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Quote Of The Day

“(After Slaney fell and crowd started to boo), I wanted to get off the track but I was in a race and couldn’t stop. I just continued and finished because my coach always said that we should never stop during a race. I didn’t want to be on the podium. I think I would have won a silver medal or a bronze, but I consciously ran slower because I didn’t want to be on the podium.”

– Zola Budd Pieterse saying how she felt at age 17 when the entire Los Angeles Coliseum started booing her in the middle of the women’s 3,000.

32 Days and Counting

Track and Field Association is Irate USATF Keeps Blowing Them off About ABQ DQs “It is unacceptable for the collective voice of the athletes to be disrespected and dismissed.” We agree. USATF’s FIRST priority should be to insure the integrity of competition. If you have.

Andrew Bumbalough’s Agent Tom Ratcliffe Still Hasn’t Received A Response From USATF “It’s very frustrating. I haven’t let it drop. I’m not going to let it drop.” In case you missed it, here is what happened initially with Bumbalough: The Inside Story Of The Andrew Bumbalough DQ.

Interesting Reads From The Distance World

NIJEL AMOS LOOKING GOOD – Runs 45.77 The guy who ran 1:41 at age 18 is on his way back.
Extensive Q&A Interview With Zola Budd PieterseGary Cohen covers it all from being booed by the US crowd at age 17 at the 1984 Olympics after Mary Slaney‘s fall to her top mileage that enabled her to set two 5,000 WRs.
Meet HS 5k Indoor Champ Conner Mantz (14:24 As A Junior)*Discuss: US HS indoor 5000 champ Conner Mantz ran 71:25 for 13.1 at age 15 – any good? Next Ryan Hall or age group ace?
For Time Being, Deena Kastor Is Focused On Speaking Engagements And Appearances, Not Worlds Masters Mark Of 69:56 For 13.1*Discuss
MB: Mark this off potential vacation spots: Jogging with another person = arrest in Burundi
RRWNick Willis Reflects On Not Medaling At World Indoors: “I was a little aggressive too early with 550 to go … I wish I had been a little more patient.”

More Midweek Action: World Masters Indoor Championships Have Started *

41-Year-Old Anthony Whiteman, Who Ran 1:50.92 In Feb., Is Racing, As Is 35-Year-Old James Thie. 39-year-old Bernard Lagat isn’t competing. *Meet Website

News From New Zealand

New Zealand’s 22-Year-Old 2:00.03 Performer Angie Smit Is Hoping To Defend Her 800 National Crown Against Nikki Hamblin This Week She’ll also double back in the 1,500, where she’ll face Stony Brook star Lucy van Dalen and Hamblin.
Meet New Zealand’s (17.56m/58.60m) Shot/Discus 18-yYear-Old HSer Sam Ulufonua He may end up focusing on rugby.

News From Europe

2014 Virgin Money London Marathon Spectator’s Guide From the times the runners will be at each mile mark to pubs along the course, this has you covered.
Viktor Röthlin, Who Already Has Won Gold, Silver And Bronze At Euros In Past, Is First Person Allowed To See Actual 2014 European Medals He’s hoping to win a 4th medal in August.
Olympic Triathlon Champion Alistair Brownlee Will Race 27:53 Brit Andy Vernon Over 10,000m On May 10th
First Blind Runner – Hein Wagner – Finishes Antartica Marathon
Imagine that: Olympic Bidding Consultants Say Cities Need More Consulting Help Before They Consider Bidding

News From Australia

In First Competition In 19 Months, Former World Indoor LJ Silver Medalist Henry Frayne Jumped 8.10 In Melbourne
Sally Pearson Hasn’t Done Enough Training – Won’t Triple At Aussie Nationals She was contemplating doing the 200 in addition to the 100H and 100 but isn’t fit enough.

And Japan

Action From The Weekend

Dallas Half: LRCDeena Kastor (71:57) Just Misses Colleen De Reuck’s US Masters Half Marathon Record By 7 Seconds In Windy Conditions In DallasFormer OSU star Colby Lowe was second in the men’s race. *Pre-Race:Deena Kastor Hoping To Set 4 US Masters Records At Sunday’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Dallas Half Marathon*Q&A With Deena Kastor

News Out Of Kenya:MB: Two kenyan teams run 7:11 at World Relays trial – how fast can they go for real? 6:52.5?
MB: Caleb Ndiku on Lagat: “I simply used Lagat’s tactics to beat him. I like Lagat. He is a friendly guy.”
Kenyan Parliament Passes Bill Promoting Polygamy The MPs deleted a provision that required a man to get consent from wife #1 to marry a second woman.

2014 TCS NYC Marathon Lottery In The Books: 9,170 Of 77,087 Accepted

11.90% of people got accepted. Almost as hard as getting into an Ivy League school.

LetsSprint.com – 1.1 Goes to Jamaica

LRCMeet Zharnel Hughes: Can The 'Next Usain Bolt' Take Down Yohan Blake's 10.21 and Bolt's 20.26 'Champs' Records

Is 18 year old, Zharnel Hughes, of Anguilla the heir apparent to Usain Bolt? Steve Soprano went to the old school IAAF High Performance Training Center in Kingston, Jamaica that helped produced Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake to find out.

LRC1.1 Jamaica Day 2 Journal: I Have Clothes, Weird French Fries, "Hear Arnold!" And Crazy Prices

The adventures of world traveler Steve Soprano (aka 1.1) continue. The good news is 1.1's bags have arrived and he's rigged his hotel room to charge his computer, but the bad news is he has no idea that gas is sold per liter, not per gallon, in Jamaica, or what hotel food prices are.

Week that WasSexism In Africa, It's OK To Run At Altitude, It's OK To Be Happy When You Lose, 1:54 For 800 For An NCAA Champ, Frank Shorter On Jason Hartmann, 30+ Masters Runners And More

2014 IAAF World Half Is Saturday In Denmark Men’s Entries Women

Men: LRC$245,000 In Prize Money And 35 62:00-Flat Guys Including All 5 Americans: Kiptoo, Boit, Pennel, Llano, Cabada
Women: LRC 10 Sub- 70:00 Women To Battle For Glory At 2014 IAAF World Half Marathons – Americans Suver And Bersagel Are Seeded In Top 40
A Look At Team Kenya For World Half, Which Will Be Coached By 3-Time World XC Champ Edith Masai Kenya only won a bronze in each race at the 2012 World Half.
Scotland’s Susan Partridge, One Of Just 3 Brits At World Half, Is Using It To Prepare For Home 2014 Commonwealth Marathon Partridge, 34, is a 2:30 marathoner.
Moses Kipsiro Is Running World Half For 1st Time As He Begins To Transition To Career On Road
Wilson Kiprop Determined To Get Back His World Half Marathon Gold In Copenhagen Next Weekend Most recently he ran 59:45 at the RAK Half Marathon, but was only 3rd as he finished 11 seconds behind the winner.
58:54 Man Geoffrey Kipsang (Kamworor) Says He’s Ready For Next Week’s World Half

Oscar P’s Got Some Work To Do

3 Recommended Reads

An Oral History Of Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 100-Meter World Record This is an incredible 7,000+ words of running journalism at its absolute finest except it somehow fails to talk about the elephant in the room, PEDs.
A Great Profile Of Bill Meylan – The Guy Behind The Amazing Tully Runners Speed Rating HS Website We always wanted to profile the guy, who Syracuse coach Chris Fox says is behind the best site in the country, ourselves.
Former Missouri Star Shannon Leinert, With Job And PhD In Special Ed In Hand, Is Now Part Of OTC

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.

News From North America

2012 US 800 Olympian Geena (Gall) Lara Is Also Sponsorless She struggled mightily last year after leaving the OTC to be with her fiance and says “Sometimes I think leaving OTC was the dumbest decision I ever made.”
Neely Spence Gracey Happy With Her Recovery From Knee Surgery For Fracturd PatellaGracey also reveals she had Lyme disease in the fall and has recently been dumped by WADA due to a lack of top racing results. *Pre-Surgery Article Here
Rich Kenah Explains To Toni Reavis Why Peachtree Is Going To US-Only Prize Money
Q&A With NCAA 800 Champ Brandon McBride, Who Is Now Focused On Getting Commonwealth Games “A” Standard
Cuba (Yes, We Looked It Up – Cuba Is In N. America):21-Year-Old Rose Mary Almanza Runs World-Leading 1:59.76 At Cuban Champs TJ star Pedro Pablo Pichardo put up a world-leading 17.71m as well.

LetsRun.com Goes To Jamaica – 2014 “Champs” Have Started In Jamaica Live ResultsLive Stream (Starts Wed.)*More Info

Boys 100 And 200 Sprints Will Be Best In Years – Blake’s 10.21 Record Should Fall And 200 Is Even Better Calabar’s Michael O’Hara has already run 10.29 earlier this year when just 80% fit. The 200 is stacked and expected to be low – under 20.50.
Calabar (Boys) , Edwin Allen (Girls) Start As Big Favourites At Champs Calabar is looking for its first 3peat since 1990.
Quotes From Coaches At Calabar, Kingston, Holmwood Tech, Edwin Allen
Might 10.21 100m And Bolt’s 200m 20.25 Go Down This Year At Champs?
Italian Journalist Looks At History Of Champs And How Many Pro Stars That Shined There
After 21.95 PR, Calabar’s Tyreke Wilson Is Excited For “Champs” This Weekend In Jamaica, Where He Wants 21.6
LetsRun.com Is On-Site: 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.

Cross-Country Town, USA:LaVern Gibson Course Getting Big-Time Upgrades The people in Terre Haute certainly don’t rest on their laurels as drainage has been put in.