January 29, 2019 | LetsRun.com

Week That Was

LRC Brazier AND Murphy Impress, Should We Not Get Excited About Fast HS Girls?, Who are the World XC Favorites? And we take a look at the amazing times in Dubai.

When They Say All-Access, They Mean All-Access

LRC Book Review Inside A Marathon Is The Ultimate Book For Marathon Junkies Do you want the inside scoop on what it takes to finish top 10 at a major marathon?Then this book is for you as Scott Fauble and Ben Rosario share every single thing – from blood tests to workouts, day by day – that led to Fauble finishing 7th in New York last fall. We loved the book and highly recommend it.

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

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.

Saturday In Winston-Salem, NC

Edward Cheserek Vs Nick Willis In The Mile, Ajee Wilson Vs Raevyn Rogers In The 800 Highlights Camel City Elite Meet Clayton Murphy is in the 800, Abbey Cooper(D’Agostino) in the mile.

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

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

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).

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

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.

**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.