February 15, 2021 Homepage Archive

2021 NBIGP Is In The Books TVResults

LRC Donavan Brazier (800), Bryce Hoppel (1,000), & Elle Purrier (2-Mile) All Break American Records At 2021 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix The 2021 NBIGP lived up to the hype.

The Rest Of The Meet
LRC NBIGP Recap: Olli Hoare (3:32) Wins Fast 1,500 As Sam Tanner (3:34) Breaks NCAA Record, Ajee’ Wilson Returns & More What a meet. Olli moved to #7 on the all-time indoor 1,500 list and as Sam Tanner broke the NCAA 1,500 record with his 3:34.72 in third. There were also wins for Justyn Knight (2-mile) and Heather MacLean (1,500), while Ajee’ Wilson made a surprise season debut and won the 800. In the sprints, Trayvon Bromell looked good in winning the 60 (6.50), while Noah Lyles didn’t look quite as good in winning the 200 (20.80). In the headline matchup of the day, Michael Norman edged training partner Rai Benjamin, 45.34 to 45.39, to win a 400 that came down to the wire.

Oregon Milers Go Crazy

LRC Oregon’s Cooper Teare Runs 3:50 To Break NCAA Mile Record; Cole Hocker 3:50, Charlie Hunter 3:53 Running at the Tyson Invitational in Arkansas, Teare took almost two seconds off Edward Cheserek‘s 3:52.01 CR. Teare & Hocker are now #7 & #8 on the world all-time list indoors. *Results

Register-Guard:Cooper Teare Breaks Collegiate Record As Oregon’s Men’s Milers Put On A Show

MB Talk – How Much Of It Is The Shoes?

COVID Stuff

Bummer: Collegiate Division Of Mt. SAC Relays Cancelled Due To COVID They are still hoping to host elite races, but are moving them back to May 9th.
Japanese Health Officials Back Use Of COVID-19 Vaccine As First Batch Arrives In Tokyo 20,000 health workers from across 100 hospitals expected to be vaccinated by the middle of next week.
Athletes, Celebrities And Health Bodies Call On UK Prime Minister To Support Help Sports And Exercise Facilities Survive The Pandemic There are concerns about obesity and health in the UK with tons of sports and exercise facilities being forced to shut down due to coronavirus restrictions.

More Distance News

MB: Joshua Cheptegei will open season on Sunday with Monaco 5k You can watch it live on the NN Running YouTube page at 3:45 am ET (9:45 CET).
Melissa Bishop-Nriagu Is Enjoying Her Training This Winter In Victoria Under New Coach Trent Stellingwerff Covid-19 restrictions prevented her from traveling to the US like she normally does. Her longtime coach Dennis Fairall died in 2020. *Bishop-Nriagu Says Her “… fitness is really coming along great.”
Sub-4 HSer Leo Daschbach Is Making His Collegiate Debut This Weekend At Washington Invitational
Meet 2:33 Marathoner And Doctor Elsey Davis Of The UK
Why Do Runners Get Night Sweats? Night sweats can also be a sign that you are either over-training and/or under-fueling.
Why You Should Eat Protein Before Bed – PodiumRunner Consuming protein before bed helps to increase muscle protein synthesis overnight.
German Ultrarunner Covers 100K In 6:26:08, Sets New Treadmill World Record

Pre-Meet NBIGP News

LRC Sydney McLaughlin Has A New Coach, Donavan Brazier Loves The Treadmill & More From The NBIGP Press Conference McLaughlin is now training partners with Allyson Felix under Bobby Kersee, while Brazier shares what it was like to be quarantined in his Arkansas hotel room for five days recently. Plus updates from Noah Lyles & Rai Benjamin.
*Sydney McLaughlin Is Excited To Get Back To The 60H After Six Years Away She says she hasn’t raced the 60H because it was causing groin injuries, but it’s been fun to get back to it.
*World Athletics NBIGP Press Conference Quotes/Notes

LRC What About The Sport? Wouldn’t It Be Nice If Donavan Brazier & Bryce Hoppel Raced Each Other Once This Season? Jonathan Gault takes a look at how it’s possible that the two 800m stars, who will be at the same meet three times in a four-week span, including Saturday’s New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, won’t face each other this winter.

Other News Of Note

No Hugs Or High Fives: Olympic Organizers Unveil Athlete Rule Book For Tokyo To Stop Covid-19 Spread Some on the message board think the document makes no logical sense.
*MB: Logical insanity: Tokyo 2021 organizers will bar athletes from hugging or shaking hands but will give them 150,000 free condoms
Catching Up With Reigning World Decathlon Champ Niklas Kaul On His 23rd Birthday He talks about how the final 2 events of the decathlon – the jav and 1,500 (4:15 PR) – are his two best events. He’s scored 8691 despite never haven broken 11 in the 100 or 48 in the 400.
Should CHAMPS In Jamaica Go On During Covid-19?

Meet Hobbs Kessler

LRC VIP Two Decades After Brannen, Webb, & Willis, Ron Warhurst Has Another Teen Mile Star On His Hands. His Name Is Hobbs Kessler. Warhurst doesn’t want to burden Kessler with expectations but admits the obvious, “It looks like he might be the next really good one.” Nick Willis compares him to Matthew Centrowitz and Alan Webb. (Sub required. 100% of subscriptions through Wednesday go to Jonathan Gault in honor of his 30th bday).

LRC An Unknown High Schooler Just Ran A 3:57 Mile – Everything You Need To About Hobbs Kessler’s Record-Breaking Run Who the heck is Hobbs Kessler? We tell you everything you need to know about the guy who came into yesterday’s race with a 4:18 1,600 PR and left with a 3:57 mile PR. Kessler broke Drew Hunter‘s indoor record of 3:57.81. He was 3rd in the race behind Algeria’s Takieddine Hedeilli (3:56.79) and Nick Willis (3:56.82). (Sub required. 100% of subscriptions through Wednesday go to Jonathan Gault in honor of his 30th bday).
*MB: HOBBS KESSLER 3:57.66 MILE NEW HS RECORD!!!

Monaco 5k

Beatrice Chepkoech Sets New Women’s 5k Road Record With 14:43 In Monaco (link updated) Joshua Cheptegei won the men’s race in 13:14.

International Results

Gudaf Tsegay Sizzles To 1:57.52 World Lead In France The time puts the recent 1,500m WR setter 9th on the all-time list. In a close men’s 1,500m, Getnet Wale edged out Lamecha Girma by .06 to win in 3:35.54.
*MB:Gudaf Tsegay runs 1:57.52 indoors!!
Patrick Mathenge Wambui Breaks National Corporate Half Marathon CR With 60:12 Japanese XC champ Takashi Ichida was 2nd (60:19).
Jacko Gill Equals His 21.52m PR To Beat Tom Walsh (21.45m) Again At The Porritt Classic Shot Put Valerie Adams won the women’s competition with 18.68m.
WA International Round-Up:Poland’s European Champ Michal Haratyk Dominates Orlen Cup Shot Put With 21.83m Sam Kendricks won the PV with 5.86m and Mike Rodgers took the 60m in 6.52.
Former World 800m Champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Wins 600m At IFAM Gent Meeting In 1:16.61 Belgium’s Isaac Kimeli took the 3,000m in 7:44.17.
*Ireland’s Nadia Power Wins IFAM 800m In 2:02.83
GB Athletes Take Advantage Of Rare Invitational To Achieve European Qualifying Times Pieres Copeland won the 1,500m in 3:38.55 over Andy Butchart (3:42.82) while Holly Archer won the women’s race in 4:10.03.

More NCAA Results

Charlie Hunter Breaks Andrew Wheating’s Oregon 800m Record With 1:45.59 The time also puts Hunter #5 on the NCAA all-time indoor list.
Colorado’s Sage Hurta Runs NCAA-Leading 4:31.80 Mile At Iowa State Classic She dominated the race by 16 seconds.
Arkansas Women’s DMR Runs NCAA-Leading 10:53.77 At Tyson Invy The time is also #2 on the Arkansas all-time list. Also setting an NCAA-leading time was Katie Izzo, winning the 3,000m in 8:57.78.
MB:BYU Put’s 3 under 13:30 in WA! Conner Mantz won in 13:28.99, just ahead of Casey Clinger and Brandon Garnica.
KC Lightfoot Breaks His Own Collegiate PV Record Again With 6.00m At The Texas Shootout And at the Tyson Invitational, Texas A&M women’s 4 x 400 (which included Athing Mu) broke the NCAA 4 x 400 record with 3:26.27 (also #9 on the world all-time list).
North Carolina A&T Puts Four Men Under 46 Seconds In The 400m At The Tiger Paw Invy
USTFCCCA Weekend NCAA Round-Up Arizona State’s Turner Washington threw 21.85m to break the collegiate shot put record and Florida State’s Isaac Grimes moved to #5 on the NCAA LJ list with a world-leading 8.33m.

Admin News

Former Japan Football Association President Saburo Kawabuchi Turns Down Offer To Become New Head Of Tokyo 2020 After Yoshiro Mori Resigns We imagine not everyone will be jumping at the chance to try and organize an Olympic Games during COVID.
WADA Sanctions Force Russian Athletics Federation President Peter Ivanov To Resign Ivanov was in the position for less than three months, but under the terms of the CAS decision, Russian government officials can’t serve on sports bodies until December 2022.
More Than 200 Athletes Sign Letter To UK Athletics Calling For Abusive Coaches To Get Lifetime Bans UKA responded by saying it understood the concerns raised but lifetime bans “can be susceptible to strong and robust legal challenge.”

Non-Distance News

Olympic Head Yoshiro Mori To Resign After Sexist Comments Saying Women Talk Too Much Mori’s comments really struck a nerve as Japan has a very serious gender equity problem. Japan is only ranked 121st in the world in gender-equity.
Recommended Read:Arthur Price III, LSU Hurdler, Writes A Fantastic Piece About How Hard It Is To Lose A Parent “Losing a parent changes you. In a way, it forces you to leave a past self behind. From that moment on, things are never quite the same.” If you like this piece, you’ll love his memoir which is coming out soon.
On Running Gets Into Sprinting By Signing NCAA Runner-Up In 400 Chloe Abbott The 50.98 400 runner, who is also known as “Chloe B” in the singing world, has released a video to celebrate the occasion.
Meet Britain’s 400H Champ Jessie Knight, Who Teaches Elementary School 3 Days A Week And Has A 55.27 PR An interesting read. She was so shy as a kid before finding athletics some people thought she was deaf.
NBC Plans First Live Morning Broadcast Of Olympic Opening Ceremony From Tokyo
Yaroslava Mahuchikh Wins The Ukrainian Indoor High Jump Title With A 2.00m Clearance Before Three Close Attempts At 2.05m.

Kamworor – Kandie Clash Is Saturday

Athletics Kenya All Set For National Cross-Country Championships On Saturday Meanwhile, USATF has gone AWOL.
Japanese-Based Bedan Karoki Is Excited To Race After Travel Restrictions Prevented Him From Running World Half Or Valencia Marathon “We need to improve on our finishing in the last bend – 200m. That is why the Ethiopians and other nationals have reigned supreme over us in the past.”
Karoki Says He’s In Shape As He Was Getting Ready For The Cancelled RAK Half
Hellen Obiri Won’t Defend Crown – Will Run Mixed Gender Relay Event Instead

Free Coaching Advice

Recommended Read What Type Of Coach Are You? Push Or Pull? Do You Tell Your Athletes What To Do Or Do You Collaboratively Try To Come Up With A Plan? The answer in Rojo‘s mind should be both and it might vary based on the athlete’s age. Steve Ovett‘s old coach would agree.
Study By Harvard’s Dan Lieberman Finds That An Unusual Coordination Between Muscles In Runners’ Shoulders And Arms Helps To Keep Runners’ Heads Stable When We Run
Aisha Praught Leer Ralks About Eating Properly “I’ve learned over the past few years that being the lightest I can be is not a goal that suits me – at all. Now, I think of what I eat in terms of, ‘How strong can I be? How well-fueled can I be?'”

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Kenyan XC Champs

Rodgers Kwemoi Shocks The Big Guns To Win Kenyan National XC Title Commonwealth 10,000m bronze medalist Kwemoi got an upset win over a field that included former champions Kibiwott Kandie, Geoffrey Kamworor and Bedan Karoki. Kwemoi won in 32:03.3 to Kandie’s 32:05.5.

Sheila Chelangat Wins Kenyan National XC Champs Over Field That Included World Marathon Champ Ruth Chepngetich Chepngetich finished 7 seconds back in 3rd place.
*World Athletics Recap

Hopefully There Will Be A Bowerman Award For 2021

The Bowerman: 2021 Men’s Mid-Indoor Watch List Distance runners on the list include Cooper Teare, Charlie Hunter, Devin Dixon and Takieddine Hedeilli.
The Bowerman: 2021 Women’s Mid-Indoor Watch List Athing Mu is the lone distance runner on the list.

This Week’s Podcast

LRC Guest The Hobbs Kessler + Lievin Madness Podcast Hobbs Kessler, the 3:57 new American high school record holder in the mile, is our guest.