- South African 400m record last for less than 24 hours as Isaac Makwala runs 43.72 - moves to #5 all time in 400
- Women's Soccer is Better to Watch than Mens
- 14-year old white guy runs 3.49.71 for 1,500m
- In what order will Stanford, Colorado and Oregon finish in Cross next year?
- Two track athletes make ESPN body issue (updated with ESPN pics)
- Thomas Riva, Nicole Sifuentes win 2015 Canadian 1500 Titles – Nate Brannen only 5th, Cam Levins 6th
- Good read: Cam Levins college coach Eric Houle talks about how you can benefit from 190 mpw - Excercise phys disagrees
Excellent Guest Column
LRC Dealing with Depression: How I Got Past Suicidal Thoughts While Running in College For a while, life didn’t feel real to Nico Composto – it existed entirely in his head. Might a fall from the 12th floor window make all the pain go away? Thankfully, Composto realized that suicide wasn’t the answer. He shares his poweful story of how he overcame suicidal thoughts out of a desire to help others.
2015 Paris DL On Saturday Was Special *Full Results *TV & Streaming *2014 LRC Coverage
EVAN MF Jager!LRC In A Brave, Brave Run, Evan Jager Nearly Crushes The World’s Best In Men’s Steeple, Settles For 8:00.43 American Record (Updated with several post-race interviews) Jager took it to the world’s best. He had destroyed the world’s best in the steeple and was just meters away from a truly shocking 7:56-7 win. Then down he went. He still got up and moved to #13 at 8:00.43.
Full Paris Photo Gallery 198 Photos
*Race Video*10 Minutes Of Post-Race Video With Jager
*Jager Paris Photo Gallery (does not have fall)
*MB: Evan Jager is F*cking Brave Beautiful Man
*MB: JAGER FALLS ON LAST JUMP ON PACE FOR 7:55
*MB: Should Someone Resign from LRC for The “unless he falls,@EvanJager tweet?”
*MB: Thank you Evan Jager Thread!
*MB: Facts about Jager’s performance
*MB: Evan JAGER on pace for 7:55 steeple before fall. Would CLEARLY beat Galen RUPP at 5000 if they raced – YES OR NO
*MB: Paris Areva 3000m SC Full Video – French w/slow motion
LRC Rest Of Distance Action: Genzebe Dibaba, Silas Kiplagat And Eunice Sum Get The Victories With Blazing Times As Molly Ludlow And Chanelle Price PR What a meet Paris was. Ludlow joined the 1:58 club.
MB: Official 2015 Paris DL Live Discussion Thread
- Dibaba Wins In 14:15 But Doesn’t Share Lead As Agreed To And Ayana Isn’t Happy About It Ayana: “I’m disappointed because the agreement was not kept. I did more laps than my rival, especially after 2k. Next time I will run different.”
*Lap-By-Lap 5k Splits - Wayde Van Niekerk Becomes First Non-North-American-Born Person To Break 44 In 400 10 men in history had broken 44.00 before Saturday, 9 from USA and 1 from Grenada.
- Lavillenie Loses On Home Soil
- Valerie Adams Only 5th In Her Return To Competition Adams gambled she could win #57 in a row in her first competition in 10 months.
- Asafa Powell Claims 100m In Paris In 9.81 SB, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Wins Women’s In World-Leading 10.74
- Powell Says He Can Go Faster “At the end I got too excited and did not run that smoothly, so that means I want to run faster in my next races.”
- Full Coverage In Paris DL Special Section
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.
Latest Evan Jager News
Evan Jager Is Headed Back To Park City For Altitude Training – Not Planning On Changing Much – “Of course, I’m happy I made the Kenyans worried.”
*MB: New Evan Jager interview: “I just couldn’t believe how fast I was running,”
LRC Evan Jager 8:00.43 American Record Paris Steeplechase Photo Gallery
2015 British Athletics Championships *Schedule / Results
- IAAF Recap Of British ChampsDina Asher-Smith set a meet record in the 100 (11.08), Christine Ohuruogu was beaten and only ran 52.04, Laura Muir won the 1,500 by running a 60 from 700 to 1,100.
- Chijindu Ujah Wins Men’s 100 In 10.10
- Isobel Pooley Equals The British High Jump Record With 1.97m
Greg Rutherford Wins LJ But Isn’t Happy – “I cannot ‘jump like a doughnut’ if I’m to win World Championships.”- US-Born Sisters Tiffany Porter And Cindy Ofili Go 1-2 At British Championships
- Zharnel Hughes Wins 200 In 20.42
- Zharnel Hughes’ First Runs For GBR Result In Fastest Times In 200m Heats (20.55) He let up in the last 40m. 20.55 wouldn’t even make the final at USAs but is the fastest in GBR.
- Zharnel Hughes Shrugs Off “Plastic Brit” Tag After Winning 200m Heat
- 19-Year-Old Dina Asher-Smith Is Doing Well Balancing College And Running As She’s Aready Run 11.02 British Record This Year
- Holly Bradshaw (Bleasdale) Is Back In Vault After 16 Months Away From Competition
- Heptathlon Stars Jessica Ennis-Hill And Katarina Johnson-Thompson Will Finally Battle On Sunday (In 100H)
- Chris Tomlinson Hasn’t Broken 8.00m This Year
2015 Canadian Champs *Schedule / Results*Free Streaming
- LRC Fiona Benson Wins Tactical Canadian 800m Title In 2:08.52 – Corey Bellemore Wins Men’s Title
- LRC Thomas Riva, Nicole Sifuentes Win 2015 Canadian 1,500 Titles – Nate Brannen Only 5th, Cam Levins 6th (includes race video) Sheila Reid was 4th in the women’s.
*MB: Levins vs Brannen in Canadian Nationals 1500m Today. Who Wins?
*MB: Cam Levins just ran a 4:07 for 6th place in 1500m Canadian Nationals - Andre De Grasse Wins 100m Title In 9.95Matt Hughes has won the steeple.
- Cam Levins Beats Mo Ahmed To Win 5k, Nicole Sifuentes Wins w5k
Pre-Meet:Canada’s Fastest Man Andre De Grasse Hopes To Put Canadian Sprinting Back In Spotlight “I’m capable of competing against the big dogs. Canadian sprinting hasn’t been around for what? Maybe 15 years. No one knows about Canada any more. Everyone’s hearing about the U.S. running fast, Jamaica running fast. I want Canada to be back up there.”- Preview Of Women’s 800: Can Upstart Fiona Benson Beat Olympians Melissa Bishop And Jessica Smith?Annie LeBlanc, aka Mary Cain slayer, will also race.
- Preview Of Women’s 1,500 Former NCAA champ Sheila Reid will battle World Indoor bronze medalist Nicole Sifuentes and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Kate Van Buskirk.
Sergey Bubka Says He’d Have “Zero Tolerance For Doping” In Athletics And Pledges Reforms If Elected IAAF President “There is no excuse” for doping, he said.
Sprint News
- LRC Wayde Van Niekerk’s 43.97 African Record Lasts Less Than 24 Hours As Isaac Makwala Runs 43.72 (includes race video)
- 21-Year-Od Henricho Bruintjies Sets A New SA 100-Meter Record Of 9.97 In Switzerland His previous best was 10.06.
- Crazy Stat:Asafa Powell Has Twice As Many Sub-10 100s As Usain Bolt In His Career Powell has done it 88 times, Bolt is #3 at 33. Maurice Greene did it 53 times.
- After Running 10.80 To Finish 2nd In Paris 100m, Blessing Okagbare Will Long Jump For 1st Time In 2015 In Lausanne
Weekly Free Coaching Advice
Cam Levins Says Biggest Change Under Alberto Salazar Is He’s Had Him Lose 8 Pounds
*MB: Good read: Cam Levins’ college coach Eric Houle talks about how you can benefit from 190 mpw – Exercise phys disagrees
Recommended Read Steve Magness Article On Why Distance Runners Need A Coach Humans are famous for being bad at predicting their own behavior. “I strongly believe in having a coach. It’s not so much for the training, though that is important, it’s for the outside observation. I always say, a coaches job at the elite level is to hold the reigns. It’s not so much to motivate or poke and prod to get through a workout; instead it’s to prevent smart people from making dumb mistakes.”
2015 AJC Peachtree – America’s Largest 10k – Is Always On July 4th *Results (Link Fixed) *Watch Taped On NBC Sports On July 6th
Team USA Is Strong, But Team Africa Prevails In Peachtree Cup *Results Tyler Pennell was 2nd overall (28:45). Shalane Flanagan was the fastest woman in the team race (32:05).
Patriotic Shalane Flanagan Is Ready To Lead Team USA In Inaugural Team Competition In Her Peachtree Road Race Debut On July 4th- Five Story Lines For 2015 AJC Peachtree Road Race – Shalane Flanagan Headlines, 1st-Year Team Competition, Christo Landry Vs. Tyler Pennel, And Much More Gebre Gebremariam (Team Africa), Daniele Meucci (Team Europe) and Yusuke Hasegawa (Team Asia) were all at the press conference with Flanagan.
- Press Conference: Athletes Say They Thrive In Team Format
Women’s Sprint News
Yet Another Big NOP Doping Scandal Development – Whom Do You Believe? Magness Or Salazar?
LRC 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.
- Telegraph: Doubts Raised Over Testosterone Justification Salazar: “I guess anything’s possible, but it just doesn’t make sense.”
- MB: Salazar called Gatlin sabotage claim “preposterous” in 2006
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.
Distance Women
- Lengthy TFN Q&A With Jenny Simpson Simpson’s parents are going on the TFN trip to Beijing to watch her run the World Champs
RIP: RW: Friends Honor The Memory Of Former Dartmouth Runner And Women’s Rights Advocate Nina Brekelmans, Who Died At 25 In Washington, DC Fire
*Washington Post Article On Brekelemans She’d recently received a Fulbright grant and was going to research Jordan’s distance runners.
*House Where Fire Took Place Had No Rental License
*Obituary
Important Sprint News
- Bob Kersee Says Allyson Felix May Attempt 200/400 Double At Worlds – “It’s not that impossible.” She’d have to run the 200 semis an hour before the 400 final.
- Meet NYer Rai Benjamin – The First US HSer To Break 50.00 In 400H The UCLA signee has run 49.97.
- Jamaica Paper: Is Stephen Francis A “Genius” Or A “Selfish, Arrogant, Unpatriotic Coach Who Couldn’t Care Less About Jamaica’s Track And Field”?
- Richard Thompson Pulls Plug On 2015 Season He’s run 10.04 but wants to be 100% in 2016.
- It’s Official: Trinidad & Tobago Upgraded To 2012 4 X 100 Silver Due To Tyson Gay Ban
Fast Mid-Week Action From France – Kiprop And Centro, Pay Attention
LRCTaoufik Makhloufi Runs Fastest 1,000m Since 1999 – 2:13.08!!! *Video The time makes him the 4th fasteset 1k man in history.- Rose Almanzano (Cuba) Runs 1:58.99 For 800 She’s the 4th woman under 1:59 this year.
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