– Mark Twain talking a long time ago. His actually quote said “suffering” instead of injuries but Matt Tucker thinks the quote is perfect for running if you just replace that one word. We agree.
LRCThey Did It Again: USATF And Its Board Think Doper Dennis Mitchell Is The Best Man In America To Coach Team USA Shameful, but the USATF Board has shown it is out of touch. Jakob Larsen, Danish Athletic President, says it best, “I don’t get it – should be possible to find another skilled relay coach in the US.Wonder how the US athletes feel about it?”
MDMR LRCThis One Should Be Crazy Fun – With No Asbel Kiprop, The U.S. Has A Shot In A Wide-Open Race(updated with info on Jeff Riseley) The US has a shot for gold but so does Australia, Germany, Kenya and Poland. Can ‘Nova’s Jordan Williamsz stun the world like he stunned Cheserek last week?
*Asbel Kiprop Shoots Down Rumor He Skipped World Relays To Retaliate Against AK For Suspending His Agent “I felt slight pain in my hamstring like the one I had before London. This time, I decided not to risk seeing what happened at the Olympics and I informed the coaches and left camp to go to my doctor.”
WDMR LRC With Possibly The Best Runners On All 4 Legs, The U.S. Women Are Set To Dominate The DMR With Ajee Wilson and Shannon Rowbury at the end, no one should be able to stop the USA – not even the World Record.
IAAF Previews: *W 4 X 100 *W 4 X 200 *W 4 X 400 *W 4 X x800 *W DMR *M 4 X 100 *M 4 X 200 *M 4 X 400 *M 4 X x800
Vic Holchak Has Passed At Age 74 Credentialed as an Olympic journalist at age 16, he went on an television acting career but always loved track and was loved by the founders of LetsRun.com for being the voice of 1-800-94-Track .
Women LRCForget 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 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
W4 X 800:LRCThe U.S. Has A Great Chance To Defend Its Crown The US is the most dominant 800 nation in the world. Want proof? We’ve got it.
M4 X 8: LRC Men’s 4 X 800: Can The U.S. (Or Poland) Upset Favored Kenya? Can Team USA upset Team Kenya, which nearly coughed up a huge lead last year? If you were the Team USA coach, who would you anchor? Robby Andrews or Duane Solomon?
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.
What a week it was with London, Boston, Drake and Penn. Annie LeBlanc kept rolling at Penn, we’ve got an excuse for Zersenay Tadese, we tell you why so many of you hate sit and kick races, talk Larry the Legend‘s underwater treadmill, masters doping and more.
*DailyRelay’s Penn And Drake Recap
*DailyRelay’s 26 Thoughts On The 2015 London Marathon
*10 Reasons Why The Drake Relays Are Popular
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.
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.
London On The Boards:
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