August 09, 2018 Homepage Archive

Improved 2018 BOA Chicago Marathon Elite Fields Released

LRC Analysis Props To Chicago: Galen Rupp Will Battle Strong International Field As He Tries To Repeat At Chicago Marathon The international fields for the 2018 Chicago Marathon are out and this year we have no fears about whether Chicago is being watered down to ensure a victory by Galen Rupp. If Rupp is to defend his crown, he’ll have to defeat the winners of the following marathons in 2018: Dubai, Tokyo, Rotterdam, Paris and Boston. The American hopefuls on the women’s side, Jordan Hasay and Amy Cragg, also face increased competition as well.
*MB: 2018 Chicago Marathon elite fields are out and both are much improved from 2017 – Can Galen Rupp repeat?

Jordan Hasay doesn’t just want to win Chicago, she wants to run fast

2018 Berlin European Champs Watch LIVELive Results/Start Lists*Schedule

RRW:Historic Gold Medal For Israel’s Lonah Chemtai Salpeter At European Championships Salpeter became the first Israeli woman ever to win a gold medal in any Euro Champs event. She ran 31:43 to win comfortably over the Netherlands’s Susan Krumins (31:52) and Sweden’s Meraf Bahta (32:19.34).
*MB:‘Historic’ Israel Euro 10k title – by a Kenyan!!
Ingebrigtsen Boys Reach 1,500m Final After Scare, Keeping Dream Of 1-2-3 Podium Sweep Alive
*EA:Filip Ingebrigsten Survives A Scare In The 1,500 Heats
*MB:Getting ready for Friday’s European 1500 men’s final – Can the Ingebrigtsen’s sweep? Who has the edge?
*MB:Here is what will happen in Friday’s European 1500 Final
After 84-Year Wait Ireland’s Thomas Barr (400H) And Leon Reid (200m) Bid For Historic Medals No Irishman has ever won a European sprint medal.
“It’s Like Putting On A Super-Suit” – Leon Reid About Finally Wearing The Irish Uniform After Transfer Of Allegiance Block

IAAF:Germany’s Arthur Abele Delivers Hosts Germany Their First Gold Of The Championships With Decathlon Victory Lithuania’s Andrius Gudzius won the discus gold with 68.46m.
Dramatic Victories For Lithuania’s Andrius Gudzius (Discus) And Poland’s Paulina Guba (Shot Put)
2015 Beijing World Champs Still Haunts Katarina Johnson-Thompson In 2015 she was the favorite to win, but fouled out of the LJ dropping her to 28th place.
My, How The Tides Have Turned:Three Years Ago, It Was Katarina Johnson-Thompson Dominating Over Nafissatou Thiam In The Euro Champs Indoor Pentathlon Now it is Olympic champion Thiam who is the favorite and Johnson-Thompson who is trying to win in an upset.
Steve Cram Believes Dina Asher-Smith Can Now Be Considered “World Class” After Her 100m Win
GB Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Wants To Win Her First European Outdoor Medal In Berlin

More Euros

World Decathlon Champ Kevin Mayer’s Gold Medal Hopes Disappear As He Fouls Out Of The Long Jump Mayer had the fastest time in the 100m with a 10.64 PR, but no mark in the LJ ends his chances at gold.
Poignant Opening Ceremony Gets Berlin 2018 Underway
GB Captain Dai Greene Withdraws From Euro Champs Due To Hamstring Injury
Athletics Weekly’s Euro Medal Predictions They think there will be two Ingebrigstens on the 1,500m podium.
GB 800m Runner Lynsey Sharp Regains Her Hunger For Medals After Difficult 2017 Sharp says she had a rough time mentally last year and that carried over to early 2018 at the Commonwealth Games, but she says she’s “as hungry as ever” now.
The Telegraph:Dina Asher-Smith Targeting Breakthrough Win Over Dafne Schippers In Berlin Schippers is a world champion and Asher-Smith has never been on an individual global podium, but the bookies have Asher-Smith as the favorite in the 100m and 200m.
GB LJer Jazmin Sawyers Says She Gets “Imposter Syndrome” She says it’s the voice that asks, “Should I really be here?”
World Champions Mariya Lasitskene (HJ) And Ekaterini Stefanidi (PV) Highlight Women’s Jumps In Berlin
Athletics Weekly:Dai Greene Has Experience With GB Captain’s Speeches
BBC:“British Sprinting – What’s Going So Right?” They don’t have the fastest names in national history, but they have great depth.
InsideTheGames:Euro Champs Opened By Party In Glasgow As Federations Unveil Winner’s Trophy The trophy will go to the country with the most gold medals by the end of the Championships.
The Guardian:European Champs Launch Of New Spectacle Of Sport 11 days, 4 locations, 8 different sports.
The Guardian:Glasgow Gears Up For Inaugural Euro Championships 4,500 athletes from 52 nations competing in Berlin and the UK.
Dina Asher-Smith Is GB Performance Director Neil Black’s “One To Watch” In Berlin
The Telegraph:First Multi-Sport Euros Ready To Bask In The Limelight

Weekend Distance Results

Jake Robertson Wins Beach To Beacon 10k By Nearly A Minute With 27:37; Sandrafelis Chebet Tuei Wins In 31:21 As Molly Huddle Is Third (31:40)Stephen Sambu was second for the men (28:27) and Ben True the top American in 3rd (28:29). *Results
Austria’s Andrea Mayr And Italy’s Francesco Puppi Win PIZTRIVertical Mountain Race In Malonno, Italy
USA 10k Champ Lopez Lomong Wins Sir Walter Miler In 3:53 As 13 Break 4:00, Charlene Lipsey Beats Sara Vaughn Props to Charlie Marquardt going sub-4 for the 1st time with a 3:55.97. Everyone who finished on the men’s side broke 4:00.
Duluth News Tribune:Ben Cogger Breaks Scott Jurek’s 20-Year-Old Course Record At The Voyageur 50 Mile Trail Ultramarathon Despite Getting Stung By Hornets

2018 European Championships

Reigning Champions Dafne Schippers And Dina Asher-Smith To Clash Across Three Events At Euro Champs The two sprint stars will face each other over 100m, 200m and the 4 x 100.
Men’s Sprinting Events Set To Sizzle In Berlin The four sub-10 second European men (led by GB’s Zharnel Hughes) will clash in the 100m while Bruno Hortelano will try to defend his title in the 200m against world champion Ramil Guliyev.
BBC:Great Britain’s Stars To Watch At Euro Champs Guide

Sprint Stuff

NCAA 400m Champ Michael Norman Signs With Nike Norman will remain in LA and continue training with his USC coaches.
*MB: Michael Norman signs with nike
August 18:Noah Lyles Vs. Christian Coleman Showdown Set For Birmingham Diamond League South Africa’s Akani Simbine and Yohan Blake are also in the race.
Sianni Wynn Wins USATF Athlete Of The Week After Taking Three Sprint Titles At USATF Junior Olympics Wynn won the 100, 200 and 400, setting a 9-10 age group record in the 400 (58.97) to win by almost 4 seconds.

The Latest From The African Champs – The 800’s Biggest Talents All Raced Friday *Watch Live

Race Of The Week: MB: Nijel Amos takes down Emmanuel Korir to win African 800 gold
MB: Caster Semenya break 50.00 for 1st time – Wins African champs with dominating 49.96
IAAF Day 3 Recap:Caster Semenya Clocks 49.96, Nijel Amos Defeats Emmanuel Korir In the men’s steeple, World/Olympic champ Conseslus Kipruto kicked Past Soufiane El Bakkali to win in 8:26. Kenya’s Winny Chebet won a tactical 1,500 in 4:14.
Hellen Obiri Wins 5,000 Title At African Champs By Nearly 10 Seconds In 15:47 Senbere Teferi was second in 15:56.

NCAA News

NY Times:“How College Sports Killed Summer Vacation” Interesting read on how increased demands from college sports are leading to more and more athletes taking summer classes/internships so they can stay on campus and train. Distance running has always been a year-round sport, but it looks like other NCAA sports are becoming that too.
NXN 2nd Placer And Top Recruit Brodey Hasty Will Be Going To NAU After Receiving Release From Oregon Hasty originally committed to Oregon, but changed his mind after Andy Powell left. Hasty: “The coaching change at Oregon allowed me to step back and re-evaluate my options.”
*MB: Brodey Hasty to Northern Arizona!
El Paso Times:98-Year-Old Secretary Katie Jensen Has Been Heart Of UTEP Track Team For 30 Years Jensen retired this week after being an important part of the program since 1985.
Ben Flanagan And Michael Norman Are 2018 DI Men’s Scholar Track Athletes Of The YearMostafa Hassan (shot put) and Luke Vaughn (discus) were the field athletes of the year.
Karissa Schweizer And Allie Ostrander Are Women’s DI Scholar Athletes Of The Year
Florida Men, Southern California Women And Georgia Men/Women Take Scholar Teams Of The Year For Indoor/Outdoor

What Motivates Someone To Start A Pro Track Meet?

LRC Q&A With Dave Milner, AKA The Guy Who Spent Thousands Out Of His Own Pocket To Put On A Pro Track Meet In South Carolina Would you spend thousands of dollars of your own modest income to put on a pro track meet? This guy would and did. Find out why.

NCAA News: Multiple Ducks Are Jumping Ship

NCAA XC 4th Placer Katie Rainsberger And NCAA 5,000 3rd Placer Lilli Burdon Leaving Oregon Track ProgramTanner Anderson and Mick Stanovsek are also transferring as they confirmed they will follow Andy and Maurica Powell to Seattle. Multiple sources have said Rainsberger and Burdon will do the same.
*Ken Goe: Katie Rainsberger And Lilli Burdon Lead Exodus From The Oregon Ducks’ Track Program
*MB:Katie Rainsberger, Lilli Burdon Others Not On Oregon’s 2018 Roster
World Junior 200 Silver Medalist Lauren Rain Williams Has Also Left The Ducks She is transferring To rival USC.
Previous News: WITH POWELLS GONE, BRODEY HASTY FLIPS FROM OREGON TO NAU
MB:Coaches, if an athlete screws up, please try to follow this advice from Chris Fox and Justyn Knight on how to handle it
MB:Inside The Allegations Against Former UW Track Coach (WBUR Radio Show)

NACAC Champs Are This Weekend

CBC’s Preview Of The 2018 NACAC Champs They focus the preview on the top Canadians but also tell you about the top pros not from Canada.
Hassan Mead Is Running NACACs As He Finds It Hard To Say No To Opportunity To Wear Team USA Jersey “For me, it’s tough to deny a chance to wear the USA uniform. It means a lot to me and shows you are doing something right.”

Kenyan Updates – Sad News

RIP:Kenya’s Former 2015 World 400H Champion Nicholas Bett Has Died In A Car Accident Bett died on the scene when his car veered off the road into a ditch just a day after he returned from African Champs. Bett was the first Kenyan to win any short sprint medal on the global level. *IAAF Tribute
*MB:Sad news: Nicholas Bett
Third Kenyan Doping Bust In 10 Days As Athens Marathon Champ Samuel Kalalei Fails Drug Test The 2:10 marathoner has been suspended after testing positive for EPO.
*MB: Third Kenyan runner in 10 days fails doping test

Upcoming

August 11:Nick Willis Leads Field For The Guardian Mile In Cleveland Willis faces Sam Prakel and Colby Alexander while the women are led by Violah Lagat and Sara Vaughn.
August 10: Commonwealth Games 110H Champ Ronald Levy Withdraws From Jamaican NACAC Team Due To Injury Double Olympic champ Elaine Thompson was replaced by Jonielle Smith in the 100m as Thompson ended her season due to injury.
Schedule For 2019 Diamond League And World Indoor Meets Announced

2018 European Champs

Recommended Read: GB Sprinter Jodie Williams Battles Back From “Rock Bottom” Ahead Of Euro Champs Williams’ story is important for young stars to hear because they need to know that the success they have as a junior isn’t guaranteed to continue and just one injury can set your career back years.
T&F News:5 European Championships Events Worth Watching CloselyMondo Duplantis vs. Renaud Lavillenie in the PV and the “Ingebrigtsen show” in the 1,500 and 5,000.
400 Hurdler Thomas Barr The Big Irish Hope At Euro Champs Never before has an Irish male sprinter won a medal at the European Championships and Barr is ranked 5th.
Russia’s Former Olympic HJ Champ Anna Chicherova Barred From Competing Internationally Chicherova, who is coming off a 2-year doping ban, was denied neutral athlete status by the IAAF.
Russian 110 Hurdler Sergey Shubenkov: “Winning Medals Is More Important Than Breaking Records” Shubenkov moved within .01 of Colin Jackson‘s 25-year-old European record with 12.95 at Monaco last month.
Recent Irish Transfer Leon Reid Skipping Euro 100m To Focus On 200m; May Also Run 4 X 400

Doping News: Another Big Name Kenyan Suspended

2:19 Kenyan Marathoner Lucy Kabuu Fails Drug Test The former Olympic 10,000 5th placer and #13 all-time marathoner has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for morphine, which is a banned narcotic.
GB Javelin Champ Joanna Blair Gets 4-Year Doping Ban The 32-year-old tested positive for a steroid in an out-of-competition test last year.
*MB:British Javelin Champion Steroids Bust

2018 European Championships

European Athletics – Ingebrigtsens Set To Dominate The 1,500m And 5,000m In Berlin?
Hassan, Muir And Can To Headline Women’s Distance Events In Berlin
Pretty Cool: Illuminated Projection Of Former Olympic Discus Champ Robert Harting To Adorn Berlin Skyscraper During Euro Champs The light show is a tribute to Harting’s career as he is retiring at the end of this season.
Pole Vault WR Holder Renaud Lavillenie Bidding For A Return To The Top Of The Podium In Berlin Lavillenie is the world leader at 5.95m, but famous young star Mondo Duplantis has cleared 5.93m.
Olympic Champ Ekaterini Stefanidi Firing On All Cylinders Again Ahead Of European Title Defence Stefanidi had a difficult start to the year due to injury, but has steadily improved and is back “in a good place” for Berlin.
British Born Sprinter Leon Reid Cleared By IAAF To Represent Ireland At Euro Champs Reid had been left in between countries when the IAAF froze transfer of allegiances for the last two years.
Q&A With British 100m Champ Sprinter Reece Prescod Prescod talks about using a block-start app and drones in practice and says his favorite athlete to watch is javelin thrower Thomas Rohler.
World Multi-Event Champions Kevin Mayer And Nafissatou Thiam Primed For European Titles In Berlin
Former World 400H Champ Dai Greene Named GB Team Captain For Euro Champs
Italian Discus Thrower Daisy Osakue Will Miss European Champs After Egg Throwing Attack Osakue was hit in the eye by an egg thrown from a car in what she alleges was a racist attack.
Athletics Weekly’s Day-By-Day Guide To The Athletics Action At 2018 Euros
Official European Championships App Available To Download The free app features daily news, results, athlete bios and pictures.

Random Running News

MB:Dreams don’t become reality- Meghan Markle banned by Royal Family from running London Marathon The official reason is security issues, but a source says it’s because it is “unseemly for senior royals to be seen sweating away in workout gear with a public mob.”
Woman Shatters Half Marathon Triple-Stroller Pushing Record By 18 Minutes We sometimes roll our eyes at these “world records” but a mom running 13 miles at 6:48 pace pushing three kids in a stroller is pretty impressive.
Stray Dog Joins In And Runs Entire Australian Half Marathon Finishing time of two-and-a-half hours.

Time To Throw Away The Stopwatch And Pick Up Your Phone?

LRC Willamette Valley Meets Silicon Valley: Three Running “Startups” Are Trying To Revolutionize The Stopwatch Coaches for years have struggled to time multiple athletes and workouts groups at once. Three different apps have recently come out that hope to solve the problem.
*MB: Want to time multiple athletes and workouts at once? Three running “startups” are trying to revolutionize the stopwatch

Week That Was

LRC Stars Impress At African Champs, Olympic Trials Are Back In Eugene, The Start Time For Tokyo Olympic Marathon Needs to be Changed Elijah Manangoi only beats Cheruiyot these days when it really matters. Amos over Korir and Semenya x2. Plus, we think it’s a mistake for the Olympic Trials to be in Eugene every time.

*Mario Fraioli On Wy Eugene 2020 Isn’t Going To Elevate The Sport Of Track And Field In The US

*Book Review LRC Book Review: “Racing The Hands Of Time” By Larry Hannon – Those New To The Sport Might Enjoy It, But Serious Fans Can Avoid This One Not every race can be your best and not every book can be our favorite. This one starts out fascinating but fizzles.

2018 Berlin European Champs

Screenshot 2018-08-07 at 17.12.08 Dina Asher-Smith (10.85) And Zharnel Hughes (9.95) Win 100m GoldHughes broke the meet record while Asher-Smith, who trounced Dafne Schippers, broke her own British record. Video of run here. *BBC Article *IAAF Recap

RRW Morhad Amdouni Wins First French European 10,000m Gold Ever
MB:Filip Ingebrigtsen Wins His 1500m Heat Despite Falling On Lap 3
Ingebrigtsen Boys Reach 1,500m Final After Scare, Keeping Dream Of 1-2-3 Podium Sweep Alive
Lynsey Sharp Leads GB Charge Into 800m Semi-Finals All three Brits advanced past the opening round.
Poland Cleans Up In The Throws, Taking Gold And Silver In Both The Hammer And Shot PutWojciech Nowicki beat out world champ Pawel Fajdek in the hammer and Michal Haratyktook the shot put.
DyeStat: Mondo Duplantis Isn’t The Only Recent Prep In The European Champs Pole Vault California’s Sondre Guttormsen is trying to become the first Norwegian to make the final since 1962.
DyeStat:New Mexico Signee Adva Cohen Is Ready To Represent Israel In Euro Steeplechase
Ireland’s Thomas Barr Below Par But Earns Place In 400H Final Barr had a late surge to go from 4th to 2nd in the home straight to qualify automatically for today’s final.
*Barr:“Put me into a dogfight and I’ll give it my best.”
Athletics Weekly: Enjoyment Is Key For GB Pole Vaulter Holly Bradshaw In Berlin Bradshaw says she lost “the love” for the sport, but has rediscovered it this year.
Ukraine’s Maryan Zakalnytskyy And Portugal’s Ines Henriques Defy Conditions To Win 50km Racewalk Titles
FloTrack:An American’s Guide To The European Championships
InsideTheGames: British Sprinters And Polish Throwers Corner The Medals On First Finals Eveing At European Athletics Championships
GB’s Reece Prescod Ahead Of Euro 100m: “I don’t wake up to be the best in Europe – what drives me is to be world champion.” He ended up with the silver behind Hughes.
The Guardian:Dina Asher-Smith Targets Three European Golds
British Trio Get Berlin Qualifying Done On First Day

Kenya Cleans Up On Final Days Of African Champs

WR Holder Beatrice Chepkoech Leads Kenyan Sweep With 8:59.88 To Win African Champs Steeplechase World champion Elijah Manangoi outkicked his training partner Timothy Cheruiyot by .73 in 3:35.20. Kenya’s World U20 champ Edward Zakayo took the men’s 5,000 in 13:48. The Kenyan men also set a meet record to dominate the 4 x 400 in 3:00.92.
Caster Semenya Completes The 400/800 Double With Strong 1:56.06 Victory Olympic silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba was second in 1:57.97. This was Semenya’s 27th consecutive 800m win (she last lost in 2015).
Kenya Dominates Women’s African Champs 10,000 With A 1-2 Showing By Stacy Ndiwa (31:31) And Alice Aprot (31:36) Ethiopian Gete Alemayehu was a distant 3rd in 32:10.
Kenya Edges Out South Africa To Finish Top Of African Champs Medal Tables That’s the headline anyway, but South Africa had way more medals overall (30 to 19), but Kenya had two more golds.
Report Says Nigeria To Bid For The 2025 World Championships The Nigerian federation president said they should be in strong contention after hosting African Champs which finished yesterday in Asaba.
IAAF:Top Ten Memorable Moments From African Champs Half of them were distance events.

2020 Olympic News

Sci-Fi Meets Sports:Computerized Pill Will Be Part Of Canada’s Preparation For Tokyo 2020’s Extreme Heat The pill gets swallowed by an athlete and measures core body temperature during training/competition. Supposedly this will “change the way that we understand how the body responds to heat.”
Register-Guard:Eugene Businesses Buzzing Over News Of 2020 Olympic Trials Coming To Hayward Field Business owners are excited about the influx of people/money as previous Trials have brought in more than $37 million to the local economy.
Tents, Cooling Fans And Folding Umbrellas Are Among Proposals Being Considered By Tokyo 2020 To Deal With Heatstroke Concerns 96 people died from heatstroke in Tokyo last month with temperatures going over 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

More Distance News

Did You Know That Shelby Houlihan’s Mom Was A Professional Marathoner And Ran For Asics? Houlihan says some of her earliest memories were driving around handing water to her mom on training runs.
October 21: Ethiopia’s Marta Megra Will Defend Her Title At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Merga talks about her training situation in Ethiopia where her husband actually works as a pacer for her training group.
New Mo Farah “Why I Run” Documentary On YouTube The 11 minute video shows him training in Ethiopia ahead of London 2018.
August 19: Des Linden To Serve As Official Starter For The New Balance Falmouth Road Race Afterwards she will run with the masses to check off one of her “bucket list” races.

Banned Athlete News

Russian World Indoor Champ Danil Lysenko Suspended Over Whereabouts Violation Lysenko has had his neutral athlete status revoked and will miss Euro Champs.
*IAAF Statement Says He Failed To “To Provide Whereabouts Information”
Is This A Joke?Ukraine Bans Mid-D Runner Anton Hrabovskyy For Six Months For Criticizing The Quality Of Their Team Kit He apparently called their Asics outfit “shit” and captioned an instagram story “Nike come back to Ukraine please.”
*MB: Promising Ukranian mid-d runner complains about quality of team uniform – gets banned for 6 months
Swiss Sprinter Pascal Mancini Banned From European Championships For “Racist” Posts No mention of what he said, but a Swiss Athletics statement said he made “far-right” and “controversial” Facebook posts.

The 2020 Olympics Start In 2 Years – We Tell You Who Will Be There For Team USA

LRC Cancel The Trials: Here Are The U.S. Women’s Distance Runners Who Will Be Going To The 2020 Olympics Who will join Shelby Houlihan and Jenny Simpson on the 1,500 team? Can Shannon Rowbury return from pregnancy to make a 4th Olympic team at age 35? And who the heck is making this marathon team?

LRC Two Years To Tokyo: We Tell You Which U.S. Men’s Distance Runners Will Be On The 2020 Olympic Team The track and field action at 2020 Tokyo starts in exactly two years – July 31, 2020. We’ve gotten out our crystal ball and we tell you who will be on the US Olympic team.
*MB: The 2020 Olympics start 2 years today – Who will make the US team 800 through 10,000? These are our picks

Recommended Read Brett Larner Ran The 2020 Tokyo Marathon Course Exactly 2 Years Before The Race – It Was 88 Degrees (31 C) At The Start It was even worse at the finish – 93.6 – and it was humid as hell (88%). What should be done about it? Larner thinks the race needs to be run at night.
Track and Field News‘ 10 Surest Gold Medal Things For Tokyo 2020 2 Years Out American Mondo Duplantis (hey, he is American) leads the list, which we think is crazy. Sydney McLaughlin, Michael Norman and Noah Lyles also make the list.
IAAF Publishes Qualification System For Tokyo 2020 Olympics The qualifying window for the marathon and 10k opens January 1, 2019.

Reebok Is Launching A New US-Based Pro Team

LRC Exclusive Reebok Is Launching A New Pro Track Club; Chris Fox Tabbed As Head Coach, Justyn Knight Signed As Star Athlete Though the group will be called the Reebok Boston Track Club, the club’s training base will actually be in Charlottesville, Virginia. This marks a big move for Reebok, which had basically gotten out of running over the last decade.
*MB: Justyn Knight and Chris Fox to Reebok – New Reebok pro track team announced!

Rojo Speaks Déjà Vu: Reebok Starts A Pro Track Team – Let’s Hope They Stick To It This Time Reebok is starting a pro track team and basing it near Washington, DC? Sound familiar? They did this 25 years ago as well.

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”