2015 Virgin Money London Marathon Is Sunday *Women’s Preview *Men’s Preview

*Full London Coverage In Our Special Section New: How To Watch London Without Knowing The Results

2015 Drake Relays *Schedule / Start Lists / Results *Friday Results On 1 Page *TV / Streaming *Meet Website *Des Moines Reg Special Section

Friday: LRC Ajee Wilson Takes Down Brenda Martinez For $20,000, King James Beats Michael Johnson’s Meet Record, Loyola (Ill) Upsets Arkansas Ajee Wilson showed why she’s America’s best hope for distance gold in Beijing, Kirani James impressed, LaShawn Merritt didn’t, Aleec Harris remained undefeated, Bershawn Jackson is back, Derek Drouin still likes Drake, and Loyola of Illinois pulled the upset in the 4 x 800.

• Friday Results
  
• Saturday: MB: 2:48 pm ET Today: 2015 Drake Relays Mile – Who Wins and Will Alan Webb’s 3:51.71 Record Go Down? Leo vs. Centro.
• Thursday: Kirubel Erassa Gets The Job Done As OK State Wins 4 X 1,600s At Drake The Cowboys ran 16:19.47 while the women won in a meet record of 18:58.11.
• Stephanie Jenks Starts Triple With 9:33.81 Win In 3k
  
• Full Coverage

2015 Virgin Money London Marathon Is Sunday – Set Your Alarm Clocks Now! – Fantasy Marathoning Becomes Reality *Women’s Preview *Men’s Preview

LRC Who Are The Favorites For 2015 London? Betting Odds And LetsRun.com Fan Poll Results

LRC  Women’s Preview: “Fantastic Four” Lead A Great Field Former champs Mary Keitany, Priscah Jeptoo and Edna Kiplagat and HM WR holder Florence Kiplagat take on Dubai champ Aselefech Mergia and 2014 World #1, Tirfi Tsegaye.

LRC Men’s Preview: Kipsang, Kimetto And Kipchoge Lead The Greatest Marathon Field Ever (Again) This race is LOADED. The winners of last fall’s three major marathons – world record holder Dennis Kimetto (Berlin), Eliud Kipchoge (Chicago) and Wilson Kipsang (NYC) –  four sub-2:04 men and eight sub-2:05 men (both the most ever in one race). Plus 2:03 guys Geoffrey and Emmanuel Mutai.

Latest News

• Undefeated Since Childbirth, Mary Keitany Eyes Win #3 In London
• Edna Kiplagat Welcomes Tougher Drug Tests
• Geoffrey Mutai Comes Into London As A Hungry Darkhorse
• Dave Bedford Thinks Kipsang Is Favorite: “Wilson Kipsang Could Well Be The Best Marathon Runner We’ve Seen In 10 Years.”
• Kipsang Singles Out Kimetto As His Biggest Threat: “I’m expecting a big challenge from Dennis.”
• Wilson Kipsang, Dennis Kimetto And Geoffrey Mutai Are All Great Friends Despite Being Rivals
• Toni Reavis Thinks Sports Is Overly Obsessed With Rabbits We 100% agree.

More London In Our London Special Section

Doping Updates

• Full Original Uncut Interview With Russian Whistleblower Vitaliy Stepanov
• Kenya “Open Minded” On IAAF’s Appeal To Increase Rita Jeptoo’s Drug Ban
• Delusional? Russian Sports Official Says Doping In Russia Is No Worse Than Rest Of Europe Vitaly Mutko: “We are ready to invite foreign experts for each step of the anti-doping procedure even for several years to end all these doubts and claims made about our country so we can cooperate in good faith.”
• French Racewalker Bertrand Moulinet Confesses To EPO Use After Testing Positive

World Relay Championships Are Next Week

• USATF Announces Relay Pools For 2015 World Relay Championships The DMRs will be Andrew Wheating, Kyle Merber, Ben Blankenship, Brandon Johnson and Treniere Moser, Shannon Rowbury, Ajee Wilson, Gabe Grunewald.
• Poland Names Full Teams For 2015 World Relays: Adam Kszczot And Marcin Lewandowski Lead The Way
• UK Names Squad For World Relays; Will Send Men’s And Women’s 4 X 100 And 4 X 400 The bare minimum with no distance runners.
• Hosts Bahamas Reveal Their Team For World Relay Champs: Led By 4 X 400 Olympic Champions

The Search For A Better Running Shoe

LRC The Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30 Thousands 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:

LRC The Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running Shoe The 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.