January 28, 2019 | LetsRun.com

2018 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix NBIGP Compiled Results NBIGP Post-Race Interviews

LRC Analysis 8 Takeaways From The 2019 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix We recap the highlights and lowlights from Boston where Donavan Brazier sat and kicked on Clayton Murphy, Yomif Kejelcha looked amazing while Sydney McLaughlin didn’t and Jenny Simpson “borderline” embarrassed herself.

RRW Fast Miles, Close 800 Highlight New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
IAAF: Kechelcha Impresses As Nageotte Upsets Stefanidi

NCAA News *All Weekend Collegiate Results

Devin Dixon Of Texas A&M DESTROYS American Collegiate Record – Runs 1:45.27 – At Altitude! His 1:45.27 broke Donavan Brazier‘s school record and sits #3 on the NCAA and US all-time lists (Kenyan Paul Ereng has the NCAA record at 1:44.84, Johnny Gray has US record at 1:45.00). Dixon’s previous indoor best was only 1:47.37.

Oregon’s Jessica Hull Puts Up NCAA-Leading 4:31.03 Mile As Arkansas RS Frosh Lauren Gregory Runs 4:32
*Once A Duck, Always A Duck – Hull Didn’t Want To Transfer To UW With The Powells
*Arkansas Women Capture Razorback Invy title They scored 145.5 points with Oregon a distant second with 101 points.
*Oregon Men Take Team Title At Razorback Invite Oregon got six individual wins including Cooper Teare in the mile (3:59.21) and Charlie Hunter in the 3000 (7:59.88).
NCAA 1,500 Champ Oliver Hoare Of Wisconsin Runs NCAA-Leading 7:48.81 At Indiana
Grant Holloway Runs World-Leading 6.51 In The 60m At The Razorback Invy The time broke Jeff Demps‘s Florida school record and puts Holloway tied for #9 fastest in the NCAA all-time. *Race Video
*MB: What can’t he do?? Grant Holloway 6.51 60m
Danae Rivers Breaks Her Own Penn State 800m Record With An NCAA Leading 2:02.93 At The Penn State National Open
Mondo Duplantis Jumps World Lead And School Record 5.83m In His First Meet For LSU
Stanford Track Team’s Bus Catches On Fire In Seattle All 31 passengers were able to evacuate safely and no one was injured. The AP says investigators believe the fire may have been sparked by overheated brakes and a blown out rear tire.

Katelyn Tuohy After Her High School 3,000m Record Run

What Do Shot Putters Eat? A Dozen Eggs For Breakfast, A Pound Of Red Meat For Dinner

IAAF Weather And Air Pollution

Air Quality Device Installed In Australia As Part of The IAAF’s Global Program To Monitor And Share Air Quality Data They’re installing air quality monitors in six track stadiums around the world.
IAAF Installs Air Quality Monitor In Mexico City It will collect data to assess the impact of environmental pollution on the performance of athletes and help with strategies to combat it. Hmmm, maybe they should put one of these in Beijing?
New Research By The IAAF’s Health And Science Department Highlights The Importance Of “Proper Readiness” When Competing In Extreme Weather Conditions We hope they didn’t spend too much money on this “research” for what are some pretty common sense conclusions.

Russian Doping Updates

Statement From USADA CEO Travis Tygart On WADA To Maintain RUSADA Compliance “The decision to keep Russia compliant despite them missing the deadline and before any of the data has been verified as accurate was unfortunately expected.”
Anyone Surprised? Russia Avoids Further WADA Sanctions Despite Missing Data Deadline WADA president Craig Reedie was quite pleased with himself and said, “We are now … authenticating the data retrieved from the Moscow laboratory so that ultimately we can use it to catch more athletes who cheated and to exonerate others.”
WADA Says Russia Could Be Banned From Tokyo 2020 And Prohibited From Hosting Events If Lab Data Is Found To Been Tampered With
IAAF Clears 42 Russian Athletes To Compete As Neutrals In 2019
*IAAF Article With Full List Of 42 Athletes
UK Anti-Doping Calls For Independent Review Into WADA’s Handling Of Russian Doping Scandal UKAD called for “robust changes” to WADA.

Non-Distance News: Bolt Retires Again

Usain Bolt Says His Pro Soccer Dream Is Over “It was a good experience. I really enjoyed just being in a team and it was different from track and field and it was fun while it lasted.”
Belgium’s Olympic Heptathlon Champ Nafissatou Thiam To Miss Indoor Season With Injury She tore a muscle in her left leg.

Weekend Indoor Results *All NCAA Results

World And Olympic Champ Katerina Stefanidi Opens Her Season With 4.74m Win At The Pole Vault Summit In Reno, Nevada She beat out US indoor champ Katie Nageotte on countback. 2017 NCAA champ Matt Ludwig won the men’s in 5.71m. Mondo Duplantis finished a ways back with 5.51m.
Grant Holloway Runs World-Leading 7.49 60H At The Clemson Invy In Florida In the 60m, Japan’s Abdul Hakim Sani Brown beat out teammate his Florida teammate Ryan Clark as both timed 6.62.
MB: Claudia Lane DNF and DNS in her comeback double after a fall

US Distance News

Molly Huddle Says She’d “Love To Run In The 2:22 To 2:23 Range” In London Talking about getting more marathon experience, Huddle said, “There definitely is a comfort level the more of these you do. You question yourself less. I’m getting a little braver and doing less calculating about how much farther I have to run.”
Asics Sponsors Allie Kieffer And Emma Bates At the same time, they’ve ended their 25-year run as a sponsor of the NYC Marathon, saying, “We’d rather focus on being associated with some of the best athletes in the world.”
*MB: Asics Signs Bates and Kieffer
Meb Keflezighi Does 30+ Minute Podcast Interview With Carrie Tollefson Meb talks about his upcoming book, life after retiring and his thoughts on Eliud Kipchoge trying to run a sub-2 hour marathon.

Dr. Sander Invite Dr. Sander Results Post-Race Interviews

LRC Recap Brooks Beasts Run 16:03 To Smash 4 X Mile Record, Katelyn Tuohy Gets High School 3,000m Record – 2019 Norb Sander Recap Full meet recap/analysis with video interviews. In other action, Ajee Wilson and Craig Engels won, Robby Andrews returned from Lyme disease.

MB: Discussion
*MB: Sorry to burst your bubble Katelyn Tuohy fans, but Mary Cain’s 9:38.68 full 2 mile is superior to Tuohy’s 9:01.81 3,000

Weekend XC / Road Action

Geoffrey Kamworor Warms Up For World XC By Defending His Crown At The Kenyan National Police XC Championships Kamworor put 17-seconds on Josphat Boit in the final kilometer to get a dominant win. African XC silver medalist Margaret Chelimo won the women’s race easily from 2015 world steeple champ Hyvin Kiyeng. *IAAF Recap
World Under-20 10,000m Champ Rhonex Kipruto And Brilliant Jepkorir Win Discovery Kenya XC Race Kipruto beat out world U20 5,000m champ Edward Zakayo by 6-seconds.
Two-Time Diamond League Steeple Champ Jairus Birech And Bahrain’s Winfred Mutile Yavi Beat The Snow And Cold To Win CInque Mulini XC
Ethiopia’s Fatuma Sado (2:25:39) Just Beats Out Rei Ohara (2:25:46) To Win The Osaka Women’s Marathon Ohara had already qualified for the Japan Olympic Marathon Trials, but in 4th place Madoka Nakano also qualified while Yukari Abe came agonizingly close, missing the 2:28:00 standard by 2-seconds. only 9 women have qualified. *IAAF Recap
Brett Robinson and Melissa Duncan win Australian XC Trials Robinson wins a big thumps form us for saying he’s 100% going to run world xc just 4 weeks before the London Marathon. Duncan won the trials but not the race as British marathoner Charlotte Purdue won the race. *Full Results

Assorted Distance News

This Is Great: Olympic Marathon Champion Jemima Sumgong Has Her Doping Ban Doubled To Eight Years The ban was doubled because it was found that she provided false information while defending herself against her initial sanction. This is good because it will hopefully discourage future athletes from trying to weasel their way out of bans after they’re caught.
Good Read: Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu Wants To Be The First Refugee Athlete To Win A Global Medal Lobalu fled South Sudan as a child during the civil war after being separated from his family. He has a1500 best of 3:52 from London Worlds, but has been improving this year on the Kenyan XC circuit.
Alexi Pappas Has A New Movie Premiering At The SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas In March Pappas directed and starred in her new film called Olympic Dreams.
*MB: Alexi Pappas New Movie Premiering @ SXSW

Bekele Racing Tokyo On March 3rd

Kenenisa Bekele To Headline At The 2019 Tokyo Marathon Bekele will face four other sub-2:05 men including defending Tokyo winner Dickson Chumba. Japan’s Suguro Osako (2:05:50) will be the home crowd favorite. Ruti Aga (2:18:34) is the fastest in the women’s race and faces three other sub-2:20 women including former half marathon WR holder Florence Kiplagat. World marathon champion Rose Chelimo is also in the race. *Full Elite Field

Catching Up On Some NCAA News

Florida’s Grant Holloway And Middle Tennessee State’s Abike Egbeniyi Took NCAA Athlete Of The Week Honors Holloway now has five of the top ten (including the record) 60H NCAA times ever as he ran 7.49 (5th best all-time). He also won the 200m in 20.69. Egbeniyi ran the fastest collegiate 800 of the season with 2:03.77 and also split a 52.3 on the 4 x 400.
Arkansas Remains #1 In Women’s Updated NCAA Rankings Texas A&M moved up to 2nd and Texas made a big jump from 12th to 3rd.
Top Three Men’s Teams Remain The Same In Week 1 NCAA Rankings Just like the pre-season rankings, Texas Tech, Florida and Florida State are the top three ranked teams.
Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From Last Weekend NC State had the two fastest miles from Dominique Clairmonte (4:38.55) and Elly Henes (4:38.75).

Distance Group News

NAZ Elite Signs Four New Athletes The list includes 63-minute half marathoner Nick Hilton, whom we recently profiled before the NYC Marathon.
Brooks Gets Two New Signees – 2016 NCAA 1,500m Champ And Portuguese Olympian Marta Pen Freitas And 2:30 Marathoner Michele Lee Freitas joins the Brooks Beasts while Lee joins Hansons-Brooks.
Swiss Running Brand On To Sponsor Newly Re-Branded Zap Endurance Earlier this month it was announced that Zap Fitness lost their Reebok sponsorship, but now have a new name and a new sponsor.

2019 Houston Half And Full Free Stream Tracking & Results

LRC Shura Kitata (60:11) And Brigid Kosgei (65:50) Win At 2019 Houston Half As Emily Sisson (67:30) Just Misses AR! The winners of the marathon were Kenya’s Albert Korir (2:10:02) and Ethiopia’s Biruktayit Degefa (2:23:38) as Tyler Jermann (9th in 2:13:29) and Kelsey Bruce (6th, 2:31:53) took top American honors. *Results *IAAF Recap

RRW Women Lead The Way In Houston With Fast Times In Half Marathon And Marathon Emily Sisson had mixed feelings about just missing the AR. “I think I was a little disappointed at first because I was so close to Molly’s record. I think I made some mistakes that cost me a bit, but tomorrow I’ll be pretty happy with it.”

Houston On The Fan Forum / Message Board

98 Days Away – The 2019 London Marathon Will Be Spectacular

MB: 2019 London Marathon Fields Are Released And Are Unreal – Greatest Women’s Field In History The women’s field has to be the greatest in history as it includes 7 sub-2:20 women, including the reigning champs of Dubai, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York. It also includes Americans Molly Huddle, Emily Sisson and Allie Kieffer. The men’s field isn’t too shabby either as it includes the top 5 of our 2018 world rankings and is of course led by the GOAT – Eliud Kipchoge.

LRC Analysis The Greatest Women’s Marathon Field Ever, Is This Molly Huddle’s Last Chance To Run A Fast Time, & More Thoughts On The 2019 London Marathon Jonathan Gault also breaks down Chris Derrick‘s sub-2:10 and says that Eliud Kipchoge will slow down, eventually.

International Indoor Results

Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh Clears 1.99m To Equal Vashti Cunningham’s World Under-20 Indoor HJ Record Mahuchikh’s countrywoman Kateryna Tabashny won the competition on countback.
World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm Opens Up His 2019 Season With A Norwegian 400m Record Of 45.56 The time was also a world lead.
IAAF Weekend Indoor Round-Up: Hugues-Fabrice Zango Shatters His Own African Indoor Triple Jump Record With 17.58m In Paris Sam Kendricks set a 5.84m world lead in the PV.
Ireland’s Phil Healy Runs World Leading 400m With 52.31 At The Vienna Track Classic
GB’s Asha Philip Sets 60m World Lead With 7.12 At The PSD Bank Indoor Meeting In Germany

**2019 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon Results Full Race Replay**

LRC Marathon Madness In Dubai: Getaneh Molla Runs 2:03:34 Debut Record; Ruth Chepngetich (2:17:08) & Worknesh Degefa (2:17:34) Move To #3 & #4 On All-Time List The 12:59 5ker Molla took to the marathon like a fish to water while Chepngetich went sub-2:18 just 75 days after breaking 2:19 in Istanbul. Course records fell for both the men and women.

MB: Official 2019 Dubai Marathon Discussion Thread
MB: If Kipchoge ran Dubai…
MB: Negesa (2nd place and Adidas runner) ran Dubai in Nike Vaporfly Flyknits dyed red to (poorly) mask the Nike Logo

British Distance News

At 45 Years Old, GB’s Jo Pavey Is Targeting A Sixth Olympic Games At Tokyo 2020 If she does it, she’ll tie the record for most Olympic appearances by a British track and field athlete.
GB’s Andy Vernon Talks About the Decision To Make His Marathon Debut At London 2019 Vernon is 33 years old and has a half PR of 62:46.

Podcast #2 Of 2019

Podcast Houston Recap, A New Richest Marathon, Stacked NBIGP, What Does Jim Walmsley’s 64:00 Tell Us About Ultrarunners? Bekele In Tokyo The pro track and field season is finally here with Donavan Brazier vs. Clayton Murphy to kick it off, Jenny Simpson @5k and more. The world’s richest marathon has changed and a look back at the action in Houston. Plus, a guest appearance from the Vaporfly 4% shoe, a look at Walmsley’s 64:00, and much more.

Week That Was

LRC Week That Was: Is The 2019 London Marathon The Greatest Ever? And If You Don’t PR, Keep Trying 24 More Times We start off with praise for the queen of the minor leagues of marathoning, then debate which London Marathon is the best ever before getting excited because Donavan Brazier has returned to action. Updated 1/23/19 with our Ridiculous Tweet of The Week.

Sunday Road / XC Action

Steeplechase WR Holder Beatrice Chepkoech And Uganda Teen Star Jacob Kiplimo Win At Seville, Spain XC Race Kiplimo beat out world 10,000m silver medalist Joshua Cheptegei by 16 seconds while Chepkoech dominated over Commonwealth 10,000 champ Stella Chesang and Euro XC champ Yasemin Can.
Asian 5,000m Champ Birhanu Balew And Meskerem Mamo Win Northern Ireland XC Race Balew beat a field that included Olympic 10,000 silver medalist Paul Tanui (who ended up 4th).
Kenya’s Cosmas Lagat (2:09:15) And Ethiopia’s Worknesh Alemu (2:25:45) Win Mumbai Marathon Despite warm conditions, both marks were the second-fastest winning times in the history of the race.

A Big Loss For The Running World

RunBlogRun: Run In Peace, Tommy Leonard – Thoughts On Tommy From Some Of The Sport’s Legends Quotes from Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, Rod Dixon, Craig Virgin, Kathrine Switzer and Bobby Hodge.
Cape Cod Times Tribute To Tommy Leonard
RIP: Falmouth Road Race Founder Tommy Leonard Dies At 85 Bill Rodgers remembers Leonard, saying, “Tommy had the biggest heart of all runners. … Tommy was a rarity – a big giver, a big laugher. I think he was a Leprechaun. I’m so glad to have known him, and felt he was a friend.”
*MB: Tommy Leonard RIP- appreciation thread
Toni Reavis’ Tribute To Tommy Leonard “Tommy was the patron saint of running to thousands of people around the globe.”