The Abu Dhabi Marathon Was Short – 42k Instead Of 42.195

LRC After Re-Measuring The Course, Here’s Definitive Proof That The 2018 Abu Dhabi Marathon Was Short Marathon experts Helmut Winter and Sean Hartnett have gone all the way to Abu Dhabi to remeasure the course and have found the 34th kilometer was between 195.8 and 199.6 meters too short. Our best theory is the locals wanted access to the local fish market so someone moved the cones up.
*MB: Vindication: 2 experts just remeasured the Abu Dhabi Marathon course and found it to be a little less than 200 meters short! Rojo is feeling good about himself after immediately questioning the validity of the marks.

Kemoy Campbell News

• Kemoy Campbell Issues Statement Full Of Gratitude And Posts Video Of Him Walking. Says he was little dizzy. Sorry ladies, he’s taken.
• Outside Publishes Article On “Crisis Of Runners’ Healthcare” As independent contractors, most runners don’t get health insurance from their sponsors as it can cost more than $20k for a family in the US.

Caster Semenya Controversy Back In The News

IAAF Insists It Accepts Caster Semenya’s “Legal Sex Without Question” Despite Report Lawyers Will Argue She Is “Biological Male” The the IAAF has clarified its position in a statement, saying that it “is not classifying any DSD [differences of sexual development] athlete as male.” They just want athletes like Semenya to lower their testosterone levels so they aren’t at male levels.
*BBC Article *Full IAAF Statement

$mart Or Foolish?

MB: Sammy Watson Turns Pro Watson accomplished it all as an amateur – winning a World Youth, World Junior and NCAA title but this is a risky sign for any shoe company as she was slower at 18 than 17 and just ran 2:06 in her first 800 as a 19-year-old.

Today’s Dose Of Random

• MB: 40 y/o Anthony Famiglietti runs a 3:59 mile with his dog Fam shared a video on his YouTube page. If you haven’t seen this type of thing before you should check it out. The dog is on a bungee which actually helps pull the runner faster.
• MB: MarathonInvestigation.com Got SHUT DOWN! The site’s founder posted on Facebook that he was fighting a “DMCA take down notice” and that his web host took his site down. He says he is in the process of switching servers.
• MSN News: Running Club Chases Down Theft Suspect In Philadelphia The Annenberg (Lunchtime) Running Group aided police in chasing down a thief who had swiped a laptop computer and cellphone from a University of Pennsylvania building.

2019 NYRR Millrose *Schedule/ Streaming Info *Results *Athlete Videos

LRC So Close – Yomif Kejelcha Misses Breaking Mile World Record By .01 Of A Second At 2019 Millrose Games You can’t get any closer to the WR than Yomif Kejelcha did on Saturday night at the 2019 Millrose Games.

LRC Michael Saruni (1:43.98) Becomes 2nd Man To Break 1:44 Barrier Indoors, Donavan Brazier (1:44:41) Breaks American Record In Millrose 800 The TV portion of the meet started off with a bang as Saruni ran the third-fastest indoor 800 ever and Brazier shattered Johnny Gray‘s indoor AR, which had stood since 1992. Updated with videos and quick takes.

LRC Ajee’ Wilson Gets Her American Record Back* By Running 1:58.60 To Win Millrose 800 The Jamaican record also fell to Natoya Goule.

More Millrose

• LRC Rest Of Millrose: Fisher Vs. McDonald Lives Up To The Hype, KoKo Crushes Mile Field, Why Does Emma Coburn Keep Falling? English Gardner Is Back
• IAAF Full Meet Recap: Olympic SP Champ Ryan Crouser Climbs The World All-Time List Crouser opened his 2019 with 22.33m, the best indoor throw in 11 years, moving Crouser from 18th to 4th on the world indoor all-time list.
• RRW: Near World Indoor Record For Yomif Kejelcha At NYRR Millrose Games

BU Valentine

LRC Sean McGorty Runs PR (13:21), Hits World Standard In First Race With Bowerman TC In Boston While the race went well for McGorty and Marc Scott, who got the Worlds standard (13:22.50), Ryan Hill (13:36) struggled. 20-year-old Hyuga Endo (13:27) also broke the Japanese indoor record. Interviews with McGorty and new BTC pro Elise Cranny.
*Stanford All-American Elise Cranny Signs With Nike And Joins Bowerman Track Club
*LRC Video Interview

*MB: Elise Cranny joins the Bowerman babes 

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.

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.

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.