Loaded Carlbad 5,000 Is Sunday *Men’s Field *Women’s *Watch Live For Free On LetsRun At 1:15pm ET

RRW Seeking Marc Davis’ American Road Record Of 13:24, Bernard Lagat Is Pumped For 5k Road Debut The record will be easier to get than the win as Dejen Gebremeskel is looking for victory #4. The women’s race will feature a rematch of the women’s 3k from USAs: Grunewald vs. Hasay II.

• LRC Race Will Be Broadcast Live For 1st Time Ever – Watch It For Free On LetsRun
• LRC Full Men’s Field- Will Leer Is A Scratch
• MB: Oh crap! Grunewald vs Hasay rematch at the Carlsbad 5k, who’s gonna win?
• MB: 800 bronze medalist Brenda Martinez: “I do want to move up in distance.” – Andrew Wheating read this

Distance News

• BAA Head Dave McGillivray And Former Boston Champ Both Have Learned That Runners Can Have Heart Disease, But Neither Is Giving Up On Running Even If It Kills Them “I subscribe to the old saw: ‘Exercise – it might not add years to your life, but it adds life to your years,'” said Burfoot.
  *MB Discussion: Why runners can’t eat whatever they want
• Mohammed Aman To Go For Noah Ngeny’s 2:11.96 1k World Record In Ostrava In June

• MB: I want to win a medal at 2014 Commonwealths – check out what the medal bearers will wear – so hot

Men’s Shot Put Mania In New Zealand

Valerie Adams, Who Has Won 44 In A Row, Is Pumped For Men’s Shot Battle Between Gill And Walsh At NZ champs: “It’s almost like I’m the warm-up before the big game comes along.” “I’m not going to rip my undies up to throw some massive throw.”
*Val Adams: “I’m just the curtain-raiser.”
*MB: Who you got in NZealand shot put showdown – Gill or Walsh?

• Good News: Renaud Lavillenie Returns To Action – Does 50 Vaults In Practice Without Pain His first competition will be Prefontaine. *Video
• Two-Time Olympic Decathlon Champ Daley Thompson Thinks Modern Athletes Are Softer Than In His Era: “I don’t think they train as hard or as much as we used to.”

2014 Texas Relays Have Begun *Results/Heats *All College Meets

Leo, Trey Hardee, Wariner – Many Big Names Are Competing

2014 “Champs” Have Started In Jamaica *Live Results *Live Stream *More Info

• Author Is Amazed By How Much Faster Jamaican High School Times Are Than They Were 20 Years Ago
• 14-Year-Old Christian Taylor Runs 48.71 Or is he 13? MB: Kirani James watch out – 13 yr old runs 48.71 for 400 at 2014 ‘Champs’ in Jamaica
• Zharnel Hughes Ready For O’Hara Clash He’s looking forward to racing 10.29 100m man Michael O’Hara, whom he respects.
• Studs Will Have To Compete All 5 Days At Champs Javon Francis, the 45.24 WChamps team member, might compete all five days along with 10.29 100m Michael O’Hara.
• More On Zharnell Hughes: Could He Be The Region’s Next Star? “My mother is here for ‘Champs,’ and I’m so happy with that, because I always run well in front of her.”
• More On IAAF High Peformance Training Center (HPTC) Half the athletes are far, far away, including four from Mauritius.

Sprint/Field Event News

• MB: 3 Aussie sprinters banned – Of course Federation says “Negligence or carelessness is not the same as being a drug cheat”
• Kenyan Javelin Star Julius Yego Wishes Athletics Kenya Held More Local Meets For Field Events And Sprinters

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

Earlier News From Jamaica

• 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:  LRC Running 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.

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

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.