Nuguse smashed Bernard Lagat's American record by 2+ seconds and is now #2 all-time indoors, behind only Yomif Kejelcha. Nuguse is so good Jonathan Gault says Olympic gold is his ceiling.
Archived Homepage For February 13, 2023
Archived Homepage For February 13, 2023
Josh Kerr had a big run and Chase Ealey a big throw, but when this was all over we were wondering, "Is the OAC the top group in America?"
The NC State star got her second NCAA record in two weeks at the Armory by running a smart race and coming from behind. "I knew I couldn't be with that top group... I just follow what the Boss Lady says, and usually it works out,” said Tuohy.
- Abby Steiner Breaks 300m American Record With 35.54 She just missed the 35.45 WR set by Russia’s Irina Privalova in 1993. Christian Coleman won the 60m in a world-leading and Armory record of 6.47.
- Shawnti Jackson Lowers High School 60m Record To 7.16
Millrose Talk
- Official 2023 Millrose Games Discussion Thread
- Yared MF Nuguse does it again - 3:47.38 American record. Let's get him in a WR attempt!!
- KATELYN TUOHY 8:35.20 NCAA RECORD
- Ryan Crouser to unleash new shot technique in round 2 at Millrose
- Will Sam Parson beat the German 3000m indoor record at Millrose Games?
- WHY IS NOAH LYLES NERVOUS?
- NY Times feature on Olli Hoare reveals...... he has a really good mom
On The Boards
On The Boards
Race Replays
Race Replays
MMile Race Video
WMile
W3k
M60
W60
3:47 American Record!
8:25 AR
Tuohy Collegiate Record
Josh Kerr 7:33 PB
Laur Muir 4:20.15 Mile
More US Indoor Action
- MB: 52 guys including the former LetsRun intern broke 4:00 at BU today + MITs Ryan Wilson who went from 4:06 to 3:55! Nike Union's Amos Bartelsmeyer won the mile in 3:50.45 as South Carolina's Anass Essayi was a close 2nd in 3:50.46.
*MB: Gary Martin 3:56.83 at BU Valentine - BU Men's Results Winners were Air Force's Sam Gilman in the 3000 (7:43.70), Athanas Kioko in the 5000m (13:09.37), Princeton's Samuel Rodman in the 800m (1:46.96) and Army's Mitchell Burr in the 1000m (2:21.15).
- Trayvon Bromell Runs #6 All-Time 60m With 6.42 To Win At Clemson
- USTFCCCA Weekend NCAA Recap Texas A&M's Lamara Distin cleared #3 all-time NCAA high jump with 1.97m.
- Oregon's Jorinde Van Klinken Sets Collegiate Indoor Shot Put Record With 19.57m In Albuquerque
2023 Dubai
Tamirat Tola's younger took the lead just after 40k to win the men's race. Meanwhile, his wife Dera Dida, the 2019 World XC silver medallist, took the lead just before 40k en route to the women's victory.
*MB: Official 2023 Dubai Marathon discussion thread
International Results
- France's Jimmy Gressier Breaks European 5k Record With 13:12 At Monaco Run 5k He broke the 13:14 record set by Italy's Yemaneberhan Crippa last year.
- Germany’s Torben Blech Celebrates Birthday With 5.82m Pole Vault Win In Dortmund
- Triple Euro Champ Femke Bol Moves To #4 On The World All-Time Indoor 400m List With 49.96 In Metz She also ran 22.87 in the 200. Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh set the world HJ lead with 2.02m.
- Mondo Duplantis Clears 6.06m Meet Record To Win ISTAF Indoor Berlin Pole Vault He tried to break his own WR with a failed attempt at 6.22m.
- MB: Matt Centrowitz runs 1:56.01 for 800m in Australia *Results
- GB's Reece Prescod Equals World Leading 6.49 In The 60m At ISTAF Berlin
- Asian Indoor Athletics Championships Recap (Days 1 And 2)
Friday's Action
At the Valentine Invy in Boston, LSU's Michaela Rose won the 800m in 2:00.18 (#3 NCAA all-time). These three women now only trail Athing Mu's 1:58.40 NCAA record.
*MB: Roisin MF Willis 1:59.95
- MB: Alabama's Hilda Olemomoi beats Parker Valby! Olemomoi ran 8:45.50 to Valby's 8:49.71 to finish 3rd and 6th at BU in a race won by pro Emily Mackay (8:40.75). Puts them #3 and #8 on the NCAA all-time list.
- MB: Natosha Rogers Wins BU Elite 5000m In 14:52.21 She beat out her PUMA Elite teammate Sarah Inglis (14:59.65).
- MB: ADDY WILEY #5 COLLEGIATE IN 800M! The NAIA runner ran 2:02.33 on a 300m flat track. A time that would put her #5 in the NCAA this year.
- Star High School Runner Sophia Gorriaran Announces Her College Choice Is Harvard Gorriaran ran 2:01.16 at Valentine on Friday and is racing the 600m against pros Saturday at Millrose.
- Mia Brahe-Pedersen Breaks 16-Year-Old High School 200m Record With 22.89 In Albuquerque
- Adams State's Brianna Robles Breaks D2 5000m Record With 15:47.88 At Valentine Invy She won her section and placed 16th overall at the meet. Caroline Kurgat actually has a faster D2 time with 15:28.46 from 2019, but was on a 300m track.
Getting the FBI Involved Pays Off
The AIU believes Divine Oduduru is 'Athlete-2' as mentioned in the FBI's charging documents of Eric Lira. An individual assisting the investigation found what appeared to be HGH, insulin growth factor, and EPO in their residence. Will there be any fallout for coach Rana Reider and all the stars he coached like Andre De Grasse, Trayvon Bromell, Omar McLeod, and Adam Gemili?
*MB: Divine Oduduru (9.86/19.73) suspended in connection with the Blessing Okagbare case, AIU looking for 6 year ban
Speaking of Doping: Wayland student newspaper analyzes - Should Alberto Salazar still be in his HS HOF? We say, "100% yes." It can teach kids we are all flawed and he was put in for his running exploits, not coaching/being a great human.
Distance News
- MB: Japanese unveil Marathon Grand Championship course. Race is set for October 15 The race starts and ends in the Tokyo Olympic stadium. There are basically zero hills until the finisher - a roughly 100 foot climb between 37 and 41k. “The winner here will also be able to tackle Paris,” Senior JAAF Director Toshinari Takaoka (2:06:16 pb) said during a news conference. “A tough course has been set with the aim of sending strong runners to the Paris Olympics,”
- Kenyans are enjoying watching youtube videos of 1988 XC Champs while training for World XC That's the last time the Worlds were held in Oceania and the Kenyan men DOMINATED, taking 8 of the top 9 spots as the Soviet Union won the women's race. On the way home, John Ngugi missed out on a $500,000 payday by 1 second.
*MB: Historians/Old-Timers: Is is true that John Ngugi missed winning $1 million by 1 second in 1988 in Bali?
Torun - 2023 ORLEN Copernicus Cup
Hodgkinson had to hold off the surprising 37-year-old Noelie Yarigo. Tsegay's time was #2 ever indoors, bumping Elle St. Pierre to #3.
XC News
For the first time in the award's 16-year existence, it went to someone who did not win one of the major national cross country meets. Simmons,m who was 2nd at NXN behind Aaron Sahlman, also is just the third junior to win the award.
- Lack of any Irish presence at the World Cross-Country ‘alarming’ says leading coach Some of those eligible to go - top 10 at Europeans or on a top 3 team - decided to focus on other things. One would think the junior boys who had two individual medalists at Euros and won team silver would want a free trip to Australia, but you'd think wrong.
- Kenya's U20 xc champ - Samuel Wanjiru - wants to make the Olympics next year He's got the same name as an Olympic legend and like him he's also based in Japan. *MB: A new Samuel Wanjiru is rising in the fields of Kenya (won U20 xc trials)
- Free ebook - '50 Years of the World Athletics Cross Country Championships' - is now out and published by World Athletics You can also purchase a printed edition of the book edited by renowned statistician Mirko Jalava, has been published by World Athletics.
Leading Men in the News
- Peter Bol to take lie detector test to prove innocence after failed drug test
- Jake Wightman doesn't seem to concerned by his foot injury "My winter has been solid and I’m in a similar place to where I was last year... Everything now is focused towards the summer, where I hope to be running as good as ever."
*Jake Wightman: Winning gold hasn’t changed my life yet – but I hope it will at the Paris Olympics - Paul Chelimo, 'The 5000m is all in the mind. It's only about 75 percent fitness. The rest is mental."
Previous XC / Road News
Emily Durgin had to withdraw from the team due to a stress reaction and Leonard Korir declined his spot as he's doing the Paris Marathon. A passport issue cost Michigan's Luke Venhuizen his spot on the team and Kole Mathison is going instead.
*MB: Emma Coburn to WORLD CROSS!
*MB: Two super stud females (Coburn and McLean) going to World xc for mixed relay, why couldn't we get two studly men to go?
- Heather Maclean, Emma Coburn will race 1500 at Melbourne Track Classic after World XC Fred Kerley and Matthew Centrowitz will be there as well.
- World Athletics: 50 Years Of World Cross: Long-Short Doubles Sonia O’Sullivan went against her coach's wishes to do the 8k/4k double in its inaugural year. Talking about winning both races she said, “The second victory was 10 times sweeter than the first. What if whoever won the short race today had not done the long race? There would have been a question mark. I was a bit greedy. I did not want to share the honor. Now that I have done it, others might try.”
- UK XC/Road Round-Up: Mo Farah-Slayer Ellis Cross (28:52) And Jess Warner-Judd (31:59) Win London Winter Run 10k
- London's largest park - Richmond Park - bans xc races, or does it? The article says they are banned but the park disagrees.
Maternity Leave And A Pregnancy Comeback
- Two-Time Olympic 400m Champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo Announces She's Pregnant Her agent says the 28-year-old plans to return to sprinting, but they have no timeline yet.
- GB 800m Runner Lynsey Sharp Has Surprised Herself To Be Back Competing After Giving Birth To Her First Child A Little Over A Year Ago A complicated premature birth and a sacral stress fracture has made it a difficult comeback, but she's back racing and has run 2:04 this indoor season. She says, "I’m not coming back to be mediocre, I want to be really good.”
Meet the Best of LetsRun
We recap the winners of our NCAA XC contest. We had trouble tracking down one of them but they've got cool stories and win Coros Pace 2 watches.
Video Highlight
Full podcast here if you want to listen on the go.
Wetmore & Burroughs Get Some Love
44 ex-Colorado runners have publicly come to the defense of Colorado track and field and cross country coaches Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs, voicing their support and sharing their positive experiences at the University of Colorado. Many of the biggest CU stars are on the list, which includes 12 of the 14 NCAA champions coached by Wetmore.
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.
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.
The Latest LRC Exclusive
On Athletics Club head coach Dathan Ritzenhein talked to LetsRun.com about a great weekend for his club and how they are exceeding his wildest expectations.
Paywall lifted
Kincaid says BTC coach Jerry Schumacher advised him not to leave the team but Kincaid told him, "Hey, I can do this and I think it's what I have to do."
The LRC Rankings
Some picks were easy (Eliud Kipchoge in the marathon), others were impossible. Here's where we ranked the world's best distance runners in 2022.
Some choices for World #1 were easy (Athing Mu in the 800, Faith Kipyegon in the 1500), others much tougher. Find out where we ranked all your favorites in 2022.
We Look Back At 2022s Highs Month By Month
2022 was a year that saw Grant Fisher break out, Sydney McLaughlin explode, and Eliud Kipchoge break the WR (again). Here's what else stood out according to Jonathan Gault.
The Year's Not Over: Japensese New Year's Corporate Ekiden Will Be Broadcast at 7pm ET New Year's Eve - Watch It Live/Race Preview
Merry XMAS - Paywall lifted
In a decade, Valencia has gone from afterthought to host of some of the world's fastest races. How did the third-largest city in Spain emerge as a global capital of running? Jonathan Gault journeyed to Spain's Mediterranean coast to find out how.
Rojo and Mara Yamauchi Editorial
For nearly 40 years, the NYC Marathon has been known for being a trailblazer that paid its male and female athletes the same prize money. Sadly, that changed on Sunday. Guess what sex dominated the new non-binary gender division at Sunday's 2022 New York City Marathon? Olympian Mara Yamauchi joins Robert Johnson in this guest column.
Trials Awarded
What will the course be like? What type of weather can we expect? We break it down for you.
Kipchoge loving the LetsRun Shirt in Berlin
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
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Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
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