Katelyn Tuohy Gets Ready For Millrose

RRW:Sophomore Katelyn Tuohy Shines At NYRR Millrose Games Trials With A 4:43.62 Personal Best Tuohy has decided against running the Wanamaker Mile and instead will do the high school mile at Millrose. Here she just missed the sophomore record of 4:43.23.

Full Boston Fields Released

Boston 2018 Full International Elite Field Released The men’s race is led by world champion Geoffrey Kirui, two-time Boston winner Lelisa Desisa and 2016 Boston champ Lemi Berhanu. The women are led by two-time world champ Edna Kiplagat, Olympic silver medalist Eunice Kirwa, three-time Doha winner Aselefech Mergia and CR holder Buzunesh Deba.

Assorted Distance News

• Surprise NYC Marathon 5th Placer Allie Kieffer Signs With Oiselle It’s been a nice comeback for Kieffer, who briefly retired from the sport back in 2013.
• Luke Puskedra Now Running With The OTC And Being Coached By Mark Rowland Puskedra joined them back in mid-October and says the training is “so much different than anything I’ve done.”
• California Woman Molly Friel Qualifies for Olympic Marathon Trials at Age 50 Friel ran 2:43:57 at CIM to become the second-oldest women ever to qualify for the Trials.
• 2:26 Chinese Olympic Marathoner Wang Jiali Gets 8-Year Drug Ban For Second Doping Offense She failed an out-of-competition test for EPO after getting a two-year ban in 2013 for biological passport abnormalities.  She was also fined $6,000 and her coach got a lifetime ban, but we don’t understand why she herself wasn’t banned for life.

Distance: Millrose Is Next Month

• February 3:Nick Willis, Defending Champ Eric Jenkins, Robby Andrews And Brenda Martinez And Sara Vaughn Highlight NYRR Wanamaker Mile Fields At Millrose Games The men’s race also has Ben Blankenship, Kyle Merber, Chris O’Hare and Josh Kerr while the women’s features Alexa Efraimson, Ireland’s Ciara Mageean and Canada’s Nicole Sifuentes.
• Cam Levins Signs With Hoka One One Levins will run his first race for Hoka at the Houston Half.
  *MB: CAM LEVINS TO HOKA?!?!
  *MB: Sorry to say this, but sorry, Cam Levins is DONE. Sorry.
• Laura Muir Has Known For Years That She Was Going To Skip The 2018 Commonwealth Games Muir is in her last year of veterinary school with exams in May and placement through April.

Sprint Stuff

• The NY Times Examines Sprinting In The NFL And Explains Why Track Speed Doesn’t Equal Game Speed “Combine speed is overrated” as some NFLers will tell you because the fastest straight sprinters aren’t necessarily the best on the field.
• Good Read:IAAF Profile: Jasmin Stowers Eager To Make Her Mark At Birmingham World Indoors Stowers isn’t taking 2018 as an “off” year as she’s wants a world indoor medal/Diamond League title. But first, she’ll need to make Team USA, something she’s never done despite being 2nd, 4th and 2nd fastest sprinter in the world the last 3 years.

• Justin Gatlin Spotted At His Former Coach Brooks Johnson’s Training Camp In Orlando, Florida
• Trinidad And Tobago’s World 200m Bronze Medalist And 4 X 400 Champ Jereem Richards Says His Greatest Achievement Has Been “Passing College Algebra” Richards says he had a much easier time winning 200m bronze as even though his coach couldn’t sleep & his sister was throwing up, he “wasn’t nervous at all.”

Stars In The News

• Good Read Former 5,000 WR Holder Dick Quax Opens Up About His 4-Year Battle Against Cancer, His 1976 Olympic Silver And His WR
• Andrew Wheating Exit Interview: A Look Back At His Career And Retirement (CITIUS MAG Podcast)
• Joshua Cheptegei Recalls His 1st International Race – A 28:24 Performance On The Roads In India He was thrown into the deep end as the race winner was Geoffrey Kamworor.
• Usain Bolt Continues His Ridiculous Talk About Playing In Premiere League “It’s going to be hard because my career has been so great but if I could win a Champions League or something, it’ll be close to anything I achieved in athletics.”
• 41-Year-Old Kim Collins Hasn’t Retired – He’s Ready For His 14th Indoor Season
• Omar McLeod Says He’s Thrilled He Switched Coaches Mid-Season Last Year To Eldrick Floreal – Also Says He Won’t Do Commonwealths As It’s Too Close To World Indoors
• Fast Running: Could Mountain Star Kilian Jornet Run A 2:10 Marathon? We’ll answer that – no way.
• Did You Know? Pat Tiernan Played Cricket Until 2012

More Distance Stuff

• Good Read:The Malibu Times:David Torrence’s Memory Sprints On Torrence’s mother is trying to accomplish some of her son’s goals like helping young runners in Peru. “Whatever David wanted to do, I’m doing for him. That’s what keeps me going. It’s so hard to lose my son, my friend, my coach, my inspiration. It’s been tough, but I’m really proud of all his accomplishments and the impact he had on the whole world.”
• Toni Reavis Analyzes Women’s Marathoning Trends From 2010 Through 2017 A lot more countries share a piece of the pie with the women compared to the men, but Ethiopia beat out Kenya with 77 (35%) of the sub-2:30 women in 2017 (Kenya had 72, Japan 16 and USA 12).
• USTFCCCA:Which Collegiate Indoor Records Could Fall In 2018? Could Karissa Schweizer take down Emily Sisson‘s 15:12 mark in the 5,000 and could Josh Kerr beat Edward Cheserek‘s 3:52?
• Women Share What It’s Like To Run While Pregnant They share the benefits and drawbacks to running while preganant and share how they deal with the people’s reactions to it.