This week, we welcome two Americans to the sub-15 club, tell you why Matthew Centrowitz is far from done, worry about Jordan Hasay and rave about the greatest 800 phenom ever?
Archived Homepage For March 10, 2021
Archived Homepage For March 10, 2021
Week That Was
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PUMA Returns To Running
Back around the turn of the century, Puma sponsored some of the biggest names in distance running: Noah Ngeny, Wilson Kipketer, Daniel Komen, Moses Kiptanui, and Bernard Lagat. Then they went AWOL. Puma is now returning to running and has started its own pro group in the US featuring Taylor Werner and former Stanford stars Steven Fahy and Fiona O'Keeffe. Join the LRC Supporters Club to get access to this article today.
On The Boards
On The Boards
COVID Stuff
Llano also talks about joining the Under Armour-sponsored Dark Sky Distance group and reveals he's racing USATF 15k Champs next weekend.
Monday Was International Women's Day
- World Athletics Makes New Equality Pledges To Mark International Women's Day One of their promises is to end the Oregon 2022 World Championships with a women's race instead of the tradition of ending with the men's 4x400. *World Athletics article
- Irish Distance Great Sonia O'Sullivan Is Happy Women Today Have So Many Different Sporting Opportunities Available To Them
"Athletics was just what I did because it was one of the few sports that women were able to do and available to us at that time." - Seb Coe Says He Wants More Women In Leadership Positions, Even World Athletics President
- Women Athletes Have Accounted For About 25% Of Kenya's Olympic Medals
- Tokyo 2020, IOC, And IPC Reiterate Commitment To Gender Equality On International Women's Day
Post-Euro Indoor News
- Belgian Eline Berings Criticizes COVID-19 Testing System After False Positive Forced Her Out Of 60H Semi-Final Someone is going to miss the Olympics because of a COVID test
- Cathal Dennehy Says Euro Indoors Will Be An "Eye-Opener" For Some Irish Athletes After Ireland Went Without Any Medals "Some fell way below expectations, most levelled off right around them, and a select few surpassed them." *2nd article
- GB Head Coach Christian Malcolm Applauds "Fearless" Brits At Euro Indoor Champs He said he wasn't concerned with the medal tally, although it's worth noting the UK did win the overall team score (where events are scored 1-8), beating Poland by 22.5 points.
- AW: 12 Magic Moments From The European Indoors Keely Hodgkinson and DQ controversies top their list.
- Ireland's Phil Healy After Dreaded 4th Place Finish In Euro Indoors 400m: "I said I'd go out fighting and that's what I did" She ran a PB of 51.94, but missed the medals by .21.
- The Guardian: 19-Year-Old Keely Hodginson Tipped To Lead New Wave Of British Athletics
Olympic News
It also says the opening ceremony will have no spectators at all. An official announcement is expected by the end of the month.
- IOC President Thomas Bach To Be Re-Elected Unopposed At Virtual Session On Wednesday Bach was elected for his first term in 2013.
- InsideTheGames' David Owen Evaluates The Positve And Negatives Of Thomas Bach's Time As IOC President So Far Owen says Bach has been "unlucky" in the sense he may not get to "preside over a truly unblemished Games" until Paris 2024.
- Qatar Still Committed To Bidding For 2032 Olympics Despite Brisbane, Australia Being the IOC's Preferred Choice
- Budapest Considering Bidding For 2032 Games
NCAA Indoor Champs Start Thursday
- Oregon Men Remain #1 In Last Rankings Update Ahead Of NCAA Indoor Champs LSU and Arkansas remain 2-3 while Florida State moved up to #4.
- No Changes To The Top-6 Women's Teams In Final Pre-NCAA Indoor Rankings Arkansas, Texas A&M, Texas and Georgia are ranked 1-4.
NCAA XC Fields Announced
MB: NCAA Selection Sunday for xc is this weekend. Please post who should make it here
- Register Guard: Oregon Without A Team At NCAA XC Champs For First Time In 16-Years The UO men hadn't missed since 2011 and the women since 2006.
- FloTrack Video Interview: Inside The NCAA XC Selection Committee With Blake Bolden
US Distance News
- USA 15k Champs Will Go Ahead At The Gate River Run On March 20 The race director says its shaping up to be one of the best elite fields in the history of the race.
- Reuters Talks To Aliphine Tuliamuk, Molly Seidel And Jake Riley About The Olympics Being Postponed After The Marathon Trials Riley: “[Going to the Olympics] is something I wanted to do since I was five years old. But you know, I think the argument against having it is legitimate.”
- T&F News Analyzes The Men's 1500m Scene Looking Ahead To The Olympic Trials They break the top milers down into the "usual suspects," the "other-event guys" and the "young bucks."
European Indoor Champs
European Indoor Champs
She won by going 65-58 with a 28.29 final 200. *BBC *Race Video
- Hosts Poland Go 1-2 In The Men's 800 Thanks To Patryk Dobek (1:46.81) And Mateusz Borkowski (1:46.95) As GB's Jamie Webb Prevents A Polish Sweep Webb ran 1:46.95 for third to beat world indoor champion Adam Kszczot for the last medal.
- Poland's Men's 4x400 Squad Had To Miss The Final Because Of "Cases Of Coronavirus"
- France's Wilhem Belocian Wins 60H Title In 7.42 In Close Race With GB's Andy Pozzi (7.43) Decathlon WR holder Kevin Mayer dominates the heptathlon in world-leading 6392 points.
- World Athletics Final Day Recap
(link updated) He was the only double individual gold medallist of the championship. Watch end of 3k above. If you missed debate on where he should have been DQd in 1500 click here.
- Ireland's Sean Tobin Says He's "Kind Of Embarrassed" By 11th Place Finish In 3k
- Mondo Duplantis Takes European PV Title And Comes Close On WR Attempt He broke the championship record with 6.05m and had three attempts at a would-be WR of 6.19m. Renaud Lavillenie's brother Valentin won the silver in Renaud's absence.
- Pre-Meet Favorites Switzerland's Ajla Del Ponte (7.03) And Netherlands' Nadine Visser (7.77) Win 60m And 60m Hurdles Titles In World-Leading Times GB sisters Cindy Sember and Tiffany Porter won silver and bronze in the 60H.
They're Coming For Your Field Events Next
(link fixed) Thobias Montler set a new Swedish record to win Euro silver while Belgium’s Nafi Thiam set a indoor pentathlon LJ PB in the experimental spikes which feature a separate orange forefoot plate.
- Ukraine Goes 1-2 In The Women's HJ As Yaroslava Mahuchikh Clears 2.00m Portugal swept the men's and women's TJ titles via Pedro Pablo Pichardo and Patricia Mamona.
Sound Running Invite
Other winners included Josh Kerr (3:35.78) and Sinclaire Johnson (4:05.91). Matthew Centrowitz returned to action with a 3:40. He ran aggressively but faded over the final 400 after being in third at the bell. *DyeStat Race Recap *Video Interviews
- BTC at Sound Running Invite- Official Discussion Thread
- Grant Fisher will have American 5000m record by end of year
- Centro is DONE - Matthew Centrowitz won't be in Tokyo
- Brooks Beasts 800/1500 Prediction Thread
- Robert Brandt Will Run 13:15 or Faster Tonight
- Jorgensen haters go home devastated She got the Olympic standard by running 15:08.
- Everyone on BTC is doping.
- Bowerman TC has it right
- Marc Scott skipped euro champs to run this??
More Weekend Results
- Jordan Hasay Runs 1:14:10 To Win The Woodlands Half-Marathon
MB: Jordan Hasay running The Woodlands Half Maratho
- Kenya's Daniel Ebenyo (27:50) And Germany's Miriam Dattke (31:38) Run World-Leading Road Times At Berlin 10k
- UK's Emile Cairess (28:14.30) And Lily Partridge (32:33.16) Win 10,000m At Track Meet In Newport
- 2021 NAIA Men’s Indoor T&F Championships Meet Recap
- 2021 NJCAA Indoor T&F Championships Meet Recap
NCAA Conference XC Weekend
NCAA Conference XC Weekend
Sprint Stuff
- Profile On 1936 Olympic 100m Silver Medalist Ralph Metcalfe Who Later Became The Congressman Who Proposed February As Black History Month Metcalfe had an amazing life which besides the Olympics included a master's degree, serving in the Army during WWII and serving four terms in Congress.
- World Athletics Marks The 50th Birthday Of All-Time Great Hurdler Allen Johnson Johnson never held the WR, but with a long stay at the top, and the most sub-13 second performances to his name (11), WA asks makes the case for him as the all-time greatest sprint hurdler.
- Interesting: Australia's Top 100m Hurdler Liz Clay Is Coached By Sally Pearson's Former Coach, While One Of Clay's Top Domestic Rivals Is Coached By Pearson
Mo Farah Makes His 2021 Debut
Running in hot 82F (28C) temperatures, Farah won the race 4-seconds ahead of training partner Bashir Abdi.
- MB: Farah racing Djibouti 13.1
- Pre-Race: Mo Farah "Fired Up" Ahead Of The Djibouti International Half-Marathon It'll be his first race since he ran 60:27 to win the Antrim Coast Half in September.
Bor Steals The Show With US #2
Emmanuel Bor may be America's latest Olympic contender as he was on American record pace until the final 800m, but he had to settle for the #2 US time ever and the win over Paul Chelimo.
Previous Euro Indoor Champs Coverage
Previous Euro Indoor Champs Coverage
The time was the second best ever at the European Indoor Champs. In the hepthlon, Kevin Mayer took four events to stay on track for gold with challenger Simon Ehammer 33-points back.
- Belgium's Elise Vanderelst (4:18.44) Wins 1500m; GB's Holly Archer Takes Silver After DQ Appeal It was a physical race with some shoving at the end and the appeal process took three hours to review.
- Spain’s Oscar Husillos Triumphs In 400m Thriller In 46.22 He won over Dutch duo Tony Van Diepen (46.25) and Liemarvin Bonevacia (46.30).
- Netherlands' Femke Bol Came Delivered As The 400m Favorite With A 50.63 National Record
- GB's Jodie Williams Chases Away Her Demons To Land First Championship Medal In Seven Years She ran a PB of 51.73 to take 400m bronze.
- World Athletics Saturday Recap
Ingebrigsten lead from the second lap on to initially win the race in 3:37.56 to Lewandowski's 3:38.06, before all hell broke loose with the officials. *World Athletics Recap
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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
Belgium's Eline Berings speaking after being forced out of the European Indoor Championships 60m hurdles semi-finals due to a false positive COVID-19 test.