STOP ELLE 🛑 Elle St. Pierre shows why she’s the woman to watch at any distance with a dominant 5000m win at the LA Grand Prix in 14:34.12. St. Pierre led the race from the moment the rabbits stepped off and still closed her last 400m in 63 seconds to knock 24 seconds off her PB, knock out her Olympic standard, and land at U.S. #5 all-time.

HEATHER MACLEAN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT 👀 After missing some time indoors due to injury, @heathair31 decisively reinserts herself into the Olympic conversation with a 4:02.49 heat win in the 1500m at the LA Grand Prix. MacLean took off like a rocket with 600 meters remaining and knocks out the Olympic standard by 1/100th of a second. Talk about getting the job done!

What a comeback ‼️ One year after a serious car accident derailed their seasons, @UNCTrack_Field seniors Will Coogan and Patrick Anderson finish 1-3 in heat 1 of the @pennrelays 5000m. In their first season back competing, Coogan took the win in 13:52.60 and Anderson finished 3rd in 13:53.86.

“Science follows good coaching.” 🫡 While in Boston, we popped over to @Team_NB_Boston coach @mark_coogan’s office to record an episode of ‘Office Hours’ on The CITIUS MAG Podcast. We closed things out by playing a game of “Overrated Or Underrated” to discuss the biggest advances and fads in distance running coaching right now. 📚 Get his quick take on: • Alter-Gs • Double Threshold • Blood Lactate Testing • Boston University’s Track • Super Shoes • Pacing Lights • Bicarb • Running On Soft Surfaces • Weight Lifting • Cross Training When Healthy • Altitude Training + more… 🎧 Catch the full interview on The CITIUS MAG Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5TK…

🇺🇸 Winner: American Middle-Distance Fans "If someone told you that one country would pick up 7 medals across 800m, 1500m, and 3000m this weekend, even the most optimistic of American track fans would probably not have guessed that it was the U.S., not Ethiopia, that claimed such a large haul. But Team USA’s middle-distance contingent delivered hugely at every possible turn this weekend, earning two golds (men’s 800m and women’s 3000m), three silvers (men’s and women’s 1500m and men’s 3000m), and two bronzes (men’s and women’s 1500m), more than every other nation combined in those events." Takeaways from World Indoors: citiusmag.beehiiv.com/p/2024…

🗣️ “I was waiting for it to get really bad and it never quite did. I just hung onto the pace and was like, ‘OK, you can do a few more laps at this pace as long as it doesn’t pick up too much.’ The next thing I knew there was 400 to go… I knew if I put myself in a good position I’d be able to outkick some people in the last lap and that’s exactly what I did.” WORLD CHAMPION Elle St. Pierre after running an American record of 8:20.87 to win the @wicglasgow24 3000m! 🎥 FULL INTERVIEW: youtu.be/_lk85Z12QRA

ON TOP OF THE WORLD 🥇 Two days before her son’s first birthday, Elle St. Pierre has the race of her career, outkicking 2x World champion Gudaf Tsegay to win the @wicglasgow24 3000m in a new American record of 8:20.87.