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26:44.36 FTW

“My plan coming in was to win. … It was all about winning.

Alberto said don’t be afraid to take it with 2 or 3 laps to go if you’re feeling good.

I was really excited to come back here … we wanted what was going to prepare me for the World Championships next year and the Olympics the year after that.”

– Galen Rupp after running 1:57 for the final 800 to win the Pre Classic 10,000 and lower his American record from 26:48.00 to 26:44.36.

LRC6 Quick Takeaways From The 2014 Pre Classic

Oh, baby! What an incredible 2.5 hours. The Bowerman Mile was historic, Jenny Simpson PRed for the first time in 5 years, David Rudisha and Mo Aman both lost. So much to talk about. We get started here. *IAAF Recap Part I*IAAF Recap Part II
*LRC:Tons Of Post-Race Video Interviews

LRCAyanleh Souleiman Runs 3:47; Manzano Returns To Winner's Circle - 9 Takes From 2 Great Miles At 2014 Pre Classic

A ridiculous 22 men broke 3:55 on Sunday in Eugene. We give you the scoop.

2014 Prefontaine ClassicFull ResultsTV/Stream Info LRC Photo GalleryLRC:Tons Of Post-Race Video Interviews

Saturday: The Fans Discuss Pre On The Boards
MB:Official Day 2 2014 Nike Pre Classic Live Fan Discussion Thread
*Amos is the real deal – takes down Rudisha AND Aman in 1:43.63!!
*Centro PB 3:50.53!
*LAGAT 13:31 @ PRE
*BLAKE HANEY 4:10.41
*Wouldn’t it be crazy if the International Mile was faster than 3:50?

LRCGalen Rupp Runs 26:44.36 To Break His American Record

39 years to the day after Steve Prefontaine died, Galen Rupp came within .62 seconds of running Prefontaine’s 5,000m PR back-to-back. After the meet, it was also announced Galen’s wife, Keara, is expecting twins.
*LRCRupp Post-Race Video Interview At the very end, Rupp responds to LRC question about whether gimmicks are “innovation” or “cheating.”
*IAAF:Records Fall To Rupp And Perkovic In Eugene
*Oregonian:Rupp Smashes Own American Record

2014 Pre Friday Night On The Boards:
*Where does Rupp come in your all-time greatest American distance runner list?
*HOW LONG UNTIL WE HATE GALEN AGAIN? –
*26:44.37 For RUPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
*Rupp WILL not break 26:48
*Steven Sambu had the best race
*RUPPS 10k most boring race ever
*I AM CRYING TEARS OF JOY FOR GALEN RUPP’S NEW AR

LRCWomen's 800: Chanelle Price Hangs On; Colorful Maggie Vessey Takes Second; Mary Cain Fizzles

In the men’s 800, Job Kinyor beat Elijah Greer and Eric Sowinski.
*Oregonian:Chanelle Price Holds On To Win The Women’s 800 – Mary Cain Is 8th

LRCDavid Rudisha Talks About His Return At Prefontaine Classic

King David is set to return to the circuit after a year+ absence. Is he in shape? Will he win? Plus, fantasy track guys and gals, guess what his agent says he can run a 5k in?

LRCNews And Notes: Highlights From The 2014 Pre Classic Press Conference

We caught up with Brittney Reese, Ashton Eaton, Renaud Lavillenie, Allyson Felix and Justin Gatlin, who says he wants to race both Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake and supports Dennis Mitchell.

RRW2:19 Marathoner Lucy Kabuu Wins 2014 Freihofer's Run For Women In 15:20

Megan Hogan was the top American. Melody Fairchild won the Masters race.

Former Nike Strength And Conditioning Coach Vern Gambetta Speaks About Drugs In The Sport “Very honestly, everybody in the sport knows the drug coaches. And it’s not those supported by just one shoe company. Everybody knows it, but nobody will speak out because of fear of libel. It’s going to take some balls, that’s for sure. And the federation [USATF] is complicit. …”
*MB:former NOP strength coach speaks on drugs!

More Distance News: Alexa Efraimson Breaks HS 1,600 Record

Alexa Efraimson Runs 4:33.29 National 1,600 Record To Win Washington State Meet The previous record was 4:33.86 held by Christine Babcock.
10-Year-Old Sets Age Group WR At Falls Church Half Marathon, Running 1:35:02 (7:15 Pace)Rheinhardt Harrison: “It was fun and hard at the same time. I was tired. But it was fun after. They had moon bounces and they had a lot of fun stuff.”
Evan Jager Won A 1989 Ford Mustang When He Was In 8th Grade When Jager was 12, his dad said he would buy him one if he broke 5 minutes in the mile and when he was 14 he did it.
Meb To Pace Sub-90-Minute Group In Rock ‘N’ Roll San Diego Half Marathon On Sunday
60 Years Ago Yesterday, Diane Leather Was The First Woman To Run A Sub-5 Minute Mile She ran 4:59.6 and eventually lowered her WR to 4:45.0.

2 Recommended Reads And Other Top Distance News

Recommended Read:“They Might Be Ryans”: Article On Group Of Sub-Elites Living, Training And Trying To Make It At Altitude In Flagstaff, AZ The group (which includes LRC’s 1.1) moved to the town that pros like Nick Arciniaga and Ryan Hall call home to chase their running dreams.
RR#2:Runners World Profile On Matt Elliott: “America’s Fastest Kindergarten Teacher” Elliott has came a long way from a guy who ran 4:42 in the mile in HS as he finished 4th at US Champs last year.
Former Prep Star And NCAA Champ Melody Fairchild Racing Freihofer’s 5K Saturday; Now Excelling As A Masters Runner After “Disappearing” From The Sport For A While She says, “Having been a high school prodigy who people said would someday burn out and they’d never see me again, being a master has special significance because I feel very proud to be still running.”
WSJ:“Breaking the Five-Minute ‘Beer Mile’ Brews Controversy” As Critics Say James Nielsen Didn’t Do Can-Over-The-Head Maneuver On First Beer The video has gone viral with more than a million views on YouTube and Nielsen says he’s actually been approached with endorsement offers from apparel and beer companies.
Nick Symmonds Blogs About His Knee Injury Symmonds attributes the injury to racing the tight turns indoors and while he’s still hurt, expects to be back in shape “within a month or two.”

Jill Greer Talks To Runner’s World About Oiselle Reprimand For Nike Logo Photo Shop She says it’s not a USATF rule, but a “professional business intellectual property issue” and declined to comment on the point that USATF reacted to this in less than 12 hours, but has still failed to address the DQ issues from USA Indoors back in February. *MB Thread

Memorial Day – 2013 Bolder Boulder *Results (link fixed)

Denver Post: Mamitu Daska Of Ethiopia Wins 4th Bolder Boulder Title In 6 Years, Shalane Flanagan 2nd, Kastor 4th – US Women 3rd
*A Wobbly Sara Hall Finished 16th, Secured 3rd Place Team Finish For US “That is the hardest race I’ve ever run, by far. I really wanted to make them (Shalane and Deena) proud.”
*Eritrea’s Afewerki Berhane Wins Men’s Race, Sean Quigley, Not Ryan Hall Or Bobby Curtis, Was Top American In 8th Quigley was on the US #3 team but was 8th and beat Hall, who was 9th. *MB: Hall 9th at Bolder Boulder
*Meyer: Bolder Boulder Is A Special Race On A Special Day Ryan Hall: “Running into this stadium is as emotionally uplifting and energizing as going into the Olympic Stadium.”

Good Read:Recently-Adopted Ethiopian Orphan, Abreham Anderson, Invited To Bolder Boulder Elite Press Conference To Hang With Ethiopian Pros The kid is in Jr. high and started at 7:20 in the mile and ended the season at 5:03. 2024, here we come.

Athletes On Trial

Oscar Pistorius Begins His Month-Long Psychiatric Hospital Observation To Assess If He Actually Has An Anxiety Disorder As His Defense Team Claims Some have described the conditions as favorable to Pistorius as he isn’t at the facility for 24/7, but only from 9AM-4PM on weekdays.
Asafa Powell Appealing To CAS To Cut His 18-Month Suspension To 3 MonthsSherone Simpson is also appealing her 18-month ban.

Prefontaine Day 1 Photo Gallery (Click On Image For Full Gallery)

NCAA Preliminary Rounds Started Thursday *National Championships Central

Live Results / Start Lists / Schedule For 2014 NCAA West Preliminary Round
Kennedy Kithuka won the 10,000 in 29:05 just ahead of Edward Cheserek.
*Meet Info
Live Results / Start Lists / Schedule For 2014 NCAA East Preliminary Round Michigan’s Erin Finn won the 10,000 in 33:13.
*Meet Info
MB:Hot!! New Mexico Women’s NCAA 1500m
Waco Tribune Article On Baylor Sprinter Trayvon Bromell, Who’s On Track For An NCAA Title After His Wind-Aided 9.77 At Big 12 Champs
USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Preliminaries Info/Preview

UK’s Holly Bleasdale Will Skip 2014 Outdoor Season To Focus On 2015 And 2016 She was injured a year ago and says she still hasn’t got back to her top fitness.

NCAA Regionals Are This Weekend

Non-Distance Pro News

Greg Rutherford’s Controversial 8.51m NR Long Jump Officially Ratified By British Athletics The group said the video evidence was “inconclusive” so upheld the decision of the referee at the event.
Bahamas 400 Runner Chris Brown Got Hero’s Welcome After World Relays
Aries Merritt Will Highlight 110H At Glasgow DL July 11th

More News From The World Relays

Recommended Read:Seb Coe Talks About The Unique Excitement That Surrounds Relay Races, Making Comedic References To His Children And His Own Relay Running Past “This is a year of innovation in our sport … After this weekend, I am convinced that it will become a permanent fixture.”
IAAF: Should Yohan Blake Be The MVP Of The World Relays? Brenda Martinez gets mention for anchoring both the USA 4 x 1,500 and 4 x 800.
Track And Field News: A Star Meet Is Born In The Bahamas The US got to the Bahamas early to practice handoffs while Yohan Blake said their team barely even practiced, but relied on “street smarts.”
IAAF Work, Rest And Play Interview With Christian Taylor Oly TJ champ’s favorite workout is 3 x 350m. Interesting fact: Taylor longboards a mile and back to practice.
Yohan Blake Says Michael Jackson Was One Of His Heroes And He’s “Learned A Lot” From Him Blake says he cried when he heard about Jackson’s death in 2009 and didn’t train for a week.
Video Clip Of Crash Between Katie Mackey And Australia’s Zoe Buckman In World Relays 4 x 1,500

IAAF Preview Of Saturday/Sunday Hypo-Meeting Multi Event Meet In GotzisTrey Hardee and Brianne Theisen-Eaton among the favorites.

LRCCatherine Ndereba Has Not Retired, Plans On Still Competing

A story by Xinhua on her retirement was false according to her manager.

#MissionAccomplished By Our LRC Dennis Mitchell Story

Dennis Mitchell Coaching Controversy Gets Picked Up By NY Times “It seems ridiculous that United States track officials would want him anywhere near their delegation, or that any athletes would want Mitchell to coach them, for fear that his doping background might cast a shadow on them. But this is track and field, a sport that has repeatedly failed Public Relations 101, so nothing seems to be too ridiculous to be true.”
*MB Thread
LRC Story That Kicked This Off: USATF Does It Again: Dennis Mitchell, Convicted Doper, Your Head Sprint Coach For World Relays

World Relays-Related

A Year Later, Results From Kenyan Doping Investigation Are In

When In Doubt, Blame The Foreigners:Kenyan Government-Appointed Commission Blames Foreign Agents For Recent Upsurge In Doping Positives Head of task force Professor Moni Wekesa: “We have left our athletes in the hands of foreigners. … Any drugs which we found to have been used by the athletes was only through the influence of the foreign agents.”

Some Good Distance Reads

Good Read:Article On Renato Canova Coaching Chinese Women Distance Runners In Kenya Canova: “It’s never a problem of pure talent. When you speak about a country with almost one and a half billion people, there is talent for everything.”
A Look At The Athletics And Administrative Career Of 1972 Olympic Bronze Medalist Ian Stewart, Who Apparently Helped “Convince” Alberto Salazar To Work With Mo Farah Stewart isn’t popular with everyone in the running world and says, “Does my attitude piss people off? I guess it must do. … No matter how you sugar-coat it, if I tell you I can’t put you in the London Grand Prix, I am saying you’re not good enough.”
*MB Archive: Lolo Jones and Nick Symmonds blackballed by Aviva Diamond League
28:51 10K Man Jon Sutherland Breaks Record For Most Consecutive Days Running At 45 Years And 2 Days During his streak, he’s logged more than 190,000 miles (average of about 11 miles a day) and done “dumb” things like running the day after knee surgery and running on a boat in a hurricane to “keep the streak alive.”
Interesting Story:Wisconsin-Oshkosh Runner Christy Cazzola Finishes Career At 28 Years Old With A Record 17 NCAA DIII Titles Cazzola was a high school phenom and had offers from DI schools, but decided it wasn’t for her and spent 5 years away from the sport until she returned as a wife and mother. She actually ran XC nationals one year while pregnant.