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Kenenisa Bekele didn't win the London Marathon but he more than capture attention with his second place showing. Is it enough to get him to the Olympics one final time. Peres Jepchirchir set the women's only marathon world record in London in a "tactical" 2:16. High schooler Christian Miller ran a world leading 9.93 100m, could he possibly make the US Olympic team (and wi

The 128th Boston Marathon is in the books and Sisay Lemma put on an exhibition the first 20 miles of the race and held on for the win as Hellen Obiri blasted the final 5 miles to win her battle with Sharon Lokedi. CJ Albertson joined the sub 2:10 club. What's up with the Kenyan and Ethiopian Olympic teams? Alicia Monson is out of the Olympics, what about Parker Valby's chances? Col

The Boston Marathon is here and Jon and Wejo are in Boston to break it down after Boston media day. Parker Valby has run 30:50 for 10,000m to smash the American record and LRC even reflects on the death of OJ Simpson. Join the Supporters Club today We're giving the first 10 minutes of this Supporters Club only pod to everyone. If you want the Boston part, please join the Supporters

The solar eclipse has come and gone but some things are still the same- controversy with USATF as they are not sending a team to the World Under 20 Championships this year. 69 boys went sub 9:00 for 3200 at Arcadia, Parker Valby is running a 10k, the Boston Marathon is almost here, and the Aussie Olympic Trials 1500 features Cam Myers, "Stewie" McSweyn, Ollie Hoare, and A

Jacob Kiplimo and Beatrice Chebet repeated at World XC but what happened to Agnes Ngetich and Joshua Cheptegei? April Fools came and went and what were the craziest stories in the sport in the last year? And it's not an April Fools joke that a Texas A&M Aggie ran an NCAA leading 1:44:46 and may be a dark horse candidate at the Olympic Trials. Plus Elizabeth Leachman broke the h

Rojo and Jon break down the 2024 World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade Serbia which take place this Saturday. Jon will be there and Rojo won't be on hand to smoke cigarettes or chase gorillas. A nearly 26 year old high school record fell, Jerry Schumacher is actually racing his guys, and what is in store for track and field in the NIL era (Nico Young signed with adidas). We

We break down the TEN from California, debate Nico Youn and Matthew Centrowitz's Olympic chances amongst other things, and talk about Letsile Tebogo's 44:29 400m. If you missed the Noah Lyles and Lance Brauman talks they are now a standalone podcast here. LRC shirts at 26.52% off with code 2652 to celebrate the action at the TEN. Go to https://shop.letsrun.com/ Want a 2nd podcast e

We're releasing out talk with Noah Lyles and his coach Lance Brauman which occurred at the end of last week's regular podcast as a stand along podcast. We've got 2 bonus clips with Lyles talking about who he fears in the 100 and Grant Holloway and the 4x4 (noted in the show notes below starting at 20:33) but besides that it is the same interview. Lance Brauman starts at 22:21. Sho

Noah Lyles, the 100m and 200m world champion, is our special guest at 82:23, along with his coach Lance Brauman at the 101:29 mark. We observed a day of training of their Pure Athletics group, after Noah returned from wrapping up a transformational season in the 60m at World Indoors where he won silver. Prior to that we wrap up the indoor season and discuss the exploits of Nico You

The World Indoor Champs were a resounding success for the US distance runners and we give them one final look. Elle St. Pierre ran 8:20 for gold, Bryce Hoppel got gold and 5 more Americans took home medals, as Josh Kerr impressed and Geordie Beamish's kick got him gold. Eliud Kipchoge bombed in Tokyo. Will he make the Kenyan Olympic team? 42:04 Men's 3000: 'Josh Kerr super impressi