Saturday Morning Action – UAE Healthy Kidney 10k *Results

MB: Ben True takes down Stephen Sambu, Geoffrey Mutai, Wilson Kipsang at UAE 10k Joyce Chepkirui edged Gladys Cherono for the women’s title as both ran 32:33. *Results And Post-Race Interview With True

More Articles On Steve Prefontaine

• Recommended Read: Grantland.com: Forty Years After Pre’s Death, His Life Continues To Affect Athletes Everywhere – And His Loss Haunts Those At Home A lengthy piece on the life, career and death of Prefontaine. A lot of info you won’t have known from watching the movies, including the debate about whether he was drunk (and if the accident was his fault) the night he died.
• Steve Prefontaine’s Sister Neta Visits Pre’s Rock On The Eve Of The Anniversary Of His Fatal Crash

Kenyan News

• David Rudisha Battling To Be Fit For June 7th Birmingham DL Meet He’ll announce Monday whether or not he’ll be racing as he recovers from injury which made him DNF the Ostrava 600.
• Athletics Kenya President Isaiah Kiplagat Confident That He’ll Be Elected As IAAF VP We really hope the IAAF has some more competent candidates than him.

More Weekend Action

• Gotzis Hypo-Meeting: Jessica Ennis-Hill Starts First Heptathlon In Three Years – Can She Still Cut It?
• Athletics Weekly: “Eaton Duo Set For Gotzis”
• Guardian Article On Ennis’ Comeback
• Free Live Stream: World #1 PVer In 2014 Fabiana Murer Highlights Golden Fly Series Meet On Saturday Stream starts at 12:45PM ET.
• RRW: Can New Star Caroline Wöstmann Win Comrades Marathon?
• Live Streaming And Results For European Champion Clubs Cup Track & Field
• Random: Firefighter Sets New WR By Running 6:45 Mile In 25 Pounds Of Gear

2015 Comrades Is Sunday (Saturday Night US)

• Bruce Fordyce Says 2015 Comrades Race Is Wide Open It might be especially brutal as there could be a downpour at the start. $30,000 is on the line for first and $123,000 for a course record. LetsRun.com is officially rooting for American Sage Canaday.
• Defending Men’s Champ Bongmusa Mthembu Has Only A Best Career Up Run Of 12th
• Can South African Caroline Wostmann Become The 1st South African Woman Since 1998 To Win The Title? Wostmann was the surprise winner of Two Oceans during her buildup, but Russian women have won 12 of the last 14.
• Road Construction Means Runners Will Run An Extra 877 Meters As Compared To 2013 Up Run
• 2015 Comrades By The Numbers

IAAF News Of Note

• Sebastian Coe And Sergei Bubka Are The Only Presidential Candidates For Aug. 19th Election
• Bubka Hedges Bets In IAAF Election By Standing For Vice President As Well As President
• IAAF Candidates For Elections Announced
• Paula Radcliffe Seeks Spot On IAAF Cross-Country Committee

David Rudisha Talks About His Love For Arsenal Football

2015 Ostrava *Full Results

LRC David Rudisha Pulls Up Injured At 2015 IAAF World Challenge Meet In Ostrava, Usain Bolt Runs 20.13 In 200 Plus Asbel Kiprop in the 1k, Dejen G. in the 5k, Asafa Powell in the 100, and a new Kenyan national record in the javelin. Updated: Rudisha says it’s not “a very serious injury” and he hopes to be back training within a few days.
*IAAF Recap: Sharika Nelvis Steals The Spotlight With A 12.55 100H Into A 1.7 m/s Wind
*Bolt: “You can’t be satisfied if I don’t break 20 seconds.” He said the cold/rainy conditions were partly to blame for the slower time.

The Legend Of Steve Prefontaine Continues To Grow – Steve Prefontaine Gets His Own Graphic Novel

LRC Book Review The Art Of Running By Matthew Crehan – A Graphic Novel Telling The Story Of Legendary US Distance Runner Steve Prefontaine Over the years, movies, books, T-Shirts – just about everything imaginable – have been made to tell the inspiring life story of Steve Prefontaine. But now for the first time, there is a comic book graphic novel that tells his story.

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.