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TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 📫 • London Marathon recap 🇬🇧 • Happy Opening Day, Running Fans ⚾️ • 9.93… That’s It! That’s the Headline! 💨 • THIS is why racing matters and NOT time! 🏆 • @BeastsTC Break The DMR World Record 📈 • Catching up w/ @HWynning ✍️ thelapcount.com/p/hitting-bell…
Doing my best @JoePompliano impression in today’s newsletter! Lap 163: How about that comment section!⏱️ Sponsored by: VELOUS Read: thelapcount.com/p/comment-sect… 🏃👩💻
📫 IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER: • Boston Marathon — Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner 🦄 • Parker Valby Takes Her First Crack At The 10K 🐊 • A WR In The Field Of Dreams 🛸 • Team USA Uniforms Make Major Splash 💦 • The Diamond League’s Future in USA 💎 thelapcount.com/p/comment-sect…
WORLD RECORD! 🚨 74.41M!!!! MYKOLAS ALEKNA!! Takes down the world record of 74.08m set by Jürgen Schult in 1986 #BigThrowsGuy
📫 THIS WEEK’S NEWSLETTER: • Team USA says ❌ to Peru 🇵🇪 • The Run Across Africa 🌍 • Welcome back, Christina Mboma 🇳🇦 • What do we think of the Australian qualifying system? 🇦🇺 • 6 Things To Watch At The Boston Marathon 🦄 Read more: thelapcount.com/p/monday-yet
BREAKING NEWS: @BeaverTFXC’s Kaylee Mitchell has turned pro and signed with Nike to join the @BowermanTC and be coached by Jerry Schumacher✍🏻 🗣️ “I could tell he was someone that I would really get along with. We were laughing, making jokes, but also talking about making…
And they said being a philosophy major was worthless! Flexed those mind muscles in this week’s mailbox to solve doping in the sport. Plus, you know I love to announce athlete signings… Lap 160: What’s in the box?⏱️ Sponsored by: @on_running Read: thelapcount.com/p/whats-box 🏃👩💻
Mailbag Edition Today! 📫 Readers submitted questions like: • Should there be a separate all-time ranking list for runners without super shoes? • If you were hired by the NCAA to create a March Madness of track, how would you structure it? + more thelapcount.com/p/whats-box
Recapped my whole indoor season from a 3k PR in January to tripping at nationals in March in this week’s @TheLapCount. Check at the full recap on the @CitiusMag website too! citiusmag.com/articles/gary-…
The easiest way to differentiate and identify the clones wearing whatever this year’s jersey color would be to add numbers to the back. So I asked the pros which they would choose. Lap 158: Lemme get yo number?⏱️ Sponsored by: @drinkolipop Read: thelapcount.com/p/lemme-get-yo… 🏃♂️👩💻
THIS WEEK’S NEWSLETTER: – The Best of NCAAs 🏆 – Pick a number, any number: Which would pros take? #️⃣ – What are these kids up to? 👶 – College vs. High School Nationals 👨🎓 + more rapid-fire highlights You can read this week's newsletter here ➡️ thelapcount.com/p/lemme-get-yo…
You want kudos for your 5K PB set at a local road race, but when a professional medals for their country at World Indoors you’ll give it an asterisk because “not everyone was there.” Lap 157: Tuning up for NCAAs⏱️ Sponsored by: @newbalance Read: thelapcount.com/p/tuning-ncaas 🏃👩💻
Only a year in between and the standards to make the @NCAATrackField indoor championships keep 📈😮💨 Here’s a breakdown of the 16th & final qualifying mark to make the meet in 2023 vs. 2024 across the men’s distance events + the 12th and final qualifying mark in the DMR.
Only a year in between and the standards to make the @NCAATrackField indoor championships keep 📈😮💨 Here’s a breakdown of the 16th & final qualifying mark to make the meet in 2023 vs. 2024 across the women’s distance events + the 12th and final qualifying mark in the DMR.
Three years of writing this newsletter every Wednesday! Thank you to the 16,000+ subscribers who entertain all of my silly opinions about what is happening in T&F each week ✍️ Lap 156: This is NOT a Worlds preview⏱️ Sponsored by: @newbalance Read: thelapcount.com/p/not-worlds-p… 🏃👩💻
I think setting up a Salesforce Trailhead account and completing some basic badges should be a requirement for serving on the board of USATF.
I think setting up a Salesforce Trailhead account and completing some basic badges should be a requirement for serving on the board of USATF. https://t.co/ymh6ennYbr
How USATF Could Increase Viewership For Its Events, Athletes And Championships "There are enough barriers to entry to becoming a track fan as is. There are too many events, a million meets, a confusing ranking system, and a lack of establishment media coverage that all combine…
Is Letsile Tebogo The Biggest Threat To Noah Lyles? "It’s not the hottest take to suggest that the 20-year-old, who earned two medals at last year’s World Championships, would be the biggest threat to upend Noah Lyles’ 200m dominance. But after Letsile Tebogo set a new world…
That feeling when you run a 2:08 just to get a mention in @TheLapCount and it’s still not good enough.
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“If in 2022, he ran 6.55 for 60m indoors and 9.91 for 100m outdoors, and then in 2023 he ran 6.51 and got down to 9.83 and a World Championship, what will a 6.44 bring? Confusing anime references is the only thing I can promise.” Yo @TheLapCount I can break these down for you.
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I didn’t realize it defaulted to a 3 hour test period so most readers got it at 8:15AM. I’ll be interested to see if this changes the open rate in anyway which is consistently ~71%
Tried out the A/B test feature in this morning’s @TheLapCount newsletter. 10% of subscribers were first sent one of two subject lines: “A/B Test: 5000m” or “You get an NIL! And you get an NIL!” After a delay, the more popular of the two was sent to the remaining 90% 📬
“A large number of athletes are going to be showing up to the start line held together by KT Tape and a Hail Mary deep tissue massage the morning of their flight to Florida.” Lap 149: Everything to know in running⏱️ Sponsored by: @newbalance Read: thelapcount.com/p/everything-k… 🏃👩💻
This week in @TheRealMerb’s @TheLapCount newsletter: “Text your friends that the Diamond League race that you were telling them about is about to start.” Me doing just that (and I won’t ever relent!):
A few from this morning’s USA 5K champs in NYC for @TheLapCount Shot from 300m to go.
Do you love the sports of TFXC ? If you are not subscribed to @TheLapCount | @CitiusMag own @TheRealMerb I question your Love.
Athing Mu did not stop to talk with the media in the mixed zone but I did ask if she designed the spikes or if it was Nike. She said, “None of the above.”
This #USATFOutdoors take from @TheRealMerb in this week's @TheLapCount 👇
𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘼 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙤𝙣 🥵 10 days ago, @TheRealMerb decided to jump in and pace 2x Olympian and World Indoor champion @AjeeW in a workout as she prepares for the U.S. Championships Here’s how it went… 🎥 ➡️ youtu.be/h10scNU1Xyk
It was a journey back to the start line of a steeplechase for @steeple_squigs since breaking her foot last year at USAs but she won the first race back in 9:32.48 at the Portland Track Festival! Full Interview ➡️ youtu.be/i6KKgrwhGis
Four years after graduating from Westfield College with a 5000m best of 17:11, Jessie Cardin stopped teaching and moved to Michigan to pursue professional running. Now she returns home for the Boston Marathon. @hansonsrun @HansonsDistProj @brooksrunning citiusmag.com/jessie-cardin-…
I just learned in @TheRealMerb newsletter that the 8:25.09 steeple Ketchikan’s own @IsaacUpdike ran recently was the world-leading time. If you’re a track nerd, Merber’s weekly newsletter, @TheLapCount is must read. Also, he ran the first outdoor sub-4 mile in Alaska.
"If I’m going to put myself in a position to qualify for a World Championship then I have to be able to take care of business at the NCAA level if that’s going to happen." – @Vol_Track's NCAA champion Dylan Jacobs (via @TheLapCount) citiusmag.com/dylan-jacobs-i…
"It would not be the national meet if it were not for the best performers in the country coming together to put on a show and that’s exactly what they did." @TheRealMerb's top 7 stars to remember from #NBNationals citiusmag.com/new-balance-na…
"It is shocking that there are track fans who are still dim enough to think that a one-off gimmick will ever make any impact on the sport." – @TheRealMerb on why @cheetah's 60m dash is neither #GoodForTheSport nor #BadForTheSport (via @TheLapCount) citiusmag.com/tyreek-hill-60…