February 28, 2016 Homepage Archive

Tokyo Marathon *Results

LRC Recap Lilesa Turns Back Chumba’s Chance For $500k, Helah Kiprop Stakes Her Claim For $500k With Course Record, And A 19-Year-Old Japanese Guy Runs 2:11:34 Some great racing in Tokyo as AWMM Series IX came to an end.

The Week That Was – Our Weekly Recap

LRCWTW: Someone Break Up The Women Of The Bowerman Track Club, Putting Drew Hunter's Run In Perspective, Much-Improved US 5k Running, And Galen Rupp Imitates Alberto Salazar

This week we also catch up with coaching legends Frank Gagliano and Ron Warhurst, talk about abolishing the US Olympic Trials and wonder if the Russian doping scandal resulted in a murder.

Distance Stuff: Salazar Says He Isn’t Worried

Alberto Salazar Says He Isn’t “Going To Worry About” Galen Rupp Possibly Having To Run The Slow Heat At USAs “It’s out of our hands. There is nothing we can do about it.”
*LRCYet Another USATF Controversy? Might Galen Rupp Have To Qualify For World Indoors Out Of The Slow Heat At USA Indoors?
Free Coaching Advice: Former Portland State Coach Jonathan Marcus Is Happy To Be Out Of The NCAA As He Was Sick Of Watching Runners Burn Out Marcus feels that peaking for three championships a year too much and shares his optimal redshirt schedule to prevent future burnout. *Discuss
Indiana Runner Q&A With Andy Bayer Bayer’s 2016 is off to a good start as he ran 10 seconds faster at Millrose this year (7:42 3K) than in 2015.
New Zap Fitness House Will Be Named “The Cameron Bean House” Bean passed away in September after being hit by a car while running.
*MB:Cameron Bean (ZAP) killed by car on a run
Q&A: Indiana Runner Catches Up With Bob Kennedy Kennedy talks a bit about his career (high school through pro) and what he’s up to now.

More Upcoming Action

USTFCCCA Weekend Conference Champs Preview: SEC, ACC, BIG 12, BIG Ten, PAC-12
Sunday: Sammy Kitwara Going For 6th-Straight Win At Sunday’s World Best 10K In Puerto Rico He will have a stiff challenge as he faces Stephen Sambu and Bedan Karoki. Former world silver medalist Belaynesh Oljira will try to defend her title against 66:29 half runner Mercy Wacera.
Sunday: Neely Spence Gracey Leads Field For Sunday’s Rock ‘N’ Roll New Orleans Half Marathon Spence-Gracey is using the race as part of her buildup as she prepares to make her marathon debut at Boston this spring.
March 20:Stephen Sambu (60:41) And Joyce Chepkirui (66:19) Join Ben True And Molly Huddle As Leaders Of NYC Half Elite Fields Other top names include Wilson Chebet (59:15), Zane Robertson (59:47), Sam Chelanga and Diego Estrada for the men. Caroline Rotich (68:52), Buzunesh Deba (68:59) and Neely Spence Gracey for the women.
March 20: Multi-Time World Champion Vivian Cheruiyot Will Make Her Half Marathon Debut At The Lisbon Half This is the course where Zersenay Tadese set his WR. World half silver medalist Samuel Tsegay leads men’s field against Martin Mathathi and Tariku Bekele.

Kenya May Soon Be The Toughest Country In The World On Doping

Kenya Proposes Doping Bill That Would Suspend Licenses Of Medical Practitioners That Help Athletes Dope For A Minimum Of 1 Year

Geoffrey Mutai Says Boston Marathon His “Favorite Course” – Adds Training Is Going Better Than Last Year As He’s Healthy

Random Sprint/Field News

15-Year-Old Kiwi James Guthrie-Croft Has Run 10.97 In 100m
World Junior PV Record Holder Eliza McCartney Improves Her PR To 4.71m
New Zealand Names Throws-Heavy Worlds Indoor TeamNick Willis is the only runner on the team.

Which Will Be A More Annoying Story? The Russian Doping One (Yes, They Will Be There) Or Zika (Not As Big Of A Deal As People Fear)?

Russian Athletics Head: “The Olympic Games without the Russian national team, this is not the Olympic Games.”
Brazil To Blast Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes With Gamma Rays Ahead Of Rio 2016 Up to 12 million male Aedes mosquitoes – which spread Zika – will be zapped with the gamma rays to sterilize them.

News From Kenya

Sprint News

Dina Asher-Smith Learns Lessons From 7.25 Disappointment At Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix
James Dasaolu Keen To Banish 2015 Demons In Olympic Year The 9.91 man only ran 10.12 last year.

Keeping Up With The Eatons

Good Watch:10-Minute Video Interview With Harry Marra, Coach Of Ashton And Brianne Eaton Marra says he’s been doing T&F since a kid when he pole vaulted over his mom’s clothes lines in the backyard. Other interesting tidbits including he was living in California and basically retired from coaching when he was asked by Vin Lananna to coach Eaton at Oregon.
IAAF First Impressions Q&A With Brianne Theisen-Eaton Romantics might be disappointed to know that her first kiss was not Ashton Eaton.

2016 Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix – Mo Farah’s 1 Indoor Race Of 2016 *Results

The fans were happy LRCMo Farah’s 2016 Track Campaign Gets Off To A Successful Start As He Wins Glasgow 3,000 In 7:39.55 After realizing the British record was out of reach, Mo focused on the win and got it, but Mo only closed in 58.9.

LRCMary Cain’s Lackluster 2016 Continues – Cain Runs 4:13.55 In Glasgow Cain finished 8th of 9.
IAAF: Abdalaati Iguider Runs World-Leading 3:34.94 To Win 1,500 Over Ayanleh SouleimanSiffan Hassan won in 4:01.40 as Gudaf Tsegay set an indoor Jr. record in 4:01.81. Adam Kszczot (1:46.23), Melissa Bishop (2:00.19) and Nancy Chepkwemoi (8:49) were the other distance winners.
Non-Distance:Shawn Barber Returns To Form With A 5.89m PV Victory; Dafne Schippers Wins 60m in 7.10 Seconds Little-known Brit Sean Safo-Antwi won the men’s 60m after Kim Collins pulled up with a cramp and was stretchered off the track.
“Blade Jumper” Markus Rehm “Wins” Glasgow LJ In 8.10m Technically, Aussie Fabrice Lapierre (8.08m) won since Rehm finishes in a separate set of paralympic results.
MB:Official 2016 Glagow Indoor Live Discussion Thread

Field Event Stuff

More Paralympic Debate As Amputee LJer Markus Rehm Argues For A Spot At The Olympics GB’s Chris Tomlinson and Dan Bramble were for it, but Aussie Fabrice Lapierre (who finished 2nd in Glasgow behind Rehm) said no.
Brazil’s 34-Year-Old Pole Vaulter Fabiana Murer Will Wants To End Her Career With A Gold Medal At Her Home Olympics The multi-time global medalist will retire after Rio.
Ashton Eaton Now Sponsored By Gillette

New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Photo Gallery

Conference Champs Central Live Results: Big East ACCMPFSSECBig Ten Big 12 Ivy/Heps *All NCAA

Big East: *Results
Angel Piccirillo Breaks 1000m Collegiate Record With 2:40.82
MB:Big East DMR-Men There was fast DMR action as Georgetown ran 9:28.91 in the to beat out Villanova (9:29.17).
Villanova Men Win 3rd Straight Indoor Title Villanova got victories from Jordan Williamsz (mile) and Pat Tiernan (3K/5K).
Marquette Women Win Team Title Georgetown’s Katrina Coogan won the 3,000 in 9:07.44.

ACC: *Results*Meet Central
Miami Women, Syracuse Men Win ACC ChampsMolly Seidel and Justyn Knight both got 5K/3K double victories.
Friday Replay*Day 1 Recap
MB:Molly Seidel jogs a 15:19 at ACCs #5 all-time in the NCAA.
MB:Justyn Knight 14:01.70 Knight beat out Thomas Curtin by .08.
MB: Henry Wynne dusts Justyn Knight in DMR
MB:Virginia Tech a non qualifying 13th for DMR

MPFS:*Results *Meet Central
MB:Izaic Yorks (Washington) & Sean McGorty (Stanford) Run 3:53!
*GoHuskies.com:Izaic Yorks Runs #3 Fastest Mile Time In NCAA History (Overzie Track) (Includes race video)
*GoStanford.com:“Shocking Mile For Sean McGorty”
MB:Colorado’s new indoor facility paying off at MPSF In the 3Ks, Pierce Murphy (7:51.51) and Connor Winter (7:51.85) went 1-2 and Erin Clark won in 9:08.
Oregon’s Devon Allen Wins MPSF 60H Breaking Ashton Eaton’ Facility Record With 7.60-Seconds
Register Guard: Mission Accomplished For UO Women At MPSF Meet
USC Men Win Mountain Pacific Title
RG:Oregon Men’s DMR Qualifies For NCAAs With 9:28 Victory Washington’s Aaron Nelson won the men’s 5K in 13:49.93.
*MB:Ducks Men Nab #10 Qualifier for NCAA DMR Last Night late

SEC: *Results*Meet Website *Friday Replay *Saturday Replay
MB:Donovan Brazier Wins 800 In 1:46.08Andres Arroyo (1:46.20) and Hector Hernandez (1:46.32) were a close 2-3.
*Texas A&M Recap:Brazier Breaks 26-Year-Old Meet Record
Arkansas Men And Women Sweep SEC Indoor Champs
Day 1:Arkansas Men, Georgia Women Lead

Big Ten:*Results*Meet Central
*Nebraska Takes Big 10 Men’s Title Penn State freshman Isaiah Harris won the 800 in 1:46.24; Mason Ferlic to0k the 5K in 13:50.
*Michigan Women Win Big 10 ChampsErin Finn double backed from her 3K win with a 15:37 victory in the 5K
*Wisconsin Men, Penn State Women Lead After Day 1 3K victories went to Michigan’s Erin Finn (9:08) and Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald (8:03).

Big 12: *Results*Meet Website
Oklahoma State Men And Texas Women Win Big 12 Champs On the men’s side it came down to the last event with OSU beating Texas by 1.5-points. OSU racked up quite a few points in the 3K where they took five out of the top six spots. Texas’ Ryan Crouser tied Ryan Whitting‘s collegiate indoor shot put record with 71 feet 3 1/2 inches.
Video Highlights: *Saturday *Friday
Day 1 Full Recap OSU’s Cerake Geberkidane won a close 5K in 14:08.55 as .42 seconds separated the top 3.

Ivy League (Heps): *Live ResultsTune into the live broadcast at 11:45 pm ET to listen to Rojo as the color commentator. *Meet Home
Four Teams Within Six Points of Each Other After First Day
Cornell Men Lead After Day 1
HepsTrack.com Coverage

Mountain West: Air Force Men And Colorado State Women Win Team Titles *Results
*MB:AllieO mile repeats at MWC
Big Sky: *Results – NAU Men And Sacramento State Women Win Team Titles

Dreams Do Become Reality

LRC Meet The Most Interesting Man In NCAA Running: He’s 5’9″, Can Dunk A Basketball And In One Year Has Gone From 4:17 To The #3 Time In NCAA History: Meet Oklahoma State’s Josh ThompsonJosh Thompson of Oklahoma State has a unique and cool story.

UK Field Eventers In The News

GB High Jumper Isobel Pooley Says The Zika Virus Scare Is “The Last Thing On My Mind” Pooley blogs about Zika, traveling the pro indoor circuit and her season which included a 1.93 PR last weekend.
Greg Rutherford Pulls Out Of This Weekend’s British Indoor Champs With Illness He also missed the Glasgow GP last weekend with a small muscle tear, but still plans on competing at Portland 2016.
Jade Lally Breaks English Discus Record With 66.22m Throw She’s now 3rd on the all-time UK list.

A Legend Talks About A Potential Future Legend

LRC Highlight Video Of Alan Webb Giving Drew Hunter His Gatorade AOY Award Yesterday It looks like both Alan Webb and Drew Hunter enjoyed themselves.

LRC Alan Webb Discusses Whether He Thinks Drew Hunter Can Break His Outdoor Record, Why The Flurry Of HS Sub-4:00s Is A Good Thing, And Who Had The Better Career – Himself, Ryan Hall Or Ritz? Alan Webb reveals that he does indeed think Hunter can break his 3:53 outdoor record. As for who had the better career – himself, Ritz or Hall – he pleads the 5th.

USA And World Indoors Are Fast Approaching

LRCYet Another USATF Controversy? Might Galen Rupp Have To Qualify For World Indoors Out Of The Slow Heat At USA Indoors?

It looks like there may be yet another "A" and "B" heat controversy at USA Indoors this year. Say it ain't so. *Discuss

More World Indoor News

Doping Updates – Last Chance For Kenya?

LRC ESPN Embarrasses Itself – Refuses To Do Drug Testing At X Games Oslo The bean counting in Bristol is over the top as ESPN, which takes in more than $10 billion in revenue each year, is refusing to drug test in Oslo. Norwegian, IOC and WADA officials are justifiably outraged.

Yet Another “Deadline”: WADA Gives Kenya Until April 5th To Comply With Anti-Doping Rules WADA will then assess Kenya and if they are declared non-compliant, they could be banned from Rio.
IAAF Provisionally Suspend Athletics Kenya Chief Isaac Mwangi Over Bribe Allegations He is suspended pending the outcome of the IAAF Ethics Commission’s investigation. *IAAF Statement
Argentina Now Compliant With WADA Code They were ruled non-compliant in November for using non-accredited laboratories for doping tests.

International Distance News

Hannah England Has Been Battling Through Injury And Illness For Years, But Hopes She Can Finally Get Back To Where She Was When She Won 1,500 Silver At 2011 Worlds Good profile on England who has lost her UK funding and been close to retiring, but says she’s too stubborn to quit.
IAAF Profile:After Injury-Plagued 2015, Augustine Choge Goes Into World Indoors As The 3,000m Favorite Choge says he still goes back and watches the YouTube video from his first big victory in 2006 – 5,000m CWG gold as a 19-year-old over Craig Mottram.
Recommended Read:Meet GB Runner Robert Young, Who Set The Record For Longest Run Without Sleep He ran 4 days and 373.75 miles without any sleep. The article says that after “six double espressos with 15 sugars” at the 300-mile mark, he was “running five-minute miles again.” We have a hard time believing that, but an interesting read nonetheless.
Video: Runner’s Tribe Interview/Workout With Former NCAA Champ And Aussie Olympian David McNeill
Video: Lengthy 27-Minute Interview With Aussie Mid-D Runner Luke Mathews Mathews PRed by over a second two weeks ago with 1:46.30 to get the Olympic qualifying standard.
Competition Heating Up For Irish Olympic Marathon Spots As Mick Clohisey Runs 2:15:10 At The Seville Marathon Now four guys are right around 2:15 and five more under 2:19.

More Millrose

NY Times Talks To Drew Hunter, Andy Powell, Alan Webb After Hunter’s 3:57 At MillroseWebb:“I admire him, and I’m proud of him. I couldn’t have asked for a better guy to take all my records away.”
Some PV History As Two Women Clear 4.90m In The Same Competition For The First Time Greece’s Ekaterini Stefanidi beat US’s Demi Payne on the countback.
Andre De Grasse Wins 60m In His Professional Debut
Bills Wide Receiver Marquise Goodwin Was 3rd In The LJ Goodwin is shooting for Rio even if it costs him a roster spot as he’ll miss all of pre-season training camp.
UPenn’s Thomas Awad Ran Fastest Mile In Ivy League History (3:57.03)
NY Times:“Millrose Games’ Glamour Is Diminished; Prestige Is Not” Writer calls Millrose a “relic from a golden era of track and field” … back when we had enough fans to have the meet at Madison Square Garden.
Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers Ran The 2nd-Fastest Collegiate 800 Of All-Time Her 2:00.90 wasn’t far off the 11-year-old 2:00.75 record.
MB: Official 2016 NYRR Millrose Games Live Discussion Thread
MB: Who were your biggest winners and losers at Millrose?
MB: After Watching Millrose 3k, Do you think Rupp makes World Indoor team at 3k?
MB: Cheserek Trying to Become US Citizen Before Trials??

Results On One Page

Sprint News

Interesting Article:GB’s Former Commonwealth Games 110H Champ Andy Turner Is Now A Professional Bodybuilder The former track star explains the ins and outs of a body builder’s training routine, which include some ridiculous and unhealthy diet routines that sound absolutely miserable.
Good Read:“Usain Bolt Still Rules The 100, But Younger Legs Are Charging” With young legs like Andre De Grasse and Trayvon Bromell chasing his heels, will he be able to hold on to his sprint dominance for another Games?
Jesse Owens Biopic “Race” Opened Friday The actor playing Owens went to Beijing Worlds and met Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin as part of his preparation for the role.
GB’s Richard Kilty May Not Defend His World 60m Indoor Title In Portland Kilty says he’s already “won everything there is to win indoors” so might skip it to focus on Rio.

European Mid-D News

Abeba Aregawi In Trouble In Sweden?(translated) She’s been audited by the Swedish tax agency for not paying taxes, but the bigger news is she is saying that she never lived in Sweden, never wanted to be a Swedish citizen and lied to the migration board when she got her citizenship back in 2012.
Recommended Read:The Damage Done By Doping: GB 800 Runner Jenny Meadows Says She Almost Quit The Sport Because She “Didn’t Think Clean Athletes Could Win” Meadows explains the loss of funding, confidence and depression caused by trying and failing to keep up with Russian dopers.
Recommended Read:A Teen Prodigy Derailed By Injuries, Ireland Mid-D Runner Ciara Mageean Is Finally Back Where She Should Be There was a chance she would never run again after having heel surgery a few years ago, but now this winter she’s set two NRs with a 4:08 1,500 and 4:28 mile.
Sad News:Polish Top Polish Steeplechaser Lukasz Parszczynski May Never Run Again After Falling From The Fifth Floor Of A Hotel In Spain(translated) He is recovering now after being in serious condition with multiple fractures including his pelvis and skull.
Mark English And Ciara Mageean The Star Attractions At This Weekend’s Irish Indoor National Champs English hasn’t hit the standard for Worlds, but can still go if he wins Nationals since no one else has either.

Interesting US Distance News

USOC And USATF File Motions To Dismiss Antitrust Lawsuit Brought By Nick Symmonds’ Run Gum USATF accuses Symmonds/Run Gum of trying to get a “free ride” with “ambush” advertising.
Alexi Pappas Now Running For Greece Pappas has dual citizenship through her father, whose parents were Greek.
*MB:Some seem Salty about Alexi’s decision. Your thoughts?Trevor Dunbar tweeted, “Hard journeys leads to the most rewarding destinations. Proud to be an American. #EarnedNotGiven”
*MB:Alexi Pappas will be representing Greece
Tara (Erdmann) Welling Is Back In The Sport And Having Fun Again After losing her Nike sponsorship, leaving the Oregon Project and tearing her hamstring last year, she thought she was done. But now she’s back running with a Sketchers sponsorship and still chasing the Olympic dream.

Doping Updates: Tatyana Chernova Facing Another Ban

Second Doping Case Opened Against Russian Heptathlete Tatyana Chernova Following Return From A 2-Year Ban Her first ban was for a steroid after a frozen sample was re-tested and now she will likely be banned again for an adverse biological passport.
Eight Russian Doping Cases To Be Heard By CAS Includes two new cases against former European indoor 1,500 bronze medalist Yekaterina Sharmina and Kristina Ugarova.
Ukraine’s Former European 1,500 Medalist Anna Mishchenko Banned For Doping The IAAF also confirmed a doping ban for previously suspended Pan Am Games Marathon Champ Gladys Tejeda.

Seb Coe Survives

All 6 IAAF Continental Presidents Sign A Statement Offering Their Full, Unequivocal Support Of Sebastian Coe In His Role, His Reform Proposals And Actions As IAAF President Now And In The Future

Americans, Don’t Worry – Everyone Thinks Their Federation Is Inept

Administrative News That Is Actually Interesting

Take That, Boston Independent Poll Shows 88% Of Angelenos Want LA To Host The Games Alan Abrahamson breaks down what it means. One message board poster thinks the 2024 Olympic host debate shows New Englanders aren’t as patriotic as they claim.
*MB: New England, the real Patriots are in LA – 88% of Angelenos want LA to host the Olympics
Scott Bush Takes Over As Head Of Portland Track And Portland Track Festival We like his idea to have monthly meetings that mimic the TrackTown Tuesdays in Eugene where he can “introduce the local high school athletes to the elites who live here.”
Q&A With USOC Marketing Chief Lisa Baird On The Tough Job She Does In Protecting Olympic Sponsors Versus Hurting Individual Athletes While the USOC is relaxing IOC Rule 40 a little this year, we still think it’s ripe for a lawsuit which we’d support.
MB: Provocative ready by Wichita State coach: How I would solve the problems of college track and field
MB:Do you agree or disagree wtih Toni Reavis? Reavis: Meb is the greatest American distance runner ever

London 2017 Gets A New Figurehead

2017 London Worlds Names Cherry Alexander As New Managing Director She replaces Sally Bolton, who lost out in a power struggle with UK Athletics head Ed Warner, who seems to really be in charge.

Notre Dame Alumni Association Does Lengthy Video Interview Catching Up With Molly Huddle Some interesting insights into Huddle’s early career. You probably didn’t know her HS added XC for her so as a senior she was the only person on the “team.”