Archived Homepage For January 29, 2014
Archived Homepage For January 29, 2014

The Week In Review – Week That Was

LRCBye-Bye Alan Webb, The Bold Galen Rupp And Mary Cain, Marathoning’s New Era, Can Ryan Hill Challenge Rupp? And Much MoreAlan Webb says goodbye to track and field, fortune favors the bold and Galen Rupp and Mary Cain, and do we have an American challenger who can beat Mr. Rupp? A proposal to save the marriages of NCAA track coaches, a star retires at age 25, and those crazy youngsters – a teen runs two half marathon PRs to win $200,000, a look at Britain’s great young talent, some fast NCAA times by Laura Roesler,and someone break up the Big Green of Dartmouth.

More Webb News:

*2014 Sainsbury’s Glasgow International Match Results (USA Vs. GB Vs. Scotland Vs. CWealth)
*Armory New Balance *All Weekend NCAA Action

LRCGlasgow International Match: Bernard Lagat, Chris O’Hare, Laura Muir And Hellen Obiri All Win Scotland’s Laura Muir might have been the distance star of the day as she was very impressive in the women’s 800 where Chanelle Price PRed; Chris O’Hare won the men’s 1,500 over Britain’s upcoming star Charlie Grice; a Scottish record fell in the men’s 600 and reigning world champs Hellen Obiri and Bernard Lagat started off their 2014 campaigns with wins. *Results

 NCAA Results 

More Weekend Distance Results

 Kenyan Tax News 

 Q&A's With US Women 

Live on NBC Sports Network Feb 8 4:30-6pm Eastern

LRCSolomon vs Symmonds vs Andrews: 4x800 AR Assault at NBIGP Gets Better

Duane Solomon, the second fastest American ever at 800, has decided to extend his indoor season and put together a 4x800 team to try and beat the American record in a clash vs the Nick Symmonds led Brooks Beasts team and the Robby Andrews led NJ-NY track club. The meet will be live on the NBC Sports Network next Saturday. Update: Duane's team has been announced and includes Erik Sowinski.
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Mary Cain And Matt Centrowitz Headline Millrose Games Mile Fields

Mary Cain will race Morgan Uceny on the women's side and Centrowitz will take on Nick Willis, Lawi Lalang and Alan Webb in his final indoor track race. Meet will be live on NBC Sports Network.

Distance News

Q&A With US Distance Stars

  • Kara Goucher Q&A With RunnerDad.com She hasn’t ruled out returning to Nike but says, “It would be foolish on my part not to see what my other options are.” On her coaching change: “It was not a personality thing … it’s just me. I just needed a refresher. I’m 35 years old so I just felt like I just needed something big, some big refresher if I was going to make it another 3 or 4 years.”
    MB:Kara: I am a free agent
  • Q&A With Gabriele Anderson, Who Is Now Married And Gabriele Grunewald We call first dibs on the children as her hubby is an OT marathon qualifier. As for Gabriele, she’s focused on trying to make World Indoors.

More US Distance-Related News

Two For TwoLRC Galen Rupp Gets Back The American Two-Mile Record, Runs 8:07.41 In BostonBernard Lagat‘s 8:09.49 and Rupp’s previous 8:09.72 AR are history as he went for it big time tonight. Rupp took a crack at Kenenisa Bekele‘s 8:04 WR as he was at 4:59 at 2k but faded a bit at the end.

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Interviews With Galen Rupp And Alberto Salazar After Rupp’s Record Run Both seem very excited for his mile AR attempt in 3 weeks.
*LRCGalen Rupp’s 8:07.41 Two Mile Record Broken Down – Lap-By-Lap Splits

*MB:Galen finished post AR workout with 4:01.6
*MB:Official Galen Rupp 2 Mile Prediction & Race Talk/Split Thread

LRCMary Cain Just Misses World Indoor Junior Mile Mark By .01 - Sets New American Junior Mark Of 4:24.11

Mary Cain ran her best race of 2014 but in the end she missed the world junior mark by .01.Abbey D'Agostino andJordan Hasay ran lifetime bests in second and third.

Drug News

LRCUnheralded Tsegaye Mekonnen Asefa - Just 18 - Pulls Off A Shocker And Crushes Everyone In Dubai In 2:04:32, Setting The World Junior Record

Talk about having no fear of the marathon. An unheralded 18-year-old with a 62:53 PR at 13.1 went out on world record pace and ended up with a dominant 2:04:32 victory as a Ethiopian debutant won in 2:04 for the 3rd straight year. Wow.

LRCMula Seboka Gets Surprise Victory In Women's Race At 2014 Dubai Marathon In 2:25:01

(updated) This was certainly an upset as Seboka, until recently, was a journeywoman. But no longer. In the 30th marathon of her career - yes, 30th - thanks to a strong surge at 35k which broke the pack, she defeated the #2 10,000 runner in history, Meselech Melkamu, and finished off a 71:20 2nd half. 2011 NYC champ Firehiwot Dado was third.

A Great Ideat Idea At The NBIGP

Random, But Interesting

Kenyan News

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 European News 

 Sprints / Jumps 

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