Abdihamid Nur and Nico Young went 1-2 as NAU won with just 20. Stanford was 2nd with 48 and Colorado 3rd with 70.
Archived Homepage For February 21, 2021
Archived Homepage For February 21, 2021
Race Of The Day
Race Of The Day
On The Boards
On The Boards
Camel City Elite
A day after splitting 3:25.8 on the 1200 leg of the DMR where she handed off in 2nd, Katelyn Tuohy made her individual debut for NC State and ran 9:19.67, finishing 9th of 10 in the field. Using the flat track conversion, it equatest to 9:14. Her pb is 9:01. Rachel Schneider crushed the field in 8:57.01. Craig Nowak won the men's 3k in 7:50.89.
MB: Katelyn Tuohy is making her collegiate debut at Camel City - predictions?
Getting You Ready For A WILD Weekend
This weekend has the collegiate debut for Katelyn Tuohy, a pair of outdoor 10ks, a pair of indoor pro meets and some collegiate XC action. Lots of big names will compete including Karissa Schweizer, Marc Scott, Emily Infeld, Woody Kincaid, Isaiah Harris, Michael Saruni, Ryan Crouser, and Allyson Felix.
MB: Katelyn Tuohy is making her collegiate debut at Camel City - predictions?
Upcoming Distance Action
Upcoming Distance Action
- RRW: Molly Seidel Racing A Special Edition Of The Atlanta Half-Marathon On The Atlanta Motor Speedway February 28 It's an appropriate race location for Seidel as her dad and brother race cars semi-professionally and she says she has a "bit of a leadfoot." Eilish McColgan and Natosha Rogers are also in the race and there are two male pace makers going sub-1:09 pace. *Full Fields
- February 24: Solid Fields Taking Shape For The Villa de Madrid Meet With World Indoor 1500m Record Holder Gudaf Tsegay Facing Off Against Lemlem Hailu (8:31.24) Over 3000m Genzebe Dibaba is in the 1500m and Grant Holloway in the 60H. *Full Fields
- Canadian Running: "Why Eliud Kipchoge Needs To Win His Next Marathon" Does Kipchoge need a win and fast time here to get "his mojo back?"
- Japan Olympic Trials Winner Shogo Nakamura Pulls Out Of February 28th Lake Biwa Marathon Due To Injury He has been diagnosed with peroneal tendonitis.
Sprint News - Nike Super Sprint Shoes Cancelled?
- MB: The Times Reports That Nike "Super Shoe" Has Been Shelved Over "Fears They Could Have Undermined Usain Bolt's Legacy"
- 400m WR Holder Wayde Van Niekerk Is Leaving South Africa And His Longtime Coach To Join Noah Lyles Training Group In Florida The group is coached by Lance Brauman and also includes Olympic 400m champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo.
A HJ Legend Finally Hangs 'Em Up
Vlasic, #2 on the all-time list with a 2.08m PB, won bronze at Rio 2016, but hadn't competed since due to injury.
Doping Updates
- Russian Athletics To Participate At Tokyo 2020 Under The Name ROC (Russian Olympic Committee) What happened to the concept of neutral athletes? While the Russian national anthem won't play on the medal stand, the ROC can propose a musical score replacement.
- Banned Italian Race Walker Alex Schwazer Says Doping Verdict Finding Him Innocent Is "More Important Than" His Gold Medal Schwazer could appeal his 8-year ban in a bid to race in Tokyo after an Italian judge said his samples were tampered with.
- WADA Statement On Schwazer Case Says They Are "Appalled By The Multiple Reckless And Groundless Allegations" Made By The Italian Judge
Recommended Reads
- PodiumRunner: A look at how Nick Willis and Deena Kastor (and others) were able to have success for so long Both were big successes as kids and then still factors professionally in their late 30s (and longer for Kastor).
- Toni Reavis wants pro runners to wear trackable devices so announcers will have more info to analyze
- AP: Italian judge says there is a "high level of credibility" that the urine samples of Olympic race walking champion Alex Schwazer were tampered with to produce a positive test *AFP *Reuters
US HS Coaches and Administrators Get Creative
- Suffern NY track coaches get creative and held a meet in the parking garage of the local mall (Palisades Center) They ran the meet on a 300 meter 'track' but had a ton of space including a 220m warmup track. "It is an enormous space. You could do five 200-meter tracks in there." *Photos *Results
- With indoor HS nationals cancelled, NSAF is getting creative and staging the NSAF USA Meet of Champions outdoors in Myrtle Beach two weeks later
- Meet Alyssa Jones of Southridge HS in Miami- the rare star who excels at the HJ, LJ and 200 She's gone 6'0.75", 1.94m in the hj, and 20' 9.25", 6.33m in the lj and run 23.90 in the 200.
College News
- RRW Big 10 XC champ Bethany Hasz is crushing it this year during Covid-19 The 15:24 5ker been very busy this winter and things are going to get even busier as she's expected to triple at Big 10s, then run NCAA indoors and NCAA xc. Her twin sis is a 15:39 5ker.
- Ivy League announces they are still scared of Covid-19, won't hold any spring championships Penn Relays issues a statement saying they still haven't made a decision.
- NC stars Elly Henes and Hannah Steelman talk to Dyestat before racing in Camel City
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LetsRun Through The Ages
Kipchoge Will Do A Spring Marathon
The greatest marathoner of all-time will race one marathon before Tokyo Olympics. Kipchoge, 36, will race in the specially-arranged NN Mission Marathon, an elite-only race which will allow only about 100 highly qualified athletes to take part.
Torun Was Wednesday
Lemlem Hailu clocked a world-leading 8:31.24 to edge steeple world champ Beatrice Chepkoech (8:31.72) in the 3,000. Habitam Alemu ran 1:58.19 while Selemon Barega ran 3:32.97 and Grant Holloway won again.
- Giles was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in 2014, couldn't jog for 6 months
- Giles' life story only had 800 views on youtube before he set the record - watch it here.
- Sebastian Coe is 'absolutely delighted' after Giles wears super spikes to break Coe's GB 800m record that was set in regular spikes 38-years ago.
- Discuss: Elliot Giles 1:43.63, 2nd all time!
Distance News
- Hellen Obiri says she wants to do 5k/10k double in Tokyo She was only 5th in the 10k in Doha.
- A look at all of the Australian distance records that have fallen in the last 13 months The women's 1500, 3k and 5k records all have fallen as have the men's 1500, 3k, 10k and half marathon.
- Selemon Barega and Muktar Edris say Covid-19 has "hurt us a lot" and "cost us dearly." Barega, 21, has quietly already had a winter for the ages, running 3:32, and 7:26 indoors plus 27:58 at 7,700 feet.
- March 14th Nagoya Marathon field announced - Race will have up to 11,000 participants People can run virtually if they want but the mass race is still on.
Your latest American stars share their insights.
American Record Holders
American Record Holders
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
Sisson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast after she became the first American to go sub 67 in the half marathon on a record-eligible course. Podcast highlights above. Full pod here.
Woody Kincaid joined us after he broke the American record indoors at 5000. He talks above why he left the Bowerman Track Club. Podcast highlights and link to full podcast here.
Coogan's New Balance Boston team had 3 Olympians in 2021 and 2022 could be the biggest year yet for the program with 2 new additions and the TRACK at New Balance coming on March 1st.
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign.
Best of Jon Gault
Best of Jon Gault
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
LetsRun Classics
LetsRun Classics
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