Week That Was

LRC Edna Kiplagat Gets Her Green Card, Greg Meyer Gets His 10-Mile Record Back, Jordan Hasay Is Back, And An Indoor Marathon World Record Plus we compare the 2000 Boston finish to 2019 and look at how many sub-2:10 marathons have been run by Ethiopia, Kenya, and the USA.

More Boston Leftovers

• Good Read: Outside: Scott Fauble Explains Why He Shares All His Training On Strava “This isn’t a sport like football or basketball where you can out-game plan somebody. You show up and you’re either fit or not. Whether you share your training or not isn’t going to change how fit or unfit you are.”
  *MB: Scott Fauble Wants to Tell You His Strava Secrets
• Good Read: Former Track Star Who Lost Feet To Frostbite Ran A World Best For Double Amputees At Boston Marko Cheseto ran 2:42:24 to beat the previous world best of 2:42:52 from 2010.
  *MB Archives: ESPN documentary on UAA runner, Marko Cheseto.
• Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack Looking Toward Tokyo 2020 After 11th Place Finish In Boston McCormack set a 44-second PB just 6-months after giving birth to her daughter, Isla.
• AP: Marine Running Marathon For Fallen Friends Crawled To The Boston Marathon Finish Line When Micah Herndon‘s legs seized up, he crawled the last 100 yards to the finish. He says he uses running to help deal with post-traumatic stress from his time overseas. *NBC News Video
  *MB: Marine crawls over finish line in Boston: Overdone?
• MB: China bans 3 Boston Marathon cheats for life for giving country a bad name
• Interesting: The Telegraph Looks Back At When Katherine Switzer Was Chased By An Official For Wearing A Bib During The 1967 Boston Marathon Switzer was running with her nationally ranked hammer thrower boyfriend (future ex-husband) Tom Miller who was removed from the Amateur Athletic Union for body checking the official who tried to wrestle away her bib.
• Joan Benoit Samuelsonn Crushed Her Goal With A 3:04 At The Boston Marathon The 61-year-old wanted to run within 40-minutes of her 2:35:15 winning time from 40-years-ago, but topped that by coming in less than 30-minutes over that time.
• Lawrence Cherono Dedicates His Boston Marathon Victory To His Family “I want to dedicate my win to my wife and my brother who gave me all the support during my training.”
• How Did The Celebrities Do At This Year’s Boston Marathon? Former Olympic gold medalist gymnast Shawn Johnson ran the BAA 5k in 31:54 and her her husband, NFL player Andrew East, ran 4:43:05 for the marathon.
• RW’s Most Inspiring Photos From Boston Did you know Meb Keflezighi was the Boston grand marshal?

Other Distance News

• Israel Merkle Named USATF Athlete Of The Week Ater Winning USA 100k Road Championships By Almost 20 Minutes He ran 6:54:33 (6:40 pace) for the 100k (62 mile) race. Caroline Cotsakis won the women’s race in 9:48:48 (9:29 pace). *Results
• Kenya Picks Up 11 More Medals At The Africa Under-20 Championships

More NCAA News

• Men’s Mid-Outdoor Bowerman Watch List Update No big changes, Grant Fisher and Morgan McDonald are still the lone distance runners.
• Women’s Bowerman Watch List Update Nine of the ten women remained the same with Jessica Hull, Danae Rivers and Alicia Monson reping the distances.
• Penn Relays Start April 25th: Men’s Entries *Women’s Entries

More Upcoming Track Action

• April 26: Drake Relays Announce Women’s 400H And Long Jump Fields Kori Carter has the fastest PB in the 400H and is up against Olympic bronze medalist Ashley Spencer. 2018 US champion Sha’Keela Saunders leads the LJ.
• May 3: World Champ Ramil Guliyev And Dina Asher-Smith Vs Marie-Josee Ta Lou Head 200m Fields For Doha 2018 rivals Jamaica’s Janieve Russell and Olympic champ Dalilah Muhammad will face off in the 400H.
• June 12th: Polish Stars Confirmed For The Irena Szewinska Memorial In Bydgoszcz The meet was previously known as the Bydgoszcz Cup, but was renamed in memory of the late Polish Olympic champ Irena Szewinska.
• June 30: Ryan Crouser And Tom Walsh Lead Field Of Nine 22m Shot Putters For The Pre Classic At Stanford

2020 Olympic Track And Field Schedule Released

LRC How Will The Tokyo Weather (And A 6 AM Start) Affect The 2020 Olympic Marathons? Should The Start Be Moved To Night? The conditions for the 2020 Olympic marathons are going to brutal. We tell you what past races it most likely will resemble and agree with Brett Larner – the races should be run at night.

LRC Want To Watch Olympic Track And Field In 2020? We Hope You Like Getting Up Early Before Work Track fans on the East Coast will be able to watch most distance finals from the 2020 Olympics live as they get ready for work. West Coast fans, we suggest you take the week off as it’s going to be super early for you.

• Tokyo 2020 Marathons To Start At 6AM To Avoid The Heat Japanese medics warned that running the race mid-morning could “lead to deaths” from heatstroke.
• IAAF Competitions Director Paul Hardy Says The 2020 Schedule Is “Substantially Different” From Past Olympics The schedule will still allow for all the traditional distance and sprint doubles.

Distance News

• Olympic 800m Silver Medalist Francine Niyonsaba Admits She Also Has Naturally High Levels Of Testosterone There was evidence that Niyonsaba had the same high testosterone condition as Caster Semenya, but we believe this is the first time it’s been officially confirmed.
  *MB: Francine Niyonsaba admits to high testosterone.
• Tirunesh Dibaba Withdraws From The London Marathon The release just says “for personal reasons.”
• MB: Chris Derrick is OUT of London Marathon Derrick said he was “doing the best marathon training of my career” but says he got greedy in training and pushed through a plantar fascia issue.
• Caster Semenya Honored On Time Magazine’s List Of The 100 Most Influential People Of 2019 Other athletes on the list include LeBron James and Tiger Woods.
• Laura Muir Writes A Letter To Her Younger Self Muir reveals she was interested in animals from a young age and even had pet rats.

Boston Women *Tracking / Top 30 Results

LRC Final Worknesh Degefa Takes Off Early, Holds On Late To Win Her First Boston Marathon Title, Jordan Hasay 3rd, Des Linden 5th Degefa led by as much as three minutes but in the end she held on for a 42-second win in 2:23:31.

LRC Jordan Hasay Sends Message With 3rd-Place Finish At 2019 Boston Marathon, But The Best May Be Yet To Come Hasay was happy with 3rd place, but is already looking ahead to the Tokyo Olympics.

LetsThrow.com

• May 3:  Olympic Champ Ryan Crouser And World Champ Tom Walsh To Resume Rivalry At The Doha DL They competed against each other nine times in 2018 with Crouser coming out on top in five of them (but Walsh won the DL final with a DL record of 22.60m in Zurich).
• IAAF Profile: Maddison-Lee Wesche Is New Zealand’s Latest Shot Put Star The 2018 world U20 champ is adding to NZ’s shot put tradition.
• Ole Stunes Isene Smashes PR And Sets Discus World Lead With 67.78m In Portugal
• IAAF World Hammer Challenge Starts In Two Weeks In Brazil Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk and Wojciech Nowicki will try to top the standings again this year, which would be a seventh straight series win for Wlodarczyk.