– Bernard Lagat announcing that he’ll be retiring from track after the 2016 season. He’ll still continue to race competitively on the roads and even wants to try a marathon, but his track days will be done.
LRC LetsRun.com Debates: Is Galen Rupp The Favoite For The 2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials? Who’s Most Likely To Make The Team? Is Galen Rupp the favorite at the Trials in his debut marathon? We debate that as we start breaking down the Trials.
LRCTeg Retires: We Remember The Six Greatest Moments In His Career & Show Some Awesome Old School Video While Tegenkamp may not have been the best of his generation, he helped usher American distance running into a new stratosphere and he’s the only American in US history ranked in the top 100 of the both the 1,500 and marathon. We rank his six most impressive accomplishments.
Abdi Abdirahman Scratches From Olympic Marathon Trials And Loses His Chance To Become First American Distance Runner To Make 5 Olympic Teams Abdi still might run a spring marathon and is even talking about the 10K on the track. “Everything good comes to an end but this isn’t the end.”
*MB: Abdi Scratches From Olympic Trials
LRCDrew Hunter Breaks Gerry Lindgren’s 1964 American HS Record, Matt Centrowitz, Garrett Heath And Shannon Rowbury Keep Rolling Gerry Lindgren‘s American indoor high school record had stood since 1964 and is finally gone thanks to Drew Hunter running 7:59.33 in a race won by the hot Garrett Heath. Matt Centrowitz won the mile and dabbed for Carolina fans as Shannon Rowbury got another win at the Camel City Elite meet. Updated with post-race videos.
Previous Flash Drew Hunter Breaks American High School Indoor (And Outdoor) 3,000 Meter Record With 7:59:33
*Pre-Race: LRC Drew Hunter’s Coach Reveals Hunter Only Took Three Days Off After Foot Locker And That “If He Runs Successfully, Then He’ll Probably Break The [HS 3k] Record”
It’s Official:Galen Rupp To Run 2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials As Well As World Indoors Turns out all the speculation (see here, here and here) was true as Rupp will be lining up on the streets of LA next month to make his highly anticipated marathon debut while shooting for an Olympic berth. Or maybe it wasn’t all speculation as a source told Rojo this was the case back in December as shown here.
LRCWorld Indoors Is Less Than Seven Weeks Away; Which Americans Have The Standard? A number of Americans have the standard in the 1,500 and 3,000, but only two men (Boris Berian and Donavan Brazier) and three women (Ajee Wilson, Treniere Moser and Charlene Lipsey) have it in the 800.
Olympic Shot Put Champion Valerie Adams Gets Engaged
What Are The Healthiest And Least Healthiest States In The Country? Hawaii, Colorado and California top the list, while West Virginia is on the bottom.
LRCWhat’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?
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Kara Goucher Says Making Rio 2016 Squad “Would Drastically Outweigh The Others” Goucher says she’s “a lot fitter and healthier than” when she made the team in 2012 and is preparing for a 2:25 race. *MB Thread
Two Officials Tell Daily Mail That Seb Coe “Alerted UK Athletics Officials To Claims That Cash Bribes Were Being Offered For 2017 World Championships Votes” The British press is trying to make a scandal out of him knowing of the bribes as he told Parliament last month he knew of no one being offered bribes.
*Lord Coe Denies Knowledge Of Bidding Bribes For 2017 World Athletics Championships
More Adminstrative News: A Group Of Refugee Athletes Will March Together In The Opening Ceremony Of The Olympics In Rio And we thought the Olympics weren’t supposed to be political.
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.
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