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New Fresno Indoor Meet Gives $10,000 to Angela Daigle in 60m IAAF
*Fresno State Results

Arkansas and Tennessee Ranked #1 by Trackwire.com

Tegla Laroupe to Speak at World Economic Forum

Lornah Kiplagat's Race in Kenya Gives Up and Comers and Grandmas a Chance to Run

200 Shilling ($2.71) Entrance Fee at Races in Kenya is Limiting Participation Less than the latte you had at Starbuchks. allafrica.com

Sad Day: Midland Run Closes Shop Sports Illustrated called this race in 1980, "the most impressive field of runners ever assembled for a road race". It also was the USATF 10 mile champ for much of the 1990s. It was in a beautiful area of New Jersey as well. It looks likes the organizers got in over their heads trying to market a new marathon and decided to close everything.
*Message board thread on race going under
*Editorial from Running Times

Haile Gebrselassie Breaks World Half Marathon Record His time of 58:55 even broke Paul Tergat's indredible run of 58:51 from 1996 which was 10-12 seconds short.
"This one is so fantastic because this is my first one in America"
-Haile Gebrselassie on breaking the half marathon world record Sunday in Arizona"

*Daniel Rono Wins Mombay Marathon IAAF
*Ethiopia’s Abebe Dinkesa and Bezunesh Bekele Win in Seville XC Race

Sun Yingjie's Coach Banned for Life for Doping Violations

Former World Champ in Marathon Douglas Wakiihuri Now a Popular Singer in Japan

Prize Money for USATF XC Nationals to be $50,000, More than Triple Last Year Plus same day tv coverage. Kudos to USATF and the NYRRC

Janus Robberts Books Trip to Commonwealth Games

David Njuguna, Kenyan Athlete in Canada, Committed Suicide EA Standard
More Kenyan News: Athletics Kenya to Pick Provisional Squad for Worlds After Nationals, Then Pick Final Squad in March allafrica.com

Sun Yingjie Gets 2 Year Ban Despite Guy Admitting to Spiking Her Food BBC

Big Five Marathon Announcement Coming on January 25 Some sort of circuit will be announced.

Nick McCormick, John Mayock, and Ricky Soos to Race Short XC This Weekend in Edinburgh
*Kathy Butler Leads UK Hopes in Edinburgh This Weekend

Top Agents including Jos Hermens Reinstated by Athletics Kenya allafrica.com

Kenya Rejects Bernard Lagat's Appeal to Run for the US This Year He'll have to wait for the 2007 worlds.

A Look at the Mental Approach of Top Athletes

Zersenay Tadesse Wins Easiliy over Fabiano Joseph in Spanish XC Race IAAF

London Gets Some Competition for Paula: Deena Kastor, Margaret Okayo, Berhane Adere, Susan Chepkemei to Race Radcliffe in London The race has already secured the rights to nearly all of the top men's marathoners in the world (Paul Tergat (world record holder), Haile Gebrselassie (maybe the greatest distance runner ever), Jaouad Gharib (two time world champ), Martin Lel (defending champ), Felix Limo (Chicago Champ), Evans Rutto (2 time Chicago, 1 time London champ), Stefano Baldini (Olympic champ), Khalid Khannouchi (previous world record holder), and Hendrick Ramaala and that is why it is the top marathon in the world, although today it was announced that Meb Keflezighi will be running the Boston Marathon

NCAA XCs:
Women: Stanford Stuns #1 Duke, Johanna Nilsson Gets Individual Crown
Duke was a huge favorite coming in, but Peter Tegen's Stanford squad pulled the upset. Defending champ Colorado was a surprising 2nd and Duke only 3rd as Tegen captured his 3rd national title (he won 2 at Wisconsin in the 1980s). On the individual side, Johanna Nilsson (who trains in Flagstaff) blew away the field for the win.
*Women's Team Results
*Women's Individual Results
More:
*Stanford Women Get 2nd Title in 3 Years gostanford.collegesports.com
*Clara Horowitz, Duke's Top Runner, Leaves Terre Haute Sad www.goduke.com
*CU Buffs Leave Nationals Without a National Title for the First Time Since 1999 But their women surprised with a strong 2nd palce finish. www.cubuffs.com
Photos: Men's Photos from 2005 NCAA Cross Country Championships www.trackandfieldphoto.com
*Women's Photos from 2005 NCAA Cross Country Championships www.trackandfieldphoto.com

ING NYC Marathon:
*NYC Champs Have a Full Day of Media Appearances After Marathon Past Champ German Silva, only one year older than Tergat, ran NY this year,as did former cyclist Laurent Jalabert.
*Abdi Abdirahman Talks About His Marathon PR Post Race News:
*Tergat Happy with NY Win but Too Sore to Party it Up Sunday Night in the Big Apple
*Hendrick Ramaala Says His Legs Gave out on Him at End superathletics.co.za
*Cold May Have Affected Lornah Kiplagat in NY She was only 10th on the women's side. allafrica.com
*World Food Programme Congratulate Tergat
Previous:
UNBELIEVABLE FINISH:
TERGAT OUTKICKS RAMAALA
The world record holder, Paul Tergat, and the defending champ, Hendrick Ramaala, battled it out during the final straight separated by inches. In final 10 meters, Tergat got a half foot ahead and Ramaala dove for the finish but it was a futile dive and Tergat triumphed by the smallest amount. On the women's side Jelena Prokopcuka got a narrow win over Susan Chepkemei. Chepkemei has a narrow lead until she started vomiting her fluids while running. American Meb Keflezighi was with Tergat and Ramaala until the final mile and finished 3rd while fellow American Abdi Abdirahman was 5th.
*Top Results *Full Results
Women:
*Jelena Prokopcuka Wins 2005 ING NYC Marathon for Latvia NY Times
*Susan Chepkemei Vomits Down Homestretch to Come Up Short at ING NYC Marathon Again Guardian
Men: Meb Keflezighi Talks About His 2005 ING NYC Run Runners World
Photos: Men's Photos 2005 ING NYC Marathon www.nycmarathon.org
*The best individual photo of the men's finish we have seen is here
*Women's Photos 2005 ING NYC Marathon www.nycmarathon.org
PreRace: NYC is Back!!!:
"I'm the first to say, 'You know what? New York kind of fell behind for a while; it's time for us to catch up, 'But now we're caught up and now we're going to go head to head with the rest of you and try to be even better"
-Mary Wittenburg, ING NYC race director, on the resurgence of the NYC marathon

"I left a piece of me on that race course that day. If I had to leave part of myself on any race course, that was a good place."-Dick Beardsley on his famed battle with Alberto Salazar in the 1982 Boston Marathon. Beardsley according to this article still knocks out 70 to 90 miles a week.

Drugs Drugs Drugs
Recommended Read:A Great Look at The East German Doping Program

World Half Marathon Champs
LetsRun.com Coverage:
LRC Exclusive!!!!! 3.5 MB Quicktime Video of Crazy Men's finish.
*Results

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

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

Olympic Gold Medallist Angelo Taylor Gets Probation after Pleading Guilty to Delinquency with Two Underage Girls

Nick Willis Lays Out His Goals for 2006

Mike Woods Shooting for Big Things at Michigan in 2006

Nathan Morgan Says World Indoors are Bigger Event than Commonwealth Games BBC

Jana Pittman Drops Her Agency

Injury News: Asafa Powell Hoping to Have Recovered from Groin Injury in Time for Commonwealth Games
*Kim Collins Out of 100m at Commonwealth Games

4 Sub 4 Minute Miles at Washington Indoor Meet And one from Sean O'Brien, maybe the first one ever from New Hampshire.

Curt Schilling Impressed with Haile Gebrselassie

Sponsorship Row Apparently Settled in New Zealand
*New Zealand Wanted Athletes Not to Have Personal Ads Within a 6 Week Window of the Commonwealth Games

Brian Sell Wins US Half Marathon Champs in 1:02:39 Sell is starting to show he is one of the best road racers in America.
*Houston Half Results

Bekele Outsprints Shaheen to Win Edinburgh XC BBC World Junior XC champ Gelete Burika defeated world xc and track champ Tirunesh Dibaba.
*Dibaba Spent Night Before Edingburgh Loss on Floor of Airport
*Edinburgh Results (Ritzenhein 4th ahead of Eurochamp Lebid)

Houston: Brian Sell Headlines US Men's Half Marathon Champ This Weekend
Elsewhere:
*Nick Willis Running 5k on Friday
*Kajsa Bergqvist to Compete in S. Africa on Friday superathletics.co.za
*Rybakov, Baba, Boswell, Nieto Highlight High Jump Meet in Czech Republic Next Monday IAAF

Mark Lewis Francis Says New Training Group Has Inspired Him BBC
More Training News: Mo Farah to Train with Craig Mottram for Commonwealth Games

Tyler Hamilton's Doping Hearing Begins

Bershawn Jackson, 5 Other Medallists, Added to Reebok Boston Games Field

Phoenix the Place to Be This Weekend:
Focus Will be on Gebrselassie's World Record Attempt at Half Marathon, but PF Chang's Rock N Roll Half Marathon Hoping for Sub 2:10 in Marathon It will be Gebrselassie's first road race in the United States and his first appearance out West to the best of our knowledge.

New York Submits Details of Bid for 2008 US Olympic Marathon Trials NY is only bidding on the men's trials and hopes to hold the race 2 days before the ING NYC Marathon, on a Friday, which is an unusual day for a road race. The bid has the backing of the NY Road Runners and their piles of cash. With the advance notice of the bid, it will be interesting to see now if Boston just bids for the women's trials.

"How can you argue when a guy can make $500,000 a year?
-Arkansas coach John McDonnell on Wallace Spearmon turning pro

US Indoor Series Has $1.5 Million in Money That figure includes promotional money that is impossible to verify.
reuters.com

Weekend XC, Road Action:
Spain: World XC Silver Medallist Abraham Chebii and Spain's Rosa Morato Win Amorebieta, Spain XC Race IAAF
Netherlands: Former UT Star Kamiel Maase Wins Half Marathon in Netherlands in 1:03:29, Susan Chepkemei Wins in 1:12:16 IAAF
Florida: Brazilian Adriano Bastos Wins His 3rd Disney Marathon

Olympic and World Champ Reuben Kosgei Returns With Steeple Win in Kenya, Says Injury is Behind Him Unheralded Ismael Kombich won the 800 in 1:45.6

Commonwealth Games Volunteers are Quitting After Being Forced to Work 60 Hour Weeks Fox Sports

Jamaican Triple Jumper Germaine Mason Expected to Now Compete for Britain but Still Train in Austin, Tx Independent

"This is not coming out of retirement, this is just me showing that if you just enjoy what you are doing and stay in there and set little goals. I do a lot of speaking, I've spoken to every group in Australia and I tell them back when I ran I set little goals and I think here I am telling these guys, but I've got to do it myself and tonight was really a chance to walk the walk"
-Steve Moneghetti, who at age 43, broke the world best for the 1 hour run for master's, averaging sub 5 minute pace the whole way as Ron Clarke, John Landy, and Robert De Castella watched him run.

Paul Tergat
*"As the holy scriptures say, 'for whoever much is given, much is expected,' it is, therefore, my duty and privilege to help in any small way in giving back to society."
-Marathon world record holder, Paul Tergat, speaking after founding a sports foundation that will help disadvantaged youths.
*Tergat's hamstring injury has healed and he says he's ready to go at NYC: "I expect good results as I am in good shape" but he's out of next week's Half Marathon in Britain, but interestingly Gezahegne Abera (remember him, formerly the greatest marathoner in the world) is running. www.registerguard.com

Jos Hermans Tells Why Ethiopians Beat Kenyans: According to Jos it has little to do with training: "Ethiopians have more respect for their women, which explains why their women athletes perform better than their Kenyan counterparts, who excel in junior championships only to pander to cultural and domestic demands later in life" and "A mentally prepared athlete can easily beat a physically prepared one,"

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

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