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Quote Of The Day

“‘I came into this saying I’m gonna win,’ Hunter said. ‘And once you have that mentality, you start to slowly believe. When you wake up every day and say I’m a winner, I’m gonna train to be a winner, I’m going to train to win this race, good things happen. You start to transform into a better runner. … I was very timid last year, and rightfully so. I think most kids in my position would have been too. But now I’m like, I’m just as good as these guys, I earned this contract, I earned the right to be out here. Now I just treat it like I belong, and that’s been a big difference.'”

– Drew Hunter speaking after running 3:56.72 to win the adidas Boost Boston Games mile.

2018 adidas Boost Boston Games *Schedule / Results

Day 2 LRC Shaunae Miller-Uibo Breaks 150m WR; Tori Bowie (11.05 100m) & Noah Lyles (14.77 150m) Grab Wins Today on the streets of Boston and world record (150m for women) and American record (women’s 200 hurdles) went down.

Day 1 LRC Drew Hunter Earns His Biggest Win To Date, Ajee Wilson & Charlene Lipsey Impress On Day 1 At adidas Boost Boston Games Hunter took down some big names to win the mile, while Wilson (1:59.27 800) and Lipsey (4:04.98 1,500) both posted US leaders. Plus Nick Willis explains why even if Asbel Kiprop doped (Kiprop denies it) and it cost him Olympic gold why he wouldn’t be the biggest casualty of Kiprop’s doping.

*MB: Official adidas Boost Discussion Thread
*MB: Drew Hunter does it! Takes down O’Hare + Willis + a 3:33 guy to get biggest win of career at adidas Boost
*MB:HS Josh Hoey Runs 1:48 in his record attempt Michael Granville‘s 1:46.45 seems safe.
*LRCVideo Interviews From Boston

More Upcoming

Sunday: Mo Farah And Tirunesh Dibaba Headline At The Great Manchester 10k Farah is up against former two-time world marathon champ Abel Kirui while Dibaba will have her hands full with world half marathon record holder Joyciline Jepkosgei.
Saturday: Jamaica Invy Preview:Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson Faces Commonwealth Games Silver And Bronze Medalists Christina Williams And Gayon Evans In The 100Shericka Jackson vs. Blessing Okagbare and 400m World champ Phyllis Francis in the 200. In the men’s 100, Kim Collins is “coming out of retirement” (he called it quits this indoor season) for one more race in Jamaica and will face US’s Mike Rodgers and Ronnie Baker.
*From The Winter: Kim Collins At Peace With Retirement
Sunday:South Africa’s Lusapho April (2:08:32) And Kenya’s Georgina Jepkirui Rono (2:21:39) Leads Fields For Riga Marathon In Latvia
Saturday:Multi-Time Euro XC Champ Sergey Lebid Leads Field Of Europeans For The Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half In The Czech Republic Czech half-marathon record holder Eva Vrabcova Nyvltova (71:11) leads the women’s race.
June 10th:Christian Coleman And World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm Announced For Stockholm DL

LetsJump.com

GB’s London 2012 High Jump Bronze Medalist Robbie Grabarz Announces Retirement The 30-year-old said, “I’ve seen people carry on too long past the point of enjoyment and there is no need, life is too short and I want to feel positive about my time competing.”
Christian Taylor Plans On Racing The 400m Throughout The 2018 “Off Year” Season He says a “bucket list” goal is to break the 45 second barrier and he wasn’t far off in Shanghai with 45.24.
IAAF Inside Athletics Video: Ato Boldon Interviews World PV Champ Katerina Stefanidi
Nigeria Jumper And Sprinter Blessing Okagbare Looks Back At Her Experience At 2006 World Juniors In Beijing It was Okagbare’s first time flying and she became sick and had a terrible meet. But she said it was valuable experience for when she returned to Beijing two years later and won Olympic LJ silver.

Previous Doping News

MB:2:11 Marathoner And Flagstaff Resident Jordan Chipangama Gets 4-Year Doping Ban Chipangama tested positive on two separate occasions for meldonium.
Swedish Anti-Doping Hit By Fancy Bears Hacking Attack Fancy Bears have accessed and published records of doping tests performed on Swedish athletes.
Vitaly Mutko Replaced As Deputy Prime Minister For Sport And Put In Control Of Construction In Russian Government Reshuffle Remember that Mutko has been banned from the Olympic Games for life for his role in the Russian doping scandal.
Proposal For Detailed Audit Of Russian Doping Crisis And An Update On RUSADA Are Key Issues At WADA Meeting On Thursday RUSADA is pretty much a guarantee to remain non-compliant as they still haven’t fulfilled two reinstatement criteria, accepting the McLaren Report and granting access to the Moscow Laboratory.

Night Of 10k PBs / European 10,000 Cup Results Facebook Page

Germany’s Richard Ringer Wins European 10,000 Cup Title At The Night Of 10,000 PBs Ringer ran 27:36.52 to beat out France’s Morhad Amdouni by just .28. Also noteworthy was the fact that three Brits broke the 28-minute barrier in the same race for the first time in 35 years with 20-year-old triathlete Alex Yee (27:51.94) beating out Andy Vernon (27:52.32) and Chris Thompson (27:52.56).
*European Athletics Recap: Judges It Brilliantly To Win Euro 10,000 Cup Title
*MB:20-yr old British triathlete runs 27.51 for 10k in his debut (on a track)
Israel’s Lonah Chemtai Salpeter WIns European 10,000m Cup In World-Leading 31:33.03 Romania’s Ancuta Bobocel was 2nd (31:43) and GB’s Charlotte Arter 3rd (32:15).
*European Athletics Recap

Distance News

The Guardian:Mo Farah Claims He Was Frequently Drug Tested At His African Training Camps Farah says he was tested every two weeks when he was training in Ethiopia ahead of the London Marathon and that it included blood and urine. Doping aside, Farah reveals that he’ll most likely be running either NYC or Chicago in the fall.
Good Read:FastRunning.com: Is Jakob Ingebrigtsen Peaking Too Soon? Robbie Britton writes that Norway’s athletes have a “prerequisite for burnout” and compares Ingebrigsten’s path to US high school/college athletes.
Interesting Interview Format:Carrie Tollefson Talks With Gabriele Grunewald While On A Run Grunewald talks about coaching Chip Gaines for his first marathon and gives an update on her cancer treatment. They’re a little out of breath, but the audio is fine.

Manchester Great CityGames

Double World Silver Medalist Marie-Josee Ta Lou Beats Allyson Felix Over 150m At Manchester Street Race Ta Lou’s 16.60 was the seventh-fastest straight 150m of all-time. In the men’s 100, GB’s Harry Aikines-Aryeetey ran 10.35 to beat Richard Kilty by .02.
Poland’s Damian Czykier Gets Surprise Win Over World Indoor Champ Andrew Pozzi And WR Holder Aries Merritt In Great CityGames 110H Bershawn Jackson won the 200 hurdles and said that the loss of his 53-year-old father in 2016 is behind his decision to retire (again) at the end of this year.
*Recommended Read: Article From February Where Bershawn Jackson Explains His Decision To Come Back For One More Year Jackson says he spoke with Bernard Lagat, Mo Farah, Sanya Richards and Justin Gatlin when seeking retirement advice.

NOP Returns To Chicago 2018

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

More Doping Updates

WADA Maintain RUSADA Suspension After No Progress Made WADA director general Olivier Niggli said, “There was no need for a vote and there was no proposal. There is no change.”
European 5,000 Champ Ilias Fifa Among Banned For 4 Years For Doping Fifa is among five Spanish athletes to get a ban in connection with drug trafficking scandal Operation Chameri.
RUSADA Director General Wants Moscow Laboratory To Open So They Can Become Compliant Again Allowing access to the samples stored there is one of the requirements for reinstatement Russia still hasn’t met.
Kenyan Olympic Committee President Paul Tergat Calls For Action To End The “Cancer” Of Doping Tergat said, “We must stop sweeping it under the carpet under the guise of confidentiality and expose it for what it is.”
Former Indian Olympic Sprinter Anand Menezes Wants The Country To Do More To Eradicate Doping In The Buildup To The Asian Games He might want to check his info though as he said, “Apart from a ban, there is a provision of imprisonment to such athletes in America and Europe.”
RUSADA And The Russian Athletics Federation Sign Agreement To Help Prevent Anti-Doping Rules Violations The agreement includes ensuring access for doping control officials to all Russian sport venues.
Report Reveals That Athletes At The 2018 Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics Were Worried About Sample Tampering Apparently a couple of athletes were so concerned they broke their sample bottles after screwing the lids too tightly.

Monday / More Weekend Results

MB:Ajee Wilson Runs 4:05.18 At Swarthmore Last Chance Meet; Charlene Lipsey 4:07.73 Former NCAA mile runner-up Angel Piccirillo was 3rd in 4:16.75.
MB: Robby Andrews runs 3:38 FTW at Swarthmore. Princeton’s William Paulson runs 3:39.
MB: Robby Andrews runs 3:38 FTW at Swarthmore. Princeton’s William Paulson runs 3:39
Kenya’s Alex Kibet (29:46) And Ethiopia’s Dera Dida (33:01) Win Okpekpe 10K In Nigeria Don’t put much stock in the slow times as earlier this year Kibet ran a 59:06 half and Dida a 2:21:46 marathon.
Spain’s Luis Alberto Hernando Wins Record Third Successive Trail World Championships Title The Netherlands’ Ragna Debats won the women’s race while Spain took both team titles.

Meet The Guy Who Has Run Sub-3 For 30 Straight Years But Ran 3:04 In Boston And Was Happy About It

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”

The Week That Was Goes To College

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.