Yared keeps winning, Cam Myers mania builds & Cooper’s Diamond League debut

It was a big week as Yared Nuguse earned his fifth Diamond League victory, Kenny Bednarek ran a world-leading 19.69, and Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier and longtime LetsRun.com fan Tyler Andrews climbed Mount Everest faster than anyone in history.

On this week’s LetsRun.com Track Talk Podcast, we broke down the performances from the Rabat Diamond League, debated whether Australian teen sensation Cam Myers is on a world record trajectory, previewed Cooper Lutkenhaus’s Diamond League debut, and were joined by Andrews @ 68:55 to discuss his record-setting Everest ascent.

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We gave Nuguse his props, as Rojo noted, “No other American [male] runner 1500 and up has ever won more than one [Diamond League distance event]”

From there, attention turned to 19-year-old Australian star Cam Myers, who heads to Sunday’s Stockholm Diamond League showdown against Nuguse after lowering his 800-meter PB to 1:44.05. Rojo is all aboard the Myers train, “He’s faster than Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse, Josh Kerr and Niels Laros at 800 meters.” He also made a bold prediction for Stockholm: “I think we’re going to see a 3:27 this weekend at a minimum.”

Then there’s 17-year-old American sensation Cooper Lutkenhaus, who will make his Diamond League debut against Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi and world champion Marco Arop. Jonathan Gault summed up the stakes this way: “If Cooper Lutkenhaus wins this race, yes, you have permission to lose your minds.” Weldon Johnson added that Lutkenhaus is in a no-lose situation: “This is a free shot, dude. There’s nothing to lose. There’s only upside in this race.”

We also discussed whether Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson can threaten the women’s 800-meter world record this summer as she runs the 400m this week, before Andrews joins us at 68:50 to explain the training, logistics, setbacks, and risk involved in finally breaking the Everest ascent record on his seventh attempt.

In This Episode

• 0:00 Start
• 01:11 Intro and Episode Preview
• 07:38 Diamond League Rabat: Bednarek’s 200m Dominance
• 11:49 First Non-African Sub-8 Steeplechase
• 18:16 Is El Bakkali the Steeplechase GOAT?
• 20:31 Yared Nuguse’s Historic Diamond League Streak
• 22:46 Cam Myers Mania and the Stockholm 1500
• 26:00 Can Cam Myers Break the World Record?
• 40:17 Cooper Lutkenhaus’s Diamond League Debut
• 44:44 Keely Hodgkinson’s 400 and the 800 World Record Chase
• 68:50 Tyler Andrews: Fastest Ascent of Mount Everest
• 73:31 Climbing Logistics, Crowds, and Gear
• 80:33 Training for Everest With Double Thresholds
• 87:49 Seven Attempts: What Went Wrong
• 91:05 Proof, Danger, and the Ethics of Speed Climbing
• 98:39 How Hard Is It to Climb Everest?
• 101:55 From Marathoner to Mountaineer
• 107:19 Risk, Ethics, and the 2028 Olympic Trials
• 110:48 Life as a Full-Time Mountaineer

Links

• LetsRun.com Supporters Club
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• Sam Blaskowski 9.89
• Was Cooper Lutkenhaus’s 1:42.27 for 800m the greatest performance ever by a 16-year-old?
• Thread: Bednarek’s 200m at Diamond League Rabat
• Gear:
• La Sportiva Cyklon Cross GTX — Tyler Andrews’ approach shoe
• Aequilibrium Speed — Tyler Andrews’ climbing boot
• Training Talk Live with Marius Bakken — Supporters Club exclusive

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An earlier a version of this article said Kenny Bednarek ran a world leading 200m of 19.69. As discussed on the podcast Gout Gout ran 19.67 earlier this year.

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