May 08, 2016 Homepage Archive

Saturday’s Action Jamaica Invite Results Oxy Results (link fixed)

Jamaica Invite: Jamaica Invite Recap: Elaine Thompson Blasts To Wind-Aided 10.71, Powell Wins 200m, Alexa Efraimson Wins 1,500m Thompson said she wants the 100, 200 gold in Rio. Efraimson won the 1.500 in a meet record 4:08.

Texas Invite: Trayvon Bromell Runs Wind-Aided 10.00, Ashley Spencer Runs 55.75 In Hurdles Spencer ran 54.70 in the hurdles two weeks ago, which is the #2 in the world right now and would have made her #16 in world last year.

Oxy Invite Meet Results:Brenda Martinez 2:01 800, Carmelita Jeter 11.42 100m

College: Heps Day 1 Recap And Results Watch day 2 on Ivy League Digitial Network with Rojo doing the call.
*Bucknell Women, Navy Men Capture Patriot League Outdoor Track And Field Titles

Surprise News From Kenya If True

Associated Press Says Eliud Kipchoge, Stanley Biwott, And … Wesley Korir Will Be Kenyan Olympic Marathon TeamJemima Sumgong, Mary Keitany and Florence Kiplagat are favorites for women’s team. Korir wouldn’t be on the Olympic team if we picked the Kenyan team.

Today’s HSers Might Go Sub-4, But There Will Only Ever Be One First

LRC Celebrate The 62nd Anniversary Of Roger Bannister’s Sub-4-Minute Mile By Watching Newly Released Film Bannister: Everest On The Track

Doping Updates

Dick Pound Says It Would Be “Very Hard” To Trust Russia If They Go To Rio Pound says there are “elements of denial” about the drug issue in Russia and has suggested that they are just “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
WADA President Says Suspension Of Anti-Doping Labs Will Not Affect Rio Drug Testing WADA has sanctioned 4 labs in the last month.

LetsJump.com

Good Read:From Nowhere To World Indoor Champion: Triple Jumper Yulimar Rojas Looking To Win What Would Only Be Venezuela’s Second Track Medal At The Olympics Rojas was stifled by a father that wouldn’t let her travel as a youth and a coach that doubted her TJ ability, but when you’re that good someone eventually gives you a chance.
Great News:Jamie Nieto Moving Out Of The ICU Nieto will now start an aggressive 3-times-a-day rehab program.
*LRC Olympic High Jumper Jamie Nieto Paralyzed After Attempting Back Flip At Practice – Please Consider Donating Now

Week That Was

LRC WTW: Putting Mary Cain’s Struggles In Perspective, Fast Times At Stanford, Will Jim Ryun’s Collegiate 800 Record Survive To See Its 50th Birthday + Would A Swede Have Made The Olympics If Not For Meet Management At Stanford? A big week in track and field with Stanford, Drake, Penn and a lot more.

Go Back In Time 6 Years To Relive Chris Solinsky’s Amazing 10K AR

Recommended Read:Newsweek Talks To Chris Solinsky About His Magical 26:59 And To Ryan Fenton About Calling It Solinsky: “I’m not a guy who waits for a final kick. … I liked making a move early just to challenge you … even if I was bluffing.”
Toni Reavis Re-Posts His Recap Of Solinsky’s 10K And Thanks Him For The Memories At the time, Solinsky said, “This was a glorified tempo run. … This was my debut. No one expected it. I didn’t expect it!”
LRCChris Solinsky Retires And We Rank The Five Best Moments Of His Career – Sub-27:00, A Dominant Foot Locker Title And The Epic 2011 USA 5,000

Ultra-Masters News

Good Read:85-Year-Old Ed Whitlock Wasn’t Satisfied With His Recent Age Half Marathon Record Whitlock had several gem quotes, including, “I only get antsy about getting slower when I’m getting slower faster than I ought to.”
Video:100-Year-Old Ida Keeling Sets 100m Age Record At Penn Relays With 1:17 The race for 80 and over had several runners in their 90s, including 99-year-old Champ Goldie, who ran 45.70. The race was won by 88-year-old Ed Cox in 17.85. *Full Race Video

Another Exclusive From Kenya – LetsRun.com Goes To Kenya

LRCAsbel Kiprop, Elijah Manang’oi And Vincent Yator Put On A Show At The 2016 Kenyan Police Championships Get the inside scoop on how Kiprop and Manangoi, who went 1-2 at Worlds last year in the 1,500, totally toyed with the fields en route to 1,500 and 800 titles. Yator pulled off a tough double, winning the 5,000 and 10,000 within the span of 90 minutes. You’re lucky we aren’t charging you to read this 5,500-word masterpiece.

High School – The Drew Hunter Show Continues (And The McGorty And Lomong Brother Show Begins)

Drew Hunter Celebrates 3:58.25 Junior Brandon McGorty Edges Drew Hunter And Alex Lomong In One Of The Deepest High School 800s Ever Brandon is the brother of Stanford runner Sean, Lomong is the brother of US Olympian Lopez and Hunter is the sub-4 high schooler who, after lowing his 800 PR by nearly 4 seconds, came back to run an 8:43 3,200m.

Drew Hunter 1:48.64/ 8:43 3,200m Double

**Track And Field’s Opening Day – 2016 Doha DL *Results**

LRC Was Caster Semenya’s Final 100m In Doha The Fastest Ever Run In A Women’s 800? Crazy as it sounds, she closed in 13.6.

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2016 Doha Recap LRC A Day Of Distance Dominance: Asbel Kiprop, Conseslus Kipruto, Almaz Ayana & Caster Semenya Earn Big Wins On Track & Field’s Opening Day The 2016 Diamond League season opened with a bang in Doha as favorites Asbel Kiprop, Almaz Ayana and Caster Semenya won in utterly dominant fashion. The men’s steeple wasn’t as kind to the favorites as Jairus Birech lost and Ezekiel Kemboi got embarrassed. American Ameer Webb looked fantastic in the men’s 200, Dafne Schippers ran fast but lost the women’s 100 to Tori Bowie, and a number of Americans picked up their first-ever DL victories in the field events. *Full Results

MB: Official 2016 Doha Diamond League Discussion Thread

Omar McLeod Man To Beat In Hurdles After Win In Doha
Ibarguen And Rojas Triple Jump Dual A Treat In Doha
Tori Bowie Runs 10.80 Fastest 100m Of 2016 Before you get too excited, realize the fastest 100m of all of 2015 was also run in Doha by Justin Gatlin at the first DL meet of the year.

This Weekend

Jamaica: Andre De Grasse Pulls Out Of 200m Showdown With Asafa Powell At Saturday’s Jamaica Invitational Sanya Richards-Ross is out as well.
China: Remember Him? Moses Mosop Running Sunday’s Yellow River Estuary Marathon In China Mosop ran 2:03:06 in Boston in his debut.
Japan: Justin Gatlin, Shawn Barber, Tianna Bartoletta Competing At Sunday’s Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Kawasaki Japan
Europe: Ronald Korir And France’s Martha Komu Highlight Sunday’s Harmony Geneva Marathon
Nearly 40 Runners Targeting Olympic Qualifiers At Sunday’s Volkswagen Prague Marathon
Because Of Erin Taylor-Talcott’s Persistence, Women Will Be Allowed In 50km Racewalk At IAAF Events How about we just have one walk distance for women and men?

Meet Phil Knight

In “Shoe Dog: A Memoir By The Creator Of Nike,” Phil Knight Opens Up About His Life And Nike The Oregonian has an excerpt from this “revealing memoir” from the man who turned his passion into one of the biggest businesses in the world.
RunBlogRun Book Review By Jeff Benjamin Benjamin was impressed that Knight has “not forgotten the past” and emphasized the grassroots beginnings of Nike.

Mid-D News

Despite Missing Indoor With Pneumonia And Opening Outdoor With A Slow 800, Leo Manzano Isn’t Worried Manzano says he’s confident he’ll be ready by the Trials in July. And he always is.
MileSplit Q&A With Michael Slagowski And Coach Bob Hays Slagowski and Hays talk about how the sub-4 goal became a reality when he ran 1:48 and 4:05 solo efforts. They also hypothesize about how a race between Slagowski and Drew Hunter would go.

Upcoming Action

May 13-14: adidas Holding New Meet At Their Global Headquarters In Herzogenaurach, Germany The meet will be live streamed and they are hoping for fast times. Fields will include Yohan Blake, Jenn Suhr, Meseret Defar and Tori Bowie.
May 28:Nicholas Bor Returns To Defend His Title At The Ottawa 10K He faces last year runner-up and World Half Champs 6th placer Simon Cheprot and former World Half champ Wilson Kiprop. World Half champ Peres Jepchirchir leads women’s field against Mamitu Daska.
Germany’s Defending Winner Kai Kazmirek And World Indoor Champ Brianne Theisen-Eaton Lead Fields For Gotiz Hypo Multi-Event Meeting

US Distance News: Ryan Hall Now Jacked

RR:Since Retirement, Ryan Hall Has Turned To Weightlifting And Put On 40 Pounds Of Muscle Hall says he’s always been “small and weak” and wanted to know what it was like to be “big and strong.” Now he’s all in with weightlifting and has gone from only benching 100 pounds to over 200.
*MB:How Ryan Hall Gained 40 Pounds Of Muscle

High School Sub-4

Via @pwerhane

LRC Idaho’s Michael Slagowski Becomes The 9th US High Schooler And 4th In Last Two Years To Go Sub-4 In The Mile He did it at the Nike Jesuit Relays in Portland with his teammate rabbiting for 750.

Another American Legend Hangs Up The Spikes

LRC Chris Solinsky Retires And We Rank The Five Best Moments Of His Career – Sub-27:00, A Dominant Foot Locker Title And The Epic 2011 USA 5,000 The 2nd-fastest non-African-born man at both 5,000 and 10,000 has called it a career at age 31.

**About Half Of The NCAA Conference Meets Are This Weekend Conference Championship Central All NCAA Results**

LRC Oregon Twilight: Edward Cheserek Beaten By Guy You’ve Never Heard Of At Oregon Twilight, Mary Cain Runs 2:08 800, Edward Kemboi Wins 800 High schooler Katie Rainsberger lowered her PR to 4:14.20. Video of Ches’ finish. *Results

A Big Pro Time In S. Africa: Wayde van Niekerk Runs 44.11 400m In Low-Key Meet In South Africa

More US Distance News

Sara Slattery Returns To Track At 34, Pointed Toward Olympics In RioDenver Post profile. Slattery wasn’t going to give the Olympics a go, but she started coaching a collegiate team and has rediscovered the competitive bug.

T-Mobile CEO John Legere Pays $21,800 For Nick Symmonds’ Tattoo

Erin Finn May Not Be Competing For Michigan This Semester But She’s Got U Of M In Her Heart

Sprint Stuff Worth A Read

Recommended Read:After Kidney Transplant, Olympic Champion Aries Merritt Has Heart Set On Rio Gold Merritt talks at length about being diagnosed with his kidney problem, the surgery and the comeback. He says that now he is “ready to show the world what I can really do now that I have a real body again.”
Three “Did You Knows” With World 400 Champ Wayde Van Niekerk Van Niekerk throws up after almost every race, likes to play poker, and has a fast younger brother.

Running Science

Is Blood Testing For Amateur Runners The Way Of The Future? Elites already do it, but soon, routine blood tests tracking red blood cells, iron and vitamins of recreational runners could be the norm. Is it useful or just one more thing to worry over?
The Guardian:“Runner’s High: The Athletes Who Use Marijuana To Improve Their Training” Is cannabis performance enhancing or detracting? The science isn’t 100% clear, but some ultrarunners feel it goes hand-in-hand with running.

Medical Emergency Ends Ultrarunner’s Trans-America Record Attempt Lisa Smith-Batchen was shooting to break the 36-year-old record for the fastest time crossing the country, but had to have emergency gall bladder surgery.

Rio 2016 Updates

A New Level Of Absurdity:Paralympic Swimmer Gets Disqualified At IPC Euro Champs For Having An Olympic Rings Tattoo Reportedly, the tattoo “breaches advertising regulations.” Will the IOC enforce this in Rio? Wow. Just wow.
NY Times: Rio Anti-Doping Lab Trying To Learn From Sochi 2014’s Mistakes It has cost Brazil $60 million to get the lab up and running for the Olympcis, and even then, it almost didn’t happen in time.
Commission Set Up To Investigate Possible Corruption Within Rio 2016 Construction Projects Construction companies have paid bribes to politicians to receive inflated contracts.

Sad News: RIP Former IU Runner And Navy SEAL Charlie Keating

NBC: Navy SEAL And Former Indiana University Distance Runner Charlie Keating Killed By ISIS In Iraq
Indy Star:“Navy SEAL Remembered For “Magnetic Personality” As IU Runner Keating had PRs of 3:52 (1,500) and 1:55.
IU Mourns Passing Of Charles Keating Former teammate Stephen Haas:“I’m sure you are going to hear a lot about what a bad ass Navy SEAL Charlie was, and I’m sure he was the baddest. I think me and my teammates at IU will always remember him for being the most likable guy in the room.”
Keating Was The Grandson Of Infamous Banker Who Served Prison Time For Role In 1980s Savings And Loan Crisis
MB:Navy Seal, Runner, infamous grandson killed in Iraq

Stanford Payton Jordan *Live Results

LRC Lagat Wins 10,000m Debut In 27:49, Izaic Yorks Beats Pros In 1,500, Courtney Frerichs Dominates Steeple Brief comments on the races and full results on 1 page. *IAAF

Very Cool

LRC The Future Has Arrived – PUMA Unveils BeatBot – A Personal Robotic Pacer Do you hate working out alone? Or seeing races ruined by people going out too fast or slow? Puma has the answer.