2019 USATF XC Is Saturday (12:20 PM ET)

LRC Preview Huddle, Houlihan, Cragg, Frerichs, Rowbury & More: The Best Fields In Years Should Make For An Epic 2019 USA XC Champs The women’s race at 2019 USA XC looks INCREDIBLE. For the 1st time in US history, three sub-14:50 women will race each other as Shelby Houlihan, Shannon Rowbury, and Molly Huddle are all racing as are World Championship medalists Courtney Frerichs and Amy Cragg, plus the most recent NCAA XC champ to turn pro in Karissa Schweizer, a 2016 Olympian in Marielle Hall and MUCH MORE. The men’s race includes 5 Olympians plus Ben True and the pro XC debut for Drew Hunter.
*MB: USA World XC Trials Saturday; Top Entrants and Weather Forecast

LRC Exclusive Content

LRC Podcast Shelby Houlihan Guest Interview+ NBIGP, US Cross, And Sydney McLaughlin Pro Debut And Diva Talk The American record holder Shelby Houlihan opens up for more than 30 minutes about her breakout year, what is on tap for 2019, her coach’s high standards and more. Plus the LRC crew discusses a Rosa athlete running fast in Dubai, split screen coming to track and field broadcasts and even UCLA legend John Wooden.

Transcript Shelby Houlihan Talks About Her Breakout 2018 Season, Making America Great At 5,000 Again, And Jerry Schumacher If you’re not a podcast person, we’ve got a transcript of our interview with Houlihan right here.

WTW 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.

More NCAA Updates

• NCAA DI Athletes Of The Week Are North Dakota State’s Payton Otterdahl And Arkansas Payton Chadwick Otterdah threw 21.64m in the shot put, making him #3 all-time behind the 21.73m held jointly by Ryan Crouser and Ryan Whiting. Chadwick won the 200 (22.97), 60H (8.01) and 4×400 (52.46 split) at the Arkansas Invy.
• Arkansas Women Stay Ranked #1 In The NCAA As The Rest Of The Rankings Get A Big Shake-Up Southern California moved up from 7th to 2nd while Texas A&M dropped to 3rd. Florida moved up from 6th to 4th.
• Texas Tech Men Still Ranked On Top After Another Week Of NCAA Action Below them, Florida State and Florida flip-flopped 2nd and 3rd while LSU moved up from 8th to 4th.
• Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The Collegiate Weekend

Interesting News From The Bureaucrats

• Tokyo Olympics Likely To Feature Morning Track And Field Finals To Meet Demands Of U.S. Broadcasting 7 or 8 finals are expected.
• We Sure Hope US Lawmakers Also Outlaw US Doping US Bill To Criminalize Global Doping Fraud Gets Introduced With Rare Bipartisan Support “Now is the time to create stiff penalties for Russia’s cheating and send a signal that Russia and other sponsors of state-directed fraud can’t use corruption as a tool of foreign policy,” US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said.

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 thumbs up from 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 3,000 (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