– Coach Gabriela Nicola talking about 19-year-old Ethiopian Shure Demise Ware, who is racing Boston after making her marathon debut in late January with 2:20:59. Nicola said Ware hadn’t had a “full preparation,” but in Africa, if they are in shape they want to race and capitalize it while they can.
Updated, with quotes and analysisas the two Saucony-based athletes got the AR at a “hometown” race. Marc Davis was on hand to see his record go down. *Ben True Vid *Molly Huddle Vid
Ethiopians Dejen Gebremeskel And Dawit Seyaum Win BAA Invitational Mile Seyaum ran 4:35 as Heather Kampf (4:37.0) and Morgan Uceny (4:37.7) were a close 2-3. Gebremeskel won easily in 4:04.1 as Chris O’Hare was 2nd (4:07.0). *Results
*LRC Video Interviews: Dejen Gebremeskel, Heather Kampf, Morgan Uceny, Chris O’Hare
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 to. 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.
LRC 2015 Boston Marathon American Men’s Preview: Can Meb Keflezighi Shock The World Again? For the first time in 31 years, an American enters Boston as the defending champion. If Meb can’t repeat, can Ritz, Teg, Eggleston, Arciniaga, Cabada or anyone else from the US of A shock the world?
LRC 2015 Boston Marathon International Men’s Preview: Which Of These Men Will Snap The American Win Streak At One? 2013 champ Lelisa Desisa and former world record holder Patrick Makau (2:03:38 PR) are the headliners, but there’s depth behind them with five sub-2:05 men overall and five more sub-2:07 + HM world record holder Zersenay Tadese (58:23).
More Men’s News On Chebet: “I have polished what it needed to be done.” … Ritz “I have under-prepared just to stay healthy.” … Meb “… is the frosting on the cake.” And Cabada In Our Boston Special Section
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.
Mary Cain Gets Beaten By Annie Leblanc 4:16.17 To 4:17.91(discuss) Leblanc is an Oregon junior who did not make NCAAs indoors this year but has run 2:04 in the past. The importance of Cain’s outdoor season only got even bigger.Ken Goe has article on the race here that has quotes from Leblanc. More Pepsi Relays and Mt. SAC below.
Listen To / Download Friday’s LetsRun.com’s Toni Reavis’ Runner’s Digest Radio Show LRC’s Rojo was at the Tracksmith popup shop in Boston for the first time and the crew discussed what they learned at Friday’s Boston Marathon pro media day.
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.
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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.
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.
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