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Quote Of The Day

“The aim is definitely go after that British record for sure. But at the same time, you know, in my mind, since 2014 to now, I’ve learned a lot more and done a lot more. So see how it goes I guess, but I guess the aim is just one step at a time, go out set a British record, see what I can do and then see what happens. … There’s only one way to run and that’s to mix it with the guys and see what we can do. If that’s what the guys are doing (going out on world record pace), why not?”

– Mo Farah speaking ahead of the 2018 London Marathon about how he isn’t opposed to going out on world record pace as he tries to break the 2:07:13 British marathon record.

Post-Boston Analysis

LRC Trying To Make Sense Of The Crazy 2018 Boston Marathon We’ve never seen a Boston like this one and we 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.

Doping News

A New Spanish Newspaper Report Alleges That The Spanish Cycling Federation Hired Doctor Michele Ferrari (The One Who Doped Lance Armstrong) To Supply EPO To Spain’s Cyclists At The 1996 Olympics This apparently comes from evidence presented as part of a 2016 CAS hearing.
UK Anti-Doping To Increase Its Testing By 50% And Use Drug Sniffing Dogs At Sporting Events The Independent writes that UKAD is trying to “rebuild its beleaguered reputation” caused by a number of legal failures.
IAAF Approves The Application Of Nine More Russian Athletes To Compete As Neutrals Mostly racewalkers, but also former World 110H champ Sergey Shubenkov.

More Boston Coverage

BBC:“Sarah Sellers: The Nurse Who Was Runner-Up In Boston” This was just Sellers’ second marathon and she paid her own way into the race.
Boston Herald:From Near Dropout To Champion, Desiree Linden Inspires Apparently Linden is a fan of whiskey, but said she wasn’t going to indulge too much after her big win. “It might be too aggressive. I’ll probably be standing on a table or something, so I should probably dial it down.”
Meb Keflezighi Ran Boston In Memory Of 8-Year-Old Boston Bombing Victim Meb finished his first marathon as a charity runner in 3:00:13.
Shalane Flanagan Predicted (Sort Of) Des Linden’s Boston Win Back In November When Linden tweeted her congratulations to Flanagan after her NYC win, Flanagan tweeted back, “Now it’s your turn.”
Shalane Flanagan:“I think This Was My Last Boston Marathon” “This course is really hard. The conditions are really hard. And I’m not averse to hard things, but I think I’m good with Boston. I think that was it.”
Boston Globe:The History Of The Flanagan-Linden “Womance”
Running World Congratulates Des Linden On Twitter
The Guardian:10 Reasons Yuki Kawauchi Should Be Your Favorite Runner

International Road Action

Three Kenyans Run Under 59:20 In Their Half Marathon Debuts At The Lake Maggiore Half In Italy Daniel Kipchumba ran 59:06 to hold off Mangata Kimai Ndiwa by just one second as Josphat Kiptoo Boit ran 59:19. Daisy Cherotich won the women’s race in 69:44.
Ethiopia’s Abdela Godana (2:13:54) And Japan’s Asami Furuse (2:34:09) Win Nagano Marathon Furuse was the first Japanese woman to win the race since 2001.
Ethiopia’s Mesfin Alemu (63:17) And Poland’s Agnieszka Gortel (76:10) Win Lodz Half Marathon Gortel won after the three leading women were directed off course and did not finish.
GB’s Stuart Hawkes Wins Brighton Marathon

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

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.

Until The Virgin London Marathon*Pre-Race Videos

LRC In London, Day 2: Breaking 2:15:25: Can the Women’s World Record Go Down At The London Marathon? An LRC Examination Mary Keitany and Tirunesh Dibaba, two of the greatest women’s distance runners in history, will chase the greatest women’s distance world record on Sunday. Can they possibly break Paula Radcliffe‘s 2:15:25?

LRC In London, Day 1: Mo Farah Wants The British Record – And Potentially A Lot More – As He Returns To The Marathon We asked Farah if he’ll go out with the leaders if they go out on WR pace. “If that’s what the guys are doing, why not?” Farah replied.
*MB: Move over Boston. It’s time for London. Mo Farah says he will go with WR pace. “If that’s what the guys are doing, why not?”

Mo Farah Says He’s “Enjoying Running More Than Ever” Ahead Of The London Marathon “It’s a great feeling not having as much pressure as I did on the track. On the track people expect you to win. Now [in the marathon] there are a lot of guys who can run a lot faster than me.”
Mo Farah Talking About A Marathon Medal In Tokyo 2020 “If I’m going to come away with a medal from Tokyo then, each year, if I can run two marathons that would give me good confidence and I can learn about myself.”
Mary Keitany Says Her “Training Went On Well Despite The Heavy Rains” In Kenya

NCAA: Say Hello To The New Hayward Field

The Oregonian:“University Of Oregon Rolls Out A Space-Age Design For A New Hayward Field” The stadium will cost more than $200 million and have 12,000 to 13,00 permanent seats (Hayward currently has 8,500). Ken Goe writes, “When the project is finished, the stadium will look nothing like the current Hayward Field.” Construction is scheduled to start in June and be finished by April 1, 2020.
Register-Guard:Oregon Unveils New Hayward Field Design In response to the protest about changing Hayward Field so drastically UO President Michael Schill said, “Ultimately, they’re not going to forget the East Grandstand or not think wistfully of it,” Schill said. “But when this new track and field facility is up, I’m convinced … they’re going to be saying, ‘How could we have lived without it?'”
NCAA Athletes Of The Week Are Florida’s Grant Holloway And Kansas State’s Nina Schultz Holloway ran the #2 all-time collegiate 110H with 13.16 while Schultz competed for Canada at the Commonwealth Games, winning silver in the heptathlon.
Arkansas Women Stay On Top Of Updated NCAA Rankings As LSU Moves Up From 5th To 3rd Texas A&M went up from 6th to 3rd and Oregon down from 2nd to 4th.
No Changes To The Top 11 Men’s Teams In Latest College Rankings Florida, Texas Tech and Texas A&M are 1-3.

The Boston Marathon Top 100 ResultsTracking *TV / Streaming

LRC Des Linden Wins The 2018 Boston Marathon, Ends The American Women’s 33-Year Winless Streak An American woman hadn’t won the Boston Marathon in the professional era but that all changed on Monday. Shalane Flanagan was 5th (2:46:31) and Molly Huddle 13th (2:50:11).

LRC The People’s Marathoner Yuki Kawauchi Wins The 2018 Boston Marathon It’s fitting that the guy who just races because he loves it and signed up for a January 1 marathon in 1 degree temps defeated all the big name pros and the elements to win Boston 2018.

*NY Times: Desi Linden And Yuki Kawauchi Pull Off Upsets In Rainy Boston
*Boston Globe: About 2,300 Boston Marathon Runners Received Medical Treatment

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.

Hosting / Stadium Updates

The Orange County Register:Mt. SAC’s Olympic Trials Bid Secures Legal Victories The city of Walnut’s attorney signed a stipulation lifting a preliminary injunction that was preventing construction to move forward. Mt. SAC also secured at temporary victory when a judge denied a citizen group’s bid that would have prevented the college from using tax-payer funds on the stadium.
Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium Set To Get $100,000 Investment For 2022 Commonwealth Games The investment will see the capacity of the 40-year-old stadium increased from 12,700 to 40,000.
2017 London World Championships Named Sportcal’s Global Sports Event Of The Year According to a study, London Worlds had a direct $113.2 million impact on the London economy and had 6,526 hours of television coverage.

More Boston *Top 100 Results

LRC Improbable Boston Winners Desi Linden And Yuki Kawauchi Show Why We Run The Race Very few people thought Des or Yuki would win in Boston but that’s exactly what they both did on Monday.

LRC Shalane Flanagan Was So Out of It She Thought She Might Be Winning Herself, Wants To Help Gwen Jorgensen Make Olympic Team Flanagan also said early in the race Linden told her she might drop out and to let her know if she needed any help.

2018 Boston Marathon On the Message Board

Pre-Race Boston News

JK Nailed It Yet Again 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.”
*MB: John Kellogg is proven to be a genius yet again. He called it – 2:14-15 if the men ran hard from the gun

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 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 Flanagan‘s mom, Ben Rosario, Scott Douglas, Brendan Reilly, Bob Hodge and more.

Pre-Race Outside Boston Coverage

Boston Globe: No Matter Where She Finishes In Boston, Shalane Flanagan Has Changed Running For American Women
Boston Herald:Weather Will Be Contender In The Boston Marathon Today
Boston Globe: Amby Burfoot Recalls His Boston Marathon Victory 50 Years Later The 71 year old will celebrate the win with his 24th Boston start.
Boston Globe: Meb Keflezighi Running Boston As A Charity Runner For The Martin Richard Foundation
Boston Globe: Galen Rupp Is Primed To Contend For Boston Win Again
Boston Globe: Elite Women, Men Start A Cold, Raw Marathon
Boston Globe: Boston Elites Share A Few Of Their Favorite Things
AP:Runners Try To Stay Dry At Start Of Wet/Cold Boston Marathon Many people wearing extra layers and grocery bags on their sneakers to keep warm/dry before the race.
AP:Boston Marks 5 Years Since Marathon Bombing With Tributes
AP: Boston Holds Moment Of Silence For 2013 Bombing Victims

Previous Outside Coverage 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

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.”