– Haile Gebrselassie talking about his first year as president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation.
LRC WTW: The Year Of The Women’s Half Marathon, A Premature Celebration, And An Introduction To Fancy Chemutai And Sondre Moen 2017 has been a revolutionary one for women in the half marathon. We look at that, Fancy Chemutai and Sondre Moen, and a premature celebration and runners going off course.
LRC Joyciline Jepkosgei Does It Again With WR #6 – Runs 1:04:51 For Valencia Half Marathon To Break Her Own World Record By 1 Second Jepkosgei’s amazing 2017 continued. In April she broke the 10k, 15k, and half marathon world records in one race. Last month, she broke the 10k record (and 5k world best) and now she’s lowered the half record again. *IAAF
#MeToo:Running While Female – Runner’s World Looks At The Harassment Women Runners Face All The Time On Their Runs
*MB: RW Says 43% Of Women – Just 4% Of Men – Have Been Harassed On Their Runs
*MB: According to Sally Bergesen, there’s a Harvey Weinstein-type scandal in T&F???
LRC Arkansas Creates “National Relay Champs” And Like Everyone Else In College Sports Says, “The Only Thing That Matters In Life Is Yourself” Penn and Drake are the most popular track meets in America. Arkansas has decided they are going to start a new meet – for Power 5 schools only – on that weekend. We wonder what John McDonnell thinks.
LRC Who Is Going To Win NCAA XC? Who Will Win Each Conference? 2017 NCAA Cross-Country Fan Polls Are Open National and conference voting now open.
Seidel got a dominant win in her first race since March. Both former NCAA stars have new plans to stay healthy.
Discuss: Molly Seidel And Abbey D’Agostino Go 1-2 At Mayor’s Cup In Boston
Toronto:Philemon Rono (2:06:52) Breaks All-Comers Record And Wins $50,000 Bonus By 2 Seconds – Marta Merga (2:28:18) Wins Women’s Race(link updated) Dickson Chumba was second in 2:09:11. The women’s race went out in 71:01.
LRC Q&A Johnny Gray Talks About Having American 800 Record For 32 Years, Why He Considered Taking Drugs, & His Thoughts On Ajee Wilson Gray, the longest holder of a US track record (32 years and counting), shares all in this no-holds-barred interview. Who does he think has more potential – Clayton Murphy, Donavan Brazier or Boris Berian? Does he have doubts about Ajee Wilson after her positive test? All of that and more.
*MB: Fantastic Johnny Gray interview
*MB: Is Johnny Gray’s American Record run the fastest negative-split 800m of all time?
*MB: JOHNNY GRAY TRAINING
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