Links We Found To Be Interesting

• Being A Mom Is Hard: Deena Kastor Reveals She Now Runs 50 mpw But Is Way More Tired Than When She Ran More Than 100
• A Day In The Life Of 44-Year-Old Deena Kastor
• An In-Depth Look At Kendell And Devon Williams – The Brother-Sister Combo That Won NCAA Multi-Event Titles Indoors This Year For Georgia
• USTFCCCA Profiles New Decathlete Record Holder Lindon Victor He came up clutch in discus after fouling in the 1st two events.
• TFN Q&A With Centro: Despite Struggles In 3k indoors, Centro Still Planning On Running 5,000 In May
• Doug Gillon: Miguel Francis’ Arrival Sparks The “Plastic Brit” Debate Once Again The author notes how Saif Saaeed Shaheen supported 30 people back home with his earnings.
• Former Georgia Star Megan Malasarte Is Now Part Of Atlanta Track Club – Will Compete For ATF For 1st Time This Weekend She was part of the Brooks Beasts.
• Spikes Takes A Look At How Kate Van Buskirk Has Come Back From Not Being Able To Get Out Of Bed In 2015

Even If It Wasn’t State Sponsored, It Seemingly Encompassed Nearly Every Single Elite Athlete

CAS Bans 2012 Olympic 800 Bronze Medalist Ekaterina Poistogova For 2 Years She keeps her Olympic medal, however, and with the ban backdated to August 2015 may be competing late this summer.

Current And Future Stars In The News

• We Wish Him The Best South African LJ Star Luvo Manyonga Re-Enters Drug Treatment Facility Last month, he jumped an African record of 8.62m but the battle with crystal meth addiction is very tough. “I wanted to release this statement to show others that there is no shame in your past and empower others to shake off the stigma associated with addiction.”
• Ken Goe Takes A Look At The Somali-Born, Canadian-Raised, US-Living Mo Ahmed, Who Was 4th In The Olympic 5k Jerry Schumacher thinks Ahmed’s best days are to come. “He’s a young runner with a lot of fun upside.”
• Sonia O’Sullivan’s Daughter, Sophie, Won The U-17 Australian Title In The 800 (2:10.00) And 1,500 (4:29.17) In Sydney’s Olympic Stadium And mom (who has nothing to do with her coaching) was there to enjoy it with her.
•  Matthew And Matt Centrowitz Starred At TrackTown Tuesday Meeting In Eugene This Week The younger Centrowitz didn’t know his dad was an Olympian until  HS which caused Centro Sr. to quip, “Everybody in the world knew I was a two-time Olympian except my own son.”
• Olympic Gold Medalist Matthew Centrowitz Wants To Break The American 1,500 Record This Year He says Webb’s mile record is steep – apparently not knowing that the 1,500 record (3:29.30) is better than Webb’s mile conversion (3:30.06).
• Usain Bolt Recently Visited Dr. Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, Who Gave Him The OK To Train All-Out

Our Weekly Recap – 5,000+ Words

LRC WTW: Was Witchcraft To Blame For Joshua Cheptegei’s World XC Collapse, All Hail Stephanie Bruce, And A Possible Scientific Explanation As To Why Women Collapse So Often At The End Of Races In our weekly recap this week, we declare Stephanie Bruce as our new hero as she rocked two races that were 9,000 miles apart in the span of 5 days, we take a look at a very interesting theory that some Ugandans have as to why Joshua Cheptegei blew up, and we try to find a scientific explanation for why so many women collapse at the end of cross country races.

LRC Does Science Explain Why So Many More Women Than Men Collapse At The End Of Races? The next time you see scores of women collapsing at the end of a race, you might want to think twice before assuming this means they are less tough than men.

More Upcoming Track Action *Sun Angel Classic Live Results *All Weekend NCAA Results

• Saturday: Matt Centrowitz Making His Outdoor Season Debut In The Mile At The Sun Angel Classic
• Friday: Olympic HJ Champ Derek Drouin To Try Decathlon At Sam Adams Invitational
• The 2017 Diamond League Will Have A New Format And Scoring System Athletes will earn points during the regular DL season to qualify for a winner take all final. In the past, the overall DL winner was already decided before the final race.
• April 28: Two-Time Olympic Champ Christian Taylor Leads Triple Jump Field For Drake Relays
• April 29: Reigning Olympic Gold Medalist Omar McLeod Announced As Part Of World-Class 110H Field For The 2017 Drake Relays Presented By Hy-Vee McLeod will face top Americans Aries Merritt, David Oliver, Aleec Harrris and Ronnie Ash.
• May 13: Sensational Sprints In Store For Shanghai DL Elaine Thompson, Tori Bowie, VCB, LaShawn Merritt and Justin Gatlin to name a few.
• May 27: Pre Classic Women’s Long Jump Will Have All Three Olympic Medalists In Tianna Bartoletta, Brittney Reese And Ivana Spanovic
• 2018: Schedule Revealed For The 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

European News: Comebacks And New Beginnings

• Recommended Read: GB Sprinter James Ellington Is On The Road To Recovery From His Horrific Motorcycle Crash, But Has A Long Way To Go Three months later and Ellington is just starting to walk on crutches, but has high spirits and plans defy the doctors by being back competing again next year.
• RR #2: The Telegraph: “James Ellington On Cheating Death: ‘It Was Like I’d Been In A Bomb Explosion. Everything Was Just Ripped Off'” Ellington says he and his fellow GB sprinter Nigel Livine were saved by their strength. Apparently the pelvis surgeon said theirs was the hardest he’d ever seen and he broke two drills operating on them.
• British Citizenship Debate Reignited As Usain Bolt’s Training Partner Miguel Francis Switches To GB Francis (7th in the world in the 200 last year) ran 2015 worlds for Antigua and Barbuda. Seb Coe ordered a halt on nationality transfers this year, but Francis applied back before Rio.
• The Telegraph: “Francis Insists He Is Proud To Wear GB Vest After Controversial Nationality Switch” Francis was born in the British territory Montserrat, but he and his family fled when he was a child because of a volcanic eruption. *BBC Article
• Renaud Lavillenie Is Flying High Again After Coming Back From Injuries Which Ended His Indoor Season Lavillenie is back in full training, but says he pretty much lived on the physio’s table doing three to five hour sessions at a time.
• Belgium’s Olympic Heptathlon Champ Nafi Thiam Gives Her Tip For Sport And Life

NCAA News

• Good Read: Q&A With Samford’s NCAA Indoor Mile Champ Karisa Nelson Nelson credits her fellow distance runner boyfriend for helping her “become more focused” and says now that she’s national champ she sees her competitors “as friends instead of people I’m afraid of.”
• Register-Guard: Oregon Sprinter Hannah Cunliffe Says They Had Talked About Getting AN NCAA Record This Year, But Hadn’t Expected It So Early Cunliffe credits “good “chemistry” and “smooth” hand-offs to the UO women breaking the 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 collegiate records last weekend.
• NCAA Considering Letting North Carolina Host National Championships After They Repealed Its Bathroom Law
• Texas A&M’s Lindon Victor And Oregon Women Sprinters Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Victor broke the collegiate decathlon record while Makenzie Dumore, Deajah Stevens, Hannah Cunliffe and Ariana Washington broke the 4 x 100 and 4 x 200 records.

More Road News From The Weekend

• Jordan Hasay Has Been So Good On The Roads That Alberto Salazar Thinks Maybe She Should Give Up Track Altogether She was planning to run USAs, but Salazar said she could skip it to train for a fall marathon. “Let’s say she makes the U.S. team. What does that accomplish?”
• Kenyan Luka Rotich Lobuwan (2:09:37) And Peru’s Inés Melchor (2:34:12) Take Santiago Marathon Titles
• Bahrain’s El Hassan El Abbassi (61:31) And Rwanda’s Salome Nyirarukundo (71:30) Win Berkane Half Marathon In The Hometown Of Mid-D Legend Hicham El Guerrouj
• Former Olympian And Commentator Carrie Tollefson Won The 40-44 Age Group At Cherry Blossom 10 Miler
• Sad News: Mom Of Three Dies After Collapsing At Finish Line Of Half Marathon In PA
  *AP: Coroner Says Woman Died Of Internal Hemorrhage