Post-Boston Analysis

LRC Trying To Make Sense Of The Crazy 2018 Boston Marathon We’ve never seen a Boston like this once and try to make sense of such a crazy race where 60% of the pros dropped out. One thing we know for certain is Yuki Kawauchi and Des Linden were fitting winners.

US Track Action *All NCAA Coverage

• Grant Holloway Runs World-Leading And #2 All Time NCAA 110H With 13.16Noah Lyles won the 100 in a wind-assisted 9.86 while World champ Tori Bowie won the women’s 100 in 11.04. *Results
• Renaud Lavillenie Clears World-Leading 5.95m Pole Vault In Austin
• Sydney McLaughlin Runs Wind-Aided 11.07 At Tennessee Relays Kentucky alum Javianne Oliver won in 11.04. WR holder Keni Harrison won the 100H in a wind-aided 12.40 over 400H world champ Kori Carter.
  *MB:SYDNEY MCLAUGHLIN JUST RAN 11.07
• Event-By-Event Top 10 Marks From The Collegiate Weekend The top women’s 800 was Texas A&M’s Jazmine Fray with 2:01.18.
• Justin Gatlin And Christian Coleman Team Up To Set 4 X 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 Sweeps Team Titles At UCLA
• Texas Men And Women Win Home Invy

Unbelievably Dramatic Footage *CG Results

LRCCallum Hawkins Collapses From Heat Exhaustion In Commonwealth Games Marathon As Spectators And Officials Stand Idly ByHawkins had a big lead before finally going down in a heap after minutes of struggle where he ran off course and smashed into barriers and even a spectator who pushed him back on course. He is doing okay in a hospital now but did the spectators and medical personnel let Hawkins down? Warning, the video shown may be distressing to some.
*MB:Is Callum Hawkins going to win his first marathon at the CW games?
*MB: WTF Comm Games Marathon Madness 

• IAAF:Callum Hawkins’ Collapse Gives Australia’s Michael Shelley The Marathon Victory Shelley now has back-to-back CWG titles as he crossed the line unchallenged in 2:16:46. Helalia Johannes won the women’s race in 2:32:40, becoming the first woman from Namibia to win a Commonwealth title in any sport.
• Washington Post:“Jamaican Sprinters Leave The Gold Coast Without Any Gold Medals” This is a dumb headline considering they won 110H gold, 400H gold and the women’s 4 x 400.
• Usain Bolt DJs At CWG Closing Ceremony
• The Guardian:Marathon Experts Condemn Delay In Treatment Of Callum Hawkins People have criticized the organizers as well as the spectators who stood by and took pictures rather than help.
• Gold Coast Chief Executive Mark Peters Defended Their Response To Callum Hawkins “We can’t have medical people on every corner of the road (they were posted every 500m). … Unfortunately athletes do run themselves to exhaustion and there is rarely a marathon where someone isn’t collapsing.” *BBC Article
• Hosts Australia Walk Away From Commonwealth Games With 80 Golds Australia had 198 medals total; the next closest was England with 136.
• Prince Edward Declares Gold Coast 2018 Closed As Flag Passed To Birmingham 2022 In Closing Ceremony

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.

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.