– Blind pole vaulter Charlotte Brown talking after getting 3rd place at the Texas High School state meet with a vault of 11 feet, 6 inches.
LRCIf you missed it, our coverage for Doha DL (Farahgets beat in 3000m, Justin Gatlinruns 9.74) and Hoka One One Mid-D Classic are farther down the page.
LRC Full Results
Women’s 5k LRC Wow: Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana Runs Third-Fastest Women’s 5,000 In History – 14:14.32 Talk about a stunner. Ayana was sensational.
*MB: Almaz Ayana…. WOW!
Men’s 1,500 LRC Silas Kiplagat Wins Shanghai 1,500 As Ben Blankenship Comes Up Just .19 Short The American closed faster than the winner and got an outdoor PR.
*MB: Ben Blankenship: What’s his story?
Rojo And LetsRun Get Mention In WSJ Article On The Four-Minute High-School Mile They look back 50 years ago when Jim Ryun went sub-4 in an all high school race and contrast it to Matthew Maton doing it in a pro/college race now. *Discuss
Sunday In SF:Neighbors, City Brace For Bad Behavior At Bay To Breakers One local said, “I dread it. I know it’s just one day a year. But it’s just a bunch of drunks. One whole day of belligerent drunks. It’s like a big frat party now.”
RIP: Former 800 WR Holder Nina Otkalenko, 86 She set multiple records, the fastest of which was 2:05.0 in 1955.
Tickets Costing Just $3 Announced For Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
LRC Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet Takes Down Mo Farah In Doha 3,000 (updated) Reigning world youth and junior champ Yomif Kejelcha dared to take the lead from Farah late, and while he faded, Farah was defeated.
Rest Of The Meet:LRC 2015 Doha Recap: Track And Field’s Opening Day Amazes – The Rabbit Wins The Steeple, Dawit Sayeum Wins Her First DL Race, Ayanleh Souleiman Dominates, Justin Gatlin PRs + Two Triple Jumpers Over 18.00m The action in Doha was fantastic. It had a little of everything. A rabbit won the steeple, an 18-year-old the women’s 1,500 and some amazing sprint/field action. Should we do our first-ever field event black page for the triple jump?
Doha On The Message Board:
LRC Analysis Three Thoughts On 2015 Hoka One One: It’s Official – Mary Cain Is Struggling, USATF Had Better Finish This Meet, And Where Were The Fast Times?This meet was cancelled early due to lightning but not early enough to save Mary Cain from a disaster. Disaster #2 will be if USATF doesn’t figure out a way to finish this meet on Friday.
LRC Meet Recap:Manzano, Wheating, Loxsom Impress; Rowbury Struggles, Cain Really Struggles & The Jury Remains Out On Nick Symmonds The times were far from fast – we break it down for you.
US Road Mile: Minnesotans Garrett Heath (4:09), Heather Kampf (4:46) Sweep USATF Championships At Medtronic TC 1 Mile
Portland 2016 Worlds Countdown Clock To Be Unveiled On May 27th At Pioneer Courthouse Square The clock will be unveiled in Pioneer Courthouse Square on May 27th.
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
A Result Not Mentioned From The Weekend:Ajee Wilson Ran 2:00.65 To Win The Jamaican Invitational 800
Another Russian Racewalker Banned For DopingTatyana Akulinushkina gets 4 years in her second doping offense as only a 21-year-old.
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.
LRC Exclusive The Inside Story Of How American Ryan Bolton Helped Caroline Rotich Conquer The 2015 Boston Marathon He may have made the Olympics in the triathlon, but Ryan Bolton is a runner. In HS, Bolton dreamed of Running for the Buffaloes before going to Wyoming and nearly beating Meb Keflezighi at NCAA XC. Now he’s found his calling as a coach who just guided the unheralded Caroline Rotich to a stunning victory at Boston Marathon last month.
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
50 Years Ago Yesterday, Jim Ryun Ran The Only Sub-4 Mile Run In An Official High School Race Watch the historic video of Ryun running 3:58.3.
Q&A With Usain Bolt Talking About Changes In Training And Diet Now That He’s Getting Older He also talks about his WRs, doping and Justin Gatlin / Tyson Gay.
Podcast Interview With 2:15 Marathoner Tyler McCandless On His 4th Place Finish At The Pittsburgh Marathon McCandless is coached by former WR holder Steve Jones.
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.
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.
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