LetsRun.com's Track Talk
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LetsRun.com's weekly podcast where we go behind the scenes of the professional running, marathoning, and track and field world.
LetsRun.com's Track Talk
2d ago
Two-time Olympic medallist in the triathlon, Morgan Pearson, joins us at 55:20 to talk about his plans for the Houston Half, whether he's going all-in on running, and his goals for 2028 Olympics.
Prior to that we break down Sabastian Sawe's debut in Valencia, Biya Simbassa's 2:06:53, and Edward Cheserek's 2:05:24, plus Athlete of Year selections and Tara Davis Woodhall's comments on Grand Slam Track.
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LetsRun.com's Track Talk
6d ago
Two-time NCAA XC champion Graham Blanks joins us for a special edition of the Friday 15 that we are making available to everyone as part of our appreciation for all of you and to to promote Black Friday 50% Off Supporters Club memberships at LetsRun.com with code GOAT50. (gift subscriptions click here)
The Harvard senior discusses his recent victory, his training regimen, academics, and his ambitions for the 2028 Olympics and beyond. Show notes below.
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LetsRun.com's Track Talk
6d ago
Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles joined us remotely from the Global Athletics Media Summit in Las Vegas to discuss his amazing 2024 campaign and his plans for 2025.
Noah wants to change the sport but does it want to change with him? Noah had some interesting comments on the Tyreek Hill match race, Grand Slam Track, and the 100 vs the 200.
Video of this podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf4QjDaaIRw
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LetsRun.com's Track Talk
6d ago
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won't be running the Diamond League final (as she hasn't run any Diamond League's all year), Shannon Rowbury may get an Olympic bronze, and the Cole Hocker, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Josh Kerr, Yared Nuguse Olympic rematch is here.
Plus Cole, Josh, and Yared are all doing Grand Slam Track and the LetsRun AI bot is here.
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LetsRun.com's Track Talk
1w ago
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Show notes
00:00 NCAA Recap podcast
01:06 Start
09:51 Graham Blanks repeats
24:39 Habtam Samuel 2nd with 1 shoe
31:05 6 Americans in top 10, The "Furman" guy
43:17 The year of Ed Eyestone continues - BYU wins
52:37 OSU implosion
56:33 Women's race: Dori ..read more
LetsRun.com's Track Talk
1w ago
Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles joined us remotely from the Global Athletics Media Summit in Las Vegas to discuss his amazing 2024 campaign and his plans for 2025.
Noah wants to change the sport but does it want to change with him? Noah had some interesting comments on the Tyreek Hill match race, Grand Slam Track, and the 100 vs the 200.
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LetsRun.com's Track Talk
2w ago
It's NCAA week and the Parker Wolfe and Graham Blanks shirts are in the LetsRun store. Get yours today.
New York City Marathon champion Abdi Nageeye joins us at 62:32 to discuss his NYC triumph, his incredible life and career, has a book recommendation, and oh yeah tells that crazy story when he quit the track and the cops were called to Mo Farah's house.
Prior to that we break down the latest in the running and track and field world and look ahead to this week's NCAA championships.
Jacob Kiplimo broke the 15k world record (and we forgot to discuss it :), Gabby Thomas got USATF athlete of the ..read more
LetsRun.com's Track Talk
3w ago
Tim Rowberry, who went from being a pace maker for the Nike Oregon Project to the coach of the unstoppable Sifan Hassan, joins us at 66:11 to discuss his coaching story and Sifan Hassan's amazing Olympic triple that culminated in Olympic marathon gold.
Prior to that we discuss whether Grant Fisher has a ton of talent (link), debate whose career you'd rather have his or Donavan Braziers, and then ponder who would win at 600m Cole Hocker or Fred Kersley (link here).
Grand Slam Track will launch in Jamaica in April. We break that down and discuss the mental side of running (book here) before Rowb ..read more
LetsRun.com's Track Talk
1M ago
Abdi Nageeye and Sheila Chepkirui got the upsets wins at the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon and we break them down.
Conner Mantz led the American men and Sara Vaughn the American women as Jenny Simpson called it a career.
The World Marathon Majors are expanding. Is it too much? World Athletics announced its finalists for athlete of the year and we're not happy.
Ed Eyestone's great weekend got off to a great start with BYU upsetting Oklahoma State in college XC.
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Show notes:
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LetsRun.com's Track Talk
1M ago
NCAA XC star Rocky Hansen joins us at 75:03 to discuss his breakout freshman year, training, NILs and a lot more.
Yomif Kejelcha hammered from the front once again and this time was rewarded with the world record in the half marathon as he ran 57:30 in Valencia to break Jacob Kiplimo's record by 1 second.
Kejelcha won near universal praise on the LetsRun forums, but are supershoes diminishing the world records? Kejelcha also holds the indoor mile world record.
Agnes Ngetich impressed on the women's side running 63:04 and Olympic triathlete Morgan Pearson was the first American. Should he pull ..read more