– Dr. Mark Cucuzzella revealing the secret behind what has enabled him to run sub-3 in the marathon for a remarkable 30 years in a row.
LRC 30 Years Of Sub-3:00 Marathons: Despite A Setback In Boston, Mark Cucuzzella Is Looking To Extend An Epic Streak 51-year-old mark Mark Cucuzzella has run a sub-3 hour marathon for 30 straight years. One month ago in Boston, Cucuzzella ran his first marathon over 3 hours in his life and yet was happy with the result. “It’s a privilege and a pleasure to be out there if you have a busy day job … [Bad conditions mean] there [are] more war stories to tell. And you learn more from a race like that than [one run in] 50 degrees and a tailwind …”
*MB: Guy who has run sub-3 for 30 straight years reveals the secret – Don’t run hard as “running hard beats the shit out of you”
LRC 2018 Shanghai Diamond League Recap: Paul Chelimo Just Misses, Drew Windle Bombs, Keni Harrison’s Win Streak Stopped, Gardiner Keeps Winning & More The second Diamond League meet is in the books. We know many of you slept in and missed, so catch up here.
Shanghai MB Chatter
IAAF Looks Back At Three Of The Top Moments From The History Of The Shanghai DL Two of the three are distance performances, one from Almaz Ayana and the other from Faith Kipyegon.
Did You Miss Last Week’s Meet? Doha DL Video Highlights
LRC Official Prague Marathon – Galen Rupp Prediction Thread
LRC Galen Rupp Runs 2:06:07 To Smash PR And Win Prague Marathon And he vomited at the finish to make it more legendary.
*IAAF Recap:Bornes Jepkirui Kitur Won The Women’s Race In 2:24:19
Discuss:RUPP IS OFFICIALLY A 2:06 GUY – 2:06:07 Amazing!
*Rupp>>>>Kipchoge>>>Farah
Rupp Before Prague
Mt. SAC Is OUT As 2020 Olympic Track And Field Trials As Bidding Is Reopened Because Of Lawsuit Things never seem to go easy for USATF. The USATF press release does not make clear, but Mt. SAC considers itself as out of the running for 2020. *Discuss
*OC Register:Mt. SAC Official Says They Were “Blindsided” By USATF’s Decision To Take Away The 2020 Olympic TrialsBrian Yokoyama said that neither Max Siegel nor any other top USATF officials were on the conference call informing them they had lost the Trials. Yokoyama also added, “Our stadium will be finished (by 2020). That’s a non-issue, although apparently not to USA Track.”
LRC History Of Prize Money At The Olympic Marathon Trials Last week it was announced that the 2020 US Marathon Trials will be hosted by the Atlanta Track Club in Atlanta, Georgia and that with “B” qualifiers getting their travel paid for, more money will go back to the athletes. The more inclusive approach of the 2020 Trials inspired us to go back and look at what the past Olympic Marathon Trials did in terms of paying prize money.
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.
LRC The Week That Was: NCAA Conference Madness, All Hail The SEC, A 15 Year Old Runs 1:47 And The Hotel 4 X 100 The quality of the NCAA track and field action in the year 2018 is insane. It’s so good that collegiate superstars like Michael Saruni (1:43 PR), Grant Fisher (NCAA 5k champ), Justyn Knight (NCAA XC & more) and Karissa Schweizer (NCAA XC & more) all suffered losses at their conference championships last week.
Galen Rupp Will Return To Defend His Title At The 2018 Chicago MarathonJordan Hasay will be back as well after her third place 2:20:57 run last year.
*MB: Breaking: Galen Rupp WILL defend his Chicago Marathon title in 2018
LRC Big Prize Money, Big Charity Donation, But No Drug Testing: What’s Up With Chip Gaines’ Silo District Marathon? Reality TV star Chip Gaines wanted to run a marathon so he created one from scratch. Since raising money for the Brave Like Gabe Foundation was the goal, everyone – even the pros like Betsy Saina – had to pay the $150 entry fee. Saina is glad she did as she walked away with the easiest $10,000 of her life.
Aliphine Tuliamuk Back To Her Winning Ways (1:10:04), Chris Derrick (1:02:37) Outlasts Stinson, As Gwen Jorgensen 4th (1:10:58) At USATF Half Marathon Championships Tuliamuk took it out hard and dropped everyone, but outlasted a charge from Sara Hall at end.
LRC Athletics Integrity Unit Responds: “No Mix-Up Or Tampering,” Kiprop’s “A” And “B” Samples Positive They deny Kiprop’s claims of tampering.
On The Boards: Kiprop Being Dirty & Not Paying a Bribe is More Likely Than Him Being Clean and Being Extorted
LRC Asbel Kiprop Releases Detailed Statement Of His Innocence, Explosive Allegations Of Breaches In Testing Protocols, Implies His Sample Was Sabotaged As a message board thread says, “Kiprop responds, and it’s wild.” Kiprop states testing protocols were violated, he sent cash to a tester, and the IAAF offered him a role as an anti-doping ambassador if he admitted his guilt. None of this proves his innocence, but he deserves his day in court.
LRC Asbel Kiprop Tests Positive For EPO – What Does It Mean? 5 Takeaways The greatest 1,500 runner in a generation has reportedly tested positive for EPO. What does it mean? The Rosas certainly have more explaining to do.
WTW Penn Still Triumphs For Collegiate Relays, Lawi Lalang Is Almost A US Citizen, Jenny Simpson Has Some Work To Do + Laura Thweatt And Anna Rohrer Are Back Penn had the crowds and the fastest collegiate times this weekend, which made us happy, and hopefully Houston gets a recruiting bump for bringing it on the national stage.
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.
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.
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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.
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?
LRC Rupp’s 2:06 In Perspective, Time For Clayton Murphy To Panic?, Making Sense Of Hyperandrogenism Rules And Pulling Trials From Mt. SAC Believe it or not, Galen Rupp is only the 88th-fastest marathoner of all time. Plus praise for Garrett Heath‘s range and 17-year-olds running fast.
LRC Meet The Guy Who Picked Both Des Linden And Yuki Kawauchi To Win The Boston Marathon Plus, the former head of Brooks Sports Marketing, Jesse Williams, believed in Des Linden and finished top 3, to win a pair of adidas sub 2 shoes. And another guy finished top 3 in the Boston and London contest.
LRC Distance Recap Caster Semenya Sub-4 For First Time, 17-Year-Old George Manangoi 3:35.53, Emmanuel Korir Wins, Jenny Simpson Comes Up Short Of AR, Murphy 1:47 Caster Semenya went sub-4 for the first time, 17-year-old George Manangoi ran 3:35.5, and Emmanuel Korir got another win and Jenny Simpson came up short.
LRC 20-Year-Old Noah Lyles Runs 19.83 To Stay Undefeated In Diamond League – “My goal is just to dominate.” Race video as well.
LRC Doha Sprint & Field Recap: Noah Lyles, Steven Gardiner, Ta Lou, Keni Harrison Run Fast, Pichardo, Röhler, Perkovic Excel Eight world leads start the 2018 Diamond League season off right.
LRC 17-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigtsen Destroys Paul Chelimo And Matthew Centrowitz To Win Payton Jordan 1,500m Jim Ryun and Alan Webb have to be proud. In other action, Henrik Ingebrigtsen (Jakob’s brother) won the 5k over Riley Masters, Sara Vaughn won the 1,500, and Shadrack Kipchirchir won the 10,000.
Listen On Demand:LRC Podcast: Kiprop Tests Positive, Rupp Is Running Prague, USATF Pulls Trials From Mt. SAC + Gwen Jorgensen Is Running USATF Half Listen via soundcloud, itunes, Stithcher, or via download.
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
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