July 27, 2014 Homepage Archive

**Saturday US Action: Bix 7 – Molly Huddle Stays Hot *Top 25 Results**

LRCMolly Huddle crushes Bix 7 women’s field – Wins USA 7 mile champs She ran 36:13 (5:10.4 pace), the 4th fastest Bix Time ever, and won by 1:07 over Sarah Hall. Sean Quigley won the men’s race over Maverick Darling in 33:27 (4:46.7 pace).
Pre-Race: Huddle hopes speed translates from track to roads

Run Track Town HP Meet: RRWJordan McNamara Wins 1500 In 3:39.03 Over Kyle Merber And Pat Casey Robby Andrews kicked down Elijah Greer to get NJ-NY Track Club the 4 x 800 win over OTC (7:16.22 to 7:16.41). Laura Roesler led the women’s team that won in 8:07.65. Christian Taylor won the TJ while Aleec Harris ran 13.14 to beat Aries Merrit in the 110H. *Full Results

Ryan Shay Mile: Heather Kampf (4:21) And Rob Finnerty (3:56) Win Ryan Shay Mile

World Juniors Day 3: Cain Wins

Day 3 LRC Mary Cain Wins Women’s 3,000 – The U.S.’s First-Ever Distance Medal At World Juniors Entering Thursday, the U.S. had won four medals in the 800 at World Juniors but none in an event longer than that. Mary Cain made history, unleashing a big kick over the final 175 meters to pull away for the gold in 8:58.48. *RRW

Cain Mania On The Message Board:*MARY CAIN DOES IT! CAIN WINS 2014 JUNIOR CHAMPS 300 IN 8:58.48!
*How fast could Mary Cain go in 3000 time trial right now?
*Who was that guy that cain kissed on her victory lap???
*What is the point of the W 3000 meters at WJ Champs

LRC W 800/M 1,500: Margaret Wambui And Jonathan Sawe Claim Two Golds For Kenya
Good Read:More On 800 Champ Margaret Wambui’s Amazing Rags-To_Riches Story Wambui is the daughter of a single mom. A former hepthatlete, Wambui only recently switched to the 800 after running 2:05 in the multi. “Hers is a tears-eye story of determination, self-confidence and a humble upbringing.”
*MB: Letsrun, do we have another ‘Caster Semenya situation’ in girls 800 at 2014 World Juniors?

More: Day 3 Report: France’s Wilhem Belocian Becomes First Junior Under 13 Seconds In The 110 Hurdles Trinidad and Tobago’s Machel Cedenio won the 400 (45.13) and Russia’s Alena Lutkovskaya won the PV as Desiree Freier won the US’s first ever medal in the event with 2nd place in a American HS and junior record.
Alberto Salazar On Mary Cain’s Win: “I told her to relax, run as little distance as possible, wait until the last 200, and that nobody could outkick her.”
RRW: Alexa Efraimson Ready To Challenge For Medal at IAAF World Junior Championships
Video: Uganda’s 10,000 Champ Joshua Cheptegei Accidentally Delays 100m Runner With His Victory Lap Angela Tenorio (ECU) was redoing the race after she successfully contested her DQ.
RRW: Fast Finish Earns American Elinor Purrier Spot In WJC Steeple Final

Day 3 Photo Gallery

Full Coverage in 2014 World Juniors Special Section.

A New Running Brand Is Here

Tracksmith: New Premium Performance Running Brand Launches Tracksmith, a performance running brand that celebrates the style and culture of the sport, launched this morning. Friend of LRC, Matt Taylor, the man behind the Usain Bolt iPhone game and chasingtradition.com, and the former Global Head of Marketing for Running & Training at Puma, is one of Tracksmith’s founders. He wanted to create a different type of brand that celebrates the grace, style and tradition of the world’s oldest sport, with products designed and manufactured in America (mostly in New England). Good luck to Matt. Check it out at www.tracksmith.com.

2014 World Juniors TV & StreamingResults, Schedule, Start ListsLRCMeet PreviewEvent-By-Event PreviewsEvent-By-Event RecapsPhotos

*Day 3 Photos (Mary Cain) *Day 2*Day 1

MB:Official 2014 World Junior Discussion Thread

Day 5: W Steeple: LRCKenyan-born Ruth Jebet wins Bahrain’s first-ever World Junior gold in girls steeple Jebet got the win in 9:36.

M 800: LRCAmerican Tre’tez Kinnaird (Indiana) is surprisingly the fastest qualifier for the boys 800 final at World Juniors Kinnaird ran 1:48.04 to put himself in contention for a medal.

More: Day Five WJ Report: USA Takes Home Gold In Men’s And Women’s 4×100 Relays The men’s 38.70 win was the third fastest junior performance in history and the 43.46 by the women was the 8th fastest junior time ever. USA also got a gold in the 400H through Shamier Little‘s 55.66 win.
AP: US team claims 3 golds on Day 5 at world juniors
RRW: Ruth Jebet Makes History With Steeplechase Win at World Juniors
RRW: TrackTown USA Celebrates World Juniors with Festive Weekend of Events Numerous side events are accompanying World Juniors including an elite track meet and the Eugene Marathon.

Other International News

Morocco’s Abdalaati Iguider Talks About How Hard It Is To Train During The Muslim Holy Month Of Ramadan When He Cannot Eat Or Drink From Sunrise To Sunset The Olympic 1500 bronze medalist is making due however, as he broke 3:30 for the first time at the Monaco DL meet (3:29.93).
France’s Pole Vault WR Holder Renaud Lavillenie Says He Takes Euro Champs Very Seriously As They’re Just As Hard As Worlds In His Event Most of the other top men’s PVers in the world right now are European.
Darya Klishina Hoping To Finally Get LJ Gold At European Champs After Winning Russian National Champs She’s won Euro indoors twice, but not outdoors.

Some Good Reads

Alan Webb Is Having A Smooth Transition To The Triathlon And Is Enjoying The Process Last week Webb finished 2nd at a race, only steps behind a Canadian Olympian. He and his coach say the transition is going very well and they’re excited about how much room for improvement he still has.
RR: New York Times Article On The WR Setting “Peerless And Seemingly Ageless” 90+-Year-Old Relay Team From US Masters Champs Good read on the five men who set 90+ age records in the 4 x 100, 4 x 400, 4 x 800. Two of them were war vets and went ashore at Normandy on D-Day. On getting the record, Roy Englert said, “We all just managed to stay alive longer than everybody else.”
Interesting Q&A With Retired Professional Pacer Matt Scherer Talking about what pacers get paid, he said at a DL race a rabbit will get paid about the same as what the guys finishing 3rd-5th make. Not a bad deal.

Day 1 Of Commonwealth Games In The Books

Not Farah Certified:Mo Farah Pulls Out Of Commonwealth Games He’ll focus on getting ready for the European Championships, which is much easier to win given the fact there are no Kenyans. “My body is telling me it’s not ready to race yet.”
*MB Talk
*Steve Cram Blames London Marathon For Farah’s Non-Existent Track Season
Kenyan columnists reminisces about fact that Commonwealth Games corruption has been going on since at least 1982 He’s got an interesting story involving Kip Keino and the men’s 10,000 debacle from 1982.
Usain Bolt And His Coach Glen Mills Say They Think He Can Still Run Faster If He Can Just Stay Injury Free Bolt says he may limit sponsor appearances next year so he can focus more on training.
England’s Brownlee Brothers (Alistair And Johnathan) Dominate Triathlon As English Cycling (With Former Tour Winner Bradley Wiggins) Loses To Australia
Rundown Of Day 1 Of Competition No track action until Sunday.
Interesting Read From NY Times:Commonwealth Games: More Than A Colonial Vestige “The event may seem irrelevant for the unaffiliated, but not for the athletes from the 71 participating delegations.” Still, the NY Times says the future of the event is uncertain.
Video Highlights From Opening Ceremony
*“Doctor Who” Actor John Barrowman Applauded For “Wonderful” Opening Ceremony Gay Kiss

Upcoming Road Action

Study Finds 5-Hour Energy Shots Improve Your Mood, But Not Mental Performance; They Also Increase Your Blood Pressure

LRC Commentary

WTWAlan Webb’s 3:46.91 Would Have Been 8th In Monaco, Ajee’ Wilson The Present And Future, Tons Of USA PRS In Europe And The LRC SingletWe span the globe in The Week That Was. *MB:Apples to oranges: Webb ran 3:46 solo.
LRC Why Can Soccer Stars Star In Commercials During The World Cup But Not Track And Field Stars During The Olympics? IOC Rule 40 Must Go!It’s time the IOC put the athletes’ interests first.

WJ Day 4

Day 4: LRC Men’s 5,000: Yomif Kejelcha And Yasin Haji Go 1-2 As Ethiopia Completes Gold/Silver Sweep Of 5ks Kejelcha put on a show at the end of this one, running his last 1,600 in 4:07 and breaking the race wide open before winning in 13:25. So good, he reminded us of Kenny B in 2008. Americans Colby Gilbert and Brian Barraza were 9th and 13th, respectively.

Day 4 Recap: US Dominates The Sprints Led By Trentavis Friday’s Barely Wind-Aided 20.04 200 Victory US’s Kaylin Whitney won the women’s 200 and Kendall Baisden the 400.
*Oregonian: Whitney Was Almost DQed For A False Start Before Winning 200 She got a “yellow card” for what looked like a false start, but ended up being an issue with her blocks.
Not Good:USATF Clerical Error Keeps US Shot Putter Aaliyah Pete Out Of World Junior Meet Shame on the IAAF for not bending the rules for what was clearly a human error. If Jamaica did this at Worlds next year with Usain Bolt would they really not let him race?
*MB: USATF drops the ball again!
RRW: Ethiopians Kejelcha, Haji Go One-Two In 5000m at WJC

Day 4 AM: LRCW 1,500/M 800 & Steeple: Alexa Efraimson & Elise Cranny Both Move On To Final; American Tre’tez Kinnaird Advances In 800, Bailey Roth Breaks US HS Record In Boys Steeple Efraimson and Cranny were both auto qualifiers to the final but medals are going to be far from easy. The 35-year-old record US HS boys steeple record fell.
*South Eugene HS Coach Jeff Hess Was On Site To Watch Bailey Roth Take Down His Steeple Record
*RRW: Worth The Wait: Bailey Roth Breaks 35-Year-Old USA H.S. Steeplechase Record
*RRW:Alexa Efraimson, Dawit Seyaum Advance On Day Four
*MB:Bailey Roth breaks 35 year old steeple HSR!
*MB:Alexa and Elise both Qualified for 1500 Final

Commonwealth Games Track Action Start Sunday

Wales’ 400 Hurdler And Team Co-Captain Rhys Williams Out Of CGs For Failing A Drug Test This is the second Welsh athlete to test positive in the lead-up to the CGs as did 800 runner Gareth Warburton.
*Former CG Medalist Christian Malcolm Defends Rhys Williams, Saying “He is always someone who’s been anti-drugs.” Are there any pros who are publicly pro-drugs?
Recommended Read:England’s Steve Way Used To Weigh 230 Pounds And Smoke 20 Cigarettes A Day; Now He’s A 2:16 Marathoner Way started running just go lose weight and get healthy, but got faster and faster and qualified for the CGs by being the 3rd Brit in London. Also, he’s 40 years old and works a 9-to-5 job while putting in 130-mile weeks.
Profile On England 2:31 Marathoner Alyson Dixon, Who’s In The Shape Of Her Life After Coming Back From Running 2011 Worlds With 3 Broken Bones In Her Foot
England’s Richard Kilty Hoping To “Shock” People In 100 As He Did When He Won The World Indoor 60
Athletics Weekly Previews
*Men: *Distance *Sprints *Jumps *Throws *Multis/Relays
*Women: *Distance *Sprints *Jumps *Throws *Multis/Relays

Ritz / Webb Updates

Dathan Ritzenhein Hopes To Race Within The Next Month As He Is Training At 85% As He Comes Back From His Sports Hernia He made the move back to his home state of Michigan last month. He says he won’t do a fall marathon, but probably a 10K or half.
Good Read:Alan Webb Talks About His “Dream Goal” Of Making The Olympics In The Triathlon And Explains The Process To Get There Some good stuff here from Webb and his wife about his tri training and his mile AR.

Previous World Junior News

MB:Official 2014 World Junior Discussion Thread

Day 2: LRC Women’s 5,000: Ethiopians Alemitu Heroye & Alemitu Hawi Go 1-2 And Crush The Field Heroye and Hawi used a 4:45 second 1,600 to break the field and ran away with this one, finishing 33 seconds ahead of the bronze medallist, Agnes Jebet Tirop of Kenya. Maggie Schmaedick of the USA & Oregon was 12th and missed her PR by less than a second.

100m:Upsets Take Place In Men’s And Women’s 100: HSer Kendal Williams, An FSU Commit, Beats NCAA Champ Trayvon Bromell Of Baylor As USA Goes 1-2 In Men’s 100 ; Great Britian’s Dina Asher-Smith Crushes Field And USA’s Kaylin Whitney, Who Got Bronze Williams was the only person in the field to set a PR into the headwind as he ran 10.21 to Bromell’s 10.28. Japan’s Yoshihide Kiryu was third in 10.34. On the girls side, the .16 margin of victory was the 2nd biggest in history as Whitney, who ran 11.10 at the US Trials, only ran 11.46. Asher-Smith, with a 11.14 PR, is no slouch.
*LA Daily News *IAAF Men’s Recap *IAAF Women’s Recap

Multis: Decathlon: Jiri Sykora Becomes 1st Czech Male Athlete To Win Gold, Does So With Championship Record Of 8135 Points
*After Totally Blowing It On Day 2 At World Youths Last Year, Great Britain’s Morgan Lake Turns A 2013 Failure Into A 2014 Heptathlon Title

Day 1: LRC M 10k: Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei Comes Back In The Final Lap To Win 1st Gold Of Games Over Kenya’s Elvis Cheboi Cheptegei, whose 27:56 PR was 34 seconds better than anyone else in the field, did all of the work after taking the lead from Japan’s Keisuke Nakatani just after four miles and he was rewarded with the victory. Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Mekonnen, who won the Dubai Marathon in 2:04 in January, was listed on the entries when they came out on Sunday but did not start. *RRW*IAAF
*MB:Kenyan press quotes David Monti saying of men’s 10k winner, “Is he (Cheptegei) really under 19?”
*Cool stuff: After Officials Recognized A Girl Was Falsely DQed In Girls 100, She Was Allowed To Run All By Herself After Boys 10k And Put Up 2nd-Fastest Time Of Meet

News From Tuesday

Yuriy Borzakovskiy – 2004 Olympic 800 champ – Retires
Usain Bolt Is Alive – Bolt Announces His 2014 Schedule After the 4 x 100 at CGs, he’s set to go at a number of races, including his DL debut in Zurich on Aug. 28.

We 100% Disagree: Usain Bolt: Cutting Tyson Gay Doping Ban “Sends Bad Message”‘ Bolt: “It is sending a bad message into the sport that you can do it, but if you co-operate with us we’ll reduce the sentence.” We wonder if they asked him about Asafa Powell. Doping is all about incentives. If there is no incentive to be honest about it, dopers will deny, deny, deny.
Yohan Blake’s Injury Was More Serious Than Thought – Glen Mills Says He’s Already Had Surgery And Will Be “Out For Quite A Long Time”

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”