USAs Start Thursday — Get Your Picks In

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London DL *Full Results *TV & Streaming 

LRC Day 2 Hellen Obiri Stops Hassan, Tefera Goes Sub-3:50 To Defeat Ingebrigtsen, Catriona Bisset Gets 43-Year-Old Australian 800 Record, SAFP Goes Fast, Asian Record In 200 Day 2 saw some great sprint and distance action in London.

• IAAF Day 2 Recap: Hellen Obiri And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Shine In London Fraser-Pryce blazed 10.78 while Dina Asher-Smith was a distant second in 10.92.
• GB’s Goldie Sayers Receives Her 2008 Olympic Javelin Bronze 11-Years Late At The Anniversary Games Sayers was elevated to bronze when Russian Mariya Abakumova was caught doping in a re-test.

Day 2 MB Talk

• Official 2019 London DL Discussion Thread
• Mega props to Catriona Bisset who overcame an eating disorder, anxiety and depression to break Australia’s 43-yr old 800 NR 
• London- 1 Mile is Loaded: Kerr, Grice, Filip, Tefera, O’Hare, Wightman.. 
• Salazar goes home devastated. Hassan gets smoked (just 3rd) in London 5000 

LRC 2019 London DL Day 1: Hagos G Holds Off Jakob Ingebrigtsen In Thriller, Laura Muir Crushes It, And Nijel Amos Goes Down The mid-d and distance on Day 1 of London was fantastic. It featured big wins for Laura Muir and Hagos Gebrhiwet, another amazing performance by Norwegian wunderkind Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and disaster for Nijel Amos. Plus a Canadian record in the women’s 1,500.

LRC Nijel Amos Pulls Up Lame In London One Week After Running 1:41 In Monaco He’s got 70 days to try to be ready for Worlds.

• IAAF Full Day 1 Recap: Jamaica’s Danielle Williams Runs 12.32 100 Hurdles, Breaks Jamaican NR
• GB’s James Ellington Finishes Last In His 100m Heat With 10.93 In His First Race Back Since His 2016 Motorcycle Accident Ellington was having some pelvis pain in the warm-up area, but said, “After everything I’ve been through, there was no way on this planet I wouldn’t make the start line.”
• Gabriela DeBues-Stafford Breaks Canadian 1,500 Record By .01
• South Africa’s Akani Simbine Wins 100m In 9.93 As GB’s Zharnel Hughes Gets “Sluggish” Start And Finishes Second (9.95)
• Not Sure Why? The JAAA Says Their Is No Guarantee They’ll Select Danielle Williams For Worlds Even If She Gets A Wild Card Entry By Winning The DL
• Karsten Warholm Sets European Record At 47.12 He also moves to #6 on the all-time list.

London MB Talk

• MB: Official 2019 London DL Discussion Thread
• MB: Holy Moly!! A legit 18 year old just ran 13:02!! J. Ingebrigtsen 53 last 400m.
  
• MB: Disaster in London. Nijel Amos PULLS UP injured.
  
• MB: Unreal. Laura Muir runs 3:58 off of 2:11 first 800!! 57 last lap!! Jenny S. please move to the steeple now –
  
• MB: Lewandowski 1:43!! Whaat?
• MB: WAAAARHOLM!!! 47:13!!! 

*LRC Preview Of Meet *IAAF Preview

Non-London Weekend Results

• Timothy Cheruiyot And Celliphine Chespol Highlight At Kenya Prisons Service Championships World 1500 silver medalist Cheruiyot set a PB to win the 800m in 1:44.60 while Chespol won the 1500/5000 double with 4:12.08 and 15:50.7. Rosemary Monica Wanjiru got a surprise win over former Africa 10,000m champion Alice Aprot to win the women’s 10,000 Charles Mneria won the men’s 5000 in 13:43.4 over 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Longosiwa.
• MB: Dathan Ritzenhein wins Chicago RnR Half in 64:22
• Razini Lemeteki (63:25) And Nanami Aoki (75:12) Win Suffokland Shibetsu Half Marathon In Japan
• MB: Edward Cheserek Runs 13:04.44 FTW In Heusden Cheserek beat out Kenya’s Waithaka Stanley (13:05.21).
  *Full Meet Results Former Olympic champ Toufik Makloufi raced again with second place in the 800m (1:45.33), which was won by Alfred Kipketer (1:45.05). Other winners included Ejgayehu Taye in the 5,000m (14:53.16), Abdelaati Iguider in the 1,500 (3:36.54), Aisha Praught-Leer in the 1,500 (4:06.25) and Halimah Nakaayi in the 800 (1:59.96).
• Vanuatu Runner, Margaret Kuras, Wins Pacific Games Half Marathon Running In Socks Kuras explained the choice, saying, “Wearing socks is a personal decision that I made because I had never run with shoes on before.”
• Britain’s Andrew Douglas And Ireland’s Sarah McCormack Win Snowdon International Mountain Race In The UK
• Friday Night Action: MB: 2019 Stumptown Twlight Results: Elise Cranny runs big 4:06 pb, Centrowitz cruises in 1500. Rowbury (15:19) gets the standard

Good Distance Features

• INCREDIBLE Maine’s James Olivier Went From 2:05 In The Boys 800 to 1:50 And The US-U20 Champ In 1 Year And he’s not done yet as on Friday he made the final for Pan Ams.
  *MB: Insane Progression! James Olivier(USA U20 800m Champ) had a pr of 2:05 last year 
  
• Recommended Read Winnie Nanyondo, Who Has Gone From 4:06 To 3:59 This Year, Talks About The Importance Of Belief A very interesting read. Our suggestion for Winnie: move back to 800 for Worlds as she’s undefeated at 800 this year.
• He’s Not Racing London Charlie Grice Talks About How He Knocked 3+ Seconds Off His PR And Ran 3:30.62 In Monaco Despite Being In A Boot For 2 Months This Year “I’ve had a lot of messages from people wanting to know what training I’ve done in the past few weeks but it’s not about that. It’s about the months and years leading up to a race. It’s quite funny how people always think there’s some kind of magic session or a magic camp where you can go away on one altitude camp and then you’ll run amazingly.”

Training Corner

• RW: How To Handle Running In The Heat This Summer
• Carbon Monoxide As Altitude Simulator? Seriously?
  *MB: Can’t get to altitude? Study says if you inhale CO2 (which could kill you), you may get altitude effect 
• Multiple Studies Show That You Don’t Need To Only Increase Your Mileage By 10% Per Week
  *MB: The myth of the 10% rule. People who increased the mileage by 50% per week had same injury rate as those that did it 10%.
• Amby Burfoot: Is It Time To Add Glucosamine In To Your Diet? A new study in the British Medical Journal has determined that glucosamine sulfate may lower risk of heart disease and stroke by 15 percent + it may help you not have joint pain.

LRC Exclusives

Podcast: Podcast: Sifan Hassan World Record In Mile, Rojo Eats Crow, Nijel Amos Back In 1:41s, Will Jager Ever Break 8? NOP / Bowerman Talk Subscribe today on itunes.

WTW Shelby Houlihan Is An 800 Runner (Again), Anna-Emilie Møller Breaks 41-Year-Old Record, + Is Muktar Edris Getting Into Shape? Monaco lived up to its hype but we go beyond the headlines and also look at the state of affairs with the Japanese men’s 1,500 and listen to Lance Armstrong‘s latest justification excuse of you better bring guns to a gun fight.

LRC Evan Jager, Robby Andrews And Eric Jenkins Definitely Are Out Of USAs Three World Championships team members from 2017 likely will be MIA at USAs later this month. Wed. AM Update: Jager is definitely out as well.
*MB: 2019 USATF Outdoor Entries/Robby Andrews and Eric Jenkins Definitely Are Out of USAs; Evan Jager May Be As Well 

Field Event News

• Retired Former Olympic LJ Champ Greg Rutherford Says He’s Fine With His “Dad Bod” Rutherford caught some flak after he posted a picture of him preparing to swim the English Channel. His response: “I very much realize I’m not in the shape I was as a professional athlete. I’m fine with that, I love cake and beer…”
• August 1: Sam Kendricks And Sandi Morris Lead Fields For Street Pole Vault In Omaha
• Poland’s Olympic And World Hammer Champ Anita Włodarczyk Will Miss Doha With Knee Injury And Surgery
• Sweden’s World Silver Medalist Daniel Stahl Produces Four Consecutive Throws Over The 70m Barrier, With A Best Of 70.89m

Assorted Distance News

• Good Read/Interview: The Fastest Runner On The Tour de France? Canadian Pro Cyclist And Sub-4 Miler Mike Woods Shares Some Interesting Insights On The Differences Between Running And Cycling Woods ran 3:57.48 when he was 18 years old, but was forced to stop running due to stress fractures. Now he’s gone to the Olympics as a cyclist and was in 9th place in the Tour until a crash a couple days ago.
• GB Commonwealth Silver Medalist Kyle Langford Fined $1,200 Over Physical Altercation With Race Official UK Athletics also ordered him to complete one day of “athletics-based community service.”
  *MB: Kyle Langford puts his hand on throat of official and pushes him at BMC meet
• Four Kenyan Distance Runners Make Forbes List Of Top 30 Africans Under 30 They are Emmanuel Korir, Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chepkoech and “XY DSD” athlete Margaret Wambui.
• August 2: Initial Women’s Elite Field Announced For The Sir Walter Miler In Raleigh, NC Top entries include Lauren Johnson, Heather Kampf, Stephanie Garcia, Emily Lipari and Cory McGee.
• Multi-Time NCAA Champ Jessica Hull Joins The Nike Oregon Project Hull will be coached by Pete Julian and expects to train alongside Konstanze Klosterhalfen.
  *MB: Jessica Hull to NOP!
• Joan Benoit Samuelson Wants To Run A Sub-3 Hour Marathon Next Year At 62 Years Old If she does, she’ll break the 60-65 age-group WR of 3:01:30. She plans to run either Tokyo or London.

Previous Distance News

• Good Read: Faith Kipyegon Is Preparing To Defend Her World 1,500m Title After Stopping Running During Her Entire Pregnancy And The 7 Months After Other interesting info from the article includes she is married to 2012 Olympic 800m bronze medalist Timothy Kitum and is now coached by Eliud Kipchoge‘s coach, Patick Sang, and wants to run the marathon one day.
• Are They Saying No Underdogs Get To Make The Team? Athletics Kenya Announce Selection Criteria For World Championships According to this, it will be first three across the line who have the standard and who have had three out-of-competition and one in-competition doping test.
• The IAAF Looks Back At Five Athletes Who Have Put Together Super-Long Winning Streaks There are some streaks that were 9 or 10 years long, but only one streak on this list is still going and that is Eliud Kipchoge‘s undefeated marathon streak – 10 marathon wins from 2014 to present.
• Nick Willis Voted Into Michigan University Hall Of Fame

LetsThrow.com

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