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This feel will be discontinued soon. If you're seeing this you are getting our old podcast feed. Please update to this feed: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun and also email wejo@letsrun.com as we want to figure out why are you getting this one. https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun Shalane Flanagan hangs them up and we discuss if she Deena Kastor, Joan Benoit, or Lynn Jennings is the GOAT of the USA. Leonard Korir runs 2:07:56 in the marathon and we look at his Olympic chances. Mark Parker steps away at Nike and we discuss his legacy and running career at Penn State. Who should be the IAAF athlete of the year for men (Karsten Warholm, Eliud Kipchoge, Steve Gardiner, Noah Lyles, Joshua Cheptegei) and women (Sifan Hassan, Brigid Kosgei, or Dalilah Muhammad)? Plus NCAA XC talk (NAU dynasty and Arkansas trying to get triple crown), Zion Williamson talk, deleted thread of week, and the Diamond League expands. Full show notes here: https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/10/flanagan-legacy-korir-iaaf-athletes-of-year-

This feel will be discontinued soon. If you're seeing this you are getting our old podcast feed. Please update to this feed: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun and also email wejo@letsrun.com as we want to figure out why are you getting this one. https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun This week the marathon was conquered and we’re still in shock. Eliud Kipchoge went sub 2 hours (1:59:41) and Brigid Kosgei ran 2:14:04 to crush Paula Radcliffe’s world record. We try to put the runs in perspective, have a ton of Nike shoe talk, and look ahead to the US Olympic Marathon Trials. A bunch of American men ran fast in Chicago and Galen Rupp DNF’d. Is Rupp in trouble for the Trials? What about Jordan Hasay, Shalane Flanagan, Amy Cragg of Des Linden? Plus Lebron James China talk, some hot (NSFW) audio from a caller, and some Mo Farah and Paula Radcliffe talk.

If you're seeing this you are getting our old podcast feed. Please update to this feed: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun The 2019 World Track and Field Champs are in the books and what a meet it was. We start by recapping the athletics action in Doha with our winners and losers from Qatar. Then we turn to the Alberto Salazar ban and discus the Mark Parker email and other strange things we've heard. Then it's onto the Bank of America Chicago Marathon where two of Alberto Salazar's former finest, Mo Farah and Galen Rupp will square off. We pause for some praise for Sara Hall, before turning to Eliud Kipchoge INEOS 1:59 attempt. Full show notes here

If you're seeing this you are getting our old podcast feed. Please update to this feed: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun What an absolutely crazy week in the track and field world. Alberto Salazar has been banned from the sport for four years, Kenenisa Bekele has run 2:01:41 in the marathon in Berlin, and Donavan Brazier has won 800 gold and broken Johnny Gray's American record. Plus, Sifan Hassan is chasing history, Ajee Wilson has lost, Christian Coleman is incredible, and what is life like in Qatar? Full show notes here

If you're seeing this it means you are getting our old feed. Please email wejo@letsrun.com to fix. The LetsRun team breaks down the World Champs with an emphasis on the action the first 4 days. Will Christian Coleman be the fastest man in the world? Can Ajee Wilson handle the pressure of being the biggest women’s favorite? Should Jakob Ingebrigtsen be the betting favorite in the 5,000? What chances do Courtney Frerichs and Colleen Quigley have for steeple gold? Will Karsten Warholm, Rai Benjamin or Samba triumph in the 400m hurdles? Who you got Shelly Ann Frase Pryce or Elaine Thompson in 100? Show notes:(You can find all the LRC Worlds coverage with previews here: https://www.letsrun.com/events/2019-iaaf-world-track-and-field-championships-doha/ 4:32 Men’s 5k: Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the betting favorite!? What about Mo Ahmed?9:57 Big Opening 4 Days: Men’s & Women’s 100, Men’s 5k, Women’s 10k (Hassan vs Obiri), Women’s Steeple, Men’s 400m Hurdles15:46 Women's Steeple: Quigley and Frerichs vs Chepkoech25:03 H

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If you're seeing this it means you are getting our old feed. Email us at wejo@letsrun.com with what podcast host you are using. Our podcast is moving here: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun Please update your feed https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun Woody Kincaid runs 12:58, Matthew Centrowitz and Lopez Lomong 13:00. What does it mean for Bowerman Track Club and coach Jerry Schumacher? The Diamond League is in the books and Noah Lyles has a slight problem in Brussels. What should Sifan Hassan do at Worlds? Brigid Kosgei and Mo Farah ran well at Great North run. Christian Coleman is speaking out (and his dad listened to our podcast last week. Thread on dad's comments here). We've got NCAA XC talk and the return of Coach Vin Lannana. Plus Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials are here and our Alberto Salazar segment. Show notes below. Full show notes with timestamps

If you're seeing this it means you are getting our old feed. Our podcast is moving here: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun Please update your feedhttps://pinecast.com/feed/letsrunChristian Coleman is cleared to compete by USADA, Rojo is back from vacation and that means our Alberto Salazar segment is back, plus NOP, Bowerman Track, and Jerry Schumacher talk. Kenenise Bekele is in the Berlin Marathon and the BofA Chicago Marathon men's field with Galen Rupp and Mo Farah is the stacked race of the fall. Drew Hunter is out of Worlds. We discuss "JV" pro teams and JV "pros". Eliud Kipchoge INEOS 1:59 talk and of course transgender NCAA D1 cross country talk with June Eastwood. We break down the Brussels Diamond League final, Sifan Hassan vs Hellen Obiri, Michael Norman and Fred Kerley. Full show notes below. Are you using CBD for recovery? If you want to try certified CBD products go to https://floydsofleadville.com and use code LETSRUN to save 15%. Need new running shoes or have a great pair you want to revie

If you're seeing this it means you are getting our old feed. Our podcast is moving here: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun Please update your feedhttps://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun We start our Zurich Diamond League preview show by discussing Christian Coleman missing 3 drug tests. What does that mean for Worlds? Then we talk Paris and the big win by Hanna Green, have some men's 1500m talk (Kenyan, Paris, and British), before we break down the Diamond League finale in detail. Can Emma Coburn go sub 9 in the steeple? Two Virginia Tech alums are our Where Your Dreams Become Reality runners of the week and we end with talk of June Eastwood becoming the first Division 1 cross country transgender athlete. Full show notes below sponsors: Are you using CBD for recovery? If you want to try certified CBD products go to https://floydsofleadville.com and use code RUN2019 to save 15%. Need new running shoes? Go to http://www.letsrun.com/shoes/ to find a better pair of shoes or save on your favorite shoes.Show notes: 2:0

Our podcast is moving here: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun Please update your feedThere was a ton to talk about this week as the Diamond League has returned and Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s unbeaten streak has passed the two year mark. We spend a ton of time talking about how exciting and wide-open Worlds are going to be this year with few huge mid-d or distance favorites. Plus Craig Engels may miss the DL final because he has to go to a wedding, Max Burgin gets rave reviews for bombing in Birmingham, an American man has won the Falmouth Road Race for the 1st time since 1988, Nike says it won’t reduce a woman’s sponsorship deal for 8 months before giving birth and 10 months after, the Kenyan 10,000 Trials are in the books, and will Alexa Efraimson finally PR in 2020? And even a little ultra talk at the end.https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun Need new running shoes? Go to http://www.letsrun.com/shoes/ to find a better pair of shoes or save on your favorite shoes. Are you using CBD for recovery? If you want to try c

Note: Our podcast feed is moving https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrunhttps://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun The Diamond League is back and Shelby Houlihan won't be in it, but does that set her up perfectly for Worlds? And should Sifan Hassan really think about the 1500/10000 double? Shalane Flanagan is coming back but is it for Boston 2020 or the Olympic Trials? Pan Am Games recap and new Dreams Become Reality segment and our personal threads of week. Full show notes below sponsors. Need new running shoes? Go to http://www.letsrun.com/shoes/ to find a better pair of shoes or save on your favorite shoes. Are you using CBD for recovery? If you want to try certified CBD products go to https://floydsofleadville.com and use code RUN2019 to save 15%. Show notes: 2:15 Shelby Houlihan is OUT of DL final but is she sitting pretty for Worlds, Birmingham preview, Sifan Hassan 10,000/1500 double? 16:14 Sexism is why American women are so good at the 1500? 20:08 Sinclaire Johnson goes pro 22:31 Shalane Flanagan - Boston 2020 or O

[If you're getting this description you're still getting our old podcast feed. Our new feed is here: https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun-com-s-track-talk and subscribers will need to use it. We will keep supporting both feeds for a month.] https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun Monty Hoppel (Bryce Hoppel's dad and the GM of the AA Midland Rockhounds) joins us to talk baseball, USATF attendance, and his son going pro at 57:54. Prior to that we start with the death of Rosie Ruiz, then talk Konstanze Klosterhalfen running 14:26 for 5k (8:24), Kenyan Worlds Trials getting moved (17:16), have a David Rudisha update (23:27), a Pan Am Games 800m preview (29:59), and a look at the 2019 NYC Marathon fields (36:23). Plus thread of the week, Jakob Ingegbrigtsen's new car, Engels and Houlihan possibly dating, we get Rojo to be silent and have a few conspiracy theories. Podcast is sponsored by FloydsofLeadville.com . To save 15% on certified CBD products use code RUN2019. Want a new pair of running shoes? Check out the LetsRun.c

https://pinecast.com/feed/letsrun-com-s-track-talk USATFs are in the books and we tell you everything you need to know about the 2019 USATF Track and Field Nationals. Sure Dalilah Muhammad set a world record, Lopez Lomong got the double, and Michael Norman was upset, but what really happened? Who were the real winners and losers? Should Allyson Felix be on the relay? Audio of the week (54:57) is from Clay Travis and Dan Wetzel on covering women's college cross country. Thread of week is on Drew Hunter going to Worlds (79:01) To be on the podcast call  844-LETSRUN (538-7786). For feedback email podcast@letsrun.comPodcast is sponsored by RunningWarehouse.com, the online leader in running shoes who sponsored the LRC $200,019 USAs Prediction Contest and FloydsofLeadville.com. Use code RUN2019 to save 15% on certified CBD products.

The USA Track and Field Championships are Thursday to Sunday in Des Moines and we break them all down for you on LetsRun.com Founders' Day. It was a big week for distance fans as the top 3 at the Olympic Marathon Trials will definitely make the Olympics, plus  USATF was forced to follow its rules in picking the Pan Am team. We break down USATF Nationals (7:15) with a deep dive of the men's 800 (NOP Civil War: Donavan Brazier vs Clayton Murphy), men's 1500 (can Craig Engels challenge?) and women's 1500 (Shelby Houlihan vs Jenny Simpson) (36:41). Should Simpson move to the steeple? What about Hassan trying the 1500/10,000 double at Worlds (33:11)?  Message board post of the week: What's the prime age for distance runners (41:59)? We also talk sprints at USAs (54:44): Sydney McLaughlin, Coleman vs Lyles and what are Allyson Felix chances and what do we really think of the mixed gender 4x400? Plus, Jon gets censored for the first time on the podcast (22:02). Podcast is sponsored by Running Warehouse. Play in $200

The Monaco Herculis Diamond League is in the books and what a meet it was. Sifan Hassan broke the women's world record in the mile in Monaco and Nijel Amos went 1:41. We break it all down,  as Jon gloats and Rojo is shamed. Evan Jager is out of USAs. Will he ever break 8 in the steeple? (21:28) Thread of week on "cheater shoes" (45:27) and whether they should be banned, NOP and Bowerman Track Club talk and the Ethiopian 10,000m Trials. The LRC shoe site has over 1,000 new shoe reviews THIS month. Check it out here https://www.letsrun.com/shoes and find a great pair of shoes or save on your favorite pair of shoes. To be on the podcast call  844-LETSRUN (538-7786). For feedback email podcast@letsrun.com.

Evan Jager joined us (67:27) on the podcast to talk the big injury that sidelines him at the end of 2018 and confused him for most of 2019.  Will he be ready for USAs in 3 weeks? How does he survive 3 hours of PT a day? We start the podcast with Employee 1.1 joining us to talk about the 50th Peachtree Road Race and $200,000 in bonuses, and the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials course. Then we talked about the sad death of Frank Meza (13:47), Bernard Lagat running 2:12 in the marathon and his Olympic chances (25:07), Lausanne and Noah Lyles running 19.50 (31:37), US stars at the Sunset Tour meet (45:25), whether Kate Grace is a medal threat at 800 (51:37), a preview of the Monaco Herculis Diamond League meet (56:37), and the Women's World Cup (63:27), before Evan Jager joined us for his big talk (67:27). To be on the podcast email us at podcast@letsrun.com or call 844-LETSRUN option 7 to leave a message.

Guests Matthew Boling (high school sprint star- 38:06) and author Matthew Futterman (NY Times sports editor), author of the very enjoyable Running to the Edge, join us (62:21) in out extra long July 4th podcast. First we talk everything: 2019 Prefontaine Classic. Who were the standout performers? Who should hit the panic button? Who will make the US team at 1500 (26:29). A little Christian Coleman talk + Marquise Goodwin winning $1 Million at the 40 yards of Gold race (31:47) before Boling interview (38:06). We preview the 50th Peachtree Road Race  (47:20) and the ridiculous fields going after the $50,000 course records. Japanese 1500 record  (53:06) and Alan Webb (56:21) talk.  Then after Futterman and talk about his book on Bob Larsen (62:21) and the last 40 years of American distance running, we reward our ultra marathoners winding up their long runs with some Western States (115:15) talk. For a book review by Dr. Michael Joyner on Running to the Edge and why Americans aren't running that fast in marathon

It's our special Prefontaine Classic podcast and our first podcast of the summer. In January we said we'd do a podcast every week and we've made it to the halfway mark of the year. Give us feedback here: http://www.letsrun.com/podcast. We want your feedback on our Better Running Shoe site. Please go to http://www.letsrun.com/shoes and give us feedback and submit a review. We start with some good news on the Olympic Marathon Trials at least for the women (3:23), then we turn to the USATF Pan Am Games controversy (7:21) before discussing everything Pre Classic (14:50): Will an American win a distance event at Pre 14:50. Matthew Centrowitz, Faith Kipyegon, or Almaz Ayana: Which Olympic champ will debug best at Pre 29:02 Will Alexa Efraimson PR 31:30 Who is better Dani Jones or Efraimson ? 40:28 Sha'Carri Richardson vs Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce in 100 50:08 Justin Gatlin and Lashawn Merritt Return 53:54 Thread of Week: BYU Success because of Mormon Discipline and work ethic? 61:52 Chunky Steve Prefontaine and Allie

We want your feedback on our Better Running Shoe site. Please go to http://www.letsrun.com/shoes and give us feedback and submit a review.Genzebe Dibaba is back atop the 1500 ranks on the three year anniversary of the Jama Aden raid, what does that mean for Jenny Simpson’s medal chances after her run in Rabat (13:54)? We talk adidas Boost Boston Games (25:43), Lynna Irby and Sammy Watson going pro (31:57), and the email of the week is on Katelyn Tuohy and young high school girl phenoms (39:46). Thread of the week is on Allie Ostrander and female body weight discussion (50:02) which leads to US women’s soccer talk, intersex talk, and transgender talk (56:34). Then we turn to who would you rather be Josh Kerr, Grant Fisher or Drew Hunter (68:38)? We end with book talk on Matthew Futterman’s Running to the Edge book on Bob Larsen (79:53), and Rojo stream of consciousness. Want to be on podcast? Email us at podcast@letsrun.com or call 844-LETSRUN option 7 to leave a message.