April 28, 2015 | LetsRun.com

More Weekend Distance Results

On The Roads: Former World XC Champ Japhet Korir Wins 10K In Würzburg In 27:47 While Caroline Chepkemoi Wins Women’s Race In 32:36 James Rungara wins half in Nice, France in 60:12; Ednah Kimaiko wins women’s race in 70:45.
Japan Running News Weekend Track Round-Up: Kenyan William Malel Runs World-Leading 27:42 10,000
Elisha Barno Wins Kentucky Derby Festival Half Marathon In 1:01:44 Pius Nyantika was 2nd in 1:01:46. Askale Merachi won the women’s race (72:08) while HS pro Alana Hadley ran for 3rd (1:18:43).
Yuki Kawauchi Wins Sado Toki Half Marathon In 66:14
IAAF Recap: Kenya And South Africa Impress At African Youth Championships The 3,000 titles were taken by (a different) Emily Chebet (9:10) and Davies Kiplangat (7:56).
Adam Roach And Malia Crouse Win Big Sur International Marathon

Post London News

Wilson Kipsang Says Eliud Kipchoge Beat Him Because He Has More Fat “Towards the last kilometre, Eliud was a bit stronger than me because I couldn’t resist the cold. Since I have less fat, it was not easy to resist such a pace in such conditions …”
Eliud Kipchoge: “A champion is not made when he succeeds, a champion is made when you look back at the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months he has spent preparing.”
Tigist Tufa Will Use Her $70,000 In Prize Money To Buy A Car And Help Her Family
Kipchoge Plans Low-Key Celebrations In Kenya “I’ve won races a lot over the last couple of years and I am a low-key person so there will be no big celebrations.”
Some Bizarre Events / Costumes From The London Marathon
*More Crazy Costumes From London
The Telegraph: “Why The Best Sports Stars Struggle To Retire” We’re glad Paula Radcliffe got to go out with one last run.
How Did Celebrities Do At The London Marathon
Video: Runner Stops To Propose To His Girlfriend During The London Marathon

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Non-London Road Action

Despite Fall, Annie Bersagel Wins Dusseldorf Marathon In New PR Of 2:28:29 Marius Ionescu of Romania won the men’s race in 2:13:19.
Lucas Rotich (2:07:17) And Meseret Hailu (2:25:41) Win Hamburg Marathon Titles
Ethiopia’s Hayle Lemi Berhanu Takes Warsaw Marathon In 2:07:57 As Top 6 Finish Within 32 Seconds Of Each Other Ethiopian Fatuma Sado won the women’s race in 2:26:25.
Kenya’s Ezekiel Kiptoo Chebii (2:12:00) And Monica Jepkoech (2:33:42) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Madrid Marathon
Kenyans Ernest Ngeno (2:11:47) And Helena Kiprop (2:31:36) Win Yellow River Estuary Marathon In China

2015 Drake Relays Results Friday Results On 1 Page *Des Moines Reg Special Section

Saturday: LRC Leo Manzano Turns The Tables On Matthew Centrowitz, Wins Men’s Mile At Drake AJ Acosta was third.

IAAF: Jasmin Stowers Highlights Non-Distance Action With 12.40 100H Win Over Dawn Harper Nelson PV WR holder Renaud Lavillenie only finished 3rd as Sam Kendricks and Shawn Barber tied for 1st. Francena McCorory ran a 50.13 WL 400, ahead of Sanya Richards-Ross by almost a full second. Will Claye got a WL in the TJ.
*Saturday Quotes

Friday: LRC Ajee Wilson Takes Down Brenda Martinez For $20,000, King James Beats Michael Johnson’s Meet Record, Loyola (Ill) Upsets Arkansas

Full Coverage

Jamaican Sprint Stuff

Usain Bolt Trying To Improve His Fitness Through Diet “I haven’t had KFC for about four months, which is killing me.”
Ato Boldon Interviews Yohan Blake, Who Says That Training Is Going Well In 2015 As He Comes Back From Injury “I love the sport. You really feel the weight when you’re watching from the stands when you know you can be out there winning a medal.”

Feature On Anthony Rotich’s Quest For 3rd Straight NCAA Crown He’d be only the 3rd man in history to win 3 straight. He wants to open at sub-8:30 next week at Stanford.

Feel-Good Post-Boston Stories

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.

Photo Galleries: London Boston *BAA 5k American Records

Training Talk

Interesting Look At The Difference In Training Between Sprint- And Endurance-Based 800 Runners Includes quotes and example workouts from Phobe Wright (sprint/speed) and Heather Kampf (endurance/strength).
Running Form Analysis Of The Elites At The Boston Marathon Could have some small arm swing changes have changed the outcome of the race?

IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With TJ World Champ Caterine Ibarguen In this interview series, she’s probably the 100th athlete to name “herself” for the question about her “greatest rival.” However, in this case we think it was the right answer since she hasn’t been beaten since 2012.

2015 Virgin Money London Marathon Results Video Highlights

Men LRC London Lives Up To The Hype As Eliud Kipchoge Takes Down Wilson Kipsang In Final Mile To Win In 2:04:42 (updated with QTs) This one was packed with drama as with 5 miles to go, it was down to the Big Three of Kipchoge, Kipsang and WR holder Dennis Kimetto plus ’14 runner-up Stanley Biwott. After a 4:33 25th mile, it was Kipchoge vs. Kipsang and after a 4:33 26th mile, Kipchoge was the winner – Kipsang finally breaking with 800 to go.

LRC Did You Miss The Break In The Men’s Race At The 2015 London Marathon? The Mystery Behind The One Minute Of Missing TV Coverage Explained

London On The Boards:

Bruce Jenner Sex Change

Bruce Jenner Says His “Brain Is More Female Than It Is Male” Jenner talks about reaction from his family, not being gay, and sexual reassignment surgery. “I’m not this bad person. I’m just doing what I have to do.”
Bruce Jenner: “For all intents and purposes, I’m a woman.”
Bruce Jenner Interview Gets “Mixed Bag” Of Reactions
Billie Jean King To Bruce Jenner: “We learn from you to be courageous.”

Sprint Drama: Bolt Calls Out Gay

Usain Bolt Has Harsh Words For Tyson Gay; Says He Thinks Gay Should Be “Kicked Out Of The Sport” “It really bothers me. … I think it’s because I respected him so much over the years. He was a competitor, kept me on my toes … Then to find out that he was on drugs – it’s a bit like I think parents must feel when they have a kid who does something bad and lets them down.”
Justin Gatlin Says Tyson Gay Deserves Second Chance After Doping Ban “Everyone should give a second chance, but everyone is also entitled to their opinion.” Gatlin also has some good quotes about retirement/getting the most out of his career.
Usain Bolt And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Lead Jamaican Team For World Relay Champs

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

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

NCAA Stuff

Blogger Defends Edward Cheserek’s 4 X Mile Tactics: “The Leader’s Dilemma”
Ken Goe: “Count the Penn Relays 4 x Mile as a lesson learned for the Oregon Ducks.”
Top NCAA Marks In Each Event From The Weekend
Teams Shift Dramatically In Updated D1 Rankings: Texas A&M Men Stay #1, But Southern California Women Move To #1 As Texas A&M Drops To 9th
USTFCCCA: Clarification On Demi Payne’s Collegiate Pole Vault Record Long story short, it counts even though it broke some random rules.

London Women Results Video Highlights

Women LRC Forget About Kenyan “Fantastic Four;” Ethiopia And Tigist Tufa Reign Supreme In London The “Fantastic Four” and “Fabulous Five” got all the pre-race love but Tufa, a 25-1 longshot, was patient this time and got the win over Mary Keitany in 2:23:22.

Paula Radcliffe's Final Competitive Marathon Paula Radcliffe Has Emotional Goodbye To Competive Running Video of Paula’s finish, interview with her, and article. Recommended read/watch.

LRC Video Highlights Of 2015 London Marathon
*RRW: Recap *IAAF

Payton Jordan Is This Weekend But NOP Won’t Be There *Entries

MB: This 2015 Payton Jordan Entry List IS STACKED!! ~~Rupp in the 5k!!~~
MB: NOP pulls out of Payton Jordan
MB: ~~Cain~~ vs Cranny vs Efraimson Payton Jordan

Irish Opinion Piece: Martin Fagan Has Served His Time, But Rio Appearance Would Insult Clean Athletes Fagan recently ran a 2:16:09 marathon in Zurich and so far is the only Irishman with the Olympic standard. Having him on the line in 2016 doesn’t sit well with this author, though.

2015 Penn Relays Schedule / Start Lists / Results TV / Streaming

MB: Official 2015 Penn Relays Live Discussion Thread

Saturday: LRC Villanova’s Jordan Williamsz Takes Down Oregon’s Edward Cheserek In Riveting But Bizarre Men’s 4 X Mile At 2015 Penn Relays The opening legs were hot. The Penn Relays record was within striking distance. A 3:55 would equal a sub-16. The winning time was 16:18. We tell you what happened.

LRC Georgia Tech (Men) And Villanova (Women) Win 4 X 800 Titles

IAAF: USA Men Show Off Slick Baton Passes To Win Penn Relays 4 X 100 Over Jamaica

Friday: LRC Villanova’s Jordan Williamsz Made Him Work For It, But In The End, Oregon And Edward Cheserek Win The Men’s DMR Williamsz got the stick one second down but only ran .50 faster than King Ches.
*Phillly.com: Williamsz On Ches: “He’s good, man. He’s real good.”

LRC Stanford Women Win Women’s 4 X 1,500 Title At 2015 Penn Relays After Elise Cranny Breaks Things Open On Leg #3

LRC Full Coverage

News From Europe

BBC Sport – Jo Pavey: Thyroid Medicine Use Among Athletes “Unethical”
*MB: Jo Pavey slams the Nike Oregon Project for thyroid Use
Racism Accusations Force Stockholm Marathon Prize Money U-Turn Meanwhile, American races often offer “American only” prize money all the time.
*MB: Stockholm Marathon will not give prize money to an east african if they win the race.
Recommended Read: Fascinating Talk With The Woman Who Invented The Jogbra 38 Years Ago The prototype was two jockstraps sewn together. The Jockbra soon became the Jogbra.
*MB: Jogbra was invented 38 years ago, what the hell did women do before then?

Eugene 2021

Nice Editorial By Indy Star’s David Woods On USA Getting Worlds 2021 “Should bidding have been open? Yes. Should a bigger city be holding the first outdoor worlds on U.S. soil? Yes. But Eugene and USATF, you should apologize for nothing.”
Editorial On Eugene 2021: “Premeditated Murder Or Suicide?” Italy’s Luciano Barra is not happy the IAAF chose Eugene without open bidding and writes, “What about credibility and transparency? Who can financially afford the IAAF system and their requests? Who will trust the system?”

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”