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Quote Of The Day

“It sucked because I was even further out of the race than I remembered. It’s tough watching yourself be human.”

– Kyle Merber talking about watching the replay of his race at the 2016 Olympic Trials 1,500m where he finished 9th.

A Women’s 10,000 Will Take Place This Saturday in The US

LRC Recovering from the Trials, Returning to the Track, & Time-Trialing a Marathon? LRC Catches Up with Molly Seidel Seidel will race this weekend for the first time since her stunning debut at the US Olympic Marathon Trials; she’s running a 10,000 in Massachusetts at the MVMNT Race Series, which is being staged by her coach, Jon Green.

The BTC Scrimmage Was Quite Fast *Results

LRC Shelby Houlihan (14:23.92) CRUSHES American Record At 5,000 (And So Does Karissa Schweizer) The Americans are now the 12th and 14th fastest women In history as Houlihan used a 4:26 last 1,600 and 61.5 last 400 to set the new mark.
*MB: SHELBY MF HOULIHAN 14:23.
*Full Event Replay Available Here From 3 PM ET

Retired Stars In The News

Men’s Health Says Ryan Hall Is “Absolutely Shredded Now” Hall shared a Instagram clip of himself deadlifting 455 lbs. If the comments are to be believed, he’s risking back injury if he doesn’t improve his lifting technique.
*MB: Ryan Hall SHREDDER.. men’s health
Usain Bolt Says He’d Come Back If Glen Mills Called Him Bolt said in a video interview with Variety that if Mills thought he could come back, he’d know it was possible. Bolt also talked about fatherhood, his daughter’s name and how he’s picked up cycling.
TrackAlerts.com Headline: “Usain Bolt For Tokyo 2021?” Apparently Bolt was joking with some people on Twitter about a comeback. But chances of that happening are ~~close to zero~~apparently up to coach Glen Mills.

Weltklasse Zürich

LRC Noah Lyles’ 18.90* And Allyson Felix’s Upset Win Highlight 2020 Weltklasse Zürich Inspiration Games Lyles’ 18.90 was too good to be true (he only ran 185m) but still provided one of the most entertaining moments of the 2020 summer track season, while Felix upset favored Shaunae Miller-Uibo over 150m.
*MB: Official 2020 Weltklasse Inspiration Games Discussion Thread

Assorted Distance News

Daily Nation:Huge Blow For Kenyan Athletes As EU Travel Ban Continues The EU opened it’s borders to 54 countries on July 1st, but Kenya wasn’t one of them. If the travel bans continue, Kenyan distance runners won’t be able to compete in the DL meets that do happen like Monaco.
*From Last Month: Sally Kipyego Stuck In Kenya Due To Travel Restrictions
DyeStat: Taylor Ewert Wins Gatorade Girls Track And Field Athlete Of The Year Award
*Highlight Video
DyeStat: Nico Young Wins Gatorade Boys Track And Field Athlete Of The Year Young joins Katelyn Tuohy as only the second to win the XC and track awards in the same year. *Highlight Video
Quick Q&A With Haile Gebrselassie Geb answers questions about his greatest races, Eliud Kipchoge, the sub-2 hour marathon and more.
Podcast Interview With Elite Distance Runner Keira D’Amato (Who Ran 15:04 Time Trial Last Month)
*MB: Unheralded mother of two and realtor, Keira D’Amato , runs 15:04 5K time trial and she’s coached by Alan Webb’s HS coach!!
Jim Ryun’s 1967 3:51.1 Mile WR Named USATF Throwback Of The Week

A Bunch More Race Cancellations

RRW:Postponed Prague Marathon Now Cancelled The race had originally been postponed from May 3 to October 11.
Paris Marathon Delayed Again, This Time Until November 15 The race was originally rescheduled for October 18th instead of its normal April date.
Japanese Road Races As Far Out As February Already Getting Cancelled
RRW:J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge Series Cancelled For 2020
November 8th East Japan Women’s Ekiden In Japan Canceled Due To Coronavirus In the 35 years since this race began in 1985, it had never been canceled.

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2020 Chicago Marathon Is Cancelled – London Is The Only Remaining Major

2020 Chicago Marathon CancelledRunners have the option of taking a full refund or being deferred to 2021, 22 or 23. London, please have an elite race and you will cement your status as numero uno.

The Telegraph: With Chicago Cancelled, London Is The Last Major Left Standing London is due to announce the final decision on July 28th.
October Manchester Marathon Cancelled Due To Coronavirus Manchester was scheduled for one week after the rescheduled London Marathon.

Track Is Back In Jamaica

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Runs World-Leading 11.00 To Win Jamaican All-Comers Meet World LJ champ Tajay Gayle won with 8.52m.
400m World Bronze Medalist Shericka Jackson Runs 22.89 To Beat Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson (22.98)
Asafa Powell Runs His First 100m Of 2020 Powell won his heat in 10.51, but finished 5th overall (Nesta Carter won with 10.38).

Bowerman Men

LRC Moh Ahmed Amazes With 12:47 5K (3:58 Final 1,600) As Lopez Lomong Becomes 9th American Under 13:00 Ahmed went 3:58 the final 1,600m on a great night for BTC.

Not A Lot Of Positive NCAA News These Days

PAC-12 Follows Big Ten In Moving To Conference-Only Schedule For Fall Sports They are also delaying the start of fall seasons.
MB:Big Ten Fall Sports to Be Conference Only – What does it mean for XC?
ESPN:How Olympic Sports Are Fighting For Survival At The Collegiate Level If it’s not coronavirus cancelling the season, it’s budget cuts cancelling the sport entirely.

More Upcoming Action

Monaco DL Announces Noah Lyles, Mondo Duplantis And 800m World Champ Halimah Nakaayi Germany’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen is in the 5,000m.
RRW: Sondre Moen To Attack The European One-Hour Record On Friday Jos Hermens‘ record of 20,944m from 1976 is the second-oldest European record on the books. Moen came close to it when he broke the European 25k record last month (he ran 20,703m in an hour, about half a lap short of the record).
July 25: British Milers Club Holding An 800m With The Full Race In Lanes In The Interest Of Social Distancing
Marcin Lewandowski Shooting For The 29-Year-Old Polish 2,000m Record At The Irena Szewinsk Memorial On August 19th The record is 5:01.7.
October Hokone Ekiden Qualifying Race May Be Held On Closed Course Without Spectators

News From Oregon

Bowerman Track Club Doing Another Fast Time Trial This Week This time Shelby Houlihan, Karissa Schweizer, Moh Ahmed and Lopez Lomong will be running 5k.
Good Read:Portland Track’s Jeff Merrill Gives A Behind The Scenes Look At What Went Into The Big Friendly (Where Donavan Brazier Ran 3:35) “On a locked-down track that could have been in West Texas, Area 51, the Moon or Alabama, the sport of track returned in earnest…
Register-Guard: Ashton Eaton And Andrew Wheating Highlight 2020 Oregon Athletics Hall Of Fame Class Also 2012 Olympic 4×400 champ Keshia Baker.
Ken Goe:“Time Trials And Intrasquad Meets Won’t Grow The Sport” Goe says that there were discussions about BTC being in the meet with Pete Julian‘s group and the OTC, but BTC ended up deciding to time trial instead. Definitely a contrast to Julian who says, “We want to race people.”
State Champion Hurdler Adael Scatena Highlights Oregon State’s Track Recruiting Class

Semenya Updates

Caster Semenya Is Going To Be A Mother As Her Wife Is Pregnant Semenya and her wife, Violet Raseboya, were married in 2015 and posted a maternity photo on social media. No word on when the baby is due.
*MB: Caster Semenya’s Wife Is Pregnant
Caster Semenya Welcomes UN Report Calling For Revoking Of Sporting Regulations That Pressure DSD Athletes Into Medical Procedures Semenya said, “It is time for white men to stop telling women and girls how they should look and to stop messing with our bodies.”

Doping: Did UK Sport Promote Gray Area Drugs?

The Mail On Sunday Reports That GB Olympians Were Used In A Secret Project To Test An Experimental Substance Ahead Of The London 2012 Olympics The report claims that athletes were given an energy drink which is a synthetic version of ketones and forced to sign NDAs. The athletes were apparently given no guarantee the drink wouldn’t include a banned substance, but a version of the drink has since been approved by WADA. *The Telegraph Article *Discuss
One Of Eliud Kipchoge’s Sub-2 Hour Pacers Alex Korio Oloitiptip Given 2-Year Ban For Whereabouts Failures According to the AIU database there are 55 Kenyan athletes are currently serving suspensions.
RUSADA Director General Yuri Ganus Denies Accusations Of Corruption From Anonymous Online Messaging Platform Ganus said the allegations were made in an attempt to discredit RUSADA.
WADA President Witold Bańka Begins Series Of Meetings With Athletes To Improve Engagement With WADA

More Results

Dillon Maggard (13:50.38) And Kellyn Taylor (15:29.44) Win Close Races At The St. George Showdown 5,000m Maggard just beat Rory Linkletter (14:50.72) while Taylor outkicked teammate Stephanie Bruce (15:29.95).
Switzerland’s Ajla Del Ponte Sets Big 100m PR To Run European-Leading 11.08 Her best was 11.21 coming into the meet. There was also a European lead on the men’s side as Silvan Wicki ran 10.11.
World Atletics Weekend Recap 2015 world bronze medalist Alexandra Tavernier broke her own French hammer record with 74.94m.
Mondo Duplantis Gets Narrow Victory Over Belgium Record Holder Ben Broeders At The Karlstad GP Duplantis cleared 5.72m on his third attempt to beat Broeders’ 5.62m.

Mass Road Race News

The London Marathon Might Not Take Place Again Until October 2021 Organizers are expected to announce on July 28th if the race is going ahead in October, but if it is cancelled, they’re not even sure the 2021 race (which is supposed to be the UK Olympic Trials) will happen in April.
Athens Marathon Cleared To Proceed As Mass Participation Event In November Greece is limiting races to 5,000 participants, so Athens is having two races with 5,000 runners each, one starting an hour after the first. They’re also not inviting foreign elite athletes.
RRW:Classic Ohio Road Race to Go Forward On Sunday With Precautions The News-Herald Johnnycake Jog 5 Mile is taking precautions that include prohibiting “spitting, ‘snotting’ or projecting any bodily fluid.”

Throwback Thursday #14

LRC I Was Bored, So I Watched The Greatest Marathon Ever – 2002 London 18 years ago, the three men who held the marathon WR from 1999 to 2011 – Geb, Tergat and Khannouchi – sparred on the streets of London in an epic race and Paula Radcliffe announced herself as a marathon star. It was the marathon’s greatest day.
*MB: Throwback Thursday #14: Re-Experience The Greatest Marathon In History – The 2002 London Marathon