Archived Homepage For July 03, 2015
Archived Homepage For July 03, 2015

Mid-Week Action – 2015 Portland Twilight *Full Results

LRCRobby Andrews Gets It Done, Runs 3:35.82 To Officially Make U.S. Team At 1,500 (Full Meet Recap) Andrews won handily. Edward Cheserek (3:37.08) was only the second UO guy in the race as Colby Alexander, who didn’t even make it to NCAAs or the final of PAC-12s, ran 3:36.49.

2015 Paris DL On Saturday Could Be Special *Schedule & Entries *TV & Streaming (2-4 pm ET) *2014 LRC Coverage

Evan Jager celebratesLRC Paris Preview: Team USA’s Steeplers Take On The World’s Best; Makhloufi, Kiplagat And Souleiman To Battle At 1,500 The meet should be great. Fresh off a great run at the U.S. Champs, Evan JagerDonn Cabral and Dan Huling face a stacked steeple field led by ’14 world #1 Jairus Birech and world/Olympic champ Ezekiel KemboiTaoufik Makhloufi, who ran 2:13.08 for 1,000 on Wednesday, takes on stalwarts Ayanleh Souleiman and Silas Kiplagat.

World Record Attempt LRC Paris 5k Preview: Almaz Ayana & Genzebe Dibaba Will Battle For The Win – And The World Record?In 16 additions of the Meeting Areva in Paris, a World Record has never gone down. Ayana (14:14 PR from Shanghai in May) and Dibaba (14:18i PR from Stockholm in February) will be looking to change that in a field that is truly comparable to better than a World Championships final. Behind them, the race contains the top four finishers from World XC and the top 7 fastest women over 5k in 2015.

LRC Podcast Post-USA / Pre – Paris Edition of Track Talk Live In the 75 minute show, we looked back at USAs, talked toping and looked ahead to Paris and said why Jenny Simpson should be paying close attention to the 5000.

More Sprint News: Akani Simbine’s Coach Was So Excited After Simbine Called To Tell Him He’d Broken 10.00 On Wednesday, He Didn’t Sleep All Night Long

Fast Mid-Week Action From France – Kiprop And Centro, Pay Attention

USATF National Photos 928 Photos *Day 1 (10k Finals, Steeple Falls) *Day 2 (100s, Tons Of Qualifying) *Day 3 (M 1,500, W Steeple + Qualifying) *Final Day

2015 Canadian Champs Have Begun *Schedule / Results*Free Streaming

Cam Levins Beats Mo Ahmed To Win 5k, Nicole Sifuentes Wins w5k

British Athletics Championships Are Fri-Sat-Sun *Schedule / Results

Sprint News

Other International Pro News

 Kara Goucher Speaks 

Yet Another Big NOP Doping Scandal Development – Whom Do You Believe? Magness Or Salazar?

AndrogelLRC Questions Arise Regarding Alberto Salazar’s Explanation For Testosterone Experiment On His Sons – In 2006, Alberto Salazar Said The Idea That Gatlin Was Sabotaged Was “Preposterous On So Many Fronts” A key part of Alberto Salazar‘s defense is that he tested testosterone on his sons as he was fearful that someone like Chris Whetstine could sabotage Galen Rupp, not because he wanted to see how much micro-dosing one could get away with.

LRC Top 10

LRCLetsRun.com's Top 10 Video Interviews From The 2015 USATF Outdoor Nationals

Goucher, Lagat, Centro, Solomon, Symmonds, Johnson, Infeld, Huling and Blankenship make the cut.


Bored At Work?Watch The Peachtree Road Race Pre-Race Press Conference With Shalane Flanagan At 11am ET On Thursday For FreeGebre Gebremariam (Team Africa), Daniele Meucci (Team Europe), and Yusuke Hasegawa (Team Asia), as well as Tatyana McFadden, will also be at the presser. The race itself will be live on USATF.tv on July 4th starting at 7:15 am ET. NBC Sports Network will have a highlight show on July 6th.

Q&A With Lindsey Scherf, Who Went From 2:37 To 2:32 At Grandma’s

Need Something To Do This Weekend? How About A Distance Documentary?

Learn All About The “Town Of Runners Champions” – Bekoji, Ethiopia – Which Has Produced Kenenisa Bekele, Tirunesh Dibaba And Derartu TuluWe assume Genzebe Dibaba is from there as well. The town’s population – 16,730. Can you say Sports Gene? You can now watch the documentary, Town of Runners, for $4.99.

US Youth Champs Are Done – Time To Get Ready For World Youths In Colombia *Results