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Quote Of The Day

“Someone with keen self-awareness is able to separate the acute euphoria of being fully immersed in a pursuit from the long-term consequences of doing so. … Practicing self-awareness allows you to more honestly evaluate and reevaluate the trade-offs inherent to living an unbalanced, passionate life. It ensures that you are taking the time to rest and recover so that you don’t burn out, and it also ensures that you are making conscious decisions about how you spend your time and energy, and thus decreases the chances that you’ll have regrets about what you did – and didn’t – do. It helps you realize when your identity may be getting too interwoven with a specific activity, and that in some instances – writing a book, the first few months with a newborn baby, or trying to make an Olympic team, for example – your lack of balance may be excessive, but it can be OK because it’s time-bound. For some people, when you zoom in on any given day, week, month, or maybe even year, they don’t appear at all balanced. But when you zoom out and look across the totality of their lives, they are actually quite balanced and whole. This is the kind of balance to strive for.”

– Excerpt from new book by Steve Magness and Brad Stulberg called The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life.

Boston Is Next Monday

LRC Men’s Preview From #16 to #1 – Counting Down the 2019 Boston Marathon Men’s Contenders We’ve broken down the potential winners of the 2019 Boston Marathon into five categories: Basically No Shot (#14-16), Outside Shots (#9-13), The Wild Card (#8), Genuine Contenders (#4-7), and Three Total Studs (#3-2-1). Sorry Yuki Kawauchi and Dathan Ritzenhein fans, but we’ve determined they have “basically no shot” of winning.

LRC Women’s Preview 2019 Boston Marathon Women’s Preview: Americans Des Linden & Jordan Hasay Take on a Field Led By 2:17 Woman Worknesh Degefa For the first time in 33 years, the defending Boston marathon women’s champion is an American, Des Linden. That the good news. For the bad news, read the article.

LRC The Experiment: Dathan Ritzenhein Looks To Conquer Boston Marathon With 8-Week Buildup The 36-year-old hasn’t finished a marathon in nearly 4 years but he’s still dreaming of crossing the finish line first. “I thought I was fit enough to win last year,” Ritzenhein says. “It won’t be a failure if I don’t win, but I’m going to go in with that (the win) in mind.”
*MB: At age 36, Ritz wants to win the Boston Marathon next Monday

Post-Weekend NCAA News

Southern California Stays On Top As Places 2-7 Shift Around In Women’s Latest NCAA Rankings Texas A&M moved up to 2nd, Arkansas down to 3rd and Oregon up to 4th.
No Changes To The Top Six Men’s Teams In Updated NCAA Rankings Texas Tech, Texas A&M and Florida still sit 1-3.
Ken Goe Hopes That Oregon Still Holds Dual Meets Once The Hayward Field Construction Is Complete “I’ve felt for a long time college track has damaged itself as a spectator sport by de-emphasizing scored meets that give fans a rooting interest in something beyond a stop watch or a tape measure.”
Cal Men And Stanford Women Win In Stanford Vs. Cal Dual Meet Both team competitions were close as Cal won by 7 points and Stanford by 12.
Huskies Sweep Washington Washington State Dual Meet
Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The Collegiate Weekend

Super-Fast 3,200s At Arcadia Invitational *Results

Nico Young Closes In 59 Seconds To Set Meet Record 8:40.00 And Just Outkick Cole Sprout (8:40.73) At The Arcadia Invitational 3,200m Young’s time is the third-fastest 3,200 in HS history and converts to the 8th fastest 2-mile. The top 14 finishers broke the 9-minute barrier.
*MB: Nico MF Young wins Arcadia 3200 in New MR 8:40.00!
Katelynne Hart Wins Girls Arcadia 3,200m In 9:59.57 She won by over 12 seconds, although she was almost 8 seconds slower than her winning time last year.
Chloe Cunliffe Sets Pole Vault Outdoor National Record With 4.47m (14-8) At Arcadia Invitational Cunliffe is the younger sister of former Oregon sprinter and NCAA 60m record holder Hannah Cunliffe.
MileSplit:The National Performances Worth Remembering At Arcadia

Australian National Champs Live StreamResults

Luke Mathews Wins Tactical 1,500 (3:43.15) Over Ryan Gregson (3:44.03) To Win Australian National Championships NZ’s Tom Walsh threw a world-leading 21.91m to win the SP.
BBC:Sasha Zhoya Wins Three Golds And Breaks Records At Australian National Championships Zhoya won the under-20 PV, under-18 100H and under-20 200m, two of them with age-group WRs. *BBC Video
*MB:World, meet Sasha Zhoya – The teen phenom has won Australian titles (U20 or U18) in PV, 110h, and 200 already this week!!
Sally Pearson Makes 100 Hurdles Comeback With 12.99 At Australian Championships It was Pearson’s first 100H in 14 months after she comeback from injury. She won her heat, but skipped the final because of overheating and fatigue.

Australian Champs Have Been Going On All Week

Australia’s #1 Sprinter, 21-Year-Old Rohan Browning (10.08 PR), Wants To Win His 1st National Titles This Weekend In 100 And 200
Australian Champs Rocked By Revelation That Greg Smith, aka The Coach Of “Next Cathy Freeman,” Has Been Suspended For A Year “The Herald understands the suspension came about as a result of an investigation into Smith by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.”

Week That Was

LRCWTW: 7 Final Thoughts About World XC + Emily Sisson Delivers Is Burundi on its way to being the newest East African distance power? How in the world did the US men lose to Tanzania? Plus Dom Scott went for it big time (and blew up big time) and a look back at Eliud Kipchoge‘s four runs at World XC.

News From Oregon

Ken Goe Says There Was An “Elephant In The Room” At The TrackTown Tuesday Meeting Goe says it was unfortunate that Lauren Fleshman, a USATF board member, didn’t address the situation with Vin Lananna. Goe laments how Fleshman used to be very outspoken about USATF, but “now that she is part of the power structure, her voice has been silenced.”
Despite Winter Snow Storms, Hayward Field Construction Remains On Schedule UO Spokesperson Molly Blancett: “When it’s complete, it’ll be the finest track and field in the world.”
Register-Guard: “Eugene And Lane County Planning Now For Influx Of Visitors During 2021 IAAF World Championships” Eugene is expected to get 50,000 daily visitors during Worlds.
*KVAL.com: “With Eye Set On 2021, Eugene Prepares For The World Stage”

Boston Is In Less Than Two Weeks

Sara Hall Says She Feels Like She’s “In The Best Cardiovascular Shape” Of Her Life As She Prepares To Make Her Boston Marathon Debut Hall never thought she’d still be running professionally at 36 as her dream was “to do development work in Africa [living] in a mud hut.” But she says she’s enjoying it more than ever and set PRs in the full and half last year.
Two-Time World Marathon Champ Edna Kiplagat Looking To Reclaim Her Boston Marathon Title Kiplagat won Boston in 2017, but lost last year to Des Linden.
RW Looks Back At Five Of The Worst Weather Days In Boston Marathon History
Brooks Puts Out A Boston Shoe With A Map Of Boston’s Public Transit Line (“The T”)
AP:No Known Threats To The Boston Marathon, But Police Still Urge Caution Six years on from the Boston bombing, some security measures used include surveillance cameras, helicopters and “plainclothes officers” mingling in the crowds.

Sprint Stuff

After Ending His 2018 Outdoor Season Early With Injury, Andre De Grasse Was Back In Action At Last Weekend’s Florida Relays De Grasse anchored Canada to wins in the 4 x 100 and 4 x 200. Their 38.34 was a 4 x 100 world lead and beat the USA team with Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay, who were only 4th in 39.07.
Jamaican Journalist Argues That The False Start Rules Should Be Less Harsh For Young Athletes Among the reasons they’d like to see this is that the noise in the stadium during Jamaican Boys & Girls Champs is so loud that kids have a hard time hearing the starter’s instructions.
Video:Usain Bolt Briefly Comes Out Of Retirement To Race A Motorcycle Taxi In Lima Spoiler alert: Bolt won.
Aries Merritt Donates The Spikes He Wore Setting The World Record To The IAAF Heritage Exhibition In Doha Merritt wore the spikes at the 2012 Brussels Diamond League when he ran 12.80 seconds.
RIP:Olympic Hurdler And Former UNC Coach Charles Foster Passes Away At 65

Doping News

LRC Abbott World Marathon Majors And Athletics Integrity Unit Announce Expanded Out-Of-Competition Testing And Investigation Program The WMMs are putting their money into keeping the sport clean. Others like agents and sponsors need to start joining them. *IAAF Statement
*Discussion:Good Idea/Bad Idea: What if marathons/races required agents to pay back the percent of money they earned from dirty athletes?

IAAF Clears Four More Russians To Compete As Neutral Athletes Includes Russian national junior indoor 3,000m champ Lilia Mendaeva. Overall this season, 69 Russians have been approved, 15 have been refused and 162 applications have yet to be processed.

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Upcoming Track Action

May 3:Hellen Obiri Vs. Genzebe Dibaba Over 3,000m To Highlight The Doha DL They also face steeple WR holder Beatrice Chepkoech and 2017 world XC champ Agnes Tirop. Other top matchups include Conseslus Kipruto vs. Soufiane El Bakkali in the steeple, Emmanuel Korir vs. Donavan Brazier, Nijel Amos and Adam Kszczot in the 800 and training partners Timothy Cheruiyot and Elijah Manangoi in the 1,500.
April 27: Sam Kendricks And Sandi Morris To Defend Their Drake Relays Pole Vault Titles
June 30:Russia’s Olympic And World HJ Champ Mariya Lasitskene Up Against Vashti Cunningham And Ukraine’s Yulia Levchenko At The Pre Classic

Doping News

Weightlifters Complain About Outdated WADA Data System After 41 Of Them Are Banned From European Championships Apparently the software WADA uses for their whereabouts system is out of date with athletes experiencing crashes and login issues. A Belgian decathlete said the WADA technologically is “stuck in the nineties.”
Belarusian 800 Runner And Hammer Thrower Banned After Testing Positive In London 2012 Retests
China And Russia Dominate Latest List Of Sanctions Revealed By The Athletics Integrity Unit
India’s Asian Champion Shot Putter Manpreeet Kaur Gets 4-Year Doping Ban She failed tests four times in 2017.
MB:WTF: 1:59 Russian EPO cheat busted both for using Crimean passport of childhood friend to get around Russian ban The Russians continue to get an A+ in coming up with great ways to try to cheat.
Russia’s Former World Racewalk Champion Sergei Bakulin Caught Doping Again He was previously stripped of his 50k world title from 2011 when he was caught by the biological passport.
WADA Reinstates Bucharest Laboratory In Romania

Spring Is Here: Carlsbad 5,000 & Cherry Blossom 10 Miler *CB Results

Edward Cheserek Matches World Record En Route To Carlsbad 5,000 Victory; Sharon Lodeki Wins Women’s Race In Her Professional Debut Cheserek ran 13:29, tying the road WR (the IAAF only started recognizing the 5,000 road record in 2017). In the women’s race, Cheserek’s girlfriend and NCAA 10,000 champ Lokedi made her pro debut with a 15:48 victory.
Jemal Yimer Defends His Title (45:36) As Stanley Kebenei (46:00) Breaks Greg Meyer’s 36-Year-Old American 10-Mile Record At Cherry Blossom 10 Miler Yimer was challenged by Kenya’s Josphat Tanui, but beat him out by 2 seconds while Kebenei finished 4th. Kenya’s Rosemary Wanjiru won the women’s race with a CR 50:41. Emma Bates was the top American in 6th place (52:18).
*MB: Emma Bates 52:17

Weekend Half Marathon Action

Bernard Ngeno Wins Close Race In 59:56 As Ruth Chepngetich Smashes Her Own CR With 65:30 At The Istanbul Half Ngeno came out on top in a three-way battle to just beat out Abayneh Degu (59:58) and Hillary Kipchumba (60:01).
Prague Half:Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui Wins Prague Half In 65:44 As Amy Cragg Only Runs 73:26 Benard Kimeli won the men’s race by 1 second in 59:07. *IAAF Recap
*Pre-Race:Amy Cragg Racing Prague Half On Saturday – Views Race As Stepping Stone To 2020 Success
Berlin Half:Sifan Hassan’s World Record Attempt Comes Up Real Short As She Runs 65:45 In Berlin The world record is 64:51. *European Athletics Recap
Kipkemoi Kiprono (61:47) And Tigist Teshome (70:08) Win Madrid Half Marathon

Distance News

As Of Monday, Yuki Kawauchi Is Now A Full-Time Pro Runner Kawauchi hopes to increase his mileage as a pro and also hopes to be a rare pro that a) runs fast and b) interacts with fans and sponsors. It looks like he’s signed with Asics.
*MB: Yuki Kawauchi has quit his job and started as a pro runner and opened a twitter account. Thinks he has less pressure as pro
Kellyn Taylor, USA’s 7th-Fastest Marathoner Ever (2:24:29), Will Run Prague Marathon On May 5th Move over, Boston and London. Kellyn Taylor‘s next marathon will be in Prague on may 5th.
Laura Muir Says She No Longer Fears Expectations To Win Races “Glasgow was a great confidence booster. … A few years ago, I’d have struggled with the attention and the expectation to be at the front and win races. Now I don’t see it as pressure. I want to deliver.”
2-Time FL Champ Claudia Lane Writes Long Essay On What It’s Been Like To Not Be Running “Yes, my body type has changed since I was a sophomore and yes, injury is a part of the sport. No, I will not keep my ears open for people who attempt to filter negative messages to me because I know now I am strong in my own right.”
The Economist Takes A Look At The Demise Of The 5,000 And 10,000 And The Rise Of The Marathon “The marathon has vanquished other long-distance running events.”
Joshua Cheptegei Named Ugandan Sportsman Of The Year
Good Read:Steve Jones Is Excited For Future Of Welsh Marathon Running And Thinks Dewi Griffiths Can Go Sub-2:07 After Hosting Him At Altitude Camp The opening line of the article is a classic: “Wales’ current crop of marathon runners may not be fuelled on a diet of coke and meat pies that took Steve Jones to the world record.”
Interesting Study From UK: Super-Fit Masters Runners Do No Better At Balance Tests Than Sedentary Older People?
*MB: How long can you stand on one leg with eyes close without falling? Most 20 yr olds can do 30 seconds, 70 year olds only 4-5

Non-Distance News

MB:Lynna Irby pulls a Sammy Watson. Struggling (by her lofty standards) as a collegian, the solution is to … go pro early Last year, she ran 49.80 and won NCAAs. This year, she’s run 52.02 and was 5th at NCAAs but someone is paying her.
Nice Article On Former Hurdles WR Holder Charles Foster, Who Died On Sunday At 65
Serbian Olympic Hurdler And Former Cal Bear Milan Ristic Talks About Overcoming Testiclular Cancer
Some Are Outraged That San Jose State Plans To Turn Historic Bud Winter Track Into Parking Garage It’s the track that Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Lee Evans once but now is dilapidated and people have been trying to prevent them from turning it into a parking lot since at least 2002. Look how dilapidated it was in 2018.
Usain Bolt Races A Motorcycle Taxi In Peru (And Wins)

More Distance Stuff

Switzerland’s 59:13 Man Julien Wanders Shares Some Interesting Info About His Younger Days Wanders tried multiple sports and events including tennis, soccer, long jump and javelin before he settled on long distance running.
MB:Joshua Cheptegei visited and scouted the cross country course well before the race. Cheptegeai surveyed the course back in November and specialized his training to prepare for the crazy uphills.
Toni Reavis Asks If It’s Possible To “Lead From Behind” In Distance Racing Reavis looks back at some examples where runners did, just this like the epic duel between Sammy Wanjiru and Tsegay Kebede at the 2010 Chicago Marathon.
On Two-Year Anniversary, NN Running Team Gets Extended Through 2022 Jos Hermens‘ team has won 6 WMMs in two years and 112 races. If you have no idea what NN is, it’s an “insurance and asset management company” in the Netherlands.
Japan’s 2012 Olympic Marathoner And 2:07 Man Arata Fujiwara Retires At Age 37

Non-Distance News

GB Olympic Discus Thrower Jade Lally Explains Why She Was “Devastated” When She Found Out She Was Pregnant Professional athletes are as a necessity, very selfish, but parents don’t get to be. Thankfully Lally seems to realize this: “I don’t want my child to feel that she is coming second to anything, I will have to learn to juggle putting her needs alongside mine as an athlete.”
Good Read:NZ Shot Putter Jacko Gill Opens Up On His Life-Threatening Illness And Stalled Career Between many injuries and being bedridden with myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) Gill has struggled a lot since the days when he was a junior world champ and YouTube star. But now he has changed a lot about his training and is on the comeback trail.
May 3:Doha Confirms Six Global Champions For The Opening Of The 2019 Diamond League The fields include Caterine Ibarguen vs. Tianna Bartoletta in the LJ, Sam Kendricks vs. Olympic champ Thiago Braz in the PV, Brianna Rollins-McNeal vs. Sally Pearson in the 100H.
GB Olympic Hurdlers Colin Jackson And Jamie Baulch Talk About Living Together Back In The 1990s In Florida Jackson was six years older, owned the house and was also Baulch’s coach. He’s also a bit of a neat freak, which made for an interesting living dynamic with a 21-year-old who was living away from home for the first time.

USATF: What To Watch, When And Where In April

Tokyo 2020 News

German Athletes Group Fighting IOC For Increased Representation And A Bigger Share Of Olympic Revenue Even if the IOC doesn’t share more money with athletes (which they probably should), they need to revise the ridiculous advertising restrictions of Rule 40 (which has apparently already been scaled back in Germany).
*MB Archives:RULE 40, is it BS?
*MB Archives:Coburn skirts Rule 40
SEGA Announces A Mario And Sonic At The Tokyo Olympics Video Game Coming Out This Year
Future Of Olympic Boxing Still In Doubt After IOC Postpone Decision On Tokyo Inclusion Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since 1904 except for Stockholm 1912 because of a Swedish law banning the sport.
Tokyo 2020 Warn That They Are Struggling With A Lack Of Buses And Drivers For The Olympics They believe they need 2,000 buses a day with at least twice as many drivers.
Tokyo 2020 Unveil Mascot Images Representing Olympic And Paralympic Sports
Tokyo 2020 Hold Welcoming Ceremony As Olympic And Paralympic Flags Return To Tokyo After Tour Of The Country

Looking Ahead

May 5:Two-Time Winner Ayantu Dakebu Hailemaryam Aims For Three-Peat At 2019 DICK’S Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon Ethiopian Tadesse Yae Dabi will try to defend his title in the men’s race.
May 26:Laura Muir Will Open Her Summer Racing Season On The Roads At The Westminster Mile In London
June 22:World Record Holder Kevin Mayer And Olympic/World Champ Nafissatou Thiam Announced For The Decastar Meet In Talence
June 30:“Dream Men’s Pole Vault Field” Set For The Pre Classic At Stanford The field has the WR holder Renaud Lavillenie, Olympic champ Thiago Braz, world champ Sam Kendricks, 2018 world leader Armand Duplantis, and every Diamond League champion ever.
Want To Race Up A Mountain In Italy?August 2: US Youth Skyrunners Wanted For The 2019 Youth Skyrunning World Championships They are currently seeking Team USA applicants.

Women’s Distance News

Paula Radcliffe Speaks Out On Boston Marathon Transgender Policy Which Lets Biological Men Qualify With The Women’s Standards “Opening women’s (qualifying times) up to any male who ‘self-identifies’ as female is unfair because the end result will be that female (Boston qualifying times) are made harder due to the added numbers achieving them.”
*MB: Paula Radcliffe Angered by New Boston Marathon Transgender Policy
T&F News Catches Up With Emily Sisson On Her Stellar 2019 And Training Ahead Of The London Marathon After Sisson’s 67:30 in Houston and 30:49 at Stanford, it’ll definitely be interesting to see what she runs in her marathon debut.
Good Read:Excerpt From Book By Brad Stulberg And Steve Magness Called, “The Passion Paradox: A Guide To Going All In, Finding Success, And Discovering The Benefits Of An Unbalanced Life” This excerpt concerns Shalane Flanagan and how elite athletes find balance in being unbalanced.
*MB: Sports Illustrated Article RE: Shalane Flanagan, Going “All-In,” Tradeoffs associated with running.
Shalane Flanagan Says US Women Runners Have “Swagger” Going Into Boston Marathon “I think with Des and I in that year, with me winning in New York and then that spring her winning Boston, I think it has really changed the perspective, the outlook, and the confidence of American women.”

International Marathon Results

Rotterdam:Marius Kipserem (2:04:11 CR) And Ashete Bekere (2:22:55) Win Rotterdam Marathon US’s Aliphine Tuliamuk was third in 2:26:48. *Top 10 Results
*MB:Hope for Americans? Belgium’s Koen Nart, who didn’t break 2:10 in his 1st 6 marathons, just ran 2:07 in Rotterdam
Milano: Kenyans Titus Ekiru (2:04:46) And Vivian Jerono Kiplagat (2:22:25) Shatter Italian All-Comers Records To Win The Milano Marathon
Daegu: Felix Kipchirchir Clocks 2:05:33 To Smash The Daegu Course Record Pamela Rotich won the women’s race in 2:28:10.
Vienna: Vincent Kipchumba (2:06:56) And Nancy Kiprop (2:22:12) Win Vienna City Marathon Kipchumba beat out Switzerland’s Tadesse Abraham (2:07:24) while Kiprop broke the course record to win by over three minutes.
Hannover: Debutante Silas Mwetich (2:09:37) And Racheal Mutgaa (2:26:15) Win At The Hannover Marathon

More Weekend Track Action *All NCAA Results

USTFCCCA Weekend Collegiate Review South Carolina’s Tyrell Richard ran an NCAA-leading 400 with 44.81 at the UNF Invitational.
Former Two-Time NCAA Decathlon Champ Lindon Victor Breaks His Own Grenadian Pole Vault Record At Sam Adams Invite With 4.90m There was also a world lead in the HJ from Canada’s Mike Mason (2.31m).
North Dakota State University’s NCAA Indoor Shot/Weight Champ Payton Otterdahl Breaks School Discus Record For The Third-Straight Meet With 62.94m
JRN:Japan Outdoor Track Weekend Recap
Texas A&M Sweep Team Titles In The Reveille The Texas men and women were runner-ups.

NCAA News

From Wash St. Star Jeshua Andreson Is Now Coaching For UW And The Powells: How A Former U.S. Champion Found His Calling In Coaching Anderson, 29, won 3 NCAA titles and a World Junior title but never made the Olympics.
BYU Columnist Admits Track And Field Is Pretty Boring But Urges Readers To Attend A BYU Meet “I get it, Track and Field is not the most exciting sport to watch because a meet lasts for hours and days even.”
English U20 XC Rory Leonard (8:18/3:50) Just Got 37th At World XC And Soon Will Be Headed To Arkansas Like His Mum And Dad
Future NCAA Runner? Sara Hall’s Daughter Was The AZ State XC Champ This Year

Some More Reporting From World XC

LRC Team LetsRun Aarhus Report: Read About Kelsey Bruce & Matt Crowe’s World XC Experience When I woke up last Monday morning, I had never heard of Kelsey Bruce or Matt Crowe. Five days later, I was cheering them on at the World Cross-Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark.

LRC World XC Photo Essay: The Sights And Flavor Of World Cross Aarhus 2019

LRC Podcast: What Really Happened At World Cross-Country, Cheptegei Vs. Mo Farah, The Debut Of Team LetsRun + Emily Sisson Has Arrived Full details and show notes above or you can listen in the player below or your favorite podcast service.

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What Really Happened At World Cross-Country, Cheptegei Vs. Mo Farah, The Debut Of Team LetsRun + Emily Sisson Has Arrived

The 5,000m Diamond League Debate

T&F News Editor E. Garry Hill:“Call Me A Heretic, But The IAAF’s Diamond League Tightening Might Actually Be The Right Move” Hill writes that as a “hardcore fan” he hates to see the sport in this position, but as a “pragmatist” knows hard questions and steps need to be taken for the good of the sport.
Video Interview With Selemon Barega:“I was shocked. I mean, it was like losing a culture … I will be forced to change to road racing instead of track.” Hey, don’t worry, Selemon. The IAAF says the changes “won’t disadvantage” East Africans, so you’re all good.
*MB:IAAF/Seb Coe’s Boneheaded (possibly bigoted) Decision Pushes Generational Talent Selemon Barega to the Roads.

Random Running Reads

Marathoner In China Receives Lifetime Ban From The Xuzhou Marathon For Cycling Part Of The Race It still took her over five and a half hours to finish.
*2nd Article Apparently the race also had issues with bystanders stealing the drinks, food and tables set out for the runners.
Beppu-Oita Marathon To Review Staff Training After Interpreter Refers To African Athletes As “Chimpanzees” The woman claimed she had no malicious or racist intent, but she also said working with African athletes was like “communicating with primitive people.” Yikes.
Woman Runner Who Fought Off An Attacker Two Years Ago Is Sharing Self-Defense Training That She Believes Saved Her Life She actually fought off the attacker with moves she had learned just weeks earlier in a self-defense seminar at her office.

Ultra / Trail News

MB:Ultra discussion: thoughts on the Georgia Death Race controversy? Race officials marked the course wrong, sending 10 to 15 runners off course. They ended up running an extra half mile, but subtracting 200-400 feet elevation, so the RD gave them a 60-minute time penalty!
GB 100k Champ Sophie Mullins Designed Her Own App To Calculate Her Nutrition For The Race She explained there is a balance between eating enough, but not too much. “You couldn’t eat too much or you’d be sick, which defeats the purpose when you’re getting the food in for fuel.”
New Zealand’s Greig Hamilton Was The Second Last To “Tap Out” (DNF) At The Barkley Marathon There were no finishers this year. John Kelly, one of only 15 who have ever finished the race, only did two of the five laps saying he was “no longer having fun.”
*MB: The 2019 Barkley Marathons – Zero Finishers
Runner Still Missing After Starting Malaysian Trail Race 10 Days Ago He was last seen around 20k into the 25k race.