Eugene / Hayward Hosting Worlds

• Vin Lananna Says Hayward Field Renovations For 2021 Worlds Will Be Completed By 2018 Eugene plans on bidding to host the Olympic Trials again in 2020. We say give someone else a chance.
• Track Stars Talk About How Great 2021 Worlds In Eugene Will Be Quotes from Jenny Simpson, Sanya Richards-Ross, Allyson Felix and Kirani James.

Running For A Different Reason

• RRW: University Of Oregon’s Running Tours Show Beauty, History Of Track Town USA
• Groups In Philadelphia Use Running To Shortern Their Commute And Avoid Rush Hour Traffic

Distance News Long And Short, Old And Young

Random Sprint News

• Usain Bolt Accused Of Being A Horrible And Inconsiderate Neighbor Jodi Stewart-Henriques, wife of dance hall superstar Sean Paul: “Between the bikes … loud, horrid music, parties and screams, I honestly wish he would go back to where he came from. He’s a horrible neighbour. I cannot wait to move.”
• Oregon’s NCAA 110H Champ Devon Allen Got Stuck In An Elevator And Comically Live Tweeted It His posts went on for the hour+ he was stuck in there.
• Former Princeton Ivy League Champ Is “Racing For A Rose” On “The Bachelorette” Ian Thomson was struck by a car going 60mph shortly after he graduated and doctors said he would never run again, but he’s fought back to the point he can do 15 miles per week.

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

Sunday On The Roads

• Meb Keflezighi Wins USATF Masters Title At Suja Rock ‘N’ Roll Half Marathon In his first race as a master, Meb set the half WR at 62:29 although the race was actually won by Jordan Chipangama in 62:27. Eri Hayakawa won the women’s half (1:10:50) while Sara Hall was 3rd (1:11:31) and Jen Rhines won the masters race (1:16:36).
  *This Site Says The Masters WR Is 62:28 By NZ’s John Campbell
• RunBlogRun Piece On Meb: “A Road Warrior Looks At Forty” This article says Meb’s time won’t count as the WR because there is too great an elevation drop, although he should get the 15K and 10-mile records.
• South Africans Gift Kelehe And Caroline Wostmann Win Comrades Marathon Titles
  *MB: Americans at Comrades Sage Canaday was 15th; Max King was 11 with only 17K to go, but faded to 50th.
• A Hard Way To Run 2:19: Peter Wanjiru (2:19:34) And Joan Kigen (2:39:43) Win Edinburgh Marathon Apparently Wanjiru went through the half in 1:05:01 and then was just the one who died least on a windy day.

NCAA Preliminary Rounds *East Complied Results *West Compiled Results

• Men’s Qualifying List
• Women’s Qualifying List
• MB: LRC tells you which guys and gals seeded in the top 10 in the mid-d/distance events didn’t make it to Eugene.
• USTFCCCA Inside The Numbers Of The Qualifying Athletes For 2015 NCAA Champs Oregon men and women and the SEC conference all have the most qualifiers.
• MB: Oregon qualifies 45 to NCAA’s. This is what a top program with top coaching looks like buffy
• MB: Arkansas Kemoy Campbell drops out of 10k while leading
• MB: Who was your biggest surprise to be left home in the 10k?
• MB: ncaa screws over 10k guy

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.”

Saturday Road Action – Results: *UAE Healthy Kidney 10 *Freihofer’s 5K

• 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
• Hat Trick: Emily Chebet Wins Third Freihofer’s Run for Women 5K Title She ran 15:38 to beat Cynthia Limo by 3 seconds. 2014 US half marathon champion Serena Burla the first American in eighth in 16:11. *Full Results
• Fernando Cabada Wins Dam To Dam Half Marathon In 64:41; Lisa Uhl Wins Women’s Race In 1:16:59

Mile / 1,500 / 1,600 News

• Kyle Merber Wins Furman Elite 1,500m In 3:34.54; Stephanie Garcia Runs 4:05.39 Merber’s previous best was the 3:35.59 he ran in 2012. It was a huge PR for Garcia, who had only run 4:13.33. Cory Leslie (3:35.36) and Stephanie Brown (4:07.55) were the runner-ups.
• Grant Fisher Takes Another Shot At Sub-4 But Comes Up Short One race had two separate finish lines as he won the 1,600m in 4:00.28, but continued on for a mile in 4:01.66. He’ll have another shot at the adidas Dream Mile in a couple of weeks.

• Oregonian: Mo Farah Wins Prefontaine Classic 10K With Fourth-Fastest Time Ever At Hayward Field (26:50)
• HS Miles: Ryen Frazier (4:39) Wins In Close FInish While Carlos Villareal (4:05) Comes From Way Back With Big Kick
• Quotes From 800 Winner Maggie Vessey (2:00.07) And Galen Rupp
• USATF Headline: “Tianna Bartoletta And Joe Kovacs Steal The Show On Pre Classic ‘Distance Night'” Bartoletta won the LJ and Kovacs the SP.
• Press Conference Highlights: Quotes From Jenny Simpson Mutaz Essa Barshim, Kirani James, Allyson Felix And More

Friday Night OTB

• Mo Farah Calls Out LetsRun Hype Machine, Says Galen Rupp Will Be an Olympic Champ,
• Farah is a WIMP- refuses to push a 26:30 pace, runs 26:50
• CAM LEVINS.. what can you say?
• Kamworor’s Got an Excuse: His Back Hurt
• Why can’t Rupp kick in a 5k?
• WEJO VS GATLIN!
• RUPP GOES HOME DEVASTATED!!
• Bernard Lagat Pleased With His Opener Despite Getting Outkicked in a Slow Race

Highlights From The Prefontaine Press Conference

LRC Justin 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