Boston Picks Its 2021 Date

LRC 2021 Boston Marathon Is Scheduled For October 11; All Six World Marathon Majors To Be Contested In 6-Week Span We break down what it all means, tell you what to expect with the weather and tell you and why this could be a great thing for American marathoning.
*MB: Boston 2021 Date Selected – October 11th

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• Sandi Morris Talks About Training And Competing During The Pandemic And Recently Recovering From A Mild Case Of COVID-19 She’s hoping to compete in Europe in February, but is going to have to borrow poles from Renaud Lavillenie because it’s so hard to get to travel with poles right now.
• World Athletics: The Six-Meter Vault Is A Universal Yet Elusive Achievement The 6m club has 24 members, including seven of the past eight Olympic champions.
• Collegiate Record Setter KC Lightfoot Says He’s Already Gone Over 6-Meters In Practice
• New Zealand’s 2016 Olympic PV Bronze Medalist Eliza McCartney Delays Her Comeback McCartney hasn’t competed since August 2019 due to Achilles issues. She got as far as doing warmups at the Potts Classic in NZ, but decided she wasn’t ready.

Kenyan News

• February 19: Geoffrey Kamworor And Hellen Obiri Added To RAK Half Marathon Field The men’s race also has WR holder Kibiwott Kandie and London Marathon champ Shura Kitata. This will be Kamworor’s first race in just over a year.
  *Geoffrey Kamworor Is Back From Injury After Months Layoff Kamworor was hurt in a freak accident in June last year when a speeding motorcycle hit him from behind.
• Sammy Wanjiru Case Still Ongoing Ten Years Later? Two Government Pathologists Say Wanjiru Was Hit With Blunt Object According to them, Wanjiru died from the hit to the head rather than the fall from the balcony of his one-story building.
• Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed Confident About Kenya’s Bid For The 2025 World Championships

Florida 2020?

Florida Offers To Host Olympics If Tokyo Backs Out A letter from Florida’s chief financial officer to IOC president Thomas Bach cited the strength of Florida’s vaccination roll-out, its economic re-opening and sports events it has hosted during the pandemic. *Full Letter *Discuss

More Olympic News:

• Tokyo 2020 Concerns Continue As COVID Vaccinations Yet To Get Underway In Japan Vaccine rollout in Japan isn’t expected to start until late February. The delay is due to Japan requiring domestic trials before the vaccine can be approved.
• The Telegraph: “Why Cancelling The Olympics Would Be ‘Catastrophic’ For Sport” From athletes to governing bodies to fans to the city of Tokyo, many people would be negatively impacted.
• The Telegraph Reports That The IOC Is Working With The World Health Organization To Get All Athletes Vaccinated Ahead Of Tokyo Games However, athletes would not skip ahead of vulnerable groups.
  *IOC And WHO Pledge To Help NOCs With Vaccine Access Prior To Tokyo
• World Health Organization Says Olympic Athletes Should Not Cut Line For COVID Vaccine They said the focus should be on “populations that are most at risk” like elderly and health care workers.
• Tokyo 2020 Torch Relay May Be Forced To Divert Away From Public Roads In Japan

NCAA News

• MB: Christian Noble 13:37 at Magic City Elite – DII National Record
• Arkansas Men Are #1 In First NCAA DI Indoor Rankings Of The Year North Carolina A&T, LSU, BYU and Tennessee round out the rest of the top 5.
• Arkansas Women Are #1 In NCAA DI Indoor Rankings Texas A&M, Georgia, Texas and Alabama are ranked 2-5.
• NY Times: Hammered By Pandemic, NCAA Revenue Falls By $600 Million Cancelling March Madness last year reportedly cost the NCAA more than $800 million and even after insurance and cutting expenses, they still posted a $56 million loss.
• Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks Of The Week

HOKA Project Carbon X 2 *Results *Stream Race Replay Here

LRC VIP Jim Walmsley Just Misses 100k World Record By 12 Seconds – Video Reaction Show The LRC staff was yelling at the TV during the final 400 urging Jim to get the record.

Walmsley Is Upbeat After Race: “Definitely feels like one of the more special runs I’ve had. I got everything out of myself today, dug real deep, and fought all the way to the line.” “I don’t feel like I gave up, but it was tough to see the seconds tick by. It’s a little bittersweet, but definitely awarded with an American record today, and those don’t come very often … A 45-minute PR. It was a pretty amazing day.”

• MB: Official Jim Walmsley missed the 100k world record by 12 seconds after running for 6 hours
• MB: Official Race Discussion Thread
• MB: HOKA 100km WR Challenge – Bold Predictions ONLY!
• MB: Women’s 100km Record Is Insanely Fast

More Weekend Road Action Pat Tiernan (62:38) and Molly Seidel (69:20) win half marathons in Vegas

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