June 15, 2019 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“I gave myself a day or two once I first got the news to kind of be in shock. But the second I decided to get the surgery, I made it a point to stop trying to have a victim mentality or to say, ‘poor me,’ or ‘why is this happening?’ I was like, all right, you have to get this done. That’s the reality of the situation. As an athlete, you have to truly believe deep down to your core that you’re going to get through this and come back and be just as strong as you were before.”

– Galen Rupp talking about his mental approach when he found out he would need surgery on his heel 12 days after last year’s Chicago Marathon.

Chatting With The Stars In Boston – 2019 adidas Boost Boston Games And Street Mile Are Sunday (4:30-6:00 PM ET On NBC) Track ScheduleMile Schedule

LRC Noah Lyles On Christian Coleman: “Some people just don’t like you. You can’t do nothing about it.” The world’s fastest 100 meter man also reiterated once again that he has zero plans to run the 100 at USAs and Worlds. Plus he says he’s “more excited” to train after losing to Michael Norman in Rome.
LRC Shaunae Miller-Uibo Says She’s In The Best Shape Of Her Life, “I Just Feel A Whole Lot Stronger This Year.” In other news, Miller-Uibo declined to discuss what happened in the fight with Tori Bowie that led to Bowie’s exit from PURE Athletics.
LRC Ajee’ Wilson Plans To Eventually Move Up To The 1,500, Perhaps As Soon As Next Year US 1,500 Olympic hopefuls, your nightmare may become reality in 2020.
LRC Robby Andrews Is Trying To Come Back From Hell But He’s Not Making Any Excuses, “There’s no real excuse for running 1:54.” Andrews, who is coming back from Lyme disease and surgery, was horrific earlier this week when he ran 1:54 for 800.
USATF Preview:Star-studded lineup prepares to take to Boylston at adidas Boost Boston Games

Hit Pieces from Daily Mail On Mo Farah? Or Justified Negative Press?

Ethiopian Hotel Maid Who Was Jailed For 16 Days After Mo Farah’s Stuff Was Stolen In Haile’s Hotel Wants An Apology She also says Farah never tipped her in the 2 months she cleaned his room. (This article is from April but we only saw it with release of article below)
Olympic Hero Sir Mo Farah And Family Dubbed “Neighbours From Hell” After They Move Out Just kids being kids and playing on the green or kids totally out of control? You be the judge.

News Of Note

Swiss Court Denies IAAF Request To Immediately Re-Impose Testosterone Rules On Caster Semenya
Divine Oduduru Reluctantly Says He’s Going Pro As He Can’t Turn Down $300-500k Per Year But Says He’ll Still Be Coached By Calvin Robinson “I feel more comfortable here than when I’m back home in my country,” he said, “because they’ve given me home here. They’ve accepted me. They’ve given me love. Everything I need, they’ve given it to me here.”
Eunice Kirwa’s Brother, Felix (2:06:13 PR), Banned For 9 Months For Using Drug Often Found In Rat Poison
Kara Goucher, Steph Bruce, Nick Willis, Molly Huddle And Others Remember Gabe Grunewald
Great Run Company Launching A 55k Ultra – UltraLondon – In London
A Look At The Leading Entries For The 2019 Japanese National Track And Field Champs

A Star Has Left This Earth

LRCGabe Grunewald: Rest In Peace No one wanted to see this day come, but thank you Gabe for teaching us all how to live. You can pay your respects here or by donating to her foundation.

Tim Layden SI Article
LRC Discussion
USATF:“She will be remembered as one of the bravest athletes we knew.” Also includes a compilation of tweets from Molly Huddle, Deena Kastor, Kara Goucher, Emma Bates and Chip Gaines.
More: *Toni Reavis*Cas Loxsom *Runner’s World *IAAF *MileSplit *NY Times *AP

Pro Sprint News

Ivet Lalova-Collio Writes A Letter To Her Younger Self Lalova, the fastest non-African woman in history (10.77), famously blew Employee 1.0 a kiss in 2011 in a video that has now been seen nearly 100,000 times.
In Case You Missed It: Justin Gatlin Ran 10.01 On Tuesday Andy Bayer ran 8:18 in the steeple.

Non-Distance News

Marquise Goodwin Says He’s Serious About Going For 2020 Olympic LJ During The NFL Offseason “It’s just off-season, same way I did it in high school, college, NFL. Just make it happen. It’s all on my off time. I use it as part of my training.”
IAAF Profile:Slowing Down Is The Key To Michael Norman Going Faster Norman says he has a new “secret race pattern” that has been helping him and “unfortunately” will just do the 400m at Worlds.
The Guardian: “No Can Live Without Love”: Dutee Chand, India’s LGBT Trailblazer Talking about the backlash, Chand said, “It is going to take time for people in my village to get used to the idea.”
July 20:Omar McLeod And GB’s Andrew Pozzi To Clash In 110H At London Anniversary Games
BBC Podcast Interview With Michael Norman And Kori Carter

Doping News

Runs In The Family: Kenyan 2:06:13 Marathoner Felix Kirwa Gets 9-Month Ban After Testing Positive For Rat Poison Surprise, surprise, Kirwa is the brother of 2016 Olympic marathon silver medalist and EPO cheat Eunice Kirwa.
Russian Athletics Federation Vice President And 2008 Olympic HJ Champ Andrei Silnov Facing Doping Ban For “Possible Violation Of Anti-Doping Rules” He’s being investigated by the Athletics Integrity Unit.
GB’s Goldie Sayers To Receive Her 2008 Olympic Javelin Bronze At London DL Next Month – BBC Sport She was upgraded to bronze when Russian Mariya Abakumova was stripped of silver after a retest of her frozen sample.

Previous Gabe Grunewald News

Justin Grunewald Shares Picture Of Gabe Resting Peacefully At Home On Her “Comfy Couch” In a tweet on Tuesday he said, “She’s still comfy on the couch sleeping, listening to stories and messages from friends and strangers around the world.”
BBC:Pros Including Deena Kastor, Kara Goucher, Paula Radcliffe And Jo Pavey Tweet Messages To Gabe Grunewald Goucher said, “Thank you for showing me what bravery looks like.”
MB: Gabe Grunewald “enters end of life care”

What are the best ultras in the world? (Sponsored by HOKA ONE ONE)

LRC The “Majors” of Ultrarunning Earlier this week we had our “triple crown” of ultras. Now we’ve got the other races we think you should pay most attention to.

LRC Rojo and Wejo’s Favorite Ultra Marathons LRC’s founders who have never run an ultra tell you their favorites.

Previous: The Greatest Ultramarathons In The World: The “Triple Crown of Ultras”: Comrades, Western States, UTMB

Distance News: Galen Rupp On The Comeback Trail

Recommended Read:RW: Galen Rupp Interview Talking About His Comeback From Surgery And Being “Reinvigorated” By Break From Racing It was a very tedious process getting back to real running after surgery, but Rupp is back to 85 “dry” miles (plus more on the underwater treadmill) and says retirement isn’t on his mind.
*MB:Galen Rupp Tells Runner’s World the American Record and Gold Medal are still within Reach
MB:Allie Ostrander Gives “Rant” On Instagram About ESPN’s Commentating Ostrander writes, “I was disappointed with the commentary that has occurred during my races for the past two years. Both times, the comments have brought attention to my appearance more than my ability. In 2018, I was called ‘the baby faced assassin’ and told that I looked like I still played with barbies.”
*Dwight Stones Responding To Criticism Over Allie Ostrander Commentary:“Having a little fun! Lighten up. We’re fans of hers. Thx for watching.” This was a tweet from Stones last week, before Ostrander had made her “rant” post.
MB:Twitter Spat between Jonathan Marcus and Noah Droddy The disagreement culminated with Marcus blocking Droddy.

2019 Bislett Games – Oslo DL Schedule & Results TV & Streaming

LRC 2019 Bislett Games Recap: McLaughlin And Warholm (NR) Win, Chepkoech Loses, Coleman Runs A WL, And Norway’s Dream For The Dream Mile Is Denied Karsten Warholm got a big NR in the men’s 400H, Sydney McLaughlin got a win in her 400H Diamond League debut, Christian Coleman ran a world lead in the 100, Beatrice Chepkoech suffered a rare loss in the women’s steeple and the hometown fans’ dream of a Norwegian victory in both the 400 hurdles and Dream Mile did not become reality as Marcin Lewandowski beat Jakob Ingebrigtsen yet again. *IAAF Recap*Part II *USATF Recap

OSLO MB Chatter:

Don’t Try This At Home

Lessons From Ron Hill: The World’s First And Greatest Run Streaker The Boston, European, and Commonwealth Marathon champion ran every day for more than 52 years in a row.
Why Run Streaking Isn’t As Insane As It Sounds
How And Why To Start A Run Streak

High School: NBNO And Brooks PR Are This Weekend NBNO Free Live Stream (Starts Thursday) NBNO ResultsBrooks Start ListsBrooks Webcast Info (6 PM ET Saturday)

DyeStat.com: 10 Storylines To Follow at New Balance Nationals Outdoor 2019 Everything from Athing Mu to Joseph Fahnbulleh (10.23 100m).
Who’s Coming? A Look At The Stars Competing At The 2019 New Balance Nationals Outdoor, Which Started Thursday
Katelyn Tuohy Ends Her Season; Won’t Compete At New Balance Nationals Or USATF Champs Her coach cited “fatigue” as the reason for shutting down the season early. *MB:Katelyn Tuohy’s season over
DyeStat Distance Preview New Balance Nationals Outdoor (NBNO)*More Previews:*Sprints/Hurdles*Jumps*Throws*Full Entries*Webcast Info Starts Thursday @ 10AM ET
Saturday:Ericka VanderLende Shooting For Sub-9:50 2-Mile At Brooks PR*Brooks Star Llists*Brooks Webcast Info Broadcast starts at 6PM ET.

Other Distance News

Evan Jager Update: MB: Craig Virgin reports that Evan Jager has “been battling an injury this past winter and spring.”
World 1,500m Champ Elijah Manangoi Wants To Run The 1,500/5,000 Double In Doha Manangoi ran his first 5,000m in Kenya last week (neither this article nor the recap give his time).
Hardrock Hundred Canceled Due To Historic Snowfall The race was supposed to be next month, but due to historic snowfall in the mountains this winter, race organizers felt it was too dangerous. *MB: Hardrock 100 – Cancelled

What Is Going On In Nigeria?

Athletics Federation Of Nigeria Call Emergency Meeting To Decide To Decide On Reopening Investigation Into Missing IAAF Money They are trying to figure out if suspended president Ibrahim Gusau is to blame.

Hayward Field Updates

Good Read:Ken Goe: “When the new Hayward Field finally opens for business, will Eugene still be Track Town?” After years without a regular season to excite the fans, Goe asks if the “Hayward field magic” will still exist by the time the new (much larger) stadium finishes construction.
PAC-12 Announces New Hayward Field Will Host The 2020 PAC-12 Track Championships

And The Greatest Ultras And Ultra Runners Are … (Ultramarathon Exploration Sponsored By HOKA ONE ONE)

LRCThe Greatest Ultramarathons In The World: The “Triple Crown Of Ultras”: Comrades, Western States, UTMB There are a ton of great ultras in the world, but after a month plus of debate we’ve come up with a big 3. LRCThe G.O.A.T. Of The Ultramarathon Is … We can’t give it away as we want you to read the article. On the women’s side, our winner is an American.

Rabat DL is Sunday Schedule and Results TV & Streaming (2-4 pm ET)

MB: Official 2019 Rabat DL Discussion Thread

Rabat DL Preview: Jenny Simpson, Arafi and Dibaba in 1500, Stacked Men’s 800 With Murphy, Amos and Korir, Stacked Women’s PV, and Manyonga vs Echevarria in LJ Highlight The DL distances races are both 800s where Clayton Murphy, Nijel Amos and Emmanuel Korir are in the men’s race and only one sub-2:00 woman in 2019 is in the women’s as Caster Semenya declined an invitation, and the women’s 1500, where Jenny Simpson will race Genzebe Dibaba, Gudaf Tsegay and Rababe Arafi (Sorry not LRC preview this weekend).

Caster Semenya Denies She Refused To Run In Rabat And Blames Event Organizers Semenya says that the organizers initially rescinded their invitation and by the time the reissued the invite Semenya would have needed 20 hours of travel before the race which she said “was not rationally possible.”
Latest updates from Rabat El Bakkali wants meet record in steeple(8:02.77), Arafi wants NR in 1500 (3:59.15), Schippers wants sub-11 100 and more.

2019 Adrian Martinez Classic Full Meet Replay Results

LRC2019 Adrian Martinez: Comebacks Galore And Everyone Is Feeling #BraveLikeGabe Charlie Grice (3:54) and Elle Purrier (15:08) were the big winners on the night in terms of time but Abbey D C impressed as did Nikki Hiltz and HSer Ryan Oosting. Plus Robby Andrews and Isaiah Harris try to come back from injury.

MB Talk:

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Remembering Gabe Grunewald, NCAA Outdoor Track and Field

NCAA News

Sinclaire Johnson Will NOT Go For Worlds, Is Shutting Down Season After NCAA 1,500 Win “I didn’t want to get too greedy and try to chase more and more times and possibly undo the magic of what happened this past weekend. I just want to end on a high note.”
One And Done: Sha’Carri Richardson Goes Pro After Running NCAA And World Junior Record Of 10.75 In 100
Texas Tech Coach Wes Kittley Expects Divine Oduduru To Go Pro
Chris Nilsen, Coffee Barista Dad And Multi-Time NCAA Pole Vault Champ, Reflects On Beating Mondo At NCAAs “Coming in I wasn’t, ‘I have to beat Mondo.’ I was more focused on, I wanted to jump high, I wanted to jump 5.90 or higher and I completed my goal,” Nilsen says. “I didn’t think about it as coming in and wanting to beat Mondo. Competing against him is just fun.”
NCAA Men’s HJ And LJ Champ JuVaughn Harrison Says He’s Better At The LJ But Loves The HJ More
Emma Gee, BYU Steeplechaser, Comes Out As Bbisexual; “I am the only out LGBTQ athlete at BYU.”
Robyne Johnson Leaving BU To Take Over At Cal

Mid-Week Action In France & Finland

France: MB: Caster Semenya Runs 5:38.20 For 2k At Montreuil Meet The time is equivalent to a 4:06.00 for 1,500m.
Caster Semenya Says She Isn’t Worried About Changing From The 800m “I am a talented athlete, I am not worried. I can run any event I want. It can be 100m, 200m, the long jump, heptathlon – you name it.” *Semenya Thinks The IAAF Should Focus On Doping, Not Her “I’m not an idiot. Why will I take drugs? I’m a pure athlete. I don’t cheat. They should focus on doping, not us. I’m never going to take drugs.” *Post-Race Video Interview
Laura Muir Wins 800m In 2:00.63 In Montreuil She beat out Ukraine’s European indoor and outdoor bronze medalist Olha Lyakhova by over a second.
Finland: Anita Wlodarczyk’s Hammer Victory (75.61 All Comers’ Record) Highlights Paavo Nurmi Games Distance winners were Kenya’s Cornelius Tuwei (1:46.37), Andy Bayer in the steeple (8:18.29) and Uganda’s Winnie Nanyondo (4:06.21 over Ethiopia’s Fantu Worku (4:06.27). *Full Results