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New News Emerges Day After Spectacular World XC
*Ethiopian Men's Team Almost Didn't Run After Near Mutiny The team members said they'd boycott when it was announced that Mestawet Tufa (2nd in Ethiopian trials) wasn't running. The federation backed down but the whole scandal may have affected their performance as they didn't register a team score.
*Bekele Says Conditions Became Too Much To Handle: "Suddenly I felt that my coordination was not good and that my mind was dizzy. I even started to doubt about how many laps I still had to run...."I was slowing down and felt that I was losing control over my body as well as my mind. This is why I decided to stop the race."
*Full Results
*Sr Men: Bekele Is Defeated As Zersenay Tadesse Wins Eritrea First Gold Just as it looked as if Bekele would cruise it on in for his record 6th long course title, his lead instantly vanished and soon he was on the sidelines - a beaten man just some 800 meters from the finish. The Kenyan men dominated the team standings.
*Sr. Women: Lornah Kiplagat Wins Ind. Title As Ethiopia Spoils Kenyan Party
*Juniors: Kenyans Have Perfecct 1-2-3-4 Showing In Both Races
Bekele Is Defeated. Wejo has called to say that Bekele's quest for a record 6th long course title didn't happen, as on the last lap just after he took a lead that Wejo was certain enough was big enough to get the win, Bekele suddenly lost it, dropped back and quickly dropped out as the Kenyan crowd went wild. Olympic 10k bronze medallist Zersenay Tadesse won Eritrea's first individual title. Wejo said the Kenyan crowd
was unreal as people were watching from the trees. The atmosphere was way, way crazier than Boulder apparently. He said the Kenyan crowd only seemed to care about two things - having a Kenyan in front in each race and seeing Bekele lose. He said they didn't really acknowledged ex-Kenyan Lornah Kiplagat who won the women's race. *Results here.
*News Flash From IAAF on Race: Bekele's dropout unexplained.
*BBC Article on Race as Mo Farah Gets 11th
*AP Preview of Race
Nice Pre-Race Work By The IAAF
*Preview of Sr. Men's Race
*Preview of Jr Men's Race
*Preview of Sr. Women's Race
*Preview of Jr. Women's Race
*World XC Has History of Repeat Individual Champions
*Profile of Kenyan Legend Paul Tergat
*Profile of Kenyan Legend Ismael Kirui
*Profile of Kenyan Legend John Kibowen
*8 Page History Of Kenyan Cross Country (PDF)
*An Interesting Explanation of Kenyan Names
Other Pre-Race News (Non-IAAF):
*Mo Farah Ready To Take On Africans For Britain
*Kenyan Team Arrives In Mombasa as Last-Minute Course Work Is Finished
*Heat-Wave Greets Ugandan Athletes The race is going to be hot hot hot. Click here for up to date weather predictions. Looks like a high of 87 fahrenhei (31 celcius).t
*Kenyan Born Stephen Mayaka Guiding Japanese Team As Well As Potential Kenyan Star Gideon Ngatuny Who Is Based in Japan Mayaka is now a Japanese citizen and there has been talk that Ngatuny could win gold
*Profile of 20 Yr Old Gideon Ngatuny
*Young Kenyan Team Arrives In Mombassa On Thursday The men's team is young and as a result some in the Kenyan press think that bodes well for 2007
*US Ambassador Happy With Kenya's Secuirty Arrangements Too bad too many US athletest wimped out
*Kenyan Great John Ngugi Confident Kenyans Can Dominate
*Kenyan B Team Qatari Team Ready For Worlds
*Preview of World XCs from Kenyan Paper: Ethiopians Still Favored for Individual Crowns The Kenyans may still win the majority of
the team titles but it's a matter of national pride that they have not been able to win the top individual spot. And the president of Kenya will be at the race this year.
*Cross Country Comes Home
*IAAF
Head Lamine Diack in Mombasa
*Course Work to be 24 Hours A Day to Get World XC Stands Ready for Saturday's Race
*Teams Being Met with a Ton of Security in Mombasa
*Paul
Tergat Says XC Should be in the Olympics
Previous:Kenya to Have to Get Passed Ethiopians if It Wants to Win an Individual Title at Worlds
*Kiwis Arrive at Worlds
*Kenyan Team Now Training Twice a Day Down from Three Times
*LetsRun.com's Wejo Is Going to Worlds
US 8k: Anthony Famiglietti Wins US 8k Title In case you haven't noticed Fam is getting pretty damn good at the longer distances. He got the win in his hometown of NYC.
*Photo Gallery
*Video
*Results
*Andrew Carlson Out of World XC With Broken Rib
*Britain's Jo Pavey Out of Worlds BBC
*Foreign Athletes Training In Kenya Ready for Worlds
*IAAF
President Lamine Diack to Be In Kenya on Monday
Edith Masai up against Benita Johnson at Vattenfall Berlin Half Marathon Next Month
Blake Boldon Interview 4th at USATF 3k and then a 3:59 mile.
Moses Kiptanui Says Kenyan Worlds Team Needs to Be Mentally Prepared
*USA's Katie McGregor Out of World XCs
8 Sub 2:08 Guys Running Rotterdam Marathon April 15th IAAF
World XCs Next Weekend:
*Russia, Australia, and New Zealand Arrive This Weekend for Worlds
*4 of 5 World Champs and 66 Nations at 2007 World XC ChampsIAAF
*Security Being Beefed Up in Mombasa for Worlds
First Ever: Ask Wejo: High Mileage Training, Evil Stop Watches, the NCAA Season, and Ryan Hall Weldon answers your training questions on AT pace (whatever that is), 140 mile weeks, and the collegiate racing season. Plus confidence, overconfidence, Ryan Hall's race in
Jacksonville, and runners choking at NCAAs. All just an attempt to be more self-marketed than Dean K.
More
on Devine Racing's Cash Crunch: Salt Lake City Marathon Cutting Back on
Prize Money as It Has Not Paid Its Bills From Last Year They still owe $50,000 to a charity that provided volunteers to last year's race. How about scrapping prize money entirely and not taking a salary, until you pay the bills. Perhaps it won't make a difference because this year's money is going to last year's race.
Japan Announces Marathon Squad for World Champs IAAF
Chris Solinsky, Wisconsin's Quarterback
Abebe Bikila's and Mamo Wolde's Tombs Desecrated Punks exists in all corners of the world.
NYC Reebok Grand Prix Becomes Part of IAAF Athletics Tour (It and Pre Classic are Only 2 Meets in US With This Status) IAAF
LetsRun.com NCAA Basketball Hoops Contest Win a cool million. Yeah right. link fixed. Find group LetsRun.com
Dathan Ritzenhein Out of US 8k Champs in NY With Injury
Is Football (Soccer) The Reason Britain is Not Good at Track and Field
Gate River Run:
*Ryan Hall Says He Wasn't That Excited During Jacksonville Run
*Message board thread here
Previous:
*6
for 6 for Meb, One for the Thumb for Deena
*Results *Video from Gate River Run There is a reason these two got Olympic medals in Athens, they are damn good. Deena Kastor put on an exhibition in winning her fifth Gate River Run in 47:20 just missing her American Record. And just as everyone predicted (ha ha right), Meb Keflezighi
defeated Ryan Hall in a relatively modest 43:39 with Hall about 15 seconds behind.
*15k Play by Play
Moses Mosop, Kenya's Best Hope at Worlds
Frank Tickner Makes it a Clean Sweep at European Domestic Winter Titles With English Crown BBC
NY Times Profile on Karl Dusen Who Is Running NY 8k Econ grad with a job. Wejo, minus a decade, plus he was way better in college.
Charles Kamathi and Martin Mathathi Training at National Team Camp in Kenya But they're Not Running worlds BBC
Dwain Chambers Makes Hamburg NFL Europe Team BBC
Profiles:
And We Save You $4.95: Runnersworld Profile of Dathan Ritzenhein Kenny Moore article. It's the one good piece they have in the magazine every month. Seriously, they have one long profile a month it seems which is good. You can subscribe
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*Lengthy Josh McDougal Profile His mom was a runner.Plus he talks about facing Joe Walsh at nationals.
*Michael Spence No Longer a Surprise While you guys are bitching about not having a shoe contract he went out and made a World Cross Country team.
Ana Guevara Runs 50.68 on Her 30th Bday
*Ian Stewart Wants to Set Up Nicola Sanders in Her Run Up to Osaka
Dave Collins Pleased with Progress of British Squad, But There Still is Work to Go telegraph.co.uk
*Steve Cram Says There are 4 Medal Prospects for Britain
*Jason
Gardener Looking to Outdoors After 60m European Title BBC
Dr. Bill Stegemoller, Former Souther Indiana Coach, Dies
59:43 for RYAN HALL
Yep, sub 1 hour in the half marathon for an American on American soil on
a certified course. One of the best American distance performances ever
as Ryan Hall won the US Title, the Aramco Houston Half, picking up
$21,000, to become the 9th fastest ever on a record certifiable course.
*Photo
from Victah Sailer of PhotoRun.net
*Videos
of the Race From the Flocast Guys Here
The Legend of
Nick Symmonds: The
DIII Star You Had Never Heard Of Until 7 Months Ago Opens Up in 3:56 Maybe he'll go undefeated
this year. His time
dropped a second overnight without him running a step.
Photos Kip Keino Comes to Ithaca The
legendary Kip Keino came to Ithaca, NY, the east coast home of
letsrun.com. See photos of the event including Olympic champ Peter
Rono, Keino's son, Ian, and
LetsRun.com's Wejo, Rojo, and even JK.
Dean
Karnazes Profile in the LA Times Quotes from
LetsRun.com's Wejo, and message board poster, John
Morelock.
NCAA
XCs:
Women: Sally Kipyego Dominates, Stanford Survives
Recap: Sally
Kipyego Dominates, Stanford Wins With Highest Point Total Ever
*Individual results
*Team Results
Kipyego dominated the individual field and the Cardinal repeated, but
just narrowly over Colorado, as the Cardinal scored 195 points, the
highest ever for a winning team (that total on the men's side would
have been 2 points from 7th). Mark Wetmore almost
did the unthinkable again (with a squad that was only 6th at PreNCAAs),
leave Terre Haute with 2 titles, but the Buffaloes' 5th runner finished
165th.
*Ivy
League Women Have Top 3 Finisher for 5th Straight Year
*Women's
Recap from Terre Haute Newspaper
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.
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)
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
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Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine
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the 10 best running
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"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.
A Staff of
One:
"Perhaps the most valuable gift from
Letsrun.com is a friendly
willingness to share lessons learned by their editorial staff, which
includes successful college coaches and highly competitive athletes. "
-Gary Droze, writing about
letsrun.com in the Tallahassee
Democrat
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Exclusive LetsRun.com Coverage As Wejo Was On-site
*Wejo's Post-Race Recap of the action
*Race Day Photos
*Videos from Race Day
*An Unusal Site of Bekele in 2nd
*Video of Crowd Going Nuts When Bekele Drops Out
*Ethiopian Junior Staggers Home and Is Yanked From Course Meters From The Finish Line
*Celebration after Kenyan Men's Team Victory
*Crowd Control at the World XC Champs
*The Crowd During the Junior Girls Race Going Crazy
*Pre-Race Photos From Kenya
*Wejo's 2nd Report From Kenya
*Wejo's 1st Report From Kenya
More Reports On Rce From Kenyan Papers
*Carnival Atmosphere Reigns As Kenyans Enjoy Their 21st of 23 Sr. Men's Team Titles and Bekele's Failure To Win Record 6th Long Course Title
*Runners Fainted/Lost Memory Due to Heat
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Nice Recap of Race From British Perspective (Athletics Weekly) : Mo Farah runs tactically brilliant race to move up and finish 10th
More XC Coverage
*Tergat's Pre-Race Comments Were Very Accurate: "I spoke with Bekele yesterday, and he is very confident. However he obviously can’t give a 100% commitment that he will win today’s race. The weather will play a major role and although all the teams have approached the question of the heat and humidity I am certain that many teams will not finish will all their runners.” Tergat was correct as the Ethiopian men didn't record a team score
(nor did US jr men).
*Bekele: I'm not here to humiliate the Kenyans
*Kenyan Columnist: Locals face tough task of winning
*Britain's Mo Farah Making No Excuses: He's focused on world cross this winter and says he's ready to race
*World XC Press Conference Quotes
It's gonna be a crazy free for all
Big Crowd Expected As Kenya Govt. Decides To Stop Charging For Tickets
*British Papers Say Security Effort Is One Of Biggest Ever Seen Save For Olympic Games Apparently there are boats offshore in case people need to be evacuated. In 2002, there was a terrorist bomb in Mombassa and terrorists also almost shot down an Israel plane.
*Security Is So Tight In Mombassa Its Irking The Special Programmes Minister Who Got Searched The article also reveals that houses on major streets were all painted to impress the foreigners
*Muslim Group Cancels Planner Protest At World XCs AP
*More on Protest Cancellation from Kenyan Paper
Irish Sports Council To Pay Garrett Thurnbull £100,000 He Spent Clearing His Name in Doping Case
Anthony Famiglietti and Carrie Tollefson To Headline Inaugural Kip Keino Mile The two US Olympians have committed to compete in the May 13th event in Ithaca, NY - the home of LetsRun.com. More big names to come later!!
Sad News
Florida Gators Women's Coach Tom Jones Passes Away In an illustrious coaching career that spanned 35 plus years, Jones won 2 NCAA titles and was the head coach at NC State, Utep, ASU and Florida.
Famous UK Distance Coach David Farrow Banned for 5 Yrs By UK Athletics The British Milers Club's 2006 Coach of the Year was accused of rape but was banned for 'abusing his position of trust as a coach'.
US Worlds Team Lands in Mombasa, US Women's Team Only Has 4 Members, Men's 7 It's kind of sad we're two short on both the men's and women's side.
Ethiopian Athletics Budget Up 50%
Former British Milers Coach of the Year Gets 5 Year Suspened Coaching License in Britain
Germany Hires Frankie Fredericks to Work With Sprint Relay Teams
Kelly Strong Breaks American Record in 2k Steeplechase
LaSalle Bank Shamrock Shuffle Hits 30,000 Entrants for This Weekend
*Reebok Signs on to Sponsor Peachtree Roadrace Clearly sponsoring the Reebok/ LetsRun.com afterparty in Boulder has rejuvenated the Reebok marketing machine. Peachtree is serving as the US road 10k
champs this year.
Dick Pound Wants to Be Head of Court of Arbitration in Sport He doesn't seem neutral enough.
This Weekend's Action:
Netherlands: Samuel Wanjiru Runs 58:35 World Record in Half The half mark is getting down there as it becomes a more commonly raced distsance.
Seoul: Lee
Bong-Ju Runs 2:08 to Win Seoul Marathon at Age 37 Bong Ju was the 1996 silver medallist in the marathon and won Boston in 2001.
*Lee Bong Ju: "I know I am not so fast, but I believed in my endurance which really helped me win the race."
8Top Results from Seoul Marathon
S. Africa: *Myburgh’s 48.97 and double by Namibia’s Agnes Samaria highlight South African Champs, Day 2
*Sherwin Vries Gets Sprint Double at S. African Champs
Lisbon: Rita Jeptoo 67:05, Robert Kipchumba 60:31
at Lisbon HalfIAAF
Rome: Six Sub 2:10 Men, 4 Sub 2:30 Women at Rome MarathonIAAF
NZ:$1000 on the Line for a Sub 4 at Today's Mayoral Mile in New Zealand
USATF News: Texas' Bubba Thornton and UCLA's Jeanette Bolden to Coach 2008 US Olympic Teams
*Drug Cheat Sandra Farmer Patrick Inducted into Cal
State Hall of Fame (She's Also a USATF Board Member) If you cheat just make sure it really works and then you can get a lifetime gig in the sport, hence stories like this:
14 Year old Inline Skater Busted for Drugs by USADA
In Depth Talk With USATF CEO Craig Masback from FloCast: 65 minutes with USATF's boss. At least watch it before you bitch . We haven't seen it yet but Mark of Flocasts says its good and its 3am.
*Part1:
*Part 2 Hardest Part of the Job
*Part 3: Poker (He'd better not knock our favorite sport)
*Part 4: TV
*Part 5: Future Goals
*Part 6: Beer, Gambling and Women
Drug Testing Guru Don Catlin to Step Down as Head of UCLA Lab to Dedicate More Time to Research Washington Post In case you haven't realized the real bottleneck in drug testing is on the research side,
so it might be better to have Catlin doing research full time. And until the pro sports or the Olympic movement get serious and pony up some serious cash ,there will be no HGH test, etc.
*Don Catlin Says Drug Testers Need More Money, Fortunately USADA is Loaning Him a Key Piece of Equipment
*Don Catlin Says Urine Test for HGH May Never
Be Developed
Uproar in Kenya as World XC Team is Announced and Martin Mathathi is Named to Team Despite Doing Well at Trials Mathathi was taken off the team as a result.
*Kenyan Team Named for World XCs
*Japanese Team Named for World XCs
Paris Half Marathon Men's Results Joseph Maregu Wins in 1:00:22
*Women's Results
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