A Call To Action

LRC Editorial The Olympic Marathon Trials Are (Still) In Jeopardy – Here’s What USATF & The IAAF Can Do To Fix It No American marathon is more compelling than the Olympic Marathon Trials. But if USATF and the IAAF don’t act, the drama and intrigue of the Trials could be destroyed in 2020. Please take 30 seconds to tweet, post, and share about this issue with the tags @USATF, @iaaforg, @TeamUSA, @nbcsports, and #savethetrials. We couldn’t care less if you share this article – we just want awareness to the issue in general. Write your own article and we’ll reshare it.
*MB:Help save the US Olympic Marathon Trials – A call to action

LRC Weekly Podcast: Legend Of “White Lightning” Matt Boling Grows, Mary Cain Wins, Grant Fisher Loses (Twice), World Relays, Shanghai Diamond League, Homophobic Slurs, US Olympic Trials, And The Ethiopian High Jump Record Falls Listen and subscribe today. We also note Rojo is in fine form.

More Distance News

• RW Catches Up With Mary Cain After Her First Race Finish In 2.5 Years, At Win At NYRR’s Japan Run 4 Miler Cain says that she is “hoping to get on the track soon,” but doesn’t have any plans in place and has been doing strength work, not much speed.
  *LRCA Behind-The-Scenes Look At Mary Cain’s Recent Training Camp In Mammoth Lakes, California
• Kenya’s 800m Olympic Bronze Medalist Margaret Wambui Fears Testosterone Rules Will End Her Career Wambui says she will not take the testosterone lowering medication, nor does she plan to move to the 5,000m. She asks, “Why don’t we take maybe men with low testosterone and categorize them as women?”
• Laura Weightman (15:21) And Nick Goolab (13:34) Win English 5k Road Titles At The Ispswich Twilight

Sprint Stuff

• Allyson Felix Eyeing Return At USA Champs After Her Comeback From Childbirth Felix had a C-section childbirth in November and has returned to full training and says she still wants to compete through at least Tokyo 2020 and maybe even Eugene 2021.
• Good Read:T&F News Writer Gives A “Rant” About How The IAAF Doesn’t Get Splits Right Sieg Lindstrom explains how the splits aren’t accurate and the presentation in the results are horrible. We definitely agree; when the NCAA and Penn Relays can get results formatted so well, why are the IAAF’s so bad?
• Gleaner Writer Rips Jamaica’s Performance At World Relays They put all their best sprinters (Elaine Thompson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, etc.) in the women’s 4 x 200, but only managed third.
• European Athletics Looks Back At Italian Pietro Mennea’s 200m World Record From 1979, Which Still Still Stands As The European Record Mennea’s 19.72 was actually the first of 272 world records set on a Mondo brand track.

World Marathon Majors News

• World Marathon Majors Considering The Chengdu Marathon In China As A Seventh Addition To The World Class Series Of Races The WMM is also apparently considering the Singapore Marathon.
• Chicago Marathon Charity Runners Raised An Event Record $22.7 Million In 2018

Shanghai DL Is Saturday *Provisional Entry Lists

• Kenya’s Winny Chebet Expecting A Tough Test In Shanghai 1,500 The 3:56 woman said her training has been going well and is looking forward to racing against Sifan Hassan.
• Blessing Okagbare Returning To The Shanghai Stadium For The First Time In 4 Years For Saturday’s Diamond League She’s racing the 200m against Olympic champ Elaine Thompson, US champ Jenna Prandini and Commonwealth Games champ Michelle-Lee Ahye.

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.

LRCA 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.
*LRCMary 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.

2019 BOA Chicago Is Going To Be Fun – Farah Vs. Rupp 24 Is On

LRCGalen Rupp & Mo Farah Are Running The 2019 Chicago Marathon; What Does This Mean For Farah’s Future On The Track? Does this mean that Farah is out of the 10,000 at Worlds since it takes place one week before Chicago? Can Rupp improve on his 1-22 record against Farah? Jordan Hasay is also going to the Windy City as well.
*MB:Mo and Rupp confirmed for Chicago Marathon 2019