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Quote Of The Day

“It is very emotional for me to set this record. And doing it in Copenhagen, where I won my first world title, adds something to it.”

– Geoffrey Kamworor speaking after running 58:01 in Copenhagen to break the half marathon world record.

Kamworor Takes Down The WR

Geoffrey Kamworor Breaks Half Marathon World Record With 58:01 In CopenhagenKamworor ran splits of 13:53 (5k), 27:34 (10k), 41:05 (15k) and 55:00 (20k) to break the record by 17 seconds. Five other men finished inside 60 minutes with Bernard Kipkorir taking second in 59:16. 2018 Tokyo Marathon champ Birhane Dibaba won the women’s race in 65:57 to beat out Evaline Chirchir (66:22). *Discuss

World Champs Start September 27th

IAAF Will Use “Ground-Breaking Technology” For The 2019 World Champs Broadcast Their release says that they have “an array of new cameras that will provide innovative angles on the competition and behind-the-scenes pictures that have never been shown to the audience before.” For example, there will be cameras in the starting blocks.
Former Olympic PV Champ Yelena Isinbayeva Hopes RusAF Suspension Can Be Lifted Before World Champs With reports of banned coaches still working with athletes and allegations that RusAF forged paperwork to help HJer Danil Lysenko avoid a ban, it’s not likely that Russia will be unbanned in the next two weeks.
IAAF: State Of The Art Mondotrack Ready To Welcome Athletes At Doha 2019 Includes a cool time lapse video of the track being installed at the Khalifa Stadium.
The IAAF Look Back At Five World Records Set At The World ChampionshipsUsain Bolt‘s 9.58 and 19.19 at Berlin 2009 is definitely one of the most memorable world champs performances.
The IAAF Looks Back At Five Home Winners At The World Championships Japan’s Hiromi Taniguchi actually won the marathon when Tokyo hosted in 1991.
400 Hurdler Thomas Barr Highlights Provisional Irish World Team Only five who had the standards have been announced so far, but others who were close should also get in.

Hayward Field Construction Updates

The Oregonian: The New Hayward Field Is Taking Shape And It Will Be ImposingKen Goe writes that “UO track athletes will have virtually every need contained within the stadium including “meeting rooms, treatment rooms, locker rooms, an athletes’ lounge, an amphitheater and even a barber shop.”
Register-Guard: Robert Johnson Beams Over New Hayward Field Facility Johnson says he can’t wait to get the “Hayward Field magic” back. “I’ve been on the recruiting trail talking to kids about that Hayward magic and it dawned on me that we haven’t had a track meet here in two years …”
Critics Of The New Hayward Field Say It Overpowers The Surrounding Neighborhood And Campus Buildings

Christian Coleman Talks And We Listen

LRC Christian Coleman Releases YouTube Video About Whereabouts Failures, Criticizes USADA & Media, Says He Has Never Failed A Test “And Never Will” Coleman ripped USADA, which he accused of trying to land a “big fish” and says the whole episode cost him at least $150,000 in earnings.
*MB: Robert Johnson is an unprofessional, irresponsible hack and an idiot … and I have no problem tell him to his face
*MB: World’s fastest man Christian Coleman faces potential whereabouts failure ban for 3 missed drug tests

Big Collegiate News

LRC The Race For The Ages That No One Knows About: The US (NAU) And Japanese Collegiate Champs (Tokai) Just Raced Each Other In Cross-Country Last Weekend. Here’s What Happened. And the narrow 25-to-30 victory went to …
*MB: Just saw GREATEST Intl’ collegiate men’s XC race ever?

The Oregonian: Vin Lananna Opens Up About Leaving Oregon To Become Track Coach At The University Of Virginia Lananna says that he has realized he has missed coaching and working directly with athletes, but says he has no intention of resigning his USATF presidency.

MB: Vin Lananna Hired as Director of T&F/XC at University of Virginia

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.”

The Japanese Marathon Grand Championship *Results

LRCShogo Nakamura Wins WILD And THRILLING Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials As Honami Maeda Crushes Women’s Field We expected the first Marathon Grand Championship to be the most dramatic marathon of the year and the men’s race more than lived up to the hype as it had an incredible blowup, an incredible finish and much more.
*MB: The Most Dramatic Marathon of The Year is Saturday – Official 2019 Japanese Marathon Grand Championship Discussion Thread

Vin Lananna Is Back

LRC Vin Lananna Speaks To LRC: On Why He Took The Virginia Job, Building Programs, & Winning NCAA XC With 3 Scholarships At Stanford Lananna says his goal is for UVA to be contending for national titles within 5 years and that he plans to be very hands-on when it comes to coaching: “I am gonna be the coach. I didn’t go here to be the administrator.”

News From The Caribbean

Bahamas Association President Says They Are In Jeopardy Of Not Sending A Team To Worlds Due To Lack Of Funds They say they proposed a budge of $116,000, but were only granted $25,000 by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.
Veronica Campbell-Brown’s Statue To Be Unveiled On October 20th In Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago Team Named For Doha 2019 World 200m bronze medalist Jareem Richards, 2012 Olympic javelin champ Keshorn Walcott and former world 100m bronze medalist Kelly-Ann Baptiste lead the squad.

Countries Start To Name Their Teams For Doha

Briana Williams Named To Jamaican World Team Despite Still Being Provisionally Suspended In Doping Case Her trial is set for September 23-25, so will end just two days before the start of Worlds. JAAA head Warren Blake said, “The window is really very tight, but we firmly believe in the principle of innocent until proven guilty …” But we wonder if they’d be this accommodating for a less high profile athlete? *2nd Article
Sprint Stars Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson And Omar McLeod Lead Jamaica’s Team For Doha
Ethiopia Select Team Of 37 For World Champs Muktar Edris will try to defend in the 5000, Yomif Kejelcha and Almaz Ayana in the 10,000s, Genzebe Dibaba in the 1,500, Hagos Gebrihwet and Selemon Barega are listed in both the 5k and 10k.
Long Jumper Jazmin Sawyers And Sprinter Imani-lara Lansiquot Added To GB’s World Champs Squad Lansiquot got in thanks to Dina Asher-Smith getting an auto spot by winning the Diamond League final.
Japan Announces Doha World Championship Team Yuki Kawauchi is in the marathon squad.
Australia Names Team Of 57 Athletes For Doha 2019

The US All-Time 5,000m List Has 3 New Additions

LRC RecapWoody Kincaid Burns Up Nike’s Famed Wooded Track With 12:58 PR For 5,00013:00 for Lopez, 13:01 for Centro. What a run by the Bowerman crew.

Thread:Woody Kincaid 12:58, Lopez Lomong 13:00, Matthew Centrowitz 13:00 at Nike Track in Beaverton
*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”

An LRC Exclusive

LRCHow Does The Whereabouts System Work For A Professional Athlete? We Asked Jenny Simpson To Explain It Simpson explains everything she has to do to file her whereabouts information and doesn’t believe it’s that much of a burden: “If you miss three tests, it’s either because you’re cheating or because you’re an idiot.”
*MB: Jenny Simpson’s account of how testing works is troubling

More Colorado News Denver Post‘s John Meyer Looks At How Runners And Cyclists Are Increasingly Fighting On The Colorado Trails

Weekend Previews

Geoffrey Kamworor The Favorite At The Copenhagen Half-Marathon The three-time world half champ faces stiff competition from a dozen other sub-one-hour men. The women’s field has eight sub-1:08 runners, lead by WR holder Peres Chepchirchir.
Geoffrey Kamworor Says He’s Designed His Own Nike Shoe “I designed a shoe made by Nike and I will be using it for the first time on Sunday. I have tried it before and enjoyed the feeling and I hope it will bring good results after the race.”
IAAF Preview:Eight Sub-2:29 Women And Several Sub-2:10 Men Lead Field For Cape Town Marathon Elsewhere, the 2:11:18 and 2:28:04 course records at the Sydney Marathon are expected to go down.
Saturday-Sunday:US Athletes Primed For Victory At The 2019 Thorpe Cup In Germany
IAAF Preview Of The Drei Zinnen Alpine Run World Mountain Running Running Race In Italy
From Last Weekend:James Barmasai (2:11:40) And Chaltu Negasa (2:30:59) Win Volksbank Muenster Marathon

Doping News

Trinidad And Tobago’s Commonwealth 100m Champ Michelle-Lee Ahye Provisionally Suspended For “Whereabouts Failures”
Michelle-Lee Ahye On Social Media:“Been taking a lot of L’s this year ??‍♀️?but that’s ok imma bounce back. I’m still living my best life tho ?” Ahye has been defensive on her twitter account. Also, she missed her last chance to compete (3 days before the suspension) because the airlines lost her luggage.
Caster Semenya Officially Being Upgraded To 2011 World 800m Gold After The Disqualification Of Mariya Savinova Also announced, South African javelin thrower Sunette Viljoen was upgraded to silver after the DQ of another Russian doper.
*AP: Caster Semenya To Finally Get Her Gold Medal From 2011 Worlds However, Semenya won’t attend the IAAF’s medal reallocation ceremony at Doha 2019 and instead will receive it from Athletics South Africa at a later date.
Two Of Russia’s Former Olympic Gold Medalists Had Their Neutral Athlete Status Rejected By The IAAF Those are dopers Anna Chicherova (HJ) and Elena Lashmanova (racewalk) who both have previous suspensions. Other past dopers including Olympic 800m bronze winner Ekaterina Poistogova were also rejected.
IAAF Approves The Application Of Russian Middle Distance Runner Yekaterina Ivonina To Compete As A Neutral Athlete

Weekly Podcast Is Out

LRC Podcast: Woody Kincaid Runs 12:58, Vin Lananna Is Back, Alberto Vs. Jerry, Japanese Marathon Trials, Noah Lyles “Issue” In Brussels Subscribe today on your favorite podcast player or listen above.

Rudisha Making News Off the Track

LRC David Rudisha’s Strange Summer Continues The bizarre summer of 2019 for the world record holder in the 800 continues. There has been some personal drama with his wife, a very serious car crash, and now a strange social media post.
*MB: David Rudisha’s instagram post

More Kenyan Distance News:

Recommended Read:IAAF Profile On Timothy Cheruiyot Who Is Looking To Break His Streak Of Championship Silvers At Doha 2019 Cheruiyot’s coach Bernard Ouma says that the difference between Cheruiyot and training partner Elijah Manang’oi is that “Elijah is more of a talent-dominant athlete while Tim is sheer hard work and some percentage of talent.”
October 27:40+ Star Mark Kiptoo Will Headline At The Frankfurt Marathon