Pretty quiet weekend, the USATF Indoor Track and Field championships took place in New Mexico, a few ultra races, but other than that not a whole lot. I did however, learn that

USATF Indoor Championships

The USATF Indoor Championships kicked off on March 3rd in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Women

Ajee Wilson won the women's 600-meter, 1:23.84. Third fastest indoor 600-meter ever. The world record is 1:23.44. Courtney Okolo (1:24.00) finished second.

Shelby Houlihan won two championships in both the mile and two mile. In the mile she ran 4:45.18 edging out teammate Colleen Quigley (4:45.58). And dominated the two mile with a time of 10:19.14.

Other notable women's mile finishes, Heather Kampf (4:46.06), Cory McGee (4:46.54), Alexa Efraimson (4:48.49)

Heather Kampf finished second in the two mile, 10.21.80. Sara Sutherland (10:22.49) finished third.

The two mile race-walk was won by Maria Michta-Coffe, 13:55.27.

Men

19 year old Noah Lyles, broke the 300-meter world record, 31.87.

Erik Sowinski won the 600-meter, 1:15.07. Taking down the 600-meter world record holder, Cas Loxsom (1:15.18), who placed second.

Olympian Clayton Murphy broke Robby Andrews meet record by running 2:18.60 in the 1000-meter. Following Murphy, Brannon Kidder (2:19.10), Andrew Wheating (2:20.39) and Robby Andrews (2:20.40)

A loaded mile was won by Minnesota native, Ben Blankenship (3:59.22)

Olympic silver medalist, Paul Chelimo won the men's two mile with ease, 8:28.53. Woody Kincaid (8:38.68) finished second.

John Nunn took home the men's two mile race-walk championship, 12:38.37.

Ryan Hall thinks a sub-2:00 marathon is possible on a treadmill

Ryan Hall, the American record holder in the marathon spoke with athleticsweekly.com and had this to say "If you put someone who’s in shape to run 2:03 flat on a treadmill – and you put it at zero per cent gradient and you have the temperature controlled – I bet you could get someone under two hours"

And then Hall went on to say “It’s that much easier to run on a treadmill, it’s perfect pacing, there’s no wind resistance, I think it could be done on a treadmill right now which is kinda cool to think about. I think we’ll have to wait a little bit longer until it’s done outside"

I have to agree with Hall on this one, a controlled indoor marathon going under 2:00 seems very possible in the near future, but all of this breaking2 and sub2 stuff seems like a lot of talk... It'll be interesting. Nonetheless it'll keep the running community on the edge of their seat with each major marathon.

Upcoming Marathon Majors..

Laura Muir is amazing

Over the weekend 23-year old Laura Muir left the European Indoor Championships with two gold medals. On Saturday she won the 1500-meter, 4:02.39. And on Sunday she won the 3,000-meter, 8:35.67.

Muir broke the European Indoor Championship 1500-meter record, a record that had been held for 32 years.

After winning the 1500-meter Muir went to run a victory lap and was stopped by an official, heres the video,

Since August Muir has set five British records and two European records.