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- Almgren says he can run 2:01 before NYC debut
Andreas Almgren has not run a marathon yet and says he thinks he can eventually run 2:01. Conner Mantz, back from two stress fractures, is naming who he expects to be with at 24 miles.
- Almgren, a marathon debutant, is the NYC favorite
A former 800m runner who worked part-time as a data scientist is the betting favorite for Sunday's New York City Marathon, and he has never run one.
- Adidas tweaks the Adios Pro 5 outsole after wear complaints
Adidas says it has quietly extended the Adios Pro 5 outsole to stop the shoe wearing through its color, calling the problem cosmetic. One poster is not buying that word.
- Jepchirchir suspended after EPO positive
Peres Jepchirchir, Olympic and world marathon champion, has been provisionally suspended after an EPO finding from a sample taken before her Sydney win. Jonathan Gault calls it one of the biggest busts ever if it holds.
- Race walk world records, and Valencia runs fast
Yaseen Abdalla had never raced a half marathon. He ran 59:10 in Valencia and took more than five minutes off the Sudanese national record. Two race walk world records landed the same weekend.
- Jepchirchir's agent says testers waited two hours
Her agent says doping control officers sat outside Peres Jepchirchir's door for two hours and only got in after threatening a two-year ban. Coach James McKirdy wants her old results reopened.
- Jepchirchir suspended for EPO before Sydney win
The reigning world marathon champion returned an adverse finding for EPO from a test taken in Kenya weeks before she won Sydney. Jonathan Gault calls it one of the biggest busts ever if it holds.
- Ruti Aga banned 6 years over a forged prescription
The prescription Ruti Aga handed the AIU came from a clinic that does not exist, written by a family member with no medical registration. Six years, and she is 38 when it ends.
- LA28 marathon cut to 70 spots per gender
The Olympic marathon field drops to 70 per gender for LA28, and the quota cutoff lands six days before the US Trials. Plus three nations left at Big's Backyard.
- Sub-2:04 run 23 times this year, adidas owns 15
The sub-2:04 marathon used to be a headline on its own. In 2026 it has happened 23 times, and LetsRun says adidas athletes account for 15 of them.
- Rupp at 40, and two OTQs that will not count
Two runners hit Olympic Trials marks at Baystate and neither one counts, because the race had no USATF sanction. Plus Francesco Puppi misses the Templiers course record by a single second.
- Jeruto wins Toronto, Puppi misses Templiers record by 1 second
Francesco Puppi finished the 80K Grand Trail des Templiers one second off the course record. In Toronto, Leah Jeruto negative split her way to 2:21:19 and a Canadian debuted in 2:08:48.
- Big's Backyard team race is on, and the carb case shifts
At Big's Backyard Ultra, Keith Dunn says 24 yards is not even table stakes this year. Meanwhile Brady Holmer says 100 grams of carbs an hour breaks the link between fat burning and late-race durability.
- Gapes goes sub-19 at Pre-Nats, BYU stuns NC State
Hannah Gapes ran 18:57.6 to become the first woman ever under 19 minutes on the LaVern Gibson 6K, and her NC State team still lost to BYU by four points.
- Sifan Hassan pulls out of New York
Hassan says sickness wrecked her training and she is out of the TCS New York City Marathon, with Fiona O'Keeffe out too. Plus Brady Holmer on whether more carbs actually buys you a stronger finish.
- O'Keeffe has hamstring surgery, misses New York
A partial hamstring tear Fiona O'Keeffe carried into Boston turned into a fully retracted tendon, and she has had surgery. She was already named to the New York elite field.
- Chicago's US all-time list gets corrected
David Monti had to reissue the list of fastest Americans in Chicago history, and LetsRun says the broadcast cut away from history for a sponsor interview. Plus: what a marathon does to your brain.
- Chicago: Hurley's record debut, Young wins hurt
Vinny Mauri went for the American record, stopped several times to stretch his hamstrings, and still ran 2:06. Clayton Young beat him on a 12 cm hamstring tear. Chicago was that kind of day.
- Rupp runs 2:06:55 at 40, Young 2:05:23 hurt
Galen Rupp ran 2:06:55 at age 40 and Clayton Young took top American honors in 2:05:23 on a 12 cm hamstring tear. Chicago gave the Americans almost everything except the record.
- Kosgei and Kiplimo sign up for 25 tests a year
A 2:12 marathoner with no sponsor who delivers for DoorDash says he will run 2:06 in Chicago on Sunday, and he is inviting the internet to mock him if he does not.
- Clayton Young will chase the AR on a torn hamstring
Clayton Young landed in Chicago with a torn hamstring and says it has not hurt in a single workout. He is still going after the American record on Sunday.
- Chicago: Hicks and Mauri chase the American record
A year ago Charles Hicks had never run a marathon and nobody had heard of Vinny Mauri. Both line up Sunday in Chicago as American record contenders, in what LetsRun calls the wildest US men's field in decades.
- A runner died at the Portland Marathon
A 24-year-old collapsed near mile 20 in Portland, two miles after seeing his wife. Plus Chicago's field lands Sunday, and a researcher says 10 grams of carbs an hour is dead.
- Your gel leaves 2 grams in the wrapper
Brady Holmer weighed a SiS Beta Fuel gel before and after squeezing: 40 grams labeled, about 38 delivered. Over an ultra that is most of an hour of fuel left in the foil.