June 19, 2014 Homepage Archive

Distance News

Good Read: Marc Bloom Examines Why HS Girls Are So Fast Nowadays A great read – nearly 4,000 words. Cain, Efraimson, Baxter and Cranny aren’t the only good HS girls. In 1993, there was 1 US girl under 4:50 in the 1,600. 10 years later there were 12, 20 years later there are 35. Why? Salazar says big is beautiful: “You want muscle on you. In the long term, being skinny is a negative.”
2014 BAA 10k Is Sunday: RRW: 6 Storylines Led By G. Mutai Vs. Gebremeskel And Sambu A great road race in terms of star appeal.
Ireland’s Mark English, Who Was 2nd In 800 At adidas GP, Defends Decision To Fire Coach Mid-Season He’s looking for the “right fit.” LetsRun.com will coach him for free.
Brenda Martinez Is Now A Star – American Gets IAAF Full Profile
Hannah England Says It’s “Amazing” To Captain Great Britain & NI Team For European Team Champs This Weekend
RRW Abbey D’Agostino Stays With Mark Coogan, Signs With New Balance
*MB: Abbey D’Agostino signs with New Balance
Inspiring Read: Homeless S.F. Marathoner Who Is Getting Ready For San Fran Half Is Also A Budding Artist

First Come The Agents, Then The Shoe Deal

Action We Missed

Dorian Ulrey Ran 3:38 Over The Weekend Former Columbia star Kyle Merber ran 3:40 in the race won by Canada’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot.
21-Year-Old Thomas Barr Took An Amazing .71 Off Irish 400H Record With 48.90 Over Weekend In Geneva He and 800 man Mark English are the top 2 guys in Irish Athletics right now.

RIP Tony: USATF CEO Max Siegel Was Tony Gwynn's Agent And Friend

Distance Updates

Alexa Efraimson Considering Turning Pro Early As Mary Cain Did After running her 4:07, she said, “I’ll see how I do at the U.S. seniors. I just want to keep my options open.”
Yuki Kawauchi Caps Sixteen Straight Weeks Of Racing With All-Time Top Ten 2:47:27 Japanese 50K National Record See a list of all Kawauchi’s 2014 races with “The Kawauchi Counter.”
Geoffrey Mutai And Dejen Gebremeskal Headline Field For This Sunday’s BAA 10K The deep field also includes Stephen Sambu, while the women are led by defending champ Mamitu Daska plus Buzunesh Deba, Linet Masai, Betsy Saina and Jen Rhines.
IAAF Recap Ethiopian National ChampsIbrahim Jeilan came back from his marathon debut to win the 5K, Aman Wote took the 1,500 (3:38). 800 NR holder Fantu Magiso was 2nd in the 400 (53.35). 9:14 World Champs steeple 5th placer Etenesh Diro suffered a surprise defeat to Tigist Getnet.

Do You Want To Be A Good Coach?

Recommended Read:Very Interesting Interview With World Renowned Track Coach Dan Pfaff On His Coaching Philosophy And “What Drives Successful Performance Under Pressure” This isn’t a technical coaching article, but one that talks about the “coaching” part of coaching which can be applicable to almost any sport.

England's Commonwealth Games Team

Sub-10 UK Sprinters James Dasolu And Chijindu Ujah Left Off English Team For Commonwealth Games Dasaolu hasn’t raced in a while due to injury and Ujah’s sub-10 race came after the selection deadline.
UK’s 21-Year-Old Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Will Be Disappointed With Anything Less Than Gold At Commonwealth Games She expects it to be a battle between her and Brianne Theisen Eaton.

Sprint News

Asafa Powell And Sherone Simpson Are Cleared To Compete By Court Of Arbitration For Sport (For Now) They want their 18-month suspensions reduced and the hearings aren’t until early July so CAS has let them compete now so they can run the Jamaican Trials next week.
Spikes: The Ten Best Hairdos In Track And Field History FloJo’s mullet was pretty incredible for us.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Has Left Jamaica To Seek Treatment, Still Hopes To Run Jamaican Trials
Niall Flannery (48.96 PR In 400H) Planning Podium Assault At Commonwealth Games

Post-2014 NCAA News

Deon Lendore, Ryan Crouser, Courtney Okolo, And Georgia’s Kendell Williams Named As National Athletes Of The Year By USTFCCCA Lendore was undefeated on the year, which enabled him to beat out Cheserek.
World Jr. 100 Record Holder And NCAA Champ Trayvon Bromell Is USATF’s Athlete Of The Week Watch our post-race video interview of him here.
Conway Hill: Dedric Dukes, Not Trayvon Bromell, Was The Sprinter Of The Meet At NCAAs A come-from-behind win in the 4 x 100 and a 19.91 were pretty special.
Andy Powell And Sandra Buford-Bailey Named National Asst. Coaches Of The Year By USTFCCCA Transfers were instrumental in both winning the awards.
Meet Arkansas’ Jessica Kamilos, Who Has Gone From Bucking Hay As A Kid To 7th In The Women’s Steeple The sophomore, who is married, was stunned to score. “When I was a little kid I used to set up jumps in the front yard with two chairs and a stick on top and I used to run and jump over them.”
Running Times Gives Some Love To Marisa Howard And Patrick Tiernan For Their Overlooked Success At NCAAs

Post-adidas News

Elliott Denman: Was The 2014 adidas GP The Greatest Ever Thanks To The Spectacular HJ?

Throwing News

UCLA Redshirt Braheme Days Breaks American Jr. Shot Put Record – 69-5.25 (21.16m)
Incoming UCLA Frosh Stamatia Scarvelis Just Did Throws Double In CA, Won 3 Straight Cali State Shot Titles She’s got a great family in her corner.
TFN Q&A With Ryan Whiting

Dan O’Brien & Dave Johnson Will Compete Against Each Other For 1st Time In 10+ Years At RBC Decathlon This Weekend It’s a Wall St. charity event which includes non-standard events like a football throw, pullups, 40-yard dash, etc.
Update On Diamond League Races Which Are Still Open In Every Event

2014 Ostrava *Results

Dibaba Misses 2,000 WR; Caleb Ndiku Smashes Field And Bernard Lagat In 3,000 Allyson Felix won, Justin Gatlin ran 9.86 into a headwind, LaShawn Merritt kept winning, and Bernard Lagat lost by nearly 7 seconds but became the oldest man ever under 7:40. Dibaba’s last lap was just 66.88, she needed a 64.72 to break Sonia O’Sullivan‘s 5:25.36 world record. *Full Results
*Caleb Ndiku Crushes Field In 3k On His Birthday In Ostrava
*Nick Willis Breaks John Walker’s 31-Year-Old New Zealand Record With 7:36.91
*3,000m Race Video Ignore the analysis part as the last 200 wasn’t close to 23.9.
*Jeff Riseley Breaks 14-Year-Old Australian 1k Mark With 2:16.09
*MB:Willis & Lagat Go 3-4 in Ostrava

Canadian News

Is Dylan Wykes Finally Healthy? The 2:10:47 performer isn’t quite sure himself: “I think things are coming along well, but it’s hard to know these days. I’ve had two years of off-and-on injuries so I’m finding it difficult to get a clear sense of my exact fitness now.”
Catching Up With Leah Pells – 1996 Olympic 1,500 4th Placer From Canada The 49-year-old still runs every day but has no desire to race.

Portland Track Festival *Results

LRCThe King (Mo Farah) Returns, Andrew Wheating Wins And Says He's Back, Jordan Hasay Wins Twice, And Andy Bayer The Steepler

Mo Farah returned to the track and showed great finishing speed. Andrew Wheating returned as well with a win and said he's "back" and Jordan Hasay got double wins with impressive last laps. Plus the steeple debut of Andy Bayer, wins by Bridget Franek, Cas Loxsom and Kate Grace in a tshirt.