LRC Kenenisa Bekele vs. the World Record: Will Kenenisa Bekele Become The First Man In History To Hold The 5,000, 10,000 and Marathon World Records at the Same Time on Friday? Distance fans, it’s time to get excited. Jos Hermens reveals that Kenenisa Bekele is healthy and going for the WR on Friday in Dubai and plans to go out faster than any man in history. Will the weather cooperate?
*MB: Great Breaking News: Bekele Is Healthy and Going For The WR – Plans on going out faster than anyone in history
LRC 2017 Dubai Marathon Men’s Preview: Can One of These Men Take Down Kenenisa Bekele? The field includes 2014 champ Tsegaye Mekonnen, 2:04 man Dino Sefir, Olympic 10k bronze medallist Tamirat Tola and half marathon stud Birhanu Legese.
2017 Virgin Money London Marathon Women’s Elite Field: Olympic Champion Jemima Sumgong Will Face Mary Keitany, Tirunesh Dibaba, Olympic Bronze Medalist Mare Dibaba And Vivian Cheruiyot In Her Debut The field is stacked as usual with 7 women who have run under 2:21 and also includes Chicago champion Florence Kiplagat, Berlin winner Aberu Kebede and and former London winners Tigist Tufa (2015) and Aselefech Mergia (2010). Team USA will get some representation from Laura Thweatt and Kellyn Taylor.
$250,000 Bonus On Offer For New World Record At Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon With a first place prize of $200,000, that means a victory in a WR time nets you almost half a million.
*2017 Dubai Marathon Free Live Stream Starts Thursday at 9:20PM ET.
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An Inside Look At How LRC Operates How a Ragtag Crew Of Almost Journalists Created Running’s Most Controversial Website Author Charles Bethea embedded himself with us during the US Olympic trials and got a behind-the-scenes look at how we operate. His article in Outside magazine includes some really nice quotes from Tim Layden, “… their best quality is that they don’t give a shit about offending people,” and Nick Willis, “It gave me a ton of inspiration. LetsRun is one of the primary reasons high-quality coaching and training have improved in America.”
*MB: Long Article on Letsrun… in Outside Magazine
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