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ING NYC
Marathon Men:
Marilson Gomes dos Santos
Surprises Upset? Come on, admit
it, you'd never heard of Gomes before. And its
likely Paul Tergat never had either. Gomes opened up a lead on the star studded field
in the 19th mile and Tergat and Chasing
Kimbia's Stephen Kiogora waited too long
to try and catch Gomes who became the first
S. American winner of the ING NYC Marathon. The
strong American contingent did not deliver on the
pre-race expectations as unheralded Pete Gilmore
was the top American in tenth. In his much anticipated
debut, Dathan Ritzenhein ran strong until
around 20 miles and then hit the wall and really
struggled the last 2k (6:33 pace). A heavier Lance
Armstrong gutted
it out to break the 3 hour barrier and earn
some people's respect. Gary Lough (Paula
Radcliffe's husband) was the fastest celebrity
showing he clearly has learned a thing or two from
his wife as he negative split the race to run 2:41,
while Steve Cram must have had some
trouble on the course (it took him 30 minutes to
run from 10k to 15k for some reason) as he struggled
to a 3:27.
*Marilson Gomes dos Santos Pulls Upset at NYC Marathon Times of London
*Marilson Gomes dos Santos Surprises in NY New York Times
*ING NYC Marathon Men's Photos
*More on Lance Armstrong's Marathon .nycmarathon.org
*Lance Armstrong Says Marathon is 'Hardest' Thing He's Ever Done
College News:
Ray Treacy Succeeding at Providence
*Some
are Upset UK Track Runners Using the Arboretum for Practice
Takahashi
to Defend Her Title at Tokyo Marathon
2001
World High Jump Champ Martin Buss Retires IAAF
Previous NYC
News:
*Catherine
Ndereba and Her Coach Talk about NY Preparations
*Stefano
Baldini Talks About His NY Preparations MensRacing
*Deena
Kastor Ready for Tough Challenge in NY
She says the race is the toughest one she's ever been in. She's wrong.
Paula Radcliffe isn't in the field.
Previous NYC
News:
*Boulder
Training Groups Discussed in NY Times This article
is getting a lot of discussion on the message boards here
and here
*Hendrick
Ramaala Talks About Trying to Win Again in NY
MensRacing
*Meb
and Deena Have a Shot in NY New York Times
*Katie
McGregor Ready for Her Marathon Debut in NY www.startribune.com
*Pete
Gilmore 2:12 in the Marathon and He's Never Had a Shoe Contract
runnersworld.com
Conference XC
Action is Here:
Sunday:
Big 10s: Wisconsin
Men Win Big 10s for 8th Straight Time, Michigan Women Win Wisconsin
would have beaten the rest of the Big 10s in a dual meet but the win
was not as impressive as last year and it is being called an "off day".
The major area of concern for the Badgers is that NCAA favorite
Chris Solinsky was comfortably ahead, fell down with
reportedly 2.5k to go, and then lost 30 seconds coming in as
Minnesota soph Chris Rombough got the title.
*Big
10 Men's Results: Wisconsin Beats the Field Again
*Big
10 Women's Results: Michigan Women Win
*Message
board thread on Big 10s
Saturday:
SEC: Arkansas
Wins Its 33rd Straight Conference XC Crown
*Arkansas
Sweeps SEC XC Crowns
*SEC
Men's Results
2,3,4,5,7 for the Hogs. They'd beat the
conference in a dual meet again.
*SEC
Women's Results
PAC 10: Oregon
Men, Stanford Women Win Pac 10 Crowns Vin and Galen
got their first Pac 10 crowns.
*Pac
10 Men's Results: Galen Rupp Wins
*Pac
10 Women's Results: Stanford Goes 1-4 to Dominate
ACC: NC
State Sweeps ACC Crowns
*ACC
Men's Results *ACC
Women's Results
Friday:
Big East:
*Providence
Sweeps 2006 Big East XC Champs
The women dominated and the men pulled the upset as Martin Fagan
dominated once again.
*Big
East Men's Results: Providence Men Pull Upset
*Big
East Women's Results: Providence Women Win
*Message Board Thread on Fagan
Big 12s:
Colorado
Sweeps Big 12s for 8th Straight Year
Wetmore's streak of 8 on both sides is pretty damn impressive.
*Big
12 Men's Results: 2 Time Defending Champ Benson Chesang 12th but His
Teammate Colby Wissel Wins
*Big
12 Women's Results: Sally Kipyego of Texas Tech Beat 3rd Place by a
Minute and 6 Seconds She's
got to be the favorite for NCAAs.
Message Board Thread:
Fisticuffs
at Big 12s
Heps:
Princeton Sweeps Men's and Women's Crowns
*Women's
Recap *Men's
Recap
*Results
Lindsay Donaldson got
her first crown and Ben
True repeated.
*Message
board thread here
*More Conference Action at trackshark
Women's
Finger Length May Determine Their Running Success
LetsRun.com Classic
Emails #1
We share with you some of the classic emails from our site's visitors
and give you valuable knowledge at the same time. You'll read conclusive
proof Lance Armstrong dopes, learn AJ Acosta is not
as much an a**hole as you thought, and much more.
AT&T
US Nationals
*LetsRun.com 2006 Nationals
Homepage
*Results
*Start
List
Sunday:
LetsRun.com
Recap Lagat
Outlasts The Return of Jennings and Manzano's Magic, Khadevis Robinson
Puts on an Exhibition, Hazel Clark Dives For the Finish, and Lincoln
ThreePeats This year's nationals was a great track
and field meet. Day 4 saw a
$100,000
and a world leading run by Lashinda Demus in the
400m hurdles, world leaders by Torah Harris in the
high jump, Walter Davis in the triple jump, Khadevis
Robinson in the 800, Dominique Arnold in
the hurdles, and Wallace Spearmon in the 200. But
you want to read about Gabe Jennings return,
Khadevis Robinson's domination, and the emergence of Nick
Symmonds. Plus you learn how stupid all the guys who give
out shoe contracts are.
*Final
Day Recap from USATF
*Lagat
Becomes First to Complete 1500-5k Double
.indystar.com
*Final
Day Recap from Indianapolis Star
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.
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
Also
take a look at Amby Burfoot's look at Todd Williams' incredible American record
at 15k in 1995, the
same year he finished 9th
at World Cross Country.
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
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.
LetsRun.com
Book Reviews 2 Good Reads on Milers 50 years apart:
Sub 4:00 and The Perfect Mile
"Paul
Maurer, in The Gift, not
only presents an interesting and captivating story, but he explores the
deeper questions of why runners run, why we compete, and what makes
such a simple sport, running, so rewarding to those of us who do it. The
Gift is one of the best running books
I have ever read. "
-LetsRun.com's Weldon Johnson
on
a new Running novel,
The Gift
(The
Gift is now available from Amazon.com)
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ING NYC Marathon Women:
*Results
Jelena Prokopcuka
Repeats
The loaded women's field ran very tentatively
as the expected stars (Deena Kastor and Catherine
Ndereba) gave each other too much respect and not
enough to the defending champ Prokopcuka. They let
Prokopcuka run away from the main pack at the half
way mark and never got close to her after that.
*ING NYC Marathon Women's Photos
Message
Board: Celebrity
Runners at NYC
Bad Boy 8k Results
Only 2k more to go for Wejo as he runs 27:50 just
off the Olympic "A" Standard.
*Bad Girl 5k Results
Seb Coe Reaffirms That Olympic Stadium Will Remain an Athletics Stadium after 2012 Olympics
The Cover Up
Is Often Worse Than the Crime
Trevor
Graham Indicted for Lying to Investigators in Balco Scandal
He faces 5 years
and a
$250,000 fine.
*Message
board thread
here
One From
Monday We Missed: Dublin
Marathon Recap Survivor Flagstaff's Matt
Smith with a 2:14 pr.
Runners
and Their Gadgets "The problem with technology is
it can get you away from your own
barometer. Why not figure out during training how it feels to
go at a hard but sustainable pace, then aim to replicate that feeling
on marathon day?"-Alan Culpepper New York
Times
LetsRun.com
NCAA Super XC Regional Polls
Give us
your regional predictions and your national top 10.
Athletics
Museum Opens in Kenya
Oregon's
Hayward Field to Get an Extra 5000 Seats for the Trials
Running Turns
Around Another Life in Kenya:
"God knows my daughter has been through hard times because we had
nothing under our names. We had no property that is why she dropped out
of school"
-mother of Irene Cherutich.
Cherutich took up running trying to provide for her own
family. She won last weekend's Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon.
Phil
Knight the Godfather of Oregon Athletics
Although reportedly now the first thing recruits to Oregon see is all
the Nike gear their going to get, that was not always the case. Bill
Dellinger once had the track team outfitted by adidas.
New Coaches Cross Country
Polls Out ustfccca.cstv.com
*Mike
Scott Analyzes the Women's XC Scene
Court
of Arbitration in Sport Arbitrators to No Longer Be able to Represent
Athletes in Other Cases The drug authoritise are
rightfully addressing apparent conflicts of interest that seem to arise
in the system.
Doping News: Belfast
Athlete Gareth Turnbull Is Cleared of Doping Offense
We heard from the get go this guy was innocent. The Carbon Isotope test
came back negative and Turnbull should have never been charged. Instead
the drug testers charged him solely based on his T/E ratio. Ridiculous.
Hopefully he'll get back the hundreds of thousands he spent defending
himself.
*Gareth
Turnbull Speaks Out about Being Cleared in Doping Case
BBC
*Turnbull
to Sue Doping Authorities u.tv
*Bernard
Lagat Will Not Appeal German Court Ruling Not Letting Him Sue IAAF and
WADA for Positive "A" Test Leak in 2003
*Very
Few British Clubs Likely to Be Interested in Drug Cheat Thanou
www.telegraph.co.uk
Bob Kennedy
Interview
"I think the question then becomes when, and at
what point are we, as
organizing bodies, USA Track and Field, IAAF, the other national
governing bodies from all over the world, going to really invest the
money that its necessary in testing to keep up and get ahead of, the
people who are using the system to cheat. And that will take money. It
takes money to develop the tests for the different variants of the
drugs that these people are coming up with, and only when you have that
kind of investment will you really stop it. Otherwise, they're just
faking it."
-Bob Kennedy, in a LetsRun.com interview where he
talks about drugs, success, shoes (the Kennedy XC) and Tegenkamp
Miling News:
Nick Willis Has His Sights on a Medal Next Year He
talks about medalling in the 1500 but also about maybe moving up to 5k.
If he gets a medal, it seems to us he should stick with the 1500.
*Peter
Snell Says It is Much Harder To Medal These Days
*Jim
Ryun, Marty Liquori, AJ Acosta Talk About Alan Webb's 3:53 in High
School
NY News:
*Meb
Trying to Overcome His Sore Hamstring in Time for ING NYC Marathon
*Stefano Baldini Ready for NY After
His 10k Victory
*Baldini
Talks About His Preparations for NY AP
USTFCCCA
Men's NCAA-I Cross Country Coaches Poll UTEP moves
up after upsetting Arkansas at Chilepepper.
*Women's
Ranking Here NC State jumps to #2.
LetsRun.com
NCAA Super Polls Now Open Give Us Your Top 10 and
Your Conference Predictions
Pre Nationals
XC: links fixed
Women:
Blue Race:
Team Results: Stanford Women Dominate 155 point win for the Cardinal
*Individual: Michelle
Sikes of Wake Forest Wins
White Race: Team: NC
State Women Win
Individual: Julia
Lucas of NC State With the Top Time of the Day
Men:White: Team: Colorado
Men Dominate
Individual: Martin Fagan Wins
Blue:
Team:
Iona Edges Stanford
Individual: Josh
McDougal Stays Undefeated in His Collegiate XC Career Outside of
Nationals
*Message
Board Thread on PreNats
*PreNats
Combined Results
Chilipepper:
Men: UTEP
Defeats Arkansas
*Women:Arkansas
Women Crush Duke
Married
Thanks to LetsRun.com:
"I don't want to say it. It sounds crazy but it was a dream come true"
-John Stiner, on getting married to his
wife, Sarah, who he met on the LetsRun.com message
boards. Read about their incredible story.
"Everybody in
Kenya is trying to come to America. I had
no dream about coming because I knew this was impossible. It was a
miracle," Kiplagat said. "That is why I take advantage of
every
opportunity. I came here, graduated in three years, and count myself
blessed"- Richard Kiplagat who graduated from Iona in 3 years and had a
3.75 GPA
"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
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.
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