Chemusto began 2023 with a 4:14 1500m pb but is down to 4:01 after using a 59.8 last lap to win in Nairobi on May 13.
Archived Homepage For May 26, 2023
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LA Grand Prix is Fri./Sat. - Rabat is Sunday
LA Grand Prix is Fri./Sat. - Rabat is Sunday
A bunch of big names have scratched but Richardson, Mondo Duplantis, Ryan Crouser, Timothy Cheruiyot, & more are all competing this weekend.
- Marcell Jacobs pulls out of Rabat showdown with Fred Kerley with minor injury “I am forced to skip the debut 100 meters and the first face off with Kerley in Rabat, which I was really looking forward to, due to a lombo sacral nerve block that I’m working on resolving in the short term,” Jacobs said in a statement. “It’s the result of a misstep and not an injury, which does however keep me from competing in Morocco. I’m in strong physical shape technical and ready for a great outdoor season. The challenge is only postponed.”
*MB: Marcell Jacobs pulls out of Rabat DL 100m due to minor injury - Marcell Jacobs wants to repeat in 2024: " I’m not arriving as an outsider (to Paris) but as the number one protagonist.”
- Marcell Jacobs doesn't understand athletes who complain about having to train “When I hear athletes say that even getting up in the morning is a sacrifice, I don’t feel the same way,” he said. “For me, it’s no sacrifice. When I wake up in the morning to go training, I like it. I like it when I know that in the afternoon there’ll be a heavy training session or a competition. I’m not even able to spend time at home but I like it. It makes my day.” *Jacobs video
On The Boards
On The Boards
Distance News of Note
- At Isuzu truck event, Eliud Kipchoge says he learned a lot from Boston spank down, vows to work harder "I have learned a lot of lessons (from the Boston Marathon) and one of the most important is the need to work harder. I have learnt on the need for consistency and to keep pushing. It (the loss) shows that life is not a smooth ride or a comfort zone. There are always bumps along the way and when you hit one, you have to get up and keep going."
- Isuzu unveils first of 159 Eliud Kipchoge pickup trucks. Get yours today for Sh9 million They'll have the Kenyan flag on them and Kipchoge's signature as well.
- Eilish McColgan resorts to an injection for her knee impingement, hopes to start jogging this weekend and run London DL on July 23 “I hope to be there for the world championships but if I didn’t take this route and continue to try to grind and grind on the way we had been, even mentally, I couldn’t have kept it up. Having to constantly ice it, massage it and put Voltarol gel on it and take ibuprofen all day, stretching it. Every waking second of the day was thinking about the knee."
2023 NCAA Regionals Have Begun
Regional MB Talk
- East Regionals Day 2 Tuohy was eliminated in the 1500. Just kidding. She won her heat in 4:19.08.
- West Regionals Day 2 Utah Valley's Everlyn Kemboi, who for some reason was triple entered, jogged a 5:12 in the 1500. In the 100, Kaila Jackson (10.95, +2.6) and Jacious Sears (10.97, +2.6) both broke 11. Britton Wilson ran 50.15, 54.08.
- NCAA East Regionals Day 1 NCAA 1500 record holder Eliud Kipsang of Alabama was eliminated after fading from 1st to 8th in his heat.
- NCAA West Regionals Day 1
- XC Champions NAU fail to qualify anyone to NCAAs in the 10,000
- Two-time NCAA champ Eric Jenkins (3:53/13:05/27:22) has retired
- Cole Sprout goes home DEVASTATED He ran 28:41 and failed to advance to Austin.
- 2023 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion
- Matthew MF Boling lights up Cameron Miller, runs SB 20.17 in prelim
- Amina Maatoug Will Have a BETTER Running Career Than Katelyn Tuohy
MB: Two-time NCAA champ Eric Jenkins (3:53/13:05/27:22) announces his retirement As a pro, he never made an Olympic team but did make the 2017 Worlds.
Links That Passed Our Vetting Process
- David Woods profiles 'Big Race Kole' - 2022 Foot Locker (Champs Sports) champ Kole Mathison The CU signee still wants to be the 1st Indiana HSer to break 4:00.
- Tommy Rivs' wife publishes a memoir about his illness Rivs is a US ultramarathoner who was in a medically induced coma for 84 days due to cancer but now in remission.
- MB: Track and Field News 2023 USA's form chart is out and somehow they think Yared Nuguse is only the US's #3 1500 guy
- 37 days after Boston and just 3 days after running a road 10k, Hellen Obiri returns to track and wins KDF Champions 5000 in 15:19 Kibiwott Kandie easily won the men's 10,000 in 28:19.
- Glen Mills' Racers Grand Prix meet next month is supposed to be loaded but they are having money problems It costs bucks to get the likes of Shericka Jackson, Noah Lyles, Tobi Amusan, Hansle Parchment, Dalilah Muhammad, Wayde van Niekerk, and others.
- Eddie Southern, who won a silver medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, has died The UTexas alum was the 2nd person under 50 in the 400h.
- Mary Moraa is ready to rock Rabat She's already run a 50.44 NR and 1:58.83 this year.
- Yet another Athletics official in the UK banned in landmark case for online abuse - AW Ian Roberts has stepped back from his position as chair of the English Schools’ Athletics Association (ESAA) while an investigation takes place into the role he allegedly played in a case of online bullying.
Weekly Recap
Christian Coleman picked up a big win, Paul Chelimo showed he is back, some big stars are hopefully coming out of hibernation soon.
Indoor Track Gets A New Name
They say this will "allow more flexibility in the setting of 200m tracks" so that for example, if a city wants to build a temporary outdoor 200m track in a city square or train station, they can do that and still have it count for "short track" (formerly "indoor") records. This has no effect on traditional 400m outdoor track meets/records.
Road News
- Great Race Set For New York Mini 10k With Hellen Obiri Facing NYC Marathon Champ Sharon Lokedi, Emily Sisson And Keira D'Amato On June 10 The field also includes defending champ Senbere Teferi and Edna Kiplgat.
- Interesting Running Form Analysis From Sifan Hassan's London Marathon Victory Last Month Might super shoes have caused her hip issues and was Hassan's stop-to-stretch tactic what saved her?
Random Olympic News
- Bahrain Olympic Committee Is Hosting The Baby Olympics For Three To Five Year Old's The sports on offer are track (with a sprint event), soccer, basketball, swimming, weightlifting (WTF?) and gymnastics.
- Paris 2024 Organizers Want The Olympic Flame Installed On The Eiffel Tower An inside source apparently said it's "been a work in progress for the last two years."
- Paris Olympic Organizers Say They've Sold 6.8 Million Tickets So Far, Defend Pricing After Criticism That They Were Too Expensive
LetsThrow.com
- USATF Throws Festival Recap: World Champ Brooke Andersen And Rudy Winkler Highlight In The Hammer Throw Andersen became just the third woman to break the 80-meter barrier as she threw 80.17m (#3 all-time). Winkler won the men's competition in a world-leading 80.88m.
- MileSplit Interview: "The Impossible Record? Michael Carter's Untouchable Shot Put" Carter's 81-foot, 3.5-inch record has stood for over 40-years and he's still the only high school athlete to throw over 80 feet. Jonathan Gault wrote a feature on it in 2019:
LRC Greatest of All Throws: Michael Carter’s Unbreakable High School Shot Put Record Turns 40 - GB Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Opens Season With Two Wins At Loughborough International She won the 100H (13.73) and a leg on the winning 4x400. She also threw 13.13 in the shot put.
*Katarina Johnson-Thompson Confident Ahead Of Hypo-Meeting Götzis This Weekend “The shot put was probably one of the most consistent series [of throws] I’ve done in my life and I’m really pleased with it." - USA’s Chase Ealey Throws World Leading SP Of 20.06m To Win In Halle, Germany
- Norway’s Sigrid Borge Throws World Leading 66.50m Javelin In Halle, Germany
Ultra News
- Finnish Runner Satu Lipiäinen Breaks Women's 12-Hour World Record She averaged 7:33 pace for over 95 miles, breaking the previous record by almost a kilometer.
- Japan's 2022 100k World Champion Haruki Okayama And Akiko Maruichi Win Shibamata 100k Ultra 6:23:16 (6:10 pace) and 7:53:16 (7:37 pace) were their winning times.
World Athletics Gets It Right
Starting at the 2023 Worlds, the 1500, 5k, and steeple will only use automatic qualifiers. We love the change but wish they'd gone farther and included the 800.
Sprint Stuff
- 40-Year-Old Asafa Powell Is Contemplating A Comeback To Try And Become The First To Go Sub-10 100 Times He retired last year and last ran sub-10 in 2016 (which was his 97th time). Only one man has ever gone sub-10 at age 40 and that is Kim Collins and he only did it once.
- Fred Kerley Calls Out Marcell Jacobs, Says “Hopefully he don’t duck out of this race." They are supposed to race in Rabat on Sunday. Kerley also called Jacobs a good friend off the track, but said, "competitively, I hate the ... out of him."
RIP
Rick was born with cerebral palsy, but finished more than 1000 races (including 32 Boston Marathons) with his father, Dick Hoyt, pushing him in his wheelchair.
Upcoming Action
- MB: Jakob Ingebrigtsen vs Yared Nuguse in 1500 at Rabat Diamond League on Sunday! Also Ollie Hoare, Mario Garcia Romo and Abel Kipsang.
- Hellen Obiri, Olympic Steeple Bronze Medalist Benjamin Kigen And World Half Silver Medalist Kibiwott Kandie Highlight Kenya Defense Forces Starting Wednesday
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Racing The Flat 400m At The Paris DL On June 9 She'll face Dominican Republic’s Olympic and world silver medalist Marileidy Paulino.
- Andre De Grasse Vs Erriyon Knighton And Kenny Bednarek Announced For Oslo DL On June 15 Wayde Van Niekerk is in the 400m and Olympic Champ Yulimar Rojas in the TJ.
- Faith Kipyegon (1500m), Emmanuel Korir (800m) Announced For Monaco DL On July 21 World XC gold and silver medalists Jacob Kiplimo and Berihu Aregawi will have a rematch in the Monaco 5000m.
NCAA Rankings
- Arkansas Men Stay #1 In Updated NCAA Rankings Texas Tech, Georgia and Florida are ranked 2-4.
- No Changes To Top-7 Ranked Women's Teams As Texas Remains #1 Florida, Oregon and USC are 2-4.
USATF Bermuda
Fred Kerley begins his 100m season quite well
In other action, Japan's Shunsuke Izumiya almost broke his own 110mh NR by running 13.07 and Nozomi Tanaka beat Dani Jones in the 1500 as Ryuji Miura won the men's steepelchase. *Results
- Sabastian Sawe (27:58) and Tsehay Gemechu (31:38) Win Lucrative TCS World 10ks in Bengaluru Sawe, who ran 26:49 last month, edged Rodrigue Kwizera (BDI) in a sprint finish. Last year, the race paid out $26,000 for first. *Results
Rabat Diamond League on Sunday Looking Amazing (Kerley vs Jacobs and Nuguse vs Ingebrigtsen)!?!?
Rabat Diamond League on Sunday Looking Amazing (Kerley vs Jacobs and Nuguse vs Ingebrigtsen)!?!?
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Great Manchester Run - Farah's 2nd To Last Race
Farah ran 29:11, well behind Italy's winner Eyob Faniel (28:27). Hellen Obiri won the women's race in 31:14.
Night of the 10,000m PBs
Chelimo gutsily ran nearly dead even splits even though he was all alone for 5000 on a blustery evening and still managed to move to #8 on the US list. Weini Kelati ran 31:01 as Jess Warner-Judd (31:09) and Andy Butchart (27:47) won the British titles. *Results
- Race video We've cued it to start at 5k of the men's race as that's where Chelimo gutsily took off solo.
- MB: Watch Night of the 10000 PB's - Men’s 10,000m UKA Champss & World Trials. Let's go Kelati. Chelimo 13:37 halfway/27:12 at finish!!
- MB: Paul Chelimo is Cementing His Place as an All Time GREAT in U.S. Distance Running
Today's Dose Of Random
- The NY Times And Some Pros Are Asking Why Athletes Are Still Forced To Wear Huge Bibs Safety Pinned To Their Chest During Races (The Answer Is $$$) Michael Johnson argues they are a distraction and a sign of lack of professionalism in the sport: “The fastest, most efficient athletes in the world are competing with a piece of paper safety-pinned on. It just reeks of amateurism.”
- Canadian Olympic Sprinter Donovan Bailey is Part Of A Group Bid To Buy The NHL's Ottawa Senators Rapper Snoop Dogg is also among the list of high-profile names that is part of the group ownership bid.
- Cleveland Marathon Course Gets Backlash For Excessive Amounts Of Turns And Out-And-Backs They couldn't use the usual course due to construction and the new one they've made isn't getting great feedback.
- Canadian Wildfires Cause Poor Air Quality At South Dakota High School Meet Athletes complained about smoke in their lungs and eyes.
America's newest track star?!
Cordell Tinch of DII Pittsburg State had the performance of the week as he also long jumped 8.24m (+3.2) and cleared 2.18m in the HJ at his conference meet.
Sad News
Bowie won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio Games (100m silver, 200m bronze and 4x100m gold) and was the 2017 World champ in the 100m and 4x100m. Her management company shared the news of her passing, tweeting, “We’ve lost a client, dear friend, daughter and sister. Tori was a champion…a beacon of light that shined so bright!”
- MB: Rest In Peace, Tori Bowie
- US's Olympic And World Medalist Calvin Davis Dies At 51 Davis, who won individual and team NCAA titles for Arkansas, won Olympic 400H bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Games after making the team in just the 7th 400h race of his life.
*MB: RIP Calvin Davis, Olympian, Arkansas Razorback 400/400mh - Olympic Long Jump Champ And Multi-Time WR Setter Ralph Boston Passes Away At 83 Boston won Olympic gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics and set the WR six times during his career (including breaking Jesse Owens' 25-year-old WR).
Doping Polls are Baaack!
When track and field fans walk into a bar or go on a run, doping is often the topic of conversation. With that in mind, we want your thoughts on which current track and field stars you think are clean and which you think are dirty.
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Lamecha Girma
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Mondo Duplantis
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Mo Farah
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Doping Polls are Back
One of the worst things about track and field is you're not sure what you're watching is real. We polled you whether you think the world records are dirty or clean.
Woody Speaks
Woody Kincaid is charting his own path in the running world for the first time as a professional. He opens up why he left Bowerman, his desire for American records, and a lot more including Shelby Houlihan.
How do you explain the ridiculous indoor distance times?
Are all the fast times merely a product of supershoes? Or is it something more? We spoke to coaches Dathan Ritzenhein, Jason Vigilante and Dave Smith to figure it out.
Nuguse Dreaming of Olympic Gold
Yared Nuguse surprised the world by getting one American record last weekend. By the time, the winter is over, he may have 3. Nuguse joined the LRC podcast to talk about his dreams, goals, training with the OAC, and his unorthodox start in the sport.
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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