– Justin Gatlin explaining why he doesn’t expect Usain Bolt will be willing to line up against him before the World Championships in August. We wish the track world didn’t work like this (the best so often dodging each other), but it is the truth.
What a week it was: Matthew Maton became the 6th high school sub-4, Haile Gebrselassie ended a tremendous career that was 7 years longer than LetsRun.com, Bernard Lagat tied an American record and set a masters world record, 4 state 2-mile records fell in one race, and Emily Sisson nearly lapped the entire Big East.
Marcus' twitter feed in the last day was that of someone crying out for help and he tweeted "there is going to be a suicide in the school right now" but a campus police officer who spotted him with a gun could not prevent him from taking his life. If you are considering suicide, please don't do it. Help is a phone call away: 1-800-273-8255 or via chat.
Business Insider’s List Of “50 Most Dominant Athletes Alive” Renaud Lavillenie (#47), Genzebe Dibaba (#13) and Usain Bolt (#5) make the cut.
The World Relays are gone until 2017, Stanford is in the books until next year, we take a deeper look at both and even go way back to the 1984 Olympic Trials 1,500 and a dive for the line by Chuck Aragon. Why? His daughter just ran a 4:16 1,500m in high school.
Feature On Midnight Mission – A Los Angeles Running Club For The Homeless
LRC It’s Gold! U.S. Quartet Of Duane Solomon, Erik Sowinski, Cas Loxsom & Robby Andrews Win 4 X 800 In 7:04.84 Erik Sowinski ran like a beast on leg #2 and the rest was history as all 4 guys did a great job.
More In Depth: A Mature “Cool And Calm” Robby Andrews Anchors US To 4 X 800 Gold Andrews ran like a pro on the anchor and talked maturely about being back with coach Vig and the rest of 2015.
LRC The US Women Dominate And Set A New World Record Of 10:36.50 In Women’s DMR Total and complete domination by the US, which nearly had the best leg on every leg.
Wittenberg had been COO of the NYRR since 2000 and CEO since 2005 and was a strong advocate of the professional side of the sport. She helped put the NYC Marathon back on top as one of America's premier sporting events. *Discuss Her Departure Here
LRC Men’s Preview: Will America’s Biggest Stars Return To Form? After some recent struggles, can Nick Symmonds return to form? What about Galen Rupp, Cam Levins (Canadian) and the NOP? Are former NCAA stars Andrew Wheating and Robby Andrews back? The highlight is an incredibly deep 1500 which contains former NCAA champs Wheating, Andrews, Leo Manzano, Mac Fleet, and Nate Brannen plus a slew of other talented guys.
LRCWomen’s Preview: Jenny Simpson’s Season Debut as Stars Old (Kara Goucher) and Young (Mary Cain) Try To Regain Their Form Mark Wetmore‘s two biggest current stars will make their season debuts – Jenny Simpson (800) and Emma Coburn (1500) – while Kara Goucher (5,000) will run her first track race since 2013 and Mary Cain will look to regain her ‘teen phenom’ label.
LRC The End Of An Era: The Great Haile Gebrselassie Retires One of the sport’s greatest ambassadors has officially retired after being at the top for two decades.
LRC Bernard Lagat Breaks Masters World 10,000m Record, Stephen Sambu, Betsy Saina Win Bernard Lagat ran 27:48 to get another world record. Discuss: Lagat just ran 27.50
*IAAF Race Recap
*UK’s Gemma Steel 2nd 6 Seconds Behind Saina
Oregonian’s Ken Goe Talks To PAC-12 Network Coordinating Producer About Difficiulties Of Having Track On Live TV Will O’Toole: “It’s definitely a challenge. Things are so spread out and so much is happening.”
And is Jeremy Wariner back? He thinks so.
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.
In Case You Were Gone This Weekend:High Schooler Matt Maton Went Sub-4:00 At The Oregon Twilight Meet. Recap, results, analysis, interview and video. His mom was NCAA XC Champ Michelle Dekkers.
LRCMatthew Maton Becomes Sixth U.S. High Schooler To Break 4:00 In The Mile With 3:59.38 At Oregon Twilight It had been 14 years since an American broke 4:00 while in HS. 19-year-old Matthew Maton changed that on Friday night. *Video Of Race/Interview
*MB Talk:OFFICIAL MATTHEW MATON SUB-4 THREAD!! HSer runs 3:59.38!!
*Prediction: Maton sub 4 tonight, Fisher wins HS Dream Mile
*Matthew Maton 19 years old (College Freshman Age)
Q&A With Valerie Adams About Her Comeback From Injury As She Had Two Surgeries Over The Winter She won’t be competing in the early season, but still plans on being ready to defend her world title in Beijing.
New Studies Highlight The Importance Of Protein In A Runner’s Diet It isn’t all about the carbs.
Incredible Journalism: 5,000+ Words On ESPN On The Tragic Passing Of Madison Holleran Holleran, a UPenn freshman, seemingly had it all – looks, brains, athleticism, a loving family – but her life ended in suicide last year. ESPN’s Kate Fagan tells her story.
*MB: ESPN Story About Madison Holleran
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Saturday: LaShawn Merritt And Kirani James To Clash With Each Other At Jamaican Invitational
Kenya's Ferguson Rotich (47.84 first 400 on 800 leg) and Timothy Cheruiyot (51.96 first 400 on 1,600 leg) ran like mad men while the quartet of Kyle Merber, Brycen Spratling, Brandon Johnson and Ben Blankenship (3:51.24 anchor) ran superbly to get the win and the world record in a race like no other.
The US repeated as World Relays 4 x 800 champs in American record style with only Chanelle Price returning from last year’s team.
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