Archived Homepage For March 31, 2015
Archived Homepage For March 31, 2015

Post-World XC *Results

 More Road Action 

Track Action In The USA *All NCAA Results

Other News

Week That Was

Bolt Is Back

Distance News

L-Carnitine

The Wall Street Journal Examines HyperthyroidismLRC Good News, Bad News: Everything You Want To Know About The Nike Oregon Project And L-Carnitine Injections The Sunday Times reported that Alberto Salazar ordered his Nike Oregon Project athletes thousands of dollars of L-Carnitine supplements and experimented with injecting L-Carnitine on coach Steve Magness. We break it down. *MB: Salazar, Farah, talk about use of L-carnitine, a legal supplement with 11% performance. gains

2015 EDP Lisbon Half Marathon *Results

Mo's Competitors Can't Stop Him, But The Tape Can (Must have been the adidas logo)

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

More From The Weekend

30th Carlsbad In The Books *Results*LRCPhoto Gallery

LRCGenzebe Dibaba (14:48) And Lawi Lalang (13:32) Take Home Titles At 2015 Carlsbad 5,000

Dibaba missed out on the world record (14:46) but was still very impressive, winning by 25 seconds. Lalang beat fellow Kenyan Wilson Too (13:35) for the men’s title, while Bernard Lagat was third in a world masters best of 13:40.
*Photo Gallery

 Another Sunday, Another NOP L-Carnitine Story 

LRCCorrection See Below: Sunday Times Says Alberto Salazar's Group May Have Inadvertently Broken Anti-Doping Rules With L-Carnitine Injections

Dathan Ritzenhein and Alvina Begay are the athletes who would appear to have broken the rules. Even more interesting is Salazar thought L-Carnitine would help Ritzenhein improve 2-3 minutes in the marathon. *Discuss Here

 International Track News 

Non-World XC Distance News

Doping And Other Negative Stuff

Gatlin And Nike Making Waves

Drug (Russian) News

Drug / Trial News

The Search For A Better Running Shoe

pegasus30LRCThe 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:

runningshoesurveyLRCThe 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.

3 World XC Getty Images Photo Galleries:
1) Pro Photos From Getty Images
2) NewRojo’s Women’s Photos
3) New Rojo’s Men’s Race Photos

More Doping Stuff

Good Read:Is It Time To Make Doping A Criminal Offence? Former UK Anti-Doping Head Michele Verroken Thinks So (LRC Is All For It) “Why should there be an an automatic freedom pass back into sport once a ban has ended?”

Olympic Stuff

 NCAA Stuff 

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