More Trials Coverage From Outside LRC

• Alberto Salazar Says Galen Rupp Will Be Fine In The LA Heat Salazar: “We’ve prepared for it. You prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Galen is a good heat runner.”
  *MB: Salazar says LA Marathon course is Rupp certified
• The New Yorker: “From Drug Dealer To Long-Distance Record-Setter: Kevin Castille’s Redemption” The 43-year-old Castille thinks he’s capable of running 2:15.
• ESPNW: Profile And Q&A With Annie Bersagel, An “Unlikely” OT Contender She shares a low point in her knee surgery comeback was when she could only run 1-minute intervals with walk breaks and a jogger passed her as she stopped saying, “Come on, you can do it, keep going.”
• USA Today: Army Soldier Elkanah Kibet Follows Unique Path To OT Marathon Kibet broke out with a 2:11:31 at Chicago while working as a full-time soldier. Now he’s in the Army’s World Class Athlete Program, so watch out.
• RRW: Olympic Trials Marathon Is Biggest-Ever Opportunity for Bobby Curtis
• RRW: Relaxed And Refocused, Luke Puskedra Eyes Olympic Berth At USA Marathon Trials
• 2016 Will Be Largest Trials Field In History With 373 Men And Women
• USATF Round-Table Quotes From Becky Wade, Kellyn Taylor, Nick Arciniaga, Matt Llano And More
• USATF Press Conference Quotes From Linden And Puskedra

Jumps / Throws

• Yelena Isinbayeva Expected To Recover From Achilles Injury By March
• RIP: Russia’s Former Discus WR Holder Yuriy Dumchev Dies At Age 57
• Great PV Clash Set For Pre Classic This Summer With Renaud Lavillenie, Shawn Barber And Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe

The Week That Was

LRC WTW: Time To Panic For Mary Cain? Doping In The Super Bowl, No Medal No Problem, Kenyan Rap Videos, Clayton Murphy Breaks 4 (By A Lot), Meet Randall Cunningham’s Daughter, And A US Marathoner Saves A Life What a week. So much to break down, including two amazing teen performances and one bad one. All of that and more, including our Performance of the Year by Adriana Nelson.

European News – RIP To A London Marathon Legend

• RIP London Marathon Co-Founder John Disley, 87 Disley designed the London Marathon course and as an athlete won steeple bronze at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. *BBC Tribute
• Paris 2024 Unveil Eiffel Tower Inspired Olympic Logo
• Jessica Ennis’ Coach Wants GB’s 2016 Training Camp Moved Out Of Brazil Due To Zika Fears

The 2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials Are This Saturday

LRC Olympic Trials Week Is Here!!! LetsRun.com Debates The Women’s Race Last week, LRC debated whether Galen Rupp was the favorite in the men’s race. Now we turn our attention to the women’s side. Who’s the favorite? Who gets top 3?

• Recommended Read: The Denver Post: Dathan Ritzenhein, Brianne Nelson And Kara Lubieniecki Are Three Colorado Athletes Chasing Olympic Dreams Ritz talks about finishing 4th in 2012 and and then making it in the 10k: “It was like the odds were against me the whole time and all the way up to the start of the race, when it was pouring rain and 50 degrees and I didn’t have the standard. That day was about overcoming my own demons of missing the team, having surgeries, feeling like I was maybe at the end of my career in running…”
• Shalane Flanagan And Amy Cragg May Use Teamwork At The OT Flanagan: “We’re in a good enough place that if Amy and I felt like it was in our best interest to work together in the race – like if it is time to make a move at some point – I feel like we feel confident in our abilities to do that.”
• Lauren Kleppin Pulls Out Of Olympic Marathon Trials With Injury *Discuss
• Forecast Calling For Temperatures In The High 70s During The Olympic Marathon Trials A lot of pros have been doing the last few weeks of their training in warm locations to prepare.
  *MB: Hot trials… A weather certainty
• Skechers Signs Contract Extension With Meb Keflezighi Through 2023

Fears Over Zika Virus Continue To Grow

US Distance News

• Good Read: Meb Keflezighi Wants To Make One More Olympic Team So His Daughters Will Be Old Enough To Have The Memory On Galen Rupp competing, Meb said, “There’s probably one less spot to compete for.”
• +1: ROLL Recovery Offering To Pay Athlete Entry Fees For The Marathon Trials Yes, you read that right. USATF charges athletes a $30 entry fee to enter the Trials.
  *MB: Roll Recovery to pay entry fee to US Olympic Trials Marathon
• Matt Centrowitz Says He Needs To “Tone Down” His Performances / Celebrations So He Doesn’t Motivate Nick Willis Willis sent Centro a tweet after one of his recent races saying it fired him up and motivated him to get in his second run of the day.
• Short Video Interview With Jared Ward Ward actually did his masters thesis on “optimal pace strategy in a marathon.”
• Akron’s Clayton Murphy Joins Sub-4:00 Club With Big 3:57 PR Murphy is the 2015 USAs 800m 4th placer who went to Beijing last year when Nick Symmonds withdrew.
• After Success Of House Of Track Series, There Are Rumors And Hopes That Portland Will Get A Permanent Indoor Facility
• MB: Did you know Kylo Ren can run a 4:35 mile?

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

LRC LetsRun.com Debates: Is Galen Rupp The Favorite 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

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?