– Mo Farah speaking after winning the Rock ‘n’ Roll Lisbon Half Marathon in 59:32, where he he got tangled and fell on the finish line tape.
LRCMo Farah Comes From Behind To Win Lisbon Half In European Record Of 59:32! (And Sprawls To The Ground Over Finishing Tape) (updated with recap/analysis) Half way into the race, Farah was dropped from the lead pack, but he hung tough and got the super-impressive win in 59:32 over Micah Kogo. Rose Chelimo won the women’s race in 1:08:22.
*IAAF Recap
LRCOfficial 2015 EDP Lisbon Half Marathon Live Discussion Thread
Olympians Share Their Insecurities Online: Lolo Jones Is Insecure About Her Butt, Her Breast Size And That She Doesn’t Have An Olympic Medal Full list of Olympians including Sanya Richards-Ross here.
The Telegraph’s List Of The “Ten Greatest Living Sportsmen And Women In The UK”: Roger Bannister And Decathlete Daley Thompson Make The Cut Not much of a list considering there is only 1 woman (in sailing?) and a horse jockey.
Video From The Weekend: Usain Bolt Wins 400 In Jamaica In 46.37
RRW Huddle Wins United Airlines NYC Half In Course Record 1:08:31, Leonard Korir Outleans Stephen Sambu Andrew Bumbalough was the first American in his debut in 1:02:04, Ritz ran 1:02:07, and Meb 1:02:17. *Results
*LRCNYC Half Photo Gallery Here
LRC Jared Ward (2:12:55) And Blake Russell (2:34:57) Win 2015 US Marathon Championships As Both Finish 3rd Overall At Asics LA
*LRCPost-Race Interview With Jared Ward
*LRCPost-Race Interview With Matt Llano
*MB:Official Thread
*MB: Ryan Hall DNFs at LA. Will he ever run a good marathon again?
*ESPN.com: LA Marathon Notebook: Kenyans Sweep; Ward Wins U.S. Title; Hall Drops Out
Saturday: Ben True, Amy Hastings Win US 15k Champs At Gate River Run (US 15K Champs) Recap from Jacksonville paper. *Results *Discuss
Totally Shameful: USATF Board Votes 12-1 To Keep Hightower As IAAF Council Nominee As Some Talk Impeachment Ken Stone with a nice recap in the San Diego paper as the USATF Board showed it does not give a shit what its members think, only about itself. Be outraged. *Discuss Here
LRC The Story Behind The Alaskan Flip-Off: The 2013 LRC Photo Of The Year
LRC What’s Your 2014 Running Photo Of The Year? Have you taken a photo or seen a photo that could be the running photo of the year (2014 until now)*. Submit or tweet your entries to us. Winner and/or person who tells us of winner wins $100.
LRCThe Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30Thousands of you filled out our detailed running shoe survey in the fall and more of you ran in the Nike Pegasus+30 than any other shoe. Only problem is all of you need to find a new shoe, help us out below:
LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running ShoeThe running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it with data. We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews from you on the latest shoes.
5,000s A Night To Remember For American 5,000m As Emily Sisson And Eric Jenkins Capture First NCAA Titles The futures of American seniors Eric Jenkins and Emily Sisson look very bright as they both got their first NCAA titles in the 5,000m.
*MB: Props to Sisson for more than just winning
*Jenkins’ 5k, Historically
DMRs 2015 King Cheserek Is Magnificent And So Is Arkansas’ Dominique Scott Over Frosh Elise CrannyElise Cranny made Dominique Scott run her best to beat her as Arkansas repeated as DMR champs. Edward Cheserek and the Oregon coaches were able to celebrate the final straight of this one.
*MB: DMR mile legs were scared of KING CHES!!!! –
LRC Shawn Barber Goes 19’4″ In Pole Vault, Trayvon Bromell Becomes #3 Fastest Person (Counting Pros) Ever At 200m Indoors Video of the 19’4″ jump.
*AP Recap Of Day 1: Marquis Dendy Goes 27′-2, Michael Lihrman Produces WT Record Of 80’10.25″
*Dendy Won By .25 Over Arkansas’ Jarrion Lawson
*Barber Had “Good Looks” At 6.0m
*PV Record Progression The record hadn’t been broken since 1999, now Barber has broken it 4 times in 2 months.
*After Getting DQed In 60, Trayvon Bromell Runs 20.23 To Break MJ’s School Record
LRC Is It The Socks? Cristian Soratos Reveals He First Wore Sonic The Hedgehog Socks When He Ran His 3:56.87 Mile Equivalent
LRC Remembering LRCer Van TownsendThe running world lost one of its bright lights this week with the death of Van Townsend.
*MB: RIP Van Townsend: Share Your Respects Here
We take one more look at Jenkins vs. Cheserek and our first at Jenkins vs. Rupp and Solinsky and Leah O'Connor vs. Simpson and Coburn. Plus a look at the worst cross-country coach in America, whether Ryan Hall went out too fast, and Ryan Gregson and Andrew Wheating.
M3,000 LRCEric Jenkins Takes Down Edward Cheserek For NCAA Title #2 – Or Did Cheserek Let Him Win? Two hours after we wondered if Edward Cheserek would ever lose another NCAA race, Cheserek lost, but was it on purpose? This one will be debated forever.
MB: That was F***ing awesome – Oregon Civil War – Jenkins FTW!! Edward Cheserek is human!! (Wait: Ches says he let Jenkins win!)
MMile LRCCristian Soratos Goes For It But Edward Cheserek Runs 2:19 Last 1k To Win Men’s Mile The reigning NCAA XC and 10,000 champ was unfazed by a mid-race 53 second 400 and got the win by running the 2nd fastest 1k in NCAA history. #unfair
WMile LRC Leah O’Connor Of Michigan State Sets NCAA Meet Record In Women’s Mile Shelby Houlihan broke the old NCAA mark as well but lost as O’Connor was spectacular.
W3,000: LRC What A Night: Arkansas’ Dominique Scott Wins NCAA Individual Title, Team Title And Gets Engaged
3k Race RecapScott Pulls Away from Stud Frosh Elise Cranny To Close Out A Perfect Weekend Dominique Scott won her first individual NCAA title in convincing fashion over Elise Cranny.
800s Natoya Goule (2:01.64 MR) & Edward Kemboi (1:46.05) Win Fast 800s Goule broke the meet record and Kemboi ran faster than anyone else had at NCAAs in 14 years as the 800 action was fast.
AP Recap Of NCAA Indoors In addition to all the action above Kendell Williams broke her NCAA record in the pentathlon.
Distance Runners Usher Oregon’s Dominant Ducks To The Men’s NCAA Indoor Title Ken Goe of the Oregonian recaps the Ducks win.
Nate Houle had it all: a beautiful wife, wonderful son, and his dream job coaching track at his alma mater Southern Utah University (Cam Levins' school, Nate was Cam's teammate). Then, in the span of five months, he lost his job, and was diagnosed with a rare cancer. Rather than make Nate bitter, the cancer has given Nate a new appreciation for life and God's plan for him. That makes him our Runner of the Month.
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