Hope You Had A Good Mother’s Day

• Excellent Read: Toni Reavis Remembers His Mom, Who Secretly Worked In The Polish Home Army During WWII And Successfully Smuggled A Machine Gun Past The Germans
• Tokyo Postponement Was A Blessing For 2-Time Olympic Marathoner And Mom Jess Trengove Of Australia After giving birth in November, her back was really up against the wall to qualify for a third Olympics.
• NBC Takes A Look At Moms Who Could Star At The Tokyo Olympics
• Shalane Flanagan Talks About Being A Mom Days Before Her First Mother’s Day As A Mom “It’s overwhelming infatuation. It’s an obsession, for sure.”
• Alysia Montaño Starts A Nonprofit For Working Moms On Wednesday, she launched &Mother.
• Olympic Delay Has Been Good For Allyson Felix, Who Is Focused On Making A 5th Team In 2021 “I feel more like myself than I have since I had my daughter [in November 2018].”

A HSer Almost Went Sub-4 In Practice

MB: HSer Ryan Schoppe Runs 4:00.78 Mile in Practice On what would have been the day of his HS state meet, Schoppe, an Ok. State signee, ran 4:00.8 (ht) for a full mile.
*Ryan Schoppe Talks About His 4:00.8 Mile Time Trial (Video Interview)

More Miler News Nick Willis Is Leaving Adidas Per Twitter – Exciting News Is Coming Tuesday

US News

• Joe Klecker And Makena Morley Go Pro As Well Instead Of Using An Extra Season Of NCAA Eligibility
• Dani Jones Talks About Her Decision To Turn Pro She also reveals her Mt. Rushmore of CU greats.
• Dyestat Video Chat With The Hunter Family – Marc, Joan, Drew and Jacob
• NSAF – The Org That Runs The HS Nationals – Looking To Future After Parting Ways With New Balance
• #IRunWithMaud: Thousands Of Runners Worldwide Pay Tribute To Ahmaud Arbery By Running 2.23 Miles On Friday 2.23 was his birthday. Meb Keflezighi was one of the runners.

News From Europe

• Eammon Coghlan Reflects On His Career It included 4 NCAA titles, 7 Wanamaker mile titles, a WC 5,000 gold and more.
• It’s Official: Marcin Lewandowski: “Now I can finally say I am a 1,500m guy, not an 800m guy.”
• More On Jake Wightman And How He’s Developed Into The World’s Best With A Slow Homegrown Scottish Approach And With His Dad As His Coach
• 1968 Olympic 400 Bronze Medalist And 4 X 400 Star (43.2 Split) Ron Freeman Of The US Now Lives Full Time In Guinea Where dHe Does A Ton Of Work With Kids
• 250,000 Watched The Garden Pole Vault Challenge lLive And More Than A Million Watched It Within 24 Hours

Speaking of Studly HS Milers

LRC We Talk To Jim Ryun After Naming Him The Greatest American Distance Runner Of All-Time What a great podcast we have for you this week as we devote the entire show to talking to Jim Ryun, who recently was voted the Greatest American Distance Runner of All-Time on LetsRun.com. Ryun talks about his entire career, including making the Olympics and running sub-4 in HS, breaking the WR as a college frosh (and meeting his wife on the same day), winning Olympic silver, getting tripped in ’72 and much more including what his relationship with Alan Webb and Matthew Centrowitz is like.

LRC’s Jonathan Gault Appears As Guest On Pace The Nation Podcast Gault talks about LetsRun’s origins and the party scene at the Olympic Trials in Atlanta. The podcast is co-hosted by 2012 Olympic Trials 5k champ Julie Culley. Rojo kindly asks that you don’t listen to this podcast as he’s very proud his appearance on the show holds the record for most listened to podcast for them – ahead of even Matthew Centrowitz.

Administrative News

• We Love This Idea Former 10,000 WChamp, Boston Marathon Winner & Half Marathon WR Holder Moses Tanui Proposes That Kenya’s Only Way Forward Is For Ex-Athletes To Confess To Past Doping Sins We love this. Give immunity to past actions but then we’ll find out where the drugs are coming from.
• New Balance Parting Ways With NSAF, Planning To Own Its Own HS Nationals We wonder if there will now be two nationals like in XC as it looks like they are planning on moving the indoor meet to their new indoor track in Boston in 2022.
  *MB: New Balance and NSAF parting ways? Anybody have the inside scoop?
• After Independent Review, UK Athletics Told To Reform Board And “Transform The Way It Approaches Difficult Ethical Decisions” The review found a “general culture of mistrust” and claims the current state of athletics “couldn’t get any worse.” *AW 
• After Journalists Allegedly Found A Syringe On An Iten Track, AK Official In Iten Says All Foreign Coaches And Journalists Coming To Kenya To Write Stories On Kenyan Runners Should Not Get Approval From AK Before They Embark On Their Duties As They Have Hidden Agendas A county executive has pushed back and said the runners need to stop breaking laws. “Athletes here can not even abide by simple rules like self-distancing, which is common knowledge. Athletics has its own cartels doing business to benefit themselves. To end these murky scenarios, we need to cut out the in-fighting and fight the common enemy.”
• Athletics Kenya Has Helped Fly Back Some Runners Who Were Stranded Overseas Due To Covid-19 Kenya so far only has 26 Covid-19 deaths.
• FIU Cuts Men’s Indoor Track And Field
• WADA Updates Guidance As Anti-Doping Bodies Aim To Restart Or Step Up Testing

Links That Passed Our Stringent Vetting Process

• Video Of Shooting Of Unarmed Black Man Who Was Chased In Georgia Is Released – Case Will Go To Grand Jury You can watch the full graphic video here.
• Milesplit Takes A Look At The Top 100 HS Junior Distance Times Of The Past Decade From the future stars to college flameouts, they have you covered.
• Nikki Hiltz Talks About Her Breakout First Year As A Pro Under Terrence Mahon (TFN sub required)
• To Everyone Complaining That The Race You Signed Up For Won’t Refund Your Money, Please Stop And Read This
• Parents That At Experts At Running With A Baby Stroller Share Their Tips
• Want To Give New Life To Old Running T-Shirts? Ginsrunningstich.co.UK Can Turn It Into A Poncho Or Running Skirt
• Commonwealth Games 200m Bronze Medalist Leon Reid (20.27) Of Ireland Went To South African To Train Earlier This Year And Was Shocked That Wayde Van Niekerk Let Him Into His Inner Circle “He introduced me to all of his family and I was going to his house every other day … [He told me] just not to over-think things. Work hard, yes. Get the work done but have fun while you’re doing it.”
• On May 11 From 9-10:30 PM ET, Oregon State’s Prof That Is An Expert Of “Maximal Shoes” (Like HOKA) Will Be Doing A Virtual Science Talk That Is Free To Watch Her findings were publicized in a NY Times article early this year got many to worry that the shoes can cause injury as her studies show they lead to more pronation and more force hitting the ground.
• Even Though There Are No Events Planned In 2020 For The New Hayward Field, Construction Continues Nicely

10 Years Ago, Chris Solinsky Ran 26:59.60 To SHOCK THE WORLD

LRC 26:59! How Chris Solinsky Transformed A “Glorified Tempo” Into An All-Time Upset And Performance 10 years ago today, Chris Solinsky shocked the world by running 26:59 in his 10,000-meter debut. Get the inside story from Jonathan Gault and learn how the date of Solinsky’s wedding played a key role in his preparations and why his victory led to a decade-long feud between coaches Alberto Salazar and Jerry Schumacher.
*MB: Chris Solinsky’s 26:59 turns 10 years old today. Share your memories here.z
*MB:  Jonathan Gault’s new story makes Alberto Salazar look totally cringe
*MB: Does anyone have access to a recording of the live broadcast by Stanford of Chris Solinksy’s 26:59?

Speaking of Anniversaries

• Three years ago from Tuesday, Thomas Rohler shocked the world with his 93.90m javelin throw in Doha Yes, he was the Olympic champ but no one was expecting the longest throw in 20 years.
• The Penn Relays And Usain Bolt Recall Him Rocking Philly 10 Years Ago As Well