– Jared Ward talking about his thoughts during the final miles of the US Olympic Marathon Trials this past February. Ward celebrated afterwards with a cruise with his family and now is working toward Rio like it’s “just another day in the office.”
LRC Geoffrey Mutai Pulls Out Of 2016 Boston As He Doesn’t Hit His “Training Goals” – 2:20 Marathoner Amane Beriso Added To Women’s Field Mutai has struggled since winning NYC in 2013.
Pretty Terrible Stuff: Max Siegel And Other USATF Staff Targeted By Racially Charged Emails Six months ago, USATF staff members received a slew of racist emails from an anonymous emailer. Police were called to investigate, but so far there have been no arrests or major leads.
Marquise Goodwin Causes Stir With April Fools Day Tweet Goodwin said he was leaving the Bills to focus on Rio, but it was only a joke. He says, “Football is my deal. Track is my fun.”
Really, IAAF? IAAF Won’t Let Cuban Defector Orlando Ortega Compete For Spain At The Olympics Ortega defected from Cuba way back in 2013. For all the times the IAAF looks the other way as Middle Eastern nations essentially buy athletes, you’d think they’d let this one go.
LRC Doping Scandal Comes To LRC $200,015 Running Warehouse World Indoors Prediction Contest Doping has tainted our contest but you still can meet the interesting winners who make up LRC and win our contests.
Forget About Your PR – Here Are 26.2 Ways To Smash Marathon Fundraising
Meet The Brother-Sister Combo That Is Dominating New Zealand Triple Jumping – Nneka And Ebuka Okpala
Recommended Read:Take An Inside Look At The “No-Frills” Kenyan Training Camp Where Champions Eliud Kipchoge And Stephen Kiprotich Live And Train Kipchoge and Kiprotich have the money to live a fancy, modern lifestyle, but choose to live in bare bones conditions, sharing small rooms with other runners and doing their share of communal chores as their optimal training environment.
Track Officials In Ohio Struggling To Find Somewhere To Purchase Blank Cartridges For Their Starting Pistols Apparently manufacturers aren’t concerned with making blanks because track officials/coaches are the only people who want to buy them.
One Ethiopian runner is dead, another is in critical condition after a truck plowed them over on a training run on Saturday. Help them now. *Donate here.
You Won’t Be Seeing The Alternative New Zealand National Flag In Rio Many athletes were behind the change in the NZ flag since theirs is often confused with Australia, but the vote was 56.6% for the original flag.
First Impressions Q&A With Greek Pole Vaulter And Stanford Alum Ekaterini Stefanidi Stefanidi talks about her first coach, first competition, first injury and other random things.
The Dibaba Sisters Get Profiled By Vogue:“Meet The Dibabas – The Fastest Family On The Planet” Definitely written from a different perspective than you see in most running articles, but some interesting insights here for fans of Tirunesh, Genzebe and all the other fast Dibaba women. We’re sorry to inform the men of LetsRun that Genzebe says she has a non-runner boyfriend.
Washington Times: New Play, “Finish Line,” Tells Stories Of Boston Marathon Bombing The play will focus on the people affected by the bombings rather than the bombings themselves.
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LRC WTW: More Madness From The World Half Champs, Colleen De Reuck Still Has It, Some US Road Action And Should The IAAF Change The World Track Champs? We tell you everything going on in the running world, including Allyson Felix being on a Wheaties box.
Men’s 10k on prime time. Can they please do the same at the Olympics?
Good Read:Ben True Started Dating His Wife, Professional Triathlete Sarah True, In Part Thanks To A Broken Toe Which Forced Him To Cross Train With Her The Trues explain the pros and cons of being married to a fellow pro endurance athlete.
Molly Huddle A Top Story On Deadspin:“If You See Something, Say Something. Unless It’s About A Fellow American” The writer doesn’t think Huddle should have been so indignant about people questioning whether she should have been DQed at the NYC Half.
*MB: Molly Huddle Interference? Should Huddle have been DQ’d for flailing her arms out?
IAAF World Indoor Tour Will Expand In 2017 And 2018 The NBIGP is the lone indoor US meet on the Tour – which is turning into the Diamond League of the indoor season – but a 2nd US meet will be added for 2018 (Dusseldorf, Germany, is being added for 2017).
LRC What About The Sport? Big Praise For Mo Farah; The IAAF And Abbott World Marathon Majors Needs To Improve Their BroadcastsHow can we improve our sport? By taking one little step after another.
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