November 24, 2020 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“I didn’t really have anything prepared to say. Thank you to all the volunteers and everyone for coming out and helping. I actually really don’t know what else to say.”

– An emotional Keira D’Amato speaking after running 51:23 to break the American women’s-only 10 mile record at the Up Dawg Ten Miler in Washington, DC.

Mark Your Calendar Now

LRC The 2021 RAK Half Looks INCREDIBLE: Women’s WR Holders Brigid Kosgei & Ababel Yeshaneh To Battle, World Half Rematch with Jacob Kiplimo vs Kibiwott Kandie And Sara Hall Is Entered Mark your calendars, the February 19th race is something athletics fans can get excited about. The marathon WR holder vs. the half marathon WR holder is the women’s headline. For the men, we get a replay of gold vs silver from World Half. And Sara Hall of the US is making the trip.
*MB: The 2021 RAK HALF Is LOADED. 2 World Record holders, Jakob Kiplimo, Kibiwott Kandie and Sara Hall are racing

US Distance Action

Hayden Hawks And Camille Herron Win JFK 50-Miler Hawks ran 5:18:43 to win by 10 minutes and break Jim Walmsley‘s CR. Herron ran 6:31:14, winning by almost half an hour.
MB:CJ Albertson Runs 2:10:00 Treadmill Marathon
MB:Collegian Luis Grijalva smokes Drew Hunter (7:42 to 7:44), Nick Young fails to break 8:00 *MileSplit Recap

Unusual Women’s Sport News

MileSplit Documentary On High Schooler Caitlin Little, Who Suffered A Head Injury During XC Practice In Combination With Lyme Disease And Now Struggles To Hold On To Memories For More Than A Few Minutes If you remember Drew Barrymore from the movie 50 First Dates, it’s something like that.
Woman Accusing Former Cross-Country Coach Of Sexually Abusing Her As A Teen Found Dead The autopsy ruled that Emilie Morris died from asphyxiation and could not determine whether it was accidental, suicide or homicide, meaning that the case against her former coach was dismissed. TV channel Oxygen is airing a report on her story on December 6.
GB Olympic Team To Be Given Cyber-Security Training Before Tokyo Games Four British athletes have already been targeted and had intimate photographs and videos stolen.
*MB: Four female ‘British athletes’ have their nude photos hacked and leaked online
Recent Research Indicates That The Birth Control Pill Could Help Women Deal With The Hot Conditions At Tokyo 2020 This is because the pill helps to control body temperature during the menstrual cycle.

LetsJump.com

Get To Know Jamaica’s World Long Jump Champion Tajay Gayle Gayle explains how he only came out for track in the first place so he could beat his cousin in street races. The first day there he told the coach his 100m PR was six or seven seconds.
Germany’s World LJ Champ Malaika Mihambo Wants To Double Up In The 100m For Tokyo 2020 She has a PB of 11.21.
Four-Time World LJ Champ Brittney Reese Named By Senator To USOPC Commission

Ultra News

Ultramarathoner Kilian Jornet Targeting 24-Hour World Record In A Norway Track Race On November 25 The record for longest distance on the track in 24 hours is 188.590 miles (7:38 pace) from 1997. There will be a live stream available here.
New Study Finds That Ultramarathoners Have Two Mental Traits In Common, High Levels Of Mental Toughness And Self-Efficacy Makes sense, although this was a small scale study with only 56 participants.

LRC In-Depth

Podcast Ken Goe Defends Salazar: “I’ve seen very little persuasive evidence that he was a systematic cheater.” Ken Goe retired as one of the last remaining track and field writers in America at a major newspaper. He looks back at his career and talks about everything Nike-related in running including Alberto Salazar, Galen Rupp, Phil Knight, Mary Cain and Vin Lananna.
*MB: Ken Goe: A Salazar Shill to the End

LRC It’s Here: The 1:59:40 GOAT Shirt Get the premium shirt that signals and celebrates greatness. Order today.

D’Amato Breaks US 10 Mile Record

RRW Keira D’Amato DESTROYS American Women’s-Only 10 Mile Record; Runs 51:23 To Smash 52:12 Record At Up Dawg Ten Miler The magical season for the 36-year-old unsponsored mother of 2 continued with her first American record. D’Amato broke the previous mark of 52:12 set by Janet Bawcom in 2014. Molly Seidel was a distant second in the 53-minute range.
*MB: Up Dawg 10 miler is ON! Keira is busting it out!!!

LRC Pre-Race Keira D’Amato Is Trying To Break The American 10-Mile Record On Monday. It Could Cost Her Thousands Of Dollars

LRC Tennessee’s Jenna Hutchins Puts Stamp On Incredible 2020 Cross-Country Season With Historic Sub-16:00 5K Hutchins, who finished 9th at Foot Lockers as a freshman and 5th as a sophomore, recorded the first sub-16:00 5k in US girls HS history. Can it be believed?

COROS Wearables Is Now Official GPS Sponsor Of Eliud Kipchoge And The NN Running Team

World Athletics Athlete Of The Year Finalists

Finalists Announced For 2020 World Athletics Male Athlete Of The Year Award They are Joshua Cheptegei, Ryan Crouser, Mondo Duplantis, Johannes Vetter and Karsten Warholm. Breaking two long-standing track WRs, Cheptegei is a pretty good bet.

Finalists Announced For 2020 World Athletics Female Athlete Of The Year Award They are Letesenbet Gidey, Sifan Hassan, Peres Jepchirchir, Yulimar Rojas and Elaine Thompson-Herah.

RunningLane High School XC Champs

MileSplit:Jenna Hutchins Runs Fastest Girls XC 5k In Prep History At RunningLane National Champs In Alabama She ran 15:58.42 to dominate the race by almost a minute.
*MB: JENNA MF HUTCHINS – Runs 15:58 – 1st US HS Girl To Break 16:00 in XC!!
MileSplit:Parker Wolfe Snags Win In Craziest, Fastest Race Of The Season At RunningLane National Champs Wolfe won in a CR of 14:26.94 as the top-8 were under 14:40.
MileSplit:American Fork Puts Down Fastest 5K Team Average In Prep XC History The team averaged 15:00.99, which is reportedly the fastest team average in HS history just ahead of the 1978 run by South Eugene with 15:01.02 at their state champs.
DyeStat RunningLane Champs Recap

Sprinters In The News

Lolo Jones Has Returned To Bobsledding Jones qualified for the 10-person national team roster after two days of team-trial races in New York.
Bahamian Sprinter Steven Gardiner Relives His 2019 World 400m Gold He said a lot of athletes struggled in the Doha heat, but he was used to it.
Ato Boldon And Sanya Richards-Ross To Host 2020 World Athletics Awards On December 5 Short Q&A with both presenters talking about the challenges of hosting/commentating during COVID and which awards they are most looking forward to presenting.
Karsten Warholm 2020 Highlights Video
Dr. Scholl’s Partners With Allyson Felix

More NCAA Updates

Weekend NCAA Round-Up:Southern And Mid-American Conference XC Champs Furman men and women swept Southern Champs while Eastern Michigan men and Northern Illinois women took Mid-American.
Big East Indoor Champs Canceled Probably many more to come unfortunately.

NCAA Stuff

Bernard Lagat Named As Part Of Arizona’s Coaching Staff Lagat has been a volunteer assistant at Arizona for the last 15 years.
Weekend NCAA XC Preview: Southern Conference And Mid-American Conference Champs

Manangoi Owns His Mistake

LRC “I Made A Mistake”: Elijah Manangoi Does What Christian Coleman Refuses To Do – Owns Up To Missing 3 Drug Tests Jonathan Gault praises Elijah Manangoi for doing something that fellow stars Christian Coleman and Wilson Kipsang have been unable to do and something that is very rare in the year 2020 – owning up to a massive mistake. Manangoi admitted his suspension for missing 3 drug tests was his own fault. “I would like to urge my fellow athletes both in Kenya and abroad to seriously take care of their own whereabouts to avoid unnecessary sanctions, it seems simple but a slight mistake can be costly at the end. It’s shameful.”
*MB: Jonathan Gault is (rightly) full of praise for Elijah Manangoi – a guy who just got banned for 2 years

Supporters Club Content

LRCAsk Me Anything With LetsRun.com Co-Founder Weldon Johnson – Running, Dogs, PaulaWejo has started an AMA for Supporters Club members and so far has answered question on his running career, his dogs, and whether he thinks Paula Radcliffe, whom he paced to her first world record, in the marathon was clean.

Words From Two All-Time British Greats

Seb Coe Wants COVID Lockdown Restrictions In The UK Eased So Kids Can Play Sports He says it doesn’t make sense to close down club sports if schools are open. “Children being together is either safe, or it is not.”

International Distance Results

The 2020 NCAA Championships Were Supposed To Be Saturday

LRC What I Miss Most About the NCAA Cross-Country Championships The NCAA cross-country championships were originally scheduled for this weekend at Oklahoma State. As Jonathan Gault ponders yet another absence from the 2020 sporting calendar, he reflects on what he misses the most about one of his favorite events of the year.
*MB: NCAA xc were supposed to be this weekend. What do you miss most about the meet?