Pros Show Some Humor And Read Mean LetsRun.com Posts

LRC Pro Runners Reading Mean LetsRun.com Posts Edition #1: Robby Andrews, Kyle Merber, Craig Lutz Andrews, Merber, and Lutz are compared to Alan Webb, praying mantises, slackers living in their parents’ basements and much more. It was originally published on our new Instagram page. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.

More Pre-USAs News

• The Sacramento Bee:5 Story Lines To Finish At USAs There’s certainly a new generation of US male sprinters in Coleman, Lyles and Kerly. Centro vs. Murphy gets a mention.
• USATF Schedule Adjusted Due To High Heat In Sacramento Early afternoon events are starting earlier and evening events are starting an hour later.
• RW Profile:Ben Bruce Hasn’t Missed USAs For The Last 15 Years His first USA meet was in 2003 as a 20-year-old college student. He says “a good way to go out” would be to eventually race against someone at USAs who wasn’t born yet when Bruce first ran there.
• USA Today:10 Things To Watch At USAs An interesting note – his Wikipedia page says he’s retired, but 33-year-old former Olympic silver medalist Trey Hardee is on the start lists.
• USATF Champs Men’s Throws Guide
  *Women’s Throws Guide
• Shalane Flanagan Says She’s “Winging It” As She Returns From Her Back Fracture Injury To Try And Make Another Team USA Flanagan has made every team she’s tried out for since 2004, but admits she’s “not super fit.”
• Sacramento News Review Profiles Olympic Discus Gold Medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton And Calls Her A Star Of A “Niche Discipline Within A Niche Sport” Brown Trafton reveals even after winning Olympic gold, she didn’t make enough from track to support herself.
• Good Read: Q&A With Shalane Flanagan Ahead Of USAs Flanagan talks about her latest comeback from injury, doping in the sport, being a foster parent and the fact that this could be her last season on the track.
• Register-Guard:49 Athletes WIth Ties To The University Of Oregon Will Compete At USAs
• Ben Rosario Is Thrilled With The Way Hoka NAZ Elite Team Is Looking Heading Into USAs Ben Bruce heads into his 15th USAs after a 10k PR and Rosario says Craig Lutz is “on fire.”
• Eugene Register-Guard Editorial Urges USATF To Put 2020 Trials In Eugene The decision could come by Sunday. We 100% disagree.
• Podcast Q&A With Sprinter Jenna Prandini Prandini discusses a slew of topics including her training ahead of USAs, what sports she played growing up and Usain Bolt.
• Track And Field News USATF Champs Men’s Form Chart
• Track And Field News USATF Champs Women’s Form Chart
• USATF Shares Some History Of Track And Field In Sacramento Sacramento hosted the 2020 Olympic Trials, setting an 8-day attendance record that still stands.
• NBC Sports:Five Men’s Events To Watch At USAsCentro vs. Murphy over 1,500 makes their list.

Drug Stuff: More Russian Bans

• Three More Russians Get 4-Year Drug Bans After Failing 2008 Olympic Retests Sprinters Anastasiya Kapachinskaya and Denis Alekseyev and distance runner Inga Abitova all get bans.
• 400 Runner Christine Ohuruogu Set To Become Britain’s Most Decorated Athlete At Worlds The GB 4 x 400 team finished 4th at 2009 and 2011 Worlds, but with the Russian bans, Ohuruogu will now have two more bronzes to her name (eight World medals total).
• GB Jav Thrower Goldie Sayers Disappointed She Won’t Be Able To Get Her Re-Allocated Olympic Medal At London Worlds Because of legal challenges from Russian athletes, the medal owed to Sayers, as well as the ones for other GB athletes, won’t be re-allocated in time.
• When Will They Give It A Rest?Russian Politician Coordinating World Cup Argues That Russia Track Ban Is Just About “Politics”

Drug News

• Operation Puerto Doping Scandal Athletes Unlikely To Be Named After Spanish Court Ruling The court said the confiscated blood bags could only be used to identify athletes with already open cases, which there none. Time for another Fancy Bears hack?
• RUSADA Employees Begin Training Program To Improve Standards They could start by hiring more employees like Vitaly Stepanov and fewer like Yelena Isinbayeva.
• WADA Partially Suspends UCLA Laboratory In LA For 3 Months The lab can continue with regular anti-doping testing but must get a second opinion from another lab for four specific substances.

Sprint Stuff

• Knox TN Today:“Logic Prevailed. Tennessee’s Track Team Has Turned Pro” Coleman was essentially Tennessee’s track team as he scored all 20 of their points at NCAAs.
• Christian Coleman Writes Open Letter To “Vol Nation” Thanking Them For Their Support As He Decides To Turn Pro “Deciding on becoming a professional athlete was not an easy decision to make, mostly because of the tremendous amount of love and support I have received from Vol Nation.”
• IAAF Profile On Norway’s 21-Year-Old Karsten Warholm, Who Got The Surprise 400H Win At The Oslo Diamond League Meet Warholm was the slowest on paper coming into the race but set a NR to win in front of the home crowd.
• Olympic 400H Bronze Medalist Ashley Spencer Talks About The Challenge Of Living Away From Her Close-Knit Family For Her Track Career Spencer lives and trains in Austin and only gets to visit home in Indianapolis a couple times a year.
• Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson Talks About The Significance Of When She Won Her First Major Championship Medal, Silver At 2015 Worlds “After my semifinal (which she won in 22.13) I thought, ‘Wow! Is that really me?’”

Pro Distance Updates

• Good Read: RW:“Mom, Firefighter, Pro Runner: Kellyn Taylor Has No Chill” 10,000 Olympic Trials 4th placer Taylor impressively puts in triple digit mileage while being a parent and going through the physical/mental training to become a firefighter.
• Irish Times Writer Ian O’Riordan Questions Whether Semenya Is Purposely Not Trying To Break The 800m WR O’Riordan says Semenya just “toys” with the field until blowing them away with less than 100 m left.
• Cam Levins Ran His First Race In Almost A Year At The Stumptown Twilight Last Weekend The article notes that Levins ran in his Canadian kit from the 2012 Olympics rather than the NOP singlet.
• Video:4:09 Hoka One One Athlete Stephanie Schappert Advocates For Ice Bathing

HS Action – Brooks PR Meet *Full Results 

Full Results For The 2017 Brooks PR InvitationalSam Worley won the mile but not no one broke 4:00. Brodey Hasty (8:45) won the deuce. Anna Gibson (4:43) and Brie Oakley (9:51) won the girls distance races.
*Brie Oakley Runs #2 All-Time Two Mile With 9:51 It’s actually the outdoor record and second only to Mary Cain‘s NR of 9:38 (indoors).
*Joseph Anderson Wins 110H After Being Hospitalized For Bronchitis

• MB Talk: Brooks PR Mile Best HS Mile ever It was supposed to be but no one broke 4:00.
• The best HS milers EVER? fail to break 4…
• Casey Clinger Will Win The Brooks PR Mile
• Swinging Sammy your Brooks PR mile champ
• Anna Gibson 4:43 wins Brooks PR mile 

2017 New Balance HS Nationals *Schedule & Results*Free Live Webcast June 16-18 

MB: Sydney McLaughlin Splits a 49.85 FAT in a relay!!!
MB: Official 2017 New Balance HS Nationals Discussion Thread

• NJ’s Jenna Rogers Wins NBNO High Jump With A National Freshman Record Of 6 Feet, 3.75 Inches Now she says she’s off to eat bowls of pasta (linguini with white clam sauce) since she had given it up for track.
• DyeStat:Jordan Geist Wins Shot-Hammer Double
• Saturday Video Highlights
• Cameron Cooper Runs 1:47.79 Split
• Stanford-Bound Jess Lawson (16:38) And Sophomore Ryan Oosting (14:36) Win 5ks

Mid-Distance Q&As

• Post-NCAAs Q&A With Grant Fisher Fisher talks a lot about his tactics/kick he used to win the NCAA 5K.
• Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Drew Hunter Hunter talks about his decision to go pro out of high school (a no-brainer in our minds), his struggle with Lyme disease and his racing plans for 2017.
• Q&A With Ireland’s European 1,500 Bronze Medalist (4:01 PR) Ciara Mageean She’s treating London 2017 almost like a “home championships” and says she’d “give her right arm” to medal there. *2nd Article

Stockholm DL Pre-Meet News

• With ExxonMobil Out As Main Sponsor Of Bislett Games, They Had To Cut Costs From $2.4 Million To $1.9 Million And So Oslo And Stockholm Are 3 Days Apart To Save On Transportation Costs
• Kiwi Camille Buscomb Credits Her Improvement To 15:19 To Her Switch To Nic Bideau She’s in the 3k in Stockholm.
• Margaret Wambui Pulls Out Of Stockholm As She Ran Final 500 Of Oslo Without A Shoe

Pre-2017 New Balance HS National News

• A Look At The 10 Best Athletes At NBON
  
• Good Read:Lengthy Profile On 2015 Foot Locker Champion Weini Kelati And Her Quest To Graduate And Make It To The NCAA Kelati hasn’t competed at all this year (she’s too old for HS competition), but has been racing the academic clock to graduate and compete in the NCAA next year (she’ll compete for New Mexico).
• DyeStat NBNO Sprints/Hurdles Preview
  *Jumps Preview
  *DyeStat Throws Preview