BU Record Attempts – Rupp (and Levins Deliver) – Cain and Moser Come Up Short

LRC 5 Thoughts After Galen Rupp’s American 5000 Record and Mary Cain’s World Indoor 1000 Junior Record Team USA Fans, we’ve got great news. Alberto Salazar said Rupp’s #1 goal for indoors isn’t these records but taking on the World in Poland.

LRC Galen Rupp Breaks American Indoor 5000 Record – Runs 13:01.26 in Boston Lopez Lomong‘s American record didn’t even last 365 days. Rupp took the lead with 1600 to go and shattered Lomong’s mark as his old college rival Sam Chelanga ran 13:04.35 and Cam Levins got the Canadian record of 13:19.16. Mary Cain and Treniere Moser were nowhere near Jen Toomey‘s American record but Cain did get a new world junior mark.

Messageboard Talk: 2014 N.O.P. Women’s 1k – Men’s 5k AR Attempt Live Coverage Thread
*Galen MF Rupp 13:01.26!!!!!!!!
*My wife is going to have a baby within 2 hours, should we name it Galen?

Pre-Race: LRC Three Thoughts About The Nike Oregon Project’s American Record Assaults In Boston In 2014 Will Jen Toomey‘s 2:34 women’s 1k AR go down? No chance. What about Lopez Lomong‘s 13:07 men’s 5k? Discount Rupp at your own peril. Plus did you know that Galen Rupp‘s attempt at the mile record on Feb. 8th won’t happen live on national TV at Reggie but instead will happen the same day at a college meet? What about the Sport?
*BU Press Release: Galen Rupp And His NOP Teammates Will Be Going For 6 American Records At BU Over Next 4 Weeks

Toni Reavis Slams Track And Filed’s Focus On Times “Trying to market the sport via time is self-defeating.”

Kenyans Claim They’re Ready To Take On Mo

• Emmanuel Mutai On Farah: “This not to say that I am underrating him, but with all respect Mo Farah has had no experience in running a full marathon.” The articles actual headline has been incorrectly sensationalized in Kenya to “Farah can’t beat us, Mutai says.”
• London 2014 Preview: Martin Mathathi And Amanuel Mesel Headline Feb. 1st’s Marugame Half Marathon 2:04:48 man Tsegay Adhane, who isn’t on tap for London 2014, is also in the field.
• Post-London 2014: Geoffrey Mutai Returns To The Ottawa 10K Looking To Regain His Crown On May 24

Random But Makes The Cut

• Strength Training Burns Twice As Many Calories As Previously Thought Pushups, lunges, and pull-ups qualify now qualify as “vigorous activity” which you need 60 minutes of each week, not moderate (150 minutes a week). Pushups burn 8.56 calories per minute.
• Uganda Sending 88 For Commonwealth Games Last time, they sent 91 and won two medals – both gold – when Moses Kipsiro stunned the Kenyans in the 10,000 and 5,000.
• Fired Chris Christie Aide Is 2:12 Half Marathoner

Sprint News

• Asafa Powell Says He Only Listed 3 Of 9 Supplements He Was Taking On His Doping Control Form Because He Couldn’t Remember The Rest Of Them Yet he says he and his agent spent hours researching them on the internet to make sure they were legal.
  *BBC Article
• Powell Contradicts Testimony Given By MVP Coach Stephen Francis That There Was A Club Rule About Disclosing Supplements Despite testimony by Francis saying otherwise, Powell says Francis was happy to see him working with Canadian trainer Chris Xuereb. Both Powell and Sherone Simpson have left the MVP club.
• Nesta Carter Talks To The IAAF About Wanting To Improve On His 60m Silver From The 2012 World Indoor Champs He talks about the difficulties of racing indoors when there are no indoor tracks to practice on in Jamaica.
• Usain Bolt And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Announced For This Summer’s Ostrava Golden Spike Meet Fraser-Pryce will race the 200 and Bolt is undecided on what he will run in his 7th appearance at the meet.
• “White Lightning” Christophe Lemaitre Has Ambitious Goals For 2014  For 2014, he says, “I want to become the undisputed number one sprinter in Europe again.”

Obituary For Former UK Steeplechase Record Holder And 1972 Olympian Andy Holden Holden ran 8:26 for the steeple in 1972.

• Kagawa Marugame International Half Marathon Announces Elite Field For Race The field is led by Martin Mathathi, 60:10 man Amanuel Mesel (Eritrea), Aussi Collis Birmingham and Japanese Olympian Arata Fujiwara.
• Elite Field For Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon Announced: Fastest Japanese Man In 2013 Kazuhiro Maeda (2:08:00) Leads

Police Searching For Missing New Jersey Marathoner David Bird went for a walk Saturday afternoon and hasn’t been seen since.

Study: Zero Connection Between 4 Cups Of Coffee A Day And Dehydration “Coffee, when consumed in moderation by caffeine-habituated males, contributes to daily fluid requirement and does not pose a detrimental effect to fluid balance.”

10 Track And Field Athletes Who Excelled After Childbirth Inspiration for Christin Wurth-Thomas, Stephanie Rothstein-Bruce and Jessica Ennis.

New Zealand Is Getting Ready To Enjoy Decade-Plus-Long Rivalry Between Shot Phenoms Tom Walsh And Jacko Gill Up until now, the 19-year-old Gil has gotten all of the publicity, but the 21-year-old Walsh is the national record holder despite the fact he works 3 days a week as a builder.

Doping News From Jamaica

• Asafa Powell Will Attempt To Save His Career When He Shows Up At Anti-Doping Inquiry On Tuesday And Wednesday And to think this all could have been avoided if Powell had just eaten breakfast: “After a few days he observed [I wasn’t eating in the mornings] and told me that I should be taking better care of myself. It was then that he recommended the supplements.”
• Veronica Campbell-Brown’s Legal Team Is Upset IAAF Hasn’t Ruled On Whether She’ll Get Off With Just A Warning Or Not
• Jamaican Columnist Decries Fact That Jamaica Is Only Country In World That Has Public Drug Hearings We agree with this: “Having public hearing is unfair to the athletes in many ways.”

More Distance Results: Yuki Kawauchi Loses To A Fellow Amateur

• IAAF Weekend XC Round-Up: World XC Silver Medalist Hiwot Ayalew Wins Elgoibar XC Race Linet Masai and World 5,000 silver medallist Mercy Cherono were third and fourth. Ugandan Timothy Toroitich won the men’s race over Kenyan studs Conseslus Kipruto and Emmanuel Bett.
• Unknown Runner Hideyuki Ikegami PRs By More Than Two-And-A-Half Minutes To Beat Yuki Kawauchi And Get CR At Tanigawa Mari Half Marathon Ikegami  ran 1:03:09 to Kawauchi’s 1:04:17. Kawauchi’s two brothers also ran, one finishing 13th (1:09:18) and the other 26th (1:11:53).
• World Champs Marathon 4th Placer Ryoko Kizaki Leads Kyoto Team To National Women’s Ekiden Win
• Jorge Maravilla Sets CR To Win US 100K Trail Championships In Texas Maravilla ran 8:02:27 (7:45 pace) to win. 52-year-old Meghan Arbogast took both the women’s open and women’s masters titles in 10:12:57 (9:51 pace).

More Pro News: Farah Running From Taxman

• Mo Farah Claims U.S. Residency To Avoid UK Taxes The headline says it could save him millions in taxes.
• Video Of Fernando Cabada Doing A 10-Mile Tempo In Preparation For This Weekend’s US Half Marathon Championships In Houston Cabada says he’s in great shape and has had the best training/racing of his life and is shooting for the win (or at least top 5) in Houston.
• Former Olympic Champ Pamela Jelimo Is Fit And Healthy As She Prepares To Defend Her World Indoor 800 Title In March
• UK Writer Criticizes Media For Analyzing Jessica Ennis’ Pregnancy From An Athletic Perspective What does she want from them? Her pregnancy wouldn’t be newsworthy if she wasn’t an athlete, so of course people are going to ask questions with athletics in mind.