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• LRC Meet Grant Fisher: The Foot Locker Champ And 4:02 Miler Is Only A Junior, But He’s Already Wise Beyond His Years  Learn all about Fisher, who as part-time runner is already just the second 11th grade American Foot Locker champ ever, his coach, his 40 mpw training, and his connection to Arizona State’s 7:08.96 4 x 800 collegiate record. On Saturday, Fisher will be looking for a fast 2-mile at the inaugural Brooks PR Invitational in Seattle.
  *MB:Meet Grant Fisher: Is 40 mpw, 11th grade Foot Locker champ and 4:02 miler America’s next star?
• Good ESPN Article On Alexa Efraimson With A Lot Of Interesting Insight From Her Coach Who Apparently Goes To Joe Vigil And Alberto Salazar For Advice Her coach, Mike Hickey, talks about the ins-and-outs of coaching an elite high schooler and how he could tell the first time he saw her run that “she was special.”
• DyeStat 2014 Brooks PR Invite Event-By-Event PreviewAlexa Efraimson vs. Raeyvn Rogers (2:03) in the 800.
• Youth-Related: USATF Announces Youth Olympic Team

US Distance News

• Entries For 2014 USATF Track And Field Championships, Which Start Next Wednesday Some big names missing in the distance events.
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• 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

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.

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.

• 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.