Archived Homepage For February 25, 2021
Archived Homepage For February 25, 2021
On The Boards
On The Boards
Madrid
Madrid
- Full Madrid Recap: Tsegay runs 2nd fastest indoor 3k (8:22.65) Other distance winners included Ethiopians Selemeon Barega (3:35) and Habitam Alemu (1:58.94) as Spain's Mariano Garcia (1:45.66) won the 800.
- Black Irish sprinter Leon Reid says he bumped into an American at the Madrid hotel who said, "How can you be Irish, you are black?"
More Mid-Week Results
More Mid-Week Results
Catching up with two of USA's leading distance ladies
LRC Sally Kiypego wants to get in sub-2:20 shape and medal in the Olympic marathon
"The objective for this season for me is to be able to medal [in the Olympic marathon]....I’m trying to get myself into -- 2:20 or sub-2:20 shape going into Tokyo, and I think if I am in that kind of shape, my chances are pretty good at medaling."
After hip surgery and two hip stress fractures, Emily Infeld is pleased to have PRd at 31:08 last weekend "I had four months of pretty solid training and I’m feeling good overall. I’m just hoping for another four months to make more jumps before the Trials."
- After hip surgery and two hip stress fractures, Emily Infeld is pleased to have PRd at 31:08 last weekend "I had four months of pretty solid training and I’m feeling good overall. I’m just hoping for another four months to make more jumps before the Trials."
This Week's Podcast
What a show. We recorded this right after Grant Holloway's WR. Our featured guest is Ben True who tells us how he just ran a 26+ second pb of 27:14 at age 35. Yes, the shoes helped but True reveals he's become rejuvenated by paying Dan Curts $20,000 a year to train with him. Plus is a marathon in True's future?
Covid-19 Can't Keep Us Down Forever
- UofOregon is hoping to host April meets at Hayward Field They're encouraged after meeting with County health officials.
- Oregon and New Mexico high schools hold first xc practices in 15 months "Washington and California are back in play, too, with small late winter cross country meets beginning to populate the calendar. Virginia is also getting started, with meets set to begin March 1."
- Track and field action is resuming this weekend in Jamaica with 9 meets
Administrative / Trail News
- 1992 and 2000 Olympic 10,000 champ Derartu Tulu elected as president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation She had been the interim head since Haile G stepped down in 2018.
- 2000 people in UK sign petition asking for lifetime bans for abusive coaches and UK Athletics head Joanna Coates seems to agree it's warranted How about for dopers as well?
- UTMB announces elite fields for 2021 Former UTMB champs Courtney Dauwalter of the U.S. and Francesca Canepa of Italy headline the women’s race. 3-time winners Pau Capell François and D’Haene and Xavier Thévenard are in the field as is reigning champ Pau Capell and American Jim Walmsley.
Good Mid-Distance Reads
Centro talks about a number of topics including Tokyo 2020, learning the stock market building a gaming PC, and some interesting details on how his training has changed under Jerry Schumacher.
- T&F News: "Sam Tanner Balancing Olympic Dreams And NCAA Goals" Tanner says that his breakthrough season and running 3:34.72 "changed his outlook" on running and realized he can go pro after college.
- World Athletics Profile: Energized By World Indoor 1500m Record, Gudaf Tsegay Sets Sights On Next Target Talking about breaking Genzebe Dibaba's record, Tsegay says, “I had this record in my mind for a long time – maybe six or seven years."
Assorted Distance News
- Oklahoma State Tops Tulsa In OSU Winter Open Dual Meet Lead by individual wins from Isai Rodriguez and Molly Born, OSU beat Tulsa by one point for the men and 19-points for the women.
- RRW: After Trials Disappointment & COVID, Matt Llano Ready To Race In Atlanta Llano talks about how he was really worried about the potential for heart damage after coronavirus so worked with a cardiologist to come back to training conservatively.
- Athletics Weekly Looks Back At The Top 20 Races Of All-Time GB Distance Great Dave Bedford
*Dave Bedford's Finest 100 Races In Chronological Order - Sean Wade Broke Four American Masters Age Group Records This Month After setting men 55-59 records for 12k, 15k and 10 mile during a 10 mile race in early February, Wade ran 26:11 last weekend to break the 8k US record and tie the world best.
South African Sprint Stuff
- Has Wayde Van Niekerk Made The Right Call To Leave Longtime Coach To Move To Florida? Van Niekerk announced last week that he's leaving his 79-year-old coach Tannie Ans Botha to train with Noah Lyles' group in Florida.
- Tannie Ans Botha Says There Are No "Ill Feelings" Between Herself And Van Niekerk "...Everything is good between us. I am happy that I have contributed something to his professional and personal life."
Recent European Results
- European National Champs Round-Up: Ewa Swoboda Wins Polish Indoor 60m Title In 7.10 Marcin Lewandowski won the 1500 (3:40.14) and there was a big upset in the 800 400m hurdles specialist Patryk Dobyk beat out Adam Kszczot 1:47.12 to 1:47.35.
- GB Micro Meetings: Holly Mills Scores 4557 Pentathlon To Move To #5 On UK All-Time List Distance wins included Guy Learmonth (1:47.81), Piers Copeland (3:52.17) and Holly Archer (4:13.02).
- Phil Healy Highlights Irish Indoor Micro Meet With Second Fastest 400 In Irish History (51.99) Georgie Hartigan ran the #2 indoor 800m by an Irishwoman with 2:01.48.
- Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic Jumps 6.75m To Win Balkan Indoor LJ Title
Field Event News
- Mistake By Officials May Have Cost Spanish Long Jumper A National Title 19-year-old Maria Vicente was in tears after officials raked away her LJ mark after mistakenly thinking she fouled. She finished 3rd with 6.24, but her lost jump appeared to be over 6.50m.
- UK Head Coach Christian Malcolm Says Katarina Johnson-Thompson Will Be "100% Ready" For The Olympics She was recently in a walking boot for an achilles injury and is skipping the indoor season.
- World Athletics Animated Video With Yulimar Rojas Talking About Breaking The World Indoor TJ Record Last Year
European Indoor Champs Are Next Week
Super Shoe Opinions
- Cathal Dennehy: "Welcome To The Age Of The Super Shoes" Dennehy points out that the six fastest 800m indoor times in history by Irishwomen were all run in the past month.
- Sean Ingle: "Super Spikes Are Causing A Seismic Shift - So Why Won't Athletes Admit It? Nick Willis acknowledged the shoes let him run a 1200m time trial 2-seconds faster than he expected, but other athletes like GB's Elliot Giles said suggesting it was the shoes is "nonsense and a bit of an insult."
- Euro 800m Silver Medalist Jamie Webb Ditched Super Shoes In Training Because He Couldn't Measure Himself Against Previous Training Sessions
Interesting Distance Reads
- Recommended Read: T&F News: "Craig Engels Ready To Move Up At Least A Spot From 2016 Olympic Trials" Engels talks about his training, how fast he hopes to run in his 5000m race at the Texas Qualifier on Friday, and shares what he has tattooed on his butt.
- World Athletics Profile: Huwe Burton, From Wrongly Convicted Of Murder To Marathoner Burton was convicted of killing his mother when he was 16, but 28-years later was exonerated and ran the 2019 NYC Marathon as a free man.
- World Athletics Looks Back At The Career Of All-Time Mile Great Eamonn Coghlan Eamonn's specialty was indoor mile racing, setting the WR multiple times and winning seven Wanamaker Miles, earning him the nickname "Chairman of the Boards."
Olympic News
- US Representative John Katko Urges President Biden To Boycott Beijing 2022 Games The government is already trying to ruin women's sports, why not the Winter Olympics too?
- Tokyo Reports Fewer Than 200 New Coronavirus Cases In A Day For First Time Since November 179 people were positive out of the 5,197 tested.
- Montreal Olympic Stadium To Become Mass Vaccination Center
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Supports Japan's Plans To Go Ahead With The 2020 Games
- Spanish Olympic Committee President Alejandro Blanco Is Optimistic Tokyo 2020 Will Go Ahead
College / HS News
- Oregon Still #1 In Updated NCAA Rankings As LSU Moves To #2 Arkansas and FSU are ranked 3-4.
- Arkansas And Texas A&M Women Stay 1-2 In Most Recent NCAA Rankings Texas moved up to #3 and Georgia down to #4.
- Adidas High School Indoor Nationals Starts Friday In Virginia Beach
- MileSplit Adidas Indoor Nationals Boys 200m Preview Jaylen Slade starts as the favorite after breaking Noah Lyles' indoor prep record with 20.62 on Sunday.
- 2021 Drake Relays Will Have A Iowa High School Division Meet director Blake Boldon said this was especially exciting considering many other top collegiate events like the Kansas and Florida Relays already announced they won't host high schoolers this spring due to COVID.
- North Carolina Bidding To Host The 2027 World University Games
- Event-By-Event Top-Ten NCAA Marks From Last Week
ATL #4
The time put Felix 18th on the all-time US indoor list and she also finished runner-up in the 60m (7.28). Former NCAA champ Michael Saruni (1:45.34) and Heather MacLean (2:00.98) won the 800m races.
The high school junior broke Lyles's 5-year-old record by .01.
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
‒NBC feature on Grant Holloway, who remained undefeated for his life in the 60mh with 42" hurdles.