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Nice work, JackNYC! You saved me a lot of poring through meet results. Wariner had to fight brutal swirling winds (which are deadly to 400 runners): http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=59827.html Nice to see Fischer doing work. Schuler, unfortunately, has a misleading name.

Well, improvement in sport is rarely as linear as we might hope. It appears that his dreadful indoor season (unable to reach his 2010 bests) has carried over to the outdoor. Last year, he ran much faster to start the season: 10.09. He's young, I guess, and his body's changing, so it may be...

Thanks for the videos. Solomon is a burgeoning superstar. You never know how these young prodigies will develop, but right now it looks like the sky is the limit for him.

9.98. His 10 second days are over, boys.

I hope some of these races will soon be available online. Steve Solomon--wow! In my mind, he's the story. Even after a couple of days of heats, he corks off a 45.58--at the age of 17. This now officially puts him way, way ahead of our two young US stalwarts, Brady Gehret (Penn State) and Neil...

Here's the 1500m from last night's Mt. Sac Relays. Russell Brown wins, after having also done well indoors. Solinsky shows up well in 2nd, so his speed is looking good for a run at the Kenyans in his specialty, the 5k. Miles Batty of BYU hung with the pros to finish a close third. Patrick Casey...

And today it looks like Melissa will be taking on the equally luscious Laura Whaler (we were all salivating over her breathtaking beauty a few months ago) in the Australian championships. What kind of country produces women that look like that and run that fast? Anyway, keep us abreast on the...

They've set the field for the Stawell Gift (where various runners are started at staggered points according to their times), and a woman, Melissa Breen, is in the field this year. I'm not sure if that's new, but I am sure that she is beyond hot. Gender solidarity be damned, I'll be pulling for...

That's good news. Sports writers are generally so uninterested in track that we rarely know when someone is injured. As far as I knew, Kilty had just disappeared from view. Along those lines, some of you may remember a French guy about the same age, Martin Lamy. I recall him showing some...

Outside Connaughton's brilliant run, this wasn't a huge weekend. However, some of the high school kids put on some great performances. In particular, Sarah Baxter is starting to looking like another Zola Budd. At 14, she slaughtered national competition and set a new national best in the 3200...

Well, allow me to give you another 110 prospect. In a year depressingly short of top high schoolers, Jonathan Cabral is US #1 at both the 110 and the 300 hurdles. He's heading to Oregon next year, and looks like he could be great at either the 110 or the 400h as a collegian.

Sheesh--what a video. His start looks incredible. And he is just annihilating some darned good training partners over the first 20 meters (towards the end of the video). Now if only Christophe could bust out of the blocks like that. Or if Jared could finish a race like Christophe.

Actually, it looks like he had a huge (not allowable) wind at his back. 3.8. So the time isn't that good. Any news on the Euro front lately? Pickering? The Germans? I wish the season would start heating up soon. We've yet to see a 400 from Wariner or a race of any distance from Wheating. Maybe...

Looking at the results so far, that was Gehret's second race of the day. Earlier he ran a slow 400, so it was good to see him come back in the deuce. In the 800, Loxsom was a DNF. Let's just hope that wasn't an injury.

I don't know how many interesting races there will be, but I just checked on the Floriday relays, live broadcast on distancepreps, and saw Brady Gehret from Penn State win the fourth heat of the 200 handily. 20.93. Not bad for a true 400 runner.

Here's an early season world lead in the 400 by Van Zyl. http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/van-zyl-runs-400m-world-lead-semenya-sets-seasons-best/ In other news, Wariner ran a disappointing 200 yesterday, running a high school time and getting beat by 3/10's of a second. Hopefully, it was...

I haven't seen a video yet. It was at the Texas Tri-Meet with Texas-Arkansas-UCLA. Prior to that race, I believe his PR was a 10.46, so he shattered it. In fact, if the IAAF updates its list soon, that will stand as the fourth fastest time in the world so far, and only .04 behind the best time...

Here in the U.S. the season is just getting started with some minor meets that a lot of the top athletes opt out of, resting up from the championships, or simply run in off events. I did just notice an interesting result tonight: Marek Niit, sophomore from Arkansas, ran the 100m, even though I...

Wet track, too. Really bad conditions. In the same meet, an interesting result for the 17 yr-old kid, Solomon, in the 400. 3rd, but ran a 46.25, I think, and it was after a week of flu. Given the combination of wind, rain, and flu, that's a great time. Heck, it's an excellent time for a 17...

Took me a while just to find this thread. http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/17/2930531/healthy-wariner-will-aim-at-world.html

And here's a quick video showing on the one hand the 25 or so girls required to win the girl's team championship and on the other hand the one skinny red-haired kid required to win the national team championship for boys. This is quite likely a feat that will never be duplicated...

A brilliant run for Aisling Cuffe this weekend: http://ny.milesplit.com/articles/62483

It wasn't enough that Lukas crushed the national HS record for the 5k on Friday. He came back the next day to win the national championship in the mile and 2 mile. Three national championships in one weekend for a distance runner. I believe that he singlehandedly won the team championship as...

Well I didn't get a chance to watch the races (which will be rebroadcast on ESPN Weds, when I'm at work), but day two went much better than day one: 1) Gehret! Third in the country as a freshman. 2) Jordan Hasay! It's time I finally gave props to the blonde wonder who took the gold in BOTH the...

Lukas annihilated the high school national record for the 5k indoor last night, knocking a ridiculous TWELVE SECONDS off the record that he himself set two years ago. Freaking WOW.