US Action Of Note *US 25k Results

LRC “White Lightning” Matthew Boling Runs Incredible 10.13/44.75 (Relay) Double At Texas State Meet – Just How Good Is The HS Sprint Phenom? We separate fact from fiction regarding the HS sprinter who is generating headlines worldwide. Yes, he is white, no he isn’t close to as good as Usain Bolt, and much more.
*HSer Matthew Boling Rocks At Texas State Meet He won the 100 in a wind-legal 10.13, the long jump in a wind-legal 25 feet, 4.5 inches, split 44.75 to bring his team to victory in the 4 x 400. He also anchored his 4 x 100 team to a win but they were DQed and his team lost the state meet by 2 points as a result.
*MB: Matthew Boling 4 x 400 Split 44.74 Includes race video.
*MB: Isn’t Matt Boling’s best event the LJ?
*MB: Why does everyone keep referring to Matt Boling’s 10.13 as the new national record? It’s the fastest time ever in HS-only competition during the regular season.

LRC A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Mary Cain’s Recent Training Camp In Mammoth Lakes, California Cain reveals that she got into an injury cycle after quitting the Nike Oregon Project which she said “wasn’t really a mesh” for her. As for her current training, she’s focused on staying healthy. “My new mantra for the next couple of months is to become an athlete again, not just a runner.” said Cain.
*LRC Mary Cain Returns To Action, Wins 4 Miler In 21:50 In 1st Completed Race In 918 Days
*MB: Mary Cain is BACK! Cain runs (and wins) 4 mile race in Central Park.

LRC Parker Stinson Shatters American 25k Record, Emma Bates Wins At 2019 USATF 25k Champs Emma Bates ran the fastest time by an American ever in a 25k race.
*MB: Official 2019 USATF 25k Champs Discussion Thread. Parker Stinson breaks the American record!

Conference Championship Weekend – The SEC Men’s Meet Was Incredible *Conference Championship Central

• SEC: LSU Men And Arkansas Women Win *Results *Meet Home
• Storybook Men’s Ending: MB: Mondo Duplantis breaks collegiate record to move LSU into the lead, they win their first title since 1990 in very next event He vaulted 6.00m (19′ 8.25″). *LSUsports.net Recap *Arkansas Recap *IAAF
• MB: Hakim Sani Brown runs 9.99 to win SEC 100 title but doesn’t start 200 final and Florida loses the team title as a result Had he finished 2nd or higher, Florida would have won, instead LSU won it’s first title since 1990.
• MB: WTF: A day after running 13.07, Grant Holloway runs wind legal 13.12 and loses SEC 110h Yes, Daniel Roberts, who beat Omar McLeod a few weeks ago, won with a 13.06.
• Aussie Frosh Imogen Barrett Won 1,500 Title In 4:17, 1st Freshman Winner In 13 Years
• Day 2: MB: Hakim Sani Brown leads SEC qualifiers by A LOT in both 100 (10.10) and 200 (20.36w) Of course, we should remind ourselves his PRs before Florida were 10.05 and 20.32.
  MB: Grant Holloway runs 13.07 in prelims at SEC
• Day 1: Mississippi State Men And Auburn Women Lead After First Day Alabama’s Gilbert Kigen (29:27.77) and Florida’s Jessica Pascoe (34:08.41) won the 10ks.
• LSU Off To Strong Start With 11 Qualifiers On First Day Of SEC Champs

• PAC-12: Oregon Men, USC Women Win *Results *Meet Home
• Cravon Gillespie’s Record-Setting Day Leads The Oregon Men To Their 13th Consecutive PAC 12 Title Gillespie won the 100m in a school record 9.97, the 200m (20.17) and ran on UO’s winning 4 x 100. Oregon’s Cooper Teare ran 13:49.77 to beat out Grant Fisher (13:50.30) in the 5,000. Fisher was doubling back from the 1,500, where he was second, .11 behind AZ State’s William Paulson (3:49.18).
• USC Women Capture Second Consecutive PAC-12 Title They beat out Oregon by 17 points. Women’s distance results included UW’s Katie Rainsberger (4:19.92) over UO’s Jessica Hull (4:20.60) Jessica Hull winning 1500 easily and Dani Jones taking the 5,000m (15:54).
• Pac12.com Event-By-Event Highlights
• Mother Nature Steals Show On Day 1 Of PAC-12 Track & Field Championships A lightning delay altered the schedule.
• Oregon Distance Runner Carmela Cardama Baez Normally Is In Bed At 10 PM, But On Saturday She’ll Be Running The 10,000 At PAC-12s.
• Good Read: The Oregonian: 800m Runner Susan Ejore Has Come A Long Way In A Hurry For The Ducks Ejore is the PAC-12 favorite, but five years ago she graduated high school in Kenya never having run a race.

• ACC: *Results *Meet Home
• Day 3: Florida St. Women And Virginia Tech Men Win *Results We’re pleased that a team (UVA) with a doper as a coach didn’t win the team title at home. Florida St. won by the largest margin ever (41.5 points) since the conference went to 15 teams.
• Day 2: Final Day Of Competition Moved By 3.5 Hours Due To Threat Of Rain At ACCs The UVA men and Florida St. women have the lead.
• Day 1: Several Records Fall As ACC Champs Get Underway Syracuse’s Iliass Aouan (29:01.13) and Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer (33:30.73) won the 10,000s.
• FSU Men And Women Hoping To Sweep ACC Champs
• ACC Champs Preview

• Big 12: *Results *Meet Home
• Texas Women And Texas Tech Men Win As Divine Oduduru Runs 9.99 Texas’ Teahna Daniels won the women’s 100 (11.10) and 20 (22.71).
• Texas Tech Wins Fourth-Straight Big 12 Title Distance highlights: Oklahoma State’s Hassan Abdi won the 10,000 in 29:31.42 over Iowa State’s Edwin Kurgat (29:31.98). Kansas’ Bryce Hoppel took the 800m in 1:45.95.
• Texas Women’s Recap

• Big 10: *Results *Meet Home
• Ohio St. Women DOMINATE Big 10, Winning For The Second Consecutive Year They won by 41. *Ohio State Article
• Iowa men Win Big 10 At Home Their first title since 2011. *Hawk Central Article
• Video: Three Of Six Runners Fall in Big Ten Men’s 800m Prelim
• Nebraska Men And Indiana Women Lead Heading Into Final Day

• Mountain West: *Results *Meet Home
• Colorado State University Completes Rare Sweep Of Men’s And Women’s Mountain West Titles Colorado State University is the first school to sweep all four conference titles in the same year since BYU in 2011. Allie Ostrander won the 5,000m in 15:45.66 over New Mexico’s Ednah Kurgat (15:50.93). Ostrander was also second in the 1,500. NM’s Charlotte Prouse took the steeple (9:47).
  *Weini Kelati Solos 32:09 10k At Mountain West Champs She’s now #16 all-time in the NCAA.

Distance News That Passed Our Vetting Process

• An Early Look At What We Can Expect For 2021 World XC In Bathurst Bathurst, the first inland settlement in Australia, is hilly so the course is going to be hilly but will have sections where you can get in a rhythm. It’s also known for car racing so expect some automobile racing themes.
• Article Reveals That Caster Semenya At Times Was Required To Show Her Genitals As A Kid To Run In Her Native South Africa So can we stop with the nonsense that this whole thing was invented by people intent on discriminating against people from sub-Sahara Africa?
• Steve Magness Tries To Answer All of Your Questions Regarding The Caster Semenya Controversy
• NY Times: Why Runners Shouldn’t Wear Flip Flops In The Summer
• Meet The Latest Dreamer, Colby Mehman,  Who Is Living In His Van While He Shoots For The Olympic Marathon Trials
• Sad News: Great Stirling XCountry Meet Is No More It was one of the highlights of a slow January for LRC nation.
  *Runners “Gutted” As Stirling Marathon Chiefs Announce Event Will Be Axed From 2020
• Emily Sisson Reveals She Thrived On High Mileage During Her Debut Marathon Buildup “I felt a little less sore doing 115-mile weeks where I wasn’t getting on the track as much than I did [before] doing 90 miles getting on the track a few times a week.”
• Runner’s World Takes A Look At 2 Guys Who Like To Hoard Shoes They have 567 pairs between the two of them.
• Penn Relays Honored By IAAF Penn was named as one of 11 winners of the IAAF World Athletics Heritage Plaque, awarded for outstanding contribution to “the worldwide history and development of the sport of track and field and of out-of-stadia athletics.”
  *Hakone Ekiden Also Honored
• American Star Hasay Coming To Run Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon In June
• New Book: Doping In Elite Sports The academic leaning book interviews 55 former dopers.  Buy here.

Pre-World Relays News

• Event-By-Event Previews The mixed gender relay, aka the “clown show” according to Carl Lewis, will be taking place more than once.
• Latest Updates / Live Blog From Japan
• Athletics Weekly: IAAF World Relays: Who, What And When?
• Kenya Drops Two Sprinters From World Relays Team As They Also Are XY And Have Elevated Testosterone Kenya’s 100m and 200m champion Maximilla Imali and 400m runner Evangeline Makena aren’t competing.
• IAAF Shares Five Reasons They’re Looking Forward To The World Relay Champs If you’re looking for good distance racing, the closest you’ll come will be the mixed 2 x 2 x 400, which will feature 800m runners.
• Seb Coe: World Relays Are “Most Vibrant And Exciting” Event In Athletics Calendar
• Mixture Of Fun And Focus Fueling British Athletics Team At World Relays The article starts with the following provocative sentence, “What is the point of the World Relays?”
• World Relays To Provide Jamaica A Pre-Worlds Test With no Bolt and no VCB, can the Jamaicans remain relevant?
  *SAFP Is Running
  *Christophe Lemaitre Pulls Out And Flies Home With Knee Injury
  *Yohan Blake Withdraws From The World Relays Blake’s agent said that Blake didn’t feel he could travel all the way to Japan just to run one race.
• Interesting Read: Does Track & Field Have A Popularity Problem? Or A Marketing Problem? The author points out that NASCAR gets promoted on NBC Sports, but there hasn’t been any mention of the IAAF World Relays even though they’re streaming them.

Some Missed Recent Results

• North Carolina A&T’s Kayla White Ran A World-Leading 10.96 To Win The MEAC Conference Title The time put her tied for 5th on the all-time NCAA list. She also ran a US-leading 22.52 to win the 200m and ran on the team’s winning 4 x 100 squad. At the same meet, North Carolina A&T’s Trevor Stewart ran an NCAA-leading 44.38 to win the 400 (#14 all-time NCAA) and Rodney Rowe won the sprint double in 10.05/20.12. *Results
  *Kiara Grant Breaks Veronica Campbell-Brown’s Jamaican Junior 100m Record With 11.11 The Norfolk State University sophomore finished 2nd behind White’s 10.96.
• Boniface Kongin (2:10:34) And Bizuwork Getahun Kasaye (2:36:29) Win Pittsburgh Marathon
• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Wins 200m At Nike Seniors Link Up In Jamaica With 23.07
• Athletics Weekly BUCS Championships Highlights