Athletes Speak Out After George Floyd’s Murder

• American Hammer Throw Record Holder Gwen Berry Says She Doesn’t Regret Her Protest At The Pan Am Games Last Year Even Though It Cost Her $50k “I just felt something. I don’t know what it was. When I was up there, I just felt something come over me. I can’t describe it,” Berry told CBC Sports from Houston. “It was like a spirit. I felt different. It was indescribable but I’ll never forget it or regret it.” *Discuss
• World Athletics And Many Track Stars Tweet Out Support For #BlackLivesMatter
• Former GB Olympian And Harvard Sprinter Chris Lamber Pens “A letter to my white friends” “We don’t inherit our oppression from our parents, we inherit it from your silence.”
• Noah Lyles And Other US Pros Post On Social Media After Georg Floyd’s death Jasmine Todd: “We put the three letters … U S A … on our chest SO PROUDLY … for a country that doesn’t even like or respect US because of OUR skin. A country that statistically sets blacks up for failure. A country that kills us because of our skin color …”
• Michael Johnson Changes His Opinion And Says Prominent Athletes Need To Speak Out After George Floyd’s Death “If you have a platform you owe it to those people, you owe it to those whose lives have been lost, you owe it to our ancestors who fought through the civil rights movement back in the sixties. You owe it to all of them. If you have this position, like I did, you have a prominent position and you’ve benefited from the hard work of all of those people to have what you have, you owe it to all of them to not be silent.”

Bizarre

• US Pole Vaulter Cole Walsh Handed 3-Month Ban For Eating A Chocolate Bar With THC In It Can we stop wasting resources on testing for recreational drugs that don’t help performance?
• Ultrarunner Alyssa Amos Clark Has Broken The Women’s Word Record For Most Consecutive Marathons She’s completed a marathon on her treadmill for 64 straight days and is aiming for 75. The world record was 60. The men’s record is 607. Yes, 607.

Free Training Tips

• 2:30 Marathoner Becky Wade: 5 Things I’ve Learned Going Through My Old Training Logs
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Interesting Reads From Outside The US

• 4 Years Ago, Brett Larner Predicted Japanese Marathoners Would Start Running Really Fast Soon And He Was Right, But Was It Because They Were Developed In College Or Was It Simply The New Shoes?
• Interesting Idea: Since No One Is Competing In Track, Kenyan Journalist Proposes WADA Starts Testing Random Kenyans On Street To Make Sure ABP Works In Kenya Is it possible the ABP misses unique aspects of Kenyan physiology? Or might the local food supply be tainted with drugs?

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.

GB News

• Mo Farah Remembers How He Took The Subway With His Two Olympic Gold Medals In His Pocket The Day After “Super Saturday” At London 2012 Farah said he wanted to see his family the next day so left the Olympic Village and hoped on a normal train with a hoodie. He said one guy kept looking at him and gave him a thumbs up.
• GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Says Euro Champs Cancellation Was Harder To Deal With Than Olympic Postponement “With the Olympics …  had weeks to expect that. But the thing I struggled with the most was the Europeans getting cancelled in Paris. Not even postponed, but outright cancelled. That was tough for me because then I didn’t have any sort of focus to train for.”

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.

For The First Time Ever

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 

• The Stawell Gift, Australia’s Oldest And Richest Handicap Footrace, Has Been Canceled For The First Time Since 1945 Because Of The COVID-19 Pandemic
• Toni Reavis: Many Races And Running Organizations, Including Ironman And Running USA, Have Banded Together To Beg The Govt. For A Bailout “Without specifically targeted help from the federal government,” said the Endurance Sports Coalition, “the endurance sports may not survive the COVID-19 pandemic.”