August 8, 2019 | LetsRun.com

Pan Am Games Underway Results TV And Streaming

2019 Pan Am Games Official Thread Natoya Goule wins 800 over Rose Almanza. Canada’s Natasha Wodak won the 10,000 in 31:55. Athing Mu was eliminated in the 800. Mexico’s Fernando Martínez won the 5,000 in 13:58.
IAAF Wednesday Recap: Brazil’s Darlan Romani Sets Games Record To Win Shot Put In 22.07m Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson (11.18) and USA’s Mike Rodgers (10.09) won the 100m titles while Canada’s Damian Warner took the decathlon. Cuba’s Juan Miguel Echevarria won the LJ with 8.27m.
The Gleaner: Elaine Thompson Takes Pan Am 100m Gold In Stride While Natoya Goule Creates History In 800m Goule is the first Jamaican to win a medal in the women’s 800m at the Pan Am Games.
USATF Wednesday Pan Am Highlights
IAAF Tuesday Recap: Cuba’s Yaime Pére Set A Meet Record In The Discus With A 66.58m Victory Jamaica’s Fedrick Dacres also set a Games record winning the men’s discus in 67.68m. British Virgin Islands won their first Pan Am medal ever from Chantel Malone in the LJ (6.68m).
USATF Tuesday Pan Am Highlights
Profile On USA’s Sarah Pagano Ahead Of Pan Am Games 10,000

Assorted Distance News

Jared Ward Blogs About Why He Is Running NYC Rather Than Skipping A Fall Marathon To “Save Up” For The 2020 Trials Ward gives a list of reasons, but this is definitely a key one: ” The 1-2 marathons/year that I run account for roughly half of my annual income. Coming off a good New York Marathon last fall and a great Boston present unique financial incentives to run.”
Cory McGee Talks About Rebounding From USATF Champs DQ To Win The Sir Walter Miler “I’m really happy with a win, but at the same time it made me a little bit sad to wonder how USAs would have gone had I been able to be in the final.”
14-Year-Old Kate Peters Runs 1:16 Half-Marathon She’s also recently ran 16:49 for 5000m and 9:55 for 3000m. She has access to Nike training facilities through her father who works in IT and she has designed her own summer training program running 60 miles a week.
*MB: 14 y/o girl runs 1:16 half-marathon
Start Time For Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Marathons Brought Forward To Combat Heat They’re moving from 7AM to 6:30AM.

Abbott World Marathon Major News

LRC 2019 TCS New York City Marathon Elite Fields Released: 4 Thoughts On This Year’s Race, Which Includes US Olympians Des Linden And Jared Ward The good news is the women’s race has some real firepower up front with 3 reigning major champions who have all run sub-2:19. The bad news is the men’s race will set a record low in terms of depth for a recent Abbott World Marathon Major.
*MB: 2019 TCS NYC New York City Marathon Field Released – Mary Keitany, Lelisa Desisa + Desi & Jared Ward Are In Included.

LRC Rosie Ruiz – The Most Famous Marathon Cheat In History – Has Died At Age 66 For 8 days, Ruiz was the 1980 Boston Marathon winner. Then it came out that she only ran the final half mile of the course.
*MB: Did Rosie Ruiz Die This Week?

Des Linden Is A Bit Jaded About The Olympics After The Doping Busts From The Rio Marathon “Quite frankly, the last experience is a hard sell to get back out there to try to compete for medals when you’re not even really sure what the field is all about.”

Sprint Stuff: A Former Olympic Champ Hangs ‘Em Up

Australia’s 2012 Olympic 100H Champ Sally Pearson Retires, Effective Immediately The 32-year-old said that she’s had six injuries this year and doesn’t think her body would make it to Tokyo 2020. The news is surprising as she had given no indication she was considering retiring and was being announced for upcoming meets just a few days ago.

GB’s Olympic 4 X 400 Bronze Medalist Eilidh Doyle Announces Her Season Is Over After Revealing She’s Pregnant The 32-year-old says she’s due in January and isn’t planning on retiring yet.

This Weekend’s Action

Konstanze Klosterhalfen Crushes NR And PR … Runs Solo 14:26! Second place in the race was 15:19!
*MB: Epic German TV blunder? Did German TV totally mis-ID Konstanze Klosterhalfen’s mom in middle of her record run?

40-Year-Old Lisa Weightman Nabs $17,000 For Breaking Australian All Comers Record In Half Marathon By Clocking 68:48 The money will help a lot as she’s currently unsponsored. In the men’s race, Jack Rayner crossed the finish line minutes before anyone else but was DQed for running 40m short.
Sam Parsons 2nd At German 5k Champs
Malaika Mihambo Improves Her Own World Long Jump Lead To 7.16m To Win German Champs
Chris O’Hare (3:54.81) And Cory McGee (4:27.97) Win 2019 Sir Walter Miler Titles In The Rain
Alex Korio (27:34) And J. Jepkosgei (31:05) DESTROY Beach To Beacon Fields As Emily Infeld Returns To Action In 4th (32:39) It was Infeld’s first race since February of 2018. Top American honors for the men went to Scott Fauble in 6th (28:59) as top non-African born honors went to Brett Robinson in 4th (28:43). Chris Derrick, Abdi, Bumbalough, Sharon Lokedi and others raced as well.
*For 1st Time In Its 22-Year-History, Beach To Beacon Had Drug Testing This Year Aisling Cuffe got woken up at 5:37 AM on Friday.
Jakob I Runs 3.36.33 Solo At The Norwegian Championship
China’s Newly-Minted 19.88 Sprinter Xie Zhenye Comes From Behind To Win 100 Trials Over Su Bingtian (10.03 To 10.19)

RIP World’s First Sub-2:14 Marathoner – Basil Heatley (2:13:55 In 1964) – Dies At Age 85

Caster Semenya Legal Update From Amby Burfoot

LRC After Latest Swiss Court Ruling, The Odds Are Against Caster Semenya Guest column by former Boston Marathon champ Amby Burfoot.
*Paper in India: European Court Of Human Rights May Well Be The Last Court Of Appeal To Overturn The Restrictions Placed On Semenya We disagree. It’s not a human right to compete in a restricted category of professional sports.

Medical News

More US Distance News

Bryce Hoppel Announces He’s Turning Pro After making the Worlds team, Hoppel has decided he will forgo his final year of eligibility at Kansas.
Friday Night In Raleigh, NC: Final Fields Set For 2019 Sir Walter Miler Brit Chris O’Hare leads the men’s mile along with Eric Avila, Sam Prakel while the women are led by Lauren Johnson, Heather Kampf, Stephanie Garcia and Cory McGee. *Live Results *Meet Home *Race Day Info (Live Stream With FloTrack Subscription)
A US Road Race That Got Overlooked During USAs: World Half Marathon Record Holder Joyciline Jepkosgei Wins Bix 7 Miler In 36:04 She beat fellow Kenyan Vicoty Chepngeno by 4 seconds.
*Kenya’s Leonard Barsoton Pulls Away To Win Bix 7 Miler In 32:34 He beat Boilermaker winner Gabiel Geay (32:40) as well as 7:58 steepler Jarius Birech (32:51) and Stephen Sambu (33:05).
Alexi Pappas Credits Her Father As Having A Critical Role In Her Career As She Trains To Try To Make Tokyo 2020 In The Marathon Pappas’ father raised her and her brother as a single parent after the suicide of her mother when Pappas was just four.
*MB: Alexi Pappas article in SF Examiner

Upcoming Summer Action In Europe

August 18: Christian Coleman Announced For Birmingham DL 100m He’ll be up against Andre de Grasse, Yohan Blake, Adam Gemili and Akani Simbine.
August 9-11: Final Entries Available For European Team Championships First League In Norway There will be a strong showing from the home team with Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1,500m, Henrik Ingebrigtsen in the 3,000m) and Filip Ingebrigtsen in the 5,000m.
August 9-11: Entries Available For Euro Team Championships Super League In Poland Gesa Felicitas Krause leads the German team in the steeplechase.
August 10-11: Olympic Discus Champ Sandra Perkovic Highlights Entries At European Team Championships Second League In Croatia Euro 10,000m champ Lonah Chemtai Salpeteris doing the 3,000/5,000m double for Israel.
September 7: Sally Pearson Announced For Great North CityGames
This Fall In South America: GB Team Named For World Long Distance Mountain Running Champs In Argentina

Podcast

LRC Bryce Hoppel’s Dad, The GM Of Midland Rockhounds, Joins Us To Discuss Marketing Track, Baseball, And His Son Going Pro + Rosie Ruiz RIP, Koko Runs 14:26, Pan Am Games, Rudisha Update Subscribe today on itunes or listen below or at link above.

Week That Was

LRC WTW: Koko Goes 14:26, How Damn Hot Will It Be For Tokyo Olympics? Sam Kendricks Sets American Record Emily Infeld ran her first race in a year and a half, Koko went 14:26, and a cool video with Sam Kendricks.

IAAF Inside Athletics Video Interview With Colombia’s Olympic TJ Champ Caterine Ibarguen “The passion has always existed. It’s something that runs in my veins. When I compete, I feel happiness, I feel a connection with the crowd, like they can feel what’s on my mind.”

More Recent European Results

MB: Multi Time World Cross Country Skiing Champion And Doper Therese Johaug Wins 10,000 At Norway Champs Video shows her winning in 32:20.86 and then going to the ground in lane 1, almost causing a collision with a lapped runner behind her.
Karsten Warholm Won The 400m (45.54) And 400H (47.43) At Norwegian Champs
IAAF Go Through Some Highlights From Germany, Norway, Turkey, China And Nigeria National Champs
European Champion Michal Haratyk Throws Polish Shot Put Record Of 22.32m
Birchfield Men And Thames Valley Women Retain Their National League Titles In The UK

Pro Contract News

Bryce Hoppel Explains Why It Was The Right Time To Turn Pro Hoppel said it wasn’t an opportunity he could pass up and that the Kansas coaches encouraged him to do it.
37-Year-Old Jenn Suhr Signs New 3-Year Deal With adidas Suhr said in a Twitter post, “I will finish my 17-year career with the same agent (Global Athletics), the same shoe company (adidas), and the same coach!”
Bowling Green State Grad Rachel Walny Signs Pro Contract With Elite Runner Management Walny was 23rd at 2018 NCAA XC Champs.

Interesting Reads

August 2nd Is The Date Of The Women’s Olympic Marathon In Tokyo 2020 – Find Out Why Here Kinue Hitomi was Japan’s 1st ever Olympic medalist on that date in 1928 and she also died on that date in 1931. She set world records in the 100, 200, LJ, TJ and won an Olympic silver in the 800. *Wikipedia
Brett Larner Runs Tokyo 2020 Olympic Marathon Course Exactly 1 Year Out From Race And Finds It’s Going To Be Hot As Hell Virtually the entire run was run in 85+ heat (30+ C) with a humidity over 70%. *Video
*How Much Does Heat Slow Your Race Pace? According to the article, 85-degree weather would be more than 6 minutes slower in a marathon than 59.
NCAA 400m Champ Wadeline Jonathas Went All-Out In An 800 Time Trial At 1st Day Of Practice And Ran Herself Into Hospital She showed up at South Carolina as a 9-time DIII champ with a 52.81 PR and now is the NCAA DI champ and made it to Worlds and has run 50.44.
Charlene Rendina Honors Catriona Bisset For Breaking Her Australian 800 Record After 43 Years

Track News

TFN: Lopez Lomong Is Defying Age Conventions And Is 1st American To Win 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 At USAs
Random, But Cool Bryce Hoppel’s Dad Is The GM Of The Oakland A’s AA Team In Midland, TX His sister played for the 35-0 2016 NCAA Division 2 national championship Lubbock Christian women’s basketball team.
Athletics Weekly Lists 10 Women To Watch At The Doha 2019 And Sydney McLaughlin Make The List But Dalilah Muhammad Doesn’t
Three Brits Swept The 800 Medals At Euro U20s Last Month – Can They Follow In Footsteps Of Seb Coe, Steve Cram, And Steve Ovett? We’ll go with no, although 1:46.84 at 18 isn’t too shabby and Max Burgin (1:45.36 at 17) isn’t even one of the three.
Brent Fougner Announces Retirement After 31 Years At The Helm Of The University Of Victoria Vikes Cross-Country And Track Team; Hilary Stellingwerff Steps In As Interim Head Coach
European Team Champs Are In The Ingebrigtsens’ Hometown Next Week So All 3 Will Be Playing A Big Role Jakob is in the 1,500m with Henrik and Filip contesting the 3,000m and 5,000m respectively.
*August 9-11: Final Entries Available For European Team Championships First League In Norway

Doping News

Kenyan Athletes Speak Anonymously To Explain Why Hey Resort To Doping “If people stop cheating, I’ll stop. I cheat because others have cheated,” said one runner who also admitted to purposely finishing outside the top-3 if there was drug testing at a race.
*MB: ‘I cheat because others cheat’: Kenya struggles against doping
Premier League Soccer Player Mamadou Sakho Is Suing WADA For $16 Million Over Claims A Doping Test Damaged His Career Sakho was suspended in April 2016 for testing positive for the fat-burning substance higenamine, but the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) cleared Sakho saying that higenamine wasn’t explicitly on the banned list.

Multi-Event News

IAAF Profile On Germany’s Euro U23 Decathlon Champ Niklas Kaul Kaul talks about how important it is for multi-eventers to work on their weak events because that’s where the most points can be gained.
August 18: World And Olympic Champion Nafissatou Thiam Will Take On World Indoor Pentathlon Champ Katarina Johnson-Thompson At The Birmingham Grand Prix Long Jump

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

Upcoming DL Action

August 18: WR Holder Keni Harrison Takes On World Leader Danielle Williams In Birmingham 100 Hurdles The field also includes Olympic champ Brianna McNeal, NCAA champ Janeek Brown and two-time world indoor champ Nia Ali.
Katerina Stefanidi And Jenn Suhr Lead Stack Pole Vault Field For The Birmingham DL Meet Others competing include New Zealand’s #3 all-time Eliza McCartney, USA’s Katie Nageotte and Cuba’s former world champ Yarisley Silva.
Stacked Women’s 200m Set For Birmingham Diamond League The field includes Olympic 400m champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo, double. Olympic champ Elaine Thompson, two-time world champ Dafne Schippers and triple European champion Dina Asher-Smith.
August 24: World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm And Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson Announced For Paris Diamond League Thompson will face African champion Marie-Josee Ta Lou and Dafne Schippers.

Better Running Shoes

LRC Top 10 Most Comfortable Running Shoes As Rated By You We got over 1,500+ shoe reviews last month and decided to do something with them. People rate shoes different ways but when we ask them what they want they often say “comfort.”

Track/NFL Crossovers

Good Read: Former All-American Shot Putter Austin Droogsma Is Trying To Make It In The NFL Droogsma didn’t play any football in college, but one day got a random call from the NY Giants to come try out. Now he has a three-year $1.7 million contract and is working to earn a place on the team (But the dream was short lived as the Giants have cut Droogsma).
RIP Former 10.0 NCAA Sprinter And Three-Time Super Bowl Champion Cliff Branch Running for Colorado, Branch ran 10.0 in the semis at the 1972 NCAA Championships and finished 5th in the final.

LRC Exclusives

LRC WTW: 2019 Is The Greatest Year In US Women’s 1,500 History, Meet Two US Studs You’ve Never Heard Of – Heather MacLean And Robert Downs – And More Plus Andy Bayer actually made a US team, Mo Ahmed owns Justyn Knight and marathon madness at Pan Ams.
*MB: Fact: 2019 is the greatest year in US women’s 1500 history

LRC Remember Amy Cragg? With The Olympic Trials Looming, The World Championships Medalist Is Heading To Chicago – Her 1st Marathon In 19 Months The 5th-fastest American in history thinks she can still PR at age 35. She also reveals that that she thinks the Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% shoes have helped her a lot.
*MB: Amy Cragg on Zoom Vapofly 4% Shoes: “I think they’re worth a lot..they kind of save your legs in training.”

Road News

4-Time US Olympian Abdi Abdirahman Is Developing A Race In His Native Somalia “It’s the Rift Valley of Somalia. There are so many kids there who never had a chance.” *Toni Reavis’ Mom And Dad Got Married 10 Days After They Knew Each Other
Even Though She Got A Green Card And Relocated her family to Boulder, Edna Kiplagat Is Thrilled To Represent Kenya And Go For A 3rd World Title In Doha
October’s Valencia Trinidad Alfonso EDP Half Marathon Will Feature A €70,000 (US$77,700) World Record Bonus Plus an additional €30,000 (US$33,300) bonus if the men’s winner breaks the 58-minute barrier or if the women’s winner dips under 1:04:30.
$17,000 Bonus On Line If Any Aussie Sets All-Comers Record This Weekend At Sunshine Coast Half Marathon The records belong to Pat Carroll at 1:01:11 and Lisa Weightman at 1:09:00.
AW: There Is A Growing Body Of Evidence Of The Physiological And Psychological Benefits Of Exercise Both During Treatment And Post-Cancer Treatment
Now That He’s Graduated From Iowa State, Big 12 5,000 Champ Dan Curts Is Pumped To Excel At Beach To Beacon This Weekend

Sprint Stuff

People: Natasha Hastings Talks About Why She “Struggled” To Accept Her Pregnancy At First She had fears of how it would affect her career, but says she was happy her sponsor, Under Armour, has continued to support her.
MB: Allyson Felix Signs Sponsorship Deal With Ahleta The contract includes “full protection during maternity.She wore Athleta clothing during USAs, but continues to wear Nike spikes.
IAAF Inside Athletics Podcast Interview With Sydney McLaughlin
Blessing Okagbare Slams Nigerian Federation For Shoddy Plans For All Africa Games And Not Enough Financial Support For Athletes
Spikes: Noah Lyles Writes Letter To His Inspiration, His Mom
AP: Allyson Felix Competes For Medals, Campaigns For Motherhood
Briana Williams Wins 200m In 23.70 At Belfast International GB’s Adam Gemili won the men’s 200 in 20.63.
BBC Podcast Interview With Michael Johnson Johnson talks about what it takes to be one of the greatest of all time.

Temperatures In Tokyo Hit 86 F (30 C) At 6AM One Year Out From The Olympic Marathon

The IAAF Look Back At Some Very Close Finishes At Past World Championships Just .01 separated the three medalists at in the 2003 world 100m final while Mare Dibaba won the 2015 marathon by just one second.

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”