– New Zealand’s 1972 Olympic 1,500 bronze medalist Rod Dixon talking about the 1974 Commonwealth Games, which some consider one of the all-time greatest mid-distance races. Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi broke Jim Ryun‘s WR with 3:32.16 (which still stands as the Commonwealth Games record) in a race that included distance legends John Walker and Brendan Foster.
LRCWill Geoghegan Q & A: The Secrets Of Going From 4:05 To 3:58 In The Mile Are Revealed Will Geoghegan‘s story shows not all track stars are born overnight – it just seems like it as he went from 4:05 to 3:58 last week. The Dartmouth senior is on a roll in 2014, leading the NCAAs in the mile, but it was not an easy ride to the top. Freshman year, he quit the Dartmouth team and was flunking his courses; now he’s going to have his pick of schools for his fifth year, unless he takes an LRC internship.
*MB:Will Geoghegan to NOP?
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Recommended Read:A Look Back At The 1974 Commonwealth Games 1,500, Considered By Many One Of The Greatest Middle-Distance Races Of All Times The athletes themselves tell the story of the race where Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi broke Jim Ryun‘s WR in a race that included distance legends John Walker, Rod Dixon and Brendan Foster.
The 2016 Olympic Trials Marathon will be in Los Angeles. Reportedly, a USATF panel voted 5-0 to put the Trials in Houston, but that recommendation was ignored by USATF CEO Max Siegel. One big change, likely because of the panel favoring Houston, was the date of the LA Marathon (and the Trials) being moved to the middle of February, so athletes could double back to the Track Trials.
Discuss: Olympic Marathon Trials to Be in LA
Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial To Have Its Own 24-Hour TV Channel In South Africa The channel will launch on March 2, the day before Pistorius goes on trial for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last February.
IAAF Profile On World 800 Bronze Medalist And 3:30 1,500 Man Ayanleh Souleiman, Who’s Running The 3k In Dusseldorf Today Souleiman doubled at Worlds and thinks he would have won the 1,500 if he hadn’t run the 800 (he didn’t make the 1,500 final). He’s training partners with Olympic 1,500 champ Taofik Makhloufi and two-time World Indoor 800 champ Abubaker Kaki.
*PSD Bank Meeting In Dusseldorf Today: Germany’s PV World Champ Raphael Holzdeppe Vs. Olympic Silver Medalist Bjorn Otto Poland’s double European Indoor champ Adam Kszczot will defend his title in the 800.
Oregonian’s Ken Goe Asks: One question for the critics: if not Eugene, where? This is in response to several articles (including Rojo‘s “Eugene Fatigue: It’s Not In The Sport’s Best Interest To Have Every Big Track Meet In Eugene”) Eugene’s stranglehold on big track events in the US.
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.
*LRC Photo Gallery
*LRCInterviews 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
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.
Phoebe Wright Blogs: “The time I prepared for New Years Eve like I did the US champs.” Wright explains how with extreme dedication you can be an elite distance runner and still party on New Year’s Eve.
U.S. Intends To Make 2024 Olympic Bid, Seven Cities On Radar The seven cities include Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington.
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 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.
*NXN Champ Alexa Efraimson Will Face Cain And The Pros In The Millrose Women’s Wanamaker Mile
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.
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Ireland Mid-D Runner Ciarán O Lionáird Talks About How You Know You’re In Good Shape When You Don’t Have To Try He said, “I noticed that my pace picked up by 10 seconds for that mile. I was out of it, though. I was just in that zone. I thought: ‘Wow! It’s here.’ That’s really cool. To not have to try.”
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