Bolt Opener

LRC No Need To Panic, Bolt Fans – Usain Bolt Opens Season With 10.05 100m At Cayman Invitational – With Video He opened at 10.09 in 2013 at this same meet. In other action at this meet, Kendra Harrison ran 12.42 in the hurdles, giving her the 3 fastest times in the world in 2016, and Jenna Prandini got the 100 (11.16) and 200 double (22.63).

2016 UAE Healthy Kidney 10k In Central Park *Results

LRC $25,000 Buys A Lot Of Diapers: New Dad Lucas Rotich And Cynthia Limo Win UAE Healthy Kidney 10k In New York And Pick Up $25k Each Zane Robertson (4th) and Laura Thweatt (6th) were the first NAFBs across the line. *Results

Usain Bolt To Open His Season On Saturday *Watch Live On ESPN3 8:40pm ET (Allyson Felix At 8:30pm ET)

• Bolt To Open 2016 Campaign On Saturday With 100m At Cayman Invite – “I’m in good shape.” Bolt said he and his friends are all predicting what he’ll run. Bolt has picked 9.91.
• RR Good Column By 1996 Olympic 100 Champ Donovan Bailey – Bailey Says He Is Expecting A Monster Year From Usain Bolt, Whom He Says Is In “Tremendous Shape” “The last time I saw him (Usain Bolt) he was in absolutely tremendous shape. He just looks like he’s going to be faster. He seems to be way more focused. I think he wants to do something quite significant, even more so than what he’s accomplished to this point of his amazing career.”
• Bolt Expects To Run Fast As He Trains With Yohan Blake, Who’s Already Run 9.93
• Bolt Proves He’s A Math Whiz At Press Conference. -Kid Asks Bolt What 1 + 2 Is And He Nails It
• Bolt Says He Would Still Love To Play For Manchester United But Only If Louis van Gaal Isn’t The Coach

NCAA Action Galore *All Conference Meets *All NCAA Results

• ACC: *Live Results *MB: Holy cow: Virginia Tech places 1-7 in Men’s Pole Vault at ACC Championships In the men’s 10k, Thomas Curtin used a 55.4 final lap to beat Luis Vargas and Justyn Knight. Molly Seidel didn’t run the women’s race. *MB: Where’s Molly?
• Big 10: Live Results
• Big 12: Live Results
• IC4A/ECAC: Live Results Former prep star Eddie Owens has won the steeple in 8:46.
  PAC-12: Oregon Men (9 Straight) And Women (7 Straight) Favored To Extend Long Win Streaks At PAC-12 Championships
• Washington’s Colby Gilbert Has Beaten Oregon Ace Edward Cheserek Once And Hopes To Get Him Again OregonLive.com
• MB: Looking for Pac 12 Heat Sheats – What is Edward Cheserek running?
• SEC: *Live Results MB: Donavan Brazier only qualifies for SEC final on time

Pre-Meet Articles: 

• Mason Ferlic Has Overcome A Very High-Profile Fall To Be The NCAA Leader In The Steeple
• Q&A With Washington’s 3:53 Miler Izaic Yorks Yorks says growing up he wasn’t good at sports and was “very big into Pokemon and loved the softa.”
• Profile On Molly Seidel In Notre Dame Magazine Seidel runs 80-95 miles a week, but says she’d run 110 if her coach didn’t hold her back.

Bureaucracy 1, Athletes 0

LRC Federal Judge Dismisses Nick Symmonds’ Run Gum Lawsuit; USATF And USOC Can Restrict Non-Apparel Logos At Olympic Trials USATF and the USOC won at least the temporary legal battle but have they won the war? Will athletes stand for being told USATF has the legal authority to prevent them from monetizing a logo that USATF does not even attempt to monetize itself?

Keep Chasing Your Dreams: At Just Shy Of 41, Marathoner Scott Westcott Will Become Australia’s Oldest Track Olympian When He Competes In Rio This will be Westcott’s first Olympics as he missed being selected at the three previous Games despite running qualifying times.

US Road News *USATF 1 Mile Results

• Ben Blankenship (3:55) And Heather Kampf (4:34) Win USATF 1 Mile Road Championships Both won by comfortable margins as Garrett Heath (3:59) and Christy Cazzola (4:37) took the runner-up spots. *Results
• Saturday: Jared Ward Up Against Nick Arciniaga And Fernando Cabada At USATF 25K Championships Women are led by 2:29 marathoner Clara Santucci, former US marathon champ Esther Atkins and 2:32 woman Lindsey Scherf.
• No More Elite Foreign Runners At Freihofer’s Run For Women Race director George Regan said they want to give more support to Americans so won’t recruit or pay to fly in top Africans any more.
• Healthcare Company Aetna Signs On As Title Sponsor Of The Falmouth Mile

Sprint Stuff

• Worth A Watch: High School 4 X 100 Anchor Makes Up Huge Deficit To Win AZ State Meet
• RIP: Former Trinidad And Tobago Sprinter Mike Agostini Passes Away At 81 After Battle With Cancer Agostini had the bad luck to miss out on two WRs during his career due to technical faults with 1950s timing methods/equipment.
• IAAF “Legends Of Athletics” Video Interview With Aries Merritt

The Myth Of The Sub-2-Hour Marathon?

Recommended Read: NY Times: Man Vs. Marathon Meet Yannis Pitsiladis, the scientist behind the Sub2 Project who is trying to raise $30 million and challenging the validity of every training principle out there to try and get a man to run a marathon in under 2 hours. He thinks it can be done by the end of 2019.

Part 2: An Unknown To Most Of The World, Yannis Pitsiladis Was A Huge Factor In Kenenisa Bekele’s Comeback At The 2016 London Marathon Pitsiladis worked with Bekele, giving him a rehab program and restricting his diet down to 1,000 to 1,500 calories a day to help him lose the excess 25 lbs. he had put on.
*MB: Good Lord, the Bekele London Training Stuff Was True *LRC Archives: The Myth Of The Sub-2-Hour Marathon

Olympic News: Another Major Scandal?

• New Olympic Scandal Brewing As Tokyo 2020 Organizers Are Alleged To Have Made A $1.5 Million Payment To A Secret Account Managed By Papa Massata Diack Multiple transactions were made from the Tokyo 2020 organizers to Diack’s secret bank account in Singapore known as “Black Tidings.” *2nd Article
  *BBC: IOC Refuses To Comment On Tokyo Payment Claim
• Australian Olympic Team’s Medical Director Thinks The Zika Risk In Rio Is Minimal We’re against the media over-hyping the negatives, but this guy’s going a bit too far when he said the last people he’s spoken to didn’t even see a mosquito in Rio.

LetsThrow.com

• Norway’s Two-Time Olympic Javelin Champion Andreas Thorkildsen Retires The 34-year-old won his first gold at the 2004 Athens Games.
• Kenya’s World Javelin Champ Julius Yego “Tips His Spear” To Retired “Mentor” Thorkildsen
• Cornell’s Rudy Winkler And Texas Tech’s Hannah Carson Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Winkler had a huge weekend in the hammer with an all-time Ivy League record and national leader to win Heps while Carson became the first collegiate to break the 60m barrier in both the discus and javelin.
• NCAA Record Book Updates: The Year Of The Discus? Wisconsin’s Kelsey Card had an impressive weekend in the shot and leads Carson in the discus.
• Multis: May 28: More Top European Multi-Eventers Added To Fields For Gotiz Hypo Meeting

Upcoming Action

• Thursday USATF 1 Mile Road Championships: Garrett Heath And Heather Kampf Return To Defend Their Titles At The Medtronic TC 1 Mile Their primary challengers will be Ben Blankenship and Gabriele Grunewald.
  *USATF.tv Coverage @ 8:55PM (Subscription)
  *Race Home
  *BBTM Prediction Contest
  *MB: USATF Road Mile Championships Thursday
• Q&A With Nicole Blood Ahead Of TC 1 Mile Most of Blood’s training is 5K based, but she’s added in some speed to get ready for a mile.
• Saturday: Omar McLeod Looking For First Sub-13 Of The Year In Shanghai McLeod is on a big winning streak this year, having racked up 10 wins in the 60, 100 and 110H.
• Saturday: Egyptian Javelin Thrower Ihab Abdelrahman Hopes China Continues To Be Good To Him Abdelrahman broke out at Shanghai two years ago with a huge PR and then won world silver in Beijing last year.
• May 20: Big Names On The Track And In The Booth For Next Friday’s HOKA ONE ONE Middle Distance Classic Alan Webb, Chris Solinsky and Carrie Tollefson will commentate for the free live stream as Shannon Rowbury, Galen Rupp, Evan Jager, Leo Manzano, Robby Andrews and more line up in deep distance fields. *Meet Site/Info *Entries

Upcoming DL Action: Pre Classic In A Little Over 2 Weeks

• Amazing Field Set For Pre Classic Bowerman Mile: Asbel Kiprop Faces Matt Centrowitz, Taoufik Makhloufi, Ayanleh Souleiman And Drew Hunter Silas Kiplagat, Elijah Manang’oi, Abedelaati Iguider, Evan Jager and Ben Blankenship also in the field.
  *MB: Pre Mile is SALTY!
  *MB: 5K: True vs Hill vs World Geoffrey Kamworor leads the way, challenged by Yomif Kejelcha, Bernard Lagat, Hagos Gebrhiwet, Caleb Ndiku, Edwin Soi, Isiah Koech.
• Saturday: Fast Sprints For Shanghai DL: SAFP Vs. VCB Over 200m Justin Gatlin vs. Tyson Gay in the 100.
• June 5th: Kirani James Will Lead 400 Field Against GB Local Star Matthew Hudson-Smith At Birmingham DL Meet Sub-44-second men Yousef Masrahi and Isaac Makwala are also in the race.

More Road Results

• Irvette van Zyl Wins SPAR 10K Road Race In South Africa van Zyl said she was in a “very bad place” after a disappointing performance in the London Marathon and getting the win here helped her bounce back.
• Masato Imai Wins Sendai Half Marathon In Japan With 63:06 Over Tomohiro Tanigawa (63:11) Yuki Kawauchi was 5th (64:35).

Sunday Road Results

• Little-Known Dickson Kipsang Tuwei (2:09:27) Gets Surprise Win At Yellow River Estuary Marathon Tuwei won in a close race, just beating out Marius Kimutai (2:09:32) and 2:03 man Moses Mosop (2:09:33). Bahrain’s Eunice Chumba (2:31:13) won the women’s race.
• RRW: Lawrence Cherono (2:07) And Lucy Karimi (2:24) Complete Kenyan Sweep At Volkswagen Prague Marathon
  *Finish Video
• Julius Chepkwony (2:11:10) And Jane Kiptoo (2:35:04) Take Geneva Marathon Titles
• Italian Doper Alex Schwazer Wins IAAF World Racewalking Team Championships In Return From Drug Ban Schwazer is the one who got his ex-girlfriend, figure skater Carolina Kostner, banned by having her lie to drug testers. *IAAF Report
• AW Weekly Round-Up

Rec Running News

• Interesting Read: WSJ: How Millennials Ended The Running Boom After two decades of growth, the number of race finishers dropped 9% in 2015. Fewer young people are running races and even fewer are running them competitively.
  *MB: WSJ: How Millennials have ended the running boom
• One Millionth Finisher In London Marathon History Is Revealed Shannon Foudy finished in 5:45:18, running for the hospital that saved her newborn daughter’s life.

Next Week

Provisional Start Lists For Next Week’s Shanghai Diamond League Released Jenny Simpson is in the 1,500. Role models Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay in 100m.

Next Week’s adidas BOOST Meet In Germany To Try To Have Sub-27:00 Men’s 10k, Meseret Defar In Women’s, Yohan Blake, Tori Bowie In 100

Surprise News From Kenya If True

Associated Press Says Eliud Kipchoge, Stanley Biwott, And … Wesley Korir Will Be Kenyan Olympic Marathon Team Jemima 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.

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.