– Shalane Flanagan talking about often being denied glory by cheater/doper Rita Jeptoo in a Toni Reavis piece. *LRC USA Women’s Preview *LRC International Women’s Preview *LRC USA Men’s Preview*LRC International Men’s Preview
FridayGood News/Bad News for Desi and Shalane’s American Chances We break down the women’s press day in terms of good news/bad news for the American women. Mare Dibaba is ready to go, so is Buzenesh Deba and nearly everyone we spoke too. And some words of wisdom, “Life is today. Tomorrow is a dream.”
LRC2016 Olympic Trials 2015 Boston Marathon American Women’s Preview: Can Flanagan, Linden Or Cragg End The American Drought? It’s been 30 years since an American woman won Boston. Can Shalane Flanagan, Desiree Linden or Amy (Hastings) Cragg follow in Meb’s footsteps and take the laurel wreath? We break down this preview of the Olympic Trials.
LRC2015 Boston Marathon International Women’s Preview 2014 Chicago champ Mare Dibaba leads the field, though she’ll be challenged by fellow sub-2:20 woman Buzunesh Deba, who would have set a course record last year if not for drug cheat Rita Jeptoo. World junior record holder Shure Demise Ware and former champs Caroline Kilel and Sharon Cherop will also be on the start line.
World Indoor Champ Richard Kilty Challenges Arsenal’s Theo Walcott And Hector Bellerin To £30,000 Race “(The media claims Hector Belleri) can run 4.42 over 40m. Absolutely no way. Are these journalists complete morons?”
*MB: Soccer player faster than Usain Bolt at 40m??
Words Of Wisdom From Shot Silver Medalist Christina Schwanitz
Olympic Spots Will Be On The Line At World Relays The top 8 finishers in the men’s and women’s 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 will qualify for the 2016 Games.
LRCEverything You Want to Know About the Boston Marathon Men’s Pro Field From Friday Guaranteed If you want to dominate your Boston office pool read this as we give you insight on just about everyone. Ritz is getting help from Greg Meyer and Hartmann, Tadese hopes to have figured out the marathon, Makau is ready, Tadese still looks great, not to mention Teg, Cabada and oh yeah a guy named Meb. Interviews and more.
LRC Analysis:Eugene Worlds 2021: Details And Three Quick Takes – USATF Thriving Under “Old School” Way Of Doing Business In a special vote, the IAAF decided to bypass the normal bidding process to give the 2021 championships to TrackTown USA. We break it down.
Boston On The MB:
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Kenneth Mungara took down Andres Espinosa's master's WR in the marathon, Ryan Hall lost another high school record to Webb, Kodiak, Alaska pop 6,423 has had 2 sub-8:50 2 milers, Jake Riley ran a tremendous race of an unspecified distance, and two reasons why you should never quit.
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.
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