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“I was able to do so many things that I would have not done had I just given up my life when it was hard. So I guess my message is that it’s ok to struggle but it’s not ok to give up on yourself or your dreams.” RIP Gabe Grunewald. You inspired us all.
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He may have been 4th at the Olympic Trials but this was pure guts by @CooperTeare
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We have some good news to share about Kemoy Campbell. As of Monday night, he is breathing on his own, smiling, and 100% coherent, but has no memory of his collapse at the Millrose Games.
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The 33 year drought for the Americna women is over.
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Kelvin Kiptum's coach Gervais Hakizimana says he runs 155-170 miles a week and had 3 weeks of 186+ ahead of London. “I suggested he lower the pace but he doesn’t want to...I told him that in 5 years he would be done, that he must calm down to last.”
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BREAKING: Swiss running brand On has decided to make a big investment in track & field and is starting a pro group, On Athletics Club, in Boulder. '19 NCAA XC runner-up @JoeKleckerxc is their first signing. And the coach? CU legend Dathan Ritzenhein.
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Not only is he fast but NCAA 100m champ @camxburrell is a class act. "I dedicate this race to my teammate Brian Barraza @BRazzleDazzle5k because he left his heart on that track for us. I just wanted to run it for him." #ncaatf
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Be inspired. @gg_runs at Pre: "A lot of rare cancers out there that don’t have cures and mine is one"
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Amazing last lap for Katelyn Tuohy. 406!!
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On Sat., @gg_runs nearly died. Her lab values were so poor that her husband - a doctor - made the decision that it was time to tell her she was dying and say goodbye. What happened next is remarkable and something he calls "divine intervention or miracle"
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XC and track aren't the same thing. Guy who was 107th at NCAA xc just beat the guy who was 1st. Eduardo Herrera 13:24 FTW.
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UNREAL. @EliudKipchoge gets the lead with by running a 2:42 40th km!!!! That's 4:20.7 mile pace!!!! His 25th mile was 4:26!!!
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Our hot take for the day for #Doha19 . The @iaaforg needs to rerun men’s 110 hurdle final. Give gold to Grant Holloway and dq McLeod. Rerun it for everyone else as Ortega was screwed out of a medal.
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🥇 Eliud Kipchoge 🇰🇪 2:08:38 🥈 Abdi Nageeye 🇳🇱 2:09:58 🥉 Bashir Abdi 🇧🇪 2:10:00 The marathon GOAT defends his Olympic title. Nageeye beckons Abdi and both outkick Lawrence Cherono for the silver and bronze.
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🇺🇸🥇Wow! Elle St. Pierre World 3000m Champion!!!! 8:20.87 American Record! 🇺🇸🥇
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Harvard’s Graham Blanks says he ran like a “dumbass” but still wins NCAA XC title. First American under he age of 22 to win in 20 years!!
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Greatest Olympic race ever?!
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The rumors are true. The 2020 London Marathon WILL go forward on October 4 -- but as an elite-only race in St. James's Park. That means Kipchoge vs. Bekele IS ON. For the first time in history, two 2:01 marathoners will meet in the same race.
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Gary Martin (3:57.89) welcomes Connor Burns (3:58.83) to sub-4 HS club! #classact
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European record for Sondre Moen @ Fukuoka!! History. A non-African breaks 2:06 on a records-eligible course. 2:05:48
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Samuel Tefera runs 3:31.04 in Birmingham to break the indoor 1500-meter world record! He breaks Hicham El Guerrouj's record of 3:31.18, which had stood since 1997.
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A legend has passed. RIP Roger Bannister.
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Today Brown University made up a reason to get rid of 145 years of history and cancel its men's track and field and xc teams.
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The American men's sub-2:10 (non-Rupp) drought is over!! @scottfaubs runs 2:09:10, @jwardy21 2:09:25 in Boston!
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Looks like somebody forgot what racing feels like. Your latest sub-4 miler:
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Remember Drinks Guy, the fist-pumping volunteer who handed Eliud Kipchoge his drinks during his marathon world record? Well we found him, and we interviewed him.
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Massive screwup as #osloDL . Women’s steeple barrier put at men’s height but it doesn’t fool @emmajcoburn
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Do not adjust your sets. 16-YEAR-OLD Athing Mu just ran 1:23.57 to win the USATF 600-meter title. That is not just an American record, it is the second-fastest indoor time ever run. By anyone. INCREDIBLE!!!
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Belgium’s Bashir Abdi rolled off on a wheelchair following his Olympic bronze medal winning run. Abdi was urged on to the finish line by his training partner Abdi Nageeye. Both men were born in Somalia and raised in Europe. Full race recap coming on LRC.
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The @nycmarathon used to be known for being a trailblazer that paid its male and female athletes the same. Sadly, that changed on Sunday. Olympian @mara_yamauchi and Robert Johnson explain:
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Tragedy averted at US 5k champs today as many runners could have been killed when a bus drove onto the course
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We've got some breaking news this morning. Reebok is starting a new pro track team; Chris Fox will be the coach, with Justyn Knight as its first signing. Say hello to the Reebok Boston Track Club.
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He did it! Eliud Kipchoge covers the marathon distance of 26.2 miles in an incredible 1:59:40 -- the first human ever under 2:00.
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PAUL CHELIMO HAS DONE IT! He becomes just the second American man ever to win a Diamond League 5k thanks to a big kick in London. 13:14.01 is the winning time with a stellar 52-second last lap. "That was hard," he tells the TV cameras after the race.
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Fair or foul? Leading contender for ncaa D3 5000 title DQd for a false start.
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Those are tears of joy for @HastyHastings . Bronze at Worlds in the marathon!!!!
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🥇 Peres Jepchirchir 🇰🇪 🥈 Brigid Kosgei 🇰🇪 🥉 Molly Seidel 🇺🇸 Seidel becomes the third American woman ever to medal in the Olympic marathon. Entering with a 2:25:13 pb, she beat five sub-2:20 women to do it.
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In her first race of 2023, NC State star Katelyn Tuohy runs 4:24.26 at the Dr. Sander Invite in New York. She breaks Jenny Simpson’s NCAA mile record of 4:25.91, which had stood since 2009. OAC’s Alicia Monson wins the race in 4:23.55.
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Mary Cain sighting! Running in a men’s heat at the Armory, Mary Cain just ran 9:25.50 for 3,000m — the first track race she’s finished since 2016. Her PB (outdoors) is 8:58 from 2014.
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Breaking: @London2017 organizers put the cones in the wrong place in @steeple_squigs race. Will DQ be overturned?
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HIGH SCHOOL MILE RECORD!!! Hobbs Kessler of Skyline High School in Ann Arbor -- Nick Willis' training partner -- runs 3:57.66 at @americantrack to break Drew Hunter's 3:57.81 high school indoor record.
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Guess who won the men’s 10k at #ncaaTF ? Here’s BYU’s Isaac Wood during the last lap.
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We can't make this up. #London2017
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Curious about how the whereabouts system works and what information athletes have to file? We asked Jenny Simpson to walk us through it. "If you miss three tests, it’s either because you’re cheating or because you’re an idiot."
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Yared Nuguse is your new American 3000m record holder 7:28.24
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“Canada had a guy we gave up on break 2:10 last year. So did New Zealand. Norway had a guy run 2:05 a few years ago. We’re a country of 320 million people and all we’ve got is one guy that can do it? Frankly, it’s embarrassing.”
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Desi "I thought I ran very well... I might have gotten too aggressive... I went all in and that's as good as I have" @des_linden #Olympics
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1:42.34. American record. Championship record. After running the race of his life, Donavan Brazier is the 2019 world champion. Read all about it:
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RIP Mark Conover (1988 US Olympic Trials champ). “Mark crossed the finish line last night at 11:23 p.m.," Kelly Conover, Mark's wife, wrote on Caring Bridge. In addition to his wife, he is survived three triplets (now 14), girls Audrey, Marley, and Cordell
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Letesenbet Gidey breaks Sifan Hassan’s 2-day old 10,000 WR, runs 29:01.03.
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Unsponsored Emma Bates wins the USATF Marathon title in her debut, 2:28:19. Stephanie Bruce, running her second marathon in 29 days, runs a PR of 2:29:21 to finish second.
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The London Marathon just announced that Kenenisa Bekele will race Eliud Kipchoge this year. It's Christmas in January! (Though the race isn't until April) Discuss here as the two fastest marathoners in history prepare to square off:
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Check out this story. Guy in adidas singlet ditches his adidas shoes for Nike vaporflys and runs a a world leading 2:04:50. In 21 prior marathons, he had never broken 2:09.
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The 4th fastest woman in US 1500 history. 3:57.34!! @shelbo800
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This is what happens when a mother of 3 and realtor makes her 1st US team at age 31!! Congrats @MomVaughn
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One year ago today, the GOAT ran 2:00:25. Happy anniversary, @EliudKipchoge .
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36-year old @djritzenhein is still dreaming of winning the @bostonmarathon which takes place next Monday. "I thought I was fit enough to win last year. It won't be a failure if I don’t win, but I’m going to go in with that (the win) in mind."
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LEO DASCHBACH DOES IT! With a remarkable 56.81 last lap, Leo Daschbach becomes the 11th high schooler to break 4:00 in the mile -- 3:59.54.
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This might be our favorite piece by @jgault13 . He breaks some big news that goes in opposite directions. 1) C. Ayotte, who was shown to have provided false testimony in Lawson case, is the one who popped Houlihan. 2) Houlihan didn't order a pork burrito.
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Big win for @justyn_knight in 2 mile at @NBIndoorGP in 8:13.92, equivalent to 7:37.04 for 3k.
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Two months ago, LetsRun flew Kelsey Bruce to Denmark to run the World Cross Country Championships as an unattached runner. Now she has been named to Team USA in the marathon at the 2019 World Championships in Doha in September. Congrats Kelsey!
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Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir wins Olympic gold in the women’s marathon in 2:27:20, beating countrywoman and WR holder Brigid Kosgei. And American MOLLY SEIDEL with an incredible run for bronze. An absolutely inspiring run. The race of her life in her third-ever marathon.
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In one of the strangest events we can remember at a USATF Championships, 21-year-old Drew Hunter won his first national title in the men's 2-mile out of the "slow" section. Here's how he did it:
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Boston wasn’t the only thing Galen Rupp got out of his system in Prague...
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4 US HSers break 4:00 for 1st time in a single race led by Simeon Birnbaum's 3:57.53. Talk about it here:
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After analyzing the results of the Olympic Marathon Trials and Tokyo Marathon and struggling to separate performance from footwear, Rojo says it's official: Nike’s Vaporfly technology and World Athletics’ shoe rules have ruined the marathon.
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84 competitors at the 2024 US Olympic Trials marathon -- including Sara Hall, Emily Sisson & Jared Ward -- have petitioned USATF to move the start time of the Trials from noon to 6 a.m. Zoom meeting between athletes & Max Siegel set for tomorrow. Details:
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Holy smoly. A non elite man just won the United Airlines NYC Half.
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Nine-hour days at the track. Marathon sessions in the Jacuzzi. 20 x 2 min on, 1 min off fartleks on his "easy" days. We went to Oslo to learn about the unique training that has made Karsten Warholm the fastest 400-meter hurdler of all time.
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Insanity in Dubai. Six men run between 2:04:00 and 2:04:15. Ethiopia's Mosinet Geremew wins an epic six-way kick in 2:04:00 to break the course record. The deepest marathon in history.
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Dreams become reality. Kelsey Bruce finishes 38th in the World Championship marathon. 3:09:37 in absolutely brutal heat.
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Oh so close!!! What a heroic effort!!! @walmsleyruns misses 100k WR by 11 seconds.
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Oh, and did we mention that was an NCAA RECORD for Karissa Schweizer. She runs 8:41.60 to erase Jenny Simpson's 8:42.03 from the books. Both women are Iowa natives, FYI.
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WOKE up early to take this one @ChrisChavez @CitiusMag
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Monaco has it all. Great fields, tons of cash, beautiful beaches and COMEDY . They rang the bell a lap early in the steeple
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Just announced: Josh Kerr will face Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Yared Nuguse in the Bowerman Mile at the 2024 Pre Classic on May 25. It will be Ingebrigtsen's first race of 2024 and his first time facing Kerr since the 2023 World Championship final. Discuss:
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Cooper Teare and Cole Hocker run 3:50.39 and 3:50.55 to destroy the NCAA mile record. Well done @OregonTF
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What does Des Linden say to those who would question her Boston Marathon win? “Someone was going to win, so I played my cards right on the day. I don’t know how to convince people that it’s a meaningful win. I guess I would take results over opinions.”
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Tonight 4 HS boys from the same HS team (Newbury Park) all broke 9:00 in the same race - and none of them are seniors!!! Wow. Lex Young - Nico's younger brother - ran 8:43 as a sophomore for 2nd.
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Did you realize that the top collegiate distance program in Japan raced the top collegiate distance program in America over the weekend? Click below to find out what happened:
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Believe it.
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Grant Fisher broke 4:00 in high school. He won Foot Lockers. Twice. Now, as a senior at Stanford, he's trying to become the first American man in 10 years to win the NCAA XC title. @jgault13 looks at a prep phenom, all grown up.
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Talk about crazy. In the midst of a global pandemic, the NCAA may not accept the 13:37 DII record by Christian Noble as it was set with the help of pacing lights, which are specifically allowed under USATF rules and safer Covid-19 wise than a real pacer.
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Jamaican record for @aishapraught in women's 5k. Olympic standard for @rachschneid18 and Worlds standard for @Steph_Rothstein
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