Archived Homepage For June 20, 2014
Archived Homepage For June 20, 2014
Quote Of The Day
– Grandma’s Marathon co-founder and race director from 1977 through 2013, Scott Keenan, talking about how he’ll enjoy finally sleeping in on race day in his first year of retirement.
Saturday Road Action
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Great Matchup Set For Tomorrow:Wilson Kipsang Vs. Dennis Kimetto At The Mattoni Half Marathon Olomouc In The Czech RepublicEdna Kiplagat leads the women’s field.
*Live Stream Here Starting At 12:50PM ET- Listen To Grandma’s Marathon Live Radio Internet Stream Starting Saturday At 7AM ET
- Profile On Retired Grandma’s Marathon Director Scott Keenan, Who Co-Founded And Directed The Race From 1977 Until Last Year Keenan says he’ll enjoy sleeping in on race morning instead of setting 5 alarms to make sure he’s up by 3AM.
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 Tonja 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
Throwing News
Incoming UCLA Frosh Stamatia Scarvelis Just Did Throws Double In CA, Won 3 Straight Cali State Shot Titles- 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.
US Distance News
- Entries For 2014 USATF Track And Field Championships, Which Start Next Wednesday Some big names missing in the distance events.
*Meet Schedule 
Kara Goucher Back Training And Targeting A Fall Marathon She got a sacral stress fracture back in March, but has been on the Alter-G for the last 5 weeks and solid ground since June 2nd. She’ll do Chicago or New York.- Ryan Vail Blogs About His First Race Back Since The London Marathon – A 3:43 1,500 At The Portland Track Festival
- Columbia’s Head Coach Willy Wood Retires Wood has been the head coach at Columbia for the last 20 years.
*MB:Willy Wood Steps Down - Extensive Interview With Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray Detailed Q&A with McGillivray on many topics, including Meb Keflezhigi being the first US men’s winner since 1983 and running 42 straight Bostons.
- Q&A With Mammoth Track Club Coach Andrew Kastor Under Andrew and Deena Kastor the group has moved away from being a mix of track and road to primarily just a half and full marathon group.
- Video Interview With Coach Mike Scannell, Coach Of Dream Mile Winner Grant Fisher
*LRC Story On Fisher’s Win
Sprint News: Carmelita Jeter Back Racing
Articles Worth A Read
Stanford’s Aisling Cuffe Has No Regrets About Being Sacrificial Rabbit In Women’s 5k From 2k To Bell Lap “Coach Milt is always telling us that the key to a solid race is putting yourself in a position where you have a chance to win with a lap to go, and I felt I definitely did that today.”
MB:Cuffe on Hall’s lack of leading: “It was tough knowing that she stayed tucked in behind me the whole way.”- Time To Celebrate: Moses Kipsiro’s Ban From Representing Uganda For Reporting A Rapist Coach Is Lifted – He Will Try To Defend 10k/5k Commonwealth Titles In Glasgow
- Follow Your Passion: Rice University Pole Vault Cach David Butler Has Started A Pole Vault Museum On Facebook Maybe we should buy him out and start letsvault.com.
- British Jav Record Holder Goldie Sayers Is Back From “Injury Hell,” Ready For Commonwealths Thanks To Dr. James Andrews She got the best baseball surgeon in the land for her 3rd surgery in the last 2 years.
- Meet The Police Officer Who Has Stopped Smoking And Has Run For 2,000 Days In A Row
- Usain Bolt’s Got Some Work To Do: Physiologist And Coach Completes Study That Says Ultimate 100-Meter Time Is 9.27 Seconds Australian physiologist and coach Jeremy Richmond‘s paper appears in the IAAF’s “New Studies in Athletics” scientific journal. Subscribe now for $50.
- IAAF Inside Athletics Episode 6: Ato Boldon Q&A With Chris Brown
Updated adidas Grand Prix Photo Gallery (More Cain/Efraimson)
Alexa Efraimson
David Rudisha
Jenny Simpson
Upcoming Action
- 54th Edition Of All-Uphill Mt. Washington Road Race Is This Wweekend Defending champ Eric Blake will face 2012 winner Sage Canaday plus Joe Grey (2nd last two years).
- City Of 250,000 – Braunschweig – Is Hosting European Team Champs This Weekend – Russia Looking For 4th Straight Title
- Final Entries Confirmed For European Athletics Team Championships
- Great Hurdles Races Will Be A Highlight Of Paris DL On July 5th – Pearson Vs. Rollins For Just 2nd Time Ever
David Rudisha Highlights Fields At July 11-12 Glasgow Grand Prix (British Leg Of 2014 Diamond League) Other big names competing include Mo Farah, Ashton Eaton, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Carmelita Jeter, Sally Pearson, Anna Chicherova, Blanka Vlasic, Dayron Robles and Aries Merritt.
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
- Abbey D’Agostino Signs With Total Sports Management
- Lawi Lalang Signs With Global Sports Communication
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.
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.
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