Archived Homepage For December 23, 2019
Archived Homepage For December 23, 2019

Voting Now Open – 64 Races … 2 Remain … 1 Champion

LRC Rudisha Vs. Kipchoge: It’s The LRC Race Of The Decade Final Our quest to determine the RACE OF THE DECADE, has come down to this: Which was the better race: David Rudisha’s WR in London or Kipchoge’s in Berlin?

Sprints/Jumps

NCAA News

British Distance News

End-Of-Year Awards

Des Is Going For 2020 Olympic Trials And 2020 Boston Marathon Double

LRC Thoughts On The 2020 Boston Marathon: Des Linden’s Double, East African Olympic Teams, & How To Fix World Marathon Majors Des Linden is 1 of 8 former champs returning to Boston in 2020 and we spoke to her about her trying to do the Olympic Trials/Boston double just 7 weeks apart.
*MB:Des Linden doing the Trials AND Boston!!

RRW:8 Prior Champions, Including Des Linden, To Run 2020 Boston Marathon Besides Linden, other past Boston winners include Yuki Kawauchi, Edna Kiplagat, Geoffrey KiruiCaroline Rotich and Lelisa Desisa.

Russian Doping News

Zatopek 10,000m *Results

Stewart McSweyn Runs 27:23.80 To Break Australian 10,000m Record At Zatopek 10,000m Former NCAA XC champ Patrick Tiernan was runner-up with 27:31.20. Genevieve Gregson (formerly LaCaze) won the women’s race in 32:47.83.
*World Athletics Recap

Doping News: WADA Drops The Ban Hammer On Russia

Russia Gets Four Year Ban – Will Miss 2020 Olympics And 2022 World Cup The ban has been handed down by WADA and RUSADA still has 21 days to appeal. And as it was previously, Russian athletes who can prove they are clean can compete as neutral athletes.

Big Recruiting News

MB:KATELYN TUOHY TO NC STATE Tuohy made the announcement today via Instagram.
*MB Thread Earlier This Month: Tuohy should go to NC State!!!

Tokyo 2020 Marathon Course Finalized

Assorted Admin News

Slow Weekend Ahead Of The Holidays

Sprint Stuff

Week That Was

LRC WTW: Rest In Peace Peter Snell, Zofia Dudek Vs. Katelyn Tuohy, Mary Cain Vs. Her Younger Self Peter Snell‘s great life has come to an end, Foot Lockers are in the books and we debate who wins – Zofia Dudek or Katelyn Tuohy? Plus Mary Cain is back, and of course Vaporfly talk.

Podcast:RIP Peter Snell, Foot Lockers, Alberto Salazar, The 2010-2019 Decade

Tokyo 2020 News

College News

LRC In Case You Haven’t Noticed, Texas A&M’s 2020 Recruiting Class Is Officially Insane Texas A&M has signed the Japanese national champ in Allon Tatsunami Clay (1:46.59 PR) and American Brandon Miller (800s age-group WRs at age 13 and 14) but the headliner has to be Athing Mu – the American record holder indoors at 600m.

An All-Time Great Has Died

RIP:Running Legend, Three-Time Olympic Champion And Former World Record Holder Peter Snell Has Died At 80 Years Old Snell is the only man to win the 800m and 1,500m at the same Olympics in the last 99 years. In total, he had three Olympic golds and set world records at at 800 (1:44.3 on a grass track), 1k (2:16.6) and mile (3:54.1).
*MB: Peter Snell Has Died

Seb Coe Talks And We Listen

LRC Sebastian Coe Shares His Vision For The Future, Explains Diamond League Cuts, & Says Track & Field Has “A Lot Of Work To Do” In The US Last month, Seb Coe spent 45 minutes discussing the Diamond League and his vision for the sport with LetsRun.com. Find out what he said here.
*TFN’s Garry Hill: Thoughts On The Diamond League Contraction Hill is for change but thinks if 4 events are going to be cut they should rotate the events.

Looking Back At The Year And Decade

Doping Stuff

USATF Championship News

General Olympic / T&F News

Non-Distance News

More Recent Distance Results

Distance News

Will World Athletics Act?

Updated NY Times Study Shows Next Vaporflys Are Even Better Than They Thought An analysis of more than 1 million results on Strava show that “in a race between two marathoners of the same ability, a runner wearing these shoes would have a significant advantage [2=3%] over a competitor not wearing them.”
*MB: NYT: Vaporfly gives “bigger advantage than we thought”

The Irish Times’ “Global Sports Star Of 2019”: Vaporfly Nike’s new shoes are the real athlete of the year for 2019.

Better Running Shoes

LRCThe 10 Most Popular Running Shoes On LetsRun.com Before we do our final call of shoe reviews in 2019, we decided to take a look at what shoes are the most popluar on LetsRun. Four shoe lines dominant, the Nike Pegasus, the Brooks Ghost, the HOKA Clifton and the Saucony Kinvara. These four might be a great place to start when looking for a new pair of shoes.