World of Running

AtoZrunner updates:

Erin Moab

Andrew Tokyo

#1. The TEN Track Meet

(Source)

• Women’s Race
  • Eilish McColgan passed Alicia Monson on the bell lap after they ratcheted the pace down from over AR pace. 
  • McColgan record: 30:00.87
    • Building towards her marathon debut in London
    • Paula Radcliffe’s British record of 30:01.09 was set in August 2002.
  • Monson record: 30:03.82
    • Beat Molly Huddle’s 30:13.17 from the 2016 Olympic final in Rio.
    •  Three weeks ago, Monson ran 8:25.05 at the Millrose Games to break the American indoor (and overall) record for 3,000 meters.
  • The 2023 World Championship and 2024 Olympic Standard is 30:40
    • No one else earned the World/Olympic standard even though a few runners in the field ran impressive personal bests.
    • Elly Henes won the battle for 3rd in 30:48.26 to edge Natosha Rogers (30:48.69) as both women moved ahead of Emily Sisson (30:49.57) and Deena Kastor (30:50.32) into 6th and 7th on the all-time US list. 
    • Fiona O’Keeffe also got a PB and 5th place. She ran 30:55.05 to become the 11th American woman to go sub-31.

• Men’s Race
  • Woody Kincaid’s kick!
  • Apparently some beef between Klecker and Kincaid
  • The talk is all about how Kincaid mooched off Klecker for the race and wasn’t running friendly-like
  • The gentleman’s approach: help each other out and both run fast
  • Kincaid’s situation: he’s on a tour of proving himself right now (remember that he’s solo now, no more with BTC)… he has a different layer of motivation

#2. LetsRun asked stud coaches why everyone is so fast

(source: LetsRun)

• OAC coach Dathan Ritzenhein, OSU coach Dave Smith, Princeton coach Jason Vigilante (Texas, Virginia)
• Is it the super shoes? Something else?
• Ritz: 
  • the shoes help, but not just performance, they can train more and harder while recovering better/faster
  • But also the shift in thinking: it’s all about running fast now (thanks to WA standards approach)
• Smith: 
  • compared to other endurance sports, running is much more limited in terms of effort ratio… but less so with the shoes
  • Perspective: people believe when you go to ___, you run fast (and so they do)
• Vigilante: 
  • faster running for the same effort = higher adaptations
  • Transparency to a new level (think: Strava)
  • “Nobody in their right mind would run the biggest race on their calendar in the old shoes now,” Vigilante says. “That’s what I would say to people who say, oh it’s not the shoes.”

#3. Tokyo Marathon

• • Women’s race

• Rosemary Wanjiru (Kenya) won in the 6th fastest marathon time: 2:16:28

• Tsehay Gemechu (Ethiopia) was second in a very strong 2:16:56 (8th all-time)

• • • Over two minutes ahead of 3rd place
    • Side note: before March 6, 2022, only 2 women had ever run under 2:17 in history (Paula Radcliffe, Brigid Kosgei); 6 more did it in the last year
  • Men’s race
    • Nearly 3-way tie across the line, 1st and 2nd finishing in the same second: 2:05:22
    • Victory to Deso Gelmisa (Ethiopia) over countryman Mohamed Esa (3rd was 3 seconds back: Tsegaye Getachew of Ethiopia)

• Cam Levins (Canada) finished 5th in 2:05:36–a new Canadian and North American record (that is a 21-year-old NA record!)

• • 90-second PR for Levins, and his 2nd straight Canadian record

BONUS: NAIA nationals

(source: RunnerSpace)

• NAIA star Addy Wiley (Huntington) blew up the meet
• 5 events: 600m, 800m, Mile, 3,000m, DMR (1600m anchor leg)
• Won all five, carried her team to 2nd in the team standings
• Recent USATF indoor champs she was 4th in the 1500m

*And Hillary Bor won the USATF 15k

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