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On this week’s podcast we discuss the sharpening period and race week. This is part of the training periods series.
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MAIN TOPIC:Training Period: Sharpening
Main Topic: The Best Possible Race Week
Sharpening
How we are tackling this series…
- What is the period and why have it?
- How do you know you’ve successfully completed it?
- How to make that happen (maximize and optimize)?
Brief recap:
- Building
- Conditioning
- Strength
In this racing period podcast ep, we discuss…
- What is the racing period, and what is involved?
- How do you know you’re race ready?
- How can you sharpen your body for best possible goal race performance?
WORLD OF RUNNING
World of Running
Chadd Cocodona 250
Laura Flying Pig Half in crazy downpour
Hannah 5k
#1. Diamond League- Doha
(Source)
- Faith Kipyegon Continues dominance in the 1500m
- Since the start of 2017, only one woman has defeated Kipyegon in a 1500m race: Sifan Hassan, who is currently recovering from winning the London Marathon.
- Her 11th straight at 1500 meters after a perfect 2022.
- 20-year-old Ethiopian Diribe Welteji (4th at Worlds in the 800 last year) put up a good fight, but no one closes like Faith Kipyegon!
- Men’s 3,000m
- Lamecha Girma got the win in 7:26.18
- Selemon Barega, second in a pb of 7:27.16
- Berihu Aregawi third in 7:27.61.
- It was just the third time three men broke 7:28 in the same race, with the other two races coming in Doha in 2011 and indoors in Lievin in 2021.
#2. Sound Running Meet
- Women’s 5000m
- Josette Andrews won the 5000 in 14:43.36
- World Lead
- US #7 All-Time
- 4:34.35 final 1600 and 2:12.75 final 800.
- 14:57.00 is the world standard.
- Stadium record at Hilmer Lodge Stadium
- Previous week broke the 27-year old Penn Relays Record in the 1500m in 4:04.88
- Josette Andrews won the 5000 in 14:43.36
US women’s 5,000 all-time list
- 14:23.92 Shelby Houlihan 2020
- 14:26.34 Karissa Schweizer 2020
- 14:31.11 Alicia Monson 2022
- 14:33.17i Elise Cranny 2022
- 14:38.92 Shannon Rowbury 2016
- 14:42.64 Molly Huddle 2014
- 14:43.36 Josette Andrews 2023
- 14:44.80 Shalane Flanagan 2007
- Venezuela’s Joselyn Brea ran a national record, finishing second place in 14:47
- This crushes her own national record time of 15:21 that Brea ran in 2021
- Mexico’s Laura Galvan (3rd in race) ran a national record and also achieved the world standard time. Her time was 14:49, beating her own national record of 14:51.15.
- 5 Women under the world standard: Joselyn, Laura, Josette, (as mentioned)
- As well as Americans Emily Infeld and Elly Hene
- Katelyn Tuohy ran 15:03.12
- an 11-second pb
- the fastest ever by a collegiate woman outdoors
- Jenny Simpson has run faster indoors.
- Men’s 5000m
- Connor Burns narrowly breaks Galen Rupp’s US high school 5,000m record:
- In B heat of 5000m
- Burns ran 13:37.30
- Galen’s previous record was 13:37.91
- Burns broke 4:00 in the mile as a junior last year
- Connor Burns narrowly breaks Galen Rupp’s US high school 5,000m record:
- Men’s 800m
- Yared Nuguse comes from behind to win in a lifetime-best of 1:46.30.
- Season opener.
- Took everyone down in the last 100m.
- A couple interesting Steeplechase notes
- In mens: They rang the bell too early!
- Krissy Gear: Pretty far back in 4th, reeled it in to beat Courtney Wayment . Interesting countdown mental strategy. Gear missed the World standard by an agonizing .55 tonight, but it will likely take a sub-9:23 to finish in the top 3 at USAs anyway.
#3. USATF Trail & Mountain Championships
- USATF Trail Marathon championships
- Brittany Charboneau won the women’s USATF Trail Marathon championships on a brutal
- 8000 feet of elevation gain
- USATF Mountain Running Championship & Vertical Mountain Champion titles both went to Grayson Murphy
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