2015 Pre Classic *Full Results *Full Taped Race Replays If You Missed Fri. Broadcast *LRC Fan Poll Results

LRC A Massive Day For Americans At 1,500/Mile At Pre – Jenny Simpson Wins, Centro Is 2nd And High Schooler Alexa Efraimson Runs 4:03.39 Simpson (4:00.98) won her third straight DL race while Centro missed out on the win by .10 as Ayanleh Souleiman repeated in the Bowerman Mile (3:51.10). Efraimson broke Mary Cain‘s HS/U.S. Junior record by running 4:03.39.

LRC 800s Worlds Preview? Eunice Sum Beats Ajee Wilson In A Nail Biter As Mo Aman Gets It Done In Front Of His New Hometown Crowd Ajee Wilson keeps progressing and Aman returned to form.

LRC Rest Of Meet: Genzebe Dibaba (14:19.76) Misses WR But Gets Dominant Win, Ezekiel Kemboi Is Back And Evan Jager Impresses Kemboi (8:01.71) outkicked Jairus Birech (8:01.83) as Jager was 4th in 8:05.28, his fastest-ever opener. Justin Gatlin kept winning with a world-leading 19.68 in the 200 while Mutaz Essa Barshim cleared 2.41 but chose not to go any higher even though he had no misses in the competition.

LRC 35+ Post-Race Video Interviews
*Alexa Efraimson After Breaking Mary Cain’s Record
*Matthew Maton On Efraimson’s Record

LRCMo Farah Still Owns The 10,000m As He Takes Down Geoffrey Kamworor And Paul Tanui At Pre

Everything Else Friday:Mens 5,000m: The World And Galen Rupp Meet Yomif Kejelcha, Former Sprinter Carlos Villareal Kicks Like Mad In HS Mile

Gotzis Multi-Event Meeting In The Books

• Brianne Theisen-Eaton And Germany’s Kai Kazmirek Win Heptathlon And Decathlon At Gotzis Hypo-Meeting Theisen-Eaton won the prestigious meet for the second time in her career with a new NR of 6,531. The Netherlands’ Dafne Schippers was on her way to a runner-up finish, but pulled out with a knee injury. With Ashton Eaton withdrawing with injury, Kazmirek won with 8,462 points.
• Olympic Champ Jessica Ennis Ecstatic To Finish 4th In Her First Heptathlon Since The Olympics She scored 6,520 points which got her the qualifying standard for Rio 2016.
• Really Cool Statistical Analysis Of The Multi Events Pre-Gotzis
• BBC Asks How Good Was Jessica Ennis’ 4th Place Finish And Can She Get Back On Top?
• Guardian: “Jessica Ennis-Hill has drive to score mother of all wins at Rio 2016.”

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

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.