May 28, 2017 | LetsRun.com

2017 Pre Classic Results Event Hub *Photo Gallery

Weekend Road Action

Tirunesh Dibaba And Dathan Ritzenhein Win Great Manchester Run 10K Dibaba dominated the race by more than 2 minutes in 31:03 while Ritz ran 28:06 to beat Bernard Lagat by 7 seconds. Wilson Kipsang finished back in 5th.
Ethiopia’s Leul Gebresilase (28:43) And Netsanet Gudeta (31:35) Win Ottawa 10K Syracuse alum Martin Hehir was runner-up in 29:05.

NCAA Regionals How To Watch East Live Results, Schedule, Start Lists *West Live Results, Schedule, Start Lists

LRC Texas A&M’s Fred Kerley Blasts 43.70 NCAA Record (w video) Move over, Quincy Watts. Kerley is the new NCAA record holder.
Discuss: Fred Fred Fred Kerley

Oregon’s Record-Setting Women’s 4 X 100 Fails To Make NCAAs After Getting DQed For Exchange Zone Violation Hannah Cunliffe was a DNS in the 100/200 because of a sore hamstring.
MB: Elise Cranny doesn’t make it to NCAAs. What’s up with America’s former teen phenoms?
IAAF: 1992 Olympic Champ Quincy Watts Was Actually In Attendance To Watch Fred Kerley Break His NCAA Record Watts coaches at USC and actually met Kerley before the race. Oregon’s Deajah Stevens ran a wind aided 10.89 and 22.31 in the 100/200.
MB: What happened to Hannah Cunliffe? Oregon’s NCAA 60m champion was a DNS in the 100/200.
Ken Goe Reports No One Knows Why Hannah Cunliffe Didn’t Run Friday As Oregon Hasn’t Said Anything
Christian Coleman Runs 9.96 And 9.98 To Make It To Eugene
Cameron Burrell Runs Windy 9.90 And 9.95 To Make It To Eugene
MB: Big 10 1500 champ placed in 1,500 final without even running
For Fourth Consecutive Year, Arkansas Advances Three Women’s PVers To NCAAs Includes twins Lexi and Tori Weeks.
Texas A&M Advances 7 Throwers To NCAAs On Regionals Day 1

43rd Hypo Meeting *Live Results

GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Leads Over Olympic Champ Nafissatou Thiam After Day 1 Of Hypo Meeting Heptathlon Defending winner Damian Warner leads the decathlon.
The Guardian: “Katarina Johnson-Thompson soars to lead prestigious Götzis Hypomeeting.”
The Telegraph: “Katarina Johnson-Thompson Feeling On Top Of The World As Her PBs Fall”
The Guardian: Katarina Johnson-Thompson Trying To “Fall In Love” With The Sport Again In Gotzis
*Johnson-Thompson Missed Her Flight To Gotzis Hypo Meet She still made it to the meet, but says it was “drama.”

IAAF Hypo Multi-Event Meet Preview: Olympic Heptathlon Champ Nafissatou Takes On GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Canada’s World silver medalist Damian Warner leads the decathlon field.

African Road News: Kenyan World Marathon Squad Is Official

Kenya’s World Marathon Squad To Be Led By Two-Time World Champ Edna Kiplagat And London Champ Daniel Wanjiru The men’s squad also has Boston winner Geoffrey Kirui and Tokyo runner-up Gideon Kipketer while the women have World silver medalist Helah Kiprop and Commonwealth Games champion Flomenah Cheyech.
Sunday: Joel Kositan (2:09) And Eddah Jepkosgei (2:39) Lead Fields For The Edinburgh Marathon
May 28: Ethiopia’s Canadian All-Comers Record Holder (2:22:43) Koren Jelela Returns To Defend Her Ottawa Marathon Title In the associated 10K, 27:38 man Nicholas Bor is back to try and win again while the women’s race has former World Half bronze medalist Pascalia Kipkoech.

Doping / Gender News

Western States 100 Miler Will Has Added Drug Testing To This Year’s Race They say they are “the first major US ultra” to do drug testing and it costs $700 per athlete tested.
Not A Philosophy We Agree With: Lengthy Piece From “The Sports Integrity Initiative” On Issues Surrounding Women And Testosterone In Sport The article presents the argument that athletes like Caster Semenya who produce high levels of testosterone do “have a competitive advantage” but that “the advantage is no different from natural talents enjoyed by athletes such as Serena Williams [or] Lindsey Vonn …”
Unnamed Indian Track Athlete Gets Provisional Suspension After Being Found With Meldonium In Their Hotel Room

Doping Updates

LRC 6 Takeaways On Full USADA Report On Alberto Salazar, NOP: USADA: “It Appears Highly Likely” That 6 NOP Athletes, Including Galen Rupp And Dathan Ritzenhein, Violated Anti-Doping Rules We give you the nitty gritty on the 269-page USADA interim report on Alberto Salazar, Dr. Brown and the Nike Oregon Project, hacked by Fancy Bears and released in its entirety on Flotrack.

*Salazar Responds: The Oregonian: Alberto Salazar Issues Statement In Response To Leaked USADA Doping Report Salazar refers to the report as “baseless speculation” and states that he never used testosterone when competing nor had “dual” prescriptions or rubbed it on an athlete.

Tons Of Discussion On The Boards:

MB: The full USADA report on Alberto Salazar has been leaked – Here it is
MB: Letsvote.com: Anyone associated with Salazar is tainted. YES or NO?
MB: Salazar Responds to USADA
MB: I feel bad for Ritz…
MB: Let’s be clear Ritz, Galen etc are not victims, they are cheats.
MB: Is NOP DONE or FINISHED?
MB: USADA is screwed. I feel sorry for them.
MB: I’m calling it right now, NOP disbans soon and the top athletes all go into hiding while still coached by Salazar.

Assorted Distance News

Good Watch: 4-Minute Video With Matt Centrowitz Talking About Training/Racing As A Miler, Rio And What Comes Next Centro says now that his has two major championship golds, he wants to set some American records. “I have the hardware, I want the times to back it up.”
Sunday: Wilson Kipsang Faces Dathan Ritzenhein And Bernard Lagat At The Great Manchester Run 10K Genzebe Dibaba leads the women’s race against GB’s Gemma Steel. GB’s Callum Hawkins had to pull out of the race due to illness.
World 5,000m Silver Medalist Senbere Teferi Impresses With A 15:12 Meet Record At The Ethiopian National Championships Another highlight was unheralded Anduamlak Belhu getting a shock win in the 10,000m over World XC bronze medalist Muktar Edris as Belhu out sprinted him by .37.
Another One From The Weekend: World 800 Silver Medalist Melissa Bishop Stepped Up In Distance To Run 4:10 For 1,500 In Canada (includes video) She won over a field that included fellow Canadian Nicole Sifuentes.
Olympic 1,500m Champ Faith Kipyegon Shares Her Advice For Sport And Life Kipyegon’s driving tip: “In Kenya we say ‘pole pole,’ which means ‘not too quick.’ It is the best way to stay safe on the road. I like to think that I am a pretty good driver!”
July 1: Paris Diamond League Meet Will Include An Epic Battle In The 1,500 With Almaz Ayana And Faith Kipyegon

Sprints And Jumps

Yohan Blake Says He Could Have Gone Faster Than The 9.93 He Ran At The Jamaica Invitational Last Weekend Blake says he “shut it down” when he realized he had control of the race, but was happy with the quick time after a terrible start to his season.
Radek Juska Smashes 29-Year-Old Czech Long Jump Record With A European-Leading 8.29m
Good Read: Kerron Clement Reminisces About Finally Realizing His Dreams By Winning Olympic 400H Gold In Rio Clement finished second at the 2008 Olympics but says, “I just didn’t feel complete winning silver.”
Multis: GB Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Says She Has Grown Up Since Leaving Home In The UK To Join A New Training Group In France Johnson-Thompson said it was hard to split with her coach of 8 years, but thinks the move has paid off as she’s done the most training and competing since she was a junior.
*2nd Article From The Telegraph Johnson-Thompson has struggled a bit with the language barrier as she doesn’t speak French. “There’s some things that I had to sacrifice with finding the right place for me and language was one of them.”
IAAF Inside Athletics Video: Ato Boldon Interviews Jamaica’s Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson
Video: Sandi Morris Talks About The Pole Vaulters Never Ending Struggle Of Traveling With Poles
Two World Under-20 Indoor Records Ratified By The IAAF France’s Melvin Raffin (17.14m TJ) and Ukraine’s Alina Shukh (4,535 points in the heptathlon).

LetsThrow.com

New Zealand’s Olympic Shot Put Bronze Medalist Tiptoes Between Confidence And Cockiness As He Declares Himself “As Good If Not Better” Than Any Other Thrower In The World
Hammer Thrower Martin Bingisser Does Podcast “Rant” He talks about several throwing related topics including doping: “We keep putting historic throwers on a pedestal when we know they doped. They’re cheaters not heroes.”
Prep Liam Christensen Writes Thesis Paper Making A Case To Have The Javelin Throw In High School There are only 19 states that sanction the javelin with safety concerns being a major thing holding it back.
RIP: GB Olympic Discus Thrower Philippa Roles Dies At 39 Roles competed at the 2004 and 2008 Games and is 4th on the UK all-time list.
*Athletics Weekly: Athletes, Officials Pay Tribute To Philippa Roles
Police Say A Moment Of Inattention Cost Wheaton College Student His Life In Hammer Throw Accident Last Month The student volunteer was distracted by two other volunteers who were goofing off during warmups.
*MB: Student Fatally Struck by Hammer at Wheaton College Track Meet
1-Minute Video: Olympic Champ Michelle Carter’s Guide To The Perfect Shot Put Technique

More From The Weekend

Philemon Cheboi And Former World Champs 5,000m 5th Placer Buze Diriba Win 2017 Bay To Breakers 12K In San Francisco Part race, part block party, it sounds like the 2017 edition (which included a kissing booth with dogs) was just as crazy as ever. *Results
*SFGate.com: “Bay To Breakers Costumes Show Off Local Creativity, Humor At Its Finest”
*Bleacher Report: Top Photos
The Denver Post: 6-Foot-1 And 193’Pound Runner Isaac Green Wins 800, 1,600, 3,200, 4 X 800 At Colorado State Meet
*MB: CO runner wins 800, 1600, 3200, 4×800 at state is 6-1 193lbs

Ultra News: Running Goes To Everest

Spanish Ultra Runner Kilian Jornet Summits Mt. Everest; Claims Fastest Known Time He climbed the North face in 26 hours without oxygen or fixed ropes which most climbers use and take up to four days. *Discuss
Free PDF Book: “Swift Endurance Legends The Fastest 100-Mile Ultrarunners During The 1970s, ’80s And ’90s”

2017 Oxy USATF Distance Classic *Results

LRC Matthew Centrowitz Takes Down Mo Farah, Brenda Martinez Impresses – 2017 Oxy USATF Distance Classic Recap

2017 Pre Classic Results Event Hub

Full Pre RESULTS On one page.

LRC Saturday Recap: Mo Farah Wins 5k, Ronald Kwemoi Impresses In Mile, Jakob Ingebrigtsen Becomes History’s Youngest Sub-4 Miler, Bowie Wins Dream 200 Ronald Kwemoi won the 1,500 and Mo Farah the 5,000. Could they clash at 5,000m at Worlds? Others winners were: Semenya in the 800, Kipyegon the mile, Tori Bowie with the big win at 200, Ronnie Baker the 100, and Christian Taylor went long in the triple as did Crouser in the shot. American distance runners were underwhelming today.

Saturday Pre On The Boards: Official Live Thread
Should Kwemoi Run the 1500 or 5000 at Worlds this year? Could he be the guy to beat Mo Farah?
The Ingebrigtsen brothers all run Sub 4 at Pre – Have 3 Brothers ever run Sub 4 on the same day?
Is Kiprop finished? Probably not. Afterwards he said he has been sick.
Principe goes home DEVASTATED High schooler ran 4:00.73.
Su Bingtan 9.92!
What has become of Bowerman TC?!

LRC Friday: A 14-Year-Old Sprint Star & New Steeple Star Arrive, Genzebe Dibaba Just Wins, Charlene Lipsey Keeps Excelling – Recap Of Joan Benoit Samuelson Night At Pre Fans didn’t see a world record but they got a nice start to a great weekend of track and field.
*MB: Official 2017 Prefontaine Classic discussion thread – Is this the best Pre meet ever?
*MB: Wow, Wow, Wow: 18 year old Cellphine Chespol stops to put on her shoe still runs 8:58.78 steeple

More Pre Classic Coverage

IAAF: Christian Taylor Sails To Diamond League Triple Jump Record Of 18.11 Taylor had an epic battle with Will Claye (18.05m) to jump an American soil record and the 4th longest jump of all-time.
Register-Guard: “Mo Farah goes out a winner in the 5,000 at the Prefontaine Classic.” Farah: “This track adds a lot of pressure on me, there’s a lot of people doubting me, ‘Mo’s getting old.’ There was lots of talk, a lot of youngsters coming through talking a lot. I let my running do my talking. That’s what I’m good at.”
IAAF: Tori Bowie Blasts To 200m Win She beat a super-deep field including Elaine Thompson, Dafne Schippers and Allyson Felix.
Jenny Simpson Was “Really Embarassed” With Her Pefromance At Pre She finished 8th (and the third American) in the 1,500.
The Oregonian: “Teen Armand Duplantis Didn’t Win The Pre Classic, But He’s Earned His Competitors’ Respect” Duplantis revealed that he has a signed poster of Renaud Lavillenie on his bedroom wall, but joked that maybe he should take it down now that they are competitors.
Ken Goe’s Saturday Recap: “Mo Farah Says Goodbye To Hayward Field And The Pre Classic With Another Victory”
Register-Guard: “Devon Allen looks fully recovered from knee injury with third-place finish”

Great CityGames Manchester

Greg Rutherford “Takes His Hat Off” To The People Of Manchester After They Come Out In Support At The Great CityGames Manchester Rutherford won the street meet LJ with a leap of 8.18m. *BBC Article
Holly Bradshaw Breaks Her Own British Pole Vault Record At Great CityGames Manchester Bradshaw improved her own mark by 9cm with 4.80m. Sally Pearson won the 100H in 12.81 after finishing runner-up to GB’s Asha Phillip in the 100m.
Seb Coe Says Sport Can Help Manchester’s Healing Process After Terrorist Attacks

Industry / Admin News

A Year After Being Laid Off, Rock ‘N’ Roll Series Co-Founder Tracy Sundlun Is Still Fighting For Severance Pay The Competitor Group faces a lawsuit as they owe Sundlun over $160,000. CGI claims that Sundlun made “disparaging” statements about the company in a Times of San Diego story about his firing which violated his separation agreement.
Vin Lananna Says The Sport Needs New Sponsors (Besides Shoe Companies) And A New Way Of Event Presentation Lananna says that even though he’s not a fan of TV shows like “American Idol” and “The Voice,” he watches them because they are popular and he looks at it “as a model for track and field.”
New Race Sign-Up Service Suspends Registrations While Facing Industry Criticism Racepass is a service that tries to simplify the race registration process by allowing you to pay for multiple registrations at once, but some races have complained.
USA Today: Skyrocketing Costs Put Future Olympics At Risk Given the declined interest in hosting it’s no wonder the IOC wants to lock in two cities at once for the next two Olympic cycles.
InsideTheGames: Total Cost Of Rio 2016 Games To Be Revealed On June 14th The Rio 2016 organizers still owe $28 million in outstanding payments and one source says the total cost is likely to exceed $12 billion.
Need A Job? IAAF Is Looking For A “Director Of Development” For Their Monaco Office

International Distance News

Runner’s World: How Much Did The Tesla Pace Car Aid Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 Marathon Run? Two aerodynamic engineers estimate that he saved 4:35 from drafting (compared to a solo effort), but most of it came from the pacers rather than the car. *Discuss
Get To Know GB’s Lily Partridge, Who Ran A 2:32 Marathon Debut In Seville This Winter Any ’90s pop fans here? Partridge’s guilty pleasure while training is listening to ’90s pop like the Spice Girls.
After Failing To Impress At The London Marathon, Former World Champ Abel Kirui Turns His Attention To Defending His Title At The Chicago Marathon In October Kirui was a respectable 4th place in London, but that wasn’t good enough to get him on Kenya’s World squad so he’s started training for Chicago where he excelled last year in the non-rabbited race.
Austrian Marathoner Danijela Kuna Tests Positive For EPO After Winning Last Month’s Linz Marathon

Previous Pre Classic News

Geoffrey Kamworor Eager To Take On Mo Farah In Pre 5,000 Kamworor: “If conditions allow, in the shape that I am in, I will win the race.”
Five Things To Look Out For In Eugene: “Can Andre De Grasse Do Away With Doha Disappointment?” De Grasse’s DL season didn’t start off well as he was only 5th in the Doha 100m.
Jamaica Gleaner: “It Will Take A Brave Man To Bet Against Omar McLeod In Pre 110 Hurdles” He’ll face US’s Devon Allen, Aries Merritt, David Oliver and Russia’s World champ Sergey Shubenkov.
Elaine Thompson Takes On Tori Bowie, Dafne Schippers And Allyson Felix In Pre 200m
American Dominance Will Be On Display In Women’s 100H Seven of the eight lanes will be filled by USA.
South African 400H Champion Wenda Nel Hoping To “Surprise Herself” When She Takes On US’s Olympic Champ Dalilah Muhammad And 2-Time World Champ Zuzana Hejnova

Rising Young Talent Ready To Challenge LaShawn Merritt In The Pre Classic 400m

Depression Is Real – Please Be Strong & Seek Help If You Are Struggling (800-273-8255)

RIP Two-Time NCAA D2 Champ Gabe Proctor Has Died Proctor lost his battle with depression and took his own life at the age of 27.
*MB: Sad News: Rest in Peace Gabe Proctor 1990-2017
*CitiusMag: Running Community Mourns Loss Of Gabe Proctor

Previous Drug News

Yuliya Stepanova Won’t Be Getting Fan Mail From Putin: Vladimir Putin Isn’t A Fan Of Whistleblowers; Says They Remind Him Of Joseph Stalin’s Purges Putin said he’d tolerate whistleblowers in sports if WADA “insists on it,” but he’s generally opposed to them.
Haile Gebrselassie Supports Scrapping Of Pre-2005 World Records Geb claimed he’d say the same even if he still had a WR. “Even though I don’t have any record to be scrapped off at this moment, it will still affect my legacy …”
AP: Ethiopia Carries Out Mass Doping Tests On More Than 350 Athletes Athletes who test positive could face up to 5 years in jail as Ethiopia recently criminalized doping.
Will Russia Ever Get Its Sh*t Together? Russia Faces Complete Ban From 2018 Winter Paralympics As IPC Says They Have Not Met “Key Criteria” Russia has until September to really turns things around or their Para athletes will miss out on the 2018 Games. *2nd Article

Upcoming DL Action: Pre Classic Is Saturday *Provisional Entry Lists

Justin Gatlin And Andre De Grasse Set To Collide In The Pre Classic 100m They lead a field of 8 sub-10.00 men including Mike Rodgers and Adam Gemili.
English Gardner Withdraws From Pre With Slight Calf Tear
July 1: Elaine Thompson Announced For Paris DL Meet

The King Has Abdicated His Throne

MB: Edward Cheserek’s NCAA Career Comes To A Close – King Ches Scratches From NCAAs Due To Back Strain King Ches certainly had an amazing career but Gerry Lindgren only lost once at NCAA championships, Henry Rono set a world record in four different events in one season, and Suleiman Nyambui won just as many NCAA individual titles but also secured an Olympic medal and had better PRs at the 1,500, mile, 5,000 and 10,000.

It Was A Great Night For The NOP On The Track But A Horrible Morning Off The Track

NY Times Publishes 2,400-Word Expose On The Nike Oregon Project: “This Doesn’t Sound Legal” – Ritz Testifies Under Oath The Times has secured access to the 269-page report that the USADA has written about the NOP. Dathan Ritzenhein testified under oath that he felt compelled to take an L-Carnitine injection that he thought didn’t “sound legal” as Nike was reducing his payments. Ritz also said Alberto Salazar had him take thyroid medication to rev up his endocrine system for a race “instead just whatever was best for my health.” The report also indicates Tara Welling lied to investigators about ever being a patient of Dr. Brown and that Dr. Brown sent investigators altered medical records. When pressed about what sort of treatment she received from Dr. Brown, Welling cried and said, “I don’t know if Alberto did something to me.”
*MB: NY Times Article on Nike Oregon Project implicates Ritz and Farah
*Ken Goe’s Quick Takes From The Latest Story Alleging Doping Within Alberto Salazar’s NOP

Non-DI College Championships Results: DII DIII NAIA

Previous Pre Classic News

Devon Allen Is Excited To Compete In his First Pre Classic, But Still Plans On Playing In The NFL Eventually Allen says the “perfect scenario” for him is breaking the WR and winning gold at Tokyo 2020 and then do football and track at the same time.
Mo Farah Says He’s “Sick” Of The NOP Doping Allegations “I just get sick of it, really, to be honest with you … It’s something the press likes to be able to twist it and add a little bit of spices and add stuff on it. … It’s nothing new. You tell me something new. Since 2011 it’s the same stuff.”
Ten Athletes, Including Russia’s World 110H Champion Sergey Shubenkov, Miss Pre Due To Visa Issues Meet director Tom Jordan said this was the first time in nearly a decade that athletes had problems securing visas for the meet.
Register-Guard: Brittney Reese And Tatsiana Khaladovich Get Things Heated Up In The FIeld Both had big marks as Reese won the LJ over Tianna Bartoletta with 7.01m and Belarusian Khaladovich beat a deep javelin field with 66.30m.
Alexa Efraimson: “It’s another learning experience … I led a lot in high school but today is one of my first races leading as a pro.” Efraimson says she’s halved her class load so she can get top 3 at USAs.
Register-Guard: “Genzebe Dibaba Wins Big, But Not Big Enough For 5,000 WR” Dibaba said she was disappointed in the time as she had focused on going for the WR “at this particular race.”
Sifan Hasssan Took 15 Seconds From Lornah Kiplagat’s Long Standing Dutch 5,000m Record Afterwards Hassan said, “This is just the hardest thing I have done, 5k. In my life.”

Outside LRC Pre News

The Oregonian: “10 Jaw-Dropping Moments From 4 Decades Of The Prefontaine Classic” Distance races dominate the list, including Alan Webb‘s 3:53 high school mile record.
Mark Cullen Writes About His Encounter With Kenya’s World Javelin Champ Julius Yego At His Eugene Hotel After Last Year’s Pre Classic
Register-Guard: Brief Event-By-Event Analysis For The Pre Classic
IAAF: Mouth-Watering 200 Clash With Elaine Thompson, Dafne Schippers And Allyson Felix Highlights
Register-Guard: 46 Athletes Who Won 58 Olympic Medals In Rio Line Up At Pre

Week That Was

LRC WTW: Yohan Blake Is BACK, A College Woman Runs 14:51, Why The 2020 Trials Shouldn’t Be In Eugene, Joanie Turns 60 & More Plus we point out a high school meet in Georgia produced more World Championship qualifiers than the USATF Distance Classic and praise an American who won an international marathon last week.

More Upcoming

2008 Olympic Champ Dayron Robles Will Race For The First Time Since 2015 This Weekend In Cuba Robles was out with injury all last year.
June 10: Clayton Murphy Going For The US 1000m Record At The Portland Track Festival

Hosting News

The Stadium Where Jesse Owens Won Four Gold Medals And Usain Bolt Broke Two World Records Might Stop Holding Track And Field Events Berlin’s Olympic Stadium may be converted into a soccer-only stadium after the 2018 European Championships.
Friday’s Manchester Street Meet To Take Place As Planned Despite Terror Attack
*BBC: Sport To Conduct Security Reviews After Manchester Attack *2nd Article
USA Today: Federal Prosecutor Delivers Scathing Report On Rio Games He says that many of the venues “are white elephants” that were built with “no planning.”
IOC Vice President Wants A “Principle Of Agreement” Between LA And Paris If 2024 And 2028 Games Are Given At Same Time The IOC definitely wants to do this, but the cities have to agree with it first and so far Paris has been hesitant.
Silicon.com: Smart Stadiums, Streets & Airports: How Tokyo Is Preparing For 2020 Olympics

Is King Ches The GOAT? / Is Steeple Hurdle Technique Overrated?

LRC Is Edward Cheserek The GOAT Of NCAA Distance Running? Why The Answer Isn’t That Simple King Ches certainly had an amazing career but Gerry Lindgren only lost once at NCAA championships, Henry Rono set a world record in four different events in one season, and Suleiman Nyambui won just as many NCAA individual titles but also secured an Olympic medal and had better PRs at the 1,500, mile, 5,000 and 10,000.
*MB: Is Edward Cheserek the GOAT for NCAA distance runners?

UO Coach Robert Johnson Likens Edward Cheserek To A Race Horse That’ll “Ride Itself To Death” If You Let It “Most athletes have that, ‘I want to go, I want to go, I want to go’ mentality. It’s up to the older and the wiser to make good and sound decisions for them.”
Ken Goe: “An Appreciation Of Ducks’ Star Edward Cheserek And What’s Next”

LRC How Much Do The World’s Top Steeplechasers Practice Hurdle Form? For 2008 Olympic Champ Brimin Kipruto, The Answer Is “Never” Everyone prepares for the steeplechase in their own way, from the Olympic champion who claims he never practices hurdling to Evan Jager, who works on his hurdle form every week. LetsRun.com consulted the experts to explore the differences between the top Kenyan and American steeplers and the importance of hurdle form.
*MB: How important is hurdling form to being great at the steeplechase? We asked the experts.
*MB: Kiprop runs steeple 1 week before pre classic

NCAA Regionals Start Thursday Live Results: East *West

Top 4 Remain Unchanged As Texas A&M Men Lead Pre Regional NCAA Rankings Florida and Georgia are 2-3.
Oregon Women Projected As The Clear #1 In Pre-Regional NCAA Rankings Arkansas is ranked #2 with LSU and Southern California a close 3-4.

Women’s Distance News

Must Read: Lauren Fleshman Write A Letter To Her High School Self – “You can be fast and a developed woman.” So many coaches and young athletes fear the body changes that come with puberty.
Recommended Read: RRW: After Long Injury, Canadian Miler Sheila Reid Finds Her Groove Again Reid surprised even herself by winning the 1,500 over Shannon Rowbury at Oxy after coming back from the injury which kept her from making it to Rio last year.
RR #2: Gabriele Grunewald Delays Starting Her Chemo Treatments For A Few More Races Grunewald is trying to get a qualifying time for USAs and plans on competing if she qualifies even though she’ll be doing chemo. “If this is the end (of competitive running) for me, I want to get in a couple of more races. I don’t want to drop everything just because I have cancer.”
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Jordan Hasay Hasay talks about breaking the American marathon debut record in Boston and what it’s like to be coached by Alberto Salazar.
European Athletics Article On Germany’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen’s 14:51 Not only was it a German U23 record, but it is second on the German all-time list and leads Europe for 2017.
*MB: Germany’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen Runs National 23-And-Under Record Of 14:51

A Friendly Debate – A Noted Sub-2 Optimist And Pessimist Share Their Thoughts On What Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 Means

LRC Was Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 A Monumental Step Forward In Marathoning? No, It Was Not – We Still Are 20+ Years Away From A Legitimate Sub-2 Marathon LetsRun.com co-founder Robert Johnson said four years ago that are nowhere close to a sub-2 in a legitimate race and he’s not backing down.

LRC Guest Column By Dr. Michael Joyner: Kipchoge’s Run & What Might (Or Might Not) Happen Next What does the man who famously predicted way back in 1991 that a human could run a marathon in 1:57:58 think of Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:00:25 run? Find out here.