– Bernard Lagat talking about the one regret he has as he ends his storied track career to take his focus to the roads.
LRC Week That Was: How Fast is the 5th Avenue Mile Course?, Free PR Advice for Mo Farah, And a College Coach Helped an NCAA Legend Score Some Booze Plus in case you were gone we had the Diamond League finale in Zurich with the big win by Shannon Rowbury, a game effort by Evan Jager, and a great women’s 200m.
LRC “People are People”- The Olympics Remind Us Of All That is Great (and Bad) in the WorldTwo weeks after Rio, LRC’s Weldon Johnson tries to make sense of his Olympic experience.
LRC What You Missed Not Being There: Mo Farah Doesn’t Like Answering Questions About Jama Aden And SAFP Doesn’t Like Taking Questions About Usain Bolt Some insight from the Rio press conferences.
LRC Man Versus Machine Grudge Match: 1:43 800 Runner Nicholas Kipkoech Will Race a Solar-Powered Car Over 600 Meters in Brussels on FridayWhen a solar powered car with a top speed of 68 mph races a Kenyan 800 stud, who had the edge? We’ll find out on Friday.
LRCMeet Preview: World Record Attempts in the Men’s Steeple & Women’s 5K, Evan Jager Goes for Sub-8:00, Rowbury Goes For The 5k AR, A Stacked Men’s 1500 & Caster Semenya in the 400Conseslus Kipruto and Almaz Ayana will go for the world records. Can Shannon Rowbury follow up her Zürich win with an AR in the 5,000? Plus Kiprop vs. Makhloufi in the 1500, Clayton Murphy in the 800 and Elaine Thompson vs. Dafne Schippers in the 100.
LRC Bernard Lagat Has Run His Final Track Race – What an Amazing Career it Was A track legend is done with the track (but not the roads).
10K Olympian Leonard Korir And Aliphine Tuliamuk Win USATF 20K Champs Hosted At New Haven Road Race Korir beat out Sam Chelanga by one second as Christo Landry was 3rd. On the women’s side, Tuliamuk had a 16-second victory over Emily Sisson.
*Hartford Courant Recap:Close Runner-Up Finish Two-Years In A Row For Sam Chelanga
*New Haven Register article
RRW David Torrence (3:54.99) And Amanda Eccleston (4:26.87) Repeat At 2016 Hoka One One Long Island Miles Ajee Wilson ran 4:33.
LRC Shannon Rowbury Wins Diamond League 1,500 Finale In Zürich Shannon Rowbury ended her European campaign with a big win in Zurich.
LRC2016 Zürich Full Meet Recap: Evan Jager Goes For It, Caster Semenya And Ruth Jebet Finish Off Historic Seasons, The World’s Best Women Clash At 200 And Massive Marks In The Men’s Shot The first of the two Diamond League finals did not disappoint. Find out what happened here.
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