April 29, 2018 Homepage Archive

US Road 10k Record Goes Down *Results

RRW A New Kenyan Star? 18-Year-Old Rhonex Kipruto Blasts 27:08 In Central Park To Break US All Comers 10k Record He’s only raced twice outside of Africa, but Kipruto has run 27:13 and 27:08 each time on the roads. He picked up a nice $40,000.

Doping News

WADA Reports That There Were 1,600 Doping Rules Violations In 2016 With Track And Field And Italy Topping The Lists 78% were athletes caught with in competition testing. Interesting considering BALCO scandal head Victor Contehas said, “Testing athletes at competition is more of an IQ test than a drug test because athletes have to be pretty stupid to fail a drug test at a competition.”
Investigators Say Top Russian Racewalkers Are Still Working With Infamous Banned Coach Viktor Chegin You can’t see our faces, but we’re shocked.
Russian Decathlete Alexander Pogorelov Stripped Of His 2009 World Bronze For Doping After Retested Sample Comes Back Positive He also received a pointless ban considering he retired years ago.

Sprints Stuff

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Isn’t Done With Track After Giving Birth To Her Son Last Summer Fraser-Pryce says she believes she can still dip below the 10.70 barrier, something only three women (Flo-Jo, Carmelita Jeter and Marion Jones) have ever done.
Yohan Blake Is Putting Commonwealth Games Disappointment Behind Him Blake was the big favorite, but only managed third.
South African Olympian And Former Commonwealth Games 400H Champ LJ van Zyl Retires At 32-Years-Old
400 Sprinter Natasha Hastings Features In Under Armour Ad With Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Jumps: Armand Duplantis’ World 5.81m World Under-20 Record Ratified By The IAAF
*MileSplit: This Is Actually Duplantis’ First Ratified Mark Over 19 Feet Due To Past Jumps Not Meeting The IAAF Ratification Standards One of Duplantis’ previous marks wasn’t ratified because they used high school (not international) pegs.

Previous Penn News

Will This Be The Last Season Of Caster Semenya Dominance?

IAAF Releases New Rules On Hyperandrogenism – They Will Require Athletes Like Caster Semenya To Take Medication To Lower Her Testosterone Levels Athletes in events from 400m to a mile will have to maintain a lower testosterone level. Because it is a new regulation, CAS can’t prevent it unless an athlete makes a new legal challenge. *BBC Article
IAAF Statement On “New Eligibility Regulations For Female Classification” The new regulations limiting female testosterone levels will come into effect on November 1, 2018.
The Guardian:“New IAAF Testosterone Rules Could Slow Caster Semenya By Up To Seven Seconds” Sports scientist Ross Tucker predicts that Semenya will “go from a 1:54 to 2:01-2:03.”
Reuters:Caster Semenya’s Reign To Be Ended By New IAAF Gender Rule
MB: Down goes Semenya!!!
MB:IAAF rules on intersex athletes

Upcoming US Road Action

Sunday:Stephen Sambu And Buze Diriba Lead Fields For This Weekend’s UAE Healthy Kidney 10K Laura Thweatt is in the women’s race making her comeback after a year-long injury while Sambu will face 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Edwin Soi.
May 6:2016 Olympic Triathlon Gold Medalist Gwen Jorgensen To Make Half Marathon Debut At 2018 USATF Championships This year’s USA Half Champs are being hosted by the Pittsburgh Marathon.

Sad News

Masterchef TV Contest Matt Campbell Dies At 22.5 Mile Mark Of London Marathon It was his 2nd marathon in two weeks.
Eugene Resident Suffers Skull And Neck Fractures After Tree Falls On Her In Middle Of Half Marathon In Freak Accident Alan Webb‘s wife was nearby and sprinted to an aid station to get help.

The Collegiate 800m Record Goes Down

MB: Michael Saruni Runs 1:43.25 To Break Donavan Brazier’s NCAA 800m Record At Arizona’s Desert Heat Classic Saruni ran over a second PR to break Brazier’s 1:43.55 mark from 2016.
*Post-Race Video Interview With Saruni

Penn Relays News Schedule, Results TV & Streaming

Day3: Team USA Dominates USA Vs. The World At The Penn Relays As Raevyn Rogers Anchored The Sprint Medley Team To A New WR Rogers split 50.48 to bring the team home in 1:35.20, breaking the previous record of 1:35.59. Team USA also got a win in the men’s 4 x 100, where the Justin Gatlin-led team ran 38.39 and the men’s 4 x 400, women’s 4 x 400 and men’s SMR. Jamaica won the women’s 4 x 100.

University Of Houston Has A Huge Penn Relays, Taking The Men’s 4 X 100 And 4 X 400 They won the 4 x 400 thanks to a 43.38 anchor leg from Kahmari Montgomery. His split was the fastest in Penn Relays history.
Jamaica’s Calabar HS Dominates, Sweeping The Boys 4 X 100, 4 X 400 And 4 X 800 Included meet records in the 4 x 400 (3:03.79) and 4 x 800 (7:26.09).
Philly.com:Villanova Concludes A Banner Penn Relays With Five Championships The Villanova men got the 4 x mile win in 16:23 to add to the DMR title while the women took the 4 x 800 in 8:19 to complete their sweep of all three distance relays for the second straight year.
*Villanova Men’s 4 X Mile Recap
Philly.com:US Women Set WR In Sprint Medley, Dominate USA Vs. The World RelaysRaevyn Rogers: “Although you’re on U.S. ground, [the Jamaican fans] still make it seem like it’s their territory.”
Johnny Gregorek Makes Successful Penn Relays Return With 3:54.94 Olympic Development Mile Win It was the 3rd-fastest mile in Penn Relays history. In the women’s mile, Charlene Lipsey won in 4:31.19 as Ajee Wilson was 3rd (4:35.75).
Post-Race Video Interview With Justin Gatlin

Day 2:

Day 2 Penn Recap By Philly.com:Inspired By Women’s Team’s Dominance, Villanova Men Win Distance Medley Relay At Penn Relays The ‘Nova men hadn’t won the men’s DMR since 2011. The Villanova women and Nicole Hutchinson continued to roll in the women’s 4 x 1,500.
*Villanova Women’s 4 X 1,500 Win Recap
MB:Isaiah Harris gets stick down by nearly 4 seconds, guy in leads runs 1:48 but Harris wins thanks to 1:44.74 The MB poster thinks it’s one of the best relay carries in Penn Relays history.
*Penn State Article
MB: Casey Comber gives Nova upset win in men’s DMR He went from from 3rd to 1st, Notre Dame 2nd, Princeton third.
Recommended Read:Former Irish 3-Time Olympian Eamonn Coghlan Looks Back At When He Ran His First Sub-4 Mile At The Penn Relays It wasn’t his “official” first since it was anchor leg for the Villanova DMR.

Day 1:

MB: Anna Rohrer is back…. Wins Penn Relays 10k in her 1st race in 10 months
Villanova Women’s DMR Wins DMR Yet Again That’s 6 out of 7 thanks to a dominant 1,200 leg by Nicole Hutchinson.
HS DMRSaratoga Springs’s Kelsey Chmiel (4:49.22) Comes From 12 Seconds Down To Win
Recommended Read N.J.’s 47 Greatest Performances Of All Time At The Penn Relays From Marty Liquori to Carl Lewis to King Ches, they have you covered.
Justin Gatlin, Fred Kerley And Raevyn Rogers Are All In US Relay Pool For Penn
Leroy Burrell Is Back At Penn Relays With His Fleet Houston Cougars Burrell, the former 100 WR holder, says one of his career highlights came at Penn. Did you know Burrell won a PA state title by himself in HS?
Nesta Carter Headlines Announced Jamaica Team For Penn Relays

More On Semenya And IAAF Testosterone Rule

Caster Semenya Stays Quiet After IAAF Hyperandrogenism Rule Announcement Semenya tweeted a quote saying, “How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged.”
Recommended Watch:Ross Tucker Analyzes The IAAF’s New Hyperandrogenism Policy With Regard To Caster Semenya Tucker believes there needs to be regulations that “protect the boundary” between men’s and women’s sports, but doesn’t think the science is strong enough to hold up in court and predicts that the IAAF regulations won’t stand up to a legal challenge from Semenya or someone else.
Dutee Chand Has Offered Caster Semenya Her Legal Team It was Chand’s legal challenge against the IAAF’s original hyperandrogenism rules that got us to where we are today when CAS suspended the IAAF regulations.
Deadspin:“The Only Point Of Track’s Dumb New Testosterone Rules Is To Make It Illegal To Be Caster Semenya” Whatever your take on the IAAF’s new regulations, there is no way they are as dumb as this headline.
Seb Coe Says New Testosterone Rules Could Be Extended To Other Events
Q&A With IAAF Doctor Stephane Berman On New Testosterone Rules Apparently the new IAAF rules won’t necessarily apply to smaller level competitions so Caster Semenya could hypothetically still compete at SA Nationals without hormone treatment.

More NCAA News

Opponents Of Tearing Down Hayward Field’s East Grandstand Get Support From Eugene City Council The council voted to consider forwarding an application to the Eugene Historic Review Board for Hayward to be considered a city landmark after passionate testimony from many including Kenny Moore and Neta Prefontaine (sister of Steve Prefontaine).
Questions Arise Over How (If?) The New Hayward Field Will Fit The Promised 17,000 Temporary Seats For 2021 Worlds
Updated Women’s NCAA Rankings Have A Ton Of Teams Shuffle Positions LSU moved up to #1 with Southern California going from 6th to 2nd and Oregon from 4th to 3rd. Georgia is ranked 4th and Arkansas dropped from 1st to 5th.
Florida And Texas Tech Remain 1-2 In The Latest Men’s NCAA Rankings Alabama made a big jump from 8th to 3rd.
Podcast Interview With Georgia Head Coach Petros Kyprianou The USTFCCCA Coach Of The Year talks about the technical side of field events, championship team strategies and strength and conditioning.
Previous Result: Georgia’s Keturah Orji Jumps #2 All-Time NCAA Mark Of 14.33m In Season Debut The mark is only behind her own NCAA record of 14.53m.
Previous Result: Chaquinn Cook Breaks Oregon Women’s TJ Record With 13.89m

Distance News

May 26:Jenny Simpson Vs. Laura Muir, Kate Grace, Shelby Houlihan, Brenda Martinez, Winny Chebet And Dawit Seyaum Set For Pre Classic 1,500
Mo Farah Says He’ll Skip Euro 2019 Champs To Focus On Doha Worlds This really should go without saying since Farah is done with the track and he’s obviously not going to run the European Champs marathon …World Champs or not.
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Q&A With ZAP Fitness Coach Pete Rea

Galen Rupp Will Race 20 Days After Boston

LRCGalen Rupp Is BAAACK- Will Run Prague Marathon May 6th He’ll take on 2:04:08 guy Sisay Lemma, whom he beat in Chicago last year.
Discuss: Galen Rupp listed on the entry list for Prague Marathon (May 6) + other elites Props to message boarder juddy96 for breaking this news.
*Update:Rupp’s Name Has Vanished From Start List And No Update From His Agent Or Race Organizers

Looking Ahead On The Track

May 25:Evan Jager Vs. Conseslus Kipruto Matchup Set For Pre Classic The field also has Worlds silver medalist Soufiane El Bakkali, Jarius Birech, Stanley Kebenei, Andy Bayer, Canada’s Matt Hughes, #3 all-time Paul Kipsiele Koech.
May 4:Christian Taylor, Keni Harrison And Sandra Perkovic Announced For Doha DLTaylor will be up against Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo.
May 31: Trio Of Global Medalists Lead By Russian World Champ Markia Lasitskene Set For Rome DL High Jump
July 21:Andre De Grasse Vs. Christian Coleman Clash Set For London Anniversary Games

2018 Virgin London Marathon Results & Tracking Post-Race Videos

LRCPost-Race Interviews From London

LRC Final Crazy 4:22 Opening Mile And 13:48 Opening 5k Can’t Stop Eliud Kipchoge From Winning London In 2:04:17 And Showing He’s Still The Greatest On The Planet A 4:22 opening mile and 13:48 first 5k were way too fast, but they couldn’t stop Eliud Kipchoge from winning London.

LRC Final Vivian Cheruiyot Does It Again, Pulls Off Huge Upset And Wins 2018 London Marathon In 2:18:31 Vivian Cheruiyot stunned the world and Almaz Ayana in Rio in 2016. Today she stunned Tirunesh Dibaba and Mary Keitany and won the 2018 Virgin Money Marathon thanks to a massive 5-minute PR.
LRC With A New Approach, Tactics And London Victory, Vivian Cheruiyot Is Now One Of The Greatest Marathoners In The World This article was pulled from our final women’s recap above.

Non-London Road Results

Nancy Kiprop (2:24:18) Successfully Defends Her Title At The Vienna City Marathon As Morocco’s Salaheddine Bounasser Gets The Surprise Men’s Win (2:09:29) And the shock of the weekend, world record holder Dennis Kimetto was a DNF. He made it a little over halfway.
Nicholas Kosimbei (61:12) And Degitu Azmeraw (69:53) Triumph At Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon Just five days after winning the Boston Marathon, Yuki Kawauchi ran 64:35 for 14th.
Ethiopia’s Mosinet Geremew (61:31) Gets His 4th Straight Victory At The Yangzhous Half Marathon In China Ababel Yeshaneh won the women’s race in 69:06.
Kenya’s Ezekiel Omullo (2:11:17) And Belarus’ Natassia Ivanova (2:28:03) Take Top Honors At The Warsaw Marathon
Eliud Kiplagat (2:10:14) Valentine Kipketer (2:30:40) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Madrid Marathon
Course Records Fall At The Kyiv Half Marathon As Ethiopia’s Lencho Tesfaye Anbesa (62:56) And Viktoriya Kalyuzhna (73:44) Get The Wins

The Meet In Arkansas *Results

Sydney McLaughlin Breaks Her World Junior 400H Record With 53.60 At The “National Relay Championships” In Arkansas McLaughlin took .22 seconds off her own record in her first 400H as a collegiate (she’s now #4 all-time NCAA).
*MB:Sydney McLaughlin 53.60 400mh PR at National relay champ
Stanford Runs #3 Collegiate SMR Of All-Time With 3:41.59 To Win In Arkansas Included a 2:00.09 anchor leg from Olivia Baker.
Arkansas Men And Kentucky Women Win National Relay ChampionshipsSydney McLaughlin followed up her first day 400H WJ record with a 49.47 split on Kentucky’s winning 4×400.
Arkansas Men In The Lead After First Day Of National Relay Championships
Kentucky Women Lead After Day 1 Of National Relay Championships

LRC Analysis/Opinion

LRC Week That Was: Eliud Kipchoge Is The GOAT, Paula Radcliffe Is Too, Josh Kerr Runs Fast, But Nick Willis Is Still King Plus Commonwealth Games, Joshua Cheptegei, Tim Don update. And Sarah Sellers wasn’t the only one to negative split Boston.

LRC Mo Farah Showed Us The “Size Of His Balls” And Earned Even More Respect Farah tested his limits in London.

Previous Relay News

NCAA History Lesson: Of The 16 Collegiate Relay Records, 7 Of Them Have Been Set At Penn Or Drake
USATF Drake Relays Preview Distance action includes the women’s 2-mile with Jenny Simpson, Brenda Martinez and Alexa Efraimson.
Riley Masters (4:03.1) And Emily Lipari (4:32.9) Win USATF 1 Mile Champs At Drake Relays’ Grand Blue Mile Lipari just beat out Brenda Martinez by .2 while Masters beat out Eric Avila (4:03.9).
*Video Interview With Masters *Video Interview With Lipari *USATF Release
Jenn Suhr (4.80m) Defeats USA Indoor Champs Katie Nageotte (4.70m) And Sandi Morris (4.70m) To Win Drake Capital Square Pole Vault On the men’s side, Andrew Irwin cleared 5.60m to got an upset victory over Shawn Barber (5.60m, lost on countback) and Sam Kendricks (5.50m).
Pre-Race Q&A With Mikey Brannigan And His Coach When training with the American Distance Project, Leonard Korir refers to Brannigan as the “Young Lion.”

USATF News

Assorted Distance News

Toni Reavis Analyzes The Pacing At London 2018 And How They Went Out Too Fast For The Conditions “I know that modern runners have out-trained the distance, at least on a benign day, but can they be so dismissive of the distance and the records that they think basic physiological norms no longer apply?”
Short Q&A With Paul Chelimo Chelimo says he tries to live by the Vedic hymn, “Go hard or Suffer the rest of your life.”
World Record Holder Dennis Kimetto Meets Austrian President After DNFing The Vienna City Marathon Kimetto said, “I was in great shape and my body was feeling okay when I started the race. Things started falling apart after the halfway mark when the calf injury recurred. I still have high hopes and I intend to come back stronger.”

Mark Your Calendars

USATF Release: Atlanta To Host The 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials Atlanta won the bid over Chattanooga, Tenn.; Austin, Texas; and Orlando, Florida.
*MB: Atlanta to host 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials Start training now. Feb 29, 2020 will be here before you know it as it’s only 678 days away.

London On The Message Board

Official 2018 London Marathon Live Discussion Thread
Kipchoge needs to win New York and/or Boston (real marathons) to secure his legacy as the GOAT We guess the poster forgot he crushed everyone at the Olympics.
Mo Farah – Greatest Range of Any Distance Runner Ever? Farah, who has a 3:28 1,500 PR, ran 2:06:21.
Does today’s race mark MO FARAH as competitive on the world stage?
Can we please stop with the WR attempts at London? We 100% agree. And if they are going to go for the WR, can they at least go at the right pace?
MO FARAH wants to fight Motorbike guy!
Kennenisa Bekele – Interview after the race – No excuses given Bekele was sixth in 2:08:53.
Bekele is officially TOAST

There’s Always The Crazy At London
LRC Meet The Real Life Forrest Gump: Rob Pope (82nd Place In 2:36) Has Nearly Completed Gump’s Epic Quest Of Five Runs Across America
Discussion: LRC Sleuths- Fellow LetsRun Visitor Rob Pope Has Nearly Completed Forrest Gump’s Five Runs Across America And Wants Scrutiny

LRC 15 Years On, Paula Radcliffe Reflects On Her 2:15:25 Marathon World Record “The longer it’s gone on, obviously, the more attached I’ve become to it. And it’s started feel a little bit like part of the family. But it’s inevitable it’s going to get beaten at some point.”
*MB: Paula Radcliffe’s WR could go down this weekend, what questions would you like us to ask her this weekend?

Full London Coverage In Our Virgin Money London Marathon Special Section

Weekend Track Action *All NCAA Results

LRCNew Mexico’s Josh Kerr Runs 3:35.01 To Break NCAA 1,500m Record As impressive as Josh’s run was, Jim Ryun ran 3:33.1 as a collegiate sophomore 51 years ago but it wasn’t during the collegiate season. In our minds, anything achieved before you go pro or up through the NCAAs of your senior year is the real collegiate record.
Discuss:*Josh Kerr breaks NCAA record 3:35.01!! @Clay Invite
*Why Isn’t Jim Ryun’s 3:33.1 in 1967 the American Collegiate Record?

Grenada Invitational:Justin Gatlin Runs 10.05 To Win 100m Over Isiah Young (10.11) And Mike Rodgers (10.17); Tori Bowie Wins 200m In 22.75 Other winners included LaShawn Merritt (200 – 20.57), Hannah Cunliffe (100m – 11.42), Shamier Little (400 – 51.45) and Kori Carter (100H – 12.79).
Mt. SAC Relays: USC’s Twanisha Terry Runs Fourth-Fastest Under-20 100m In History With 10.99 At Mt. SAC Recent world indoor record setter Michael Norman won the 400 in a PR of 44.53 while World U20 silver medalist Lynna Irby won the women’s race in 50.95. Other winners included Brianna Rollins in the 100H (12.43), Fred Kerley in the 200 (20.48), Olympic champ Dalilah Muhammad in the 400H (55.25), Jeff Demps in the 100 (10.08).
*Results Georgia’s Jessica Drop won the 5,000 in 15:38 while Japan’s Yuki Fukuda took the 1,500 in 4:16.64 over Charlene Lipsey (4:16.76).
World Champions Justin Gatlin And Tori Bowie Headline At Saturday’s Grenada Invitational
Thursday @ Bryan Clay:Evan Jager (13:24) And Marielle Hall (15:39) Start Seasons Off With Wins As DII’s Sydney Gibaduday Beats D1’s Matthew Baxter For Top NCAA Honors Nice run by Gibaduday for top NCAA honors. Acceptable rust buster for Jager in our book, but at least one guy disagrees.
*Discuss Meet*Jager Looked BAD