Archived Homepage For August 28, 2018
Archived Homepage For August 28, 2018

Inside Kenya

LRC The Secrets Of The World’s Best 1500-Meter Training Group: How Elijah Manangoi, Timothy Cheruiyot, & Coach Bernard Ouma Turned Rongai Athletics Club Into A Powerhouse The world’s best 1,500-meter training group trains under the direction of a karate master-turned coach (Bernard Ouma) and they regularly dodge giraffes and even an occasional leopard in a National Park in their quest to be become champions.
*MB: The Secrets of the World’s Best 1500-Meter Training Group – Rongai Athletics Club

Speaking of Milers: 2018 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile Fields Released – Fields Include Simpson, Centrowitz, and Willis But Not Shelby Houlihan Simpson and Willis will be making to make history as if they win it will be titles #7 and #5 respectively.

We Hope You’ve Saved Something For Zürich On Thursday

Doping / Legal News

Sprint / Field News

Doping News

The More You Know

Ultra: Pikes Peak And Leadville

Usain Bolt’s Soccer Journey Continues In The Land Down Under

Upcoming Action

Pre-Birmingham News

Murphy at World RelaysLRC Birmingham DL Preview: Emmanuel Korir Battles Clayton Murphy, Laura Muir Goes For UK 1000m Record, & Loaded Sprint Races After a month break, the DL is back and it’s going to be intense as it marks everyone’s last chance to qualify for the DL finales.

LRC Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Winners

IMG_0474LRC Gwen Jorgensen’s High School Teammate, A Coach Of Geniuses, And 20th Placer At Olympic Marathon Trials Win Running Warehouse Summer Prediction Contests Meet the winners of the LetsRun.com Running Warehouse Prediction contests.

Diamond League Finals$$$ Are Thursday And Friday In Zürich And Brussels (2 – 4 pm ET)

rw-hires-horizontal-dark-on-whiteLRC $20,018 LRC Running Warehouse Diamond League Finals Prediction Contest Pick your top 3 in the running events from our simple guide. Idiots and geniuses can play.

coburn-frerichs-lieLRC Ranking the Distance Races at the 2018 Diamond League Finals from Least to Most Watchable Can Caster Semenya break the WR, Evan Jager break 8:00, can Coburn or Frerichs break 9:00, will any man break 13:00, can Sifan Hassan complete the 1500/5000 double? Those questions and more will be answered on Thursday and Friday.

photo by Phil BondLRC 6 Non-Distance Events We’re Hyped for at the 2018 Diamond League Finals We hope you have some free time on Thursday and Friday (2-4 pm ET) as it’s one of the best days of the year for track and field fans.

 

Doping: Asbel Kiprop Situation Gets Crazier And Sadder

Kiprop and Rosa in hot waterAsbel Kiprop Publishes Video Of Him Making Out With His Pacemaker’s Wife As He Thinks The Pacemaker Set Him Up For EPO Bust2008 Olympic champ Asbel Kiprop has published a salacious video of him making out with his pacemaker’s wife. Those in the know think Kiprop did so in retaliation for the pacemaker setting him up for the EPO bust out of anger for the affair. The woman has sadly tried to commit suicide.

Looking Ahead

Asian Games *Schedule / Live Results

International Distance News

Mid-Week Results From Italy, Norway And Poland

Aspiring Agents, This Is For You

Mary Cain after taking third place at the 2015 Boston Mayor's Cross Country meeting (photo by Chris Lotsbom for Race Results Weekly)LRC How Much Do Pro Track & Field Athletes Make? We Polled 5 Agents To Find Out; Make Your Guesses Before We Reveal The Answers Next Week One of the biggest mysteries about the sport of track and field is how much the top pros make. We at LetsRun.com will unveil the secrets next week but want to hear your take first.

Women’s Distance News

Sad Update On Missing Iowa Runner

Assorted Distance News

Birmingham DL *Full Results *TV & Streaming

Results: Miller-Uibo Wins The Stacked 200, Emmanuel Korir Runs 1:42.73, Stewart McSweyn Continues To PR And Wins Mile, Muir Fails To Get British 1k Record The men’s 100 was VERY tight but in the end Christian Coleman was given the 9.94 win over Reece Prescod (same time). Disappointing days for people like Clayton Murphy (DFL but he earned our respect for going for it) and Drew Hunter (3:58).

Today’s Dose Of Random

Full-Time Job, No Shoe Contract? No Problem – Meet Our “Blue Collar Runner Of The Month”

Kevin Morris photoLRC Travel Woes, A Finish Line Fall, & A Full-Time Job: How Charlie Marquardt Went From A Zero-Time DIII Champ To A 3:55 Miler Marquardt, who was a three-time NCAA DIII runner-up at Haverford, has no shoe contract, works a full-time job and just broke 4:00 in the mile for the first time in style – skipping the 3:59s, 58s, 57s and 56s entirely – running 3:55 at the Sir Walter Miler on August 3.
*MB: Meet Charlie Marquardt – a guy with a full-time job and no shoe contract who just broke 4 for the 1st time in style @ 3:55
*MB: Dude dives at line to go sub 4 for the first time and comes up …. short

Doping News

Chicago Update

Jorgsensen at US 10 MIlerAmerican Field Announced For 2018 Chicago Marathon – Gwen Jorgensen Leads The Additions The fastest additions on the men’s side include Elkanah Kibet (2:11:31), Tyler McCandless (2:12:28), Aaron Braun (2:12:54) and Kiyra Dandena (2:12:56).
*MB: BREAKING: Gwen Jorgensen to run 2018 Chicago Marathon

Lagat To Run 26.2

Bernard Lagat To Make His Marathon Debut At The 2018 NYC Marathon At The Age Of 43 There is mention of Meb Keflezighi‘s 2:12:20 US Masters record  and Lagat’s 62:00 half marathon PR from Houston 2018 is worth about a 2:12:00 on a flat course, but obviously NYC is slower. *Discuss

*Full Men’s Elite Field 2017 Dubai champ Tamirat Tola, 2017 London champ Daniel Wanjiru, & 2018 London runner-up Shura Kitata will take on reigning champ Geoffrey Kamworor. Notable Americans include Abdi AbdirahmanShadrack Biwott & Chris Derrick.

Olympic News

2018 TCS New York City Marathon Women’s Field Is Out

Flanagan ended the U.S. women's drought in NYC; can she do the same in Boston?Mary Keitany, Vivian Cheruiyot And Molly Huddle Added To 2018 NYC Field Shalane Flanagan faces a daunting task if she is going to repeat as Keitany and Cheruiyot are two of the best in the business.

News From The UK

Falmouth And The Fastest 3k In 7 Years

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NCAA News

Sprint Stuff

African News