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Niels Laros got another huge 1500m win but people on LetsRun are wondering if Cole Hocker is in world record shape. Sifan Hassan's quest for all the World Marathon Majors lives on, while Eliud Kichog…

We talk with Sean Brosnan, the coach behind Newbury Park High School’s historic cross country program and co-author of the new book with Chris Lear and Andrew Geif dropping today "Beyond Fast.&q…

High school 800m superstar Cooper Lutkenhaus has gone pro as a 16-year-old. What do we think?

Fireworks in Silesia, Lausanne and Brussels have paved the way for the Weltklasse Diamond League final in…

Keely Hodgkinson’s dropped a 1:54 in her first race of the year, a guy named Handal Roban ran 1:42, Dan Michalski's dreams became reality, and Gabby Thomas came out swing versus Dennis Mitchell's gro…

Northwest high school's The podcast features an in-depth interview with 16-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus, who recently made headlines by running a historic 1:42.27 in the 800 meters at the USA Champions…

Chris Capeau the coach of 800m star Cooper Lutkenhaus, joins us 67:31 to talk about Lutkenhaus' amazing year and amazing race at USAs where the 16-year-old ran 1:42.27 to make the team for USA at Wor…

The most shocking 800 in US history? 16-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus ran 1:42.27, four seconds faster than any high schooler ever, and almost beat Donavan Brazier, who completed his unbelievable comeba…

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The men's 1500m event exceeded expectations Jon…

The 2025 USATF Outdoor Track and Field Championships start Thursday in Eugene.

Wejo, Rojo, and Jon give their picks for Tokyo in all the distance events and then surmise about some of the other even…

American marathoning legend Deena Kastor reflects on the life and legacy of her legendary coach Joe Vigil, who recently passed away at 95.

Deena's instagram tribute to Coach Vigil is here.

At 36:40 w…

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World record holder in the m…

High schooler Quincy Wilson scorched a 44.10 400m and Athing Mu ran 2:00 in Tennessee. With USAs 16 days way we looked at who will be in and who will be out for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo?…

One final look at an amazing 50th Prefontaine Classic, highlighted by the world records of Beatrice Chebet and Faith Kipyegon, with the upset win in the Bowerman Mile by podcast listener Niels Laros.

The LetsRun crew takes one final look at Faith Kipyegon's Breaking 4 attmempt. It came up short, but what does it mean? Why was her final time, not really her time?

Kishane Thompson entered rare terr…

Is this the week we see the first sub-4:00 mile by a woman? We preview Faith Kipyegon’s historic attempt and dive deep into the science behind it with Dr. Mike Hahn of the Bowerman Sports Science Cen…

What a week. Nico Young blasted a 12:45 to get the huge win in Oslo, while Josh Hoey went 1:42, Donavan Brazier 1:43, and Andreas Almgren (a "random" Swede) went 12:44.

Plus NCAA stars were…

Nico Young did it. He ran 12:45.27 to beat a star studded Diamond League field in Oslo Norway (and break Grant Fisher's outdoor record).

What does it mean for Nico? For American distance running? For…

Donavan Brazier is back, Jane Hedengren has taken a hammer to all the high school distance records, Cooper Lutkenhaus has Michael Granville's record, the NCAA championships are this weekend and so ar…

Grand Slam Track Talk moved to Historic Franklin Field and fans came out to watch.

Nico Young turned some heads in the 3000, what can he now do for 5000? Is he a global medal threat?

Josh Kerr got th…

Jonah Koech joins us at 88:50 to discuss his shocking Diamond League 1500m win (nice article here by Jon Gault) where the American went from 3:37 to 3:31 for 1500m and took down the Diamond League fi…