LRCThere Is No Way It Gets Better Than This: World, Meet Phyllis Francis

LRC: Laura Roesler Destroys The Field In An Instant, Captures Women’s 800 Title – Can She Get Collegiate Record Outdoors? Roesler’s last 160 was a thing of beauty – when will she go sub-2?

LRC: Women’s Mile: Crazy Final Lap As Emily Lipari Comes Through With A Monster Kick To Win Villanova’s Emily Lipari came through with a big kick to get the win over Arkansas’ Stephanie Brown and Cory McGee as the brave Leah O’Connor went from 1st to 7th the final 50m.
*LRC Interviews: Emily Lipari, Stephanie Brown, Shelby Houlian, Cory McGee, Leah O’Connor

Abbey D’Agostino Completes the Double

LRC Women’s 3,000: Abbey D’Agostino Completes The Distance Double Again, But Arkansas’ Dominque Scott Makes Her Work For It Dartmouth’s Abbey D’Agostino won in 9:14.47 to repeat her distance double from last year, but she had to work for it as Arkansas’ Dominque Scott stayed right on her until a lap to go, finishing second in 9:16.05.

LRC Women’s 5,000: Abbey D’Agostino Is Halfway To Repeating The Double Abbey D’Agostino came through as the favorite as she defended her title in a tactical 16:20.39 and is halfway to repeating her 5k/3K double. Behind her, Stanford’s Aisling Cuffe and Kathy Kroeger went 2-3.
*MB: ERIN FINN HAS MORE BALLS THAN MOST MALE RUNNERS!!

LRC Women’s DMR: Arkansas Denies Stanford A DMR Sweep As They Win It In The Last 400 The race came down to a two-team fight between Arkansas and Stanford with Dominique Scott (Arkansas) and Justine Federonic (Stanford) duking it out on the 1,600 leg. In the end, it would be Scott who got the job done as she got her team the dominant win in 11:05.83 to Stanford’s 11:08.28.

LRC Women’s Mile Heats: Leah O’Connor And Cory McGee Win Their Heats As There Is Still No Clear Favorite (updated) No big surprises after round 1. The race was wide open coming in, but anyone who could have been considered a contender made it through. Leah O’Connor won the first heat and Florida’s 2013 World Championships runner Cory McGee took the second.

LRC Women’s 800 Heats: Laura Roesler Remains The Heavy, Heavy Favorite Going Into The 800 Final The women’s 800 has probably one of the biggest favorites in any of the distance events in Oregon’s Laura Roesler and she made it through the heats comfortably here as Andrew Keklak won the first heat and Savannah Camacho the second. Roesler is an even bigger favorite in the final as the #2-4 seeds coming into the meet went out.

Non-LRC Coverage
Field Events: Texas Kaitlin Petrillose Sets NCAA Meet Record In Pole Vault At 15’1″ (4.60m)
Sprints: Dezerea Bryant Wins Kentucky’s 1st-Ever Sprint National Title In Women’s 200 (22.69)

New Balance HS Nationals

• HS Nationals: MB: Foot Locker Champ Tessa Barrett Sets New HS Girls National Record Of 16:11.85 For 5k *Full NB Nationals Coverage
• Australia – Sydney Track Classic MB: Duane Solomon Wins In Australia – 1:45.95, LaShawn Merritt 20.42, Lauren Fleshman 15:53.02 Sally Pearson also won the 100 and 200.
• South American Games: Irving Saladino Beats World Indoor Champ Mauro Vinícius da Silva In LJ With 8.16m, Anderson Henriques Runs 45.03 In 400

European Distance News

• Farah Won’t Make Decision On Whether To Run Commonwealth Games Until 10 Days Before Farah says he’ll only race if his “speed is good” in his test race the week before and he only wants to go to Commonwealth Games if he’s 100%.
• Good Read: Scottish 800 Runner Lynsey Sharp Returning To Competition This Month After A Year Out With Injury Sharp says now that she’s back running she realizes how miserable she was not training. With the Commonwealth Games at home, Sharp is hoping to run the 800 as well as a leg of the Scottish 4 x 400.
• 2:03 Irish High Schooler Siofra Cleirigh Buttner Might End Up At Villanova

Important Industry News

• USATF Releases Qualifying Standards And Field Sizes For 2014 USA Outdoors The page doesn’t say anything about filling the fields after scratches, which is a huge issue. The question now is will the distance runners boycott or will USATF act now to remove ambiguity which leads to favoritism.
  *MB: USATF: Congrats on qualifying marks, add this and you’re set
• Former TaylorMade-Adidas Golf Exec David Abeles Named CEO Of Competitor Group – He Vows To Support Elites “Having elite athletes is an absolute must. It’s incredible to have a chance to run beside a world-class athlete.”
• Entire Commonwealth Games Track Is Being Built On Stilts So It Will Fit Inside Football Stadium The Commonwealth Games stadium is the first track to ever be built with such technology and LetsRun.com has been told that it could allow for a World Championships to be held at any NFL stadium like Dallas Cowboys stadium.
• MB: American Prof. Thomas Murray named to IAAF Ethics Commission Read

US News

• Q&A With Molly Huddle Ahead Of Her Half Marathon Debut At NYC Huddle wants to try the 10,000 on the track this year and do a marathon before 2016 (even as early as this fall) and says this is part of the process of moving up to that.
• Meeting Between USATF And TFAA Postponed Due To Scheduling Miscommunication The meeting was supposed to be Monday and the article doesn’t say when it’s been rescheduled for.
• Mark Wetmore’s Colorado XC Team Honored At White House For Winning NCAAs They were 1 of 19 championships teams honored.
• RW Researches When You Can Run In Major City Parks In wake of a Central Park runner getting ticketed for running in the park too early, they’ve contacted a bunch of major city parks to see which you have to watch out for.
• The Color Run Settles Dispute With Photographer Who Claimed They Used His Photos Without Permission After 7 months of back-and-forth they came to an undisclosed settlement agreement.

Pistorius Updates

• Police Forensic Expert Says Oscar Pistorius Was On His Stumps (Not Prosthetics) When He Broke Down Bathroom Door This contradicts Pistorius’ telling of events where he said he broke the door down after he fired the gun. The prosecution says he tried to break it down before firing.
• Friend Testifies That Oscar Pistorius Had Argument With A Cop Who Touched His Gun
• Friend Says Pistorius Had A “Love For Guns”
• Oscar Pistorius Vomits, Weeps In Court During Autopsy Testimony Pistorius’ defense lawyer also produced cell phone records and said the security guard lied and that Pistorius actually called him first that night, not the other way around. The guard disagreed, but we don’t understand how there is confusion if there are actual cell phone records available.

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