Tokyo 2025 Worlds Ultimate Preview: Hot Takes, Locks & Upsets

The 2020 Virgin London Marathon is here and that means Eliud Kipchoge vs Kenenisa Bekele plus Brigid Kosgei vs Ruth Chepngetich. We break it all down including the Americans chances: Molly Seidel, Jared Ward, and Sara Hall. LetsRun.com Supporters Club members get exclusive content, bonus podcasts and video shows, huge savings on running shoes, and more. Go to LetsRun.com/subscribe for more info. High School coaches who sign up get their whole team for free. Want a 1:59:40 GOAT Marathon shirt? They are now here. Detailed show notes always available to supporters club members: Start: London men + Betting Odds 25:31 Jared Ward's chances 31:37 Women's race 41:18 Kosgei's big 2019 $ and Rosa connection 47:05 American women 55:34 Stewart Mcsweyn rewrites Australian record books/ Faith Kipyegon Olympic double? 63:13 Olympic Trials 2020 need to move? 65:34 Daniel Rowden 70:07 Rojo's victory tour + Allyson Felix Time 100 Please take a second to rate us on itunes or give us feedback here. https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/954e7473-360c-4343-a228-6dd17bd7589a

2 Okt 20201h 17min

Russian doping whistleblowers Yuliya (Rusanova) and Vitaly Stepanov join us (64:58) from an undisclosed location in America for a fascinating talk on their lives and risky decisions to blow the lid on the Russian doping operation. A new book on them by David Walsh called the Russian Affair is out. You can purchase here. Prior to that we look back at the Rome Diamond League meet, preview the Doha Diamond League, and discuss the most powerful man in track and field at Nike, John Capriotti, leaving Nike. Plus former IAAF boss Lamine Diack finally gets convicted. What does it all mean for the sport? And believe it or not 20,000 people ran the Moscow Marathon and 10k. Plus Rojo's rant and lock for the 2021 Olympic team Notre Dame's Yared Nuguse. LRC Supporters Club members (and monthly tippers) get detailed show notes below with time stamps. Join the Supporters Club for exclusive LetsRun.com content and huge savings on running shoes (extra 20% off right now). https://www.letsrun.com/subscribe For a limited time you can buy the 1:59:40 GOAT shirt. Click here to purchase. Want to train and race faster? Join our LRC Fall Training Program. Interested in base training instead? email robert@letsrun.com Links mentioned in show: Guy running with a pistol attacked on a run in South Africa COVID hospitilizations at colleges Atlantic article on myocarditis Support LetsRun.com's Track Talk: The Home of Running and Track and Field by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/letsrun Find out more at http://podcast.letsrun.com Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/0505d988-5ed4-45ab-9dd6-85843e2adfc2

24 Sep 20202h 3min

The battle of the 19 year-olds is here: Jakob Ingebrigtsen v Jacob Kiplimo over 3000m in Rome. The US is not sending a team to the World Half, but there is hope for Foot Locker XC and DII XC. Minnesota Track and Field is cut and Leroy Burrell sends out a warning. Is Emma Coburn the gold medal favorite? What about Centrowitz's Olympic chances? Can Jakob or Potato Tim (Cheruiyot) run 3:25? Is Bekele chunky? Not a LetsRun.com Supporters Club member? Join today for a trial of $1 the first month and get exclusive content, a private podcast, a private forum, and huge savings on running shoes. Cancel at anytime. Want to train and race faster? Join our LRC Fall Training Program. Interested in base training instead? email robert@letsrun.com LRC Supporters Club members get timestamped show notes: :XX 5 Minute Rome Diamond League Preview: Jacob vs Jakob and Warholm vs WR XX USA not sending team to World Half Marathon Champs because of COVID XX FootLocker XC 2020? + NCAA DII Nationals XX NCAA D1 Nationals in 2021? XX Are NCAA athletes exploited? Cal runner quits XC team because NCAA is racist. XX Minnesota Track cut / future of NCAA track / LeRoy Burrell's comments /William & Mary 'plagiarism' tweet here XX Zagreb: Daniel Rowden arrives. Bryce Hoppel. "B" teamers in Europe XX Rojo's hot take: Emma Coburn favorite for gold? US Tokyo 2021 Medal Chances XX Centro better chance to win gold or not make Olympic Team? XX A 30-year old most of you have never heard of, Hedda Hynne of Norway, just ran a 1:58:10 world's best XX Performance of Week: Spanish 800/1500 double 8 minutes a part XX Rojo's idiotic solution to scheduling of doubles problem at Olympics/Worlds XX Thread of Week: Bekele: 8x2k at 8500ft...bad news XX Post of Week: Gjert thinks Jakob will run 3:25 (Will Cheruiyot or Ingebrigtsen break 1500 record?) Got feedback? Email pod@letsrun.com or call us 844-LETSRUN (844-538-7786) and hit option 7 to leave a voicemail. Support LetsRun.com's Track Talk: The Home of Running and Track and Field by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/letsrun Find out more at http://podcast.letsrun.com Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/cfd9a03a-23e9-4266-83f9-2eb930baeb7d

16 Sep 20201h 25min

What a week and we break it all down. Mo Farah got his first world record, Sifan Hassan picked up another, Jacob Kiplimo arrived as a track star, the adidas super shoe is here and Peres Jepchirchir and Kibiwott Kandie ran fast in it. Caster Semenya won't be running the 800 in Tokyo. Plus bonus content for LRC Supporters Club members. Members get to hear our thoughts on Ryan Crouser's great year, whether he could play in the NFL, and our thoughts on the announcer in Ostrava discussing female body types. Plus, what to make of a bear allegedly chasing a runner for 5 miles and causing her to lose her sports bra. Not a LetsRun.com Supporters Club member? Join today for a trial of $1 the first month and get exclusive content, a private podcast, a private forum, and huge savings on running shoes. Cancel at anytime. Want to train and race faster? Join our LRC Fall Training Program. Links: Renato Canova on blood doping-Renato Canova: Why Salvatore Antibo and Francesco Panetta did not become in great marathoners?-Article: What No One Is Telling You About Caster Semenya: She Has XY Chromosomes-Rojo's COVID stat of week LRC Supporters Club Members also get detailed show notes with timestamps. Support LetsRun.com's Track Talk: The Home of Running and Track and Field by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/letsrun Find out more at http://podcast.letsrun.com Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/f91aa7d3-1466-458b-999a-d143f9295fbc

10 Sep 20201h 18min

A special bonus podcast on Joshua Cheptegei trying to greak Kenenisa Bekele's world 10,000m record on October 7th in Valencia Spain and we are joined by Cheptegei's agent Jurrie van der Velden. This is the type of bonus content available to LRC Supporters Club members. If you're not a member yet, join by Labor Day and get a free 1:59:40 GOAT shirt. Click here to join https://www.letsrun.com/subscribe Video Zoom for Supporters Club members only of our chat with Jurrie here: https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10188399 LRC article here: https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/09/joshua-cheptegei-will-make-10000m-world-record-attempt-in-valencia-on-october-7/ Support LetsRun.com's Track Talk: The Home of Running and Track and Field by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/letsrun Find out more at http://podcast.letsrun.com Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/2da77dc5-12cd-4694-ab2f-fb61e4de3fda

3 Sep 202033min

Peter Walsh, the owner of Coogan's, the most famous runners' bar in America, joins us at 53:17 to talk about its closing and a multi-million dollar Facebook ad featuring him and the bar. Along the way, he tells stories and jokes, talks about authenticity, Donald Trump and the police, and drinking from the same cup. World records galore could fall Friday in Brussels with Brigid Kosgei taking on Sifan Hassan at the 1 hour run, plus Mo Farah, and Faith Kipyegon in the 1000m. Ryan Crouser is getting close to the WR, the Drake Relays were sort of back. Could Shelby Houlihan really beat Matthew Centrowitz? Is Edward Cheserek's career on the right path? Does it matter how aggressively you spit? Have you joined the LRC Supporters Club yet? Free GOAT t-shirt offer for podcast listeners extended until Labor Day. Click here Coogan's links: Facebook ad LetsRun.com story on Coogan's from February. *NY Times on closing Reading From Rojo: The Peculiar Blindness of Experts The Atlantic Support LetsRun.com's Track Talk: The Home of Running and Track and Field by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/letsrun Find out more at http://podcast.letsrun.com Rate and review us on itunes or give us feedback here. https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/2849881e-5b89-4999-b737-0b903e281681

3 Sep 20201h 49min

Become a LetsRun.com VIP: Join our Supporters Club: Exclusive content, exclusive discounts (extra 20% off running shoes right now), and if you sign-up by Sept 1 a free 1:59:40 GOAT T-shirt. Details here: https://www.letsrun.com/subscribe You fall racing season get cancelled? Just want to train smarter? The LetsRun.com Fall Training and Racing Program is here. Train with the best. Details here: https://www.letsrun.com/fall Running with the Buffaloes author Chris Lear was our surprise guest @ 66:32 to talk cheater spikes, gambling, whether Alan Webb & Adam Goucher are clean and stock picks. Before that -Karsten Warholm threatened the World Record in Stockholm, Donavan Brazier and Timothy Cheruiyot kept winning, Laura Muir kept impressing, London showed why it's the top marathon in the world, Galen Rupp & Mo Farah updates, and NCAA XC in the spring? Got feedback? Email pod@letsrun.com or call us 844-LETSRUN (844-538-7786) and hit option 7 to leave a voicemail. (Rojo's deep voice disappears 5 minutes in) Show notes: Start: Warholm in Stockholm, Warholm v Benjamin and Samba 9:37 Donavan Brazier, Laura Muir 20:11 Japanese 1500m record at Tokyo Olympic Stadium 25:41 London THE Marathon of 2020 34:55 Galen Rupp update 36:01 Forgotten Runner of the Week: Mo Farah 39:54 Virtual NYC Marathon, what marathons if any will take place in US this fall? 42:03 Will return of fans at NFL lead to return of racing? 48:54 Sunset Tour & King Cheserek, Final Big Friendly meet 56:35 NCAA XC in the Spring? 64:42 Message Board Thread of Week: The Obesification of the U.S. 66:32 Running with Buffaloes Author Chris Lear End- Bonus content: Rojo Rant PS Please tell one friend about us or rate and review us on apple podcasts. Support LetsRun.com's Track Talk: The Home of Running and Track and Field by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/letsrun Find out more at http://podcast.letsrun.com Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/4408cb98-9d93-4bea-a79e-a4c188603704

26 Aug 20201h 25min

Joshua Cheptegei and his agent Jurrie van der Velden joined LRC's Robert Johnson and Jonathan Gault for a ZOOM from Uganda following his 12:35.36 World Record at 5000m. LRC Supporters Club members can watch the video of the Zoom here. Full Zoom released as a podcast. Special podcasts for supporters club members are now here. For bonus podcasts from the LRC team and early access subscribe today: https://www.letsrun.com/subscribe Members can find their members only feed here. Support LetsRun.com's Track Talk: The Home of Running and Track and Field by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/letsrun Find out more at http://podcast.letsrun.com Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/letsrun/ff2a4499-8ca0-4833-ba8e-dbf65974dc26

25 Aug 202048min