The rare neurological movement disorder caused her to fall while crossing a road into traffic and is threatening her ability to continue running, but she is relieved to know she doesn't have ALS or multiple sclerosis.
Archived Homepage For February 09, 2022
Archived Homepage For February 09, 2022
Kara Goucher Update
Week That Was
What a weekend for US distance fans. The future looks bright, the biggest problem American fans have is figuring out who is the #1 prospect for the future? How do today's teenage phenoms stack up against past teenage sensations like Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Alan Webb, Jim Ryun and Gerry Lindgren.
Q&A
We catch up with Cook, who made history by winning the RunningLane and Eastbay XC titles a week apart last fall, and will be going for Katelyn Tuohy's US HS indoor 5000 record this weekend
On The Boards
On The Boards
Financial News
- Nike Sues Shopping Platform StockX Over Sneaker NFTs Nike is suing them for creating and marketing NFTs based on Nike's shoes without permission.
- Oregon Secures $9 Million Grant From US Government For Eugene World Championships This was the final bit the state needed to fulfill their promised $40 million contribution to Worlds.
- On Becomes Exclusive Shoe And Apparel Sponsor Of Penn Relays In Multi-Year Contract
- NCAA Generated Record $1.16 Billion Revenue For 2021
Post Weekend NCAA News
- Texas Moves Up Two Spots To Top The Updated Men's NCAA Indoor Rankings North Carolina A&T and Texas Tech moved down to 2-3; Georgia stays #4.
- Florida Women Stay #1 in Updated NCAA Rankings; Texas Moves Up To #2 Arkansas and LSU are ranked 3-4.
- Michigan's Aurora Rynda Ran A NCAA Leading 2:02.89 At Notre Dame Meyo Invy
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks From The Week
2022 NBIGP
Mechaal & Mariano Garcia (1:45.12 800) both set Spanish records as Grant Holloway began 2022 with a world leader in the 60 hurdles (7.37).
Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge
The legend of Newbury Park continues to grow. Many pretty good college teams would be thrilled to have their top 3 at 3:58, 7:57 and 8:01.
Interviews With Two Distance Greats
- Athletics Illustrated Q&A With Hellen Obiri Obiri talks about signing with On and her plan to debut in the marathon this fall. She says she has two big half-marathons planned in February and March.
- Short/Random Interview With Paula Radcliffe Who Says She "Could Probably Still Beat [Her] Kids In A Race ...If It's Over 100m" Radcliffe talks about having asthma, her daughter beating cancer and meeting Sarah Jessica Parker randomly in a shop in NYC.
More US Indoor Action
The other elite winners were Ajee Wilson (800), Sam Atkin (m3000), Tonatiú López (m800) and Charlie Grice (mMile).
- MB: Shelby Houlihan runs 4:03 1500 She posted a picture of the watch with 4:03.15 to her Instagram story (64.50 final split).
- Montana State's Duncan Hamilton Sets "The Podium" Facility Records In The Mile And 3000m At Washington State Indoor Open And Invy Hamilton won the 3000 in 7:56.86 on Friday and ran the facility's first sub-4 mile on Saturday with 3:59.64.
- One We Missed Last Week: Aidan Ryan Breaks Division III Mile Record At BU Terrier Classic With 3:56.88 He's just the second D3 runner to go sub-4 in the mile.
- USTFCCCA NCAA Weekend Recap: Texas' Jonathan Jones Moves To #4 On The NCAA All-Time List With 1:15.12 For 600m At New Mexico Invy At the Armory BYU's Zach McWhorter and Princeton's Sondre Guttormsen had a great pole vault battle which ended with McWorter clearing 5.85m (tied for #5 NCAA all-time).
- DyeStat Camel City Friday Recap
Japan Road News
- Japan's Yusuke Nishiyama Runs World Lead And Course Record 2:07:47 To Win Beppu-Oita Marathon Nishiyama, making his marathon debut, won a close battle with Tetsuya Yoroizaka by 8-seconds.
- February 27: Osaka Marathon Elite Field Has 22 Men Sub-2:10, 102 Sub-2:20 Yuya Yoshida (2:07:05) has the fastest time
- March 20th Japan National University Women's Half Marathon Canceled Due To COVID
International Results
- US's Chris Nilsen Joins Six-Meter Club, Matches American Record In France Nilsen cleared 6.02m to tie for #5 on the all-time list.
- Japan's Yusuke Nishiyama Runs World Lead And Course Record 2:07:47 To Win Beppu-Oita Marathon Nishiyama, making his marathon debut, won a close battle with Tetsuya Yoroizaka by 8-seconds.
- Estonia's Hans-Christian Hausenberg And Poland's Adrianna Sulek Win The Heptathlon And Pentathlon At Tallinn Multi-Events Meet Sulek improved her own world lead with 4598 points to win the meet by just one point over GB's Holly Mills.
- GB's Emily Borthwick Clears A World-Leading 1.95m At The Hustopece High Jump Meet She won on countback from former world U20 champion Marija Vukovic. Elsewhere, Belarus’ Iryna Zhuk cleared a world-leading and national record 4.77m PV and Ivana Vuelta (formerly Spanovic) set a LJ world-lead with 6.85m.
- World Athletics Meeting Elite de Miramas Recap Albania's Luiza Gega won the 3000m in 8:50.08; Italy’s Ossama Meslek won the 1500m in 3:40.04.
*Kenyan Sub-10 Sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala Breaks 10-Year-Old National 60m Record In France With 6.63
- Spain Comes Out On Top At The DNA Indoor Meet In Glasgow Scotland’s Jenny Selman won the "pre-program" 800m in a 2:00.72 PB and then doubled back 70-minutes later to win the DNA 800m in 2:04.73.
*Laura Muir "Devastated" To Miss DNA Athletics Event This Weekend Due To Back Injury She said she hurt it last week and hasn't been able to train since. - First Athletics Kenya Meet Recap Josephine Chelagat won the 1,500m in 4:11.02 and Agnes Mumbua took the 10,000m in 33:17.
Women Sprints/Jumps News
- Olympic Pole Vault Champion Katie Nageotte Reveals Struggling With Motivation And Mental Health After Tokyo She said, "[Pole vaulting] is a stressor, it's a little scary for me. And so that urgency of, 'OK, the Olympics is coming up, you have to get this done,' is now gone and so I'm navigating pole vaulting without that and it's been it's been interesting."
- Allyson Felix Will Be USC's 2022 Commencement Speaker
- GB 100H And 60H Record Holder Tiffany Porter Retires At 34-Years-Old Porter won four medals at world outdoor championships and competed at three Olympic Games.
Sage Canaday Went Through Hell and Survived
A great read getting you up to speed on everyone's favorite ultra runner not named Jim Walmsley.
*MB: Sage is back
ISTAF Berlin
Jacobs didn't show any signs of a 6+ month layoff as he looked good and ran faster than he did last year. In other action Mondo Duplantis just missed a third attempt at a new WR of 6.19 as Malaika Mihambo was upset in the long jump. *Results
Pre-NBIGP
Some say Olympic favorites Trayvon Bromell, Grant Holloway, Noah Lyles failed in Tokyo. They don't agree. Learn how all three men are staying positive prior to Sunday's NBIGP.
D3 -> World Lead
Rodenfels may be the most improved pro in the US. When she graduated college in 2019, her 5000 pb was 16:35. Now it's a world-leading 15:08. What can she do in the 3k at the NBIGP?
Colby Alexander Will Be at NBIGP
There were seven American men in Saturday's Wanamaker Mile. Six of them had contracts but the unsponsored Colby Alexander crushed them all. Not bad for someone who never made NCAAs individually in college.
LRC Pro Coaches Tour #3
Coogan joined us to talk about his team's great success in 2021 (2 US Olympians), his new additions in 2022 (Canadian Olympian and British national champ), and the new New Balance Track and Field Facility, which may be the best indoor track in the world. Also available as a podcast to SC Members.
*Previous Coaches Tour Stops here.
Debate From the Podcast
This Week's Podcast
Ostrava Was Thursday
- 2022 Ostrava Results - 2022 Czech Indoor Gala Results 1:44.05 800 man Elliott Giles won the 1500 in 3:35.
- New Irish 60m record holder Molly Scott defeated European indoor champion Ajla Del Ponte in Ostrava The 22-year old set the new Irish 60m record holder (7.23) last week and ran 7.25 in Ostrava to defeat the 5th placer from Tokyo.
- Anna Kielbasinska breaks Polish record and sets new 400m world lead (51.10)
Random
- Masters track athletes Team USA officials told her "for your own safety you should probably keep your mouth shut" about complaining about having to compete against a trans athlete at the Master World Champs It's worth noting the source is RT.com - a propaganda arm of the Russian government.
- Kenya to know fate of 2025 World Championship bid in March
- Cuba's budding triple jump star Leyanis Perez (14.53 at 19) is going to World Indoors
- Serbia's Ivana Ilic (11.38 at 19) LOVES the sport of track and field Check this quote out, "I don’t have passion – I have lava boiling inside me."
Team Ingebrigsten News
The Olympic 1500 champion's father has stepped down from daily coaching duties due to a medical condition. Also Ingrid Ingebrigtsen, 15, has quit athletics.
*MB: Gjert Ingebrigtsen is stepping down and Ingrid Ingebrigtsen quits
Two Interesting Track and Field News Profiles
- After quitting track for 3 years and working in finance and signing with 2 NFL teams, Garrett Scantling was 4th in the decathlon in Tokyo - Might he win gold in Paris? “I’ll be 31 when [the Paris Olympics] comes around, the same age as Damian was in Tokyo. That’s the prime age for the decathlon. I mean, you need your mental to catch up with your physical. It takes a while to mature in dec so 27 to 31 are the best years that you can have."
- TFN profiles 43.85 man and reigning NCAA champ Randolph Ross (who hasn't gone pro and is only a junior eligibility wise) He's focused on his education and it certainly helps that his dad is the coach. A recommended read for all parents out there.
Big NCAA News
Mondo Gets Paid
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DISTANCE NEWS
- Three-Time World Champion Asbel Kiprop Seeks Comeback After Doping Ban Ends Kiprop: "I was falsely accused of doping. But I have accepted my fate, served my time and now I am ready to return to the track." He says he plans to start his season with an 800 in April, but admits he still needs to lose 11 pounds.
- Nick Willis Cancels Plans To Go Wo World Indoors; Talks About Retirement “If I’d run a 3:55 in that race (Millrose), then I would have definitely planned to go, but the 3:59 showed me, sure I’m still decent, but I’m not at the world-class level any more – and that’s OK. ...I doubt I’ll ever formally retire, and right now I have no interest in doing another race for a little while. But that doesn’t mean the fire might not come back again.”
*NY Times Article On Nick Willis' 20th Straight Year Of Sub-4 Willis says that while he used to inspire New Zealand kids, now he hears more from former athletes and weekend warriors who Willis motivated to "get out there again." - World Athletics Profile On Mexican 800m National Record Holder Jesus Tonatiu LopezThe 1:43.44 man admits he cried when he missed out on making the 800m final in Tokyo by .03.
- Four Time Japanese Olympian And World Marathon Bronze Medalist Kayoko Fukushi Retires At 39-Years-Old
Salazar Update
The NY Times reports that SafeSport ruled Alberto Salazar sexually assaulted a runner twice while giving a massage. We try and make sense of this shocking news. *NY Times Article *Discussion
The Laureus Awards
- Elaine Thompson-Herah, Eliud Kipchoge And Allyson Felix Nominated For Laureus World Sports Awards Thompson-Herah and Felix are up against swimmers Emma McKeon and Katie Ledecky, tennis player Ashleigh Barty and soccer player Alexia Putellas. Kipchoge's fellow nominees are Tom Brady, soccer player Robert Lewandowski, Formula One world champ Max Verstappen, tennis player Novak Djokovic and swimmer Caleb Dressel. Winners Are announced in April.
Sprint Stuff
- The Netherlands' Femke Bol Talks About Her Transition From Flat Sprinter To 400m Hurdler Which Lead Her To Olympic Bronze In Tokyo Bol says she "started hurdling as a way of adding a bit of fun into training," and only started in 2019.
- Steve Gardiner On His 300m World Best: “Indoor isn’t my favorite, but I’m learning and getting the hang of it. Seeing that time when I crossed the finish line was unbelievable because I felt so relaxed while competing."
- Athletics Weekly: GB Hurdler Andy Pozzi Seeks A Fresh Start After a disappointing 7th place finish in Tokyo, where he says “everything that could have gone wrong, did," Pozzi is hoping for a better 2022.
This weekend
- Laura Muir Will Race For Scotland At The Dynamic New Athletics Event This Weekend In Glasgow The meet is 2-hours, 11 events, and a team competition between Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. The interesting format uses points earned throughout the meet to determine starting position in the final event, "The Hunt."
- Entries For New Balance Indoor Grand Prix On Sunday In Staten Island, NY Colby Alexander, Sam Prakel, Johnny Gregorek, Hobbs Kessler in the mile. Mekides Abebe, Gabriela Debues-Stafford, Elinor Purrier St. Pierre in the 3000m. Robby Andrews, Andrew Butchart, Jake Wightman, Mason Ferlic in the men's 3000.
- Final Entries For The European Club Cross Country Championships On SUNDAY In Portugal World half-marathon record holder Jacob Kiplimo is competing.
Field Event News
- DyeStat Profile: With Cancer In Rearview, Alabama's Bobby Colantonio Focused On New Horizons In Weight Throw Five years ago Colantonio was in the middle of cancer treatments, but today he is cancer free and recently threw a 23.15m PB which is #7 NCAA all-time.
- 35-Year-Old Two-Time British Discus Champion Kristy Law Says She Is Improving "Like A Fine Wine, Getting Better With Age" Law admits to caving under pressure at the British Trials which lead to her not making Tokyo, but she's looking ahead to Paris 2024.
- Mondo Duplantis Will Open His Outdoor Campaign At The Doha DL On May 13th
- RIP 1964 Olympic High Jump Bronze Medalist John Rambo, 78
Tracksters Competing On The Ice
- Former British 100m National Record Holder Montell Douglas Becomes GB's First Female Summer And Winter Olympian The former 11.05 100m sprinter was selected for GB's bobsled team. The 35-year-old said, “You’re never too old, it’s never too late, you should always dream and dream big.”
- World Athletics: From Blocks To Bobsled - The Track And Field Stars Taking To The Ice In Beijing Lolo Jones actually didn't make the US Olympic team this time around.
- 2012 Olympic LJ Champ Greg Rutherford Still Dreaming Of Winning Winter Olympics Gold After Not Making It To Beijing 2022 Rutherford tried to make it in bobsled, but fractured his shoulder which hurt any realistic chance he had of making it. But he says he's given 2026 "a lot of thought."
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
LetsRun Classics
