Until 2017 BMW Berlin Marathon

LRC1 Hour Berlin Preview Podcast We break down the field, the world record odds, and the pacing.

RRW Get the Inside Scoop on the Pacemaking That Might Make A World Record Possible at Sunday’s BMW Berlin Marathon Nike’s Sub-2 event taught us pace-making is CRITICAL to running fast. There is some big pre-race drama as Bekele and Kipchoge won’t agree on what pace should be the goal.

LRC Men’s Preview: The Big 3: Kipchoge, Bekele And Kipsang Chase The WR In Berlin – Who Breaks It, And By How Much? The full LRC preview of the men’s race is here.

LRC History Lesson A Look Back At The Men’s Marathon World Records Set In Berlin The last six world records in the men’s marathon (and 7 of the last 9) have all been set in Berlin. We take a look back at those historic races.

Jamaican Sprint Stuff

• Gatorade Settles $300 Thousand Lawsuit Over “Bolt!” Mobile Game The state Attorney General filed a complaint when Gatorade’s free Bolt mobile game gave the impression that water hindered athletic performance.
• Asafa Powell Launches His Own Fitness Band Activity Tracker
• The Gleaner:Post-Bolt Jamaica Facing The Future

African News

• The Guardian:“Untold Stories: Why We Should Known More About East African Runners” The writer laments that we don’t know more about African distance stars like Worlds silver medalist Tim Cheruiyot and 10,000 5th placer Jemal Yimer. He argues why more journalists should do what we already do at LRC, and get to know the non-Asbel Kiprop/Kenenisa Bekeles of the East African distance world.
• Watch Replay Of National Geographic Documentary On Breaking2 Project
  *MB:Breaking2 – the film – aired last night on Nat. Geographic – Official Discussion Thread
• Recommended Watch:Documentary On The Hard Road Of Kenyan B-Level Runners This 42-minute program is definitely worth a watch.
• Kip Keino’s Bid To Remain Chairman Of The Kenyan National Olympic Committee (NOCK) Expected To Fail Former world marathon record holder Paul Tergat had already declared he planned to stand to replace Keino and is the favorite to take over the role.
• On United Nations International Day Of Peace, The IAAF Looks Back At The Achievements Of The Athlete Refugee Team Former marathon WR holder Tegla Loroupe lead the team to the Rio Olympics, the World Relay Champs and more.

Track Season Isn’t Over For Everyone

• Germany Takes team Title At Fly Europe Meet In Rome The unique street meet puts team from France, Germany, GB, Italy and Spain against each other over three events: the 30m sprint, PV and LJ.
• Majd Eddin Ghazal Sets Meet Record (2.26m) To Win Asian Indoor Games High Jump Gold Qatar’s Jamal Hairane won the 800 in 1:49.33 and India’s Ajay KumarSaroj took the 1,500 in 3:48.67.
  *Worlds Bronze Medalist Olga Rypakova Wins Asian Games Triple Jump To Complete Horizontal Jumps Double India had more distance gold with Lakshmanan Govindan taking the men’s 3,000 (8:02) and Chitra Palakeezh the women’s 1,500 (4:27).
• Germany’s Rico Freimuth And Carolin Schafer Pick Up $30,000 For Winning 2017 Combined Events Challenge Series Winner is the athlete with the most total multi-event points (from their three best meets) throughout the series.

Previous Berlin Marathon News

• Mario Fraioli Looking Forward To Watching The Best In The World Actually Compete Rather Than The Solo Time Trial That Was Breaking2 “Will they get [the WR]? I don’t know, and I almost don’t care. I just want to see what happens …”
• How Good Do You Have To Be To Be A Pacer In Berlin? The team for Sunday includes Tokyo 3rd placer Gideon Kipketer (2:05:51), 2015 London 5th placer Sammy Kitwara (2:04:28), and Geoffrey Rono (sub-60 half).
• Toni Reavis: Berlin’s Dream Race Reavis compares 2017’s three-way clash to London 2002 when there was a showdown between Haile Gebrselassie, Khalid Khannouchi and Paul Tergat.
• AK Region Head Barnabas Korir: “I’m 100 Percent Convinced That The [World Record] Will Not Survive”

Chicago Adds Some Much Needed Depth

MB2017 BOA Chicago Marathon Adds 4 Sub-2:07 Guys, Including Olympic Silver Medalist Feyisa Lelisa, To Challenge Galen Rupp Chicago will now feature a clash between the Olympic silver and bronze medallists as Feyisa Lelisa (2:04:52), Stanley Biwott (2:03:51), Ezekiel Chebii (2:06:07) and Bernard Kipyego (2:06:19) have been added to the field. *Organizer Press Release

US Distance News

• Recommended Read:Ryan Hall Is Now A High School Coach At His Daughter’s School In Redding, CA Imagine being a high schooler and getting a summer email from Ryan Hall introducing himself as your new coach. Read how Hall ended up as the last minute coach at University Prep and how the start of his coaching career has gone so far.
  *MB: Open letter to Ryan Hall on coaching
  *MB: Ryan Hall should not be a head high school coach.
• Donn Cabral (29:24) And Natosha Rogers (33:23) Get Big Paydays With Victories At The Cow Harbor 10K Cabral beat out Craig Lutz by 4 seconds for the $3,500 first place prize (2nd got $2,000) while Rogers dominated the women’s race by over a minute. *Results
• Saucony Announces Launch Of Freedom Track Club The Boston-based group is coached by 2004 US Olympian Tim Broe and includes multi-time NCAA champ Molly Seidel.
  *MB: Molly Seidel with Tim Broe/FTC and Saucony
• Extensive Q&A With Emma Coburn Coburn goes into detail about Worlds, elaborating on things like Beatrice Chepkoech‘s missed water jump, talks about her future goals and shares some other inside info.
• Long Q&A With Joe “Stringbean” McConaughy After Setting The Appalachian Trail Record Last Month

Sprints And Jumps

• Interesting Read:1996 Olympic And Four-Time World Hurdling Champ Allen Johnson Talks About His Struggles With Jet Lag He says to combat it he would just stay on East Coast time even while in Europe and go to bed between 4PM and 6AM, wake up in the afternoon and run at 8-10PM.
• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce To Resume Training In October After Giving Birth To Her Daughter In August
  *From Last Month:SAFP Announces Birth Of Her Daughter, Zyon
• Video: Apparently Wayde Van Niekerk’s Off-Season Training Involves Boxing
• BBC:How Diamond League Victory And London Low Can Take CJ Ujah To The Top Ujah bounced back from not making the 100 final in London to winning the Diamond League in Zurich. Ujah talks about the 10-second barrier, state of GB sprinting and training with Andre De Grasse.
• Latvia’s 2015 World Heptathlon Bronze Medalist Laura Ikauniece-Admidina Shares How She Overcame An Injury Plagued 2016 To Finish 4th In Rio Ikauniece-Admidina was proud of the dreaded 4th place considering she had to deal with obstacles like switching her take-off leg in the HJ.
• With Three Gold Medals And Two Meet Records, Kazakhstan Off To A Good Start At The Asian Indoor And Martial Arts Games World triple jump bronze medalist Olga Rypakova began her quest for double gold by winning the long jump in 6.43m.

More Weekend Road Results

• Abraham Cheroben Runs World-Leading And #3 All-Time 58:40 As The Top 3 Go Under 59 Minutes And The Top 7 Under 60 Minutes At Th Copenhagen Half Marathon The women’s race was quick too as Eunice Chumba took it in 66:11 with the top 3 sub-67.
  *MB:Booom – 58:40 in Copenhagen half
• Silas Kiplagat Wins Mitchell Street Mile In Australia In 3:58; Aussie Brittany McGowan (4:43) Takes Women’s Race It’s always funny when non-track people write about running. You get priceless post-race analysis like how Kiplagat’s time “was only 15 seconds outside the world record.”
• Birhanu Legese (45:38) And Mercyline Chelangat (53:08) Take Titles At Dam Tot Damloop 10 Mile In The Netherlands
• Barselius Kipyego (59:14) And Violah Jepchumba (66:06) Break Course Records At Usti Nad Labem Half Marathon Kipyego lead two others under the 60-minute barrier as the top 3 finished within 16-seconds of each other. *Results
  *A Week After Running A 28:55 10K, Yuta Shitara Breaks Japanese NR With 60:17 For 8th
• Former Ethiopian Makda Harun Sets Sydney Marathon CR With 2:28:06 Win Japan’s Shota Hattori won the men’s race in 2:15:16.
• Salah-Eddine Bounasr (2:11:18) Becomes First Moroccan Winner In 37-Year History Of The Beijing Marathon Ethiopian Meselech Beyene won the women’s race in 2:27:21.
• Asefa Mengstu Negewo (2:10:01) Defends His Title At The Cape Town Marathon; Betelhem Moges Takes Close Women’s Race (2:30:22) By 6 Seconds
• Gideon Kipsang Wins Belfast Half Marathon In 64:38
• Athletics Weekly: Great Britain Weekend Round-Up

Olympic News

• Alan Abrahamson Says His Mother Has Some Good Advice For The IOC Abrahamson’s mother, who doesn’t even follow sports, asked her son why the IOC was having people fly around the world to the IOC “for a meeting for something that has already been decided.”
• Thomas Bach Criticized For Not Watching Netflix Russian Doping Documentary “Icarus” The sad thing is we’re not surprised.
• NY Times:Paris Won The 2024 Olympics By Learning From Its Mistakes Paris had suffered three failed Olympic bids in the past 25 years.
• AP:IOC President Thomas Bach Confident 2018 Winter Olympics Will Go On In South Korea Despite North Korea Tension/Missile Tests
• InsideTheGames Summary Of 131st IOC Session – “All Bach And No Bite” If this article is any indication, besides the 2024/2028 announcement, it was pretty boring.
• Paris 2024 Hold Celebratory Concert After Award Of Olympic Games
• LA Mayor Leads Celebratory Parade Through The City After Official 2028 Games Decision

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The World’s First Sub-30k On The Roads By A Woman

LRC Joyciline Jepkosgei Smashes 10k Road World Record – Becomes First Woman To Break 30 On The Roads With A Sensational 29:43 The world half marathon record holder wasted no time getting after it as she broke the 5k road WR with a 14:33 split.
*IAAF Recap Benard Kimeli took the men’s race in 27:10.
*MB: Official 2017 Birrell 10k Dicussion Thread – Women’s Sub-30 WR attempt