Linden averaged 5:47 for just over 31 miles to break the previous record by over seven minutes.
Linden averaged 5:47 for just over 31 miles to break the previous record by over seven minutes.
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The NCAA did not go so far as to say it would pull currently scheduled events from states like Arkansas which recently passed a law banning transgender athletes from competing in sports according to their identity.
Van Niekerk is joining Noah Lyles' training group in Florida, but has been waiting for approval for weeks to actually travel to the US. His new coach, Lance Brauman says van Niekerk isn't "where he needs to be" for 400m and that's why he's been having him race 200m.
BYU's 2nd runner (15th at NCAAs) Aubrey Frentheway: "I think it honestly helped a lot, for me, to have that taken because then, when I got the opportunity again, I knew how important it was."
The LRC crew debated on this week's podcast at what distance a women's world record holder would beat Walmsley.
Ethiopia's Abdi Fufa Nigassa was runner-up in 2:05:57 as nine athletes went sub-2:07 and a crazy 20 went sub-2:09. Tanui's time broke the women's Italian all-comers' record.
Grant Holloway (13.04, +2.2 wind) and Ajee' Wilson (2:00.57 win over Natoya Goule) looked great, but Matthew Centrowitz (6th, 1:50.97) and Robby Andrews (5th, 3:46.89) struggled.
Led by the #1 entrant Eliud Kipchoge.
Let's hope he and Hobbs Kessler race each other at some point this spring.
Before that she won an NCAA title for Iowa State.
With 11 weeks to go until the US Olympic Trials, LRC co-founders Robert and Weldon Johnson and LRC staff writer Jonathan Gault make their picks for who will represent Team USA in Tokyo in every distance event.
*MB: U.S.A. Olympic Team Picks 800 to10,000 -- who ya got?
The super shoe era has resulted in way more qualifiers than hoped for.
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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.