The 2017 NYC Half Is Sunday

LRC Women’s Preview: Molly Huddle Goes for the Three-Peat (and the American Record?) Against Amy Cragg & Desi Linden Can Huddle get the AR? Will Emily Sisson arrive as the next US distance star? We’ll find out on Sunday.

LRC Men’s Preview: Feyisa Lilesa Faces Callum Hawkins, Meb, Abdi, Chris Derrick, and Diego Estrada Can Callum Hawkins keep his hot streak going or will the Flagstaff-based Olympic silver medallist Feyisa Lelisa get the win? Who will be the top American? And what does Chris Derrick think of Nike’s new shoes Zoom Vaporfly shoes – should they be banned?

Will Sub-2 Go Down This Spring? (We say no.)

• Ed Caesar In Wired: “Nike’s Controversial New Shoes Made Me Run Faster” Caesar, the journalist following Nike’s sub-2 project and author of “Two Hours,” writes that Nike’s new controversial Vaporfly shoes have him “running more like a Kenyan than I ever had before.”
• Team Of Researchers At The University Of Houston And University Of Colorado Claim The 2-Hour Marathon Can Be Broken Now Their mathematical “calculations” show that four and a half minutes could be shaved off the current record through lighter shoes, a collaborative drafting strategy and ideal course “like a paved loop through a pine forest.”

Not Your Everyday Running News

• Seattle Female Runner Uses Moves From Self-Defense Class To Fight Off A Rapist The man, a registered sex offender, was hiding in a bathroom stall where she stopped during a run, but she was able to fight him off and lock him in the stall until police arrived.
  *MB: Seattle rapist goes away DEVASTATED after attacking female marathoner
• UK Transgender Runner And Former UK Mountain Running Champion Lauren Jeska Gets 18 Years In Prison For Attempted Murder Of UK Athletics Official Jeska had a dispute with UKA on her eligibility to compete as a female since she had not provided samples of her testosterone levels. She stabbed one UKA official in the head and neck and injured two others. *The Guardian Article *BBC
• Video: Crazy 40+ MPH Wind Brings Runners To A Standstill In French Road Race Runners going over a bridge were hunched over as they tried to not be blown over by the strong gusts.

Crouser Family Throwing News

• Olympian And Former NCAA Javelin Champ Sam Crouser Retires From The Sport Crouser’s dad, a former elite thrower himself, said his son never fully recovered from a college knee injury and “felt content to be done.”
• Olympic Champ Ryan Crouser Will Headline A Deep Field For The Pre Classic Shot Put This May He’ll face Rio silver and bronze medalists Joe Kovacs and Tom Walsh and former World champ David Storl.

More Results From The Weekend

• Jessica Judd And Andy Vernon Win British Inter-Counties XC Championships Judd was non-committal about World XC while Vernon doesn’t want to go.
  *British Athletics Officially A Joke: UK Announces World XC “Squad” No senior men and only four senior women will make the trip to Uganda.
• Japanese 4 X 100 Silver Medal-Winning Sprinters Highlight At Aussie Track Meet Yoshihide Kiryu and Ryota Yamagata ran 10.04 and 10.06 to win their respective heats while the distance highlight was Keely Small‘s world age-15 best of 2:01.46 in the 800. Michelle Jenneke won the 100H in 12.99.
• Irish Olympic Marathoner Mick Clohisey Wins Ballycotton 10-Mile (49:20)
• Germany’s Julian Weber Highlights European Throwing Cup Meet With 85.85m Javelin Victory *Euro Athletics Meet Recap
• AW Weekly UK Recap: Three UK Records Went Down At England’s Age-Group Combined Event Champs

2017 NCAA Indoors *Schedule And TV *Live Results *Post-Race Video Interviews *Day 1 Video Replay *Day 2 Video Replay

MB: Official 2017 NCAA Indoor Track And Field Champs Day 2 Live Discussion Thread

LRC Best Ending Ever? Texas A&M Men Win Their First NCAA Indoor Title By Half A Point After Coming From Behind To Win 4 X 400 What a conclusion to the meet, plus a little controversy with a DQ in the 400 that cost Florida. *Full Video Of NCAA-Deciding 4 X 400

LRC Twice Is Nice: Oregon’s Edward Cheserek (3K/5K) & Colorado’s Dani Jones (DMR/3K) Win NCAA 3K Titles To Complete Their Doubles The King cemented his status as a legend and Dani Jones began her quest to become one.

LRC From No-Name To National Champ: Samford’s Karisa Nelson Outkicks UNH’s Elinor Purrier To Win The 2017 NCAA Indoor Mile Last year as a 4:28 1,500m runner, Nelson said she wanted to be a pro runner. Now that doesn’t sound so crazy.

LRC Upset City! New Mexico Freshman Josh Kerr Stuns Edward Cheserek & Runs Away With 2017 NCAA Mile Title Scottish sensation Josh Kerr did the unthinkable and outkicked King Cheserek in the mile Saturday night.

LRC Studs Raevyn Rogers And Emmanuel Korir Get Impressive 800m Titles Rogers won her 4th straight NCAA 800m title while the freshman Korir showed he may soon start a streak of his own as he won #1 despite not having run a track workout in 3 weeks before NCAAs started.

• Outside Coverage: IAAF: Tennessee’s Christian Coleman Speeds To 60m/200m Sprint Double Coleman tied the 60m collegiate record with 6.45 and equaled 6th on the world indoor all-time list. He missed Wallace Spearmon‘s NCAA 200m record by just .01. In the 400, Texas A&M’s Fred Kerley became just the 5th man to break 45 indoors with a 44.85 victory while Oregon’s Arian Washington took the 200 in 22.42 (#10 all-time).
• Register-Guard: Oregon Women Run Away With NCAA Indoor Title With Record Point Total With a score of 84 points, the Duck women won their seventh title in eight years. *The Oregonian
• Texas A&M Article Coach Pat Henry: “It’s great to win this one here [at home].”
• The Denver Post: Dani Jones Becomes CU’s First Athlete To Win Two NCAA Indoor Titles In Same Year
• Register-Guard: Edward Cheserek Wins 3K; Leads Oregon To Third Place Finish Coach Robert Johnson: “[Edward] could have sat back and not wanted to come out and run that 3K, but that just shows the true competitor that he is.”

HS Nats Are This Weekend As Well *Results

• Sunday: Sydney McLaughlin Goes Out In Style, Breaks Her Own High School 400m Record With 51.61 *Video Interview
  *MB: 51.61 HS 400 record by Sydney McLaughlin
• Trey Cunningham Breaks World U20 Record With 7.40 Seconds To Wins NB Indoor Nationals
• MileSplit Sunday Boy’s Recap *MileSplit Girl’s Recap
• Saturday: Good Read: Mondo Duplantis Makes History At New Balance Indoor Nationals Becoming First High Schooler To Go Over 19 Feet In The Pole Vault The 17-year-old PV prodigy cleared 19 feet, 1 inch (5.82m) on his third attempt to break the world junior record. (he also broke the Armory record, destroyed the MR by ~14 inches, and just beat the 19-.025 PR of his father, a former pro). *Video
• Recommended Read: At 4-Years Old Ben Varghese Had 75% Of His Leg Cut Off In A Lawnmower Accident And Had To Have It Reattached; Now He’s A National 5000m Champion The Indian-born senior ran a big breakthrough of 14:47 to win his first national title.
• IAAF Recap: Trey Cunningham Breaks World U20 Record In 60H Heats With 7.45 The final is today.
• Friday Recap: Brie Oakley Breaks 5,000m National Record; First High School Girl To Go Under 16 Minutes Indoors
  *MB: Brie Oakley 15:55! *Video Interview *MileSplit Article/Interview
• DMR National Record Goes Down As Carlisle Runs 9:56.18
• Youth Champs: 2017 USATF Hershey National Youth Indoor Championships come to a close with 70 meet records
• Back-To-Back Records Fall On Second Day Of USATF Hershey National Youth Indoor Championships
• Eight Meet Records Broken On Day 1 Of USATF Hershey National Youth Indoor Championships

US Distance Interviews

• Good Read: Q&A With Desiree Linden Who Says She’s Going For The Win In Boston “At a certain point, there’s a handful of us who have been saying that for years and it’s like, ‘Either deliver or shut up about it.’ … I’m going to be able to be more aggressive than ever before.”
• Video Interview: Hassan Mead Speaks About The Reissued Travel Ban Somali-born Mead is upset about the ban, but doesn’t expect it to affect his own travel.
• Podcast Q&A: Carrie Tollefson Interviews Kate Grace

New Balance HS Nats Pre-Meet

• DyeStat Event-By-Event Preview: High School Stars Sammy Watson, Sydney McLaughlin, Tyrese Cooper Mondo Duplantis And Alyssa Wilson Star At New Balance Indoor Nationals Duplantis is shooting for the 19-foot pole vault barrier (the world junior record is 19-0.25 [5.80m]).
• Girls 5,000m National High School Record Under Assault At NBNI Amazingly, the record has gone down at this meet for the last six years straight. It’s currently held by Weini Kelati at 16:08, but NXN champ Brie Oakley is trying to make it lucky number seven.
• Paralympic Medalist Hunter Woodhall Will Be The First Double Amputee To Compete At NBNI And Hopes To Become The First To Receive A DI Track Scholarship Woodhall had trouble generating interest at first, but is now in contact with multiple schools as there is apparently no rule against him competing at the DI level.
• USATF Hershey National Youth Indoor Championships Start Today On Staten Island
• DyeStat.com: New Balance Nationals Indoor 2017 Preview (Video)

NCAA Distance Previews

LRC Men’s + Women’s DMR Preview: Expect Oregon’s Edward Cheserek To Put The Team On His Back Again As The Ducks Shoot For A DMR Sweep Believe it or not, the Oregon women have never won the DMR at NCAAs. Look for that to change on Friday as we think the Ducks will win both DMR titles.

LRC Women’s 3K/5K Preview: Erin Finn & Katie Rainsberger Try To Stop NCAA XC Champ Karissa Schweizer From Pulling Off The Distance Double Karissa Schweizer hasn’t lost a race since October, and when we look at her, we’re reminded of Molly Seidel last year or Dartmouth’s Abbey D’Agostino in 2013-14 – NCAA XC champs who got hot and kept it rolling all the way through indoors.

LRC Men’s 3K/5K Preview: The Edward Cheserek Show Rolls On; Can He Break The NCAA All-Time Record For Individual Titles (15)? Edward Cheserek will likely become the most decorated runner in NCAA history this weekend at Texas A&M.

LRC Women’s Mile Preview: Oklahoma State’s Kaela Edwards Aims To Become First Repeat Champion Since 1990 It’s been 27 years since there was a repeat winner of the NCAA women’s mile but that likely will change this weekend unless UNH’s Elinor Purrier or Penn State star  freshman Danae Rivers can pull off an upset.

LRC Men’s Mile Preview: Collegiate Record Holder Edward Cheserek Is Heavily Favored But Don’t Forget Oklahoma State’s Josh Thompson Or CU’s Ben Saarel Collegiate record holder Edward Cheserek is the HEAVY favorite but Oklahoma St. coach Dave Smith, who has coached 11 sub-4 milers since 2009, is giving his star, Josh Thompson, free reign to go for broke, “Swing for the fences. Maybe you get it, maybe you blow up and get eighth. But either way, I think it’s more fun to say let’s go for it.”

LRC Women’s 800 Preview: NCAA Record Holder Jazmine Fray Of Texas A&M Battles Defending Champ Raevyn Rogers Of Oregon The collegiate record holder versus the winner of the last 3 NCAA 800s. It doesn’t get much better than this.
*Register Guard: History Will Be On The Line For Oregon Ducks And Edward Cheserek At NCAAs The UO women go for their 7th title in 8 years and the all-time meet scoring record while the men try to win their 4th straight and Cheserek is set to break the record for most individual NCAA titles.
*Raevyn Rogers Is Happy To Be Underdog At NCAAs “It takes the pressure off my back, but at the same time, it gives me that underdog feeling that I have to work for it even more, and it motivates me to prove that I can be better.”

LRC Men’s 800 Preview: Penn State’s Isaiah Harris Leads A Field In Which Nine Guys Have Broken 1:47 This Year 9 men under 1:47. Two freshman phenoms. An Olympic Trials finalist and many more. The men’s 800 is certainly a good one.
*Gordon Mack Thinks There Should Be An NCAA Team Championships Held The Week Before The NCAA Individual Championships

Nike Gets Lots Of Mid-Week Press – Some Good And Some Bad

• Telegraph Exclusive: FBI Joins Probe Into Mo Farah Coach Alberto Salazar
• Nike’s Sub-2 Attempt Will Be Run On F1 Course In Milan – Kipchoge Tests It Out And Runs 59:17 Half Marathon Tadesse ran 59:41 and Desisa embarrassed himself at 62:55.
• Nike Unveils Shoe As Well Nike claims the shoe, which features a spring plate, improves running economy by 4%, which might improve performance by 4%.
• IAAF Is Looking Into Whether Nike’s Shoe – And Other Manufacturers’s Shoes – Are Legal Let’s hope so as Nike’s which features a “spring plate” has already been worn by Rupp, Kipchoge and Flanagan in the Olympics.
• Recommended Read: Alex Hutchinson: If Shoes Make A Sub-2 Hour Marathon Feasible, What Does That Mean For The Sport?
  
• Sub-2 Marathon Test Run Yields Fast Times, Lingering Questions Kipchoge claimed that Tuesday’s run, which featured the runners getting fluids handed to them by a guy on a moped, pacers jumping in and out and the runners ingesting core-temperature pills, was only a 60% effort. Yeah, right.
  *MB: Kipchoge claims his 59:17 was a 60% effort (total BS) – if that’s true then why did Desisa run 62+
• Scenes From The Nike Breaking2 Test Run

Olympic News

• Frankie Fredericks Steps Down As Head Of Team Evaluating Bids To Host The 2024 Olympics – Maintains Innocence “I categorically deny any direct or indirect involvement in any untoward conduct and confirm that I have never breached any law, regulation or rule of ethics in respect of any IOC election process.”
• 3-Time Japanese Hurdles Champ Asuka Terada Wants To Compete In 2020 Olympics … In Rugby Sevens
• With Budapest Out, Los Angeles & Paris Are The Only Cities Left Competing For 2024, But Some Think They’ll Both Be Awarded A Bid

Doping News

• Yelena Isinbayeva Was Confirmed On Tuesday As A Member Od The Supervisory Board Of Russia’s Anti-Doping Agency RUSADA
• Anna Antseliovich, The Acting Director General Of The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), Has Resigned
• WADA Removes Spain From The List Of Countries Deemed Non-Compliant With The World Anti-Doping Code

US News

• Matt Damon Is The Narrator Of The Boston Marathon Documentary That Will Air In More Than 500 Theaters Nationwide On April 19 Damon says some of his fondest childhood memories were cheering for Bill Rodgers and then his dad at the Boston Marathon.
• USATF Foundation Gives Out More Than $255,000 In Grants Bobby Curtis, Stephanie Schappert and three female hammer throwers were the 5 biggest winners at $10,000 each.
• Little-Known Fact: Erik Kynard Has Won 8 Straight US HJ Titles (Indoors And Out) Every single one since turning pro in 2013.
• He Lives In America: Nick Willis Finishes In 7th At NZ Speed Golf Champs Willis, who says he’d normally shoot an 83, managed to shoot an 88 in 41 minutes in the 1st round. Amazing. We think Willis would do much better if they played all the rounds consecutively. He shot a 90 in the final round.

2017 NCAAs Indoors Start Friday Night *Schedule & TV

• USTFCCCA: Florida And Arkansas Lead In Pre-NCAA Championship DI Men’s Rankings
• USTFCCCA: Oregon Holds Commanding Lead In Pre-NCAA Championship DI Women’s Rankings
• Hard To Believe: Kentucky’s Tim Duckworth, Who Has Never Scored At NCAAs, Is The British Record Holder In The Heptathlon He’ll score this week as he’s #3 on the list.
• Unheralded Youngstown State Has The #2 60H Man In The Country In Chad Zallow And he’s even a Cleveland Browns fan.

Free Nutrition Advice

• How To Compete Without Meat – Scientific Studies Have Shown Being A Vegetarian Doesn’t Have To Hurt You Athletically
  *MB: 30$ a week on a vegan budget =========== guy must be a non-athlete 
• Brianna Rollins Knows The Importance Of Eating Well – She Ballooned From 114 lbs. To 135 Lbs. As A College Freshman

Ryan Hall Believes The Two Hour Marathon Is Possible Now … On A Treadmill Hall thinks it’ll be a while before we see one on the roads, though.”I’ll be excited the first time I see a marathoner go out under 60 minutes. Just doing that alone will be a pretty big step towards the sub-two-hour marathon.”

Centro Sr.’s Book Gets Some Publicity

Matt Centro’s Sr Gets Q&A In Washington Post About His Biography And His Son’s Olympic 1,500m Gold

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 Review Legendary Athlete, Father And Coach Matt Centrowitz Just Published An Autobiography – We Suggest You Read It