April 15, 2018 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“His doctor laid out his options: A hard collar would let the bones mend on their own, but was inadvisable because of the fracture’s severity. Surgery would fuse the vertebrae, promising a quick fix and a comfortable recovery, but it would limit his neck’s range of motion, ending his athletic career. Or he could have a halo. ‘The halo is like a medieval torture device,’ the doctor said. ‘It’s a miserable experience, but it’s the best option for a complete recovery with no limitations in the long run. You take titanium pins and screw them into your skull, two in front and two in back, and attach them to metal bars, which attach to a bust that you wear for three months and that you can’t take off. It’s pure torture. But it works.'”

– Excerpt from NY Times article by Lindsay Crouse on Ironman triathlete Tim Don who is expecting to run 2:50 in Boston just six months after literally breaking his neck when he was hit by a car.

Until The Boston Marathon Tracking / Results TV / Streaming Boston Previews: LRCBoston Men’s Preview – Part 1: The Contenders Part II: The Americans Boston Women’s Preview Rupp Says He’s Done More Training Than Ever *Women’s Media Day Notes

MB: Official 2018 Boston Marathon Live Discussion Thread

LRC Jordan Hasay Withdraws From 2018 Boston Marathon After MRI Reveals Stress Reaction On Friday, Hasay said her she hadn’t missed any workouts since withdrawing from the World Half Marathon Championships on March 24 but her team wanted an MRI today to make sure she was ok.
*MB: Jordan Hasay officially OUT of 2018 Boston Marathon

LRC The Boston Marathon Weather Is Going To Be Horrific — Don’t Be Surprised If You See The Slowest Winning Time in 30 Years John Kellogg has analyzed the forecast and predicts a slow day. “I’m thinking it might be a 2:14-15 race and that’s assuming someone wants to run a pretty honest pace.”

LRC Listen On Demand: Three Days of Toni Reavis Runner’s Digest Show From Boston Featuring the LetsRun.com Crew Over the last three days, we’ve broken down the 2018 Boston Marathon in great detail live from Tracksmith’s Trackhouse on Newbury St. If you missed the shows, catch up now. Guests included Shalane Flangan‘s mom, Ben Rosario, Scott Douglas, Brendan Reilly, Bob Hodge and more.

Highlights From Friday’s Media Day in Boston

LRC The Elite Women Speak In Boston: Hasay Discusses Her Injury, Shalane Feels As Fit As Before NYC & Desi Thinks Her “A” Race Is Good Enough To Win Anticipation for the first American women’s victory in 33 years is very high as Molly Huddle, Shalane Flanagan, Desi Linden and Jordan Hasay all believe they can win. Find out what they had to say today.

LRC 2018 Boston Marathon Men’s Media Day Highlights: Galen Rupp Has Run “Significantly” More Than Before And Gets Front Page Boston Globe Coverage Get the inside scoop from Boston and learn why Galen Rupp may not be happy to show up on the front page of the Boston Globe this morning.
*Toni Reavis Makes His Picks After Talking To The Pros At The Presser: 1. Rupp, 2. Desisa And 3. Tola Rupp: “I feel like this is what I’ve been working for my whole life.”

LRC Desi Linden Says She’s “Not Especially” Supportive Of Dathan Ritzenhein Training With Hansons-Brooks Distance Project “We can talk ‘team, team, team,’ but ultimately two guys (Keith and Kevin Hanson) make the decisions.”
*MB: Should Desi have spoken up about Ritz, when that may reflect badly on her own group?

The Inside Scoop LRC The Running Experts Sound Off & Tell Us Who Will Win Boston & Whether They’re Rooting For Galen Rupp We reached out to 8 of America’s top athletes/coaches and 6 got back to us with their feelings about the Boston Marathon which will take place next Monday. Most expect big things from Molly Huddle in the women’s race and Galen Rupp in the men’s.

2018 Commonwealth Games LRC CG PreviewCG Schedule & Results*TV & Streaming

IAAF Day 7 Recap:World Champions Elijah Manangoi (3:34.78) And Hellen Obiri (15:13) Win Commonwealth Games 1,500 And 5,000 Titles For Kenya Manangoi beat out countryman Timothy Cheruiyot by .39 while Obiri won by two seconds over fellow Kenyan Margaret Kipkemboi. The Jamaican women made up for the 4 x 100 loss with a win in the 4 x 400 over Nigeria while Botswana got the men’s win in a very close race with The Bahamas and Jamaica.
England Get Huge Double Gold In The Men’s And Women’s 4 X 100 In the men’s race, GB held off South Africa while Jamaica was only 3rd. On the women’s side, England held off Olympic champ Elaine Thompson on the anchor leg to get the win with a national record 42.46.
Usain Bolt Tweets That He Might Have “Retired Too Soon” After Watching Yohan Blake Anchor Jamaica To 4 X 100 Bronze Blake joked, “I’m going to hide from [Bolt] when I go home.”
Usain Bolt Jokes That He’s Going To Make Fun Of Yohan Blake After Commonwealth Flop Bolt: “It was a little bit shocking Blake didn’t win [the 100m]. I think Blake stumbled a little bit, but probably panicked …”
Athletics Weekly:HJ Silver For GB’s Morgan Lake And 5,000 Bronze For Laura Weightman

Upcoming Track Action

May 25:Nijel Amos Vs. Donavan Brazier Will Headline Pre Classic 800 Also Erik Sowinski, Poland’s World silver medalist Adam Kszczot and bronze medalist Kipyegon Bett.
April 28: World Champ Tom Walsh Will Take On Americans Ryan Crouser And Ryan Whiting At Drake Relays Shot Put
May 26:Deep Women’s 400H Fields Set For Pre Classic With All Three 2016 Olympic Medalists, Led By Olympic Champ Dalilah Muhammad
April 28: Drake Relays To Feature Most Paralympic Events Since 2012 There will be four Paralympic events: women’s wheelchair 100 and 400 and men’s ambulatory 100 and 200.

Week That Was

LRC 30 Years Ago, Belayneh Densamo Ran The First Sub-2:07 Marathon, Erick Kiptanui And Joan Melly Are Half Marathon Stars Ridiculous road action, including Betsy Saina getting it done in Paris.

Boston Marathon Prediction Contest & More

LRC LetsRun.com $200,018 Running Warehouse Boston Marathon Prediction Contest You too could be an American winner in Boston on Monday. Give us your top 3 from our scorer and the winning time. RWarehouse gift certificate and adidas sub 2 racing flat to winners.

Boston On The Messageboards

Complete Boston Marathon Coverage in Boston Special Section

US Track Action *All NCAA Coverage

Justin Gatlin And Christian Coleman Team Up To Set 4×100 World Lead With 38.08 Seconds At The Tennessee Relays They were hoping to get the American record of 37.38, but Gatlin felt the strong winds prevented them from at least breaking 38.
Knox News: Justin Gatlin And Christian Coleman “Not Satisfied” With First Record Attempt Although Gatlin admitted he’s never been on a relay this fast, this early.
Texas A&M Sweep Team Titles At UCLA
Texas Men And Women Win Home Invy

Outside Covergage of Boston

Recommended Read: Amazing Story On Ironman World Record Holder Tim Don, Who Is Expecting To Run 2:50 In Boston Just Six Months After Literally Breaking His Neck When He Was Struck By A Car Don was lucky he didn’t die after having what is known as a hangman’s fracture. The normal options for recovery wouldn’t allow him to be an athlete anymore, so he opted to go through what the doctor calls “medieval torture” by have a metal halo screwed into his skull for three months.
Boston Herald: Molly Huddle Ready For A Different Test Huddle says she worked on her hill running when she was training in Flagstaff, but considers herself “an average hill runner.”
Bill Rodgers Gives Some Brief Thoughts On A Possible American Woman Winning On Monday Rodgers noted that there weren’t many “altitude born” challengers.
RRW: At 45, A Rejuvenated Deena Kastor Ready To Ride The Hills At Boston Marathon Kastor took some time completely off of running while she was writing her recently-released book, but now feels refreshed and is talking about continuing her career through the 2020 Olympic Trials.
RRW: Despite Two Bouts With Cancer, Serena Burla Is Ready To Race Boston Marathon Burla is just happy to be on the starting line after having surgery on her leg last summer to remove a cancer recurrence.
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Deena Kastor About Her Training For Boston And Her New Book
Recommended Read: Boston Globe: “As The Celebrated Coach Alberto Salazar Faces Doping Allegations, A Shadow Is Cast Over Two Of His Elite Runners Competing In The Boston Marathon” 1,600 words on Salazar and the NOP doping investigation. Includes some thoughts from former Boston winners Greg Meyer, Bill Rodgers and Amby Burfoot, who all defend Salazar to some extent.
Alberto Salazar On Galen Rupp In Boston: “This is as good as he’s ever been prepared for a marathon.” On Jordan Hasay, he said that even with the foot problem that kept her out of World Half Champs, she didn’t miss any workouts and currently has no foot pain. *Discuss

Commonwealth Games Day 6

IAAF Day 6 Recap:Caster Semenya And Joshua Cheptegei Complete Commonwealth Games Double Golds In The Women’s 800 And Men’s 10,000 Semenya dominated the women’s 800 with a championship record of 1:56.68 over Kenya’s Margaret Wambui (1:58.07) and Jamaica’s former NCAA champ Natoya Goule (1:58.82). In the 10,000, Cheptegei just beat out Canada’s Mo Ahmed 27:19.62 to 27:20.56. Nigeria’s Oluwatobiloba Amusan won the 100H in 12.68 as Canada’s Alysha Newman took the PV (4.75m).
World And Olympic Champ Conseslus Kipruto Leads A Kenyan Medal Sweep In The Men’s Steeplechase Kipruto added another global title to his collection and set a Games record with a 8:10.08 win over countryman Abraham Kibiwott (8:10.62).
*MB: Incredible team work by Kenyan athletes to try and get a clean sweep in the Steeplechase
Jamaica Gets Double Throwing Gold From Danniel Thomas-Dodd (Shot Put) And Fedrick Dacres (Discus) Thomas-Dodd set a national record with 19.36m. Valerie Adams took the silver (18.70m).
After 200m DQ, Zharnel Hughes Argues That He “Didn’t Really” Impede Jereem Richards Hughes was initially declared the winner, but after his victory lap found out he was DQed for making contact with Richards.
Indian Triple Jumper And Racewalker Sent Home From CWG For Violating “No Needles” Policy A needle was found in one of their bags and another in their apartment, although they denied knowing how they got there.
BBC:Usain Bolt Adds Touch Of Glamour At The Commonwealth Games One journalist asked if he was right to think Bolt could return for Tokyo 2020 and Bolt said, “You are very wrong.”
Katarina Johnson-Thompson Wins Heptathlon Gold For England She adds this to her World Indoor Pentathlon title and now will have a chance for triple gold in 2018 with the European Champs this summer.

Looking Ahead On The Roads

April 22nd:Mary Keitany Says Having Male Pacemakers Will Give Her “A New Edge” As She Attempts To Break Paula Radcliffe’s 2:15:24 World Record In London “Male pacemakers will give me a new edge. Form is temporary and I feel I am at my best. Hopefully I will be able to attain my target.”
April 22:World Record Holder Dennis Kimetto Faces Ethiopian Dino Sefir (2:04:50 From 2012) And Kenya’s Ishmael Bushendich (2:08:20) At The Vienna City Marathon
May 6:Leonard Korir And Aliphine Tuliamuk Will Headline The 2018 USATF Half Marathon Championships Hosted By The Pittsburgh Half Korir will face 59:36 man Samuel Kosgei (PR from 2009), Matt Llano and Parker Stinson while the women’s race also has 2015 Pan American Games Marathon silver medalist Lindsay Flanagan and Lindsey Scherf (71:45).

$200,018 Running Warehouse Indoor Prediction Contest Winners

LRC The Best Of LetsRun.com: We’re Giving Away 4 Pairs Of Shoes To Needy High Schoolers Thanks To The Winner Of Our Running Warehouse Prediction Contest The winner of our indoor prediction series is giving away his prizes.

LRC Meet The Winners Of Running Warehouse Indoor Prediction Contests – One Guy Has A Chance To Win The NCAA Triple Crown Of Prediction Contests Yes, the winner of our NCAA XC contest also won our NCAA indoor contest. Pretty amazing.

Saturday’s Boston News

LRC 2018 BAA 5K: Hagos Gebrhiwet (13:42) & Buze Diriba (15:22) Pull Off Ethiopian Sweep Ben True and Tommy Curtin tried to take advantage of a missed turn by Gebrhiwet but were unable to pull off the victory. Plus Aidan Puffer of Manchester, Connecticut set a new age-13 world record of 15:47.

LRC Drew Hunter (4:08.2) & Nicole Sifuentes (4:37.2) Win 2018 BAA Miles Plus Drew talks about taking classes at CU Boulder.
*MB: Americans go home devastated: Hagos G (13:42) and Buze Diriba (15:22) win 2018 BAA 5k
*MB: Aidan Puffer of Manchester, Connecticut just set a new age-13 world record of 15:47, smashing his own record of 16:11.4

Boston Marathon Previews

LRC Men’s Preview, Part I: Galen Rupp Seeks Revenge Against Defending Champ Geoffrey Kirui An American-born man hasn’t won the Boston Marathon since 1983. Galen Rupp enters Monday’s race in the form of his life, but will that be enough as the men’s field is a lot more difficult to win this year than last?

LRC Men’s Preview, Part II: How Will The Americans Fare? We give you all you need to know on all the Americans not named Galen Rupp.

LRC Women’s Preview: Flanagan And Hasay And Huddle And Linden, Oh My! An American woman has never won the Boston Marathon during the professional era. That could change on Monday as a “Fantastic Four” from the USA takes on a shallow international field.

Where Your Dreams Become Reality Podcast

LRC Tyler Andrews: From 18 Minutes For 5k In High School To 50k World Record? Tyler Andrews couldn’t break 18 minutes for 5k in high school and was a “music nerd.” Friday he’ll attempt to break the 50k world record on the track. How did he get so much better? Our “Dreams Become Reality” podcast attempts to find out.

Commonwealth Games Day 5

IAAF Day 5 Recap:Kenya’s Wycliffe Kinyamal Gets Surprise 800m Win In 1:45.11 As Big Pre-Race Favorite Nijel Amos Leads For 500m And Fades To Last (1:48.45) England’s Kyle Langford and Australia’s Luke Mathews took the silver and bronze. Australia got two more gold medals from Kurtis Marschall in the PV (5.70m) and Dani Stevens in the discus (68.26m). Canada’s Christabel Nettey won the LJ (6.84m) and the British Virgin Islands’ Kyron McMaster (48.25) and Jamaica’s Janieve Russell (54.33) took 400H gold.
England’s Zharnel Hughes DQed After Crossing The Line First In The 200m Hughes dipped ahead of Trinidad and Tobago’s Jareem Richards, but upon finishing his victory lap, Hughes found out he was DQed for impeding Richards. Richards got the win in 20.12 while Olympic 400 champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo won the women’s 200 in 22.09.
MB:16-Year-Old Aussie Girl Keely Small Turns Heads With A 2:00.81 In The Heats At The Commonwealth Games
England’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Is In The Lead After Day 1 Of The Heptathlon
Usain Bolt Says Track Needs A New Star To “Step Up” “It’s a wide open playing field, it’s just that person; step up and then do it.”