WTW: Centrowitz Isn’t Done, Buchalski and Sisson Break 15, Jakob Ingebrigtsen Avoids The DQ and Patryk Dobek Picks Up The 800
The Week That Was in Running, March 1 – 7, 2021
March 9, 2021
The US Sub-15 List Is 23 Deep/The US Sub-13:00 List Stays 9 Deep
The sub-15:00 US women’s 5,000m list gained two new entrants last week as both
Emily Sisson and Allie Buchalski broke 15:00 for the first time in their careers at the Sound Running Invite in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., on Saturday. New Balance’s Sisson lowered her pb from 15:02.10 to 14:55.82 to get the win while the Brooks Beasts’ Buchalski, the 2018 NCAA 5000 runner up for Furman, had the biggest pb of the night as she went from 15:22.29 to 14:57.54 to place second.
The 2020 LetsRun.com Awards Are Here: Best Runner, Best Comeback, Biggest Disappointment, Most Inspirational & More
December 30, 2020
The strangest year in running any of us has ever seen is almost over. And unlike a few other noted publications, we waited until the very end of 2020 to hand out our year-end awards (since this was one of the busiest Decembers ever from a running perspective).
In this year of woe, there were highs (the Olympic Marathon Trials, Monaco Diamond League, London Marathon) and lows (pretty much everything else that happened in 2020). Yet despite the cancellation/postponement of several major events, there was still plenty of drama on and off the track in 2020. Sixteen world records. American records by the likes of
Great Story about English Olympic Steeplechaser Eric Shirley
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This is a great story from Athletics Weekly about an English steeplechaser from the 1956 and 1960 Olympics who is still competing today at age 91. Some highlights:
Eric Shirley’s name first appeared in the pages of AW in February 1946, when the magazine was just three months old. Aged 16, he won the Middlesex youths’ cross-country title in Cranford and, amazingly, his results are still being published today as an athlete in the over-90 age group.
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Shirley was born into a workhouse in Epsom on April 3, 1929, to a 19-year-old single domestic servant. Almost immediately, he was given away with no formal adoption to a middle-aged Irishwoman before being sent at the age of nine to live with the woman’s childless sister in a damp and miserable shack near Abbeyleix in Ireland.