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Berlin Marathon on Sunday:
*Preview from IAAF
*Mizuki Noguchi, Olympic Champ, Hoping for Japanese Record at Sunday's Berlin Marathon IAAF
*Lee Bong Ju on the Comeback Trail
Elana Meyer Scales Kilimanjaro www.int.iol.co.za
Collegeiate XC Season Gets Underway in Earnest this Weekend
11 men's ranked teams and 9 women's ranked teams at Roy Griak, plus Iona, Great American, and Stanford Invite.
*Duke the New #1 in the Finishlynx Coaches' Poll on the Women's Side
Zersenay Tadesse to Be Up Against Ethiopians at World Half Marathon Next Weekend IAAF
Drug News: IOC Athletes Commission Asks for French Lab Involved in Armstrong Affair to Be Suspended for Violating WADA Code
WADA will lose credibility if it does not sanction violations of its code and admit it when there are problems with drug tests.
*Jerome Young Trying to Get His Lifetime Ban Overturned He was busted for the two drugs that have the most suspicious tests nandrolone and EPO.Guardian
*Mafia Allegedly Trafficking in Performance Enhancing Drugs in Italy (Estimated 500,000 Users in Italy) Guardian
2005 Men's Elite Field for LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon Announced Khalid Khannouchi is out of this year's race but the race does feature Evans Rutto, arguably the top marathoner in the world, along with Sammy Korir (2:04 guy), Felix Limo, Alan Culpepper, Timothy Cherigat and Dejene Berhanu.
Paul Tergat's Hamstring Injury Not Thought to Be Serious He Hopes to Do Great South Run October 9th BBC
British Sprint News:
*Craig Pickering, European Junior 100m Champ to be Coached by Malcolm Arnold (Jason Gardener, Colin Jackson's Coach) Guardian
*Darren Campbell Says Look in Inner City to Find Fast Sprinters Yahoo UK
Monday's Action:
Justin Gatlin, Liu Xiang, Allyson Felix, Dwight Phillips, and Bershawn Jackson Win in Yokohama, Isinbayeva No Heights IAAF
Recap of Final Day of Arab Champs IAAF
Bupa Great North Organizers Defend Medical Preparations after 4 Deaths in Sunday's Race BBC
Sunday's Philly Distance Run:
*American Record for Deena Kastor in Jefferson Hospital Philly Distance Run
1:07:53 for Deena, also an American all-comers record.
*Results
Good Read: Lengthy Profile on Alan Webb "My goal is not to get the American record. It's basically to compete and be the best in the world" NY Daily News
Saturday's China Meet:
*Liu Xiang Runs His Season's Best to Beat Allen Johnson, Bekele, Gatlin, Felix Win as Well Before 40,000 in Shanghai Monday's meet in Japan is the final meet of not in 2005. IAAF
*Preview of Monday's Japanese Meet (Gatlin, Xiang Running) IAAF
Cow Harbor 10k:
Anthony Famiglietti Picks Up Easy Win
*Results
Tegla Laroupe Gets Fasion Makeover
Hezekiel Sepeng Training Again As He Waits for Fate of Drug Hearing
2008 Olympic Trials Down to 4 sfgate.com
Pete Julian's Vision Brought 2006 Trials to Boulder Runners World
Get Your Votes In:
LetsRun.com NCAA Super XC Polls National and Conference Voting
The polls are back and it is your chance to tell us who the top teams in NCAA XC cross country are. Give us your top 10 or vote in the conference polls. We've expanded the Conference Polls this year and you can vote in these conferences: (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Big East, Big West, Big Sky, Conf. USA, Heps, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 10s, Patriot League and SECs).
NCAA Coverage: Grote Poll Addendum B
Grote tells you who the top 31 men's xc teams are in NCAA D I and takes on Stanfurd and Gaylord once again.
Incredible: 3 Year Old Boy Running Up to 30 Miles a Day "I can run and eat to my heart's content here"- says the 3 year old. And eating is very important to an incredibly poor child whose mother sold him for $20.
Old Quote of the Day: "It's hard to explain without going into detail, but if you
look at it historically, the worse the performance-enhancing drug
problem became, the worse America did internationally, overall. They
didn't fare as well under the system that existed before 2000, when
there really wasn't much testing. It's my personal belief that now they
will fare much better."
-Frank Shorter, Olympic gold medallist in the marathon.
A
Legend Passes: "I
don't train never have. I don't think of running as training. I just
go out and run each day, and let the racing take care of itself"-
Jack Foster of New Zealand, who
ran a 2:11:17 marathon at the age of 41 to win silver at the
Commonwealth Games in 1974. He died in a bike accident yesterday at the
age of 72.
A Look Back at a Truly Great Run: Todd Williams American Record at 15k
Williams was on fire in 1995, and his 15k is one of the best American records. He finished 9th at World XCs that year when all the best in the world raced in one race. Nice read by Amby Burfoot.
Great Interview With Pete Julian
He wants to bring US cross to Boulder in 2007 and has a nice outlook on life after surviving cancer.
More
isn't always better:
"I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted
that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would
have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of
self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train
with his body. He trains with his mind."
-Hicham El Guerrouj on
why he didn't win Olympic gold in 2000
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Alan Webb Ready for Fifth Avenue Mile NY Times
World Mountain Running Champs in New Zealand This Weekend:
*New Zealand's Jonathon Wyatt the Favorite
*Italy Out to Spoil New Zealand's Hopes
Great Weekend to Be in the Big Apple:
Arkansas Comes to Van Cortland
Alan Webb in Fifth Avenue Mile
First up on Saturday is top notch cross country returning to Van Cortland Park with the most storied program in America, #3 Arkansas, taking on #5 (at least in the LetsRun.com Polls) Iona at the Iona Meet of Champions (10:15 men's race, 9:30 women's) (if that's not enough you can cheer for/against LetsRun.com's Rojo's Cornell squad as well). Then take the subway down to Fifth Avenue and catch the Fifth Avenue Mile where Alan Webb will be taking on Craig Mottram and Rui Silva among others (IAAF preview) (1:35 women, 1:45 men, live ESPN news).
Fifth Avenue Mile This Weekend:
*Alan Webb in USAToday Talking about Continental Airline Fifth Avenue MileUSA Today
*Elite Women *Elite Men
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi's Coach Looks Back at 2005 Season He's got 3 of the top 10 800 times in 2005 but didn't make the final at Worlds. int.iol.co.za
*Jana Pittman Ready to Start Training for Commonwealth Games after Layoff, Surviving Hurricane Katrina
Preview of Friday's Korean Meet IAAF
Previous Fifth Avenue Mile News:
*Steve Scott Says His Most Memorable Mile was a 3:55 at Drake, Not the American Record www.nyrr.org
*Amy Mortimer Talks About Training in Boston, Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile Yes the winter sucks. Fast-Women
*Carmen Douma Houssar Talks About Racing in Europe, Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile Runners World
Underfunded Labs Now Admitting EPO Test May Not be as Clear Cut as They Once Said Guardian
Next Weekend in Edmonton, Canada:
*Kenyan Team Named for World Half Marathon Champs, Red Hot US Roadster Gilbert Okari on It
John Mayock Says: "I am hopefully going to break 2:20 in New York" And seems to think 2:10 isn't much different. Yahoo UK
*John Mayock Says Paula Radcliffe's Advice Helped Him
Sunday's Great North Run:
Zersenay Tadessy runs World Best for Half Marathon 59:05 for him but the course has a 30 meter elevation drop and is not eligible for world records (not to mention a tailwind). No one still has beaten Paul Tergat's incredible 1996 run of 58:51 (49 meters short) which would be right around 59 minutes on a flat course.
*Derartu Tulu Captures Women's Great North Title in 1:07:33 Catherine Ndereba 1:10:20 for 7th. Tulu says she eventually wants to challenge Paula Radcliffe in the marathon: "I hope to still challenge Paula in future years"
*4 Men Die During Great Run BBC
*2005 Great North Run Results
*Saturday's Great North Run:
*Ivan Heshko Wins Mile, Eliud Kipchoge 3k in Great North Races, Dorcus Inzikuru Gets Women's 3k
Good Read: A Nice Look Back at Don Bowden, The First American Sub 4 Minute Miler and a Student Athlete The 20 year old Cal student took an exam the day of his race.
2005 Real Berlin Marathon Elite Field Announced: Olympic Champion Mizuki Noguchi the Highlight
JK Speaks: Progressing To Peak Fitness
LetsRun.com coaching guru John Kellogg talks about progression runs and the art of the sport versus the science of the sport.
British Sports Minister Richard Caborn Proposes Drug Companies Fund Anti Doping Research to £12m Million a Year
While the US Congress dances around one of the main issues (money), Caborn has proposed something that might make a difference. If the pro sports leagues would kick in their fair share as well, serious anti-doping research could be done. In other good news, it was announced that the HGH test now can be used on non-whites.
Vitamin C Can Help Marathon Runners Not Get Colds
The surprising news is may not do much for the general population.
Drug News:
WADA Admits to Some Problems With Nandrolone Test
"Excuse me if I sound hoarse, but
I have a head cold. Usually head colds are due to changes in the
weather, but in my case, it is due to a change in attitude on
letsrun.com"
-Colorado Cross Country Coach, Mark Wetmore, coach of the 2004 Men's and Women's NCAA XC Champions, speaking at the Arthur Lydiard Tour Stop last night in Boulder, about the change in heart of many letsrun.com posters after Wetmore's unbelievable coaching job this year.LetsRun.com
Book Reviews 2 Good Reads on Milers 50 years apart:
Sub 4:00 and The Perfect Mile
Read the review of story on Alan Webb's (and Nate
Brannen's) first brush with adversity. Plus, read
about 3 great milers trying to be the first under 4 minutes 50 years
ago.
And the
winner is:
Best
Running
Movie of All-Time: Fire on the
Track
After
sitting on the results for months, we're proud
to announce that the best running movie of all-time as selected by our
viewers is a not an academy award winner, Chariots
of Fire, or a
highly publicized film produced by Tom Cruise (Without
Limits),
but rather a running documentary,
Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine
Story. Read all about the
voting and see
the 10 best running
movies of all-time as selected by our viewers.
In case you
missed it:
Todd Williams Hangs them up
In our lengthy 3 part interview, Todd Williams, the premier 10,000m
runner in the US, talks about his illustrious career and the sport of
running in general.
Part I
here, Part II
here, Part III
here
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