– Amelia Boone, 3x World’s Toughest Mudder champion, Spartan Race world champion, ultrarunner and attorney, writing about why she decided to seek in-patient treatment for an eating disorder in her mid-30s.
LRC Exclusive Evan Jager Will Attempt To Win His 8th-Straight US Title After Just 40 Days Of Running Injuries have kept Evan Jager from racing since last August. Jager is back running now – finally – and he’s ready to talk. So we listened.
*MB: Evan Jager Will Attempt To Win His 8th Straight US Title After Just 40 Days of Running – Is It Enough?
LRC Here’s What We Know About The 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials The top 3 across the line in the women’s race on February 29th will definitely be going to the Olympics. As for the men, that’s still TBD.
MB:Frank mesas death has officially been ruled a suicide The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says Meza died from multiple blunt force traumatic injuries and ruled his death a suicide. This after there were reports last week that someone may have jumped from a bridge.
LRC Noah Lyles Rips 19.50 World Leader In 200 Meters in Lausanne To Become The 4th-Fastest Man In History 19.50 into a headwind (-.1 m/s). Wow.
Rest Of The Meet
LRC 2019 Lausanne DL Recap: Gebrhiwet Miscounts His Laps, Cheruiyot Runs 3:28 And SAFP Runs 10.74 Lausanne entertained from start to finish as we saw a super-fast men’s 1,500, a wild men’s 5,000 with the fastest penultimate lap in history and a whole lot more.
MB Talk:
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.
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 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 Bryce Hoppel Wins 20th (!) Race In A Row, Donavan Brazier Runs 3:37, & Shelby Houlihan Finally Breaks 2:00 But Loses To Kate Grace A lot of PRs as Americans chased qualifying standards. We give you the event-by-event highlights.
*Discussion Thread
LRC WTW: Life Isn’t Fair / Brigid Kosgei Wins $58,000, Bernard Lagat 2020 Olympic Marathoner?, Bribes And Pro Daycare Dads In our weekly recap, we also analyze who looked older as a teen: Alan Webb, Eliud Kipchoge or Edward Zakayo?
Steph Twell Wins Women’s 10,000 In 31:08.10 Twell (31:08.10), Lonah Salpeter (31:15.80) and Eilish McColgan (31:16.83) all picked up the Olympic and World standards as Twell and McColgan moved to #6 and #7 all-me in British history.
*Yemaneberhan Crippa (27:49) won the men’s race where no one got the standard but 3 broke 28:00. *Women’s Results*Men’s Results
*IAAF Recap
*MB: It’s baaack! NIGHT OF 10,000 PB’s in London with sub-27:30 and sub-31 in the cards
Multiple Time Marathon Cheat Dr. Frank Meza Found Dead in LA River Three Days After Seeing Fastest Age 70 Time Invalidated Three days ago, he was DQed by the Los Angeles Marathon, invalidating the fastest marathon ever run by 70+ year old. The story had gone viral and was even on Good Morning America. He had also been DQed multiple times by CIM and banned from the race.
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 Q&A 44-Year Old Bernard Lagat Explains How He Broke The US Masters Record In Men’s Marathon And Went From Marathon Afterthought To Olympic Team Contender The former 1,500 star reveals the keys to his 2:12:10 marathon.
*MB: Bernard Lagat runs 2:12:10 to break Meb’s US Masters marathon mark. Amazingly now holds EVERY US masters mark 1500 and up!!!
LRC Bernard Lagat Runs 2:12:10 Marathon At Age 44 To Break US Masters Record Most 44-year-olds would be thrilled to run one 5:02 mile. Not American Bernard Lagat. He just ran 26.2 of them in a row at 5:02.5 pace. Japan’s million dollar marathoner Yuta Shitara got the win in an Australian all-comers record of 2:07:50 as Zane Robertson set a a new national record for New Zealand with 2:08:19.
*JRN:Shitara Ran Race As A Training Run For Japanese Olympic Trials In 2 Months
*IAAF Recap: Jack Rayner (1:02:30) and Sinead Diver (1:09:45) won the half as defending champ Sara Hall ran 71:59.
*IAAF Recap
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.
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