Trafeh Trounces

Mo Trafeh took home the 15k USA 15k Championship title at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, FL Saturday with a very fast 42:58 in warm weather.
Mo burned a 4:22 opening mile and never looked back. Well, he did look back at one point, but there was nobody close. Ever. He went through 5k in 14:04, 10k in 28:18, and won by close to a minute.

Mo aslo took the home the equalizer bonus of $5,000, given to the first person to cross the line as the women start 5min ahead of the men. He had caught up to the ladies a little after 10k.

A very nice run and great payday for Mo, who apparently doesn't even have a sponsor and races infrequently due to lack of money for traveling to races. Hopefully someone picks him up. Maybe I will. I need to get those Pre's Mustache singlets printed up.

Katie McGregor took the women's crown while Colleen DeReuck continues to show there is no depth to womens running in the US as she is 45 years old and is still one of the top runners in the country.

1 Mo Trafeh - Duarte, CA 24 M 42:58 $12,000 + $5,000
2 Tim Nelson - Corvallis, OR 26 M 43:52 $5,000
3 Antonio Vega - St Paul, MN 26 M 43:56 $3,000
4 Jason Lehmkuhle - Minneapolis, MN 32 M 44:00 $2,000
5 Sean Quigley - Philadelphia, PA 25 M 44:06 $1,000
6 Ryan Vail - Gresham, OR 23 M 44:37 $900
7 Patrick Smyth - Minneapolis, MN 23 M 44:42 $800
8 Nicholas Arciniaga - Fountain Valley, CA 26 M 44:51 $700
9 Charlie Serrano - Long Beach, CA 26 M 44:54 $600
10 Stephan Shay - East Jordan, MI 24 M 44:54 $500


1 Katie McGregor - Minneapolis, MN 29 F 49:51 $12,000
2 Jen Rhines - Mammoth Lakes, CA 35 F 50:27 $5,000
3 Magdalena Lewy-Boulet - Oakland, CA 36 F 50:39 $3,000
4 Colleen De Reuck - Boulder, CO 45 F 50:51 $2,000
5 Rebecca Donaghue - Happy Valley, PA 34 F 51:13 $1,000
6 Renee Metivier-Baillie - Boulder, CO 28 F 51:37 $900
7 Blake Russell - Pacific Grove, CA 34 F 51:46 $800
8 Amy Hastings - Mammoth Lakes, CA 26 F 51:55 $700
9 Lindsey Anderson - South Ogden, UT 24 F 51:56 $600
10 Kelly Jaske - Portland, OR 33 F 51:58 $500

Right On, Nick Symmonds

How the hell did this slip by my desk(two milk crates with a board across the them, covered with empty beer cans)??

A mustachioed Nick Symmonds at USA indoors.

Ivory Williams Loves Weed

Ivory(ironic name) has been thrown of the USA indoor worlds team after testing positive for marijuana.

A: I don't know why weed is illegal
B: I don't know why smoking weed should disqualify you from competing
C: I don't know why a professional runner would want to smoke weed
D: Yes I do. Weed is awesome


So, Ivory williams and Xaxier Carter; future training partners??

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-03-10-2996809220_x.htm

Diug Logan Is Going To Make T&F Awesome

http://www.usatf.org/about/leadership/ShinSplintsBlog/

How the hell this guy became CEO of the USATF is anyone's guess.

His work history includes:

-Beer vendor at Yankee Stadium.
-Taxi driver.
-Worked for his family's construction engineering business.
-First commissioner of Major League Soccer.
-Formed a consulting firm.
-Helped form the National Rugby League.
-CEO of an animation technology company.
-"Director general" of a Mexican concert promotion company.
-Fought in Vietnam.
-Owned minor league basketball team the San Diego Wildcards.


MLS lost $250 million in it's first five seasons, and if you can name 5 MLS teams without looking, I'll send you a buck.

San Diego Wildcards went bankrupt.

National Rugby League??

Anything relating to the sport of T&F???

A lifelong competitive road runner at distances from 10 km to the marathon, Logan has clocked a marathon personal best under 4 hours

Ok. But I'd probably throw "competitive" out of there.

So this is the guy to take American T&F to the next level.?
A 66 year old with almost, lets just say no experience in track?
The guy whose idea of promoting his basketball team was to show up in multi-colored jesters glasses with dangling bells?

The man who just sent to the marathon trial to Houston, after NYC hosted the biggest, most watched, most exciting trials race ever??

HE'S going to change the way we watch track and field on TV??



This can't be good.

Webb Is Still Not Back

Most people have already completely forgotten about Alan Webb because he hasn't done shit since the monster year in '07. But those who haven't, remember him as mostly being a ninny with a giant head and hair plugs, i.e. me.

Webb got a major confidence boost in spring '07 when he showed up with a new, blooming head of hair(BEFORE/ AFTER), and went on a complete tear.
He was a new man

But then the mania wore off, and it's been a rocky road since.

The latest report is that hes had surgery on his achilles and is currently rehabbing in Portland, running only 3-4 miles a day.

So I just want to send a little positivity his way and say, keep your head up. I know it's hard, but keep plugging away. Don't wig out. You'll be weaving in and out of the track lanes soon enough. You were transplanted into a new program and it can take some time to adjust. You're rogaining fitness everyday now....

Alright, that's all I got.

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/03/05/1161910/running-legend-visits-oly.html

AJ Acosta

Track and Field Videos on Flotrack

AJ(Ore.) ran 3:58:08, has a mullet, looks ridiculous.

Pretty In Pink

Track and Field Videos on Flotrack

Ruppy ran the mile and the 800 at the UW Last Chance meet, getting in a nice workout a before heading to World Champs in Doha, Qatar next this weekend. He won the 800 and finished 3rd in 3:58 in the mile. Why he was wearing the women's Nike kit, I don't know.

Kenya vs Ethiopia: RD TWO

The rivalry is really heating up again as Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele has been boasting to the press over the past two weeks his intentions of bettering Kenyan Daniel Komen's 3000m indoor world record before seasons end.

An offended Komen blasted back with a threat to reward Bekele with 5 acres of prime land in Eldoret should he take the record down, and added, “For me, I just attempted it while a young man, without telling the world. I prepared myself and broke it, and I will congratulate my friend Bekele if he does it.”


Whoa. Intense words. Let's just hope nobody gets hurt in this fracas.

http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/-/1100/873410/-/rcbj24z/-/index.html

Attn Victah Sailer

Enough with the "thumbs up" pictures already.
It's become slightly superfluous, if not gratuitous.

Just tilt the camera down, give a little disapproving shake of the head and grimace while mouthing, "no", when the thumbs go up from now on.





























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USA Rosters for Indoor World Champs

USATF press release

Gold medalists lead U.S. contingent to World Indoors

INDIANAPOLIS - Led by strength in the hurdles and field events and boasting six past World Indoor champions, Team USA fields a strong roster of 53 athletes for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Track & Field championships, to be held March 12-14 in Doha, Qatar. Athletes will compete for a total of nearly $2.5 million in prize money, including $40,000 for individual champions.



Defending World Indoor gold medalists Christian Cantwell (SP), Bryan Clay (Hep) and Lolo Jones (60mH) are joined by two-time World Indoor 60m hurdle champion Terrence Trammell, 2004 World Indoor 3,000m champion Bernard Lagat and 2006 World Indoor triple jump champion Walter Davis. Outdoor World champions on the team include reigning women's long jump champion Brittney Reese, also the current world leader and 2009 decathlon champion Trey Hardee and2005 400m hurdle champion Bershawn Jackson, who will be running the flat 400m. Three-time World Outdoor 200m champion Allyson Felix will run on the women's 4x400m relay and two-time World Outdoor 400m hurdles champion Kerron Clement is on the men's 4x400m.



Prize money at the IAAF World Indoor Championships



Individual events:



First: $40,000

Second: $20,000

Third: $10,000

Fourth: $8000

Fifth: $6000

Sixth: $4000



Relays (per team):



First: $40,000

Second: $20,000

Third: $10,000

Fourth: $8000

Fifth $6000

Sixth: $4000



World record bonus: US $50,000 - for any athlete setting a new World record.



Team USA Roster, 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships



Men



60m: Ivory Williams (Liberty, Mo.), Michael Rodgers (Round Rock, Texas)

400m: Bershawn Jackson (Raleigh, N.C.), Jamaal Torrance (Raleigh, N.C.)

800m: Nick Symmonds (Eugene, Ore.), Duane Solomon (Los Angeles, Calif.)

1500m: Will Leer (Eugene, Ore.), Garrett Heath (Palo Alto, Calif.)

3000m: Bernard Lagat (Tucson, Ariz.), Galen Rupp (Portland, Ore.)

60mH: Terrence Trammell (Atlanta, Ga.), David Oliver (Kissimmee, Fla.)

Long jump: Jeff Henderson (North Little Rock, Ark.), Randall Flimmons (Atlanta, Ga.)

Triple jump: Brandon Roulhac (Tallahassee, Fla.), Walter Davis (Baton Rouge, La.)

High jump: Jesse Williams (Eugene, Ore.), Dusty Jonas (Lincoln, Neb.)

Pole vault: Tim Mack (Cleveland, Ohio), Derek Miles (Tea, S.D.)

Shot put: Christian Cantwell (Columbia, Mo.), Cory Martin (Bloomington, Ind.)

Heptathlon: Trey Hardee (Austin, Texas), Bryan Clay (Glendora, Calif.)

4x400m relay: Greg Nixon (Lubbock, Texas), Tavaris Tate (Starkville, Miss.), Kerron Clement (Los Angeles, Calif.), LeJerald Betters (Waco, Texas)



Women



60m: Carmelita Jeter (Los Angeles, Calif.), Miki Barber (Los Angeles, Calif.)

400m: Debbie Dunn (Raleigh, N.C.), DeeDee Trotter (Knoxville, Tenn.)

800m: Anna Pierce (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Alysia Johnson (Los Angeles, Calif.)

1500m: Erin Donohue (Haddon Heights, N.J.), Sarah Bowman (Knoxville, Tenn.)

3000m: Sara Hall (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Desiree Davila (Rochester Hills, Mich.)

60mH: Ginnie Powell (Los Angeles, Calif.), Lolo Jones (Baton Rouge, La.)

Long jump: Brittney Reese (Gulfport, Miss.), Brianna Glenn (Chula Vista, Calif.)

Triple jump: Erica McLain (Menlo Park, Calif.)

High jump: Chaunte Howard Lowe (Decatur, Ga.)

Shot put: Jillian Camarena (Tucson, Ariz.), Michelle Carter (Ovilla, Texas)

Heptathlon: Hyleas Fountain (Kettering, Ohio)

4x400m relay: Allyson Felix (Los Angeles, Calif.), Natasha Hastings (Columbia, S.C.), Shareese Woods (Charlotte, N.C.), Jessica Cousins (Seneca, S.C.)



For more information on Team USA and the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, visit www.usatf.org.
About USA Track & Field

USA Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track and field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States. USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, some of the most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high school and junior high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult runners in the United States.

For more information on USATF, visit www.usatf.org