– Football hall of famer Jonathan Ogden talking about how shot putters make great football players. Ogden did both football and track in college and dreamed of being an Olympic shot putter.
LRC 2018 Boston Marathon Analysis: Galen Rupp Faces A Tougher Task Than In 2017 But The US Women Have Their Best Shot At Victory In Decades The elite fields for 2018 Boston are set. What are the odds that an American man or woman wins? We break it down for you.
LRCA PhD Student, Son Of A World Masters Champ, And A Guy Who Trained With The Big 10 100m Champ: Meet The Winners Of The $200,017 Running Warehouse NCAA XC Prediction Contest See who the kings and queens of LetsRun.com are.
LRCWe Revise Our Steeplechase Rankings, Moving Ruth Jebet To #2, Emma Coburn To #3, And Drop Kiyeng To #4 We love the input of you – our visitors on the forums – and you convinced us that Coburn should be ahead of Kiyeng. *Discuss
LRC Former Oregon Great Andrew Wheating Retires At Age 30 – A Look Back At The Highs And Lows Of His Career Tons of glory as a Duck and a 3:30.9 1,500m before he even signed his Nike contract. A look at his career. Discuss: ANDREW WHEATING RETIRES
*Favorite Andrew Wheating Moment?
Another Mid-D Guy Is Also Retiring: Brooks Beasts’ Former NCAA 3rd Placer Shaquille Walker Retires From Track At 24 Years Old Walker said running was interfering with other things in life and he’ll now focus on spending time with his family and pursuing a career as a dentist.
*MB: What? Shaquille Walker would rather be a dentist than an Olympic medallist and Danny Mackey thinks he could have set the AR?
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Not Farah Certified 2018 Doha Half Marathon Results: American Allie Kieffer (70:40) Gets Dominant Win, Mo Farah Doesn’t Start With Achilles ProblemKenya’s Alex Kibet won the men’s race in 61:53. Abdi Abdirahman was 5th (63:18).
*MB:Official 2018 Doha Half Marathon Discussion Thread
*MB: Allie Kieffer Signs with Oiselle
*Athletics Weekly Pre-Race: Mo Farah Ready To Open His 2018 At The Doha Half
LRCHot Weekend Preview: Hasay Vs. Huddle For The American 13.1 Record In Houston And XC In Edinburgh Get ready – 2018’s first big weekend of racing is here! From the Great Edinburgh XCountry to Clayton Murphy‘s NOP debut to Molly Huddle vs. Jordan Hasay and the American record (and a loaded men’s field) at the Houston Half Marathon, we preview it all. Huddle’s coach Ray Treacy shares his insight with LRC and says, “[Molly] is as prepared as she’s ever been for a half marathon.”
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.
*MB: KATELYN TUOHY 4:43 SOLO 2018 MILLROSE TRIALS
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 Dubai winner Aselefech Mergia and CR holder Buzunesh Deba.
RIP Horace Ashenfelter The FBI agent, who won 1952 Olympic gold against a favored Soviet rival, died Saturday at 94.
*RW:“In A Cold War Confrontation, The American FBI Agent Outkicked The Soviet Police Officer”
*IAAF Tribute
LRCWomen’s Marathon:The Incredible Tirunesh Dibaba Is #1; Shalane Flanagan #5 In The Best Year Ever For American Women’s Marathoning Shalane Flanagan cracks the top 5 as we for the first time exclude from our rankings an athlete, Sarah Chepchirchir, not convicted of a doping offense. Jordan Hasay #8.
*Discussion: Tirunesh Dibaba #1, Shalane Flanagan #5, Jordan Hasay #8 as Sarah Chepchirchir Unranked
LRCMen’s Marathon: Eliud Kipchoge Is The World’s Best Marathoner But Geoffrey Kirui Is World #1 Kirui won the World Champs and Boston while Kipchoge was his marvelous self with the fastest time of the year and win in Berlin (and Breaking2).
*Discuss: Men’s Marathon World Rankings: Geoffery Kirui is #1, Eliud Kipchoge #2… Galen Rupp #6
Track & Field News Top 10 Rankings For 2017: Top 10 U.S. Women’s Rankings *Top 10 U.S. Men’s Rankings
Previous LRC Rankings:*WSteeple: Emma Coburn IsWorld Champ, But Beatrice Chepkoech World #1 *MSteeple: Kipruto#1; USA’s Jager #3, Kebenei #4 *M 3K/5K: Muktar Edris Edges Mo Farah, Paul Chelimo #3 *W 3K/5K: Hellen Obi#1, Shannon Rowbury US #1 *M1,500: Manangoi And Centro #1*W1,500: Faith Kipyegon #1, Jenny Simpson #3 In World *Women’s 800 *Men 800
LRC Meet Mr. Cross-Country, The Sport’s Biggest Fan Cross-country’s biggest fan, Michael Mahon, resides in Massachusetts, where for the past 33 years he has traveled to over 1,747 career meets, bag of cans in tow. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
*Michael Mahon – Mr. Cross-Country – Share Your Favorite Story Here
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