At the Stanford Invitational, Jane Hedengren (30:46.80) and Pamela Kosgei (30:49.99) both go under Parker Valby's collegiate 10,000m record of 30:50.43 from 2024. And lots of people run fast. More results here. BYU really showed up ready to run. live.recordtiming.com/meets/64852/...

More withdrawals from the Boston Marathon field. We already knew about some of these, but others are news to me.

Karissa Schweizer recently announced that after more than seven years under the same coach, she has moved to Portland, Oregon, and she's now being coached by Chris Miltenberg. In today's Fast Women newsletter, she discusses her decision and much more. fastwomen.substack.com/p/fast-women...

A big day for Trials qualifiers at the McKirdy Micro Marathon in New York. Eleven more women qualified, bringing the total to 123 so far. Dayna Pidhoresky, who is Canadian, won the race in 2:31:09. Behind her, Jessica Donohue (2:34:40), Annabel Stafford (2:35:07), Brooke Starn (2:35:22)...

Just looking at some old results from the NCAA Cross Country Championships, as one does, and the 150s were really competitive 10 years ago.

Cooper River Bridge Run Results (10K) 1. Everlyn Kemboi 31:15 2. Katie Izzo 31:27 3. Annie Frisbie 31:37 4. Sara Hall 32:04 5. Jessa Hanson 32:29 6. Steph Bruce 32:32 7. Cleo Boyd 32:54 8. Logan Jolly 33:13 9. Atsede Baysa 33:19 10. Makenna Thurston 33:25 results2.xacte.com#/e/2623/lead...

I kind of think every journalist should have to experience what it's like being an expert in demand around a news item for a day or two, just for empathy's sake. It's fucking overwhelming y'all!! I'm doing my best!!

Big news day. Not a done deal, but in the works. The women's and men's elite races would be on separate days. And this would be for 2027 only. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Some resolution following the mess at the USATF Half Marathon Championships. What this doesn't say is who the non-scoring athletes will be. But this is about as good as anyone could have hoped for once things went wrong, IMO.

UCan denies dropping Emma Bates over her pregnancy, but her agent backs up her claim. frontofficesports.com/emma-bates-u...

All these stats sounded good, until I got to the last sentence: "In addition, 323 female athletes completed SRY gene screening tests as part of ongoing athlete support and eligibility processes." That doesn't really feel like an accomplishment in line with the others listed.

I usually try to make sure every newsletter I put out has information you couldn't get elsewhere, so even the people who follow things closely can learn something. I think I failed on that front this week. But in case you missed any of this: fastwomen.substack.com/p/fast-women...

Jonathan Gault asks Addy Wiley for clarification about her coaching situation, and I'm still not entirely sure who is coaching her. But here's what she said: youtu.be/HWNR-XDlKfo?...

One more post, because I took the time to figure this out... This is the first time ever that the U.S. has medaled in the 800m, 1500m, and 3,000m at a World Indoor championship on the women's side.

World Indoors 800m results (in the graphic). Hodgkinson dominates, and now I have too much work to do anymore posting on social media.

What a race. Birke Haylom tried to run away with the 1500m at World Indoors, going through 400m in 62.32 and 800m in 2:05.30, but she slowed in the the second half and this trio reeled her in. Georgia Hunter Bell gets her first global gold medal (3:58.53) and Jessica Hull manages to medal...

Emma Grace Hurley set a pending American 8K record of 24:29 at this morning's Shamrock Shuffle in Chicago. I'm told the conditions were "ridiculously windy and cold." The previous record belonged to Deena Kastor, who ran 24:36 at the same race, 21 years ago.

Replay of today's 3,000m final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0OD...

Kudos to @vo2maximopt (on Instagram) for catching this moment during the at NYC Half broadcast where Hellen Obiri's hand or watch appeared to briefly get caught in Agnes Ngetich's hair. www.youtube.com/live/vS1nGAj...

U.S. 3,000m medals at World Indoors: Gold: Elle St. Pierre (2024) Silver: Emily Mackay (2026), Shelby Houlihan (2025), St. Pierre (2022), Lynn Jennings (1995) Bronze: Shannon Rowbury (2016), Shayne Culpepper (2004), Regina Jacobs (1999), Joan Nesbit (1995), Jennings (1993), PattiSue Plumer (1985)

Italy's Nadia Battocletti, an Olympic and World Championship silver medalist, wins the 3,000m at World Indoors, earning her first global title (in 8:57.64). And Emily Mackay (8:58.12) narrowly edged out Jessica Hull (8:58.18) for silver. Marta Garcia gets the DQ (TR17.1.2—jostling and obstruction)

Ugh. 3,000m final at World Indoors. Marta Garcia appeared to bump into Jessica Hull, who put a hand on Freweyni Hailu, who went down. Hailu is back in it now, but TBD if we see any protests.

I couldn't tell from this if Addy Wiley's mother is coaching her now and if she has parted ways with Lauren Johnson. It sounded like maybe there was an attempt at a follow up question, but someone else changed the subject and then she was escorted off. youtu.be/6YejDpp5JoQ?...

Was too busy to post this morning, but so many people looked good in the 800m semis at World Indoors. Keely Hodgkinson, Addy Wiley, Audrey Werro, Nigist Getachew, Hayley Kitching, and Clara Liberman are through to the final. After a fall in the first round at NCAAs, it's so nice to see...

Posting this while *not* watching track so no one will think I'm singling out any one athlete. But I occasionally wonder if Adidas intentionally designed racing briefs that don't provide full coverage, or if they just figured that out after the fact. I also wonder if it bothers anyone who races...

Project 13.1 Results 1. Anna Oeser 1:10:35 2. Elissa Legault 1:11:25 3. Florence Caron 1:11:49 4. Kidan Kidane 1:12:12 5. Erin Mawhinnney 1:13:03 6. Alana Levy 1:13:19 7. Laura Desjardins 1:13:20 8. Bianca Premont 1:13:30 9. Fatima Alanis 1:13:34 10. Kaitlyn Bonnet 1:13:47 More ⬇️

This is unlikely to stay up forever, and I'm not usually one to link to illegal streams. But desperate times. Full replay of heat one of the women's 1500m at World Indoors here, since it didn't make the U.S. broadcast. This will take you directly to the right spot: www.youtube.com/live/94j1_hg...

Tomorrow's women's 800m semifinals at World Indoors will start at 7:22 a.m. ET, and the 3,000m final is at 2:04 p.m. Jessica Hull's 1500m competitors have an off day, she'll be testing herself in the 3K.

Valery Tobias' lane infraction DQ at the World Indoor Championships is all the sadder seeing how little of her foot was over the line. (It happened more than once, but looked pretty similar.) I understand why the rules exist, but it's such an unfortunate way to bow out of a meet.

I had some interviews to do so I missed a good chunk of the Peacock broadcast after the women's 1500m. Did they ever go back and show even just a little bit of heat one?

1500m finalists at the World Indoor Championships: Birke Haylom (ETH) Klaudia Kazimierska (POL) Susan Ejore-Sanders (KEN) Georgia Hunter Bell (GBR) Jessica Hull (AUS) Gracie Morris (USA) Agathe Guillemot (FRA) Nikki Hiltz (USA) Ludovica Cavalli (ITA)

Fantastic run from Gracie Morris to make the 1500m at World Indoors. Both Americans advance. Morris' heat, the third of three, was a tough one because it had two of the top medal contenders: Georgia Hunter Bell and Jessica Hull.

These 1500m heats at World Indoors are tough, because the field is going from 24 athletes down to nine. In heat two, it was nice to see Poland's Klaudia Kazimierska advance to the final on home soil. And Birke Haylom and Susan Ejore-Sanders also advance. (2/3 are former Oregon Ducks.)

Not my favorite way to watch a race, but it's better than nothing. (Heat one of the women's 1500m at World Indoors didn't make it into the TV window.)

Previously reported on social media, a few more details here, but nothing that adds much. This affects Tsige Duguma, who won the 800m at this meet in 2024, as well as 1500m runners Saron Berhe, Haregeweyn Kalayu and Mosisa Siyoum. Six Ethiopian athletes will compete. www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

Have an inflexible medical appointment scheduled during the 800m heats at World Indoors, but I’ve had a chance to go back and watch now. So unfortunate to see Valery Tobias run so well and appear to advance, only to learn that she was DQed for a lane violation. The sport can be so cruel sometimes.

They sponsored Fast Women last month, but even if they hadn't I'd be a fan of the work WHSP is doing in Boston. I keep thinking of the Hair Club for Men ads: "I'm not just the president I'm also a member." Because I'm not just a fan, I've also been there as a patient and benefitted from their work.

Here's the World Indoors TV schedule for the U.S. Meet schedule/start lists/results: worldathletics.org/competitions... (TV schedule source: www.nbcsports.com/olympics/new...)

Loved writing about the Shoemakers again. They have another Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier in the family. www.runnersworld.com/news/a707363...

I don't know that the people on camera realize it yet, but the coverage of the NYC Half Marathon is live now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS1n...

In her marathon debut 🤯

I was riding in a car while watching the NCAA 3,000m final, so forgive me for not posting about it. But here are some distance replays from the weekend, ICYMT. 5,000m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPl... DMR: www.youtube.com/watch?v=io1f... Mile: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou7s... The rest coming soon...

What a bummer that Alabama's Doris Lemngole has had to scratch from today's 3,000m final at the NCAA Indoor Championships. She's apparently dealing with a foot injury since the Millrose Games. (As I said yesterday, she hasn't looked like herself.) She's the NCAA's best distance runner but maybe...

Best reaction of the day goes to Clemson's Gladys Chepngetich, who led the NCAA 800m final wire to wire and won in 2:00.01. She was the NCAA leader coming in, but aside from a 600m win in her home opener, this is her first win of the season. Big race for Arkansas at home as they went 2-3.

The NCAA mile final wasn't my favorite kind of race. We got to watch the equivalent of five laps of jogging (relatively speaking), one tempo lap, and then a mostly all-out 400m. Wilma Nielsen repeated as champion, running 4:40.06 with a 58.68-second final lap. Rosemary Longisa took 2nd in 4:40.21.

3/4 of Oregon's NCAA-winning distance medley relay team ran the mile prelims earlier tonight. But combining the men's and women's sessions again (instead of doing all the women's events and then all of the men's) made it slightly easier to double this year. They ran 10:48.76 for the win.

Love seeing Iowa State's Makayla Clark run so well on the leadoff leg of the distance medley relay after she missed getting into the 800m field by 0.01 seconds.

An emotional Jane Hedengren wins her first NCAA title, taking the 5,000m in 15:00.12. She tried *not* leading at the start, but the pace was extremely slow, so she took over less than two minutes in, and never relinquished the lead. She covered her last three laps in 33.14, 31.81, and 32.62.