The US All-Time 5000m List Looks A Little Different This Morning

LRC Recap Woody Kincaid Burns Up Nike’s Famed Wooded Track with 12:58 PB for 5000 13:00 for Lopez, 13:01 for Centro. What a run by the Bowerman crew.

MB: Woody Kincaid 12:58, Lopez Lomong 13:00, Matthew Centrowitz 13:00 at Nike Track in Beaverton They were going for the Olympic standard (13:13.50) and hit it with ease. Kincaid (#5), Lomong (#9), and Centro (#10) all cracked the US all-time top 10.
*MB: The next American sub-13:00 5k runner is……..Woody Kincaid???

Ken Goe’s Recap: “Woody Kincaid, Lopez Lomong And Matthew Centrowitz Get The Olympic 5k Standard On A Surreal Night” Asked if he felt he was in 12:58 shape coming into the race, Kincaid was obviously shocked as he said, “I don’t know if I feel that I’m in 12:58 shape now.”

The Match: USA vs Europe *Results

• IAAF Day 2 Recap: Yuliya Levchenko Gets Upset HJ Win With 2.02m As Europe Defeats Team USA At The Match Levchenko gave Russia’s Mariya Lasitskene a rare defeat as she finished 3rd with 1.98m. Kate Grace set a 1500m PB to win in 4:02.49 and Ben Blankenship ran 7:57.48 to beat out Spain’s Adel Mechaal by .07 in the 3000m. Amel Tuka won the 800m in 1:46.77, Mondo Duplantis cleared 5.85m to lead a top-4 Europe sweep in the PV and Orlando Ortega beat Sergey Shubenkov in the 110H.
• USATF Recap: Field Event Prowess Lifts Team Europe To Victory Over Team USA At The Match Europe won 724.5 points to US’s 601.5.
• MB: Kate Grace Revenge Tour, Minsk: 1/2 second PB
• IAAF Day 1 Recap: Maksim Nedasekau Clears World Leading 2.35m To Highlight Field Action At The Match Josh Thompson took the 1500 in 3:38.88 to beat Jake Wightman by .02. Elise Cranny and Rachel Schneider went 1-2 in the 3000 (9:00.70 and 9:00.77) and after an overturned DQ, Hillary Bor (8:32.64) and Stanley Kebenei (8:33.65) went 1-2 in the steeple.
• US Sprinter Chris Belcher Apologizes For Slowing Down And Showboating On The Anchor Leg Of The 4×100 Belcher tweeted, “That’s not my style of running and I understand I ruined a chance for us to have a top time in the world for the 4×100. I am truly sorry and will never do it again.”
• European Athletics: Team Europe Amass A Narrow Lead After Day 1 Of The Match Team USA won 12 of 18 events, but is behind in the team scoring, 328 to 312.
• USATF Recap: Team USA Hungry For A Comeback Against Team Europe After Day 1 Of The Match
• MB: The Match: USA V. EUROPE DUAL MEET (Official Thread)

More Distance Results

• Sheila Chepkirui And Dorcas Kimeli Become Just The Second And Third Women To Run Under 30 Minutes; Geoffrey Koech Runs World-Leading 27:02 At Birell Prague 10k Koech’s time is tied with Haile Gebrselassie as 4th-fastest in history. Mathew Kimeli took 2nd in 27:07 while Bravin Kiptoo set an under-20 record with 27:12 in 3rd.
• Bahrain’s Marius Kimutai (2:09:43) And Ethiopia’s Belainesh Yami Gurmu (2:29:48) Win The Taiyuan International Marathon
• MB: Cole Sprout 14:38 5K in CO at Liberty Bell

2019 Brussels – AG Memorial Van Damme *Full Results *TV & Streaming

LRC On Top Of The World: Americans Ajee’ Wilson & Raevyn Rogers Go 1-2 In 2019 Diamond League 800m Final

LRC Women’s Recap: Sifan Hassan CRUSHES Field In 5k As Dina Asher-Smith Springs Upset In 100 Hassan was so good she now has a problem. Does she want to win 10k and 1,500 gold or 10k and 5k gold?

LRC Men’s Recap: Controversy In The Steeple, Dominance In The 1,500, & DL Titles For Young Stars Lyles & Norman Plus American Craig Engels becomes the 1st American to get the standard in the 1,500.

Brussels MB Talk

• Official 2019 Brussels DL Discussion Thread – Bye, bye to the 5k, Ajee goes for the 800 title, and much more
• Drama in men’s steeple final? Should Wale be DQd?
  
• My god. Change the schdule and let her triple at Worlds. Hassan CRUSHES 5000 at Brussels DL
  
• Craig Engels 3:34.04 for 5th in Brussels
  
• I’m sorry, with no shot of olympic gold in 1500, Engles needs to move to the steeple

Non DL Action: Kirani James IS BACK!!! Runs 44.47 in 1st race of year (and just 6th race since 2016 Olympics) in Spain

More Articles That We Found Interesting

• Professor Publishes Paper With Details On Ingebrigtsen’s Training – They Run Between 87 And 100 Miles Per Week (140k-160k) “They have been told from an early age by their father that there is no easy way to the top. They never take shortcuts, they train every day. Even on their wedding days Henrik and Filip did their training sessions.” – Tone Eva Tønnessen, mother of the Ingebrigtsens, talking about her sons.
• A Look At The Studs Who DIDN’T Qualify For The Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials
  *MB: Four 2:10 guys + one 2:09 guy didn’t make the Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials nor did three sub-2:29 women (1 at 2:26, 1 at 2:27 and 1 at 2:28).
• A Detailed Look At The NOP’s Suguru Osako’s Chances Of Making The Japanese Olympic Marathon Team The race is on September 15th.
• Some Countries Are Freaking Out As They Are Learning The Gyms In Their Doha Hotals Are Sex-Segregated So Physios Will Not Be Able To Work With Opposite-Sexed Athletes
• NAZ Elite’s Alice Wright And Steph Bruce Are Both Doing Chicago But They Can’t Always Work Out Together As Bruce’s Reps Are 10 Seconds Faster The article also says Rory Linkletter will debut in Toronto.
• Free Mo Farah Wall Papers For Your Phone / Computer
• Bolt Finds Kellerman’s Comments About Track “Disrespectful”

Our Weekly Podcast

LRC Podcast Christian Coleman Cleared, Donavan Brazier Makes History, Drew Hunter Out, Bekele, Farah, Rupp, Kipchoge Marathon Talk, Brussels Diamond League Final Preview Plus transgender running talk, ultra talk and the return of Rojo.

*MB: Christian Coleman’s Father Listens To LRC Podcast, Then Takes To Message Board To Slam LetsRun.com Co-Founder Robert Johnson For His Take On Coleman Situation – Calls Rojo “Unprofessional, Irresponsible Hack And An Idiot” He wasn’t happy that Rojo said Coleman should be drug tested every day for the rest of his career.

Kellerman Controversy

ESPN’s Max Kellerman Slams Track Athletes Saying They’re “Usually Failed Football And Basketball Players” Canadian Running Magazine hits back and explains all the things Kellerman got wrong about track.

• Carl Lewis Calls Out Max Kellerman For “Trolling Just For Attention”
• Matthew Boling Roasts Max Kellerman For Being A Failed Musician
• MB: Max Kellerman is an idiot, but are we missing the point?
• Opinion Piece: “Max Kellerman Is An Idiot”
• MB: ESPN Analyst, Max Kellerman, Disrespects Usain Bolt and the SPORT OF TRACK & FIELD
• MB: Max Kellerman sucks

Jamaican Sprint Stuff

• Usain Bolt Promotes Olympe Rosé Champagne With New Music Video Bolt himself featured prominently in the video.
• Sad News: Jamaican Sprinter And NAIA Indoor 400m Champion Twayne Crooks Dies From Cancer At Age 23
• The Guardian Reviews New Track Movie, “Sprinter” “A Jamaican athlete’s career is jeopardised by problems off the track in this heartwarming tale of ambition and family ties.”

USADA Drops Case Against Christian Coleman

LRC Why Was Christian Coleman Cleared? We Explain Everything You Need To Know About His USADA Case Coleman was cleared after a careful reading of the WADA rules. But had one of his tests begun just one minute earlier, he could have been staring at a two-year ban. *Discuss

USADA Clears Christian Coleman To Compete In Whereabouts Violation Case

News From The IAAF

• Bernard Lagat Among Candidates Announced For IAAF Athletes’ Commission Elections There are 15 nominees for 6 available seats. Other nominees include Valerie Adams, Kevin Borlée, Renaud Lavillenie, Aisha Praught-Leer and  Katerina Stefanidi.
• Chorzow, Poland Will Host The 2021 IAAF World Relay Championships
• Economic Impact Study Reveals Success Of World XC Champs In Aarhus Earlier This Year The study found that there was a direct economic impact of more than $4.7 million.
• IAAF Bans Russian Racewalker Yekaterina Medvedeva For 8 Years Medvedeva had a previous ban from 2013.
• Need A Job? IAAF Hiring A Lead Counsel For Sports And Business Law

UK News

• GB Name 72-Strong Team For 2019 Doha World Championships Dina Asher-Smith, Zharnel Hughes and Adam Gemili lead the sprints while the distance squad includes Laura Muir, Andrew Butchart, Josh Kerr, Callum Hawkins, Eilish McColgan, Steph Twell and Lynsey Sharp.
• Neil Black On Mo Farah Not Going To Doha In The 10,000: “Would I have been surprised if he had called me yesterday morning and said I really want to run in the 10,000? I wouldn’t have been. But he didn’t.”
• Illness Forces Marathon Runner Dewi Griffiths Out Of GB World Team Griffiths says he’s been suffering from unexplained tiredness and headaches which have stopped him from training.
• Kyle Langford Named To Team GB Despite Shoving Official Incident UKA performance director Neil Black said, “The discussions in the selection meeting focused purely on performance.”
• Katarina Johnson-Thompson: “I moved to France, split up with my boyfriend, changed my coach … I changed my life.” Johnson-Thompson talks about the lengths she went to make a change after a string of disappointing championship performances, culminating with a sixth-place finish at Rio 2016.
• AW Weekly Round-Up: Sprinter Asha Philip Got The World Standard To Secure Her Spot On Team GB By Tying Her PR With 11.10 At ISTAF Berlin Meet
• Athletics Weekly Gives Highlights From The England Under-17 And Under-15 Championships

Running Training 101

LRC Running 101: Six Keys To Becoming A Better Runner The basics of running explained with a high schooler in mind from Wejo.
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