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Archived Homepage For March 11, 2021
Archived Homepage For March 11, 2021
NCAA Indoors Start Thursday
NCAA Indoors Start Thursday
March Madness kicks off on Friday with NCAA Indoors and this is the ultimate preview. We break down the biggest storylines of the meet, from Athing Mu to the Oregon men and Arkansas women to burgeoning distance stars Courtney Wayment of BYU and Sage Hurta of Colorado.
- RRW: Indoors Or Cross? NCAA Coaches Make Tough Choices Many coaches had to choose between indoor or XC because they were the same weekend, but they never should have been put in this position in the first place.
- LRC Archives: Why Are NCAA Indoors and NCAA XC Scheduled For the Same Weekend?
- MB: Not making this up: NCAA reschedules the NCAA XC championships for the same weekend as the 2021 NCAA indoors
- T&F News' Men's XC Preview BYU coach Ed Eyestone says this is the "most challenging hilly" NCAA course he's seen in his 20 years plus of coaching.
We are joined by the "voice of NCAA xc" broadcaster Bill Spaulding, break down the latest in the running world, and preview NCAA XC and indoors.
- Cole Hocker enters his first NCAA track championships at age 19 with a 3:50 mile pb Alan Webb was just a 3:53 guy at the same age. Hocker: "I’m really confident in my abilities and my fitness level at this point in the season.
- Ed Eyestone is still shocked by freshman Lucas Bons' 3:55 mile “I thought maybe he could run close to 4:01."
- Georiga coach raves about Matthew Boling prior to his 1st NCAAs: "Matthew is a coach’s dream so far."
- Montana State's Duncan Hamilton Eager For Mile/XC Double
- List of all men and women who might do NCAA indoor/xc double There are only 20 men and 26 women in contention.
On The Boards
On The Boards
Random News That Passsed Our Vetting Process
- AP: Thomas Bach re-elected as IOC head through 2025 in near unaminous vote (93-1) He was running unopposed. *Olympic.org
- Sunday's Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2021 is First Mass-Participation Race Held in Japan During Covid-19 Pandemic The event is known for the exclusive Tiffany & Co. finisher pendant presented to each runner who crossed the finish line.
- Study: Female athletes with a regular menstrual cycle perform better are are way more likely to get injured
- Meet Jamaica's best HS distance runner - Calabar High's Kevroy Venson The 3:56/14:55 is expected to DOMINATE the Champs.
Week That Was
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?
800m Stars In The News
Thankfully Hodgkinson is coached by veteran Jenny Meadows who knows what she's talking about as she said, "We would love her to go because you don’t know what’s going to happen in the future.”
- Ajee Wilson's High School Track Named After Her Wilson said, "It’s a huge honor. I literally grew up on that track. I lived maybe a mile or so away.”
Sprint Stuff
Despite coming back from his devastating ACL injury, van Niekerk still thinks he can break his own 400m WR and dip under 43-seconds.
- T&F News: "Remember, Sydney McLaughlin Is Still Just A Youngster" McLaughlin talks about her decision to switch coaches from former Olympic 100H champ Joanna Hayes to Bobby Kersee's group with Allyson Felix.
- Four-Time Olympic Champ Sanya Richards-Ross Joins Oregon22 Board Of Directors
- Darren Campbell And Tim Benjamin Named Head Of British Sprints And Relays British Athletics is still yet to name a new head of endurance.
Field Event (Mostly PV) News
- Poland's Hammer WR And Two-Time Olympic Champ Holder Anita Włodarczyk Turned Into A Barbie Doll
- Sandi Morris: "You have to pretend like the Olympics is going forward." Morris talks about the effect of COVID on the sport, Nike dropping tons of athletes from sponsorship and how Americans are at a disadvantage with lockdowns and restrictions.
- Injured Renaud Lavillenie Hopes To Be Back Jumping Again In Six Weeks He says he has a small muscle lesion in his calf.
- World Athletics Looks Back At US's Stacy Dragila Who Won The Very First Global Women's Pole Vault Title At The 1997 World Indoor Champs She also won the first Olympic women's pole vault in 2000.
More Post-Euros News
They have to self-isolate for 10 days.
- AW Analysis: Euro Indoors - Predictions Vs Reality Did Euro Indoors go to form or were there upsets galore?
- Video: All Of The Gold-Medal Performances From The Euro Indoors
Marathon+ News
The record is 3:07:20 set by GB's Aly Dixon in 2019. (That's 6:01 pace for 31.1 miles.)
- Meet The 62-Year-Old Japanese Woman Who Ran A 2:52 Marathon The first woman over 60-years-old to break the 3-hour barrier is planning on going for her own record at this weekend's Nagoya Women's Marathon.
- Olympic Marathon And Race Walk Test Event To Go Ahead On May 5th There will be an elite half-marathon with 80 men and women from Japan and abroad as well as a mass participation 10k.
Other Distance Stuff
- Drake Road Races to be Held In-Person Ahead of 2021 Drake Relays 1,225 will be allowed to race the 5k and 775 the half-marathon.
- Sound Running Invite Was Sponsored By USATF Foundation
- London Marathon Providing Funding For 29 British Distance Runners Who Don't Qualify For British Athletics' World Class Program Among the runners supported are Euro 3000m champ Amy-Eloise Markovc and BTC's Marc Scott.
- Former Temple 4:36 miler Millie Howard is training in London and enjoying support from the London Marathon hub
Olympic Updates
- Number Of COVID-19 Tests For Athletes Could Be Increased At Tokyo 2020 The current plan was to test athletes once every four days.
- India Shifts Focus To Bidding For 2048 Olympics As Apparently 2032 Going To Brisbane, Australia Is Close To A Done Deal
- Dick Pound Says Thomas Bach's Re-Election As IOC President Will Come As A Relief To IOC Members Pound analyzes and evaluates Bach's first term.
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.
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
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.
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
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
