– Chris O’Hare talking about some of the challenges he’s faced training as a pro runner while essentially being a stay-at-home dad.
LRC How Good Was Sifan Hassan’s 8:18?, Western States Analysis, Will Claye And A New Type Of Track Meet In Belarus Around the globe we go. Plus Caster Semenya compares herself to Jesus.
LRC USA Track And Field’s Pan Am Debacle Gets Even Weirder – An Arbitrator Has Apparently Ruled Against USATF But Only In Certain Events Scott Simmons‘ Section 9 grievance was successful but it only applies to the men’s steeple and 10,000 which means he now has athletes going to Pan Ams based on both sets of rules – the ones he appealed against and the original ones. #Notjoking
*MB: USATF completely botches selection of 2019 Pan American Games team
LRC Previous Winners And NCAA Coaches Triumph In Our Running Warehouse NCAA Outdoors Prediction Contest Meet the winners and we’re reminded how the tiny little University of Tulsa is producing NCAA champions.
LRCUp To 39 Athletes May Have Had Their Spots On Team USA Denied Thanks To USATF’s Incompetence; Hear Some Of Their Stories Here In December, USATF head Max Siegel and two others signed a 20-page document saying USATF would pick the Pan Am team off of 2019 times – then USATF didn’t do that and many are devastated as a result. Some of those athletes share the anguish of what it feels like to wrongfully be denied a spot on Team USA.
*MB: USATF completely botches selection of 2019 Pan American Games team
LRC/RRW: Brigid Kosgei (30:22) and Rhonex Kipruto (27:01) Break Course Records and Win $50,000 Bonuses at 50th Peachtree Road Race Kipruto dominated the men’s race, leading pretty much wire-to-wire, to break the record by just 3 seconds with his brother, Bravin Kiptoo, finishing runner-up in 27:29. On the women’s side, it was an exciting three-way battle on the final straight with Kosgei collapsing at the line after just nipping former world XC champ Agnes Tirop.
*MB: Official Peachtree Thread
Recommended Read:Dr. Michael Joyner Reviews Matthew Futterman’s Running To The Edge An excellent new book and interesting read that uses the stories of Coach Bob Larsen, the Jamul Toads, Meb Keflezighi and Deena Kastor to highlight some of the recent history of distance running in the U.S.
LRC Women’s Prefontaine Recap: Hassan Wins Greatest Clean* Women’s 3,000 Ever, Faith Kipyegon Returns In Style, Caster Semenya Wins Again, Houlihan, Coburn Impress The 100 and 200 match-ups fizzled. Vashti Cunningham went 2.00 for 1st time.
Pre On Boards: Pre Classic 2019 (6/30) – Official Discussion Thread
MBJim Walmsley Repeats As Western States Champion, Takes 20+ Minutes Off His CR, Wins In 14:09:28, Clare Gallagher Wins In 2nd-Fastest Women’s Tme (17:23:24)Message board poster Ap5000 is in awe: “I hope everyone appreciates the significance of running 8:30 pace for 100 miles with 18,000 feet of climbing. Only one guy in the world can do it!” For the record, he averaged 8:29.68 per mile. Runner-up Jared Hazen, Jim’s housemate, also broke the old CR of 14:30:04 by running 14:26:50. Defending women’s champ Courtney Dauwalter dropped out just before 80 miles and Camille Herron dropped well before that.
*News24:Jim Walmsley Defends His Title And Shatters His Own Western States RecordClare Gallagher won the women’s race in 17:23:25 (second fastest women’s time in race history).
LRC Greatest Of All Throws: Michael Carter’s Unbreakable High School Shot Put Record Turns 40 One of the greatest records in all of sports is now 40 years old and no one one has even come within four feet of it. Read all about it here. We’re so amazed by it we had Jonathan Gault write more than 5,000 words about it.
*MB: Jonathan Gault on Michael Carter a must read. Definitely the greatest high school record
LRC A New Era Begins: Why Matthew Centrowitz Left The Nike Oregon Project For Bowerman Track Club The Olympic 1,500 champ talks about why he ditched Alberto Salazar for Jerry Schumacher.
*MB: Centro reveals why he left NOP
Two NCAA Champs Have A New Team As Well
Brooks Signs NCAA Champs Allie Ostrander And Karisa Nelson To Sponsorship Contracts “Welcoming Allie and Karisa to the team is a big moment for the Beasts.”
*MB: Allie O and Karisa Nelson join Brooks Beasts
*MB: Ostrander On The Start List For The Mount Marathon Race This Thursday
LRC Men’s Recap: Chelimo Is Back, Centro Debuts, Cheptegei And Cheruiyot Are The Kings, And Coleman Is Very Fast And a Diamond League shot put record and shocker by a Brazilian.
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LRCLooking For Athletes Who Were Wrongly Denied A Pan Am Games Spot (And A Lawyer Who Wants To Help Them) Based on your best 2019 performance, should you be on the 2019 Pan Am team had not USATF violated its own published selection criteria and picked the team off of 2018 and 2019 marks? There still may be hope for you, but you need to contact us ASAP. We want to file a Section 9 grievance for you.
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