London Isn’t The Only Race This Weekend

• Rotterdam: Former World 5,000 Champ And 2:04:05 Man Eliud Kipchoge Wants A Fast Time And The Win At Sunday’s Rotterdam Marathon On the WR, he said, “If the world record falls within, then that will be a bonus. But I am not making an attempt on Kipsang’s record.” He’ll face a deep field that includes Bernard Koech (2:04:53) and three 2:05 men.
• Arcadia HS Invy: Alexa Efraimson Vs. Sarah Baxter Highlights Deep Field For This Weekend’s Arcadia Invitational 3,200 Kim Mortensen‘s 1996 outdoor national HS record of 9:48.59 definitely could go down.
  *Free Live Webcast Friday 7:30PM ET / Saturday 12:30PM ET
  *Meet Schedule Girls 3,200 is Saturday at 11:40PM ET.
  *Meet Site

Initial Squad Of 45 Named For Australia’s Commonwealth Games Squad Sally Pearson is the team captain.

LRCKenenisa Proves He Can Handle 26.2, The Netherlands' Version Of Jordan Hasay, Motivation From The Webbs, And A World Record Holder Is Spotted From The Side Of The Road?

Oscar Pistorius Testifies Again

• Oscar Pistorius Takes Stand Again And Sobs As He Explains The Sequence Of Events That Led To Him Shooting His Girlfriend “I shouted for Reeva to get on the floor and for her to phone the police. I screamed at the people to get out … Then I heard a noise from inside the toilet that I perceived to be somebody coming out of the toilet. Before I knew it, I had fired four shots at the door.”
• Pistorius Will Return To Stand For Third Time On Wednesday
• Defense Expert Says Oscar P’s Lawyers Should Be Concerned About Cross Examination By The Prosecutor, Who Is Known For Being Aggressive “If he’s genuinely emotional, when he gets put under pressure he’ll be worse than he is now, and [prosecutor Gerrie Nel] will carve him up into little pieces.”
• Video With Some Audio Of Pistorius’ Testimony
• Pistorius Defense Presents Texts To Contrast Those Put Forward By Prosecution The defense shared texts that portrayed a loving happy relationship between Pistorius and his girlfriend while the prosecution’s showed bitter and jealous fights.

Florida Men Take Over Top Spot In DI Team Rankings; Arkansas Move Down To 3rd, Oregon Up To 2nd Texas A&M stays #1 for the women as Florida moves to #2 and Oregon goes down to 4th.

US Pro News

• Kara Goucher Out With Sacral Stress Fracture She says her training had been going well and she was dreaming of running a sub-31 10K and sub-15 5K this summer.
  *MB Thread
• Alberto Salazar Says Mary Cain Is Healthy And Talks About Her 2014 Racing Schedule He says it’s difficult to plan as they have to schedule races around her AP testing schedule, but she’ll definitely race the Pre Classic, and other meets, including World Relay Champs, are on the table. She might skip US Champs to focus on World Junior Champs.
• Q&A With Ryan Vail, Who Will Head The American Charge At The London Marathon Vail says he’s done more quality and volume than he ever has before and is confident about attacking his 2:11:45 PR.
• Phoebe Wright Blogs: Is “Professional Runner” Code For “Unemployed”? While potential employers might hear pro runners and think “unemployed,” Wright explains how it really means “168-hour weeks” running her own small business.
• Heather Kampf And World Indoor 1,500 Bronze Medalist Nicole Sifuents Headline May 8th Medtronic TC 1 Mile
• IAAF “Work, Rest And Play” Q&A With US High Jumper Brigetta Barrett Barrett talks about her life as an athlete and her other big passion/talent in life, singing. She also reveals that she is a twin.

• Recommended Read: Kenenisa Bekele’s Marathon Debut Gets 1,264 Words Of Coverage In NY Times A great piece which also talks about Farah’s debut in London. Bekele’s agent Jos Hermens has some pointed words for Bekele: “He has to get his act together, and stay motivated and forget about business and run for five or six years.”

Weekend NCAA Track Action *All Weekend NCAA Results *Stanford Results

• Stanford: MB: Abbey D watch out – Texas’ Marielle Hall wins Stanford 5k in 15:19 over Alisha Williams!!!
• MB: 28 guys Break 29:00 At Stanford – Edward Cheserek 28:51
• MB: WHY is NOBODY talking about the 19 year old Dutch girl who won the Stanford 10k invitational in 32:11.90?
• Florida Relays: MB: Florida Gators 4×4- 2:59.73 – #2 All-Time Ever!!
• MB: NCAA 200 runner-up Dedric Dukes runs 19.97 into headwind at Florida Relays Joanna Atkins was pretty darn good as well in women’s action at the Florida relays as she ran 11.09 and 22.27.
• MB: So so sick: Triple jump gold medalist Christian Taylor 45.37!!! Will he focus on 400 in 2014?
• Oregon Vs. Arizona: Oregon Vs. Arizona: Mac Fleet Beats Lawi Lalang At 1,500, Laura Roesler Experiences Going Out In Under 60 “Just to go out in under 60 and get a feel for that will help me later on. I’m not very comfortable going out hard; I’d rather kind of sit back. So it’s a good thing that 59 felt pretty comfortable today.”
  *Fleet On Lalang: “I could kind of tell he was a little tired or not into it.”

Bizarre News

• Looking For A New Challenge? 200 Lucky (Or Unlucky) Tourists Will Be Allowed To Run A Marathon In Pyongyang, North Koreaon April 13
• Pat Butcher Writes About The Fact It’s Now Illegal To Jog In Groups In Burundi
• Kenya’s Kericho Marathon, Which Ended Up Being 52K Last Year By Mistake, Will Be 42.2 This Year And Features $17,000 In Prize Money It costs $5.80 US to enter.
• Veteran Modesto, CA Runner Survives After Making Wrong Turn On Trail Run And Being Lost In Snow For 55 Hours

High School News

• JamaicaObserver.com: 2014 Champs Were A Record-Breaking “Champs” To Be Remembered Not only did the boys 100 (10.12) and 400 (45.00) records fall, 19 other records fell as well.
• Q&A With US HS #1 At 3,200 (8:53.99) Ian Milder, Who Is Headed To NC State

LetsRun Goes To Jamaica

LRCJamaica Day 4: Rare Insider Access To A Racers Track Club Workout With Yohan Blake And Warren Weir, And Watching Track In The Bathroom At Usain Bolt's Sports Bar