The Latest Distance News

• Andy Young Thinks Olympic Delay Will Help His Two Stars In Laura Muir And Jemma Reekie Muir didn’t have much of a base as she had an Achilles issue at the end of last year and Reekie is so young an extra year can only help.
• HSer EJ Holland Writes About Helping To Create The Quarantine Clasico Where Leo Daschbach Broke 4 Holland ended up getting hurt but he and Matt Stangio deserve major props for worrying about the sport, not just themselves like so many pros.
• Penn Relays Mile Record Holder Tori Starcher Of West Virginia Is Ready To Start Her College Career At Stanford After Initially Comitting To Notre Dame She ran 4:38 at Penn last year but missed XC with a stress fracture.
• Kipchoge, Bekele, Cheptegei, Kamworor Are Going To Team Up To Run A Virtual Marathon Together On June 6th Each will run a 10.5 km leg and the public can form their own 4-person teams.
• 8:42 Steepler Stephen Jones To Finish Eligibility At Colorado As Grad Transfer
• Timothy Cheruiyot Talks About His Friendship/Rivalry With Training Partner Elijah Manangoi
• A Look At The Super-Successful Kibet Sisters All five were pretty good at running, led by Sylvia, who won 2 WC silvers and an Olympic bronze.

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An Event Worth Looking Forward To

LRC Sara Hall Among Pros Who Will Take Shot At Treadmill World Records On June 6 In Chaski Challenge Inspired by the success of last month’s Quarantine Backyard Ultra, a handful of elite runners will attempt to break treadmill world records across five distances next week. “We are 100% sure that we are going to break these records in this race,” says meet director Tyler Andrews, who will be aiming for the marathon/50k records. “We want to have actual, really good athletes just totally destroy them and set them way out of reach.”

Mid-D News Of Note

• DyeStat.com Does A Video Chat With 3 Of The Top US HS Girls 800 Talents In Athing Mu (2:01.17), Juliette Whittaker (2:03.01 PR) And Roisin Willis (2:03.05 PR)
• Donavan Brazier Says He Was Super Confident Before Olympic Postponement And Out To Prove That 2019 Was No Fluke “I am a little frustrated. I just wanted to prove to myself that 2019 Worlds wasn’t a fluke, that I am this great racer, that I am a medal contender every year and I should have a big target on my back,” he says. “I was really confident about the Olympics this year, but 2021 will be just as special.”
• Centro, Watch Out: Elijah Manangoi And Timothy Cheruiyot Are Back Training Together And Manangoi says he’s more motivated due to missing Worlds last year with injury.
• Bernard Ouma Is Thrilled To Be Back Coaching After Taking His 1,500 Studs Through Their 1st Track Workout “We were having a feeling like we were in a cage then suddenly we have been let loose. It is a happy feeling to be on the track after a long time being indoors with minimal activities,” said Ouma, who called the upcoming clash against the Ingebrigtsens as a “fun race with no monetary attachment to it.”
• Shelby Houlihan Says Of Course She Thought She’d Medal When She Ran 3:54 At Worlds Last Year “If I’m in 3:54 shape, there’s no way I don’t medal. You know, statistically or historically, in races that should medal.”
  *MB: LOL: Shelby Houlihan: The pandemic hasn’t changed that much for me as I’m a member of the BTC and we never race anyways
• A Recap Of The Odd World Records Nick Symmonds Went For Since Retirement He successfully broke WRs for the fastest 400 in crocs and mile while dribbling a basketball but came up short in running a mile after eating 4 Big Macs.
• 2013 800 World Champ Eunice Sum Is Still Dreaming Of Her First Olympic Medal At Age 32
• The BeerMileWorldClassic Will Be Run (Virtually) This Summer With $8k In Prize Money

Previous Distance News

• Shannon Rowbury Has A Choice To Make As She Goes For A 4th Olympics – 1,500 Or 5,000? (TFN Sub Required) She doesn’t just want to make a 4th Olympics; she wants to be a contender but admits she has to train differently now that she’s a) 35 and b) a mom.
• Scientific Paper Says What You’ve Always Been Taught Is Wrong – When You’re Trying To Recover, Put Your Hands On Your Knees, Not Behind Your Head A study showed that by bending over, your heart rate fell 20 bpm more than if you put your hands behind your head.
• Runner’s World: “Can we all just agree to stop using “Jogger” as an insult?”
• British Athletics Announces New Talent Hubs Sponsored By The London Marathon The running hubs are designed to provide athletes aged 16-21 with a “seamless experience through the performance pathway” and will be based at the University of Birmingham and Leeds Beckett University.

Interesting Reads

• Japanese Coaching Legend Yoshiyuki Aoba Is Coming Out Of Retirement At Age 77, 20 Years After Last Coaching, To Coach At His Alma Mater, Nihon University And he’s going to live in the dorms with the athletes.
  *MB: Wait, what? Do the Japanese college coaches really live in the dorms with their athletes?
• Proposed Potential New NCAA XC Regional System Leaks, Insanity Of Plan Instantly Becomes Apparent We hope that a plan that has teams from NY in the Southeast regional (all teams from the same conference must be in the same region) is never going to get passed in this post-Covid-19 time of reduced budgets. Apparently the Big 10 has unanimously voted against it.
• 2020 UTMB May Have Been Canceled, But 2019 UTMB Champion Pau Capell Says He’s Running The Course Anyway
• 37-Year-Old Marathoner O’Neil Williams Is Training In Kenya With A 2:19 PR But Still Thinks He Can Run 2:11:30 To Make Olympics
• Column By White Man: Covid-19 “Lockdown” Is Disproportionately Affecting How Women Experience The Sport We Love “I specifically explore how lockdown has stripped away some of the ‘coping strategies’ female runners use to ‘deal’ with the discrimination they face every time they lace up their trainers.”
• Are You A Pro? Depressed Because You Have No Track Races To Train For? Train For This: Bathurst 2021 World Cross Celebrates 300 Days To Go Bathurst is in Australia in case you didn’t know. Who wouldn’t want a free trip to Australia in March?

Field/Sprint News

• Austria Limits Sporting Events To A Max Of 10 People, But That Was More Than Enough For Discus Thrower Lukas Weisshaidinger, Who Threw 68.63 They held two competitions on the same day but his best throw came in the first.
• Commonwealth Games Organizers Are Realistic That Dina Asher-Smith May Not Want To Triple At CGs Just Weeks After 2022 Worlds We don’t see why she wouldn’t do at least one individual event and a relay.