Quote Of The Day
– Ben True after being asked if this was a career-defining moment, running 13:02.76 at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational to become the 9th-fastest American of all time.
Payton Jordan *Results
Men’s 5K: LRC Ben True And Hassan Mead Go 13:02 As The Top 5 Break 13:10 True got the win in 13:02.76 over a super-stacked field where Mead was second in 13:02.80.
Men’s 10K: LRC Mexico’s Juan Luis Barrios Gets The Win Over Cam LevinsBarrios ran 27:34.40 as Levins was second in 27:36.00. Oklahoma State’s Shadrack Kipchirchir set a collegiate lead at 27:36.79 for 5th beating out Texas Tech’s Kennedy Kithuka (27:41.73). Bobby Curtis was the top American in 7th with 27:46.30
Sunday Is Stanford And More *Stanford Entries
Pre-Meet: Stanford Is Sunday Night: Full Preview Of Sunday’s Payton Jordan Invite
- 5k:Message Board Poster Breaks Down The Men’s 5k Field At Stanford Nicely It is Jerry Shumacher‘s group: Evan Jager (13:02), Chris Derrick, Ryan Hill and Lopez Lomong versus Ben True with Centro and Diego Estrada trying to lower their PRs in the best race of the meet. *Article From Oregonian
- W10k: Payton Jordan Women’s 10k PreviewNice preview on the boards. The field, in addition to Sally Kipyego and Molly Huddle, features Julia Bleasdale, who dominated the Carlsbad 5,000m.
New Champions And Nearly $100,000 On The Line At Bloomsday
World Half runner-up Mary Wacera headlines the field that has six sub-63:00 half men, including Aaron Braun, Shadrack Biwott and Ben Bruce.
$40,500 US Prize Money On The Line At Pittsburgh Marathon
2:29 marathoner Clara Santucci is one of the favorites.
Did USATF Get Ripped Off?
- Former USATF CEO Doug Logan Harshly Crticizes USATF’s 26-Year Deal With Nike “Twenty six years ago I still had dark hair … My company had just purchased their first Fax machines. … In 2040 the Federation will still be paying for the lack of judgment of its current leadership.”
- Agent And Attorney David Greifinger Writing For Track And Field News About How Bad A Deal USATF Got With Nike “Is there a scenario where USATF comes out ahead? Yes, if we encounter severe deflation never experienced in our nation’s history or if track & field falls off the Olympic map. Otherwise Nike wins big or Nike wins huge. … Nike negotiated as a visionary while USATF negotiated from a bunker. Bet on Nike.”
Preview Of Weekend Track Action *All NCAA Coverage
- IAAF Preview: Hot Sprint Action On Tap For Saturday’s Jamaica InvitationalShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce vs. Blessing Okagbare and English Gardner in the women’s 100 and Nesta Carter, Warren Weir, Walter Dix and Justin Gatlin for the men. LaShawn Merritt and Sanya Richards-Ross in the 400s.
Lawyers For Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Concerned They Won’t Be “Adequately Prepared” For November Trial The defense team wants to receive the prosecution’s pre-trial materials earlier.
#67Days #Transparency
LRCDQGate Gets Interesting: Gabriele Grunewald DQ Footage From US Indoor Women's 3,000 Mistakenly Leaked By USATF
Update From USATF: Report On 3k DQs Coming In June It doesn’t take 4 months to acknowledge Andrew Bumbalough was DQed improperly.
Dusseldorf And Other Road News *Photo Gallery
Annie Bersagel PRs To Win 2014 Dusseldorf Marathon In 2:28:59; Gilbert Yegon Wins Men’s Race In 2:08:07 A nice PR and win for Beragel after her 13th place finish at the World Half Marathon Championships.
The 118th Boston Marathon *Results*Tracking*Full Elite Fields*LRC Boston Photo Gallery
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LRCAmerican Strong: The Untold Story Of American Teamwork And How Ryan Hall Helped Meb Win Boston American Meb Keflezighi rightfully got the glory but his American competitors helped him out. The untold story of American Strong.
“Best @letsrundotcom article I’ve ever read I believe.” – @GreccoCole
LRC Dick Patrick – Meb Strong: How Meb Worked His Magic Once Again Meb once again pulled it off, when very few thought he could. Dick Patrick tells us how the deserving champ did it.
Payton Jordan *Results
Women’s 10K: LRCMolly Huddle Is #2 All-Time Fastest American At 30:47; Sally Kipyego Gets The Win In 30:42 The women’s 10,000 saw a new world lead for Olympic silver medalist Kipyego and the second-fastest time ever by an American woman in Huddle for second place. Former All-American Betsy Saina was 3rd (30:57.30) and Jordan Hasay set a new PR with 31:39.67 for 4th.
Women’s 5K: LRCSifan Hassan Goes Sub-15 To Win As Katie Mackey Runs 15:04 – Stanford’s Aisling Cuffe Is The 3rd Fastest Collegian Of All-TimeHassan ran a world-leading time of 14:59.23 while Bahta was second in 14:59.49. Leading the Americans was Mackey in 15:04.74, just beating out Laura Thweatt (15:04.98). But the highlight of the race was Stanford’s Aisling Cuffe setting a new school record and moving herself to #3 all-time in the NCAA with a 15:11.13.
Mid-D Action: LRCElise Cranny’s #2 All-Time 4:10.95 High School 1,500 Highlights Cranny is now the second-fastest high schooler of all time as she blew away Jordan Hasay‘s 4:14.50. Only Mary Cain‘s NR of 4:04.62 is faster. In other events, Eliud Rutto had a breakthrough 1:45.37 victory in the 800, Karine Belleau-Beliveau beat Treniere Moser in the women’s 800, Riley Masters won the men’s 1,500 (3:38) and Billy Nelson and Shalaya Kipp got steeplechase wins.
60-Year Anniversary Of Bannister’s Sub-4 Is Tuesday
Roger Bannister Looks Back 60 Years Ago: "I gave it everything."
Interesting fact: 4,100 people have climbed Mt. Everest and 1,305 have gone sub-4. The Telegraph
*Video: Roger Bannister Reflects Back
*Video: Roger Bannister Reflects Back
Spice Up Your Saturday – Track Doesn’t Have To Be Boring *American Track League Results
American Track League Debuts With Win From Lolo Jones, 2 World Leaders, Crowd Of 1,000 Entertained
Mark Hollis went 18'8" in the pole vault and De'Sean Turner 8:33.89 in the steeple in the meet that hopes to entertain and let fans onto the track. Hopefully they can get the marketing down and attract bigger crowds.
More Weekend Entertainment:
- Runnerspace Has A Beer With The First-Ever Sub-Five-Minute Beer Miler James Nielsen Nielsen is a two-time NCAA DIII 5k champ and trained seriously for the WR.
- Oregon Sprinter Mike Berry Is Arrested By Eugene Police After Incident At Bar At 2am
- Wall Street Journal Looks At Meb’s Win And The LRC Thread “The Boston Marathon Was Fixed” Rojo getting another quote in the Journal.
Extensive Q&A With US’s World Indoor 60m Silver Medalist Marvin Bracy Marvin talks about his career from high school through winning silver at Worlds.
Week That Was
LRCMeb Has Won Boston, Emails From Meb’s Brother And Ryan Hall’s Mom, Rita Jeptoo, Sub-5 Beer Mile, Annie Bersagel, Drake, Penn And MoreMeb, Meb, Meb: We break down Meb’s amazing win at Boston and Rita Jeptoo‘s finish. Plus, emails from Ryan Hall’s mom, Meb’s brother, some praise for Dan O’Brien, a sub-5 beer mile, Annie Bersagel joins the sub-2:30 club, and some tremendous pro action at Drake.Doping: Liliya Shobukhova Goes Down
Russian Marathoner Liliya Shobukhova (#2 Fastest All-Time) Gets 2-Year Doping Ban After Getting Caught By Biological Passport All her results since October 9, 2009 have been annulled, including her win at London, 3 wins at Chicago and her 2:18:20 PR and she’ll have to pay back the prize money she won at London/Chicago.
*Paula Radcliffe Tweets: “Lilya Shobukhova finally exposed as a drug cheat. Disqualified using blood passport, results since 2009 annulled.”
*MB: down goes liliya shobukhova
Distance News
Haile G’s Masters Marathon World Record Attempt In Hamburg Is Off As He Pulls Out Due To Pollen Allergies
*LRCWorld Record Holder Andres Espinosa Of Mexico To Be Guest Of Hamburg Marathon Espinosa’s masters world record of 2:08:46 was going to be no easy feat for Geb, as it is the best Masters World Record in all of track according to the IAAF tables.
More To Come? #FridayAfternoonNewsDump
LRCTyson Gay Gets A One-Year Drug Ban For Cooperating With USADA, Admits He Cheated At 2012 Olympics, Many Questions Remain
Gay did admit to doping at the 2012 Olympics (the US will lose its 4 x 100 silver medals), but not the Olympic Trials.
- Discuss:Gay Gets 1 Year Doping Bans
Random Distance News
Good Luck Getting Back Liliya Shobukhova's $1.4 Million In Prize Money
She stole over $1.4 million but it seems unlikely meets will get it back because she is in Russia. No official word, but athletes she beat likely won't get their money either.Red Bull Wings For Life World Run On Sunday Has 34 Simultaneous Races
You run as long as you can until passed by a car. Last one running wins. Toni Reavishas more on it here.With Dibaba And Defar On Way Out, Kenya's 22-Year-Old Mercy Cherono Is Dreaming Big: "Defar and Dibaba’s reign is over."
Cherono, who won 5,000 silver in Moscow, wants the 5,000 WRecord as well as Olympic gold and thinks she will be the one to rule the track as Defar and Dibaba are starting to age.
Distance News: Ryan Hall Speaks
- Good 30-Minute Podcast Interview With Ryan Hall
His first real interview since Boston, Hall talks about the American plan to help Meb, his own disappointing race, training in Ethiopia and his plans for 2014. - Sad News:Roger Bannister Reveals He Has Parkinson’s Disease Bannister is keeping a positive outlook as he joked, “It’s in the nature of things, there’s a gentle irony to it. … Intellectually I am not [degenerating] and what is walking anyway?”
- Science Of The Sport’s Ross Tucker Analyzes Kenyan Eliud Magut’s Dramatic Marathon Finish There has been harsh criticism of race organizers for letting Magut continue after he collapsed multiple times before he finally DNFed. Tucker’s analysis is that the criticism has been overblown, but Magut should have been stopped earlier than he was.
*MB: Kenyan marathoner almost dies trying to finish marathon in Italy - Q&A With Elise Cranny, Who’ll Be Chasing Jordan Hasay’s #2 HS 1,500 Time Of 4:14.50 At Payton Jordan This Weekend Cranny ran 4:15.07 here last year, which is #3 all-time for US high schoolers.
- RW Q&A With Clara Santucci, Who Is The Local Hope At Sunday’s Pittsburgh Marathon Santucci was the top American in Chicago with 9th place finish.
- Large U.S. Army Study Says Foot Strike Doesn’t Affect Injury Rate
More On Rutherford LJ Controversy
- UK Athletics Will Meet In May To Decide Whether Or Not To Ratify Greg Rutherford’s 8.51m LJ National Record This follows complaints by fellow long jumper Chris Tomlinson that it should be ruled illegal.
- Athletics Weekly: Greg Rutherford’s UK Record Is Hardly The First Long Jump To Court Controversy AW looks at some past LJ controversies and their outcomes. They make a good point that UKA should promote this rivalry between Rutherford and Chris Tomlinson. Rivalries sell tickets.
Olympic 1,500 Champion Taoufik Makhloufi Leaves His Coach, Jama Aden Makhloufi (who is also leaving his manager) said it was an amicable break. He has been training in Kenya, apparently at times with Mo Farah. Other athletes in Aden’s group include Genzebe Dibaba and Ayanleh Souleiman.
*MB:Toufik Makhloufi left Jama Aden to Alberto Salazar?
Meb Still Making News
A MUST READ: The Inside Story: How Did Meb Get Far Enough Ahead To Win 2014 Boston? Toni ReavisTells You Reavis has the scoop of what went on in the top African pack.
- Q&A With The Man Who Took The Lead Early With Meb – Josphat Boit “At one of the water stations, Meb kept his pace and I went with him. That is when we found that we had pulled away from the group.”
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