– Almaz Ayana talking after running 14:14.32 to win at the Shanghai Diamond League meet and become the third-fastest 5,000m runner of all time. Now she wants to break Tirunesh Dibaba‘s 14:11.15 world record. Our recap on Ayana’s race is here.
Last week was an incredible week for track and field fans. We break it all down for you. Along the way, we wonder if we've found Colorado and America's next women's steeple star (Erin Clark), tell someone to break up Dave Smith's mid-d squad at Oklahoma State, hand out bad news to Galen Rupp fans, marvel at America's yearly high hurdle sensations and wonder when the Hoka One One meet will be completed.
Jenny Simpson, Shannon Rowbury and Alexa Efraimson – But Not Mary Cain – Will Race in Women’s 1500 at 2015 PreLRC If you missed it, our coverage for Doha DL (Farah gets beaten in 3000m, Justin Gatlin runs 9.74) and Hoka One One Mid-D Classic are farther down the page.
Shanghai DL *Full ResultsLRC 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?
Japan: World Bronze Medalist Paul Tanui Runs 27:08 10,000 World Lead At Japanese Regional Corporate Track ChampsRojo 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.
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#OpeningDay – 2015 Diamond League Season Opened In Doha *Full Results *TV / Streaming
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:
Justin Gatlin Flies Home Claiming Beijing World Challenge Meet Organizers Don’t Want Him “They didn’t have any respect for me so they said: ‘You better leave,’ and they kicked me out.” *Discuss
Mosinet Geremew (28:16) And Mamitu Daska (31:57) Win $21,000 At Bangalore’s TCS World 10K Lots of big names were entered given the huge prize money, including Emily Chebet, Feyisa Lelisa, Micah Kogo and Japhet Korir.
PAC-12: Oregon Men And Women Sweep PAC-12 Championships Over USC The men won with a comfortable margin, but for the women it came down to the 4 x 400 and they ended up beating USC by only 3 points. *PAC-12 Meet Report
Alexa Efraimson Runs 2:01.13 At Portland Twilight Meet
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.
Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Likely To Appeal Over Death Sentence Over Location Of The Trial The judge refused to have the trial moved out of Boston. *Judge Expected To Set Date For Tsarnaev Sentencing Hearing The jury already gave their verdict, but now the judge has to “formally sentence him to death.”
Isaac Mukandi Mwangi And Jane Kibii Are Winners Of The 2015 Bay To Breakers 12K Fernando Cabada was 10th, Nick Arciniaga 11th. On the women’s side, Rachel Ward was the top American. *Results
After “Coming Of Age” 2014, Lynsey Sharp Will Captain Team GB In The Loughborough International Meet Sharp talks about how last year she was advised by doctors not to run at all as she had an open wound from ankle surgery which ended up staying open for a year.
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.
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