Breakfast Club: March 9, 2020
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curated running news and other curious content
Impalas flying through the Olympic Trials. Photo: @baklinerunning
Good morning!
Welcome back to Breakfast Club, your (bi)weekly dose of outdoor content. Here's what I was thinking about this week.
running(ish) news
Front of the Pack:
Here are the Olympic Marathon Trials stories that caught my eye:
The everyday heroes who raced the Trials. (Outside)
Marty Hehir finishing 6th despite stopping to take a poop. (Letsrun)
An impressive collection of images from the women's race. (Outside)
The case for keeping Olympic Trials fields really big. (Fast Women)
A bunch of folks fell during the race. Big packs, wind, and high midsole stack height were the likely culprits. (Runner's World)
Coronavirus impacts: the Paris Marathon has been postponed, the Rome Marathon was cancelled, the World Half Marathon championships are postponed, the Olympics are still on but several qualifying events have been disrupted.
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