International Track/Road Results

• Usain Bolt Wins First 200 Of The Season With 20.20 In Jamaica He wasn’t thrilled with it, saying it didn’t feel smooth and he was hoping for under 20 seconds. 2nd place was Nesta Carter (20.60). Elaine Thompson ran a world lead in the women’s 100 with 10.92. *MB: Bolt runs 20.20
• Kenyan World Relay Trials In The Books: Asbel Kiprop, Olympic 800 Bronze Medalist Timothy Kitum And WJ Champ Alfred Kipketer Lead 30-Strong Squad In the men’s 4 x 400, Botswana beat Kenya by .01 with 3:04.87. On the women’s side, Nigeria dominated in 3:31.27 (Kenya was 3:35.83).
  *Women’s Squad Of Relative No-Names, With Eunice Sum And Janeth Jepkosgei Not Included AK head Isaiah Kiplagat seems to be sending a message as he said, “We cannot have people waiting to be added to the team because they are champions. We will take this largely unknown team and they will perform.”
• Gemma Steel And Japhet Korir Win Great Ireland Run 10K Steel beat Ireland’s Fionnuala Britton by 4 seconds while Korir won with 28:15 in windy conditions. Leonard Komon was back in 4th (28:28). *Full Results
  *Elite Mile Won By UK’s Johnny Hay In 4:12 As Mark English Drops Out At 1,200
  *Fionnula Britton Says She’ll Skip 2015 World Champs To Focus On Marathon Training

2015 Rotterdam And Paris Are Sunday Morning (Saturday Night West Coast) *Streaming Info / Watch Live

LRC Can Reid Coolsaet Break The 40-Year-Old Canadian Marathon Record (2:10:09) In Rotterdam? Coolsaet has run 2:10:55 and Jerome Drayton‘s record has to go at some point, doesn’t it?

LRC Spring Marathon Season Is Here – 2015 Rotterdam And Paris Women’s Marathon Previews Two-Time Chicago Champ Atsede Bayisa headline in Paris – Rotterdam is barely worth mentioning.

LRC Men’s Marathon Previews – Bernard Koech Goes For Win In Rotterdam, Which Is Almost Of WMM Quality Is Rotterdam worthy of WMM Status? Rotterdam has four men who’ve run sub-2:05 and eight men who have gone sub-2:07, including last year’s runner-up Bernard Koech and ’11 WC bronze medalist Feyisa Lilesa. Paris is wide open as 13 men have broken 2:08; 12:51/26:51 man Vincent Chepkok will also run in his 2nd career marathon.

• IAAF Preview Of Paris *IAAF Preview Of Rotterdam
• IAAF Preview Of Vienna: Defending Champ Getu Feleke Wants 2:04, Caroline Chepkwony Anna Hahner Won Last Year In 2:28:59
• 2015 Milan Marathon Preview

*Cherry Blossom 10 Miler *Watch Live On Sunday At 7:10 AM ET

• Watch USATF.tv Broadcast Of Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile Run On Sunday At 7:10am ET With Jen Rhines, Serena Burla, Girma Mecheso, Jared Ward, Luke Puskedra
• Stephen Sambu, Mary Wacera Headline International Fields At 2015 Cherry Clossom 10 Miler (Bios For All Athletes)

• Arcadia (The Stanford Of HS Distance Running) Is Fri. /Sat.: 10 Must-See Races 20 boys broke 9:00 last year.
• Jesse Squire: This Week’s Best Matchups Harvard vs. Yale and Cal vs. Stanford make the list.
• USTFCCCA Weekend Preview
• Oregon’s One-And-Done Transfer Will Geoghegan (Dartmouth) Is Doing More Than Getting Third At NCAAs – He’s Also Tutoring The Ducks
• Austrian 1:46 Man Niki Franzmair (The One Getting Tutored) Loves Running For The Ducks
• Andrew Wheating’s Free Coaching Advice – Don’t Listen To Audio Books Or Stand-Up Comedy On Your IPod While You Run
• Q&A With NCAA Mile Champ Leah O’Connor Her three goals for outdoors are “happy, healthy and fast.”
• Q&A With Colorado 1,500 Runner Jake Hurysz
• Tracktown USA Feature On Arizona State NCAA Champs Shelby Houlihan And Bryan McBride Houlihan, who is from Iowa, fell in love with ASU because she hates winter.
  *MB: Louis Q on Houlihan: I think she’s very similar to Jenny Simpson in that she can run everything from the 800 to the 5k.
• Profile Of UF Coach Mike Holloway, Who Is Very Thankful Lyle Knudson Hired Him Way Back In 1986

Boston Is Coming – A Week From Monday

• Running Times Catches Up With Matt Tegenkamp, Jeffrey Eggleston, Nick Arciniaga And Fernando Cabada Before Boston Can one of them break 2:10? Teg: “The message from (NYC Half) is that I can run 10 miles with Meb and Dathan, who’ll be in Boston.”
• Amy Cragg (Hastings) Says Her Training Is Much Farther Along Than Last Fall When She Was 5th In Chicago
• Boston Marathon Contender Dathan Ritzenhein Has Been Getting Advice From Former Boston Champ (And Neighbor) Greg Meyer About His Boston Debut
• Next Saturday: Molly Huddle (Defending Champ) And Ben True (2-Time Champ) Will Headline Next Saturday’s BAA 5k – LetsRun.com True will face Sambu and Lalang.
• Past Boston Champs – Morio Shigematsu (JPN, 1965), Jaqueline Gareau (CAN, 1980), Geoff Smith (GBR, 1984 And 1985), Greg Meyer (USA, 1983), Lorraine Moller (NZL, 1984), And Lisa Rainsberger (1985) – Will Run BAA 5k – LetsRun.com Joan Samuelson, Gelindo Bordin and Amby Burfoot will run the full 26.2.
• Morgan Uceny, Gabe Grunewald And Chris O’Hare Will Headline BAA Mile Next Saturday

2015 IAAF World Relays Are At The End Of The Month – Good News And Bad News

• Justin Gatlin Commits To World Relay Champs – Track Fans Will Get To See Him Clash With Bolt!
• David Rudisha Opts Out Of World Relays We guess we could have broken this story as the date of his previously-announced 600m WR attempt in Ostrava is the same day as the Relays.
• Good News USA Fans: Eunice Sum, Janeth Jepkosgei And Mercy Cherono Are “Kicked Out” Of Kenya’s IAAF World Relays team We’re not sure if we’d use the words “kicked out” like the paper, but they won’t be going as they didn’t attend the first trials. A stupid decision by Kenya, who should just hand the 4 x 800 gold to USA now. Asbel Kiprop Will Be Biggest Star At Kenya’s Relay Trials
• Teams From Botswana, Nigeria And South Africa Are Competing In 4 X 400 At Kenya’s World Relays Trials

Other Marathon News

• Last Year’s Boston Runner-Up Says He Thought Meb Was The Rabbit
  *MB: 2014 Boston runner-up on Meb: “I thought he was a pacesetter … I lost the title last year to an Eritrean turned American”
• Rick Hoyt Will Compete In 2015 Boston Marathon Once Again, But A Local Dentist, Not His 74-Year-Old Father, Will Be Pushing Dick Hoyt retired after last year’s race at age 73.
  *Dick Hoyt Will Be Grand Marshall
• MB: Health experts urge runners not to train for 2015 London Marathon on Friday (no joke)
• Sub-Two Marathon Might Fall In London On July 19th (In 4-Person Relay) Good luck. You have to average 28:26 per 10k to get it.
• Distance: Fionnuala Britton Aiming To Finally Triumph At Great Ireland Run On Saturday WC silver medalist Valeria Straneo is the favorite for the women. Leonard Komon and Japhet Korir headline the men’s field.
• Peter Kirui, Nicholas Kemboi And Emily Chebet Are Running Hapalua, Hawaii’s Half Marathon, On Sunday

More Sprint News

• Great News: Yohan Blake “Says “Training Is Going Really Well” And He Wants To Double At Jamaican Champs We’ll soon find out if this is true or just an attempt to get the appearance fees for Blake, who has missed most of the last two years due to injury, back up.
• Michael Johnson Just Finished Filming A New Nike commercial, Will Wear Golden Shoes
• South African Cornel Fredericks Has Injured Achilles, Out 4-6 Weeks, Won’t Compete In South African Champs The 48.14 400H man is medal threat if healthy.
• One We Missed: 2015 Stawell Gift Was Last Weekend In Australia – Race Recap Murray Goodwin, the son of a former Aussie 800 champ, got the men’s win as Grace O’Dwyer, the daughter of a former runner-up, won the women’s title.
• China’s 17-Year-Old Wu Yuang Runs 47.33 400m He ran 48.40 indoors as a 16-year-old this winter.

The Boston Marathon Is Coming

• Q&A With Former WR Holder Patrick Makau, Who Talks About His Marathon Buildups, Including Mileage And Hill Work Makau has ambitions of eventually getting back his marathon WR.
  *5 Things You Didn’t Know About Makau Before he ran marathons, he started off digging boreholes to bring water and electricity to his community in Kenya.
• Q&A With Joyce Chepkirui Ahead Of The Boston Marathon Her marathon PR is only 2:30, but she has a 66:19 in the half. She’s also cousins with Geoffrey Mutai.
• Carrie Tollefson Does Quick Video Interview With Meb Keflezighi
• Champions Return For Boston 2015: Joan Samuelson, Lisa Rainsberger, Gelindo Bordin, Amby Burfoot Among Those To Run Boston Marathon, While Six Champions To Race In B.A.A. 5K

Boston Bombing Trial Updates

• Jurors Begin Deliberating Charges Against Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev After Lawyers Make Their Closing Arguments
  *Victims Present In Court For Closing Arguments
• Oops: Running Times Published A Poorly-Phrased Tweet Last Week About Finishing The Boston Marathon “In One Piece” It didn’t get the best reaction on Twitter as the Boston bombing trial is going on, but it was swiftly deleted.