRC Men's Marathon Trials Analysis And Reaction The 2012 Trials race was a classic. We throw some love to the top 3, ponder Ritz's future in the marathon, tell you who had the best debut, and tell you who that guy you never heard of was. Plus we talk about Meb's 74-year-old badass dad and look at the fortune of some old timers who didn't make the team, Josh Cox and Dan Browne, in addition to the ones who did (Meb and Abdi).

Race Recap: Meb Keflezighi Captures 2012 Olympic Trials Marathon Title