2019 Boston Marathon Is Monday *TV & Streaming *Men’s Preview *Women’s Preview *US Men’s Preview

2019 BAA 5K: LRC Hagos Gebrhiwet (13:42) Repeats as Monicah Ngige (15:16) Runs Away From Women’s Field Ben True (13:44) and Justyn Knight (13:46) were 2nd and third as Kim Conley took top American honors in the women’s race in fourth (15:36).

2019 BAA 1 Mile: LRC 2019 BAA Mile: Robert Domanic (4:06.4) & Nikki Hiltz (4:40.1) Win Close Races Mission Athletics Club team members Nikki Hiltz and Emily Lipari ran the exact same time (4:40.1) but Hiltz got the win. In the men’s race, the Reebok Boston Track Club’s Domanic won by half a second over Chris O’Hare.

LRC Media Day In Boston: What Did The Pros Say? Who Is Ready To Go? Des Linden, Jordan Hasay, Jared Ward, Shadrack Biwott, Sally Kipyego, Geoffrey Kirui and many more shared their insights.
*Toni Reavis Recaps Boston Press Day In Great Detail He may have done a better job than us.
*Sisay Lemma Picked Up A Hamstring Problem In His Last Hard Session

LRC Boston Marathon Preview Podcast Recorded Live In Boston : Des Linden Returns To Defend, Desisa Ready For Kirui 1 hour and 10 minutes of listening pleasure at link above or player below.

More Boston

LRC Editorial Boston: The People’s “Olympics” The Elitist Marathon Did you know that for the first time in history Boston has banned the amateur runners from competing with the pros? When the gun goes off in Hopkinton at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, a select few “elite” men will begin their 26.2-mile journey to Boylston Street. Everyone else in the mass race will just stand there for two minutes. Pretty sad for a race known as the “People’s Olympics.”
*MB: Boston Separates Elite Men’s Start from Wave 1 Corral 1 by two minutes

This Weekend’s Other Action *Major Weekend Results *All College Meet Results

• Kenya’s Paul Lonyangata Going For A Three-Peat At The Paris Marathon The 2:06:10 man faces multi-time global medalist Augustine Choge and Ethiopian sub-2:05 men Asefa Mengistu and Yemane Tsegay. Former world XC champ Gelete Burka (2:20:45) leads the women’s race with Azmera Abreha (2:21:51).
  *Paul Lonyangata Will Race Paris Despite Injuring His Arm In A Fall Last Week
• Defending Champion Malcolm Richards And 2017 Champ Chris Zablocki Ready To Challenge Each Other And The World Record At The Armory Indoor Marathon Richards won last year in an indoor marathon WR of 2:19:01 while Zablocki ran 2:21:47 in 2017. 2:13:40 man Andrew Lemoncello is also racing. Stephanie Pezzullo (2:32 PR) and former Arizona State All-American Chelsey Albertson lead the women’s race.
  *LRC Archives: Meet The Most Interesting Man In Running: Chris Zablocki’s Long Road To Los Angeles
• Ezekiel Omullo (2:08:55) Back To Defend His Warsaw Marathon Title; Georgina Rono (2:21:39) Leads The Women’s Race
• Slew Of Sub-2:10 Men And Sub-2:30 Women Set For The Dongfeng Renault Wuhan Marathon In China

News From The UK

• Steve Cram Is The Leading Candidate To Be The New UK Athletics Chairman, But Would Need To Quit His BBC Commentary Job Former UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner feels it would be a clear conflict of interest. “It would be like he was marking his own homework, commentating on the team he chairs.”
• GB Parliamentary Chair Stands By Original Seb Coe Conclusion Damian Collins said, “Lord Coe either knew more than he suggested he did when he gave evidence to the committee, or he knew enough about the Liliya Shobukova case to have asked more questions about it within the IAAF at the time.”
• Former UKA Head Ed Warner Talks About Cheating In The Sport And How It’s “Inevitable” Warner says to combat doping you have to “look at it through the eyes of the cheat” and that the “consequences” are key.
• July 20: Stellar Quartet Will Face Off In The Anniversary Games Women’s 100m The field includes Jamaica’s double Olympic champ Elaine Thompson, two-time World champ Dafne Shippers, GB’s double Euro champ Dina Asher-Smith and double world medalist Marie-Josee Ta Lou.

New Facility News

• Ground Broken On New Boston Indoor Facility New Balance’s “The Track” will be a multi-sport athletic complex (including a banked 200m track) and concert venue. It will also be a training facility for the Mark Coogan-coached NB Boston team.
• The Oregonian: Big Spenders Will Get First Choice For Seat Locations In The New Hayward Field Top priority for seat choice will go to donors who have contributed $50,000 or more to the reconstruction.
• Mondo Presents New “Air Cell Technology” Track Surface The new surface will incorporate air-filled cavities in the bottom layer which will supposedly make the track even faster.

More Boston News

• NY Times: “Sarah Sellers And The Craziest Schedule In Running” Last year’s Boston runner-up does elite training while working 30 hours a week at the hospital as a anesthetist, sometimes getting up at 4AM to run before work.
• Cheaters Beware: NY Times Profiles Marathon Detective Derek Murphy Of MarathonInvestigation.com Murphy has a policy that if cheaters admit they cheated and apologize he won’t print their story on his website. It’s only the Mike Rossis of the world who deny even in the face of all the evidence) that get named on his site.
• Man Whose Wife Was Stabbed To Death In DC While Training For Boston Is Running It In Her Memory He had proposed just 6 days before her senseless murder.
• Daily Nation: Geoffrey Kirui Leads Kenyan Quest For Glory On Boston City Streets Last year’s runner-up Kirui is self-coached and says he got “special prayers” from his pastor which he believes will help him on the course on Monday.
• Boston.com: “Wet Conditions Look Locked In For Monday” Highs in the 50s and rain all-day are what the meteorologists predict for Boston.
• WBUR.org: 6 Story Lines To Watch In Boston It’s worth noting that this year’s race is the first Boston run on the actual anniversary of the 2013 Boston bombing.

Non-Distance News

• Christian Coleman Wants To Run The 100/200 Double At Worlds And The Olympics Noah Lyles, on the other hand, plans to focus on just the 200, but his coach says “all options will stay on the table.”
• Ato Boldon Expects Jamaica To Break The World Junior 4 X 100 Record This Year Boldon coaches one of the star Jamaican sprinters, double world U20 champ Briana Williams.
• June 20: Olympic 400m Champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo Will Race The 300m At The Ostrava Golden Spike Meet Miller-Uibo equaled the 300m world indoor best last year with 35.45. That’s the #2 all-time only behind the outdoor world best of 35.30.
• IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Video Interview With Dawn Harper Nelson The former Olympic champ retired last year after revealing she was pregnant with her first child.
• Mutaz Essa Barshim And Hurdler Abderrahman Samba Donate Kit To IAAF Heritage Collection Opening In Doha Next Week Barshim donated the vest he wore when winning HJ bronze at the 2012 Games.