• Florence Kiplagat Runs 1:05:09 To Break World Half Marathon Record At Mitja Marató de Barcelona That’s 4:58 pace. An amazing run as the course has turns and no other woman has come within 41 seconds on a legit course.
• Lavillenie Vaults 6.02 In Berlin As 12,500 Fans Attend An Indoor Track Meet
• Ethiopia’s 2014 5,000m World Leader Muktar Edris And Kenya’s Violet Jelagat Win Cinque Mulini XC Race In Italy Jelagat won over Portugal’s Ana Dulce Felix while top steepler Jarius Birech was 3rd in the men’s race.

2015 NYRR Millrose Games Were Saturday *Results*Post-Race Videos *Race Videos

LRCCentrowitz Wins Wanamaker Mile In Thrilling Stretch Run Over Willis As Year Of Lagat ContinuesMatt Centrowitz and Nick Willis delivered the goods on Saturday night with Centro edging Willis to win the Wanamaker mile in 3:51. Wanamaker mile legend Bernard Lagat took 3 seconds off the 40+ world record in 4th.

LRC Bowerman Track Club’s Lopez Lomong And Ryan Hill Go 1-2 As Cam Levins Falters NOP’s Cam Levins had an off day and the rival BTC’s Lopez Lomong and Ryan Hill were glad to pick up the slack, going 1-2 in the men’s 5,000m. German Fernandez DNFed as he was having a terrible day and going to get lapped.

LRCMen’s 3000m: Eric Jenkins Just Misses Galen Rupp’s American Collegiate Record As Oregon Goes 1-2Eric Jenkins and Will Geoghegan aren’t even Oregon’s best 3,000m runners but they went 1-2 at Millrose and nearly broke Galen Rupp’s American collegiate record.

*Post-Race Interviews Centro, Willis, Rowbury, Lomong, Hasay, many more. The distance stars and Brycen Spratling in NYC.
*RRW Recap

Millrose On The Boards:

• MF Centro

• What's the deal with the world record in the 500?

• Levins BOMBS

• Cain BOMBS

• What the Hell is happening to German Fernandez?

Are You Getting Excited For 2015 World XC? We Are

Kenyan Champs: Bedan Karoki And Faith Kipyegon Repeat As Champs, Geoffrey Kipsang And Agnes Tirop Are 2nd The big news on the men’s side was reigning World XC champ Japhet Korir failed to qualify. Faith Kipyegon, who has won the last 2 World Jr. XC titles and has a 3:56 1,500 PR, will go for title #3 in China.
*Full List Of 26 Kenyans Who Could Race In Worlds

Ugandan Champs:World Junior Mountain-Running Champion Phillip Kipyeko Beats Moses Kipsiro

The Last Star Standing? After 18-Month Maternity Break, Yelena Isinbayeva Begins Preparations For 2016 OlympicsMeanwhile, the rest of Russia has seemingly been banned for doping.

Season-Opening News For Track’s Biggest Stars – Rudisha, Farah And Bolt

• Rudisha: David Rudisha To Open 2015 In Australia On March 14 And 21
  *Alex Rowe Hopes Facing Rudisha At Home Will Lead Him To New NR Of Sub-1:44.40
• Farah: Mo Farah To Make 2015 Outdoor Debut Vs. 5 Sub-1:00 Guys At EDP Lisbon Half On March 22
  *Mo Farah Might Run 2016 World Half Champs In March Of 2016 In Cardiff
• Bolt: Usain Bolt Won’t Open 2015 Season With 400 In Jamaica Today Many thought Bolt would run. Despite the DNS, Ricky Simms told LRC on Saturday in NYC that Bolt is in good shape.
  *Usain Bolt: “I will break a world record again.”
  *Bolt Will Race 100 In Paris DL In July

• Recommended Read: An Incredible Rebuttal:Bob Hersh Responds To USATF Board’s Memo That He Claims “Contains Many Incorrect And/Or Misleading Statements”
• Oscar Pistorius Rival Wants Him To Return To Competition Once He’s Out Of Jail
• After Shedding 60 Pounds, 1992 Olympian John Trautmann Is Shooting For 45-49 WR In Mile This Weekend – 4:16.83 Trautmann had trouble running 60-second quarters when he first started training.
• Nick Arciniaga The Favorite At Ome 30k In Japan This Weekend – Japanese Weekend Preview

Kenyan XC Champs Are Saturday Unless Runners Strike

• Killer Fields Set For Saturday’s Kenyan National Cross-Country Championships Men’s field includes World XC champion Japhet Korir, WJ XC champ Geoffrey Kipsang, doper Matthew Kisorio, Augustine Choge. Women’s field has 2-time world champ Emily Chebet, WJ champ Faith Kipyegon, world medalists Vivian Cheruiyot, Mercy Cherono and Gladys Cherono.
• AK Head Isaiah Kiplagat Says Meet Still On Despite PAAK Boycott Threats
• This Might Hurt His Chances: World Champ Japhet Korir Made His Marathon Debut Last Sunday With A 2:19:46 For 4th Place At The Tapei Marathon
• DailyNation: “Cocky Karoki Looks Beyond National Trials” Two-time Kenyan XC champ Bedan Karoki looking for a third title as well as a world medal.

Nevada Looking Into Lifting Ban On Olympic Betting The LRC staff might have to take a trip to Vegas in 2016.

Sprint / Hurdle Stuff

• Usain Bolt Ready To Return To His Winning Ways In 2015 Bolt, who said he felt like he’d “retired, the way people were talking about Justin Gatlin” last year, will open his season on Saturday with a 400 in Jamaica … although he says, “I’m trying to get out of it.”
• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Wants To Break Her 10.70 PR In 2015
• Good Read: USA Hurdles Great Terrence Trammell Says Goodbye To Track And Field The two-time Olympic silver medalist is officially retiring from the sport at 36 years old.
• Good Q&A With US 100H Champ Dawn Harper-Nelson
• Bolt Will Return In The 100m To The Paris DL Meet In July

9-Year-Old Zach Blum Going For Age World Record For Track 5,000 This Spring In the fall, he ran 18:30 to set the road 5K record (track record is 18:41). Talking about his race back in November, Blum said, “I was pretty sad because [my dad can] usually can keep up with me. But that day, he fell back because I was probably going 5:59 mile pace.”

2014 Is Officially Over

LRCLRC Nation Has Spoken - The 2014 LRC Awards: The Athlete Of The Year, Race Of The Year Is ...

USA Cross-Country Photo Gallery

2015 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix In Boston *Results

LRC Bernard Lagat Still Has It, Nick Willis Breaks The Kiwi Mile Record, And Matt Centrowitz Just Misses The American 1,000m RecordTremendous mid-d action led by the 40-year-old Lagat showing he still can kick (in a losing effort).

LRC Brenda Martinez Edges Nicole Tully In World Record DMR, An American Record For Jenny Simpson And Treniere Moser Impresses AgainBrenda Martinez put back a superb challenge from Nicole Tully, Jenny Simpson got a much deserved American record, Treniere Moser, Mary Cain, Emma Coburn and more.

Bruce Jenner In Serious Car Crash, One Person Killed Jenner was at fault as he rear ended a car into oncoming traffic.
*Was Jenner Texting?
*MB: Bruce Jenner kills a woman

Good Read:Spikes Talks To Max King About How He Manages To Excel At Everything From The Steeple To Ultra-Marathons King: “My take on it is running is running. It is all the same mechanics. There is something to be said for focusing on one event and being really good at it, but for me I would just burn out.”