Enjoyed this update from Katie Izzo after her breakthrough runner-up performance at the USATF Cross Country Championships earlier this month. Next up, she’ll race the World Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee on January 10th. fastpeople.buzzsprout.com/2442756/epis...

Here's today's newsletter. And after getting some vaccines yesterday, this is all the newsletter promotion I have the energy to do today ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ fastwomen.substack.com/p/fast-women...

The Marathon Project produced six new qualifiers for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials on the women's side. Some annotated results: 1. Priscah Cherono (KEN) 2:25:17 - She's 45! What a return! 2. Molly Grabill (USA) 2:28:56 - OTQ 3. Jane Bareikis (USA) 2:30:16 - she already OTQed at Twin Cities...

Priscah Cherono, a 45-year-old mother of three who retired from running during the pandemic before making a comeback, wins the Marathon Project in 2:25:17. She is a 2008 Olympian in the 5,000m and won bronze in the 5,000m at the 2007 world championships. According to World Athletics, this is...

I'm impressed by the Marathon Project's commentary team to get information on the fly. They went from oh, Priscah Cherono is in the field? To Molly Seidel immediately knowing details about her off the top of her head. And then Josh Cox stopped along the course to get details about her from her coach

These are the deepest Marathon Project results I’ve seen.

Here are the Marathon Project leaders at halfway, except the leader, Priscah Cherono, is missing from the leaderboard for some reason.

Priscah Cherono, 45, continues to lead the Marathon Project and kudos to the man has stepped up to serve as her pacer. She was on her own for quite a while. Also really appreciating Molly Seidel’s commentary on the broadcast.

These shots from the Marathon Project are fun. I hope the athletes can’t hear when Josh Cox says who in the pack is laboring the most 😀

No Marathon Project updates from me, sorry, gotta get my workout in (while watching). But this is the best results source I've found: racerecord.com/race/leaderb... It has the same information as the app does. I wish I could see beyond the top 10 without following the entire field, though.

Even though I'm not really into the awards side of the sport, I'm happy to see Doris Lemngole win The Bowerman. Her 8:58.15 steeplechase alone 🤯 (I just feel like we already have a sport that's good at objectively determining who's best, so we don't need people to do it again later.) Bah humbug.

I never seek out stories about runners who have overcome REDs or eating disorders. In fact, I would love to tell fewer of them. But they are just, apparently, really hard to avoid when writing about high-level running.

This is heartbreaking. And it's running-relevant because she was a serious runner. www.al.com/crime/2025/1...

I don’t miss being a participant on Twitter, but I do miss having the ability to repost other people’s content. (I mean I have the ability to, over there, I’m just not going to do it.)

This week's newsletter. Didn't want to start this off with a long piece, but Bridget Blum's story is worth knowing (and scrolling for, IMO). fastwomen.substack.com/p/fast-women...

Sinclaire Johnson's winning time of 4:21.66 at the #MerrieMile was: . National record . Course record . All-comers record . 2025 world leader Course is @worldathletics.org - certified and record eligible. Photo timing by Record Timing. Photo: Jane Monti for Race Results Weekly

Race is today, around 12:45 p.m. ET, and it will stream on Citius Mag's YouTube channel. www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php...

In the current environment, whoever says it the loudest winds up being "right." But as I mentioned in the newsletter, CIM produced 54 qualifiers on the women's side, not 55. Because Carolyn Buchanan, who also ran great, is Canadian. It's wrong everywhere so far, but at least USATF will get it right

I was late to notice this. This means that at least two cities put in bids. www.yourvalley.net/stories/phoe...

I am not a fan of the way Substack is now trying to force mobile users into their app to continue reading content when the posts are too long for email. (And mine always are.) Here’s the link to read today’s full newsletter. In the future, I’ll include it at the top of my emails.

I took this poor-quality video with my yesterday to attempt to convey what it’s like to be at BU indoor meets, but this did not capture it. But it’s basically a lot of running in circles while people yell at you. But the sounds don’t really come through the same way.

These "AI-powered" results from CIM are going to be the death of me. And whose idea was it to use this font? (Screenshot of the men because it's taking the women's results like 10 minutes to load.)

2:38:55 for Courtney Dauwalter at CIM, a huge PR.

So many women just qualified for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials at CIM that the leaderboard doesn't list them all. More than 50. That's ridiculous, but this is also the single race (not just CIM, but CIM this year) most likely to produce qualifiers.

What a memorable debut for Molly Born. She was visibly struggling at the end, and fell within sight of the finish line. But she got up and got across the finish line in an event record of 2:24:09.

I appreciate the spectators here, as Molly Born closes out the California International Marathon and appears to be on her way to a win in her marathon debut.

Bye, everyone. (Including the men she was running with.) I can see the "Born for the Marathon" headlines now.

In the 20th mile at CIM, Molly Born is opening up a lead in her debut marathon. It's reminiscent of what her Puma Elite teammate, Fiona O'Keeffe, did in her debut marathon.

In the 19th mile at CIM, Sara Hall isn't out of it, but she's let a tiny gap open up. Up front, we now have two athletes who are debuting at the distance: Molly Born and Megan Sailor.

In the 18th mile at CIM, Biruktayit Degefa has dropped back a bit. TBD if it's just temporary.

One of the runners who didn't quite make it into the top 50 at halfway but is still on Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying pace (2:37:00) at CIM is Courtney Dauwalter. She went through halfway in 1:18:33.

15 miles into CIM, Megan Sailor went to the front and now the lead pack is down to four (with Molly Born, Biruktayit Degefa, and Sara Hall) as Lindsey Bradley and Annie Heffernan drop back.

In the 15th mile of CIM, it's finally easier to see the women's leaders.

The live results only seem to go 50 deep, but halfway through the California International Marathon, there are at least 50 women on pace (or close enough) to hit the Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time of 2:37:00. 50th place is 1:18:32.

There are six runners in the lead pack halfway through the California International Marathon: Megan Sailor, Biruktayit Degefa, Molly Born, Sara Hall, Annie Heffernan, and Lindsey Bradley. They split 1:12:18-19. Anne-Marie Blaney runs in seventh, 52 seconds back.

Here's what's happening at CIM so far 😂 At least the audio is good.

New Olympic Marathon Trials qualifiers from this morning's Valencia Marathon: Emma Bates 2:25:51 Keira D'Amato 2:28:14 Kidan Kidane 2:33:05 Maddie Offstein 2:33:27 Allie Schaich 2:35:51 Probably a few more to come later today, at CIM :)

Valencia Marathon results. Impressive run by Joyciline Jepkosgei, but also a little unfortunate that the fact that she had a personal pacer and Peres Jepchirchir did not seemed to affect how the race played out. Not their fault, everything was within the rules, just not the way you want to see it go

I don't see anything new here, but they spoke to David Howman of the AIU about Ruth Chepngetich's case and doping in track & field. www.nine.com.au/sport/athlet...

Don't know what prompted me to look this up but here are USADA's most-tested T&F athletes of 2025 so far. 13 - Paul Chelimo 12 - Anna Hall 11 - Ajee' Wilson, Kaela Edwards, Lindsay Flanagan, Shelby Houlihan 10- Grant Fisher, Cole Hocker This doesn't include samples collected by other entities...

New episode of Fast People, with Laurie Henes, out today. I really appreciate her saying this (and a lot of other things). I considered posting this on Threads as well, but it seems like it's really easy for content to get into the wrong hands over there. fastpeople.buzzsprout.com/2442756/epis...

I could have sworn I saw something about the USATF XC Championships being on USATF TV. But I was wrong, so I put the wrong information in Monday's newsletter. Sorry! Here's the streaming link: nxn.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php...

Last chance to enter this giveaway to get an early copy of Mary Cain's book. And if you win, you must let me know, because I am dying to discuss it with someone. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Entries for the elite window at Saturday's Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener at BU: goterriers.com/documents/20... And general entries (listed alphabetically, not by seed time): goterriers.com/documents/20... Track season has arrived.

Nothing surprising here, but a brief update on bidding process for the 2028 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials from the latest USATF LDR report. And a reminder (from me, not them) that the RFP document stated that the race must be held the weekend of March 25-26, 2028.

“You see all these things about girl power and doing sports. But there’s still real reticence to admit, statistically, how many girls and women are being sexually abused in sport, and that frustrates me.” [email protected] Today's newsletter: fastwomen.substack.com/p/fast-women...

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