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LRC3:58.25! Drew Hunter Becomes Second Sub-4:00 High Schooler In The Mile Indoors Thanks To 57-Second Final 400

The High School Record Books Take A Beating

• Vashti Cunningham Sets High School HJ Record With 6-4.75 Clearance She beat former World silver medalist Chaunte Lowe.
• Sophomore Mondo Duplantis Clears 18-.50 (5.50m) To Break The High School National Pole Vault Record*Video
• Brian Heron Runs 400m High School Freshman Record With 47.39 Herron took his record back from Tyrese Cooper, who broke Herron’s original mark last month. *Video

A Star With A Full-Time Job

RRW Despite Working Full Time Job With Canon, Nicole Tully Is The Reigning US 5,000 Champion And Olympic Hopeful The Villanova grad will be looking to turn the tables on Jordan Hasay in Saturday’s Amory Track Invitational.

Interesting Reads

• Toni Reavis Compares Seb Coe To Hillary Clinton In That Both Are The Ultimate Insiders “Until a true outsider is brought in with the proper cleanser, the dirt will only find different corners in which to collect.”
• A Look at Seb Coe’s Day Job He’s the head of the sports division of Chime Communications. Many of you may not know but the head of the IAAF is technically a volunteer gig.
• Japanese State TV: Research Shows Japanese Athletes Don’t Dope Because They Have Samurai Spirit “Giving everything you have is more important than winning or losing,” said one athlete. Something similar to “bushido” impacts their views.
• Two More Russian Weightlifters Banned – Russia Will Lose At Least One, Probably Two Olympic Spots As A Result
• Nostalgic?World Half Champs Are 50 Days Away – Watch A Highlight Video From The 1st World Half (Also In The UK) From 1992
• Bring Back The Mile – Has It Ever Gone Away? A Column By Len Johnson

 We All Get Injured And We All Eventually Die

• Jessica Ennis-Hill Has An Injured Achilles – Cancels Entire 2016 Indoor Season
• Man Who Invented The Triathlon (Yes, There Was Such A Man) In 1974 Dies At Age 80

Administrative News

• 2016 USA Indoor Tickets Now On Sale – USATF Indoor Tickets Start At Just $5
• IOC President Thomas Bach Proud Of Brazil’s Efforts Despite Challenges
• Not Good London 2017 World Championships In Chaos As Two Key Board Members Quit As They Are Disgusted By The Way The Champs Are Being Run By UK Athletics’ Top 2 OfficialsEd Warner and Niels De Vos seem to be pissing a lot of people off. A source says, “It’s hard to ascertain whether the board are taking decisions in the interest of the Championships rather than in the interest of UKA.”
• British Athletes Issued With Key Zika Virus Guidance Before Rio Olympics Infected men can give it to women through semen in the first 28 days.
• BAA Buys Office Building That It Had Been Leasing For $1.2 Million Right By Marathon Start
• Canadian XC Skier Beckie Scott Doesn’t Understand Why Other Sports In Russia Like Skiing Aren’t Also Being Banned WADA didn’t have the authority to look into anything but track, but the doping likely impacts all sports, says the 2002 gold medalist, who initially finished 3rd behind to Russians booted for EPO.

The 2016 US Marathon Trials Are Next Weekend – Who Is The Favorite?

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.

• Recommended Read:Kara Goucher Says She Almost Called It Quits After She Ran Her Slowest Marathon Ever At NYC 2014 She asked her coaches to to tell her if she was “fooling herself” and was “done.”Now she says she’s the fittest she’s been in years.
• RR #2:Good Read: Did You Forget About 2012 OT 5th Placer Brett Gotcher? He’s Still Here Gotcher ran a 2:10:36 debut, but hasn’t ran faster since. He’s battled through 3-years of injuries since 2012, but now feels like he “can run 2:09 flat or just under”.
  *MB:Brett Gotcher = Marathon Trials Dark Horse
• Q&A:Luke Puskedra Has Respect For His Elders “You know, before Chicago – and even now – there are guys that I just don’t feel like I’m in their league. Dathan, Meb, Abdi. They are solid, they have experience, they’ve done it before. They have wisdom.”
• Short Video Interview With Dathan Ritzenhein Ritz says he hasn’t seen the LA course, but has been studying it from afar.

Sprint Q&A: Jeremy Wariner

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?