Pregnancy announcements, Norwegian singles and Indoor track season

Today's episode is from the week of January 27th.

1. New Balance Indoor Grand Prix 2026 (Saturday January 24th)

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01/2026-new-balance-indoor-grand-prix-results/

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01/8-thoughts-on-2026-nbigp-elle-st-pierre-is-back-cam-myers-keeps-improving-noah-lyles-wwe-intro-more/

a. Hobbs Kessler (4:48.79) beats Grant Fisher and sets new indoor WR in the 2000M (not a real event). Note: on Friday January 23rd, Kole Hocker (4:52.92) set the American record in the 2000M. 

b. Josh Hoey (1:42.50) sets a new indoor WR (29 year old record) in the 800M. Was paced by his brother. 

c. Jereem Richards beats Noah Lyles in the 300 meters. More theatrics by Noah in the introductions (WWE style). 

2. Syndey McLaughlin Pregnant

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/olympic-400m-hurdles-champion-sydney-mclaughlin-levrone-announces-pregnancy

3. 60 year old age group record of 5:26 (OK my 7 minute mile does not look so bad now - although this is a women's record - Michelle Rohl). 

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a70122168/michelle-rohl-masters-mile-record/

4. On the science side - Narrowing your visual focus can improve performance.

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a70122168/michelle-rohl-masters-mile-record/

5. Coach's Corner - Can the Norwegian singles approach work for you? (The running channel). 

https://therunningchannel.com/norwegian-singles/

https://www.youtube.com/@merakirunclub_coach

https://teamrunrun.com/

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