2015 Penn Relays*Schedule / Start Lists / Results *TV / Streaming

MB: Official 2015 Penn Relays Live Discussion Thread 

Saturday: LRC Villanova’s Jordan Williamsz Takes Down Oregon’s Edward Cheserek In Riveting But Bizarre Men’s 4 X Mile At 2015 Penn Relays The opening legs were hot. The Penn Relays record was within striking distance. A 3:55 would equal a sub-16. The winning time was 16:18. We tell you what happened.

Friday: LRCVillanova’s Jordan Williamsz Made Him Work For It, But In The End, Oregon And Edward Cheserek Win The Men’s DMRWilliamsz got the stick one second down but only ran .50 faster than King Ches.
*Phillly.com: Williamsz On Ches: “He’s good, man. He’s real good.”

LRC Stanford Women Win Women’s 4 X 1,500 Title At 2015 Penn Relays After Elise Cranny Breaks Things Open On Leg #3

• VA’s Andrew Hunter Wins Mile, Joins Matthew Centrowitz As Only HSers To Win Mile & 3k At Penn
• LSU Wins Shuttle Hurdle Relay (W) – 24th Straight Year They’ve Won A Wheel
• Texas A&M Wins 7th Straight Penn Relays 4 X 100 Title
• Michael O’Hara Is Eligible As While He Signed A Contract, He Hasn’t Been Paid Yet
• USA Vs. The World Press Conference Transcript

Thursday

•  AP: No Emily Lipari, No Problem: Stephanie Schappert Anchord Villanova To Women’s DMR Over Elise Cranny And Stanford
• Philly.com: Running Anchor For 1st Time, Stephanie Schappert Didn’t Know Where Finish Line Was And Ran 1,610 Meters To Get The Win
  
• LRC Full Coverage

News From Europe

• BBC Sport – Jo Pavey: Thyroid Medicine Use Among Athletes “Unethical”
  *MB: Jo Pavey slams the Nike Oregon Project for thyroid Use 
• Racism Accusations Force Stockholm Marathon Prize Money U-Turn Meanwhile, American races often offer “American only” prize money all the time.
  *MB: Stockholm Marathon will not give prize money to an east african if they win the race.
• Recommended Read: Fascinating Talk With The Woman Who Invented The Jogbra 38 Years Ago The prototype was two jockstraps sewn together. The Jockbra soon became the Jogbra.
  *MB: Jogbra was invented 38 years ago, what the hell did women do before then?

• Nice Editorial By Indy Star’s David Woods On USA Getting Worlds 2021 “Should bidding have been open? Yes. Should a bigger city be holding the first outdoor worlds on U.S. soil? Yes. But Eugene and USATF, you should apologize for nothing.”
• Editorial On Eugene 2021: “Premeditated Murder Or Suicide?” Italy’s Luciano Barra is not happy the IAAF chose Eugene without open bidding and writes, “What about credibility and transparency? Who can financially afford the IAAF system and their requests? Who will trust the system?”

2015 Boston Marathon (More In Our Special Section) *Live Leaderboard*Tracking*Results*LRCFan Predictions

LRC 9 Takeaways From The 2015 Boston Marathon – Desi And Ritz Lead Late, One Of Meb’s Gutsiest Races Ever, Teg Doesn’t Like The Marathon + America’s Next Great Marathon Star? (updated) It was a tremendous foot race in Boston with some American drama before Caroline Rotich pulled the huge upset and Desisa showed he is boss.

Top Results  Desi 4th, Shalane 9. Ritz 7, Meb 8th

Caroline Rotich Outkicks Dibaba, Desisa Is Too Good, As Desi, Ritz, And Meb Lead For Much Of Race NYTimes recap.

• Meb Post-Race Comments – He Stopped 5 Times After Drink Didn’t Go Down Right “You always run to win …”
  
• Shalane Post-Race Comments – Setback In January Led To Less Training On The Roads

Boston On The Boards:

• Joan Benoit-Samuelson 2:54 today at age 57
• What happened to Meb between 35k and 40k? –
• Ritz 7th in Boston
• I have a Whole New Respect for Desi, WTF happend to Shalane???
• Thank you Desi, Ritz, Meb, Desisa, Rotich and Boston
• Ritz is in 2:07 shape
• Rupp is the only American-born runner capable of winning a WMM, and AlSal won’t let him run one. That’s a problem.
•  Kenyan Caroline Rotich wins Bosto despite negative PR from CBS TV presenters
• Shalane, Desi, Meb, Ritz, Teg, Arciniaga, Cabada: What we learned about racing during Marathon Prep

MB: Official 2015 Boston Marathon Live Discussion Thread Read the live blow-by-blow recap.

LRCFan Predictions Who Does The LetsRun Nation Think Will Emerge On Top?

Full 2015 Boston Marathon Coverage