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Joshua Cheptegei (UGA) has set a new world record on the 5km this morning in Monaco. Cheptegei finished the Monaco Run 5km in a time of 12 minutes and 51 seconds and by doing so took an impressive 27 seconds of the previous world record set by Rhonex Kipruto (KEN) which stood at 13:18.
Running for Wake Forest, the talented and gritty Aussie, Zach Facioni, has broken the school indoor 3000m record, clocking 7:55.92 to take out the win at the Iowa State Classic. It is just one of a string of awesome performances that Facioni has run recently, cementing himself as a serious player on the NCAA scene, and justifying his move from Sydney to the American collegiate system.
One week after breaking the pole vault world record in Torun, Armand Duplantis improved the mark to 6.18m* at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow, part of the World Athletics Indoor Tour, on Saturday (15). The Swedish vaulter was in imperious form. He opened at 5.50m and got over 5.75m...
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Ajee Wilson prior to USATF Indoor Championships. Ajee broke her own indoor American record for 800 meters last week. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8XgAn1jFRJ/
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Interview yesterday with Bryce Hoppel going into USATF Indoor Championships. Bryce was the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor champion last year and was 4th at the World Championships.
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Elle Purrier interview. Elle broke the American indoor record at both 1500 meters and the mile last weekend in the Millrose Games last week. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8W1fxBH-Ty/
Two Olympic qualifiers from Eleanor Patterson and Nicola McDermott in the women’s high jump have lead the charge at the 2020 Canberra Track Classic. Although both Patterson and McDermott had already jumped the Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifying height (1.96m), McDermott in June 2019 in Ostrava and Patterson in January 2020 in Canberra, they both again cleared 1.96m at the meet.
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Run 30 for Movember

Do you think you can run 465 kms in 30 days?? YES......465 kms in 30 days.  I created the run30formovember challenge to raise money for Men's health during Movember 2019. The challenge was to run 1 km per day corresponding to that day of the month. Day 1 was 1 km, day 2 was 2 km, day 5 was 5 kms so on until I hit day 30 when I ran 30 kms. Total kms I ran in 30 days back to back with no rest day was 465 kms!! So to crunch the numbers, that was just over 11 Marathons or 22 half marathons.