February 11, 2017 | LetsRun.com

The 2017 NYRR Millrose Games *Millrose Results on 1 Page

LRC 800 Madness at Millrose- Ajee Wilson (And Her Training Partner Charlene Lipsey) Breaks American Record, Sammy Watson Gets Mary Decker’s High School Record Ajee Wilson and her new training partner both had huge PBs to dip under the old American record as Sammy Watson broke the high school record.

LRC Rest of Millrose Recap: Jenkins and Hassan Win Wanamakers, True Wins 2 Mile Showdown, Centro Struggles and a High Schooler is #5 in the World in the Pole Vault Courtney Okolo breaking the American record at 500 doesn’t even get in the headline.

MB: Official 2017 Millrose Games Live Discussion Thread

LRC America’s Muslim Olympic Champion Dalilah Muhammad Reacts To Donald Trump’s Executive Order On Immigration – “It’s Just Unfortunate” Find out what America’s first-ever Olympic 400 hurdles champ has to say about Trump’s executive order on immigration.
News And Notes From Friday’s Press Conference LRC Centro Isn’t Dodging Anyone, Kate Grace Talks About Her Switch To Nike & More From The 2017 Millrose Games Press Conference We share our news and notes from today’s press conference.

2017 RAK HALF Marathon Mania

LRC Peres Jepchirchir Runs 65:06 Half Marathon World Record And Collapses At Finish! updated What a race! The world half marathon champ Jepchirchir had to run a world record of 65:06 to defeat Mary Keitany. Jepchirchir ran 30:33 from 10k to 20k (a time that only 2 Amercians have ever run faster than) to pick up the $100,000 world record bonus. Bedan Karoki won the men’s race. We break it all down.
*MB: Race of the Year (So Far): 2017 RAK Half Marathon Starts at 9:45 PM ET – Official Discussion Thread.
*MB: Peres MF Chepchirchir: 65:06 WR at RAK

Pre-Race Dibaba: “Training has gone very well.”

Week That Was

LRC The Week That Was In Running: The Colorado Milers, Snow Cross Nationals, Callum Hawkins, Amy Cragg And More Plus a funny clip of Jenny Simpson delivering good news on national football signing day.

Doping News: Dawn Harper-Nelson Tests Positive

US 100 Hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson Gets 3-Month Drug Ban She tested positive for a substance used in diuretics and masking agents which she said was caused by prescribed blood pressure medication.
AP: “Russia Picks Fight Over Doping After IAAF Ban Extended” If you’re waiting for an apology or sincere admission of guilt from Russian officials, don’t hold your breath.
One Thing We Agree On: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko Says Coaches “Do Not Understand How To Work Without Doping” Should “Retire”
Athletics Illustrated’s Chris Kelsall Isn’t Happy That Disgraced Turkish Miler Asli Cakir Alptekein Has Returned From Her Shortened Ban Alptekein was initially banned for 8 years, but had it reduced to 4 for providing info on the Diacks.
Seb Coe Is “Sad” His “Friend” Nick Davies Was Sacked From The IAAF Coe disagrees with critics who said Davies’ punishment was too lenient.
BBC Video: Seb Coe Denies Misleading British Parliamentary Committee Over Russian Doping Cover-Up He says he’s too busy to appear before the committee again.
Russia 2012 Olympic 400H Champ Natalia Antyukh Announces Her Retirement After Being Stripped Of Her 4 X 400 Medal Due To Her Teammate’s Doping Offense

Random But Interesting

11-Year-Old New Zealander To Run A Half Marathon In Antarctica Quinn Gardiner-Hall explains that while it can get down to minus 21 with the windchill, you can’t wear too many layers because “you don’t want to sweat because it can turn into ice all over your body.”
Interesting Video: NYC Professor Studying Rivalries Has Found That They Can Improve Performance And Have Psychological And Physiological Effects
New Research Finds Post Run Carbs May Mean Healthier Bones

Some Big News From The IAAF: Russia Will Miss Worlds

IAAF Votes Unanimously To Maintain Russian Ban Through The 2017 London World Championships The IAAF task force head Rune Andersen said Russian officials still fail to acknowledge the problem and that the plan is now for Russia to not be reinstated until November 2017.
*The Telegraph Article

*IAAF Freezes All International Transfer Of Allegiance With Immediate Effect Are the days of Turkey, Qatar and Bahrain dominating “European” championships over?
*IAAF Publish Qualification System And Entry Standards For 2017 Worlds

“If Matt Centrowitz writes a book, you buy it and read it.”

LRC Exclusive LetsRun.com Exclusive: Read Chapter Two of Matt Centrowitz’s New Book “Like Father, Like Son” LetsRun.com doesn’t beat around the bush. Neither does Matt Centrowitz. He’s so confident you’ll like his book, he’s letting you read a whole chapter for free. Purchase the book now and come back at the end of February and participate in the first ever LetsRun.com Virtual Book Club.

LRC Legendary Athlete, Father And Coach Matt Centrowitz Just Published An Autobiography – We Suggest You Read It An autobiography by a man who failed every single class in middle school and was in trouble with the law but went on to set an American record in the 5k, make two Olympic teams and raise a son who broke America’s 108-year Olympic drought in the men’s 1,500 has a lot of potential. Add in the fact that he roomed with Bruce Jenner and skipped school to hang out with Steve Prefontaine on the day he died and you’ve got a must read. Purchase Like Father, Like Son: My Story on Running, Coaching and Parenting now and be a part of the 1st-ever LetsRun.com Virtual Book Tour in one month.

Non-Millrose Indoor Track Action *All NCAA Results

From No-Name To Collegiate Record Holder In One Race LRC Texas A&M’s Jazmine Fray Runs Massive PB to Break NCAA 800m Record Before Saturday, the sophomore’s indoor PB was 2:04.76 (outdoor pb was 2:03.25) – now she’s the collegiate record holder.
*A&M”s Fred Kerly runs WL 45.02 for 400

Husky Edward Cheserek Runs 13:32 World Lead At Husky Classic Not far behind him was Washington’s Colby Gilbert in 13:34.
*Live Results, Start Lists, Schedule

BU Valentine Live Results / Entries / Schedule There was a world lead in the women’s mile from Shelby Houlihan in 4:24.16 over Colleen Quigley (4:24.88).

Poland Genzebe Dibaba (3:58.80 1,500) And Joanna Jozwik (1:59.29 800) Post World Leaders At Copernicus Cup Dibaba was going for the WR of 3:55.17 but came up short. Erik Sowinski ran 1:46.84 for 3rd in the 800 while Ronnie Baker (6.46) and Barbara Pierre (7.11) ran world leaders in the 60. *Results
*IAAF Recap: Poland’s Joanna Jozwik Gets 800 World Lead And National Record In 1:59.29 Bethwell Birgen won a tough battle in the 1500 over Marcin Lewandowski and Silas Kiplagat.

Tyson Invy Meet Preview: Top Sprint Action At Tyson Invitational
*Results/Star Lists/ Schedule

*USTFCCCA Weekend Preview: Distance Action Heats Up

Nitro Athletics Series In The Books *Day 3 Results

Usain Bolt All-Stars Sweep Nitro Athletics Series With Another Close Win Over Australia On Final Day Bolt got double wins on the final day in the 150m and 4×100. Kenya’s Selah Busienei (4:36) and Australia’s Ryan Gregson (4:06) won the elimination miles while Jenna Prandini took the 60 (7.31) and 16-year-old Aussie Riley Day surprised in the women’s 150m.

*Reuters Recap Bolt: “I knew that this is what track and field needed. I’m just happy the event came together the way that it did. *AP article

Tomorrow (Sunday) On The Roads

Florence Kiplagat Returns To Lead Field For The Barcelona Half-Marathon Kiplagat set the WR here two years and said that “if the wind lets me run fast” she could go for the new mark by Peres Jepchirchir. Leonard Kipkoech Langat (59:18) and former World marathon champ Abel Kirui lead the men’s race.
Defending Champions Mike Mutai And Letebrhan Haylay Gebreslasea Return To Lead The Hong Kong Marathon

**Nitro Athletics #2 *Results**

Dennis Mitchell Would Be Proud Usain Bolt’s All-Stars Win Nitro Meet #2 In Absurd Fashion All Australia had to do to win was walk the baton around the track in the 4 x 100 but they dropped the stick and got -10 points in a penalty instead of 40 for a win, but the national TV audience was told Australia was the winner. Bolt was taking it seriously and said he’d file a protest if the score wasn’t correct.
*Daily Mail: Usain Bolt Furious At Referee Error At Nitro Athletics
*Australian Sprinter John Steffensen Beats Usian Bolt … In Practice And With A Huge Head Start
*Revived Kerron Clement enjoyed Nitro #2 even though his team was last
*IAAF Recap Of Nitro #2 Ryan Gregson won the elimination mile in 4:03.

More Mid-Week Action Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Wins 60H In 7.51, Olympic Heptathlon Champion Nafissatou Thiam Excels In Triathlon In France The triathlon is where you do 3 events of the multi.

Coming In May Stacked Pole Vault Will Take Place At 2017 Pre Classic With All 3 Olympic Medalists + Shawn Barber Renaud Lavillenie, who set his outdoor PR in Eugene, will be looking for a record 5th straight win in Eugene.

LRC’s Jon Gault Goes To The Super Bowl

LRC What’s It Like To Go To The Super Bowl (And Watch Your Team Storm Back From 25 Down And Win) LRC’s Jonathan Gault went to the Big Game and fortunately for him he didn’t leave early. He tells us what it’s like attending a Super Bowl in person.

Discuss: Jon Gault’s Rules for the Superbowl: 1) Cheer for the Patriots, not against the Falcons and 2) Don’t be an asshole

Vivian Speaks

Good Read: Vivian Cheruiyot Prepares To Move To The Roads And Reflects On The Best And Worst Moments Of Her Track Career Cheruiyot isn’t approaching the marathon as a career afterthought as she talks about winning Olympic marathon gold and breaking the WR.
Vivian Cheruiyot Thinks “Running A Marathon In Under Two Hours Is Impossible” She has “no problem” with the 2-hour project, and thinks Eliud Kipchoge can break the WR, but feels “1:59:59 is setting the bar too high.”
Vivian Cheruiyot Talks About Motherhood, Retirement And Future Plans She wants to have another child after the 2020 Games and retire when she is 40 years old (2023).

Post-Weekend NCAA News

MB: Ben Saarel Runs 4:01.49 Mile At CU Home Meet The NCAA altitude conversion puts his time at 3:55.53. CU’s Dani Jones won the women’s race in 4:39.50 which converts to 4:32.61.
NCAA DI Athletes Of The Week Are Tennessee And Arizona Sprinters Christian Coleman And Sage Watson Watson set a collegiate and Canadian 500m record in 1:08.40 while Coleman ran 6.51 in the 60 to put himself tied for 8th best in NCAA history.
Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From The Weekend Distance highlights included Indiana’s Daniel Kuhn (1:46.42) and Virginia Tech’s Hanna Green (2:03.31) in the 800 and a 9:03 3,000 by Indiana’s Katherine Receveur.
Big Jump Highlights NCAA DI Men’s Rankings Florida, Oregon and LSU stayed 1-3, but Virginia moved from 12th to 4th.
Top 5 Women’s DI Rankings Remain Intact As Oregon Stays On Top

Super Saturday Was Full Of Action *Full Results

LRC Six Takeaways From Some Fantastic Action Across The Globe On Super Saturday What a day. Laura Muir and the Kenyan-born Americans were fantastic.We give you the highlights as we doubt you can spend all of Sunday and all of Saturday glued to your TV or PC.

USA XC: Leonard Korir Wins, Aliphine Tuliamuk Dominates As Do Scott Simmons’ Kenyan-American Men Scott Simmons-coached athletes swept the top 4 places on the men’s side at the USA XC champs as Leonard Korir got the win. Aliphine Tuliamuk dominated the women’s race.
*OK State’s Michelle Magnani Wins Jr. Girls Race
*CSU Pueblo’s Paul Roberts Wins Jr. Boys Race

ATI RRW 2017 Armory Track Invitational Full Recap: Ajee Wilson And Sammy Watson Impress With Fast 600m Times In the men’s mile Andy Butchart impressed and the men’s 3,000 was physical and featured shoves and elbows between Drew Hunter and Daniel Winn.

Super Saturday Talk On Our The Fan Forum

2016 Was A Record Year For Us In Terms Of Traffic – Thanks For Visiting

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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Alysia Montaño Gets 2 Huge Upgrades As Mariya Savinova Gets Punished

LRC Breaking: Alysia Montaño Just Won Two World Championship Medals At 800 Meters The Court of Arbitration for Sport has banned Russian Mariya Savinova-Farnosova for four years and stripped her of her 2011 and 2012 gold medals and 2013 silver. In addition to Montaño getting two medals, Caster Semenya is now a two-time Olympic champ.
*Savinova Banned Based On “Clear Evidence” Including ABP Data

Midweek News Of Note

Mike Tirico To Replace Bob Costas As NBC’s Olympic Host In 2018 Costas held the job for 24 years.
Prince Harry Beats Prince William And Kate Middleton In Sprint At Charity Event This is proof that one should never get married and never have kids if you want to keep running as your #1 priority.
Tokyo Prosecutors Question Japanese Olympic Head Over Controversial Payments To Consulting Firm With Ties To Papa Diack In international business, it’s sadly often a fine line between consulting and bribery.
2018 World Indoors In Birmingham Will Likely Start With A High Jump Only Day It was going to feature 3 days of competition but now organizers want to run the high jump on the night of the opening ceremony.

Another World Record For Dibaba

LRC Genzebe Dibaba Gets World Record #6, Runs 5:23.75 For 2,000 Meters In Sabadell, Spain She destroyed the 18-year-old indoor record by 7 seconds and also beat Sonia O’Sullivan‘s outdoor mark of 5:25.36.

*IAAF Meet Recap Poland’s Adam Kszczot won the 800 in 1:46.31 while Euro silver medalist Adel Mechaal won the 3K in 7:48.

News From Oregon

Register Guard: Track Town Gives The Eatons A Royal Send-Off A capacity crowd of 300 at the TrackTown Tuesday meeting in Eugene gave them two standing ovations.
*Ken Goe In The Oregonian: The Eatons Enjoying Retirement And Being “Fun-Employed” The two have kept busy since retiring with a number of projects including helping with a fantasy track and field game.
Ken Goe Profile On Oregon Hurdler Alaysha Johnson Johnson talks about her sociology studies and work promoting better relationships between police officers and minority groups which included doing a night ride-along.
University Of Oregon Reconsidering A “Draconian” Liability Waiver For Track And Field Volunteers They caught some flack for a new waiver that would force volunteers to give up a lot of legal rights in the event of an injury caused by university negligence.

US News: USATF Pulls Out Of World U18 Champs

Team USA Pulls Out Of World Youth Championships In Kenya Due To Terrorism Concerns This was the last year for the event and several other countries including the UK and New Zealand have pulled out as well.
SPIKES: “Erik Sowinski Explains Why He Loves Life On The Road” While most US runners are racing and training in the US during indoor, Sowinski is racing on the European circuit and even did some training with Poland’s World silver medalist Adam Kszczot.
Good Runner’s Tribe Q&A With Molly Huddle All About Her Marathon Debut In NYC This Past Fall Huddle says the earliest she’d do another marathon is spring 2018, maybe London or Boston and that she’d like to run the marathon at Tokyo 2020.
Donald Trump Says He “Doesn’t Know” If The Immigration Ban Will Hurt The LA 2024 Bid

Meet The Freshman Who Is Taking The NCAA By Storm

LRC Who Is Emmanuel Korir – The Freshman The Set A World’s Best In The 600m? “I Think He Could Be A World Champion In The 800” UTEP coach Paul Ereng knows a thing or two about 800-meter phenoms – he used to be one himself, winning Olympic gold in 1988 as freshman at the University of Virginia. Now Ereng’s got one on his hands in the form of Korir, the freshman who set a world indoor best of 1:14.97 for 600m last weekend (since surpassed), and he thinks greatness lies in Korir’s future.