Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Archived Homepage For January 27, 2022
Archived Homepage For January 27, 2022
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Two Recommended Reads
A fantastic read by Simon Turnbull. And Snell did it after going out in 61.3. A week earlier he had run a 22-mile long run. A week later he ran a 1:44.3 800 WR which stood as the Oceania record until 2018.
- World Athletics Profile: Marileidy Paulino, From 400m Newcomer To Olympic Silver Medalist In One Year Up until 2020, she'd never broken 56 seconds. Now she's run 49.20 and become a hero for the Dominican Republic.
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On The Boards
On The Boards
Stars in the News
- Hellen Obiri signs with On and will be moving to the USA (Boulder) as she prepares for her marathon career The article says she will receive a "warm welcome" from the OAC and coach Dathan Ritzenhein but LRC has learned for the time being she will continue to be coached by Ricky Simms. *Discuss
- Karsten Warholm decides to drop all indoor competitions in 2022 mainly due to uncertain coronavirus situation
- A detailed look into famed Italian Renato Canova’s approach to periodization Fast Running looks at the 3 types of progression runs he likes to use and quotes from Canova's 1999 book, "IAF Marathon Training. A Scientific Approach".
The Final Award Winners from 2021
A guy who ran at NCAAs in March and a super fan who has been DRIVING to NCAAs for 30 years came out on top.
Racing down under
It looks like it was around 87 (31 C) for the women's race and 81 (27 C) for the men's. The 22-year-old Davies competed in the Olympics in the 5000 while the 26-year-old Rayner was in the marathon. Women's finish above, men's finish here.
Week That Was
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.
It's Almost Time For The WA World Indoor Tour
World Athletics World Indoor Tour Gold opener is Friday in Karlsruhe - Full Meet Preview Berihu Aregawi who recently set the road 5k record is in the 3k, the world 2nd fastest man indoors Elliott Giles is in the 800, Mondo is in the pole vault and the women's distance events feature the likes of Halimah Nakaayi, Winnie Nanyondo, Freweyni Hailu.
*Schedule *TV (2 pm ET)
Millrose is Saturday: How to Watch the 2022 Millrose Games
Odds & Ends
- Eugene Symphony Orchestra will honor Prefontaine with an original piece composed in his honor by David Schiff The performance is June 4th.
- Javelin trailblazers Neeraj Chopra (India) and Julius Yego (Kenya) talk to 3-time Olympic medallist Steve Backley on World Atheletics video show
- After making Olympic 100 final but false starting, Brit Zharnel Hughes has big goals for 2022 after Tokyo disappointment Hughes, who became the first British man to make the Olympic 100-metre final since 2000, wants to medal at Worlds and break Linford Christie's NR of 9.87.
Sprint Stuff
- Kenyan 9.77 Sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala Signs Big Sponsorship Deal With Adidas The article says it was a "multi-million four-year" deal and it's pretty safe to assume that is millions of Kenyan shillings, not dollars. (A million shillings is worth about $8,800.)
- World Athletics Profile: Marileidy Paulino, From 400m Newcomer To Olympic Silver Medalist In One Year
- Sha'Carri Richardson Documentary To Premiere At Sundance (Which Is Running Now Through The 30th) The short film is titled Sub Eleven Seconds and was filmed during the Olympic Trials.
European Sprint/Field News
- Mark Dry Is Still Very Angry About Serving A 2-Year Ban For Fibbing Over A Fishing Trip (When He Missed A Drug Test) “I’ve got a reputation for being a mad angry Scotsman, when I’m really not. But in this instance I am really, really, f---ing angry. I’m just disgusted. ...I got the same ban as Alberto Salazar, who tried testosterone on his own kid. I just cannot even fathom it.”
- Ukraine's Former World And European Triple Jump Champ Olha Saladukha Announces Retirement At 38-Years-Old
- Athletics Weekly: Teenage 400m Sprinter Looking To Make A Statement At UK Indoor Champs The 19-year-old won the Manchester World Indoor Tour 400m last weekend in 46.84 (#3 on the British U20 indoor list) and wants to make GB's World Indoor team.
- AW: Amy Hunt Back In Form After Injury-Hit 2021 She barely raced last year, but started ran a 60m PB of 7.21 in Manchester over the weekend.
BREAKING!!! Shocking News Story
We were shocked that this had to be announced.
The 2022 Tokyo Marathon Isn't Happening Is It?
Looking Ahead
- Elite Fields Announced For Camel City Elite (February 5) Clayton Murphy is in the 800m and mile; Ajee Wilson is in the 800m.
- Discovery Kenya XC Set For Sunday
- Diamond League's Dates To Save In 2022 DL season kicks off on May 13th in Doha.
High School Videos
- Video: Watch 6-Foot-5, 235 Pound Defensive End Nyckoles Harbor Run A 20.79 World Under-18 Indoor 200m Best The time was #4 on the high school all-time indoor list.
- MileSplit Video Interview With Will Sumner After Breaking High School 500m And 600m Records On Back-To-Back Weekends Sumner will run at Georgia next year.
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics News
- Beijing Doing Another Round Of Mass Testing After More COVID Cases They had 14 more COVID cases so they are going to test an entire district of 2 million people.
- IOC President Thomas Bach Meets With Chinese President Xi Jinping Bach became the first foreign dignitary to meet with the Chinese president face-to-face in nearly two years.
- Apparently The Ukrainian Sports Minister Told Ukraine Athletes To Avoid Going Near Russian Athletes At Beijing 2022
- Taiwan Officials Are Boycotting The Opening And Closing Ceremony At Beijing 2022 Due To Hostilities With China
- Human Rights Watch Launches Video Series Protesting Beijing 2022 Censorship One video shows a skier covering their mouth with red tape.
- Poland And Finland To Ignore Diplomatic Boycott Of Beijing 2022
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.
- MB: Ok. State's star xc runner Isai Rodriguez injured in serious car accident OK State coach Dave Smith said that he visited with Rodriguez is the hospital and is in good spirits. He said he could even possibly return to compete this season.
*DyeStat Article With More Details Rodriguez was in the passenger seat, being driven by NCAA wrestling champion AJ Ferrari. - 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
- Ohio State's Adelaide Aquilla Throws 19.09m In The Shot Put (#5 All-Time NCAA)
- Ole Miss' Shey Taiwo Throws World Lead In The Weight Throw (24.11m)
- 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
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.
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???
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
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
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.
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Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
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