This weekend at the Philadelphia Catholic League Championships, Gary Martin lined up with a plan and ran 3:37.98 – the fastest mile ever run in a high school-only race – he won by 20 seconds.
The USATF Half Marathon Championships were on Saturday in Indianapolis and if you were in a coma one month ago then this is probably coming as quite the surprise, as that’s roughly when it was announced. (It’s good to have you back though!) The fact that Emily Sisson had always planned to include this race into her racing schedule gave her quite the advantage over a field full of late entries, but then again, being Emily Sisson is an advantage of its own.
As American track fans are sitting around wondering where all the rockstar runners went, is it possible we may have been gifted something even better – the next Usain Bolt? This weekend at the LSU Invitational, Erriyon Knighton ran 19:49 (+1.4) for 200m
I’ll tell you what is undoubtedly good for the sport — debate! Generally there isn’t much to get fired up about in April, but when the Oregon T&F social media accounts dropped this teaser, it became the most polarizing topic in our little corner of the internet since we were all trying to figure out what color that dress was.
The day before the men lined up for the 5k dash from the Boston Common, Canada’s Charles Philbert-Thiboutot confidently told me that we’d do an interview after he won the race.
It’s only April, but Valarie Allman is picking things up right where she left them. While competing at the Triton Invitational in San Diego, just her second meet of the season, the Olympic gold medalist in the discus threw 71.46m to eclipse her previous American Record of 71.16m.
The best advice my high school coach ever gave me was that if I just focused on getting faster myself, then eventually my field of competitors would narrow.
When India’s Neeraj Chopra surprised the world this summer with an Olympic gold medal in the javelin, the athletics community burst into rapturous celebration over the possibility of tapping into a market of 1.3 billion potential fans.
I’ve said on the record that the two athletes right now who should be considered must-watch TV (or streaming) for every fan are Cooper Teare and Cole Hocker.
Not to play favorites here, but if there’s one event worth analyzing a bit more from the weekend, it’s the men’s mile. Coming in, Mario Garcia Romo from Ole Miss/Spain had the second fastest time on paper behind Michigan State’s Morgan Beadlescomb.
