Hayward Field May Soon Be Changed Forever

LRC With Hayward Field Set to Be Demolished, Pros Alan Webb, Matthew Centrowitz, Nick Symmonds, Christain Coleman, and Jenny Simpson Recall Their Favorite Races at Hayward Some top pros of the post-2000 era recall their favorite Hayward races.
*We want to hear from you: MB: What was your favorite race at Hayward Field? The top pros share their favorite Hayward field memories

Eugene Register-Guard Exclusive: Phil Knight Walked Away From Paying For Hayward Field Renovations Last Year; Worlds Weren’t Coming To US Until He Changed His Mind Great read that talks about some of the infighting behind the project. Read and discuss at link above.

Oregonian Exclusive: Nike Vice President Of Design Tinker Hatfield Blasts New Plan For Hayward Field Hatfield says the new design will have a negative effect on performance and attendance. In a way, he also blasts Phil Knight and Seb Coe. It can’t be a coincidence that this story and the one above came out on the same day. Discuss Here

Sprints And Jumps

• Recommended Read: Dawn Harper Nelson Tells The Story Behind Her 2008 Olympic 100H Gold Harper talks about coming back to the athlete village and sharing a room with teammate Damu Cherry, who was 4th. “All night she was crying in bed and I am in the other bed knowing I am Olympic champion, bursting with emotion.”
• Bahamas 400 Runner Steven Gardiner Shares The High And Low Of His Career Apparently third time was the charm for Gardiner as e won World silver last year after having the two lows of his career at Rio 2016 and Beijing 2015.
• IAAF: 100 Years After Her Birth, Francina “Fanny” Blankers-Koen’s Legacy Lives On She is most remembered for winning four golds at the 1948 London Olympics in the 100, 200, 80m hurdles and 4 x 100.
• Jamaica’s Commonwealth Games TJ Champ Kimberly Williams Explains Her Love For The Sport “The best thing about triple jump is that it is very technical and it feels easy when you do it right. I often know it is a good jump when I’m going into the jump phase because it feels like I have been in the air forever.”

IAAF Continental Cup Is This September

• 100 Days To Go: IAAF: Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 Set To Be A Battle Of Champions Each team will have a legendary athlete as an honorary captain; LJ world record holder Mike Powell heads the Americas team.
• IAAF Heritage Exhibition Opening In Ostrava On June 5th The exhibition will be open 7-days a week for three months until the last day of the IAAF Continental Cup in Ostrava on September 9th.
• IAAF: More Than 24 Centuries Of Athletics History Will Be On Display At The Heritage Exhibition The most valuable exhibit will be a series of eight coins, one of which dates back as far as 460 BC.
• IAAF Heritage Collection Will Have Medals From The 1896 Olympics (The First Modern Games)
• Exhibit Will Show Off One Of The Original IAAF World Cup Trophies From 1977

Distance News

• Tokyo 2020 Marathon Course Will Finish With A Grueling Final Incline To Reach The Finish At The Olympic Stadium
  *MB: Tokyo Marathon course will feature a “Gold Medal Break It Or Make It” Hill between 37 and 41 k
• Good Read: Steve Slattery Tells The Story Of His First Sub-4 Mile At The 2004 Pre Classic “I raced the best Milers in the biggest track meet in America and I got my ass kicked, but running your first sub-4 is always special and I left the meet excited.”
• Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Q&A With Ryan Hall Hall talks about the new training group he’s starting in Flagstaff, what it’s like coaching his wife and the 2018 Boston Marathon.
• June 1: Gabe Grunewald Speaking At American College Of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting In Minneapolis
• Reigning Comrades Marathon Winner Camille Herron Withdraws From This Year’s Race Herron was hoping to try to defend her title, but a quad strain which will keep her out, although she’s planning on still racing Western States next month.
• NYC Marathon Race Director Peter Ciaccia Announces Retirement Ciaccia has been a key figure at the NYRR for the last 18 years.

More News Of Note

• Patrick Sang (Eliud Kipchoge’s Coach) Offers To Train Indian Youngster Budhia Singh Singh was made famous by becoming the world’s youngest marathoner at the age of 6 and running 65km in 7 hours, 2 minutes. Now Singh is 16 and dreaming of the Olympics, though he doesn’t have any elite PRs to speak of.
• Usain Bolt To Train At Norwegian Soccer Club As He Continues His Pursuing His Goal Of Becoming A Pro Soccer Player Apparently the team didn’t know Bolt was joining them as the team head just said a “damn fast” player was showing up and then Bolt walked in.
• Good Read: Website Pole Vault Power Hosting The First Women’s Open Decathlon Championships This Summer The meet will be in California one week after USAs and offer $500 prize money to the winner.
• Runner’s World Q&A: Matt Centrowitz Talks Doping Busts, Training, And What Keeps Him Motivated The interview is from before Pre, but still has some good stuff on his training situation and Centro’s reaction to Asbel Kiprop‘s EPO bust.

Sad That It Comes To This: NYC Triathlon Cuts Hills Out Of The Course To Encourage More Participation The race had used the same course for 17 years.

Memorial Day Action

• Ethiopia’s Getaneh Tamire Posts Fourth-Best Time In Bolder Boulder 10k History To Win In 28:18 Tamire led Ethiopia to victory in the team standings while Team USA finished back in 4th, led by Sam Chelanga in 9th place. *Results
• Ethiopia’s Mamitu Daska Wins Record Sixth Bolder Boulder 10k Daska ran 32:37 to beat out USA’s Aliphine Tuliamuk by 11 seconds and led Ethiopia to the team win. Team USA was a well-beaten second. *Results
• Tyler McCandless Wins Citizen Race In 30:54 At Bolder Boulder 10k *Results
• Mo Farah And Steph Twell Win British Road 10k Titles At The Vitality London 10,000 Farah won in 29:44, 4 seconds ahead of Richard Allen while Callum Hawkins ran his first race his his Commonwealth Games collapse back in 31:27. Twell won in 32:34 well ahead of Gemma Steel and Jo Pavey.
  
• We Might See A Mo Farah Vs. Galen Rupp Showdown At The 2018 Chicago Marathon “Rupp is running Chicago. If I want to do the (Tokyo) Olympics I have to know how to beat this guy and race this guy and how to battle with him.”
• Callum Hawkins Before His Comeback Race: “I’m throwing myself in the deep end a bit but I’m doing the thing I love which is racing.”

Weekend Results

• Geoffrey Kamworor (28:18) And Agnes Tirop (31:19) Score Kenyan Double In Hot Conditions At Bengaluru 10k Kamworor won comfortably by 20 seconds while the women’s race was a three-way battle with Tirop beating out Senbere Teferi by 3 seconds and Caroline Kipkirui 3rd in 31:28.
• Gelete Burka Sets Canadian All-Comers Record Of 2:22:17 To Win Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon Course record holder Yemane Tsegay won the men’s race in 2:08:52 after struggling with a stomach problem and rallying back from 4th to 1st. Wesley Korir‘s younger brother John had the lead in his debut but ended up 2nd.
  *MB: Congratulations SARA HALL 2:26:20 on in Ottawa Marathon
• England’s Alexandra Bell Breaks 2:00 For 1st Time At The British Milers’ Club Grand Prix
  MB: This is how you should react to breaking 2:00.00 for the 1st time… (pic)
• Andamlak Berta (27:48) And Alia Mohammed (31:36) Earn Ottawa 10k Victories 1:05 half marathoner Edith Chelimo was second in the women’s race in 31:47.
• Chris O’Hare (4:04) And Melissa Courtney (4:35) Win Westminster Miles in London
• Nafissatou Thiam (6,806) And Damian Warner (8,795) Claim World Leads At Hypo Meeting IAAF Combined Events Challenge Fixture In Gotzis

2018 Pre Classic *Full Results *TV & Streaming *34 LRC Interviews

LRC 17-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigtsen Runs 3:52 Mile At Prefontaine Classic, And Oh Yeah Timothy Cheruiyot Wins In 3:49 The final pro race at the original Hayward Field will long be remembered as 17-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen topped Alan Webb‘s legendary 3:53 from high school with a 3:52.28 clocking.
*LRC Post-Race Interviews Interviews include past and current HS stars Drew Hunter and Brodey Hasty.

LRC 2018 Pre Women’s Distance Recap: Shelby Houlihan Runs Massive 4+ Sec. PR To Shock The World, Caster Semenya And Genzebe Dibaba Continue To Roll The final Prefontaine Classic at the original Hayward Field didn’t disappoint in terms of the women’s distance events – the women’s 800, 1,500 and 5,000 all produced world-leading times.

LRC The Rest Of The Meet: Noah Lyles Runs 19.69, Ryan Crouser And Jenn Suhr Break Meet Records, And A New Steeple Star Arrives? Ronnie Baker also impressed by beating Christian Coleman (windy 9.78 to 9.84), Shaunae Miller-Uibo crushed the 400 (49.52), and Mutaz Essa Barshim (2.36) kept winning in the high jump.

• Noah Lyles After Pre: “I’m here, and I’m here to dominate.”
• IAAF: Shaunae Miler-Uibo And Noah Lyles Dominate In Eugene
• IAAF: Caster Semenya Dominates, Benjamin Kigen And Shelby Houlihan Surprise