Breakfast Club: February 10, 2020
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curated running news and other curious content
Katie Klymco, in flight during last Sunday's Kaiser Permanente 10K.
Good morning!
Welcome back to Breakfast Club, your (bi)weekly dose of outdoor content.
Here's a recap of the running(ish) news I've read this week:
running(ish) news
Front of the Pack:
The Milrose Games featured three new American indoor records:
Elle Purrier won the Wanamaker Mile (NBC, Twitter)
Donavan Brazier dropped the hammer in the last lap of the 800 (NBC, Twitter)
Nico Young broke the high-school record for the 3,000 meters
Recap on Letsrun.com
Nike Vaporflys avoided an Olympics ban. But new rules mean that elite runners can no longer compete in prototypes unavailable on the open market. (NYTimes)
Exercise science writer Alex Hutchinson weighs in on the Vaporflys: "The real problem was that the shoes worked too well. It wasn’t a case of cheating, but of innovation that had succeeded so much that it upset the delicate co…
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