Kristyn R Smith

@LincolnRestler What if vehicles just followed the traffic laws and those were enforced? Yeah sorry road closures are an inconvenience, that doesn’t give license to do whatever!

This is wild and unsafe. I love the 5 Boro bike tour - rode in it this morning! - but we have to do more to get the word out to people about traffic disruptions for major events. We had significant challenges last week with 1/2 marathon.

At the London marathon last Sunday, Yomif Kejelcha did something everyone thought was impossible. He did something no human had done before. Well, almost. An interview with the man who will always be 11 seconds from immortality. observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

Results: #USA5KChamps in Indianapolis this morning. Drew Hunter and Dylan Jacobs prevailed in a 4-up sprint, while Karissa Schweizer and Emma Grace Hurley held off Gracie Hyde and Allie Ostrander in the last 800m. Top-2 M/W qualified for 2026 World Road Running Champs.

@Predamame @XcCris @usatf I can tell you they are recruiting volunteers as I’ve filled out the form. But it would be good to let people buy tickets before the event gets here 😀

Dear @usatf, do we know when tickets for USA outdoors will go on sale? I've got the next 17k championship loaded up in my calendar.

@jgault13 @letsrundotcom I remember the big hoopla over Kiptum’s supposed crazy split in Chicago, which was later walked back. I’m glad that was mentioned.

Sabastian Sawe's 1:59:30 world record at the London Marathon was incredible. But one part of it may have been too good to be true: he almost certainly did not run his 24th mile in 4:12. letsrun.com/news/2026/05/d…

It's not just the men's marathon with record-setting times. Women running sub-2:20:00 over 26.2 miles: 2022 - 28 2023 - 25 2024 - 31 2025 - 28 2026 - 34 (so far)

As far as I understood from the adidas rep that visits frequently, they are moving to a carbon ring design. Both the evo 3 and pro 5. The reason for doing that is mainly the weight. Carbon plates have been used as a way to stabilise super squishy foam materials, but they are still 'heavy'. Adidas has now figured out a way to create a more stable foam, that doesn't need a full carbon plate or rods to support it. That's why they can move to this ring design to still give the shoe some lateral stiffness but reduce overall weight. Pretty cool to see and can't wait to try the pro 5 on foot.

Update: List of prominent USA marathons ranked by their women's course records. Margaret Groos's winning time from the 1988 USA Olympic Trials in Pittsburgh remains the event record.

1:59:30. The story behind the historic performance of Sabastian Sawe. Watch the full ‘Chasing Sub 2’ film on adidas YouTube now. Link in bio. #Adizero

Update: List of prominent USA marathons ranked by their men's course records. Columbus and Rocket City Marathon records are 46 years old! (Women coming up next)

@NCBlake @d9monti Sawe, Korir, Kejelcha and Kiplimo all in 1 race. I vote Valencia. Boom goes the dynamite 🧨 (it won’t happen just giving my dream scenario)

@d9monti Sawe vs. Korir on the Boston course would be amazing.

Unsolicited Advice: Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha should not run in a time-oriented race for their next marathon. The last thing they need to do is attempt to lower the world record. They should both run the #TCSNYCMarathon 😀

Athletes running sub-2:05:00 in the men's marathon: 2022: 21 2023: 29 2024: 28 2025: 27 2026 so far: 29

A little more for the marathon nerds: Yomif Kejelcha ran 1:59:41 to become the second man under two hours in a legal race and he was on Sabastian Sawe's shoulder until 41K. Took a bit different of a fueling approach. The Santamadre team, an emerging Spanish company, shared his fueling plan with the targeted amounts at each station. A few things stood out to me, if I'm reading this correctly. Kejelcha planned to take roughly 60ml of fluid at most stations, which is estimated at less than half of Sawe's intake (though it's worth noting runners often toss bottles quickly and don't hit their targets exactly). He skipped 5K entirely and took nothing at 40K. 🗣️Santamadre co-founder Alfonso Beltrá López:  “We took advantage of the pre-race window to reduce digestive load as much as possible. We knew exactly how much fluid the athlete loses and how much energy his body consumes, as we had monitored him 24/7 over the previous three months: body temperature, breathing rate, heart rate and oxygen saturation. We also controlled his caloric load in detail. The strategy was to provide 287.4 g of carbohydrates between the pre-race and in-race fueling, in addition to the 580 g of glycogen we had built up during the two-day carb-loading phase before the race.” I didn't know as much about their products beforehand but the Unusual Fuel (taken by him at 15K, 25K, 35K) is a high-carb drink mix: 100g of carbs and 500mg of sodium per 500ml. Unusual Gel 45 is a 45g carb gel in a 1:1 glucose-to-fructose ratio, available with or without caffeine. He used the caffeinated version pre-race and at 20K.  Then there's Reset Gel (10K, 30K), which is an interesting one. It's billed as a CNS fatigue blocker with 300mg of tart cherry polyphenols. It also has 30g of carbs. It kicks in quick and his two doses overlapped to cover most of the second half.  🗣️ López: “We used RESET Gel at 10K and 20K, a gel designed to help control muscle damage and reset fatigue. It was one of the key parts of our strategy, exactly as we had seen in the specific training sessions.” Finally, the Prototype he sipped for 75 minutes pre-race is a new product in the works. Santamadre says more is coming on that in the months ahead. 🗣️López: “It was a real shame he couldn’t grab the last bottle at 35K. We believe everything could have changed. At 41K, he ran empty; those extra three minutes could have been covered by the 12.4 g of carbohydrates planned for that point.”

We hope you try and support your local newspaper. This is an EXCELLENT intro from @DBriggsBlade's recap of Vincent Mauri's unreal 2:05:54 marathon in Toledo.

Adidas honors Sabastian Sawe’s historic sub-2-hour marathon with a giant billboard at London’s iconic Piccadilly Circus

@IntraRunner The adidas naming is very silly and also extremely confusing.

Nike: “our fastest shoe is the Alphafly 3” Adidas: “our fastest shoes is the ‘adizero adios pro evo 3’, it’s not available. It will never be. Some shoes on our site are named similar. Actually a lot are. None are available in the US. No we can’t tell you the difference.”

5 of the top 6 marathons of all time are now negative splits Sawe, 2026 (60:29/59:01) Kejelcha, 2026 (60:29/59:12) Kiplimo, 2026 (60:29/59:59) Kiptum, 2023 (60:48/59:47) Kipchoge, 2022 (59:51/61:18) Kiptum, 2023 (61:40/59:45) Kipchoge never ran this way, Kiptum changed the game

Eight men have run inside 2:02:00 for the marathon in history. Four did so for the first time yesterday. London now has five of the ten fastest times in history (Berlin 3, Chicago 2, Valencia 1).

5:51 🇰🇪 S.Sawe - London 2026