– Irish great Eamonn Coghlan giving Deadspin.com his thoughts on Galen Rupp‘s post-race workouts. Coghlan, who ran 3:49 in the mile on a 10-laps-to-the-mile indoor track, was a world champion at 5,000, and a sub-4 miler at age 40, holds little back in the interview as he gives his thoughts on Hicham El Guerrouj, drug use and even admits to being juiced himself – juiced on Budweiser.
Four of the top five all-time at 3,000m – Galen Rupp, Bernard Lagat, Ryan Hill and Andrew Bumbalough – will square off with Lopez Lomong for the two World Championships spots.
*MB:Who will qualify for the world 3000m team from the US?
Jordan Hasay has a good chance to win her first USATF title, but there are two other women with great credentials (Shannon Rowbury and Gabriele Grunewald (nee Anderson)) trying to stop her and book their tickets to Poland.
Worlds outdoor silver medalist Nick Symmonds has to be the favorite, but he’s got his hands full at USA indoors. Which Robby Andrews shows up? Teen phenom Ajee’ Wilson and former teen phenom Chanelle Price lead the women.
*RRW:Ajee’ Wilson Looking To Defend Her Women’s 800 Title
SpikesMag Shares The Ten Reasons They Think Renaud Lavillenie Was Able To Break The Pole Vault WR Last Weekend They share some interesting facts about Lavillenie.
Oregon Women Move Back To The Top Of NCAA Polls As Last Week’s Number 1 Texas Moves Down To 5th Arkansas men stay on top.
Explosive Interview With Former Mile Indoor Record Holder Eamonn Coghlan
Asian XC Champs:Non-Asian born runners dominate Asian Cross-Country Champs They took the top 5 spots in the men’s race and four in the women’s.
LRCList Of American Athletes With Qualifying Standard For 2014 USA World Indoors In Poland The USA team for World Indoors will be named this weekend as no chasing of qualifiers is allowed. Who has the qualifying time? Who doesn’t? *Entries
Webb, the American mile record holder, talks about his career after running one last mile in the place where he first broke 4:00.
The men’s mid-d and distance action was pretty spectacular at the 2014 NYRR Millrose Games. We tell you all about it. Here’s an intro – imagine breaking a 33-year-old American record and finishing 5th.
Mary Cain won the mile, Ajee' Wilson the 800 and Kim Conley the 3,000.
More Millrose Coverage Here, Click Here For Photo Gallery
LRCWorld Record Holders “Dirty” Or “Clean” Doping Poll Results Without further ado, we present to you the results of our world record doping poll. LRCThe “Dirty” Or “Clean” Doping Polls: Why Did We Do Them? Many of you get it. You voted and gave us some very interesting demographic data. We think you’ll find the data very interesting. Some of you don’t get it and have said so. Here we address some of your concerns.
*Blogger Reflects On LetsRun’s “Clean Or Dirty Polls” And Says It Has Helped Promote Belief In A Clean Sport He writes, “The most surprising aspect of the data to me was the percentage of voters who thought that athletes were clean. … This data is surprising because I thought that as a community we were more cynical than the numbers show.”
*MB:LetsRun “Clean or Dirty” Poll Discussion Thread
*MB:Wait a minute! Over 40% of letsrun visitors DON’T think El G was doped up?
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