January 20, 2020 | LetsRun.com

**USA XC And Houston *USA XC Results**

LRC Comeback Queen Hitomi Niiya Breaks Japanese Record (66:38), Jemal Yimer Wins (59:25), 14 American Men Go Sub-62, 7 Women Sub-70:00 At Houston Half Marathon Hitomi Niiya‘s comeback story is pretty cool and Jemal Yimer believe it or not crossed the line first for the first time ever on a day that saw 14 American men go sub-1:02 and 7 women go sub-1:10 as Jared Ward was 1st American and Sara Hall beat Molly Huddle.

Hitomi Niiya Says She Owes A Lot To Her Pacer Tsuyoshi Ugachi And “The American Guy In Yellow Socks Who Helped Out”
RRW: Hitomi Niiya Dominates Aramco Houston Half-Marathon, Sets Japanese Record
Cool story: Two runners who became 1st to break 3 hrs in marathon in 6 different decades crossed line holding hands in Houston

LRC 2020 USATF XC Results: Natosha Rogers And Anthony Rotich Dominate It was a good day for the Army WCAP team as their Kenyan Americans went 1-2-3 in the men’s race.

More Weekend Road / XC Results

Running In Borrowed Shoes, Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa Wins Mumbai Marathon In CR 2:08:09 He lost his shoes while traveling, but it might have worked out for the best since the shoes he borrowed were Nike Vaporflys. Ethiopia’s Amane Beriso won the women’s race in 2:24:51. Hurisa and Beriso each took home $45,000 for the win, Hurisa got an extra $15,000 for the CR.
Tadese Worku And World 5000m Silver Medalist Margaret Chelimo Reign Supreme At Seville, Spain World Athletics XC Permit Race Worku beat out Paul Chelimo by 16-seconds while Margaret Chelimo won over a deep field that included world U20 XC champ Beatrice Chebet (2nd), world 5000m 4th placer Tsehay Gemechu (3rd) and world 5000m champ Hellen Obiri (4th).
Results: Daniel Kemoi Wins, Kellyn Taylor/Stephanie Bruce “Tie” At The Rock ‘N’ Roll Arizona Half-Marathon Taylor tweeted that she and Bruce were using the race as a controlled effort and tried to tie at the finish. Kemoi won in 60:24 and Taylor/Bruce were timed at 69:13, but reports are saying the course was short.
*MB: Jim Walmsley runs a fake 1:02 half, trail trolls loose their minds
Germany’s Samuel Fitwi And Poland’s Anna Gosk Win Hannut CrossCup In Belgium
Joel Mwaura (60:44) And Mao Ichiyama (70:25) Break Course Records To Win At The Okukuma Half Marathon

Non-Distance News

Briana Williams Signs Multi-Year Deal With Nike The 17-year-old sprint star missed Worlds this year and had her 10.94 U18 record struck from the record books when she tested positive for a banned diuretic (she was reprimanded, but not given a ban).
Reuters: Noah Lyles, Many Top Sprinters Skipping Indoor Season Many coaches and agents explained with 2019 worlds being much later than usual, many athletes are skipping or limiting their indoor seasons.
World Athletics Profile On US’s World Hammer Champion Deanna Price Interestingly, Price was originally a softball player and had a home run record in Missouri with opportunities for full-ride. She did track to stay in shape for softball and actually wanted to break her mother’s school 800m record before she discovered throwing.

We Can’t Wait For April

JG Column Even After Four Blowouts, Why We Still Care About Eliud Kipchoge Vs. Kenenisa Bekele In London Jonathan Gault explains why distance fans are fascinated by Bekele vs. Kipchoge in London. While we’ve technically seen Kipchoge vs. Bekele four times before, we’ve never actually seen it the way we imagine it in our minds with both in supreme fitness battling it out mano a mano. Plus how does Bekele remind Jonathan of Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods?
*MB:Kenenisa Bekele Added To London Marathon Field The matchup that all the fans wanted – Bekele vs. Kipchoge – is on.

Some More End Of 2019 News

USTFCCCA Says We’re In “The Golden Age Of Collegiate Indoor T&F” 27 of the 34 current collegiate records (in NCAA events) were established between 2010 and 2019.
World Champions Niklas Kaul (Decathlon) And Malaika Mihambo (LJ) Voted German Athletes Of The Year
Two-Time Olympic Discus Champion Sandra Perkovic Wins Her Eighth Successive Croatian Athlete Of The Year Award (All Sports) She won bronze in Doha last year.

Nike Vaporflys Getting Banned?

Eliud Kipchoge Responds: “It’s the person who is running, and not the shoes.” Kipchoge made the analogy to Formula One and said it’s Lewis Hamilton who does the driving, not Pirelli Tyres. However, we’re not sure Formula One is the best “sport” to compare as just about every aspect of the car has regulations that need to be strictly followed.

Reports Coming Out That World Athletics Is Going To Ban The Nike Vaporfly The issue being discussed is the foam and carbon-fiber sole which acts like a spring; new rules would limit sole thickness and the use of carbon plates. The ban would also apply to Nike’s new running spikes which were worn by Laura Muir to set the British indoor mile record last year (4:18.75). There’s no decision on whether records set before the shoes were banned (like Brigid Kosgei‘s 2:14:04) will be allowed to stand.
*The Times: “Nike’s Record Breaking Running Shoe To Be Banned” (article behind paywall)
*MB: Reports: Vaporfly to be banned

The London Marathon Men’s Field Is Out

Ethiopian Duo Mosinet Geremew And Mule Wasihun Will Return To Challenge Eliud Kipchoge Again At The 2020 London Marathon At last year’s London, Geremew ran the fifth-fastest time in history (2:02:55) to finish just 18 seconds behind Kipchoge. Wasihun was third in 2:03:16. The field also includes last year’s fourth placer Shura Kitata, Tamirat Tola (2:04:06) and another four sub-2:06 men.
*MB: London elite – Bekele is not there

Diack Trial Delayed

Lamine Diack’s Trial Delayed Until June After New Documents Were Submitted To The Paris Court Concerning Testimony That His Son Papa Massata Diack Gave In Senegal World Athletics (the IAAF) is reportedly seeking 41.2m euros (£35.3m) in compensation from the six defendants (Diack, his son and other ex-IAAF officials). Diack asked the court to be allowed to return to Senegal to see his family, but his request was denied (not surprising since Senegal has refused to extradite the younger Diack). *2nd Article

Another Day, Another Record Goes Down In Valencia – But This Runner Wasn’t Wearing The Vaporflys

Rhonex Kipruto Smashes The 10k World Record With 26:24 In Valencia The world 10,000 bronze medalist took 16 seconds off Joshua Cheptegei‘s record set just six weeks ago. He also set the 5k WR en route with 13:18 (his second 5k was even faster with 13:06, but won’t be record eligible). On the women’s side, Sheila Chepkirui was just 3 seconds off the WR with 29:46. Rosemary Wanjiru and Norah Jeruto were a close 2-3 both timed at 29:51.
*Switzerland’s Julien Wanders Breaks His Own European 10k Record With 27:13 Third-Place Finish
*MB: Rhonex Kipruto destroys 10k WR – not in vaporflys!
*MB: Adidas shoes WR!!!!
*MB: Are the new Addidas Adizero Pro better than Vaporfly?
*MB: Julien Wanders new ER record –27:13!!

World XC Champ Hellen Obiri And World U20 XC Silver Medalist Tadese Worku Win Elgoibar XC Race Obiri beat out world U20 XC champ Beatrice Chebet by 6-seconds while Worku dominated the men’s race. USA’s Paul Chelimo finished a distant 4th.
Former NCAA XC Champ Kate Avery Wins Stirling XC Race Avery won by 11 seconds while Welshman Kris Jones won the men’s race. Andrew Butchart failed to recover from a mid-race fall and finished 4th.
*Scotland Men And England Women Win International Team Competitions At Sterling XC

Upcoming Indoor Action

Say It Ain’t So

LRCFormer Marathon World Record Holder Wilson Kipsang Suspended for Whereabouts Failures & Tampering Violations

If the charges hold, he will be the most prominent men’s marathoner to break anti-doping rules. *Discuss

US Women’s Distance News

Defending Trials Champ Amy Cragg Thought About Retiring After A Rough 2019, But Now She’s Happy, Healthy And Focused On Making The 2020 Olympic Team Cragg was struggling with extreme fatigue and only had two disappointing road results last year and hasn’t raced a marathon in two years. But now she’s refreshed and gotten up to 130 miles a week in training.
Despite A Disappointing World Champs, Ajee Wilson Is Ready And Excited For The Olympic Year “I’ve matured over the years and my body style is getting used to this level of training. … I’m more passionate about what I’m doing; I’m definitely more appreciative of being able to do what I do.”
Podcast Interview With Amy Yoder Begley Begley talks to Carrie Tollefson about her time with Alberto Salzar and NOP as well as her position at the Atlanta Track Club where she’s coaching 7 athletes for the Marathon Trials.
Shalane Flanagan Teams Up With Dogfish Head Beer To Launch Virtual Running Club

Weekend Indoor Action

Athing Mu Breaks National 500m Record With 1:10.22 At The Virginia Showcase She broke the previous mark of 1:10.30 by Chanelle Price.
*Also At VA Showcase: Taylor Ewert Breaks Her Own Indoor 3,000m Racewalk National Record
MB: UW Indoor Preview Results Ben Blakenship won the men’s mile in 3:57.67 over Brannon Kidder (3:58.43). Eleanor Fulton beat out Allie Ostrander in the women’s mile (3:34.82 to 3:35.94). UW’s Sam Tanner won the 1.000m in 2:21.78 (Ben Blankenship was 4th). Kaela Edwards won the 800m in 2:03.81.
USTFCCCA’s Collegiate Weekend-In-Review At the Virginia Tech Invy, Jacory Patterson broke the collegiate 300m record with 32.28 and Tennessee’s Darryl Sullivan cleared 2.33m in the HJ to move to #4 on the all-time list.
*Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The Collegiate Weekend
Ukraine’s World Silver Medalist Yaroslava Mahuchikh Clears World Indoor U20 High Jump Record Of 2.01m
World Athletics’ Weekend Indoor Round-Up: Keni Harrison Opens Her 2020 With A 200m Win (23.18) At The Leonard Hilton Memorial In Houston At other US indoor meets, Tonea Marshal ran a 60H PR of 7.86 and Lorraine Ugen jumped 6.74m in the LJ.
Renaud Lavillenie Opens Season With 5.80m Victory In Bordeaux In the US, Andreas Dimitrakis became the first Greek to go sub-4 indoors with 3:59.22 on Staten Island and Nicholas Scarvelis broke the Greek SP record with 20.38m. Lucia Vadlejch broke the Slovakian national pentathlon record with 4488 points.
Jacob Wooten Clears 5.80m PR To Win UCS Spirit National Pole Vault Summit In Reno; Sweden’s Lisa Gunnarsson Wins Women’s With 4.50m

UKAD Not Cooperating With WADA On Salazar Investigation?

UK Anti-Doping Won’t Release Mo Farah’s Blood And Urine Samples To WADA Inquiry USADA is looking into any athletes who were coached by Alberto Salazar but UKAD head Nicole Sapstead said she would block the release of samples stored for future retesting unless there was “credible evidence” to suggest they contained banned substances. She said they save samples to test “when the science moves along.” *2nd Article *Discuss

Upcoming Armory Action

January 23-25: Katelyn Tuohy, Mary Cain, Justyn Knight And Athing Mu Set Sights For Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge Tuohy and Cain will face off in the 3,000m along with last year’s winner Amanda Eccleston and Emily Lipari. Robby Andrews, Erik Sowinski, Isaiah Harris are in the men’s 800m while Ajee Wilson leads the women’s race. Knight is in the mile.
February 8: Short Interview With Nick Willis Ahead Of The Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile “There have been some great battles, and the allure of trying to get my first victory there keeps me coming back every year.”
More Wanamaker Mile Q&As: 2018 Wanamaker Mile Champion Chris O’Hare *3:50.94 Miler Sam Prakel *GB Miler Charlie Grice *Former NCAA Champ Morgan McDonald
Ajee Wilson Will Return To Defend Her Title In The Millrose Games 800m Wilson will face a stiff challenge from GB’s Laura Muir and Jamaica’s Natoya Goule.
World Champ Grant Holloway Vs. Olympic Champ Omar McLeod Set For Millrose Games 60m Hurdles They’ll take on defending NYRR Millrose Games champion Devon Allen and outdoor national champion Daniel Roberts.

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LRC Des Linden Gave The LRC Podcast A $50 Tip, She Joins The Podcast To Discuss Why And Her Great Career + Kipsang Suspension, Rupp’s Coaching Change Des Linden gave a $50 tip to the LRC podcast. She explains why. Listen and subscribe today to the podcast.

Kenya Continues To Lose Credibility / Yet Another Kenyan Gets Popped

Former World Youth And Jr. 800 Champ Alfred Kipkter Gets Popped For Whereabouts Failures He ran 1:42.87 after finishing 7th in the Olympics in 2016.
*MB: Is there really no LRC thread about Kenyan doper A. Kipketer (1:42.87s 800m) being suspended provisionally by AIU
MB: Kenyan drug testers show up at camp. Top Kenyan athlete jumps out window and jumps over fence to escape
Other Countries Aren’t Totally Innocent Either Commonwealth 100m Champion Michelle-Lee Ahye Gets Two-Year Ban For “Whereabouts Failures”

Distance Stuff

Evan Jager Eyes 2020 Comeback Jager hasn’t raced since August 2018 after missing all last year with a chronic foot injury, but says he’s back healthy and “F@#&ING amped” for the 2020 season.
Mo Farah Talks About His Decision To Return To The Track And His Ambitions To Make History At Tokyo 2020 Just by toeing the line at the age of 37 Farah will make history as the oldest man to run in a 10,000m Olympic final, but he says “it’s gold or nothing.”
GB’s Former World 1,500m Silver Medalist Hannah England Retires At Age 31 In a post on Instagram, England said she was “proud of my achievements” and “it was a privilege” to be surrounded by so many talented people.

Japanese Distance News

2020 Japan Olympic Marathon Trials Winner Shogo Nakamura Wins His First Race Of The Year With A PR Of 61:40 At The Takanezawa Genki Up Half Marathon It was a 13-second PR and a course record.
Kyoto Wins National Women’s Ekiden Title For 17th Time
2020 Japanese Distance Rankings

Doping / Corruption News

Lamine Diack’s Trial Starts On Monday In Paris The 86-year-old faces the prospect of 10 years in French prison for corruption charges involving the Tokyo Olympics, Qatar World Cup and Russian doping cover-ups.
The Guardian Reports That Lamine Diack Offered A Deal To Delay Doping Sanctions Against 23 Russian Athletes In Exchange For $1.5 Million In Funding To Help A Friend Win The 2012 Senegalese Presidential Election
BBC Article On Lamine Diack Trial Diack has been under house arrest in Paris since November 2015.
17-Year-Old Malaysian Sprinter Facing Possible 4-Year Ban For Steroid Use
Thomas Bach Reassures Russian Athletes They Have Same Rights As Other Countries Until CAS Doping Ruling They aren’t provisionally suspended; they can continue to compete until the CAS ruling …which will hopefully uphold their 4-year ban.

Ultra / Mountain Running News

The Guardian Examines How Some Women Have Been Beating Men In Super Ultra Races And Wondering If It Might Be A Sign Of Genetic Superiority Ross Tucker doubts it unless you are talking maybe about swimming where a woman’s higher fat percentage might help them in super-long swims.
World Marathon Running Association World Cup Is Expanding Its Calendar In 2020 The 2020 season will have nine events with 12 total races.

The Decade Has Ended

LRC LetsRun.com’s Decade Awards: Alberto Salazar Is Our Person Of The Decade + Best Runner, Best Upset, Doping Excuse Of The Decade, & More! In a decade marked by controversy, it’s fitting that Alberto Salazar is our Person of the Decade as controversy clung to Salazar like a paper clip to a magnet. Plus who wins our world and US athlete of the decade honors?

LRC US And World Runners Of The Decade: Jenny Simpson, Matthew Centrowitz, Caster Semenya And Eliud Kipchoge

LRC 2019 LetsRun.com World And American Rankings: Donavan Brazier And Ajee’ Wilson Are World #1s The 6th annual world and US distance rankings are here and for the first time ever two Americans are #1 in the world in their events.

Rojo Speaks: The 2010s Are History: It Was Both The Best And Worst Of Times For Track And Field Fans What a crazy decade. From Chris Solinsky‘s 26:59 at the start of the decade to Brigid Kosgei‘s 2:14:04 at the end, there were plenty of high highs but the lows were also big as well as Olympic champs at 800, 1,500, steeple and the marathon were all banned from the sport. What does it all mean? LetsRun.com co-founder Robert Johnson looks for meaning and tries to figure it all out by taking you back in a time machine to January 1, 2010.

Pro Track Club Roster Additions

Olympic 5000m Hopeful Lauren Paquette Joins NAZ Elite Paquette was 4th in the 5000m at 2018 USAs.
Marathon Vet Maegan Krifchin (2:32:47 PB) And Recent Georgia Tech Grad Avery Bartlett Join Atlanta Track Club Elite

Shoe News

Reuters: Why A Ban On The Vaporfly Could Boost Nike’s Bottom Line It would likely lead to an increased amount of sales among amateurs who wouldn’t be affected by the ban.
Bloomberg: “Asics Runs Into Trouble As Athletes Opt For Nike’s Super-Shoe” Asics stock price has dropped and Nike is taking over areas where they normally reigned. At this year’s Hakone Ekiden 84% wore the Nike Vaporfly and the number of runners with Asics dropped to 7 from 51 a year earlier.
The Guardian Says Nike Vaporflys Unlikely To Be Banned They report that the World Athletics working group met Wednesday and will announce their findings at the end of the month, but the issue remains under debate despite other headlines saying the shoes would be banned. It’s possible Eliud Kipchoge‘s AlphaFly could be banned, but not the Vaporfly.
MB: Former marathon star Rob de Castella calls Vaporflys “ludicrous – it definitely needs to be addressed.”

More Road News

Saturday Night: Defending Champions Cosmas Lagat (2:08:14) And Worknesh Alemu (2:24:42) Ready To Do Battle At The Mumbai Marathon The fields have 15 sub-2:10 men and 8 sub-2:28 women. *Live Stream @ 8:30PM ET
Kenenisa Bekele Supports Mo Farah’s Move Back To The Track “I am not surprised. Of course if you see Mo Farah’s races in the marathons, he’s struggling. You need experience. It’s a different course, different racing mentality, so I think he made a good choice.”
Town Of Falmouth To Install A Tribute To Tommy Leonard On Main Street In Falmouth Leonard, who died one year ago, started the Falmouth Road Race.
February 1: Fields Set For Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon And Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon
Pre Race Houston: Unsponsored Reed Fischer Excited for Aramco Houston Half Marathon Return The Tinman elite runner had a big race at last year’s Houston Half, finishing as the top American and setting a PR by 51 seconds with 62:06.
Cam Levins Has Had A Smooth Transition To New Coach Jim Finlayson Levins has been working with the Canadian coach since November and is running the Houston Half on Sunday and planning for a spring marathon.
A Look At The 2 Men Who Are Hoping To Become The 1st Humans To Run A Sub-3 Hour Marathon In 6 Different Decades In Houston

Looking Ahead At The International Indoor Season

February 12: World Indoor 1500m Champ Samuel Tefera Going For Yomif Kejelcha’s World Indoor Mile Record (3:47.01) At The AIT International Grand Prix In Ireland Chinese sprint star Su Bingtian is in the 60m and Ireland’s Ciara Mageean is going for the national 300m record of 8:43.74.
Ten Expected Highlights Of The 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour Their list includes Laura Muir’s world indoor 1000m record attempt in Glasgow on February 15. Question is, will she be wearing her special Nike spikes if they could be banned?
February 14: Solid Pole Vault Field Set For Berlin ISTAF Meet WR holder Renaud Lavillenie, Olympic champ Thiago Braz and world bronze medallist Piotr Lisek will all compete.
Leading European Athletes Confirm Plans For 2020 Indoor Season
February 21: World Indoor LJ Champ Juan Miguel Echevarria Will Lead Field For VIlla De Madrid Meet

Women In The News

Tirunesh Dibaba Gives Birth To 2nd Baby Boy No word on whether he’s a US citizen like his older brother, who was born in the US in 2015.
Colorado Standout Sage Hurta Says She’ll Miss Indoors With Strees Facture The 2:04/4:13 runner was an All-American in XC.
NXN Runner-Up And Racewalk Star Taylor Ewert Blogs About Her Incredible 2019 She’ll be at Arkansas next year.
London Marathon Women’s Field Includes 4 Of 10 Fastest British Women In History

The Olympic Marathon Trials Are Next Month

Galen Rupp Talks About His Decision To Ask NAU’s Mike Smith To Coach Him “I got a really good feeling from him. I really enjoyed listening and talking about training with him. I liked his philosophies on a lot of things. He’s not scared to think outside the box and embrace new ideas. He’s looking for inspiration from all different areas – MMA fighters, whatever it is.”
MB: Molly Seidel running marathon trials The former NCAA champion hasn’t ran a marathon, but has a half PB of 70:27. She’s running the Houston Half this weekend.
MB: Jim Walmsley to run Rock ‘N’ Roll Arizona half this Saturday

Sprint Stuff

Trinidad And Tobago’s Commonwealth Games 100m Champ Michelle Lee Ahye Gets 2-Year Doping Ban She’s been banned after three whereabouts failures.
Former Olympic 100H Champ Sally Pearson Announces She’s Pregnant With Her First Child Pearson announced her retirement last year, but there was speculation that she could still make a comeback for Tokyo 2020. This ends that speculation as she’s due just before the Games begin.
Rutgers’ Taj Burgess And North Carolina A&T’s Cambrea Sturgis Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week Burgess ran the #2 fastest 500m time in collegiate history with 1:00.80 (the record is 1:00.63 by Brycen Spratling). Sturgis ran 7.15 in the 60m, which is the fastest time ever run by a collegian this early in the season.
*Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The Collegiate Weekend
BBC Audio Profile Of Dina Asher Smith Asher-Smith starts out the 14-minute listen saying she feels so lucky that her job is to run in a straight line down a track.
Jamaica’s World Long Jump Champion Tajay Gayle Signs Deal With Puma In Doha, Gayle jumped 8.69m moved to #10 on the all-time list became the first Jamaican man to win a men’s LJ world title. Puma also signed Japanese sprinter Hakim Sani Brown.

London Marathon Women’s Field Released

World Record Holder Brigid Kosgei Will Return To Defend Her Title At The 2020 London Marathon The London field is always super deep and 2020 will be no exception as Kosgei faces 2018 London champ Vivian Cheruiyot, three-time Berlin champ Gladys Cherono, Roza Dereje (2:18:30), world champion Ruth Chepngetich and world half marathon record holder Joyciline Jepkosgei.

Weekend Indoor Action

Ukraine’s Yuliya Levchenko Opens Season With 2.00m HJ Clearance At The Christmas Cup In Kyiv
Florida State’s Jayla Kirkland Runs 7.17 To Beat Out Briana Williams’ 7.25 At The Clemson Orange And Purple Elite Meet
MB: Matthew Boling Runs 6.68 In Season Opener At Clemson He was second behind Taylor Banks‘ 6.67. Boling also came in second in the LJ with 7.50m. *Meet Results
Jamaica Gleaner: Jeanine Williams Shines At Clemson Indoor Meet Williams won the 60m hurdles in 8.07.
USTFCCCA Collegiate Weekend In Review Alabama junior Tamara Clark ran 36.56 for #5 NCAA all-time in the 300m.
Florida State Men #1 In Pre-Season NCAA Indoor Rankings LSU was second with Southern California third.
Southern California Women #1 In NCAA Indoor Pre-Season Rankings Arkansas and Georgia are ranked 2-3.

General Olympic News

Iran’s Only Female Olympic Medalist Announces She’s Defected The taekwondo bronze medalist criticized the regime’s “hypocrisy, lies and injustice.”
Thomas Bach Praises Iran’s Support For “Principles Of Political Neutrality In Sport” Despite Its Refusal To Allow Its Athletes To Compete Against Israelis Bach said this even though the Iran government is violating the Olympic charter by ordering its athletes ont to face Israelis at sports events.
Official Posters For Tokyo 2020 Revealed
IOC Hits Its Highest Percentage Of Women Members Ever With 37% The percentage will drop slightly next week though when some new male members are added.
IOC Confirm Three Cities Are Interesting In Hosting Future Winter Olympic Games Sapporo, Salt Lake City and Barcelona have all expressed interest.

Better Running Shoes

LRC The 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.