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MB: USATF Outdoors Day Three Discussion Thread 

LRC Distance Day 2: Hoppel’s Winning Streak Ends, High Schooler Mu Makes First Final, Sowinski’s Final Streak Ends We break down all the distance action from day 2 (men’s and women’s 800 semis, men’s 1500 semi, women’s steeple), plus hear from Alan Webb.

• On the boards: USATF Outdoors Day 2
•  The mystique of the 1,500 / 10,000 double grows – Lomong doesn’t start 1,500
• Christian Taylor shows again he doesn’t give a sh** about winning a US title, should he?
• ATHING MU: Prediction USA 800m Finals thread
• Huge endorsement of Nike shoes by Felix
• Lomong: Better career than Webb, Ritz, Tegenkamp, and Hall?

USATF’s Day 1 Thursday

Two 34-Year-Olds Just Won The 10,000s
LRC Relentless Molly Huddle Wins Fifth Straight US 10,000m Title Molly Huddle is still the best 10,000m runner in America as she turned the tables on training partner Emily Sisson and a strong challenge from NAZ Elite’s Kellyn Taylor.

LRC The Legend Of Lopez Lomong Grows: He Runs A 51-Second PR To Win 2nd-Straight USATF 10,000m Title Lopez Lomong can win a US 1,500 title, a slow 10,000m title and now a fast 10,000m title. Last year was definitely not a fluke.
*MB: Lopez Lomong Appreciation Thread

Outside USAs Coverage

• Des Moines Register: “Shelby Houlihan Vs. Jenny Simpson: Another Chapter Will Unfold Saturday At Drake Stadium” The two Iowa natives will renew their rivalry in today’s final. Simpson says, “The fans can’t lose.”
• Struggling Allyson Felix Squeezes Into 400m Semi-Finals As Last Time Qualifier Felix ran 52.20 and said, “I’m grateful to be back racing. Even though it wasn’t a great result for me, it’s a starting point. My biggest goal is next year. And I know that I’m capable. Now I have time on my side and I can get where I need to go.” *AP article On Felix
• Keturah Orji Becomes First Woman To Win Four Consecutive US Triple Jump Titles She jumped 14.56m to beat out Tori Franklin (14.36m).
• Ariana Ince Wins USA Javelin Title With 61.06m
• Sam Mattis Wins Discus WIth 66.69m To Make His First World Team
• AFP: Justin Gatlin And Christian Coleman Cruise Through First Round Of The 100m Gatlin had the second-fastest time of the day with 10.16 while Coleman (10.29) said he felt “pretty sloppy.”
• AP: Tribute Planned For Gabe Grunewald At USAs
• Fast Times And Fast Cars Are Michael Norman’s Favorites Ato Boldon says he thinks Norman will “scare or break” the world record this year.
• The Virginia Pilot: “After Turning Pro, Grant Holloway Eyes Spot On Team USA” “It’s something I’ve been training for my whole life and I’m ready to show the world that I’m here to stay and also here to be the next best hurdler.”
• NBC Sports Pre-Meet: “Allyson Felix Beings First Olympic Quest As Mom, Her Toughest Yet” Ato Boldon: “I’m not concerned about her form because I have inside information that Allyson Felix right now could probably win U.S. Nationals.”
  *Felix On Twitter: “Today I’ll step on the starting line for the first time in over a year. it might sound cliche, but making it there is a huge victory.”
• IAAF Day 1 USAs Recap

USA Preview /  LRC Founders’ Day Podcast

LRC Preview Of USAs, Brazier Vs. Murphy, Houlihan Vs. Simpson, Allyson Felix, And The 1,500/10,000 Double At Worlds What are you more excited about at USAs: men’s 800 or men’s 1,500? Can Craig Engels take down Centro? Subscribe today on itunes.

10,000 World Record Holder Almaz Ayana Opens Up About The Injury And Double Knee Surgery Which Kept Her Away From Racing For 19 Months Ayana wasn’t able to ditch the crutches until 3 months after surgery and didn’t start running at all until late last year. “I was afraid to run because I was scared of how my knees would respond. I didn’t know if I would feel pain.”

In Case You Missed It – Final Lap Men’s 5k in London

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

Justice Is Served

LRC USATF Ordered To Re-Pick Entire 2019 Pan Am Games Team Based On 2019 Comprehensive List LetsRun.com put up the $2,000 for this arbitration case to be held and with the help of pro bono lawyer David Greifinger prevailed. Those of you who wanted to contribute can now do so here.
*MB: USATF completely botches selection of 2019 Pan American Games team 

International News

• An Idiot’s GuideTo The IAAF Ranking System
• Scottish Athletics Announces Formation Of “Marathon Project” – Robert Hawkins Is Coach His two sons are already Olympians and the goal is to have a powerhouse team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
• Really? With Conseslus Kipruto Out Until August, Kenya Is Worried About Maintaining Its 28-Year Grip On The Men’s Steeple Title And Might Bring Ezekiel Kemboi Or Brimin Kipruto Out Of Retirement A Kenyan-born man has won every men’s world title since 1991 but we think this article is track and field’s version of fake news.
• Timothy Cheruiyot Will Refine Speed, Run 800 At This Weekend’s Kenya’s Prison Champs “I just want to thank God for the good health and form that I am enjoying at the moment. I want to run faster this season and I believe the two-lap race will enhance that course.”
• Japan’s World Junior Champ Miscounts Laps, Ends Up Just Missing National Record In 3,000 Nozomi Tanaka went for the Japanese 3,000 NR of 8:44.40. She looked to be have it but then faded on the last lap and came up 3.98 seconds short in 8:48.38.
• Japan’s Yoshihiko Ishikawa Breaks Badwater 135 Course Record By 23 Minutes, Then Drops On A Knee And Gets Engaged Patrycja Bereznowska of Poland took 90+ minutes off the women’s CR.
• Just 5 Days After Running 1:50, Australia’s Peter Bol Qualifies For Worlds With A 1:45

Pre-Meet London News

• The Lastest From London + Press Conference Highlights: Faith Kipyegon Is Out With An Adductor Injury Plus hear from Karsten Warholm, Andre De Grasse, Omar McLeod and Dina Asher-Smith.
• Five Questions For London DL
• British Discus Record Holder Lawrence Okoye Has Given Up His NFL Dreams And Will Return To Action In London Okoye was famously cut by the Arizona Cardinals for parking in the head coach’s parking spot and never played in a regular-season NFL game although he did play in the CFL.
• Laura Muir Says She’s In The Best “Form Of Her Life” “I feel like I’m probably PB shape. I feel like I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in … I certainly feel like I’m in my PB shape of 3:55.”
• Canada’s Gabriela DeBues-Stafford Has Been Setting National Record After Record This Year, And The 32-Year-Old 1,500 Record Appears Likely To Be Next In London
• Nice Feature On Andre de Grasse: “We’re not completely back to where we need to be.” His injuries are gone but his first 30 meters is a problem, says Rana Reider.
• Adam Gemili And Andre De Grasse Interview: How Sprinting’s Forgotten Men Are Trying To Come Back From Hamstring Injuries
• Zharnel Hughes Has Sights Set On Doha Double He ran 9.91 last year to win Euros but has only managed 9.97 this year.
• James Ellington Is Also Returning To Action In London He nearly died in a motorbike accident in 2017. His latest setback was an allergic reaction to a bee sting this week.
• Athletics Weekly: Ones To Watch At The Anniversary Games
• Dina Asher-Smith (Who Is Running London) Is Only Track Athlete To Make Sports Illustrated’s Fashionable 50 List How anyone thinks the picture on the right is fashionable is beyond us.
• Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Aims To Peak To Perfection

North American News

• 2019 Initial Sir Walter Miler Elite Fields Are Out *Men’s Field Announced *Women’s Field
• Vancouver’s John Gay Becomes 3rd Canadian To Hit Worlds Standard In Steeple, Runs 8:28.96 In Belgium And there is a 4th within .10 of it.
• Eric Edwards Jr., Who Won The PAC-12 110H Title As A Freshman, Is Transferring To LSU
• Sixty Years Ago, 54,000+ Showed Up In Philly (Over Two Days) To Watch The U.S.-Soviet Union Track Meet
• Alysha Newman Breaks Own Canadian Pole Vault Record 15-7.75 (4.77m) In Germany

Distance News

• Amy Cragg Talks About Her Preparation For This Year’s Chicago Marathon After Having To Withdraw With Injury In 2018 Cragg says after she pulled out of Chicago she started doing some focus on shorter distances and was just “hanging on” during workouts at BTC practices. She says everything is now focused on “protecting the goal of the [Olympic] qualifying standard” in Chicago.
• Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Former Coach Toni Minichiello Criticizes Kyle Langford’s Fine For Pushing An Official As Too Lienient “I’m gobsmacked at how lenient this is. It is a massive error of judgment by the disciplinary panel … I would have kicked them out of my training group.”
  *Former UKA Performance Director Dave Collins: “If Kyle had done this in a bar, such behavior could have got him nicked. Yes, it’s on a sporting field but what really is different here? The fine is derisory.”
• Outside: “Can The Oregon Project Change Its Image?” Many would consider Sifan Hassan‘s 8:18.49 the clean outdoor 3,000 WR since the only faster times were run by the Chinese women in 1993. But some still have questions on anyone associated with Alberto Salazar and NOP.