- Jakob Ingebrigtsen Blasts Josh Kerr, Calls Him A "Moron" In New Documentary Series Asked in one of the episodes about the origin of the rivalry between him and Kerr, Ingebrigtsen said, "The problem with the rivalry is that it's not created by the media. It's only been created by that moron because he began trash-talking me."
*MB: Jakob Ingebrigtsen interesting comments on Josh Kerr on new TV show - Nijel Amos Fires Warning To Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Marco Arop As His Doping Ban Is Set To End Next Summer The 2012 Olympic silver medalist said, "The king has been in exile, I need to come back and get my chair, you know, I need to come and get my throne."
Archived Homepage For October 01, 2024
Archived Homepage For October 01, 2024
Mid-D News
The World Marathon Major Season Starts on Sunday
The men's race was close with the top 4 finishing within 20 seconds of each other and Mengesha, the 2019 World U20 Xc champ, beating Kenya's Cybrian Kotut by 5 seconds. It was also DEEP as 14 broke 2:07 and 22 broke 2:08. Ketema, who had the fastest debut (2:16:07) in the marathon earlier this year in Dubai, dominated the women's race winning by over two minutes.
- MB: Official 2024 BMW Berlin Marathon Live Discussion Thread
- Nick Bester finally breaks 2:20
- 30th in Berlin - Rachel Hodgkinson of GBR - 2:36:44. Any relation to Keely?
On The Boards
On The Boards
NCAA XC
- Brian Musau Crushes Course Record, Leads #1 Ranked OSU To Victory At Cowboy Jamboree Musau won in 22:55.6 as the OSU men dominated with 19 points over #8 New Mexico's 45. The #21 New Mexico women won over #16 OSU, 34-40 with New Mexico's Pamela Kosgei taking the individual win in 19:50. *Results
*MB: Solid run for Simeon Birnbaum @ Cowboy Jamboree Birnbaum was Oreogn's #1 in 14th place (24:10).
*MB: Osu Cowboy Jamboree - #3 Arkansas Men, Texas Women Win Team Titles At Chile Pepper XC Festival Arkansas' Kirami Yego took the men's individual win in 22:57 while Arkansas went 1-2 in the women's race thanks to Mia Cochran and Paityn Noe (both timed at 15:56.3). The #12 ranked Arkansas women held out some runners and were 3rd behind Texas and LSU. *Results
- Parker Wolfe And BYU Men Win Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invy Wofe ran a course record 23:04 to beat Wake Forest's Rocky Hansen by 2 seconds while #2 ranked BYU dominated the team competition by 64 points over #5 ranked Iowa State.
- Washington Women Put 5 In The Top 35 To Win Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invy; Villanova's Sadie Sigfstead Takes Individual Title In 19:55 The #5 ranked Washington beat Utah by 29 points as Sigfstead won by 8 seconds.
*MB: Nuttycombe Discussion Thread
*MB: ROCKY MF HANSEN DOES IT AGAIN!!!! 2ND AT NUTTYCOMBE!!! - Stanford Men And Women Sweep Gans Creek Classic In Missouri The #10 ranked Stanford men dominated the team race with 31 points lead by Leo Young's second place finish. Kentucky's Edward Bird won in a CR 23:07, 1.3 seconds ahead of Young. The #8 ranked Stanford women beat #9 Tennessee by 47 points; Auburn's Brenda Jepchirchir won in 19:50.1 over Stanford’s Zofia Dudek (19:53.6). *Results
*MB: Impressed by Lex and Leo Young
*MB: Not impressed by Lex and Leo Young - USTFCCCA Weekend NCAA Recap
Coaching News: The Start Of One Career, The End Of Another
- MB: Galen Rupp Now A Volunteer Assistant Coach For NAU Rupp said, "This just seemed like a good opportunity. It’s been really fun. The kids are amazing to work with" and added that he's definitely consider going into coaching after he's retired from pro running.
- MB: Former Huntington University Coach Nick Johnson Convicted Of Sexual Battery The level 6 felony by a jury carries a minimum sentence of six months and a maximum of 2 1/2 years.
Olympic News
- Former Olympic Swimming Champion Kirsty Coventry Is Bidding To Become The First Female IOC President
- Petition Could Once Again Derail Budapest's Olympic Bid Budapest wants to bid for the 2036 Olympics, but could face challenges like they did when a petition for a referendum forced them to drop out of bidding for the 2024 Games.
- Toyota Confirms End Of Olympic Sponsorship Toyota signed a deal (said to be worth $835 million) in 2015, but it expired after Paris 2024 and they have decided not to renew.
Athlo$ NYC For Women
Alexis Ohanian's inaugural female only Athlos track meet got rave reviews from the athletes and entertained the fans in New York on Thursday. Is this the future of the sport? *Full Results
Athlo$ NYC For Women
Miss the meet? Watch all the races in less than 8 minutes without knowing the results. Or you can watch the full broadcast above.
Sad News - Two Former Track Stars Pass Away Too Soon
- RIP: Former Three-Time NCAA Shot Put Champ Eileen Vanisi Passes Away At Age 52 She had struggled for years with heart failure and was awaiting a triple-organ transplant.
- RIP: Former BYU Sprinter Scott Mecham Dies From Injuries Suffered In Mountain Biking Crash
NCAA XC Previews
Can the NAU women overcome last year's disappointment and send coach Mike Smith out as a champion in his final year? Plus a loaded BYU team looks to put a bad day in '23 behind them, and does NC State have any chance at a four-peat?
- How about some love for Lipscomb and coach Nick Polk? They were 11th at NCAAs with no transfers and no foreigners.
- Ok State's Dave Smith: "There are five teams that can potentially win...but I wouldn’t say we’re a 50% chance to win."
- Easy fix for the foreign recruiting issue in the NCAA
- Iowa St adds an 8:22 steepler Joash Ruto. Does this make them a threat for NCAA XC team title?
- I have little respect for NCAA teams that assemble foreign XC Teams
- T&F News' Men's XC Preview: Top-10 Men's Individual Predictions Defending champ Graham Blanks is ranked #1 and Parker Wolfe is #7.
- 2024 Women's NCAA XC
Previous: LRC Men's Preview #1-5, #6-10
Oregon finished in the top 10 a year ago under Shalane Flanagan and Jerry Schumacher and will look to improve in '24. Plus meet the new NCAA superstar, who earned bronze in the U20 race at World XC and is the sister of a former WR holder. And how about some love for Lipscomb - which was top 10 last year with no transfers and no foreigners?
Other Distance News
- The fallout from the Camille Herron and Conor Holt WikipediaGate has begun - Lululemon ends Herron's sponsorship This story talks a lot about the LetsRun forum. Canadian Runing broke the story earlier in the week. *Original story
*MB: Email from Conor Holt (Camille Herron's husband) taking responsibility for Wikipedia edits Her husband tried to take full responsibility for the edits in an email he sent to LRC.
*MB: Camille Herron and hubby are deleting Courtney and Killian's accomplishments on Wikipedia and pumping herself instead
*MB: Balancing Accountability and Empathy in the Camille Herron Debate - Berlin is Sunday: Preview - Tigist Ketema and Tadese Takele (2:03:24 pb) lead Berlin’s 50th Marathon Last year, Eliud Kipchoge (2:02:42) and Tigist Assefa (2:11:52 WR) were your winners but neither is back.
*Athletics Illustrated's women's preview - Joshua Cheptegei & Peres Chepchirchi will run Vedanta Delhi Half on October 20th
- Toni Reavis: In 1 year, September 26-28, 2025, San Diego will become the focal center of the running They'll be hosting the 2nd World Road Running Champs.
- Lessons from a 700-day running streak Nova Scotia's Lee Alonzo Murphy has been running a minimum of 10K a day for more than 700 days
Pre-Meet Athlos News
The inaugural women's-only meet is on Thursday in New York and features four Olympic champions from Paris (Gabby Thomas, Faith Kipyegon, Masai Russell, Marileidy Paulino) in its six events as well walk-out songs and a performance by rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
This Week's Podcast
Athlos, the women's-only track meet with $100k in prize money per event, and Megan Thee Stallion as the feature entertainer is Thursday in NYC. We break it down and also preview the NCAA XC season.
Julien Alfred Returns Home As The Fastest Woman In The World / Odds & Ends
- Thousands greet Julien Alfred in rapturous homecoming to St. Lucia
- Prime minister greeted her and then there was a motorcade around the island
- Man who bit Julien Alfred's gold medal responds to criticism Talk about disgusting. *Photo
- Video of Alfred's homecoming
- MB: Film critic slams Ingebrigtsen amazon video series: "What we get to see are three nouveau riche bastards" "Here we are offered no context. None of the people are presented properly. None of the sports presentations are put into context. What we get to see are three nouveau riche bastards who have each built themselves a house of the smooth funky bird box type."
- MB: Elisabeth Ingebrigtsen responds to social media criticism of how Jakob treats her: "I can stand up for myself just fine." She also tells viewers not to judge them by the video which is designed to create extreme engagement and says that things can look very different on screen compared to how it is in real life.
- London Marathon runners in 2024 raised a world record £73.5m for charity
- 2014 NCAA xc champ Kate Avery has become a trail runner “I have been a New Balance athlete for the past eight years in events from track, cross and country,” she says, “so when I heard the brand was forming a new trail and mountain running focused team, I immediately agreed to be part of it.”
- Arkansas HS XC girls team with triplets is hoping to be 1st Arkansas team to qualify for NXN
Doping News
- MB: 29:50 Kenyan 10k Runner Faith Chepkoech Gets 3-Year Doping Ban For EPO
- USADA Head Travis Tygart Tricked Into Recorded Conversation With Russian "Pranksters" We're not sure what exactly the prank is, but in the interview Tygart said that any athletes who compete in Russia's "Friendship Games" in 2025, could be banned from the Olympics.
- 2:04 Marathoner Joshua Belet And 67:17 Half-Marathoner Paskalia Chepkorir Kipkoech Are Among 8 More Kenyans To Get Doping Bans
*MB: Another 8 Kenyans busted - WADA Publishes Updated Technical Guide Which Comes Into Force On January 1, 2025
Non-Distance News
- Grand Slam Track Signs All Three Women's Olympic 100H Medalists - Masai Russell, Cyréna Samba-Mayela And Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
- Italian HJer Gianmarco Tamberi Contemplating Future After Disappointing Paris Olympics The 32-year-old isn't sure if he wants to continue to the 2028 Olympics. In Paris his performance suffered because he was dealing with intense pain from kidney stones. He couldn't take medication to dissolve the stones because it could be considered doping.
- Japan 110H NR Holder Shunsuke Izumiya Jumps 8.14m To Win National Corporate Championships Long Jump
- Japan Under-20 400H Record Goes Down Twice At National University Championships The previous record was 28-years-old, but Shota Fuchigami ran 48.78 in his semi to break it before Hayato Shimoda ran 48.59 in his semi to break it again.
Ultra Running News
- Ultrarunner Tara Dower Breaks Appalachian Trail Speed Record, Running 2,189 Miles In 40 Days Dower's daily schedule was getting up at 3AM and running for about 17 hours with only short breaks for meals and 90-second "dirt naps." She broke the previous record from 2018 by 13 hours.
- Canadian Running Magazine: Ultrarunner Camille Herron And Her Husband Accused Of Removing Accolades From Other Athletes' Wikipedia Pages And "Fluffing" Her Own Herron's husband, Conor Holt, emailed LetsRun admitting to making the edits and apologizing while adding that "Camille had nothing to do with this."
*MB: Email from Conor Holt (Camille Herron's husband) taking responsibility for Wikipedia edits
*MB: Camille Herron and hubby are deleting Courtney and Killian's accomplishments on Wikipedia and pumping herself instead - British Ultrarunner James Norbury Sets Record For Summiting 30 Of Britain’s Highest Peaks In Three Days
World Marathon Majors News
- 2025 Boston Marathon Cut-Off Ends Up 6:51 Faster Than The Qualifying Time More than 12,000 runners were denied entry despite running the qualifying standard for their sex/age category.
*MB: Boston Marathon Cutoff: 6:51 - Boston Marathon Lowers Qualifying Times For 2026 Race By Five Minutes Now men in the 18 to 34 age category will have to run 2:55 and the women (and the men who declare they're not men) will need to run 3:25.
- Chicago Marathon Receives World Athletics Heritage Plaque The World Athletics Heritage Plaque is a "location-based recognition, awarded for an outstanding contribution to the worldwide history and development of the sport."
- London Marathon Raises Record $98.28 Million For Charity This breaks their previous record as the world's largest annual one-day fundraising event of $88.63 million from 2019.
XC Season Is Here
Oklahoma State was historically great in 2023, can they repeat in 2024? How will NAU fare in Mike Smith's final year as coach? Is this Arkansas' best team since the glory years? Plus BYU is super deep thanks in part to an 8th-year senior.
It's time to get back into cross country mode. With young American stars Graham Blanks and Parker Wolfe returning to the NCAA, the 2024 XC season should be a great one.
Women's Mid-D News
- Video Interview With Shannon Rowbury On Being Elevated To Bronze 12 Years After The London Olympics Rowbury was emotional talking about finding out the news she was being elevated to 2012 Olympic 1500m bronze after three women who finished ahead of her have been banned for doping.
- WA Profile: World Under-20 800m Champ Sarah Moraa Aims To Continue In Cousin's Footsteps Like her cousin and training partner, world 800m champ Mary Moraa, Sarah started off as a sprinter and only moved to the 800m in 2023. Now she's world U20 and African champ with a 1:59.39 PB.
- T&F News Talks To Addy Wiley About Her Rookie Pro Season Wiley says a hamstring injury three weeks before the Olympic Trials kept her from making the team so she instead put her focus into breaking the American 1000m record which she did last month in Poland.
Other Distance News
- German Fernandez's Sister, Giselle Fernandez, Wins Her Race At Woodbridge XC Classic The younger sister of the former NCAA champ ran 17:27 to win her race by 14 seconds. (For comparison, Rylee Blade had the fastest girls' time of the day with a course record 15:20).
*MB: German Fernandez's Sister - Daniel Kinyanjui (27:08) And Loice Chemnung (30:13) Win tRUNsylvania International 10K
- Boston Man Charged For Flying Drone Near Boston Marathon Finish Line He was charged with "unlawfully flying a drone in restricted National Defense Airspace" and agreed to pay a $5000 fine and forfeit his drone (valued at $4000).
- Sad News: Wesleyan XC Runner Dies During Race Nefertari Holston collapsed and went into cardiac arrest during the race in Georgia.
More US Tracks Named For Olympic Medalists
- Grant Fisher To Have Hometown Indoor Track Named In His Honor The indoor track in Grand Blanc Township, MI will be named for Fisher in a special ceremony on Friday.
- Sha’Carri Richardson Has Track Named After Her In Dallas Richardson, who is from Dallas, attended a ceremony at the John Kincaide Stadium where the track has been renamed the Sha'Carri Richardson Track.
International Road Results
Edris won in 44:51 putting him tied for #8 on the world all-time list and 27 seconds clear of three-time world 10,000m champion Cheptegei. Ethiopia's Asayech Ayichew won the women's race in 51:15.
USATF 10k Champs
Marathon Trials 4th placer McClain won in 31:40 over Natosha Rogers (32:00) while Simbassa ran 28:18 to beat out Hillary Bor (28:24).
XC/Trail Action
- Ali Wimer Leads Minnesota Women To Roy Griak Team Title; Utah Valley's Mohamed Guled Wins Men's Gold Race, Wyoming Claims Team Victory At Roy Griak Weimer won the 6k in 21:08, 5 seconds ahead of her teammate as Minnesota beat #25 ranked Utah Valley by 6 points. Guled won the men's race in 24:55 with Wyoming taking the team title 8 points ahead of Navy. *Results
*MB: Wyoming wins Roy Griak. Sleeper team for top 5 @ NCAAs?
- MB: Allie Ostrander 9th at Headlands 27k in 2:27:04! Wins went to Morocco's Elhousine Elazzaoui and Kenya's Joyce Muthoni Njeru.
- Woodbridge Cross Country Classic Boys Recap Herriman UT won their third straight team title as Owen Powell edged Josiah Tostenson for the individual win (13:30.3 to 13:30.5).
*MB: Woodbridge is not a full 3 mile bruh - Woodbridge Cross Country Classic Girls Recap Rylee Blade runs dominant 15:20 meet record, Flower Mound TX wins team title. Olympic Trials qualifier Sadie Engelhardt was 5th in 15:40.
*MB: Blade wins Woodbridge!
*Woodbridge Friday Recap - MB: Pikes Peak Ascent: Joe Gray 1st, Seth DeMoor 2nd Allie McLaughlin won the women's race.
Olympic News
- InsideTheGames: With IOC Presidency In Sigh, Seb Coe Hits The Campaign Trail The article suggests that Coe could abolish the age limits on IOC president as he did with World Athletics.
- Advertising Company Dentsu Fined $2.1 Million For Tokyo Olympics Bid-Rigging Scandal
- India Wants To Host The 2036 Olympics And Finish Top 10 In The Medal Tally They only finished 71st in the 2024 medal tally with one silver and five bronze medals.
Sprint Stuff
- GB Sprint Legend Linford Christie Talks About Coaching, Not Feeling Welcome In The Sport Today And The Netflix Sprint Documentary Some interesting quotes from Christie who says he wouldn't have wanted to be part of the Netflix documentary when he was competing. “It makes you say things you shouldn’t say. “You never upset your opponents because you give them 10 per cent more adrenaline to beat you. There’s a lot of hype now and people saying they’re champions before they are champions."
- Olympic 100m Bronze Medalist Melissa Jefferson Joins Grand Slam Track She is the seventh athlete to sign with Michael Johnson's new league.
Get Your Votes In
We're introducing the NCAA performer of week and since September is all about getting your feet wet in XC we're combining the "preseason" action so far which has been highlighted by performances by some new Kenyan men in the NCAA ranks.
More Fan Voting
- Vote For Men's European Athlete Of The Year Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Mondon Duplantis head the list of ten nominees.
- Vote For Women's European Athlete Of The Year The ten woman list includes Sifan Hassan, Keely Hodgkinson and Femke Bol.
Can Nike Get Its Mojo Back?
- MB: Nike CEO John Donahoe steps down In June, Nike shares had their biggest one-day drop in history - 20% - and now the embattled former eBay CEO is out. A 32-year Nike employee Elliott Hill will come out of retirement and take over.
- MB: 2:16 marathoner Rosemary Wanjiru has withdrawn from Berlin due to injury meaning there will be zero Kenyan women in Berlin
- MB: Noah Lyles appears on SportsCenter LA and reiterates he wants to see a TV provider before he signs with Grand Slam Track Does this mean ESPN will be the provider?
- Spanish triple jumper Ana Peleteiro dumps Ivan Pedroso as coach After winning bronze in Tokyo, she failed to medal in Paris this year and now will be coached by her partner, French triple jumper Benjamin Compaoré.
CBA's Win Streak Is 50 Years & Counting
The CBA boys' win streak turns 50 years old today. They haven't lost a dual meet since 1973.
More Distance News
- MB: Japanese equivalent of NCAAs have started & run through Sunday Japan Running News' Brett Larner has the top seeds and the link also takes you to a free stream and live results.
- Q&A with New Mexico coach Darren Gauson, who explains how he's transforming the New Mexico XC program Recruiting and NIL are huge and the Scot is not a afraid to admit it. "As a whole program, we did 150 official visits in our track & field program and we brought in 47 athletes to our team this year." *MB: I have little respect for NCAA teams that assemble foreign XC Cross Teams
- Famed HS XC coach Doug Soles releases album of 20 XC-related songs Soles coaches the defending NXN champs - the Herriman boys - who are #1 again this year.
- You can now use Marriott Points for a spot in the Abbott World Marathon Majors It's an auction and the Tokyo spot already is 152,000 points with 26 days to go.
LRC Podcast
The 2024 Diamond League season came to an end. Jakob got the win in the 1500, but we're more interested in breaking down his half marathon debut. Sydney McLaughlin made a rare Diamond League appearance. And we delve into the crazy fast times on the track in 2024.
When Meets Compete, The Athletes Win
- Diamond League Prize Money To Skyrocket in 2025 - Regular Meet Prize Money To Increase By 43% in 2025 The total prize pool will be over $9 million for the 2025 season (and roughly $18 million if you count appearance fees). Each regular season meet will feature $500k in prize money in 2025 versus $350k in 2024.
- Which Kenyans racked up the most $$ on the DL circuit in 2024? Faith Kipyegon won 100k, Mary Moraa 66k, and Emmanuel Wanyonyi won 52k.
- Athlos NYC VS Grand Slam Track - Huge Prize Money Rewards For Track's New Leagues The Athlos meet has a prize pool of $500,000 with $60k for the winner of each race while Michael Johnson's Grand Slam has an overall prize pool of $12.6 million with $100,000 going to the winner of each race at each meet.
RIP Rebecca Cheptegei
- Thousands Mourn Rebecca Cheptegei At Her Funeral In Uganda She was buried in her father's homestead in eastern Uganda. As a member of Uganda's armed forces, soldiers carried the coffin and she was given a three-volley salute. Mourners included her mother, father and two daughters.
David Rudisha's 800m Record on Borrowed Time?
At the start of 2024, only five men had ever broken 1:42. Five have done it in 2024 alone, and David Rudisha's 1:40.91 world record looks poised to fall. What is going on? Jonathan Gault interviews coaches and scientists from all over the world and unveils Project 99 - the quest for the first sub-1:40 800 in history.
Two Final LetsRun.com Pieces On The Paris Olympics
Two Final LetsRun.com Pieces On The Paris Olympics
The Olympics produce the most incredible highs and lows. Which athletes overachieved and overachieved in the Paris track and field action?
Almost no one who emerged from the repechage made the final in Paris. World Athletics president Seb Coe admits, "It was an IOC creation. It wasn’t something that we chose ourselves."
Supporters Club podcast
One final look back at Paris, a look ahead to LA and we pay respects to Usain Bolt's 100m world record and ponder how Tyreek Hill could do in a race vs Noah Lyles.
LRC Exclusives
LRC Exclusives
Was this the best Olympic track & field competition ever? Why did the US men run so well? Plus the greatest unanswered questions from Paris 2024 and why Jakob Ingebrigtsen should not abandon the 1500m.
A lot to talk about on this week's LRC podcast. We couldn't get to it all so join the Supporters Club to get Friday's bonus podcast.
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.
Best of Jon Gault
Best of Jon Gault
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
LetsRun Classics
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