– Bernard Lagat after being asked if his focus has shifted away from trying to medal at global championships to getting masters world records. Lagat ran 13:14.97 to finish 4th in the 2015 Prefontaine Classic 5,000m. LRCrecap of the race here.
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
The fast race Farah wanted did not materialize, but he showed he still is the boss and afterwards said Galen Rupp will win an Olympic gold medal and is his #1 rival at 10,000m.
*IAAF Day 1 Recap
Kejelcha arrived, Galen Rupp had a nice opener, and Bernard Lagat set another record.
LRCDavid 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.
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.
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.
Alexa Efraimson has displaced Mary Cain as the queen of American high school running and she's the prom date of sub-4 miler Matthew Maton.
GB Goes Sub-10: GB’s Adam Gemili Wins 100 In 10.13 At Bedford International Games He actually ended up running 9.97 in the final, but had a huge 3.7 m/s tailwind. Other winners included Jodie Williams (400 – 53.51), Jack Green (400H – 50.39), Isobel Pooley (HJ – 1.91m) and Robbie Grabartz (HJ – 2.24m).
AP: “F-bombs, shouting: Uncivil discourse on Boston’s Olympic bid.”
Friday Night OTB
LRCJustin Gatlin Does Not Want To Talk About His Drug Past And Things Get A Little Testy With LRC’s Wejo Justin Gatlin has no interest in talking about his past drug suspension.
Video:7 Minutes With Jenny Simpson: Jenny On All Things 1,500m, Including Mary Cain’s Struggles
Day 2 Talk On The Message Board:
1. Official 2015 Prefontaine Classic Live Discussion Thread
2. Alexa Effraimson is now faster than Mary Cain has been! 4:03!!!
3. Jenny Simpson’s massive ego
4. Pre 2015: NOP TROUNCED on home field. Can we accept the “project” has failed?
5. Gatlin says F*ck the haters – 19.68
6. jagr runs 8:05
7. Pre Classic preempted by Children’s Hospital telethon in New Orleans. It also wasn’t shown in Detroit.
8. Nick Symmonds BLACKBALLED from Pre Classic 800
9. Anyone else disappointed in Kemboi’s victory dance?
Outside Coverage:
*IAAF: Barshim Soars, Sprinters Fly In Eugene
*IAAF: Lavillenie Breaks Diamond League Pole Vault Record In Eugene
*USA Quotes Including Ben Blankenship, Tyson Gay, Jenny SImpson, Shannon Rowbury, Matt Centrowitz, Justin Gatlin
Ken Goe: “The NCAA regional track meets have zero appeal for spectators.” That’s not the point. The point is to get the best 24 people to Eugene and have a better actual NCAA meet than by letting people qualify on time in April.
Pedro Pablo Pichardo Moves His TJ PR From 18.06m To 18.08m In HavanaJonathan Edwards, it’s time to get nervous.
Federal Judge Says Lawsuit Alleging Rock ‘N’ Roll Race Volunteers Are Exploited Can Proceed
*MB: Yes! Judge denies Competitor Group’s request to dismiss lawsuit saying its use of volunteers violates labor laws
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