Sprint / Field News

• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Says She Isn’t Ready To Retire Yet She said that she isn’t ruling out going through 2022. She shares some other interesting thoughts like her favorite Kenyan athlete is Ezekiel Kemboi because of his dancing.
• World LJ Champ Malaika Mihambo To Be Coached By Carl Lewis And Leroy Burrell If travel restrictions allow it, she plans to move from Germany to Houston in August.
• Karsten Warholm Eyeing 300m Hurdles WR At The Impossible Games Next Week The 18-year-old record is 34.48 and Warholm has run 34.26 indoors.
• Olympic Shot Put Champ Michelle Carter To Join Dad In Texas Sports HOF Her father Michael Carter won shot put Olympic silver in 1984.

NCAA Coronavirus News

• AP: Number Of Eliminated College Sports Programs Nearing 100 97 programs have been cut in at least part due to the economic impact of the coronavirus. Only 19 of the teams were DI.
• NCAA Releases Plans Allowing Football And Basketball Players To Return To Campuses Next Week

145 Years Of History, Gone In An Instant – Brown Has Cut Its Men’s XC/Track Program

• Brown XC And Track Athletes Sound Off On The Decision To Ax Their 145-Year-Old Program A good read. They have plenty of reason to be upset as the transfer window has closed and incoming freshmen have already been locked down.
• Athletics Illustrated: Brown University President Christina Hull Paxon Spews Boilerplate Rhetoric At The Expense Of Athletics “The benefits of running the low-cost, high-return sport of athletics far outweigh the meager savings supposedly brought by adjusting numbers on a spreadsheet to satisfy the bean counters.”
• MB: Rojo: The more I think about the way the Brown sports decision went down, the more OUTRAGED I become
  
• MB: Brown University, Despite Its $4.2 Billion Endowment, Cuts Men’s XC, Indoor and Outdoor Track Effectively Immediately
• Sign The Save Brown T&F Petition 

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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.