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– Video of 3:49 miler Johnny Gregorek running a 4:06.25 mile in blue jeans (100% cotton Levi’s), breaking the previous blue jeans WR by more than 5 seconds. Gregorek did the run to raise money for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) in honor of his late brother Patrick. Donate to the cause here.
London Marathon Organizers Admit Rescheduled October Race Is In Doubt Race director Hugh Brasher: “We know that you would like certainty. We understand and acknowledge that you want to know if you should start serious training or restart your fundraising campaign. … But this is a world where things are changing so rapidly on a day-to-day basis and that is now far from certain.”
LRC 2020 Boston Marathon Canceled; Will Be Staged Instead As Virtual Race Through 123 years and two world wars, the Boston Marathon had always been staged as an in-person event. That streak ends in 2020, another victim of the coronavirus pandemic. *MB: BOSTON MARATHON CANCELED
MB:Breaking: David Rudisha has surgery after breaking ankle in Kenya. Expected to be out 3 months.
US Education Department Rules That Connecticut’s Policy Allowing Transgender Girls To Compete In Girls Sports Without Treatment Violates The Civil Rights Of Girls Who Have Always Identified As Female The CT authorities, however, aren’t backing down citing state law. Will they lose federal funding as a result?
*MB:Women’s sports may be saved!! Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender women to compete w/o treatment found to violate Title IX
Cool Story:The Day After NCAA Indoors Was Canceled, Many Of The Top DIII Athletes Went To A Local Track And Ran A 5,000 The NCAA DIII XC champs Patrick Watson of Stevenson University and Parley Hannan of Ithaca won the races in 14:20 and 16:49. *Race Video
LRC I Was Bored, So I Watched Alan Webb Run 3:53 As A High Schooler At The 2001 Prefontaine Classic In honor of the race’s 19-year anniversary, Jonathan Gault revisits the day when Webb broke Jim Ryun‘s 36-year-old US high school mile record and took a Hayward Field victory lap with Hicham El Guerrouj.
LRC Leo Daschbach Breaks 4:00 In Mile; Supreme 56.81 Last Lap Allows Him To Become 11th US Boy To Do So Daschbach is only the 4th US high schooler to break 4:00 in the mile in a HS-only race. How did he celebrate? By vomiting all over the track. *Video Of Race
*MB: LEO DASCHBACH JOINS THE HS SUB 4 CLUB – 56.84 last lap gets him 3:59.54!! The first half was slow but he had plenty in the tank.
*Pre-Race Leo Daschbach Is Pumped To Be At This Saturday’s US HS Sub-4 Attempt After Running 1:49 And 4:03 Alone In Practice
MB: HSer Jace Aschbrenner runs 8:44.93 for 3,200 in time trialPretty darn impressive. He is Nico Young‘s teammate and was 18th at NXN.
MoreLRC Content: Podcast: Leo Daschbach Sub-4 In A Real Race, Pro Runner Wedding Bells, London Marathon In Doubt, LRC’s Poker Win Wejo reveals how his six-figure online poker win helped fund LRC in the early days.
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.”
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