Nico Young blitze a fast mile if you give him a big conversion, Yared Nuguse ran one without a conversion, we've got 2 new high school superstars and more.
Archived Homepage For January 26, 2022
Archived Homepage For January 26, 2022
Week That Was
Distance News
- Random Interview With Mo Farah From The Guardian Farah says he is "working hard to become a bit more involved with [his] kids" and reveals that he shaves his head every three days.
- RIP Kenya's 1968 Olympic Steeplechase Silver Medalist Benjamin Kogo, 77 Kogo was the first Kenyan to run the steeple at the Olympics when he placed 5th in 1964. He had a 8:31.6 PB.
*Kenyan Media Pays Tribute To Benjamin Kogo They report that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer a year ago. - Runner's World: Is It Harder to Run in the Cold? They say the actual temperature doesn't hurt your pace until it goes under 10 degrees F (at which point it can slow your pace by up to 27 seconds per mile). But other factors like more layers, dry/cold air and winter weather can make it a lot harder to run.
On The Boards
On The Boards
Millrose Is Saturday
She was originally in the 800m against Ajee Wilson, but now will take on Elle Purrier-St. Pierre, Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Nikki Hiltz and Jessica Hull in the mile. She opened her season with a 4:37.99 PB two weeks ago.
*MB: Athing Mu now running the mile at Millrose - let the predictions begin
- High School Millrose Mile Fields Released The fastest boy on paper will actually be in the slow heat of the pro mile as Gavin Sherry is chasing a sub-4 (his PB is 4:03.53 outdoors).
- Olympic 6th Placer Tara Davis Headlines Millrose Long Jump She's up against GB's Olympic 8th placer Jazmin Sawyers and US triple jump record holder Keturah Orji.
- MB: Yared Nuguse pulls out of Millrose???
LetsRun.com Poll Of The Day
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Post-Weekend NCAA News
- Texas Men Are #1 In The First NCAA Indoor Rankings Of The Year Kentucky, Texas Tech and NAU are ranked 2-4.
- Arkansas Women Ranked #1 In The First NCAA Indoor Rankings For 2022 Texas, Kentucky and Texas Tech are ranked 2-4.
- Israel Oloyede Produces World Leading Weight Throw (#5 On NCAA All-Time List) With 24.45m At The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invy Former NCAA 800m champ Michael Saruni won the 600m in 1:16.82.
- MB: Your Boy Matty B (Boling) Busted A 6.60 Over The Weekend
- USTFCCCA Weekend NCAA Recap Besides a bunch of sub-4 miles, the highlight was the 4x400 at Texas Tech where Kentucky's Kennedy Lightner split 44.68 on the anchor to get a come-from-behind victory. (Includes video of the crazy finish.)
- Event-By-Event Top 10 Marks From The NCAA Week
Recent European Indoor Results / Previews
- World Athletics Recap: Solid Distance Action At Manchester World Indoor Tour Ireland’s Ciara Mageean just nipped Albania's Luiza Gega by .30 to win the 3000m in 8:47.23 as the top-7 went sub-9 minutes. Qatar’s Mohamad Al Garni won the men's race in 7:52.68 and Romania’s Claudia Bobocea dominated the women's 1500m by 6-seconds with world-leading 4:06.24.
*European Athletics: Sophie McKinna's 18.53m Shot Put Victory Highlights Manchester World Indoor Tour - EA: World Leading Marks Tumble On A Busy Weekend Across Europe Included a shot put world lead from Portugal's Auriol Dongmo (19.29m) and a 400m world lead from Germany's Corinna Schwab (51.95). Schwab also equaled the German indoor 300m record with 36.49.
- Olympic 100H Bronze Medallist Megan Tapper And Olympic PV Bronze Medalist Thiago Braz Announced For Copernicus Cup In Poland On February 22nd World indoor champ Adam Kszcot, 2021 world indoor leader Elliot Giles and world bronze medallist Orlando Ortega have also been announced.
- Greece's Olympic LJ Champ Miltiadis Tentoglou Will Open His Season At The Czech Indoor Gala On February 3rd
Finish Of The Weekend
Finish Of The Weekend
US Weekend Indoor Action
He also ran the 800m an hour later in 1:54.21, placing second behind Luis Grijalva's 1:53.50 (Grijalva was second in the mile in 4:04.18). *Results
*NAU Article: Nico Young Breaks NAU Mile Record At 7000 Feet NAU alum Grijlava was attempting to run the first sub-4 mile at 7,000 feet and he led the first three-quarters of the race, but was overtaken by Young in the end.
- MB: Olympian Yared Nuguse drops a 3:54.46 @ Notre Dame
- MB: Sparks fly at VANDY INVITE!!! 3 Ole Miss athletes below 4 minutes, 1 D3 runner as well! Ole Miss' James Young lead the way with 3:57.81.
- USTFCCCA Weekend NCAA Recap Besides a bunch of sub-4 miles, the highlight was the 4x400 at Texas Tech where Kentucky's Kennedy Lightner split 44.68 on the anchor to get a come-from-behind victory. (Includes video of the crazy finish.)
- MB: Newbury Park runners run outdoors in Arizona and C Sahlman leads way with 4:05.13
*DyeStat Recap
- Will Sumner Breaks High School National 600m Record By Two Seconds With 1:15.58 Sumner's time is actually closer to Donavan Brazier's American record (1:13.71) and world best than it is to the previous prep record of 1:17.58.
- Nyckoles Harbor Runs #4 All-Time High School (And World Under-18 Best) Indoor 200m With 20.79 The 6-foot-5, 235-pound prep is a 5-star defensive end recruit.
- US's Marybeth Sant-Price Ran A 60m World Lead With 7.08 At The Red Raider Open In Texas
- MB: Mario Garcia Romo 2:20.12, Cruz Culpepper 2:20.66 1k At Vanderbilt Invy
- Stanford Recruit Gavin Sherry Breaks New Balance Games 2-Mile Record With 8:50.05 (#15 On The HS All-Time Indoor List) His twin brother, Callum Sherry, was 2nd in 9:06.50.
Road / XC Results
- Gemechu Dida
(27:22)(28:23) And Yalemzerf Yehualaw(30:14)(31:16) Win Great Ethiopian Run 10k At 7,700ft AltitudeWorld half-marathon bronze medalist Yehualaw smashed the African all-comers' record as well as ran the fastest ever 10k at altitude.Dida's time was also the fastest ever at altitude as hewon a close race over Getaneh Molla (27:2328:24.2) and Boki Diriba (27:2428:24.8).
*UPDATE: Great Ethiopian Run Organizers Report There Was A Problem With Their Timing System Times are actually about a minute slower than previously reported.
*MB: Gemechu Dida (27:22), Yalemzerf Yehualaw (30:14) win 2022 Great Ethiopian Runs at 7,700 feet of altitude! - Hellen Obiri Starts Her Year With A Win At The Northern Ireland International XC Race She beat out Northern Ireland's Hannah Irwin by 20 seconds. England’s Zak Mahamed won the men's race 7 seconds ahead of Italy’s Iliass Aouani.
*MB: Zak Mahamed (GB) (8:28/14:59), beats I.Aouani (Ita) (13:28/27:45) in cross country international - Samuel Chebolei And Joyce Chepkemoi Win Kenyan Cross Country Championships Chepkemoi won over a field that included Margaret Chelimo (2nd) 8:58 steepler Celliphine Chespol (3rd) world marathon champ Ruth Chepngetich.
- AW Weekly Round-Up: Jess Piasecki Runs 67:20 At Santa Pola Half-Marathon, #3 On The UK All-Time List The race was won by Kenya's Pauline Narogoi Esikon (67:15). Kenya's Felix Kibitok won the men's race in 59:33.
- Denso Wins Kitakyushu Women's Invitational Ekiden; Chikushi Joshi Gakuen Wins HS Division
D'Amato's Cinderella Story Gets Even Cooler The More We Learn About It
From the hardest workouts they've ever run to Kastor being at peace with losing the record to D'Amato's response to those who would question her improvement, the two marathon stars covered it all.
Admin News
- WADA Publishes Independent Observer Reports On "Robust And Comprehensive" Tokyo 2020 Drug Testing Program This article says that out of more than 6,000 samples taken, there were only six adverse analytical findings from the Tokyo lab. The report also noted that there were a lot of COVID related challenges since 40% of the doping control officers with experience weren't there due to travel restrictions and athletes were only allowed to enter the Athletes' Village five days prior to testing.
- MB: NCAA immediately changing transgender regulations "The new policy phases out current NCAA guidelines, and adopts those of federations/NGBs/IOC, which vary by sport." These often limit testosterone for competing in the female category.
- Japan National Corporate Half Marathon To Accept Collegiate Runners After Cancellation Of Marugame Half-Marathon They're allowing collegiate runners who were entered in the COVID-canceled race to run in the national corporate champs instead. ...Assuming they aren't canceled too.
- MB: Athletics Canada CEO 'retires' after meeting w/ board chair over sexualized tweets
- Olympic HJ Champ Mariya Lasitskene Among 22 Russians Given Neutral Status By World Athletics For 2022
- March 6th Kagoshima Marathon Canceled In Japan Due To COVID
"Cancel everything." -Japan, probably
- World Para Athletics Championships In Japan Postponed Until 2024 Due To Covid The championships were already pushed back until 2022 from 2020. Now they're delayed another two years.
- Two More 2022 Elite Japan Marathons Canceled Due To COVID (Beppu-Oita And Nobeoka) Both were scheduled for the first half of February.
- February 20th Kitakyushu Marathon Canceled Due To "Rapid Spread Of Omicron"
- Feb. 20th Shonan International Marathon Canceled Due To COVID
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Interesting Links
In an excellent interview with Jeff Hollobaugh, Seidel reveals she views her Olympic medal as a starting point and not acareer defining moment, says you'll be sorely disappointed if you expect her to ever break the 10,000 AR, praises Matt Sparks for resurrecting her career, raves about Jon Green and a heck of a lot more.
*MB: Molly Seidel: "[Americans] gonna get our asses handed to us nine times outta ten, if the course is fast."
- Edwin Moses is 66 now but is in incredible shape and only weighs 4 pounds more than in his prime Pretty damn impressive for a guy that age who suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2017 that left him briefly paralyzed below the waist.
*MB: Edwin Moses - who is in incredible shape at 66 - shares his fitness secret. Diet is key!! "Diet is No. 1.... Excess sugar, salt, sauces, mayonnaise and fried foods, those are the five big no-nos for me." - LRC 2022 Dubai Marathon Postponed Until December Typically staged in late January, the race has a new date in 2022 due to Covid-19 concerns.
- Upon further review, Texas Tech's Ruth Usoro didn't shatter the NCAA TJ record over the weekend - Her jump was misreported by 1 full meter Tech's jump coach noticed during film review she didn't land very far into the sand. It was a tough weekend for meet officials at Texas Tech as they also seemed to have missed a false start in the men's 60. *Discuss
Reminder: You Only Live Once
- RIP: Kenya's 1st national athletics coach - John Velzian - dies at age 94 The Brit moved to Kenya before independence in 1955 and never left.
*MB: Legendary Kenyan athletics coach John Velzian dies at 94 - Former world discus record-holder Rink Babka, who claimed Olympic silver in 1960, has died at the age of 85.
More News
- 26 minutes with Sean Brosnan (video interview) The architect of the Newbury Park juggernaut talks to Doug Binder.
- 42-year old Canadian Reid Coolsaet signs with Salomon The two-time Olympian (2:10 pb) is now a masters trail guy.
Week That Was
What a week. Athing Mu returned to action as did Christian Coleman. And the ex-HOKA athletes that finally got super shoes on their feet ran huge pbs in Houston as well. Would Stephanie Bruce and/or Kellyn Taylor be Olympians if they had the shoes?
LC Pro Coaches Tour #1
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign. We have him look back at 2021 and ahead to 2022 and he's got some coaching wisdom as well.
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
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