February 7, 2019 | LetsRun.com

RAK Half Preview *Watch The 2019 RAK Half Marathon Live Tonight (9:45 pm ET)

MB: Official 2019 RAK Half Marathon Discussion Thread – Live Tonight 9:45 pm ET

LRC Preview: 2016 World Champ Peres Jepchirchir Returns For Showdown With 2018 World Champ Netsanet Gudeta As 13 Sub-60 Men Square Off US fans, we hope you are free to watch these races on Thursday night (9:45 pm ET) as they are LOADED. In the women’s race, Peres Jepchirchir returns to action for the first time since setting the 13.1 WR two years ago while the men’s race features 5 young studs all 21 or younger plus Julien Wanders.

LRC Exclusives

LRC Q&A Ahead of Her Mile at Millrose, Katelyn Tuohy Talks About Training With (And Beating) The Boys & Which Pro Runners She Admires We caught up with Tuohy this morning after she was named Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year and she reveals what runners she looks up to and what her plan is (or lack thereof) for this weekend’s mile at Millrose.

LRC Did Usain Bolt Really Run A 4.22 40-Yard Dash At The Super Bowl? Our Stopwatch Says He Didn’t Come Close While the rest of the world’s media produces fake news, we uncover it. Out stopwatch shows that Usain Bolt ran nowhere near the NFL record of 4.22 seconds for the 40-yard dash at the Super Bowl.
*MB: Did Usain Bolt really run a 4.22 40-yard dash at the Super Bowl?? It wasn’t anywhere close to that on my stopwatch

LRC Podcast Scott Simmons / NYRR Millrose Games Preview Podcast We analyze the world record attempt in the mile at Millrose, the American record attempts at 800m, and get a good 50 minutes with Scott, talking about the amazing success of his American Distance Project group.

Non-Distance News

GB Sprinter Dwain Chambers Coming Out Of Retirement At Age 40 Former world indoor champion and doper Chambers retired in 2017, but is racing at the British Indoor Championships this weekend.
Decathlon WR Holder Kevin Mayer Writes A Letter Giving Advice To His Younger Self His letter begins, “Dear Little Kevin: I know you like your food, but please try and be careful with your sugar intake.” He also told his younger self, a big Harry Potter fan, to give on waiting for an invitation to Hogwarts.
BBC Profile On GB Sprinter Laviai Nielsen, Who Had A Breakthrough Euro Champs Last Year Nielsen, who as well as her 400 hurdler twin sister is a former model, was 4th at Euro Champs last year despite only being ranked 16th coming in.
BBC Video: Meet Sam Gordon, “The Fastest Guy You’ve Probably Never Heard Of” Gordon, who coaches kids to supplement his income since he’s not funded, wants to be the first Welshman to go sub-10 seconds in the 100m. So there are probably quite a few faster men you’ve never heard of, but a good watch nonetheless.
Armand Duplantis Named Swedish Sportsman Of The Year For 2018

High School News

List Of High Schoolers Who Have A-Standard For USATF Indoors Katelyn Tuohy and Marlee Starliper (9:20 in the 3,000) are the lone distance runners.
MileSplit: Chloe Cunliffe Is Skyrocketing Up The Pole Vault World Cunliffe, the younger sister of NCAA 60m record holder Hannah Cunliffe, cleared 14 feet last month to put herself #11 on the all-time list and is aspiring to break the 14-7.50 national record. It makes her the eighth athlete all-time to have gone 14-0 or higher.
Isabella Coscetti Sets Freshman Class Pole Vault Record At 12-10
MB: NYRR Millrose New Balance High School Boys, Girls Mile Fields Announced – Katelyn Tuohy leads the way

It’s On – World Record Attempt At Millrose In Mile This Saturday On NBC!

Assorted Distance Stuff

Ultrarunner Camille Herron Survives Car Crash, And Is Already Looking Ahead Herron’s vehicle flipped after another driver crashed into her, but she escaped with only soreness. *Discuss
Australia Names Their Team For 2019 World XC Championships Men’s team is led by former NCAA champ Patrick Tiernan.
Dartmouth Grad And 4:34 Miler Dana Giordano Joins BAA High Performance Team Giordano was an All-American at Dartmouth, where she finished 3rd in the 1,500m at 2016 NCAAs.
May 5: Pittsburgh Set To Host The USATF Half Marathon Championships For The Second Year In A Row
“Mr. Marathon” Tracy Sundlun Sues Competitor Group, Company He Founded, For Failing to Pay $146,000 In Severance + Health Benefits
*MB: “Mr. Marathon” Tracy Sundlun sues Competitor Group, company he helped found

More Distance News

RRW: Feeling The Tug Of His Roots, Sam Parsons Poised To Represent Germany USAs 5,000m 8th placer Parsons explains the process and decision to get dual citizenship and transfer allegiance to Germany.
Almenesh Herpha (2:33:20) And Abraham Kiprotich (2:08:33 ) Return To Defend Their Titles At The Access Lagos City Marathon Herpha faces a tough challenge as 14 women with faster PRs are in the field, led by Agnes Jeruto (2:20:59).
Paul Tergat Donates His Iconic World XC Uniform To The IAAF Heritage Cross-Country Running Display Tergat donated the shorts and singlet he wore when he won the 1997 World XC Champs in Turin, Italy.

Sprint Stuff

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Hoping To Return To Her Best In 2019 After Starting Out With A Win At The Queen’s/Grace Jackson Invy In Jamaica Fraser-Pryce ran 7.21 to beat out Olympic champ Elaine Thompson (7.24).
Usain Bolt Offers Advice To Wayde Van Niekerk As He Prepares To Make His Comeback From Injury Bolt said that he’s been talking to van Niekerk, who is “happy with his training and feeling good.” But Bolt warned him not to rush his comeback for Worlds and just focus on Tokyo 2020.
Usain Bolt Creates His Own Champagne Brand Bolt says in Jamaica they mix cognac (a type of brandy) with champagne, so his brand does that already right in the bottle.
Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson Still Dealing With Achilles Issue Which Ended Her 2018 Season
IAAF Inside Athletics Podcast With Jamaica’s Double Sprint World Under-20 Champion Briana Williams

RIP News

Henrik Jorgensen, 1988 London Marathon Champ And Long-Time Denmark NR holder, Dies While On A Run At 57
Elio Stroppiana, Co-Founder Of Mondo, Dies At 80 Years Old Stroppiana founded the world-famous track insulation company with his brother. 260 world records have been set on the more than 1,100 tracks made by Mondo.
USATF Remembers Former Olympic Coach And Advocate For Female Track And Field Athletes, Fred Thompson

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.
MB: More fast Aussie juniors 17 year old 3:44 and 15 year old 3:53 for 1500m A 3:44 by 17-year-old Luke Young and 3:53 by 15-year-old Tom Palfrey.
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

2019 NYRR Millrose is Saturday (4:30 – 6 pm ET on NBC)

LRC Will Yomif Kejelcha Break the Mile World Record at the 2019 Millrose Games? We Break Down His Chances Are you ready for a WR in the men’s mile? You probably should be.

LRC 2019 Millrose Games Preview: American Records Set to Fall in Men’s & Women’s 800; NOP vs. Bowerman Showdown in Women’s Mile When it’s all said and done, one world record and two American records could easily fall at Millrose.

Wednesday’s Action – Copernicus Cup In Torun, Poland *Schedule / Results/ Discussion

Spain: MB: Genzebe Dibaba Runs World Leading 3:59.08 In Spain (video)

IAAF Recap: World Indoor Champ Samuel Tefera Clocks 3:35.57 World Lead In Torun He beat out Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski (3:36.50) while Habitam Alemu won the 800m in 1:59.49, just .01 head of Laura Muir. Erik Sowinski won the men’s 800 in 1:47.49 and Orlando Ortega highlighted the sprints with a 7.49 victory/world lead in the 60H.
*MB: Official Discussion Thread – Erik Sowinski Wins Men’s 800, Laura Muir Comes Up Short In British 800m Record Attempt

Miss The Meet? Watch A Full Replay.

More Recent Results

Olympic 110H Silver Medalist Orlando Ortega Swoops To 7.59 60H Victory In Lodz Poland’s Ewa Swoboda had an impressive couple days as she followed up her victory and 7.08 world lead in Karlsruhe with another quick win (7.13) two days later in Poland.
Shannon Osika Runs 2:02.92 To Win The Power Five Invitational And Put Herself As The 4th-Fastest 800m Runner In 2019 *Video
Thomas van der Plaetsen (Heptathlon) And Hanne Maudens (Pentathlon) Set World Leading Marks At The Belgian Indoor Championships
Estonia’s Janek Oiglane Marks Return From Injury With Heptathlon Win On Home Soil At Combined Events Meet In Tallinn Latvia’s Laura Ikauniece won the women’s pentathlon. Elsewhere, Decathlon WR holder Kevin Mayer set a 60H PR with 7.72.
Fanny Roos Broke Her Own Swedish Shot Put Record With 18.33m In Stockholm On Monday
Athletics Weekly Weekend Round-Up: Charlotte Purdue Ran 69:46 For 4th At The Marugame Half, Moving Her To 9th-Fastest Brit All-Time
Jacques Sallberg And Marisa Sutera Strange Win USATF Masters XC Titles

**2019 USATF XC *Results**

LRC Shelby Houlihan DESTROYS Molly Huddle The Final 800, Bowerman Track Club Gets 5 On Worlds Team A dominant display by Shelby Houlihan over the final 800m got her the win as her Bowerman Track Club team impressed.

LRC Shadrack Kipchirchi Gets First US XC Title As Scott-Simmons Coached Athletes SWEEP Top 5 Very impressive by the ADP team as the ADP domination of US Cross continued.

Jr. Races RRW Wisconsin’s Shuaib Aljabaly And BCs Nicole Clermont Win 2019 USATF U20 XC Crowns 10th grader Grace Ping was the highest HSer in 4th in the junior girls race.

MB: Official 2019 USATF XC Live Discussion Thread Shelby Houlihan CRUSHES the field late, wins 1st USA XC title. She took off with roughly 600 to go and won by 8.5 seconds.

Doping Updates

12 More Russians Get Doping Bans, Including 2012 Olympic Champion Ivan Ukhov Ukhov had three years worth of results (including the 2012 Games) DQ’ed and he gets a 4-year ban. The other banned Russians who lose medals include 2013 HJ world champ Svetlana Shkolina and 2012 Olympic hammer champ Tatyana Lysenko (gets 8-year ban).
The Guardian: Robbie Grabarz Set For Olympic Silver Upgrade At the 2012 Games, Grabarz tied for the bronze with Derek Drouin and Mutaz Essa Barshim.
USA’s Barbara Nwaba Officially Awarded 2016 World Indoor Pentathlon Bronze Medal After The Doping DQ Of Ukraine’s Anastasiya Mokhnyuk

Usain Bolt Warms Up For Super Bowl Sunday

Usain Bolt Ties NFL Combine 40-Yard Dash Record At 4.22 Seconds (includes video) Even more impressive, Bolt did it in sweats and sneakers. *Discuss

Women’s Distance News

Emily Infeld Opens Up About Her Recent Hip Surgery, Which She Had On New Year’s Eve Over the past few years, Infeld has had tons of injuries including stress fractures, hamstring and plantar fascia tears, and tendonitis, but hopes to put that behind her after having surgery to fix a severely torn labrum.
Interview With Emily Sisson After Her 67:30 Half In Houston Last Month Despite being training partners, Sisson didn’t talk to Molly Huddle about going for her record because she doesn’t “really like to put goals out there.”
Carrie Tollefson Podcast Q&A With Canadian Olympian And Mother-Of-Two Malindi Elmore Elmore recently made her marathon debut at Houston with 2:32.

IAAF News: Seb Coe Wants To Go For Round 2

Seb Coe To Stand For A Second Term As IAAF President “I think we’ve made a reasonable start and I’d like to be given a chance to see it through.”
Official Logo For The 2019 IAAF World Relays Revealed Only 100 days to go until the World Relays in Yokohama, Japan.
New Sport Technology Ideas Discussed At IAAF Innovation Workshop In London

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

Our Weekly Recap – The Week That Was

WTW Scott Simmons Keeps Developing Talent, 12,000 People Went To An Indoor Track Meet You’ve Never Heard Of, Mascot Races, US Cross, And More How great was the women’s race at US Cross?, a 41-year-old Irish/Australian woman keeps running fast, and the mascot race in Germany.

Post-Weekend NCAA News

Good Read: Nebraska Freshman George Kusche Breaks School Record With 3:59.61 Mile Kusche is the first from Nebraska to go sub-4, breaking the previous record from 1986.
Indian Hills Freshman Kenny Bednarek Runs World-Leading 20.30 At Nebraska Sevigne Invitational The time also puts him 8th on the all-time US indoor list.
Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The Weekend Eastern Kentucky freshman James Sugira posted the top 3,000m mark with 7:58.19 while NC State’s Elly Henes had the best women’s mark at 9:06.36. Virginia Tech’s Rachel Pocratsky and Sarah Edwards had the top 2 miles, both with 4:36.49.
Top Three Men’s Teams Stay The Same With Texas Tech, Florida State And Florida In Updated Men’s NCAA Rankings Houston moved up from 5th to 4th.
No Changes To The Top 4 In Women’s Updated NCAA Rankings Arkansas, Southern California, Texas A&M and Florida are 1-4.
This Weekend: 2019 Husky Classic Accepted Entries

Camel City Elite & IAAF Karlsruhe Live Camel City Results Karlsruhe Results *Free Karlsruhe Stream Replay

LRC Ajee Wilson (1:59.26) And Clayton Murphy (1:45.92) Both Break Flat Track World Records At 2019 Camel City Elite Meet! Other winners included Edward Cheserek and Patrick Tiernan,who dominated the mile and 3k in 3:55 and 7:48 respectively. Grace Barnett (4:33) and Emily Lipari (8:59) won the women’s mile and 3k.
*MB: Official 2019 Camel City Elite Live Discussion Thread

2019 IAAF Karlsruhe Recap: Japan’s Naoto Tobe Pulls Off Shock HJ Win Wth 4 NRs, Dafne Schippers And Juan Miguel Echevarria Are Beaten
*MB: GB’s Melissa Courtney Runs 8:43 To Beat Out Ethiopia’s Alemaz Samuel In The Karlsruche 3000m

Berlin ISTAF: Great Performances From Sam Kendricks, Reece Prescod, Mihambo Mihambo And Nadine Müller Highlight ISTAF Berlin Kendricks set a world lead in the PV at 5.86m and took a couple close attempts at 6.01m. Malaika Mihambo jumped a meet record and world lead of 6.99 m in the LJ, Pamela Dutkiewicz set the 60H WL and GB’s Prescod won the 60m in 6.53.
*IAAF Recap A new WR was set in the rarely-contested indoor discus throw.

Weekend Road / XC Results

Betsy Saina Defends Her Title At The Marugame Half With A 67:49 Win She beat out Japan’s Ayuko Suzuki by 6 seconds. On the men’s side, Abdi Nageeye broke a 20-year-old Dutch record with 60:24 over Kenya’s Simon Kariuki (60:43).
*Suzuki’s 67:55 Was The #3 Fastest Japanese All-Time
Japan’s Suguru Osako Breaks CR With 63:00 To Win Surf City Half-Marathon Osako said the goal was a “solid effort at marathon pace.”
*MB: 2 Japanese studs Yoroizaka and Osako showed up at local half marathon and crushed it for an easy top 2
IAAF: Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo And Kenya’s Fancy Cherono Take Top Honors At Almond Blossom XC Race In Portugal Kiplimo just beat out Kenyan Davis Kiplangat as both finished with identical times while Cherono beat out compatriot Daisy Jeptoo Kimeli by 4 seconds. *Almond Blossom XC Hosts Euro Club Champs As Teams From Spain (Men) And Portugal (Women) Win The Senior Team Titles
Morocco’s Hicham Laquouahi (2:08:35) And Japan’s Haruka Yamaguchi (2:36:51) Win Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon Kohei Futaoka was the first from Japan in 4th (2:09:15) as he and two compatriots broke 2:10 for the first time to qualify for the Japan Olympic Trials.

Doping News

IAAF Releases Regulations For Neutral Athletes To Compete At World XC Champs Only three athletes from the same suspended federation can compete.
Russian Athletics Federation Withdraws Its CAS Appeal Against IAAF Suspension The Russian Federation’s appeal predated the reinstatement of RUSADA, so they say they no longer need to appeal, although the IAAF has maintained their suspension.
Two Russian Distance Runners Get Drug Bans After Testing Positive For Meldonium Alexey Kiselev and Vasily Minaev are each banned for 4 years.

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.
*MB: Shelby Houlihan is running 10k cross this weekend and we’ve got a podcast with her to celebrate

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 x 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

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

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.