Pros Show Some Humor And Read Mean LetsRun.com Posts

LRC Pro Runners Reading Mean LetsRun.com Posts Edition #1: Robby Andrews, Kyle Merber, Craig Lutz Andrews, Merber, and Lutz are compared to Alan Webb, praying mantises, slackers living in their parents’ basements and much more. It was originally published on our new instagram page. Follow us on Instagram, twitter, facebook, youtube.

More Pre-USAs News

• Good Read: Q&A With Shalane Flanagan Ahead Of USAs Flanagan talks about her latest comeback from injury, doping in the sport, being a foster parent and the fact that this could be her last season on the track.
• Podcast Q&A With Sprinter Jenna Prandini Prandini discusses a slew of topics including her training ahead of USAs, what sports she played growing up and Usain Bolt.
• Track And Field News USATF Champs Men’s Formchart
• Track And Field News USATF Champs Women’s Formchart
• USATF Shares Some History Of Track And Field In Sacramento Sacramento hosted the 2020 Olympic Trials, setting an 8-day attendance record that still stands.
• NBC Sports: Five Men’s Events To Watch At USAs Centro vs. Murphy over 1,500 makes their list.

Sad News: Bear Attack

• Black Bear Kills 16-Year-Old Runner In Alaska Mountain Race The boy actually texted or called a family member while being chased in the woods. Race officials went looking, but were not able to reach him in time.
• Bear Attack Timeline There was another black bear fatal mauling at a mine near Fairbanks. There were the first fatal bear attacks in Alaska since 2013.
• MB: Alaska park rangers fail to have powerful enough rifles to deal with black bear who mauls 16-year-old runner to death
• MB Archives: Advice for running in bear country
• MB Archives: Is it at all possible to outrun a grizzly bear?
• MB Archives: Have you ever come across a bear while running?
• MB Archives: Bear attacks runner in Calgary
• MB Archives: Would you rather be attacked by a bear or a shark?

High School / NCAA News

• Good Listen: Canadian Running Magazine Does Extensive Podcast Interview With Justyn Knight Knight talks about his tough loss at NCAAs, whether he thinks NCAA student-athletes should get paid and tells a funny story about how he once lied and said he was cousins with rapper Drake.
• Lexington Herald Leader: “Sydney McLaughlin ‘Mania’ Is Coming To Kentucky” Kentucky track coach Edrick Floreal said going to the UK football game with her “was a nightmare” because everyone stopped her for selfies.
  *Sydney McLaughlin Won Her Fourth Consecutive New Balance Nationals 400H Title With A 54.22 Meet Record
• Katelyn Tuohy’s 4:45.95 Victory At NBNO Broke Mary Cain’s NY Freshman Record
• RunBlogRun Q&A With Oregon Freshman Katie Rainsberger Rainsberger says she’s still “baffled” by how her mother, the last American woman to win Boston, “ran so fast for so long.”
• National Scholastic Athletics Foundation Are Starting A National HS Track And Field Hall Of Fame The inaugural class will be named in January.

Stockholm DL *Results *Video/Video highlights

*Results *Video Highlights

LRC Stockholm DL Recap: Andre De Grasse Runs 9.69, Timothy Cheruiyot Runs 3:30, Asbel Kiprop Improves And A Big Field Event Upset Timothy Cheruiyot impressed with a 3:30.77 world leader in men’s 1,500 as Asbel Kiprop took a big step in the right direction by running a season’s best of 3:33.17. Andre De Grasse kept rolling with his third straight Diamond League victory, running a heavily wind-aided 9.69 in the 100 (worth 9.88 in still conditions). Sandra Perkovic‘s win streak came to an end and Luvo Manyonga got injured.

• IAAF Recap: Russian Maria Lasitskene Extends Her HJ Winning Streak To 14 With 2.00m Lasitskene (formerly Kuchina) is one of the Russians approved to compete neutrally.
• IAAF Recap: Andre De Grasse Flies To Windy 9.69 100m Win
• Stockholm Discussion: LRC Stockholm Live Thread
• Andre De Grasse 9.69 100m!!!
• Ingebrigtsen: 3:39 in Stockholm!

Grandma’s Marathon *Results

• Kenya’s Elisha Barno Becomes The First To Three-Peat At Grandma’s Marathon Barno won by over a minute with 2:12:06 as Hellen Jepkurgat won a close woman’s race in 2:32:09 over Askale Merachi (2:32:25). In the half, Kenyan Evans Kurui (63:05) and Ethiopian Biruktayit Degefa (1:11:25) got the wins, while 45-year-old Kevin Castille ran 63:58 for 5th and Kara Goucher raced for the first time in over a year, finishing 5th (1:15:12).
  *MB: Kevin Castille 1:03:58 HM at Garry Bjorklund

Stumptown Twilight Was Friday Night In Oregon *Full Results

MB: Galen Rupp Wins Tactical 5,000 Over Guy in LetsRun.com Singlet In 13:55; Jordan Hasay Runs 15:45 And Is Beaten At the bell in the men’s 5,000, it was a two-man race. Rupp and the guy in a LetsRun.com singlet, Ben Rainero, but Rupp closed in 55 or 56 to win. *Full Results
*Rupp: “It was actually kind of perfect, I think, that it ended up being a little slower. It’s probably closer to what the 10k is going to be like.”

Thursday Night In Philly: LRC Hoka NJ/NY Twilight: Gregorek, O’Hare, Merber, And Andrews All Run  1:47. Charlene Lipsey Runs Big 4:10 PR

Random But Somewhat Interesting

• Preliminary Model Of Usain Bolt Statue Is Revealed To Dispel Fake Images On Social Media Kind of looks like an old man falling backwards, doesn’t it?
• A List Of Japanese Athletes With London 2017 WC Qualifiers Only one Japanese man has the 10,000 standard of 27:45.00.
• Irish 1,500 Runner Ciara Mageean Says She’d Give Her “Right Arm” For A Medal At Worlds
• Lucy Smith Sets New Canadian 50+ Record Of 17:39.66

World Youth News

• Kenya Names Its Team For The World Youth (U18 Champs) That It’s Hosting Later This Summer
• Japan Withdraws From World Youth Champs In Kenya Due To Security Concerns
• Kenya Offering Free Internet, Swimming, Gym And Sauna Services To Those Who Show Up For World Youths “We must put out the best message about the country to the world.”
• Kenya To Send Only Four To Commonwealth Youth Games In Bahamas In July

Last Week Was An Amazing One For Track Fans – We Take A Look Back At It

WTW Mo Farah Celebrates Really Early, Edward Cheserek Dominates Virtually, And Molly Huddle’s Medal Chances Go Up While Evan Jager’s Go Down Eammon Coghlan famously celebrated in 1983 more than 100 meters out. Last week, Mo Farah was celebrating from more than 200 meters out.  While Farah was celebrating, foreign-born athletes were sweeping the men’s distance events at NCAAs and the medal odds for Evan Jager were going down and Molly Huddle going up.

Great Journalism From The NY Times

The New York Times Goes To The Czech Republic And Catches Up With 800-Meter World Record Holder Jarmila Kratochvilova In the 3,000-word piece, Kratochvilova and her coach maintain she never doped.
*MB: “Track’s Most Resilient (and Suspect) Record Is in Danger” – NYTimes 

News From The UK

• Sebastian Coe Admits Athletics May Never Again Be One Of The Top 3 Sports In Britain But That Won’t Stop Him From Being “Innovative, Braver And More Creative”
• Mike Rowbottom Thinks The Mixed Relays Are A Bad Idea “The Olympic Games are not, and should not be, a novelty event.” We agree. If you are going to have mixed relays, you need to get rid of the regular relays.
• It’s 50 Days Until Worlds And Here Are 50 Reasons To Be Excited For 2017 Worlds In London
• 50 Days To Go: IAAF World Championships Chat With Colin Jackson Jackson won two 110H titles in the 1990s.
• Triathlon Federation Sends Congratulations Letter To Jonny Brownlee That Was Supposed To Go To His Brother
• British Paralympic Star David Weir Reveals His Battle With Depression: “I wrote a letter to my kids saying I was going away and I was sorry.” 
• GB picks development squad for next week’s Euro Team Champs The bigger names are mainly skipping it to get ready for the British Trials. *Super League Entries *1st League Entries

Murphy Going For The Double!

LRC Legend Alert: Clayton Murphy Trying To Become First Man In 84 Years To Win 800 & 1,500 At USAs Rick Wohlhuter did do it at the 1976 Trials (at the time a separate meet from the US Champs), finishing it off by beating Matt Centrowitz Sr. Can Murphy get through the Olympic champion, Matthew Centrowitz Jr.?
Discuss: Clayton Murphy to run 800 and 1500 at USAs!

LRC Nine Days Out From USAs, Which Athletes Have The IAAF World Championships Standard? Who Has More – The Men Or Women? Team USA fans, we’ve got good news, the lowest number of standard holders in any mid-d or distance event is six. Plus who has more qualifiers – the men or the women?

Post-NCAA Season Stuff

This Summer’s Global Championships

• Do You Have Yours? Final London 2017 Tickets Are On Sale
• IAAF: Preparations On Track For World U18 Championships In Nairobi, Kenya
• China Names Team Of 51 Athletes For World Under 18 Championships In Kenya
• Technogym Named As Official Fitness Equipment Supplier For London 2017

Meet The Freeze

Recommended Read: Washington Post: Who Is “The Freeze”? Meet The Masked Runner Racing Braves Fans Between Innings Nigel Talton is a member of the Braves’ ground crew, but also a 10.47/21.66 sprinter who dreams of making Team USA.
*MB: Who is the Freeze? (Braves masked runner)