7.6 miles and some strides. Felt surprisingly fresh after the weekend race and long run.

It wasn't too hot, 74°F, but still felt like running in a swamp.

An easy 15 miler with some guys I vaguely knew at the race yesterday that invited me to do a long run. I had 12 planned for today already and the extra 3 felt good having some interesting people to talk to.

Still felt like running in a swamp.

Nice hard fought and impressive win kawasa!  

The meet was great. The thing about Diamond League races (the top dozen or so professional track meets of the year, held around the world) is that they are somewhat contrived and none more so than America's only event the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, OR. It's put on by Nike so 3/4 of the athletes competing are wearing the same uniform. And events are often set up to favor selected athletes. Nevertheless, there was great competition.

Nikki Hiltz pulled off a big upset, taking down gold medalist and world record Faith Kipyegon in the mile (4:17). Kipyegon has raced sparingly in 2026 and just didn't have the kick over the final lap. Hiltz took care of that as well as well as the rest of the field.

The men's mile was also heavily touted, with all of the American stars in there (Nuguse, Hocker, Kessler) but they were no match for the Australian 20 year old Cam Meyers who took the lead on the backstretch with a lap and a half to go, leaving the Olympic and World Championships medalists in his wake, 3:46 for Meyers and the entire field was under 3:50!

Other highlights were 18 year old Tate Taylor of San Antonio, TX running 19.75 in the 200 to take down a championship level field. Meliss Jefferson Wooden outleaning Sha'Carrie Richardson in the women's 100 10.78 to 10.79. Lillian Odira upsetting Keely Hodgkinson in the 800, and American teen phenom Cooper Lutkenhaus getting beat in the men's 800 by Brandon Miller.

There was also some great field event action!

Congrats on your win Kawasa!
Thanks for the USA birthday shoutout Fast Eddie.

I did an easy 6 on the 4th.

3 mile tempo session. It was war zone here too until at least 2 or 3 am.


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It was WWIII outside last night, first year in our new house/new neighborhood which is pretty quiet but they were at it for about 4 hours.

15.8 mile progression, starting out easy for about 5.5 miles and then bringing down to 7:30 and eventually sub 7:10 pace for 9+ miles. Trying to build some resilience.  65 miles for the week.

Ran my July 4 3 miler. I won a hard fought race, running anywhere from 1st to 4th till 2.6 miles when I put in my final pass and ended up with a 15:33. Course pr for me. I did a mile warm up and 3 mile cool down to make it 7 for the day.

Temps felt good in the shaded start but quickly felt nasty in the sun. It was 80°F with 81% humidity.

Happy 250th to my Amerikun cuzins.

Worked a 5K this morning, with rain showers moving through. Thank god no thunder and lightning, but the Kids 1K was cancelled just to be safe.

After watching the Canada-Morocco game, went out for a 12K run. By then the showers have moved on. 

Seems like they like to have the Pre meet either on Memorial Day weekend (anniversary of his death) or 4th of July (rarely or occasionally July).

Some big races in store, mostly the men's and women's mile for which this meet is usually most famous. There is no 5000 or 10000 this year but some good fields in the 2 mile which is an odd and arcane distance. Men's 800 features high schoo sensation Cooper Lutkenhaus, who has run 1:42 and won the world indoor title in the 800.

The men's mile should be great with gold medalist Cole Hocker facing off against Yared Nuguse and Aussie superstar (just 20 yr) Cam Meyers.

Women's 800 is going to feature Keely Hodgkinson of GB who is on a quest to break the world record (along with Audrey Werro of Switzerland, but I think Werro's staying home this weekend).

For the sprint fans the men's and women's 100s and HH will be lit as well.

Pre is the only Diamond League meet in North America. It's kind of a big deal. Shown on Peacock tonight and tomorrow afternoon.