2024 US Olympic Track and Field Trials: Highlights, Medals, and Future ProspectsWith the help of intern Joseph, Rojo, Wejo and Jonathan give out grades as they review the standout performances, record-breakers, and key results from the 2024 US Olympic Track and Field Trials. How did Cole Hocker, Grant Fisher, Sha'Carri Richardson, Cooper Teare, Hob…

Neil Gourley, the British 1500 meters champion from Under Armor Dark Sky, joins the show to discuss his recent performances and strategies for the British Trials (this was recorded after Europeans and before the British champs). Then at 46:45 Danny Mackey, coach of the Brooks Beasts and Josh Kerr, shares insights on training, competition psychology…

Matthew Centrowitz kicks things off to breakdown the first half of the US Olympic Track and Field Trials and preview the second half. Plus he announces his track career is officially over. We break down the biggest winners and losers of the first half of the Trials, Athing Mu's fall, Christian Coleman's agony, Cole Hocker's brilliance over Yared Nu…

Before you listen to the podcast, enter the $200,024 BetterRunningShoes.com Track Trials Prediction Contest.Check out the new and improved BetterRunningShoes.com.Here is the thread on Bob Schul’s death.Have you read Jonathan Gault's sweet feature on Olympic ring tattoos? 0:00 Intro & Small Talk 4:45 Michael Johnson's Grand Slam Track Is Unveiled - …

Parker Valby and the Arkansas women stole the show at NCAAs while Noah Lyles and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone impressed on the track in New York City while Fred Kerley stole the show off it. Plus, updates on the Issam Asinga and Rhonex Kipruto doping cases, and what big name is signing on for the Michael Johnson Track League? Plus don't miss our fanta…

In this bonus podcast, on the even of NCAAs, the interns spoke with Villanova's Liam Murphy, the Villanova miler, who has the school records at 3k and the indoor mile and 5k. They discuss his training experiences, dealing with the pandemic, the Villanova legacy, along with some personal anecdotes about his coach and teammates. Liam also speaks abou…

Olympic gold medallist and NCAA broadcaster Dan O'Brien joins us at 71:08 to talk all things NCAA track and field, plus a little Olympic track and field talk. Prior to that the fake Josh Kerr calls in to give us insight on Jakob, Centro and Hobbs Kessler. We breakdown the Stockholm Diamond League, talk a little about Jakob's narrow win over Cheruiy…

In this episode of the LetsRun.com Track Talk Podcast, hosts Jonathan Gault, Robert Johnson, and Weldon Johnson provide in-depth analysis of the standout events from the 2024 Prefontaine Classic, including Josh Kerr's big victory over Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the Bowerman Mile, Sha'Carri Richardson's return, and Keeley Hodgkinson's win. They also touc…

Welcome to the Lets Run.com Track Talk Podcast! We celebrate Jonathan Gault's 10th anniversary, delve into the LA Grand Prix where Sydney McLaughlin Levrone, Matthew Centrowitz, Bryce Hoppel, Jake Wightman and others impressed. Noah Lyles 100m gold medal hopes increased, a male dominated the Oregon girls state meet, we welcomed our new summer inter…

On this week's show, we celebrate the amazing runs put up by Colin Sahlman and Elliott Cook at their NCAA track and field conference meets, rave about the SEC sprint action, praise Phoebe Gill and wonder if it's time for Evan Jager and Craig Engels to panic. Ples which is more important to running - nature or nurture? We end the show with an interv…

Colin Sahlman, the NCAA 1500m star for NAU joins us at 66:21 as our guest. Before that we break down the latest in the track and field world where the tiny Oxy Invitional saw the 2023 debut of Sydney McLaughlin, and a hot 1500m where Nico Young took down milers Matthew Centrowitz and Colin Sahlman, but is Centro Back? The revamped World Relays was …

Penn Relays, Bermuda Grand Prix, Shandhai Diamond League, adidas adizero Road to Records, the week was jampacked around the glob with action. Yared Nuguse kept winning, the 100m guys aren't breaking 10 but Trayvon Bromell got married, and the 16 minute 4xmile barrier fell at Penn to Villanova. Was high schooler Quincy Wilson or collegian Colin Sahl…

Kenenisa Bekele didn't win the London Marathon but he more than capture attention with his second place showing. Is it enough to get him to the Olympics one final time. Peres Jepchirchir set the women's only marathon world record in London in a "tactical" 2:16. High schooler Christian Miller ran a world leading 9.93 100m, could he possibly make the…

The 128th Boston Marathon is in the books and Sisay Lemma put on an exhibition the first 20 miles of the race and held on for the win as Hellen Obiri blasted the final 5 miles to win her battle with Sharon Lokedi. CJ Albertson joined the sub 2:10 club. What's up with the Kenyan and Ethiopian Olympic teams? Alicia Monson is out of the Olympics, what…

The Boston Marathon is here and Jon and Wejo are in Boston to break it down after Boston media day. Parker Valby has run 30:50 for 10,000m to smash the American record and LRC even reflects on the death of OJ Simpson. Join the Supporters Club todayWe're giving the first 10 minutes of this Supporters Club only pod to everyone. If you want the Boston…

The solar eclipse has come and gone but some things are still the same- controversy with USATF as they are not sending a team to the World Under 20 Championships this year. 69 boys went sub 9:00 for 3200 at Arcadia, Parker Valby is running a 10k, the Boston Marathon is almost here, and the Aussie Olympic Trials 1500 features Cam Myers, "Stewie" McS…

Jacob Kiplimo and Beatrice Chebet repeated at World XC but what happened to Agnes Ngetich and Joshua Cheptegei? April Fools came and went and what were the craziest stories in the sport in the last year? And it's not an April Fools joke that a Texas A&M Aggie ran an NCAA leading 1:44:46 and may be a dark horse candidate at the Olympic Trials. Plus …

Rojo and Jon break down the 2024 World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade Serbia which take place this Saturday. Jon will be there and Rojo won't be on hand to smoke cigarettes or chase gorillas. A nearly 26 year old high school record fell, Jerry Schumacher is actually racing his guys, and what is in store for track and field in the NIL era (…

We break down the TEN from California, debate Nico Youn and Matthew Centrowitz's Olympic chances amongst other things, and talk about Letsile Tebogo's 44:29 400m. If you missed the Noah Lyles and Lance Brauman talks they are now a standalone podcast here. LRC shirts at 26.52% off with code 2652 to celebrate the action at the TEN. Go to https://shop…

We're releasing out talk with Noah Lyles and his coach Lance Brauman which occurred at the end of last week's regular podcast as a stand along podcast. We've got 2 bonus clips with Lyles talking about who he fears in the 100 and Grant Holloway and the 4x4 (noted in the show notes below starting at 20:33) but besides that it is the same interview. L…

Noah Lyles, the 100m and 200m world champion, is our special guest at 82:23, along with his coach Lance Brauman at the 101:29 mark. We observed a day of training of their Pure Athletics group, after Noah returned from wrapping up a transformational season in the 60m at World Indoors where he won silver. Prior to that we wrap up the indoor season an…

The World Indoor Champs were a resounding success for the US distance runners and we give them one final look. Elle St. Pierre ran 8:20 for gold, Bryce Hoppel got gold and 5 more Americans took home medals, as Josh Kerr impressed and Geordie Beamish's kick got him gold. Eliud Kipchoge bombed in Tokyo. Will he make the Kenyan Olympic team? 42:04 Men…

The World Indoors are this weekend in Glasgow Scotland and LetsRun.com will be on site. We break down World Indoors before Dakotah Lindwurm, the breakout star from the US Olympic Marathon Trials, joins us at 76:19. World Indoors is loaded with Noah Lyles vs Christian Coleman at 60m, Josh Kerr vs Yared Nuguse vs Selemon Barega at 3000m, Cole Hocker …

Josh Kerr is running World Indoors vs Yared Nuguse and Selemon Barega. Cole Hocker was sublime in the 1500m at the USATF Champs. Are Kerr and Hocker favorites for Gold in Glasgow? Noah Lyles took down Christian Coleman, what does that do to his gold medal chances? Meanwhile Letsile Tebogo broke the 300m world record. We break it all down, pay our r…

The running world tragically lost one of its brightest lights, Kelvin Kiptum, the world record holder in the marathon, the man who in 10 months revolutionized how the marathon can be run, tragically passed away at the age of 24. We pay our respects. Then we turn to an amazing 2024 Millrose Games where Devynne Charlton started things off by breaking…