- Adidas to terminate IAAF sponsorship deal four years early
- Who is Misiker Demissie who just got cleared to run the trials?
- How upset will you be if Galen Rupp doesn't run the marathon?
- Dog accidentally runs half marathon
- my track coach is giving us monster energy drinks before track races
- Bernie Sanders ran cross country and track! What were his times?
- Doping in High School
- 2015 U.S. Marathon Statistics
Monday Would Have Been Steve Prefontaine‘s 65th Birthday – Happy Retirement, Pre
Recommended Read: Extensive Compilation Of Quotes, Interviews And Stories From And About Steve Prefontaine In Honor Of What Would Have Been His 65th Birthday Gary Cohen has put together a nice piece of work that sharing the highlights from Pre’s life and career. Includes the classic stories/quotes we know, but plenty of less known, more obscure ones as well. Quotes from Linda Prefontaine, Gerry Lindgren, Frank Shorter, Jim Ryun and more.- MB: Interesting Steve Prefontaine Quote On Running The Steeple And Marathon One he had plans to do; the other not so much.
- SI Cover Story On Pre From 1970: “The Freshman And The Great Guru” The “guru,” of course, referring to Bill Bowerman.
- But It’s On The Poster!?! MileSplit Asks If Pre’s “Suicide Pace” Quote Is Fake Based on their research, it sounds like it is.
- LRC Steve Prefontaine Archives
Still Nothing Confirmed To Report In Adidas-IAAF Story
Irish Independent Claims Nike Is “Poised” To Replace Adidas As IAAF Sponsor And Says Adidas Pullout Won’t Hurt The IAAF Financially The IAAF sold its marketing rights to Japan-based agency Dentsu who sold them to adidas.- The Telegraph Says Seb Coe Is “Locked In Crisis Talks” With Adidas To Try And Save The $30 Million Deal
- The Guardian: “Other Sponsors Standing By IAAF Despite Adidas Pullout” Canon and Dentsu both said they have no plans to terminate their contracts early.
- IAAF Statement: “We are in close contact with all our sponsors and partners as we embark on our reform process.” Adidas statement: “Adidas has a clear anti-doping policy in place. … we are in close contact with the IAAF to learn more about their reform process.”
Latest Russian Doping Scandal Fallout
- BBC Scoop: Adidas To End IAAF Sponsorship 4 Years Early Over Doping Scandal, Costing The IAAF More Than $30 Million Neither adidas nor the IAAF have confirmed, but a BBC source says that adidas considers the doping scandal a breach of its agreement. The original 11-year contract was signed in 2008.
- The Telegraph: Could The IAAF Be Attempting To “Woo Nike As A Replacement”? We already know that Nike has no issue with sponsoring dopers.
- MB: Adidas to terminate IAAF sponsorship deal four years early
- Russian Olympic Committee Bans Four Russian Athletes For Doping Among the four was former European 800 silver medalist Irina Maracheva.
This Weekend’s Track Action *All Collegiate Results
RRW: Kim Conley Wins New Balance Games Mile With A 4:27.88 World Lead Conley defended her title from last year in a close race with Kate Grace (4:28.30) and Stephanie Garcia (4:28.97).
*The Armory Moved To A “Skeleton Schedule” Due To Weather Most HS races were cancelled.- Iceland’s Anita Hinriksdóttir Runs 2:02.47 To Win The Reykjavik International Games 800 For 5th Consecutive Year That’s a pretty impressive streak when you consider she just turned 20 last week.
- Patrick Corona Runs Air Force’s First Ever Sub-4 Mile With 3:59.77* *Except he didn’t break 4. An altitude-converted 4:09.19 isn’t a sub-4 minute mile. End of story.
- UTEP’s Jonah Koech Runs
NCAA-Leading/Altitude-Converted 3:59.92 In Albuquerque His actual time was 4:05.26, but Albuquerque is at 5,000ft. - Germany’s Raphael Holzdeppe Defeats Renaud Lavillenie And Shawn Barber In France Pole Vault Clash Holzdeppe cleared 5.84m while Lavillenie and Barber were only 4th and 5th. Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas set a South American indoor TJ record at 14.69m.
- Trayvon Bromell And Former NCAA Champ Kendra Harrison Set World Leads At Rod McCravy Memorial Bromell ran 6.54 for 60m while Harrison ran 7.83 in the 60H. *Full Results
- Kansas State’s Akela Jones Comes Up Just Shy Of The Collegiate Pentathlon Record As She Scores 4,643 Points The record is held by Kendell Williams at 4678.
- Nick Willis Wins Windy NZ 3,000 Title In 8:00 Let’s hope the winds weren’t actually 60 mph like Willis predicted.
Power 5 Conference Clash Meet: SEC Vs. All *Team Results *Overall Results
- SEC Men Come Out On Top In Power 5 Conference Clash; Power 4 Women Beat SEC Women By 1 Point
- LSU’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Runs World-Leading 20.57 In The 200
- Tennessee’s Felicia Brown Runs School Record And World-Leading Time With 22.88 In The 200m
- Texas Men Break School 4 X 400 Record As Women Lead “Power 4” Team Scoring
Pre-Weekend News
- World Indoor Track Has Been Sold To University Of Iowa
- Nick Symmonds Says He Won’t Compete At The USATF Or World Indoors
- Jesse Squire Ranks The Greatest Track Athletes In MAC History Dave Wottle and Bob Schul top the list if you don’t count double gold medalist Hayes Jones.
- Recommended Read: Free Coaching Advice Super Coach Dan Pfaff Gives You His 20 Barriers To Championship Performances Pfaff is a genius. Trust us.
US Marathon Trials News
Runner’s World Has 15 “Experts” Vote On Who Will Make The 2016 US Olympic Marathon Team Not sure why they didn’t ask us to participate since we do this full-time for a living. The results? 1. Meb. 2. Ritz and 3. Puskedra. 1. Flanagan. 2. Linden and 3. A tie between Goucher/Hastings. Galen Rupp has more 1st place votes than just about anyone, however.
*MB: Looks like Rupp is preparing to run marathon trials- Catching Up With Cancer Survivor And #5 Olympic Marathon Trials Qualifier Serena Burla
Other News Of Note
News From Outside The US
- Italian Prime Minister Says Rome Is Leading Candidate For 2024 Olympics – Cites Fact It’s Supported By 77% Of Italians We bet they will be held in LA.
- Adam Gemili Determined To Make Up For Lost Time He’ll race indoors for the 1st time since 2012 on January 31st at the Welsh Senior Open Championships.
- Seven Things You Need To Know About New Junior PV World Record Holder Eliza McCartney
- Germany’s Ariane Friedrich Is Back Competing For 1st Time Since 2013 The 2009 bronze medalist in the HJ had a baby and then missed last year with an Achilles injury.
- Ticket Prices For Jamaica’s Boys And Girls Champs Have Gone Way Up – Some Seats Are 50% More Than Before Season tickets have gone up between 16.6% and 18.74% while Saturday’s general admission is up 50% but still only $12.
Nick Symmonds Lawyers Up For Athletes’ Rights
Nick Symmonds’ Run Gum Files Anti-Trust Suit Against USATF/USOC The lawsuit is about the idiotic rules preventing non-equipment manufacturers from being on athletes’ uniforms at the Olympic Trials (they can do so at US champs, just not the Trials). So Nike and adidas can have a logo on uniforms but Run Gum can’t. While they are at it, they should amend the lawsuit and go after the advertising restrictions put in place during the Olympic Games under Rule 50. *More From Run Gum, Including Copy Of Lawsuit *Symmonds Talks About Lawsuit (video)
US Mid-D News
Recommended Read: Phoebe Wright Writes Her Running Autobiography – From Walk-On To NCAA Champ To Struggling Pro To Olympic Hopeful A very good and funny read from Wright’s blog (optional audio).
*MB: Phoebe Wright’s New Blog. What Do You Think Of Her?- Solid Distance Action On Tap For Friday: House Of Track HP Meet In Portland – Eric Jenkins And Cam Levins In 3,000; Laura Roesler, Geena Gall, Sheila Reid In 800 Andrew Wheating is in the 800 (also listed in mile) vs. Tyler Mulder while the mile has Trevor Dunbar, Hassan Mead and Will Geoghegan. *Full Start Lists
- Oregon Mid-D Women Reinforce High Expectations In Season Opener Besides Raevyn Rogers‘ 600m time, there were a number of performances that show UO will be dependent on mid-d for points at NCAAs.
Donavan Brazier Talked To The Media On Tuesday
LRC His 1:45.93 Opener Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg For 800 Phenom Donavan Brazier Jonathan Gault spoke with the 18-year-old phenom today and learned two surprising things. 1) He ran a 1:14 600 in practice in November. 2) He says he’s definitely not doing the US Olympic Trials. Story includes race video.*MB: Check this out, Donavan Brazier ran a 1:14.98 600 in November!!!
*MB: America’s newest star has arrived!! True frosh Donavan Brazier runs 1:45.93 in first-ever collegiate 800!!
24 Days Until The Trials
After Running 61:29 In Houston, Luke Puskedra Says He “Actually Wanted To Go Faster” “I wouldn’t consider it an all out effort. Believe it or not, I wanted to actually run a faster time.”- Dathan Ritzenhein Has To Be Creative To Train For The Trials In Harsh Michigan Winter Weather To get acclimated to the LA heat he’ll eventually start spending time in the sauna and running on the indoor track in a bunch of layers.
- Ryan Vail Talks About His Training Ahead Of The OT He does a lot of solo running so on long runs he listens to podcasts for the first hour and right now is on a “Joe Rogan binge.”
- 5 Questions With Kara Goucher If she could have one song stuck in her head for 26.2, it’d be “Good to Be Alive” by Andy Grammar and she shares that she was bitten by a dog on a run last week.
- Luke Puskedra And Sara Hall Happy To Set PRs In Their Olympic Trials Tune-Ups In Houston Hall: “Ryan has been overseeing my training and telling me I was ready for a fast one.”
- Olympic Marathon Trials Video Preview
Week That Was
LRCMeet The Japanese Super Running Twins, Ryan Hall Is A Great Dude, Kate Grace Is Back, Mo Farah Vs. Kamworor, And When Sub-4 Isn't Sub-4
Dubai is in the books, the indoor track scene started to heat up, Japan's dominance over America in the marathon is complete, a sub-4 isn't always a sub-4, and Mo Farah will take on Kamworor for the world title in March.
Distance News
February 12th: World Record holder Zersenay Tadese And Olympic Silver Medalist Priscah Jeptoo Lead Loaded Fields For RAK Half Marathon Tadese faces 13 sub-60 minute runners (4 sub-59:00), including Bernard Koech (58:41), Stanley Biwott (58:56) and former WR holder Wilson Kipsang. Women’s field has 8 sub-68 women with Jeptoo vs. World Half champ Gladys Cherono and CWG champ Joyce Chepkirui.- Athletics Illustrated Q&A: Amy Cragg Focused On Being Top 3 Next Month In LA Cragg says husband Alistair runs with Jerry Schumacher and paces some of her workouts.
- Alex Kosinski To Be Inducted Into Sacramento Running Hall Of Fame
- Double Olympic Champ (Now Retired) Kelly Holmes To Run The London Marathon Holmes won 1,500 and 800 Olympic gold in 2004.
Marathon Trials News – Less Than 3 Weeks To Go
- Recommended Read: It’s Been A 4-Year Journey For Desiree Linden Since Her Heart Was Broken At The 2012 Olympics; Now She’s “Exactly Where She Plans To Be” Great profile by Michael Heald on Linden and her road back from injury and prep for 2016. Many insights from her and coach Kevin Hanson as well.
- Olympic Trials Shake-Up: Ethiopian-Born, Former Bahrain National 2:25:45 Marathoner Misiker Demissie Now Has US Citizenship Demissie just got cleared by the IAAF to run for the USA. She ran 2:25 back in 2013, but her agent doesn’t think she’s in 2:25 shape currently (she ran a 1:13:07 half last weekend).
*MB: Who is Misiker Demissie who just got cleared to run the trials? (link fixed)
Road / XC Results
MB: Fernando Cabada racing AGAIN!?!?!? Cabada finished 3rd in the Culiacan Half Marathon in 64:05, running the last 1.1K without shoes.- Vincent Rono And Pauline Kaveke Win Kenya Prisons XC Championships Silas Kiplagat was a DNF and Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Longosiwa didn’t start as his wife passed away the day before the race.
- Bahrain’s Aweke Ayalew And Kenya’s Irene Cheptai Win Juan Muguerza XC Meet In Spain Ayalew is the brother of Ethiopian steepler Hiwot Ayalew.
- IAAF XC Round-Up: Pamela Cherotich Beats Out 2011 Boston Marathon Champ Caroline Kilel At Small XC Race In Kenya In Italy, Kenyan Rodgers Maiyo defeated World Junior Cross-Country silver medalist Geoffrey Korir by 2 seconds.
- Ethiopia’s Alemu Birtukan Snaps Belgian Louise Carton’s Winning Streak At Joker+CrossCup XC Race Ethiopian Dame Tasame won the men’s race.
- Dewi Griffiths And Caryl Jones Win Cardiff British Athletics Cross Challenge
- Aichi Men Join Their Women’s Team by Winning National Ekiden Championships They bounced back from the embarrassment of being DQed last year for an illegal handoff.
Sprint Q&A: Jeremy Wariner
LRC What’s Jeremy Wariner Doing Working At Jimmy John’s? 7 Questions With The Olympic Legend Wariner posted online that he was now a general manager at a Jimmy John’s sandwich restaurant. We wondered if it could be that one of the greatest 400m sprinters of all time was retiring, so we reached out to see what was up.
*MB: Is Jeremy Wariner’s investment in Jimmy John’s smart?
Interesting Reads
Meet The World’s Greatest Backwards Racer – Germany’s Thomas Dold Dold, who also coaches two of Germany’s best female marathoners, “… owns every world record for running backwards from 400m to 10km (with the exception of the 5,000m). His range is incredible: 69.56 for the 400m, 2:31.1 for the 800m and 5:46.59 for the mile. He achieved his latest record – 39:20 for the 10km – in Dresden last year.”- Aries Merritt Is Already Back Training And says He May Try To Run World Indoors
Japan Surpasses U.S. As World’s Largest Amateur Marathon Market For 1st Time Ever In a span of a decade, Japan has seen its # of marathon finishers go from 75,000 to nearly 575,000. Great reporting by Brett Larner.
2017 World Chief – Sally Bolton – Thinks London 2017 Would Be The Perfect Farewell For Usain Bolt And Jessica Ennis-Hill- Little-Known Fact: Ryan Hall’s Older Brother Was Born In Australia
Today’s Doping Headlines
Audio: Adam Nelson Talks About How Dopers Have Damaged His Career And Cost Him ~2 Million Dollars In Appearance Fees / Prize Money Doping also led him to receive his 2004 Olympic gold 9 years later in an airport food court.- Russian Racewalker Stanislav Emelyanov “Cleared” In Doping Case Apparently his “B” sample came back negative, but the IAAF might still get him as he tried to evade testers. This would be his second ban.
- Molly Huddle Speaks Up For Lifetime Bans; Says She Doesn’t Think Doping Is As Widespread As Some Believe “I feel like there’s sometimes a conspiracy theory that we’re all witnessing it in the warm-up area and avoiding individual offers and things like that. It’s definitely not the case.”
- The Guardian‘s Marina Hyde: “Fifa And IAAF Ride Aboard A Gravy Train Where Normal Rules Do Not Apply” She says there should be “sarcastic air quotes” around “IAAF ethics commission” and “IAAF integrity unit.”
- Wilson Kipsang Claims Athletes Are Now In Position To Work With Athletics Kenya To Tackle Doping We’re sure having (allegedly) corrupt officials like Isaiah Kiplagat out of there won’t hurt things.
LetsSprint.com
Jamaican Commentator (Jokingly) Claims He Should Be Given Some Credit For Usain Bolt’s Success Because He Bashed Him Back In 2005 This journalist hypothesizes that his criticism of Bolt motivated him to win medals and sets records all these years.- Lolo Jones And Marquise Goodwin Announced For Millrose Games Jones says she’s shocked she’s ready to compete so soon after having back surgery. Goodwin will race Andre De Grasse in the 60m.
- IAAF “First Impressions” Q&A With Nigeria’s 2013 LJ And 200 Medalist Blessing Okagbare Okagbare shares her life’s firsts including first sport, first race and first date.
- Usain Bolt Says He Wants To Stay Involved In The Sport After Retirement
London Marathon Stacked Once Again
LRCFour Thoughts On The 2016 London Men's Field: Olympic Implications, The Return Of Bekele And Karoki's Debut
The 2016 London men's field very well may be tougher to win than the Olympics. It is totally loaded once again as it includes the world's best marathoner, the world champ, the world record holder and a whole lot more. Surprisingly, it will mark the return to the marathon for Kenenisa Bekele and the debut of Bedan Karoki.
LetsNotDope.com
Seb Coe Knows Some WRs Are Not Legitimate, But Doesn’t Want To Taint Clean Athletes “I can understand the frustration. I know there are records on the book which are a real inhibitor, particularly in some of the female events …”- European Athletics Vice Pres. Jean Gracia Named Interim IAAF CEO/General Secretary
- Michael Johnson Says IAAF Scandal Is Worse Than FIFA’s Johnson also joined other WR holders by saying he was against the UKA proposal to reset the record books.
- The Independent: “Seb Coe Plays The Victim Just Like His Old Pal Jose Mourinho” At the very least, Coe deserves a ton of criticism for giving the cold shoulder (and worse) to heroes Vitaliy and Yuliya Stepanov as well as ARD journalist Hajo Seppelt.
- London Marathon Promises Its “Toughest Ever” Testing In 2016 The WMM has financed their own out-of-competition testing for their athletes.
- RUSADA Resumes Work With “Some Responsibilities” They can run “education” programs and issues licenses, but can’t conduct their own tests.
South African Prosecutors Argue Against Oscar Pistorius’ Appeal Pistorius is under house arrest while the Constitutional Court decides if it will hear his appeal. Sentencing on the upgraded murder conviction is scheduled for April 18.
Post-Weekend NCAA Stuff
- Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From The Weekend Portland’s William Kincaid was the distance highlight with a 7:48.89 3K.
- Florida And Texas Stay 1-2 In Updated Men’s NCAA Rankings; Texas A&M Moves From 9th To 3rd
- Arkansas Women Fortify Top Spot In DI Rankings Georgia and Texas are ranked 2-3.
Portland HP Meet *Results
LRC “It Was Phenomenal” – Andrew Wheating Is Thrilled With His First Banked Indoor Track Race In Nearly 6 Years The last few years have been a major struggle for Wheating. Has he finally turned the corner?
- MB: Wheating, Jenkins, Levins, Gall, Reid, Roesler all racing at Portland HP Meet #2 Tonight *Results
- MB: Andrew Wheating (3:39) Crushes Dunbar, Geoghegan, and O’Lionaird
- MB: Paul Chelimo Edges Eric Jenkins 7:44-7:45
- MB: Sheila Reid Wins by 5+ Seconds in 4:18
- MB: why are NOP runners running so slow?
- MB: William Kincaid of Portland runs 7:48 3k
- Oregonian Recap Prandini ran 7.28 and Roesler 2:04.
Drugs And Hormones
The End Of Women’s Sports? IOC Set To Easy Restrictions On Transgender Athlete Competing At Olympics By No Longer Requiring Reassignment Surgery Now, men who want to compete as women at the 2016 Games will only need to undergo a year of hormone therapy. Previously they needed surgery and two years of therapy. *ESPN Article
*MB: Transgender atheletes to be allowed to compete in the Olympics WITHOUT having gender reassignment surgery?- Training And Low Testosterone: Understanding The Link Ryan Hall‘s struggles and retirement has made this a popular topic. Read to find out a little more about the condition, causes and treatment.
*MB: How often does a 30 year old athletic dude get LOW T???
*MB: SERIOUS DISCUSSION ONLY – Ryan Hall, Albert Salazar, Alan Webb, and Fatigue
*MB: Ryan Hall succumbs to “chronic low testosterone” - Who Were The Most Drug Tested US Runners In 2015 Galen Rupp was the most overall with 21 out-of-competition tests while Shalane Flanagan (17) and Justin Gatlin (16) were 2-3.
2016 Dubai Marathon *Watch Race Replay *Results
MB: Official 2016 Dubai Marathon Live Discussion Thread
LRC The Marathon World Record Survives But 30k WR Falls As Unknown Tesfaye Abera Comes From Behind To Win Dubai Marathon In 2:04:24 This race had it all. A WR for 30k, a lead change in the final 500 and a shocking win by a previous 2:09 guy.
LRC Tirfi Tsegaye Wins Dubai For Second Time And Breaks 2:20 For The First Time In Her 19th Career Marathon Do you have a marathon barrier you want to break? Be inspired by Tirfi Tsegaye, who broke 2:20 for the 1st time in her 19th career marathon.
- Stats Galore From Ken Nakamura For the 2016 Dubai Marathon Men’s winner Tesfaye Abera is the fastest 23-year-old in history and women’s runner-up Amane Beriso had the 5th-best debut in history.
- IAAF Dubai Marathon Recap 17 men had a better PR than the men’s winner.
IAAF/Doping/Administrative Updates
- Head Of Russia’s Biggest Bank (VTB) Says He’s Going To Sue Dick Pound And All 10 Officials Who Signed WADA Report The report had called for “forensic examination” of the bank’s relationship with the IAAF as some wondered if its $25 million sponsorship deal was for drug cover-ups.
- Interesting Read AP: Banned From International Competition, Russian Athletes Are Having To Make Do At Tiny Domestic Meets In Russia
- British Government Ordered Embassies To Lobby For Sebastian Coe In IAAF Vote We’re glad they did. How someone is trying to make a scandal out of is this is beyond us.
- Seb Coe Met With Asian Athletics Officials In Doha – Says He’s Concerned The Age Of The Average Track Fan Is 55
- “Let Them Eat Cake” Awful Idea: Public Transportation May Be Limited At Certain Times To Only Those With Special Olympic Card
- 1996 And 2000 Olympian Katsuhiko Hanada To Step Down As Jobu University Head Coach They were last at this year’s Hakone Ekiden.
Previous Doping News
Finnish Paper: Seb Coe Didn’t Compete At 1983 Worlds Because He Couldn’t Pass British Team’s “Own Anti-Doping Tests” A blogger has uncovered an article published in 1983 in Finland citing a source from the British “team’s inner circle.”
*MB: Seb Coe dropped out of World Championships in 1983 to avoid doping positive.- Golden Girl Pauline Davis-Thompson Thanks Heavenly Father For Providing Seb Coe As Leader Of IAAF “My dear friend and brother in sports, as I thank our Heavenly Father for the gift of life, I also thank Him for the gift of wonderful people like you. I know this journey as the head of the IAAF is very challenging for you. I want to inspire and encourage you to stay strong.”
Senegal Says It Will Not Extradite Papa Diack To Face Charges
Mo’s Certainly Not Ducking The Competition In This One
MB: Are you ready for this? Farah vs. Kamworor at 13.1 at World Half. Farah targets World HM Champs in Cardiff! Earlier today, Mo Farah committed to racing the World Half. We can’t wait for his battle with Geoffrey Kamworor.
2016 Tokyo Field Announced
LRCEmmanuel Mutai And Edna Kiplagat Lead 2016 Tokyo Marathon Fields; 2016's First Major Will Take Place On February 28
We've crunched the numbers comparing the three Abbott World Marathon Majors that are held early in 2016 and Tokyo is definitely weaker than both Boston and London.
Doping News
Hear, Hear! CEO Of UK Anti-Doping Is Going To Quiz The Arsenal Manager About His Doping Concerns The Arsenal manager is irate that their loss to Dinamo Zagreb wasn’t overturned after one of DZ’s players was banned for 4 years. “I think it’s foolish for any sport to think that they’re immune from doping, I really do,” said Nicole Sapstead.- Jessica Ennis-Hill Admits She’ll Have Doubts About Russian Athletes If They Are Cleared For Rio Of course, Hill would have likely privately had them even without the WADA report. Hill: “I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t look at Russian athletes and think ‘is everything 100% OK?'”
- Russia’s Anti-Doping Agency Resumes Work With “Some Responsibilities” They still aren’t doing testing but are now doing education and transportation of tests. *WADA Update On RUSADA Non-Compliance
LRC Katie Rainsberger Named Gatorade National Girls Cross-Country Runner Of The Year She beat out FL Champ Weini Kelati.
What A Week – Week That Was
WTWWhy Ryan Hall Is The Best (Natural-Born) U.S. Marathoner Ever, Sammy Wanjiru's Wife Is Amazingly Good, U.S. 1,500 Medal Chances Take A Hit And The Returns Of Ajee Wilson And Laura Roesler
What a week. In the WTW, we give Ryan Hall some more praise, introduce you to Sammy Wanjiru's wife, who just ran one of the greatest races ever on US soil, tell you why Jenny Simpson's and Matthew Centrowitz's gold medal dreams just took a hit, and break down the fast and slow half marathons for Puskedra and Estrada.
Three Recommended Reads On Current And Former Stanford Runners
Post-Retirement Q&A With Ryan Hall He says his fatigue was so bad sometimes he’d go out for 30-minute runs and have to walk home. “It was just such a hopeless, helpless feeling. It was the walk of shame.”- SPIKES Talks To Garrett Heath About His XC Win Over Mo Farah And How His “Beast” Size Is A Disadvantage On The Track “When you watch Andrew Wheating, he’s always in lane two or lingering in the back, while all those little guys are manoeuvring around and have that advantage of moving freely.”
- Profile On Twins Jim And Joe Rosa, Who Hope To Represent Puerto Rico At Rio 2016 The two hardly ever run together on long training runs because they get too competitive and run too fast.
LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”
Runners World Honors You and the Brojos
We like This Photo So Much We Leave it Up
Want a Better Running Shoe?
Beta Better Running Shoe Site
It’s Time to Change How We Find Running Shoes
American Strong: The Untold Story of How American Teamwork Helped Meb Keflezighi Win Boston
28,000+ Likes on Facebook
A Real Running Hero:
The Flo Groberg Story
Flo Has Now Won the Medal of Honor
