Falmouth Is This Weekend *Mile broadcast is 5 pm ET Sat *Free Live Broadcast at 8:30 am ET Sunday

LRC After a Year of Ups and Downs, Josh Thompson & Cory McGee Stay Red Hot and Claim 2019 Falmouth Mile Titles Earlier this year, Thompson ran 9:02 for the steeple but now he’s one of America’s best in the 1500. As for McGree, just weeks ago she was DQd at USAs. But both have been running amazing of late and it continued tonight at Falmouth.
*MB: Official 2019 Falmouth Mile and Road Race Discussion Thread

• 2019 is the 1st Falmouth without legendary race founder Tommy Leonard Back in the 70s and 80s, the bartender at the Eliot Lounge had Red Sox pitchers and the world’s best runners loving his company.
• Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Toni Reavis, Bob Hodge and others remember Leonard in New England Runner.
• Toni Reavis’ 47th NB Falmouth Road Race Men’s Preview Reavis expect a Kenyan-born, but NCAA trained athlete to win – either Sambu, Cheserek or Leonard Korir.

Birmingham DL Is Sunday *Schedule & Results *TV & Streaming (9- 11 AM ET)

LRC2019 Birmingham DL Preview: British Teen Phenoms, Craig Engels Tries For First Euro Win, & Christian Coleman Engels has never run a DL race in Europe, and though this isn’t a DL points race, there are three guys who have run 3:31 or fast this year. Plus Ajee’ Wilson, Kate Grace and Melissa Bishop in the women’s 800 but the highlight of the meet may be a loaded women’s 200.

• The latest updates from Birmingham including press conference video
• A look at the DL points race for all 13 of the scoring events in Birmingham
• Christian Coleman WITHDRAWS from Birmingham No reason given but the tweet says he was “forced” to withdraw.
• 15 Jamaicans including SAFP, Danielle Williams and Yohan Blake are in Birmingham
• Natoya Goule reveals about how she went from a 1:59 also-ran to a 1:56 contender last year “I started taking my long runs seriously,” the Jamaican tells me. “I used to train hard on the track but on long runs I didn’t monitor it with my watch, I just went out and ran.
• Matthew Hudson-Smith will race for the 1st time all year in his hometown of Birmingham after battling injuries
• Nafissatou Thiam: World’s Best Heptathlete Praises Her Mom Her mom raised her and three siblings solo after splitting with her Senegalese father. Her mom, who is a world champ at the Masters level, also got her into athletics. Thiam is doing the LJ in Birmingham.
• More UK NewsSophie Hitchon Gives Up On Disastrous 2019 Season To Get Ready For 2020 The Olympic hammer bronze medalist was only 10th at the European team champs last week.

Articles That We Found Interesting

• Meet Joe Whelan – The Guy Who Was Working 30-70 Hours A Week As A Texas Ranch Hand – But Still Managed To Run 2:13 At CIM
• Alexa Efraimson Missed A Lot of Time Before USA With An Injury – PRP Therpy Got Her Back For Medal At Pan Ams The article says she was in 4-flat shape based on her workouts.
• Sponsorship Scorecard From USAs: Nike 124, adidas 53, Hoka 30, Brooks 26, New Balance 21, Saucony 6, Asics 7, Puma 3, Under Armour 2, Reebok 2.
  *MB: How much longer must we tolerate New Balance’s sexism? NB sponsored 19 women, 2 men at USAs
• Sexism Is Real: Only 7 Of 54 African Athletics Member Federations Now Have Women In Top Decision-Making Positions – A Look At 2 Of Them
• 1972 Olympic Trials Marathoner Dave Russell Sells Pair Of 1972 Nikes For At Least $50k To A Eugene Hotel
• Catching Up With Britain’s 1st Olympic Black Gold Medalist, Tessa Sanderson, 35 Years After Her Javelin Gold In LA “Some think if you’re over 50, you’re done. No forget it, we’re there to kick ass,” says Sanderson, who has fairly recently adopted children.
• Athletics Weekly: Older Runners, You Should Really Work On Your Balance

4 Recommended Reads

• Fantastic Read:UT’s Jonathan Jones, Who Ran 44.63 As A Freshman This Year, Started His Career As A 1,500/3k Guy
  *MB: HOLY SHI*: UT freshman Jonathan Jones who ran 44.63 this year ran 1:48.16 at age 17!! And started his career as 1,500/3k guy 
• JRN: One Month Until The Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials – A Quick Breakdown Of Who Made The Trials And How It Will Work The top 2 are guaranteed to make the team but the third placer will get axed if someone runs sub-2:05:49 or 2:22:22 this winter.
• 3 Years Ago, Beatie Deutsch Was A Non-Runner And Mother Of 4; Now She’s The Israeli National Marathon Champ And Mother Of 5 With hopes of making it to Tokyo 2020.
• A Year Later: Dave Devine Takes An In Depth Look At The Senseless Death Of Kristian Marche He was set to depart for Penn State the very next day on a track scholarship but got between two teenage burglars behind his house and was murdered.

More Links That Meet The Standards Of The LRC Algorithm Human Editor

• Stephen Schwarzman Gives Out $829,000 To US Track Athletes, Including $25k Each To Brazier, Chelimo, Engels, Houlihan, Sisson He’s giving nearly $3 million out in total.
• Chip Kelly Is Happy Defensive Lineman Otito Ogbonnia Also Stars In Track And Field As A SP/Discus Guy “That track background that he has has been really beneficial to him as a football player, and I think his work as a football player has been beneficial to him as a track guy, so I think it really goes hand in hand,” said Kelly of the USATF and Pan AM U20 gold medalist in the SP.
• Akani Simbine Wants To Win World 100 Gold To Show “… the world that a South African boy can be the best in the world.”

Depressing Mid-Week News

• Former Welsh National Athletics Coach And UK Indoor 1,500 Champ Phil Banning Jailed For 7.5 Years After Admitting To “Regime Of Sexual Abuse” Against Teenage Girls In 1970s And ’80s He abused girls as young as 10, sometimes with his wife in the other room. *AW
• Kenya’s Track Team For African Games In Morocco Is Thrown Out Of Hotel Rooms (But Prevented From Leaving) For Not Paying For Rooms World champ Julius Yego was not happy.
• Doping Controversies Move To The Trail:3 Of The Top 7 Finishers At Sierre-Zinal Had Tested Positive In The Past

NCAA Updates

• MB:NCAA 1,500m champ Sinclaire Johnson going pro Johnson finished 4th at USAs with a 4:03.72 PR and will be represented by Ricky Simms.
• Three Men’s 110 Hurdlers Transferring From Oregon USATF U20 champ Eric Edwards Jr. is transferring to Louisiana State, 2018 PAC-12 champ Braxton Canady to Florida State and NCAA qualifier Joseph Anderson to a school TBD.
• MB:Bobby Lockhart as new Cal XC/Distance coach