LRCDrew Hunter's Coach Tom "Tinman" Schwartz Explains Critical Velocity And Type IIa Muscle Fibers

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LRCThe Best Moment At Olympic Trials Press Conference - Meb Brought To Tears By Galen Rupp, Amy Cragg, Jared Ward And Desi Linden

LRCTyler Pennel: LRC Underdog Of The Week - "Screw them. We're going to go out there and show them what's up."

Get Excited: World Indoors Is Fast Approaching

• Evan Jager Putting More Focus On Indoors Than Usual As He Wants To Compete At Home In Portland Jager: “It might be one of my only chances to run at a global championships in the states and that in itself is cool.”
• Interesting Read: Portland Tribune: “Introducing The Best Track In The World” Apparently Nike and the city of Portland are considering buying the track even though it was promised to the University of Iowa for $2.6 million.
• Jenn Suhr Is Reconsidering Doing US And World Indoors As She Wants Another Chance At 5.07m She had previously said she wouldn’t do them because they were too close together and her husband/coach bashed the US qualification system.
• Photos: Track For World Indoors Is Being Disassembled And Moved From The Abandon Warehouse To The Oregon Convention Center
• TrackTown Adds Four Prep Events To World Indoor Program Includes the 60m, PV and a 4×400 relay.

Post-Olympic Trials News

• Good Read: Shalane Flanagan Q&A On Dehydration, Delirium, And Drama At The Olympic Trials Flanagan goes step-by-step through the race from reacting to Kellyn Taylor‘s move to teamwork with Amy Cragg and getting so dehydrated she needed an IV afterwards.
• Meet The Last Place Finishers At The Olympic Marathon Trials: 149th Place Joanna Zeiger (3:23) And 105th Place Chris Barnicle (3:45) Zeiger is a 45-year-old who promised herself she’d finish after DNFing in 2012. Barnicle is a once 62-min. half runner who now works as a distributor for medical marijuana dispensaries.
  *MB: Chris Barnicle = Greatest performance of the 2016 OTM
• Chris Chavez The Sports Illustrated Writer Meets Chris Chavez The 2:17 Marathoner Two identical names in a close-knit running community, they each sometimes find themselves receiving credit for the other’s work. *MB: Chris Chavez (The Runner) vs Chris Chavez (The Reporter)
• Luke Puskedra Talks About Being 4th; Says He’ll Try To Make Rio In the 10,000 If he doesn’t make the 10,000 team (and Galen Rupp sticks with the 10K/marathon double) then Puskedra will focus on Chicago again.
• Marathoner Brandon Birdsong Proposes To His Girlfriend At Olympic Trials Finish Line
• RW Graphical Analysis: How The OT Were Won

Doping News

• Athletics Kenya CEO Isaac Mwangi Temporarily Steps Down Over Bribery Allegations
• Papa Diack Will Be Questioned By Senegal Investigators A warrant for his arrest has been issue by Interpol, but Senegal has refused to extradite him.
• Russia Orders Athletes To Sign Anti-Doping Pledge To Compete At Russian Indoor Champs How many athletes will cross their fingers or roll their eyes while signing?
• Kenya Anti-Doping Agency To Investigate Claims Against AK CEO Isaac Mwangi
• Kenyan Government Says Its Putting Another $4.9 Million Towards Anti-Doping

LRC Yohan Blake Opens His Season With A 48.14-Second 400 In Jamaica (video included) Blake was the last finisher in the race won by Javon Francis in 46.21.

Wejo Is Proud: Weldon Kirui Loses Luggage, Gets New Pair Of Skechers From Race Organizers And Wins LA Marathon In 2:13 Ukraine’s Nataliya Lehonkova won the women’s race in 2:30.

The 2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials #Greatness *Full Results And Mile Splits: *Men *Women

LRC Full Recap America’s Next Great Marathoner Arrives As Galen Rupp Dominates Olympic Trials In Debut; Meb Keflezighi, Jared Ward Grab Final Two Spots On Team USA (updated) Rupp (2:11:12), Keflezighi (2:12:20) and Ward (2:13:00) is your team to Rio as Luke Puskedra (2:14:12) and Tyler Pennel (2:14:57) just miss out.

• MiLive.com: Dathan Ritzenhein “Just In Shock” After Dropping Out Of Olympic Marathon Trials He said the cramping began about the nine-mile mark in his left calf, moved to his right and then his hamstrings.
• Recommended Read: SI’s Tim Layden Writes About Trials Better Than Anyone Else “This should be cause for excitement. Barely a decade ago, U.S. distance running was abysmal and now there is a runner in red, white and blue talking bigger than Kenyans and bigger than Ethiopians. … But instead, there is not just a double, but also an ongoing investigation, veiled threats and the familiar and dogged specter of wrongdoing.”
• LRC Meb Explains His Unfriendly Words And Gesture With Galen Rupp During The Marathon Trials – “It’s not a track, the road is open.” A little love was lost between Meb and Galen during the race. Meb tried to explain what happened.
• RRW: Rupp, Cragg Prevail In Hot USA Olympic Trials Marathon
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NCAA Weekend Action *Results: *BU Valentine *Husky *ISU *Spire *All NCAA Results

• Fastrack National Invite Results: Villanova’s Patrick Tiernan Runs An NCAA-Leading 7:48.55 Robby Andrews won the 800 in 1:47.50.
  *Cornell’s James Gowans Wins Mile Dual With Columbia’s Rob Napolitano As Both Run 3:58
• Husky Classic: MB: Grant Fisher Runs 7:50.06 To Win Husky Classic 3K In A Close Finish He beat out Washington’s Izaic Yorks by .14 seconds. Allie Ostrander ran 8:54 to win the women’s race. Boise State’s David Elliott took the mile in 3:57.38 as the top 7 went sub-4 and Natalia Piliusina won the women’s (4:35.31).
  *Edward Cheserek Runs World-Leading 13:35
  *Results Chelsea Blaase took the women’s 5K in 15:43.
• ISU Classic: Elise Cranny Gets 4:38 Mile Win In Her Return To Racing Was her first race since outdoors last year. Also on Saturday, Akron’s Worlds qualifier Clayton Murphy ran 1:46.13 to beat NCAA champ Edward Kemboi.
• Justyn Knight Runs 7:48.71 To Beat Out Sean McGorty By .08
  *Results Both 5Ks were very close as Thomas Curtin ran 13:37 to beat out Marc Scott by .24 and Molly Seidel won from Anna Rohrer in 15:47. *Video Recap
• Spire: MB: ERIN FINN Solos A 15:38 At SPIRE Invy
  *Results

• BU Valentine: Results Friday winners included GB’s Lynsey Sharp (800 – 2:00.30), Amanda Eccleson (mile – 4:26.88) as the top 4 broke 4:30, Christina Melian (5,000 – 15:48) and Jessica O’Connell running 8:56 to beat Ashley Higginson and Emma Bates. Saturay: Amed Bile (7:51), Joel Hubbard (3:58) and Drew Piazza (2:21.97 – 1,000).
• Raven Saunders Breaks Collegiate Indoor Shot Put Record With 19.23m
• Event-By-Event Top NCAA Marks From The Weekend