LetsRun.com Goes To Jamaica

Day 1:Arrival Day:  LRCRunning Shirtless, Commando In Pants In Jamaica, On A Treadmill At 10pm Now that employee 1.1 has been out of the country for World Indoors, he’s become adventurous and will be spending a week in Jamaica learning the secrets of sprint island. Well, not that adventurous as he pulled a “Usain Bolt” and went with what he was familiar with for food, Domino’s, although he decided to go commando while on a run.

Weekend Action We Missed

• US Olympian Janet Bawcom Becomes 1st Person To Win 3 Azalea Trail Runs – Just Misses 32:00 10k Goal With 32:02
• Former NCAA HJ Champ Mickael Hanany Breaks French Record With 2.36 (7’8″) Hanany always jumps best at UTEP so he went back to El Paso to break the 23-year-old record.
• 450 Kids Participated In Free Clinic Prior To Oregon Spring Opener At Hayward FieldHaley Crouser got started in the sport as a similar clinic 10 years ago. Now she was leading it.

Not Looking Good For Oscar P

• Pistorius’ Neighbor Said She Heard Gunshots, Female Screams, More Gunshots And Then No More Screams
• Within A Month Of Her Death, Steenkamp Texted Oscar P And Said She Was “Scared” Of Him

Interesting Reads

• Recommended Read: Science Of Sport’s Ross Tucker Looking Into Possible Genetic Aspect Of Kenyan Dominance In Marathon 94% of the top marathon times in the world are produced by Africans. The #1 time in the world from 1990 would be 107th in 2012.
• 44-Year-Old Man Who Was Put In Medically-Induced Coma For 3 Days Reveals First Words Out Of His Mouth Were “What time did I do?”
• Richard Kilty’s Father Says His Son’s 60m Gold Is A Real-Life Rocky Story Richard had a Rocky poster on the wall as a kid and dad says, “It’s like a Rocky story but unlike Rocky this is a true story – and a better story in some way.” The dad says he’d rather his son won the gold than £10 million.
• Munich 4 X 400 Silver Medalist Alan Pascoe Vehemently Defends Way UK Lottery System Of Funding Is Done UK was 36th in the medals in 1996 before funding – now they are 3rd.
  *Nice gesture: Even though athletics benefits greatly, UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner demands funding review after six Olympic and Paralympic sports are cut adrift
• IOC Says Putin’s Visit To Headquarters Is Purely “Protocol” – Has Nothing To Do With Controversial Russian Figure Skating Decision
• Japan’s Toyo University Is Spending $50,000 On A New 1% Downhill Track To Help Yoshihide Kiryu Become The First Japanese Man To Break 10.00 By running on a downhill, you get used to running faster.
• How To Avoid “Runner’s Tummy” – Crippling Stomach AchesHigh fiber diets are thought to contribute.
• Waxed Statue Of Mo Farah Doing Mo-Bot Being Made, Will Be Put Next To Bolt’s
• 12:53/26:54 Man Mark Kiptoo Of Kenya Is Taking On Bekele In Paris He ran 2:06:16 for 2nd in his only marathon in Frankfurt.

News From Down Under

• College Coaches, Recruit Her: Meet New Zealand’s 17-Year-Old Megan Kikuchi, Who Has Run 55.95
• Athletics: Shot Put Showdown Between Jacko Gill And Tom Walsh Being Hyped By Papers As “Best Matchup In NZ Athletics In 50 Years” Gill went to twitter and said the groin injury rumors won’t be stopping him: “Just so everyone knows I’m completely injury-free … Even if I was injured I’d still be in Wellington.” Last week, Gill made a bizarre video which has been viewed over 150,000 times of him training to apparently try to psych out the competition. The video ends with him staring into the camera, eating a red-hot pepper.
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• 58:54 Man Geoffrey Kipsang (Kamworor) Says He’s Ready For Next Week’s World Half
• Silas Kiplagat Hoping To Put Worlds Disaster Behind Him, Do Well At World Relays And PR This Summer

Elite Distance News

• Frank Shorter Returns To The Boston Marathon As Part Of Universal Sports Network’s Coverage Shorter talked about American marathoning and said he thought for the men, we lacked the right body type to have marathon major winner. He also talked about drugs and said he thought Americans would have a better chance if other countries had better drug testing.
• Group Of Ugandan Women Have Accused A National Coach Of Sexually Harrassing Them Before African XC Champs (new link) Team captain Moses Kipsiro intervened and went to the police. Kipsoro said, “[The coach’s] theory was that if a woman’s private parts are wide, their legs move easily. I was so shocked. I even feel ashamed to talk about some of the things that happened in that camp.” The Ugandan Athletics Federation has apparently so far denied the accusations.

Post-NCAA Champs News

• 5 Questions With Villanova’s NCAA Mile Champ Emily Lipari
• American, World Junior And Collegiate Records Fall – The Newest Bowerman Women’s Watchlist Oregon’s Phyllis Francis tops new additions to the list.
• Down The Backstretch: University Of Minnesota Duluth’s Samantha Rivard Goes From Walk-On To NCAA DII Mile Champion

NCAA Stuff

• Update On Why 2013 NCAA 5,000 2nd Placer Paul Chelimo Quit The UNCG Track Team Chelimo said after having differences with the new interim coach Chad Pearson and being suspended during the indoor season, he decided to go pro. Some of the differences stemmed from Chelimo wanting to do certain elite races separate from the team.
• Edward Cheserek, Abbey D’Agostino And Multi-Eventers Curtis Beach And Kendell Williams Win NCAA National Athlete Of The Year Awards
• Cheserek Headlines Five New Additions To The Bowerman Men’s Watch List
• Ken Goe Shares Some Odds And Ends Quotes From Oregon-Based Athletes At TrackTown Tuesday Meeting
• Robert Johnson (Oregon), Travis Geopfert (Arkansas) And Petros Kyprianou (Georgia) Are DI Coaches Of The Year

Distance News

• Sunday:Dejen Gebremeskel Vs. Bernard Lagat At Carlsbad 5K Gebremeskel will try to get a 4th straight title against a field that includes Lagat, Tariku Bekele, Augustine Choge and Diego Estrada.
• Kenenisa Bekele Vs. Who?The Rest Of The Elite Field Is Announced For 2014 Paris Marathon In his marathon debut, Bekele will face Abdullah Shami (2:05:42), Mark Kiptoo (2:06:16), four 2:07-2:08 guys and Mike Kigen, who ran a 60-min. half in Paris this month. The women’s field is led by Kenya’s Valentine Kipketer (2:23:02) and Flomena Cheyech (2:24:34).
• Nick Symmonds Running Rock ‘N’ Roll San Diego Half Marathon On June 1st
  *MB: Has Nick Symmonds lost his mind?
• Interesting: RW Looks At Some Famous Falls In Elite Races First on their list is Lasse Viren‘s fall during the 1972 Olympic 10K, which he won.
• Alberto Salazar Says Mo Farah Appears To Be OK After Fall In NYC
• Ryan Vail Gets Out Of Jury Duty For The London Marathon He’ll be out of the country, but was still initially denied his request to be excused. Only after appeal was his request approved.
• Kenya’s African XC Championship Team Arrives Home To Celebration In Their Honor
• Two Deaths Reported At Half Marathons On Sunday And a third collapsed and had to be resuscitated immediately after the NYC Half (no, not Mo Farah).
• $100,000 In Prize Money For US Athletes At July’s Peachtree Road Race The race is the host of the US road 10K champs.

Study Finds Cushioned Running Shoes Don’t Reduce Injuries

Boston Marathon Bicycle Ride Will Go On Despite Marathon Organizers’ Wishes Every year before the marathon start, hundreds of cyclists ride the course, but this year they’ve been asked not to because of safety concerns.

Marathon News

• Ryan Hall’s Agent Says Hall Went To Ethiopia For His Boston Training Training Because He Wanted A Different Setting He didn’t want to stay in Flagstaff, but wanted to still be at altitude. *MB Thread
• Athletics Illustrated Q&A With Moses Mosop Mosop talks about his training, how he feels his 2:03:06 from the 2011 Boston Marathon was legit, and his three children with Florence Kiplagat.
• German Study Finds That Older Marathoners Gain No Heart-Health Advantage For this study, “older” was 50 and up.
• UK Telegraph Asks If Tony “The Fridge” Is The “World’s Most Extreme Marathon Runner?”Tony Morrison runs marathons with a fridge on his back and this year is trying to run four London marathons (104.8 miles) in 24 hours.
  *Video: Tony Teaches Journalist How To Run With Fridge