On – The Swiss Running Brand – Gets Into Pro Running In A Big Way

LRC On Establishes Pro Group in Boulder to Be Coached by Dathan Ritzenhein; Joe Klecker Is Group’s First Signing The group will be called the On Athletics Club and features eight athletes (the remainder will be announced soon) led by Joe Klecker, who was signed before Ritz and given veto power over the coach of the group. Klecker will make his pro debut at the Music City Distance Carnival on August 15 and Ritz says he’s in incredible shape. “I did that exact workout at sea level a month before I ran 12:56 and broke the American record…He’s doing the kind of quality work that I was doing at my best.”
*MB: Breaking: On is starting a new training group in Boulder coached by Dathan Ritzenhein and headlined by Joe Klecker
*MB: Joe Klecker Sub 4 at altitude?! 3:58.4

Well Worth 1 Hour Of Your Time

LRC The Stand: 52 Years Later, Tommie Smith & John Carlos’ Famous Protest Is As Relevant As Ever Tom Ratcliffe and Becky Paige, who teamed up for the terrific Bannister: Everest on the Track, have reunited for The Stand, which aims to tell the definitive story of Smith and Carlos’ protest on the Olympic 200m medal stand in 1968.
*Stream The Stand on Amazon

Boston Bomber Death Sentence Overturned

Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Has His Death-Penalty Sentence Overturned By US Court Of Appeals It was ruled that the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors to make sure they were impartial. So his conviction is still in place, but there will be a new penalty-phase trial to determine his sentence where he could still receive the death penalty. *Discuss
*AP article
*AP: Ruling Renews Fairness Debate In Boston Marathon Bomber Case

Sprint Stuff

The Olympics Needs An MVP

LRC The Olympic Track & Field MVPs, Part II: 1964-2016 The 2020 Olympic track and field action was supposed to begin this week and we’re feeling nostalgic. Football has a Super Bowl MVP. Baseball has a World Series MVP. We need to have an Olympic MVP. Today, we name an Olympic MVP for every Olympics from 1964 to 2016.
*MB: Let the debate begin. Here are our Olympic MVPs from 1896 to 2016.

LRC The Olympic Track & Field MVPs, Part I: 1896-1960

Sprint Stuff

Pre-Meet News From Oregon

Donavan Brazier Gunning For A Fast Time And Maybe Even A Record In Today’s Portland Track Popup Meet Brazier might be trying to break his own 1:42.34 American record which he set last year at Worlds. The other events should be good as well with Craig Engels, Hassan Mead and Josh Kerr in the men’s 1,500, Shannon Rowbury in the women’s 1,500 and Brenda Martinez, Chanelle Price and Nia Akins in the women’s 800. *Meet Info
*LRC Official Thread Brazier Predictions
*MB: BTC & Portland Track Holding Separate Meets this Friday (7/31)

More Oregon News:

• Ken Goe: “Long Hours, Short Nights And Ulcers: Portland Track Defies The Coronavirus To Stage Elite Meets” Portland Track president Michael Bergmann on BTC doing their own thing: “[Jerry Schumacher] knows what we’re doing. But they’ve been pretty successful doing it their way. He has his plan. I’m not going to beg him.”
• Good Read: Portland Track’s Jeff Merrill Gives A Behind The Scenes Look At The Setup And Execution Of The Big Friendly 2 Includes a lot of great photos from the races and middle-of-nowhere setting.
• Good For Them: The Scandia Run In Oregon Is Going Ahead Despite Coronavirus The race will be following social distancing guidelines and can accommodate as many as 600 runners.

Upcoming Action: Brazier Headed To Monaco

• Donavan Brazier, World Steeple Champ Beatrice Chepkoech And Grant Holloway Announced For Monaco Diamond League Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has also been confirmed for Monaco.
  *MB: BRAZIER Confirmed for Monaco!!!
• Portland Track Is Planning Another Popup Meet, This Time With Free Live Streaming Ken Goe writes that he thinks it will be Friday at an undisclosed location in the Portland area.
• World TJ Bronze Medalist Hugues Fabrice Zango And World LJ Silver Medalist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk Announced For Hungary World Athletics Meet On August 19 African record holder Zango will be up against Christian Taylor and Pedro Pablo Pichardo.

Trouble In Ethiopia

Haile Gebrselassie Demands Justice From The Ethiopian Government After Two Of His Hotels Were Burned Down As Part Of An Ethnic Uprising Gebrselassie estimated the properties were valued at over $8 million.
*MB: Haile G’s Hotels Are Burned Down as More Than 200 Are Killed in Ethnic Uprising in Ethiopia

Fast Sprinting In Clermont, FL *Live Results

Noah Lyles Runs 19.94 To Beat World 400m Champ Steven Gardiner’s 19.96 (Running In Different Heats) On Day 2 In Clermont In the women’s race, Shaunae Miller-Uibo dropped a world-leading 21.98. Grant Holloway ran 13.35 to beat Devon Allen in the 110H prelims by .01 (Holloway won the final in 13.46; Allen skipped).

Shaunae Miller-Uibo Dips Under 11 Seconds As Trayvon Bromell Beats Noah Lyles In Prelims With 9.90 (Lyles Wins Final In 9.93) Bromell ran 9.90 to in the heats (Lyles ran 10.04), but Bromell skipped the final, leaving Lyles to win over Andre De Grasse (9.97). Miller-Uibo won the final in 10.98 after running 11.03 in the heats. Akeem Bloomfield won the 400m in 45.07.
*MB: Clermont Track Meet #2: Noah Lyles, Michael Norman, and more. Live updates

European Non-Distance Stars

• Kind Of Cool: Ivona Dadic Smashes The 6,000-Point Barrier In One-Hour Heptathlon In Amstetten Afterwards she said, “A normal heptathlon in two days is exhausting, a one-hour heptathlon hurts incredibly. But when I see my performance, the pain is gone in one fell swoop.”
• The Netherlands’ World U20 Champ Femke Bol Runs European-Leading 51.13 In The 400m
• World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm Eying The Long Standing European 400m Record When He Races In Stockholm Next Month The record is 44.33 (by East Germany’s Thomas Schonlebe from 1987) and Warholm’s best is 44.87 from 2017.

Distance News

• MB: Elle Purrier Runs 4:01 1,500m Time Trial
• Billy Mills Reflects On His Epic Victory At The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Mills talks about overcoming being an orphan from a young age, type 2 diabetes, suicidal thoughts and racism to win Olympic gold.
• MB: Joshua Cheptegei Runs Solo 7:41 3,000m Time Trial Before Monaco
• MB: Al Carius Steps Down As North Central College Coach

We’ve Brought John Kellogg Out Of Retirement – Our Summer Training Program Is Back

LRC High Schoolers And College Runners- Train Smarter This Summer With The LetsRun.com Summer Training Program If you aren’t sure what you should be doing for summer training and want to be your best this fall, sign up for our summer training program. Get a daily training schedule, interact with our team, and be your best this fall.