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Correction to podcast: The 2020 Marine Corps Marathon is only virtual this year. We reported erroneously that it was still slated to be held in person in the podcast.

Joshua Cheptegei ran 12:35.36 to…

Herculis Monaco Diamond League, the greatest one day track meet of 2020 is here. Joshua Cheptegei is after Bekele's 5k WR, Donavan Brazier his own American record, what about Obiri vs Hassan vs Gidey…

(Fixing an audio issue in the previously uploaded podcast from the 20-40 minute mark. Our apologies).

And good news, London has announced it will have an elite race with Bekele vs Kipchoge this year.

2016 Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Paul Chelimo joins us at 54:05 to talk about his amazing career, his rivalry with Lopez Lomong, not being scared, racism, his start in running, doping in Kenya an…

Michael Norman ran 9.86 for 100m. Really?!?!

LRC American GOAT Jim Ryun is being honored by President Trump on LRC Founders Day, Karissa Schweizer keeps running fast. What should Shelby Houlihan run…

Shelby Houlihan is our guest after she lowered her American 5000m record to 14:23.92 in this bonus podcast. She talks about her AR run, training during COVID, her plans for the rest of the season, sh…

Former NCAA star Molly Seidel, the barista who made the Olympic marathon team in her first marathon, joins us at 59:09 to talk about what she's been up to since her incredible run. LRC Profile here.

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2003 World 400m Champion Tyree Washington is our special guest at 69:00 to talk about his incredible life and upcoming book. One of the greatest athletes never to make the Olympics, he overcame pover…

The Bowerman Track Club ran fast with Elise Cranny (14:48 5k) leading the way- Evan Jager, Ryan Hill, Shelby Houlihan, Matthew Centorwitz talk.

Raevyn Rogers is joining Pete Julian's Nike group, fas…

The Fargo North Dakota and Hamburg Marathon may be a go but the running world took a blow with Boston and New York City both being cancelled.

Nico Young tried to break Galen Rupp’s high school 5k rec…

Christian Coleman, the world's fastest man and the favorite for Olympic gold in 2021, may be banned from the sport after he is alleged for the second time to have missed drug test #3. Pro track and f…

The Diamond League comes back this weekend in Oslo w Team Kenya vs Team Norway (preview here), World 400m champ Salwa Eid Naser gets banned, Brown track gets reinstated, world records galore on the t…

The show goes on with the world mourning the murder of George Floyd and we start by paying our respects.

We end with guest Tyler Andrews joining us (73:20) to talk the Chaski Challenge and his attemp…

Despite the COVID shutdown high schooler Leo Daschbach ran sub 4 in the Quarantine Clasico in California with a tremendous final lap to become the 11th high schooler in the US in the sub 4 club. Pros…

Alan Webb, Ryan Hall, and Dathan Ritzenhein rose to prominence in the early 2000s as members of the high school class of 2001. For their accomplishments as teens -- which included two Foot Locker Cro…

In this week's podcast, we propose a simple plan that should result in the major big-city marathons returning to action this fall: https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10021792 We also …

Our normal podcast returned but this was far from a normal podcast as podcasting history was made as for the first time in world history a six-day-old baby appeared on a podcast. Once we adjusted to …

Recently the LetsRun.com visitors voted US marathon record holder Deena Kastor as the greatest US women's distance runner in history. To mark the occasion, we invited Deena to be on our podcast. Befo…

This week we devote the entire show to talking to Jim Ryun - the athlete that the LetsRun.com visitors recently voted as the Greatest American Distance Runner of All-Time. During our talk, Ryun talks…

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Chris Solinsky's 26:59 10,000-meter run, this week we dropped an extra podcast with Solinsky as the guest. Our regular podcast will come out later. By now, his 26…