US Women's 10 Mile and Men's Marathon Champs Today at Twin Cities *Live Thread *Live Coverage
- Preview US Marathon Men's Marathon Championships & US Women's 10-Mile Champs 2008 champ Fernando Cabada will battle it out with Minnesota native Luke Watson in Minnesota, plus Mo Trafeh.
- USATF Preview
Past Champs Martin Lel, Dos Santos, Tulu Seek More Glory In NY Before missing his last three marathons due to injury, Lel might have been the best marathoner on the planet. This is big, big news (which we forgot to put up yesterday).
Latest Commonwealths News
- Despite Negative Issues Plaguing Commonwealth Games, Kenyan Athletes Are Serious About The Actual Competition The article addresses Kenyan athletes in all sports, but Olympic steeple champ Brimin Kipruto is quoted.
- Kenyan Steeplers Are The Most Accomplished Athletes At Commonwealths World champ Ezekiel Kemboi thinks a steeple medal sweep is likely and reveals plans for a future in the marathon. A tally of ten Kenyan gold medals in all sports is apparently the benchmark for a productive Games, with the lion's share coming from T&F.
- Some Druggies Still Likely To Fall Through The Testing Cracks At Commonwealths Money keeps drug creators and suppliers in the game while fame and fortune keep athletes and agents willing to cheat. And WADA admits many dopers will continue to avoid detection. So what else is new?
- Athletes Allowed To Leave Opening Ceremonies Early Threats of an opening ceremonies boycott due to possible delays and other security concerns prompted the organizing committee to let the athletes leave the stadium at any time after marching in. Still, no one wants to seem as though they're snubbing Prince Charles or Indian royalty, plus the host nation is still sensitive about the fact that athletes exiting the ceremonies early might be construed as a slap in the face over what were admittedly substandard preparations leading up to the Games. But what do they expect when parts of New Delhi are in lockdown over concerns of terrorism and cobras are still spotted in athletic venues?
- European Champ Andy Turner Will Consider A Commonwealths Medal As A Fine Bonus To A Dream Season
- Indian Army Does Rush Job To Rebuild Collapsed Footbridge Near Stadium When it absolutely, positively has to be done overnight.
- Sylvia Kibet And Vivian Cheruiyot To Fly In And Out Of India For Commonwealth Games Because Of Security Fears
- South African Long Jumper Khotso Mokoena Refuses To Get On Plane To Commonwealths And Federation Isn't Happy
- Withdrawals Will Let New Stars Shine At Commonwealths BBC
- British Officials Worried Team's Performance At Commonwealths Will Damper Public Perception BBC
- European Hurdles Champ Andy Turner Admits He's Struggling For Motivation For Commonwealths
The New Head Of USATF?
Bill Schmidt, Former VP Of Gatorade, Javelin Bronze Medallist In 1972, Would Accept USATF Job The board wants someone who knows something about the sport and has sports marketing experience. Schmidt meets the criteria.
3 Recommended Reads
- Mary Wittenberg Talks To Runner's World The interview is full of lots of great info.
i. She hints that another international and a US star will drop out of a fall marathon soon. We wonder who it will be?
ii. She reveals she's wining and dining the potential NY stars of the future, as Lisa Koll, Molly Huddle, Chris Solinsky, Matt Tegenkamp and Evan Jager will watch NY this year.
iii. She reveals Galen Rupp has been banned by Alberto from attending.
iv. She talks about Doug Logan. *Wittenberg Photo Gallery - The Science Of Sports Conjectures About Contador
- The Fastest Running Couple In The World?
The WSJ Profiles New York Contenders Gebre Gebremariam And Werknesh Kidane The WSJ is suddenly full of running articles. We loved this quote from Kidane on her start in the sport: "I run to get the sheep, to get the goat, to follow with them very fast, but I don't know the meaning of running."
Is Meb In Shape? We'll Start To Find Out Sunday As He Defends His San José Title
Financial/TV News
- UK Athletics Head Warns Govt. That London's Bid For 2015 World Championships Is Being Undermined By Lack Of Govt. Guarantee We have no idea why they'd need a govt. guarantee given the fact that all of the facilities will be there from 2012.
- After 27 Years, BBC Loses Rights To World Champs
- IAAF - Channel 4 Beats Out BBC
Fifth Avenue Mile Behind The Scenes
Story Of The Week!!! 4 college cross-country teammates from UMBC went up to NY to watch the 5th Avenue Mile. Before the day was over, they were holding the finishing tape and hanging out with some of their heroes. How did it happen? A GREAT read.
More Post-5th Avenue News:
*US Olympic Committee Profiles Shannon Rowbury
*Bernard Lagat Looking Forward To Big Marathon Payday In 2013
Commonwealths Getting Lots Of Press
- Hormone Drugs Are Apparently Starting To Impact Caster Semenya At least it's clear now the IAAF just didn't let her come back without doing something.
- Nick Willis Calls His Training "Pretty Flawless" Since Mid-July
- A Look At The Two Men Who Will Represent Kenya In The Marathon In Delhi One loves India, as he's a two time Mumbai marathon champ.
- Four Years After Just Missing Out On Commonwealth Selection, Collis Birgmingham Goes In 2010 As Seasoned Veteran He missed out on Commowealths but improved enough to make the Olympics and WChamps.
- We're Not Making This Up Trained Monkeys Are Hired To Guard Commonwealth Games Athletes
- South Africa's Olympic Silver Medallist In Long Jump, Khotso Mokoena, Is Cleared To Compete He had thought it was doubtful he'd be able to go, but his injury has improved.
- Random Fact Of Day #1 English Hurdler Is Son Of Baronet A baronet is called "Sir" like a knight.
- Random Fact Of Day #2 Half Of Seb Coe's Family Lives In Delhi
- Mark Lewis Francis Says He's Learned From MJ's Criticisms
- European Silver Medallist At 200m, Christian Malcolm, Thinks Commonwealth Games Will Be Tougher Than Europeans He may be right, as the Jamaicans weren't in Europe either.
- Pakistani Athletes May Or May Not Get To See Taj Mahal Like Other Athletes Apparently, most visas for Pakistani are just city-specific, so they may not get to go.
Say It Ain't So
Ryan Hall Pulls Out Of Chicago Marathon Philip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune broke this story. Hall isn't injuried; he's just had some subpar training and is out after his subpar race in Philly. We're surprised.
Pat Butcher: Patrick Makau Is Now The Man To Beat In The Marathon He's certainly the #1 in the world in our minds so far for 2010.
LetsRun.com's Endorses This Guy As Doug Logan's Replacement
South African Olympic Head Says He's Willing To Personally Clean Toilets To Insure India's Commonwealth Games Go On This guy clearly isn't afraid of getting his hands dirty and doing the grunt work. Certainly much better than what could be said of the old AAU guys.
*USOC Might Intervene If USATF Appoints Board Member CEO
Commonwealth Games Start Sunday
- BBC's Form Guide To Commonwealth Games Track & Field Competition They do a great job of breaking down the events very quickly for you. *Women's Form Guide Here
- Indian Official Rush To Finish Cleanup - Delegations Are Relatively Happy As Situation Has Improved Dramatically
- Snakes, Stray Dogs & Monkeys Are Last Set Of Problems To Be Dealt With By Organizers Rojo has been to India and he found the dogs to be friendly and had his picture taken with a monkey. We're not so sure about a 10-foot cobra that was found at the tennis venue.
- Indians Pissed That Queen Elizabeth Isn't Coming To Open Games As She Normally Does - May Snub Prince Charles As A Result
- Royals Insist Prince Charles Will Open Games
- Caster Semenya May Pull Out With Back Injury
- 800m World Champ Mbulaeni Mulaudzi Is Out
- Michael Johnson: This Edition Of Games Was Doomed From The Start
- Embarrassing Kenya Getting Excited About Chances For 1-2 Finish In Race Walk
- On Sunday, An Indian Gold Medallist Boxer Sat Down On His Bed And It Collapsed
- Commonwealth Games Head Says, "Don't Blame Me"
Berlin Marathon *Live Thread *Splits
In Case You Don't Want To Know The Results
The Last Minute Of The 2010 Berlin Marathon:
***** **** Wins Berlin Marathon In Sprint Finish In 2:05:06 (Warning: We're about to reveal the winner's name) Despite
rain, Patrick Makau won the race in a sprint finish in 2:05:06 over Geoffrey Mutai as Bazu Worku was close behind. The rain prevented a world record attempt, but Makau has established himself as a marathon star. Aberu Kebede won the women's race by over a minute in a slow 2.23.58.
Toronto Waterfront Marathon: Kenneth
Mungara (2:07:57) And Sharon Cherop (2:22:42) Both Break Kenyan
All-Comers Record At Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon Canadian Reid Coolsaet ran 2:11:23 to make the Canadian Olympic standard by 6 seconds. Sharon Cherop got the women's winby 1 second over Tirfi Beyene with 2:22:43, which was faster than the winning time in Berlin.
*Message Board Discussion
Stop The Presses: Say it Ain't So: Menjo Loses At Lisbon Half Marathon, Mary Keitany Romps Races need to do a better job of promoting Menjo. We had no idea the LetsRun.com superhero was running. In case you have no idea what we're talking about, Menjo earlier this year soloed a 3:53 mile, a 12:55 5k, and the world-leading 10k.
Big Family News
Kara Goucher Gives Birth To Colton Mirko Goucher Congrats to Kara and Adam. Mom and baby are doing well after the baby was face up during delivery. The baby was 5 days early, which means Paula Radcliffe's second child is due in 5 days.
Galen Rupp Gets Married We can't believe no one has posted on it yet, but the wedding was yesterday according to the wedding website. Congrats to Galen and Keara.
Unbelievable
USATF Board Gave Logan $140,000-A-Year Pay Raise 9 Days Before Starting Termination Process If you're thinking of terminating someone, it's probably not a good idea to bump their base pay which their severance is calculated off of. The AP article above is excellent and has the 3 criteria the board wanted to see more from Logan on.
"The only amateurs left in the Olympic movement are the people running it." That's what Philip Hersh, the pre-eminent Olympic writer in the US, commented after hearing about the Logan raise.
Update: USATF Communications Director Jill Geer Writes To Clarify Our Comments Above
Previous Berlin News: From Bored With Running As A Child To Berlin Marathon Contender This IAAF piece has an interesting look at Germany's top contender for Sunday's Berlin Marathon, Sabrina Mockenhaupt.
*Patrick Makau And Geoffery Mutai Hope To Take Up Where Haile G Left Off The two 2:04 guys certainly should like Berlin's super-fast course.
*Joe Battaglia Preview
*Mzungo.org Has Lots Of Berlin Info
Also This Weekend: Toronto $2 Million Budget For This Weekend's Toronto Marathon
Lisbon: Mary Keitany Headlines This Weekend's Lisbon Half Marathon
Commonwealth Games Start Next Sunday
- Good News: Massive 48-Hour Cleanup Efforts Results In Most Nations Agreeing To Go
- A Must Click Photos Of Athletes' Bathrooms Leaked Warning - this is kind of gross.
UK Performance Director Backs Phillips Idowu's Decision To Skip Commonwealths - Kenyan Delegation Is Happy With Accommodations They don't want to join "team of pessimists."
- Boaz Lalang Not So Sure: "You don't know who might be shot or attacked."
- Surprising: van Commenee Backs Phillips Idowu's Pullout
- Four British Cyclists Wimp Out *Two Top Canadian Archers Wimp Out
- British Diplomats Breathe Sigh Of Relief As English Team Agrees To Compete
- New Zealand, Scotland And Canada Going But Delaying Arrival So More Of Cleanup Can Be Completed
- Laughable: Jamaica's World Championships Silver Medallist In Decathlon Pulls Out Due To "Dehydration"
- Former 800m World Champ Janeth Jepkosgei Pulls Out Of Commonwealths
- Welsh Team Delays Leaving For Commonwealths
- Delhi Police Dismiss Security "Sting" Report
We Mentioned These In The Week That Was
- Ryan Hall Blog About His Run In Philly (scroll down) Too focused on running 4:40s.
- Ritz Talks About His Great North Run Got in a little trouble trying to run 59:30.
Doug Logan Doesn't Go Quietly
- New: Mary Wittenberg Not Interested In USATF Job
- Doug Logan Absolutely Rips USATF In Running Times Interview Logan says that he actually raised revenues 30% in 2010 and he was fired because amateurs wanted to keep power. "For too many people in the sport, it is more important that they control it rather than it be good or prosperous." Logan also blasts the amateurish way he was fired and says he was notified he was canned while one USATF staffer texted on his PDA.
- Did Brooks Johnson Take Down Doug Logan? Johnson was thrown under the bus by Logan when Logan started at USATF and it looks like Johnson has evened the score. Johnson blogged the following about Logan: "I am telling you he will NOT last the term ... This guy has a massive ego and he is going to make mistakes that equal the magnitude of that ego. When he does, I am going to nail his ass because there is a mandate in federal legislation that demands accountability and transparency of organizations like USATF." *LRC MB: Brooks Johnson Has Some Words For Doug Logan And Vice Versa
- Doug Logan Absolutely Rips USATF Board Of Directors In New York Times For Being Amateurish *LRC MB: Doug Logan on the USATF Board of Directors
Week In Review
LRC Week That Was: Haile G, Ryan Hall, Dathan Ritzenhein, Shalane Flanagan, Andrew Wheating, Bernard Lagat's Brother And 79-Year-Old Chris Chataway It was a busy week on the roads and the board rooms (Doug Logan's sacking) and we give you our insight. Is something wrong with Ryan Hall? How amazing is Haile G?
The Son Of Teachers, World Record Holder David Rudisha Once Thought He'd Be A Geography Teacher
More Weekend Action
- Performance Of The Weekend? Chris Chataway Runs Great North Run In 1:51:09 (8:29 Pace) At Age 79 He paced Roger Bannister to his historic first sub-4 and is still going at it. He's Ed Whitlock's age and could probably beat both Rojo and Wejo.
- Netherlands: Hilda Kibet (51:30) Defeats Lornah Kiplagat (52:03) At Dam Tot Dam Loop 10-Miler 19-year-old John Mwangangi won the men's in 45:26.
- DC: Catherine The Great Wins Inaugural Woodrow Wilson Half Marathon
- Brazil: Fabiana Murer Vaults 4.70 At Brazilian Champs, Marílson dos Santos Runs 28:44.59 10k
- Hawaii: Nate Brannen Wins Maui Mile In 4:15 For $500
- Nate Brannen Runs Maui Half In 1:12
Great North Run And CityGames *Mile-By-Mile Splits For Leaders *Elite Photos
Haile G Remains Undefeated As Adere Repeats! *LRC Thread On Race Haile G still has got the goods as he put on a great show and crushed the field in poor conditions in England. He remained undefeated in 2010 and won by almost 2 minutes in 59:33 as American Dathan Ritzenhein was
4th in 62:34.
*Everyone In Britain Would Love To See Haile Win Olympic Marathon In 2012
More From Britain: Craig Mottram & Hannah England Win Distance Races At Great North CityGames Craig Mottram won the 2-mile by 1 second in 8:31. *LRC MB: Mottram wins 2 mile over Birms...Bads...Thompson...and No Farah
*In Commonwealths Tune-Up, England Beats Australia 5-4 At Great North CityGames
*Special Portable Track Makes CityGames Possible
Former NAIA Star Aaron Rono (3:58.18) & Carmen Douma-Hussar (4:35.60) Win Grandma's Minnesota Mile *Minnesota native Garrett Heath and Amy Mortimer were the runners-up.
College XC Heating Up *More Results *College Forum
- Wisconsin adidas Invitational
Women: #11 Syracuse got by #29 North Carolina (89-98); Charlotte Browning (20:14) pulled away from Emily MacLeod to win. Full Results
Men: #25 Indiana scalped host #6 Wisconsin (43-75); Donn Cabral (23:29) emerged late from a pack of 5 and held off Andrew Bayer for the individual crown. Full Results
*Message Board: Adidas Wisconsin Invite Results - Rocky Mountain Shootout
Women: #13 Colorado went 1-2-3-4 overall and nearly got a Shootout shutout in the D1 scoring with 16 points to Wyoming's 48; Laura Tremblay was the top finisher with 20:29 (5.8k). In non-D1, Adams State (#1 D2) squeaked by Western State (#8 D2) with a 31-38 score; Kristin McGlynn led Adams with a division win in 20:56 (5th in all divisions).
Men: #4 Colorado dominated the D1 division with 18 points; Joe Bosshard led the Buff charge with a 24:44 victory. Adams State (#1 D2) put 4 in front of perennial rival Western State's (#2 D2) 1st man to crush the non-D1 division; Ryan McNiff spearheaded the Adams assault with a 25:11 division win (3rd in all divisions). *Combined Results *Message Board: Rocky Mountain Shootout - Greater Louisville Cross-Country Classic
Women: Neely Spence (Shippensburg - #6 D2) took the Gold race in 16:33, the fastest time of the day. *Women's Gold Results *Women's Blue Results
Men: Meshack Koyiaki (Columbus St. - #23 D2) led 11 others under 24:00 in the fast Gold race with a 23:21 win. *Men's Gold Results *Men's Blue Results *Message Board: louisville xc course Inevitable discussion about course accuracy. The Gold race did include some athletes with solid credentials, like former NCAA steeple champ Barnabas Kirui. - Montana Invitational
Women: Katrina Drennen (17:41) and her Montana squad emerged victorious. Full Results
Men: Sub-4:00 miler (3rd-placer in 2010 NCAA indoor mile) Patrick Casey led Montana State (receiving votes in national poll) to victory with a 24:27 win. Full Results
- Friday: Notre Dame: Women Results: #1 Villanova Over #5 Oregon, #2 Florida State
Men: Oregon And Puskedra Win At Notre Dame. #5 Alabama Only 8th
*Recap Of Oregon Win From Ducks Website Vin was pleased with the performances.
*Puskedra, Centro Interview
On The Boards: Notre Dame Results - Paul Short: Men: UVA Over Georgetown At Paul Short
Women: Georgetown Women Dominate Paul Short
*Post-Race Interviews
Beppu-Oita Marathon Officially Accepting Female Applicants Women only participated in the race by special invitation in the past.
Post Ryan Hall Dropout News
- Ryan Who? Chicago Adds 2009 Boston Winner Deriba Merga As Well As 20-Year-Old 2:05:23 Guy Feyisa Lelisa To Field We wonder if these two are replacements for Hall. It's crazy to think they both could have been without fall marathons. Lelisa blitzed a 2:05:23 this spring at age 20.
- Ryan Hall Talks Extensively About Why He's Not Running Chicago His long tempos were getting worse instead of better and it's clear he's been having doubts for a while, yet less than two weeks ago, he told the Philly Inquirer he thought he was in better shape this year than last.
- Ryan Hall Thinks He's One Of The Most Consistent Marathoners In The World - Phil Hersh Wonders If He'll Ever Be A Winner
Commonwealths News
- 20 Groups Demand Boycott Of Commonwealth Games "We want schools, not stadiums."
- Commonwealth Games Start Sunday But Some Timing Systems Still Aren't Installed Also the games chief doctor is out of action with typhoid.
- World Champion Ezekiel Kemboi Leads 18 Mid-D & Distance Kenyans Into Battle At Commonwealth Games Kemboi is the team captain.
- Biased Reporting We Agree With
Men's 1,500 Final Called #1 Must-Watch Event By New Zealand Paper It's probably the event will be most interested in as well.
Other News
- 6 Sub-2:08s And 14 Sub-2:10s To Compete In Frankfurt On Halloween
- Chinese - Japanese Relations Have Gotten So Bad That A Chinese University Team Is Pulling Out Of Upcoming Ekiden
- Twin Cities Voluntarily Expanding Its Anti-Doping Efforts
Congrats, Ladies!
Paula Radcliffe Has Her 2nd Baby *Photos Of Kara Goucher's Baby
4:45 Marathons In The News
- Jefferson The Dog Talks In Depth About His Marathon World Record 4:45 is the new marathon world record for a mascot.
- Justin Gimelstob Talks About His $10,000 Bet To Run Sub-4:45 In New York
Random Distance News
- IAAF Release On Jones' And Samuelson's Return To Chicago Jones' courageous 1:01:40 first half in 1985 is still legendary.
- US Men's Marathon And Women's 10-Mile Champs Are This Weekend In Minnesota
- Canada's Convoluted World Championships Selection Process For 2011 Is Released And Explained Here
- Former Columbia Runner Lisa Stublic Runs 2:33 In The Marathon
- Two-Time New Zealand Olympian Michael Aish Switches Allegiance To America
- World Mountain Running Series Ends Saturday In Slovenia
- Brenda Martinez Gets $4,000 From USATF Foundation
It's Time To Start Paying Attention To NCAA D1 XC Action
3 Big Meets This Weekend: *Paul Short *Notre Dame *Wisconsin
*Oregon XC Teams Head To Notre Dame
Latest Commonwealth Games News (They Start Next Sunday)
Caster
Semenya Out Of Commonwealth Games With Back Injury, World Champ
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi Likely Out As Well, As He's Battling Back Injury The games have lost a ton of high-profile athletes for various reasons, but these 2 appear to have legitimate injuries.
*Indian Government May Snub Prince Charles From Opening Games Because Queen Didn't Come For First Time Since 1966 The Queen is 84 and decided not to come and the Indians feel slighted.
53-Year-Old Joan Benoit Samuelson Hoping To Qualify For Olympic Trials In Chicago 2:47 is going to be very hard for her and her #1 goal is to break 2:50 for the third time as a 50-year-old.
Distance News
- Bye Bye Kipketer: David Rudisha's World Record Ratified
- High School Star Joe Rosa To Have Foot Surgery
- Edwin Soi Defeats Tariku Bekele, Sylvia Kibet Wins Peppe Greco 10k In Sicily
- Mo Farah Hopes 2010 Was A Stepping Stone To Greater Things In 2011 And 2012
- Boston Globe Olympic Writer Confused Over Why Board Gave Logan A Raise Before Firing Him So were we.
- Morgan Uceny Brief Chat
Catching Up With Four Top Milers
- Recommeded Read TFN Interview With Arkansas Sensation Dorian Ulrey The Razorback senior is pumped for his final year and reveals he is considering a move to the 5,000. People seem to forget this dude has run 3:35 in the 1,500 and was 6th at NCAAs in XC - that's near Alan Webb in terms of talent in our minds.
- A Brief Chat With Leo Manzano In the middle of the summer, he was wondering if pro running was his calling. Now he's realizing he's got the "coolest" job in the world.
- 18 Months After Cancer Diagnosis, Gabriele Anderson Runs 4:31 Mile At Fifth Avenue Mile
- 4 Kenyans In Japan, Including 2010 World Junior XC And 1,500 Champ Caleb Ndiku, Break 13:30 A 13:26 for Ndiku is pretty good for a 17-year-old.
It's Official - European Marathon Champ Viktor Röthlin Is Running ING New York City Marathon We reported that Röthlin was running two weeks ago but it's official now. He leads the European charge, which also includes French national record holder Christelle Daunay.
Random/Interesting Links
- Jefferson The Dog Breaks Mascot Marathon World Record In Toronto He ran 4:15.03 to smash the old record.
- Sept. 27, 1988 - Ben Johnson Loses His Gold Medal In Seoul
- Mo Farah Looking For Even Bigger Things In 2011 "I am just starting to scratch the surface of what I can achieve."
Jeremy Roff Completes 800/1,500 Double At Oceania Champs
3 Good Pre-Race 5th Avenue Mile Profiles:
*Alan Webb In The NY Times
*Recommended: Great NY Times Profile On Leo Manzano Leo talks about turning around his 2010 season and growing up very poor (his parents didn't really understand what it meant to go to college).
*Lengthy Profile On Nick Willis, His Upbringing In New Zealand And This Sunday's 5th Avenue Mile Written by a Kiwi who saw Nick run a race at age 7 (the article talks about Nick's family and how his mother died when he was 5).
New World Road 10k Record
Leonard Komon Runs 26:44 WR He smashed the old record but famed coach Renato Canova tried to put it in perspective, as the 10k on the track and roads has become much less of a priority recently.
*Message Board Thread On Record
College XC Season Heating Up
Stanford: Recap
*Men's Results: Stanford Men Defeat Arkansas, NAU NCAA 5k champ David McNeill got the win as NAU sat 3 guys.
*Women: Stanford Women Defeat Cal
*Message Board Thread: Stanford Results
OSU: OSU Men And Women Win Cowboy Jamboree (German Fernandez 6th) The Cowboys ran as a team except for ringer transfer Girma Mecheso, who won the meet (Mecheso won the SEC as a freshman 2 years ago at Auburn before transferring last year).
*Message Board Thread: Girma
Roy Griak: Men: Duke Men Defeat NC State, New Mexico, BYU At Roy Griak New Mexico had 3 before Duke's 1st but could only finish 3rd.
Women: Arizona Women Win Roy Griak
Pro Distance News
- Chris Solinsky Goes Into His High School Hall Of Fame
- Fasil Bizuneh Talks About His First US Title, His New Training Group And Training For Chicago
- Nicole Blood Joining Nike/OTC
Previous 5th Avenue News
- LetsRun.com Friend Lesley Higgins Previews The Pro Races
- Recommended Read Amazingly, Sydney Maree's Record From Year 1 Still Stands Maree got the record just 17 days after he beat Steve Ovett on the track in a year where Ovett and Seb Coe traded the mile world record.
- Dan Huling: "I was on track to break the American record in steeplechase this year ..." Huling is looking to go sub-4 for the first time in Manhattan.
- Nick Willis Thinks Road Miles Benefit Bigger Runners Like Himself
- 2008 NCAA Champ Hannah England Is Enjoying Her 1st Year As A Full-Time Pro She, like Nick Willis, will be running Commonwealths.
- RR: Bernard Lagat's 4-Year-Old Son Is Tired Of Dad Losing Races But he's being taught early how to lower expectations for Americans on the world scene, as after Lagat got the AR but lost, he said, "Daddy lost but you're still good in the country, right, Daddy?"
- Brief Chat With Shannon Rowbury
- Good Brief Chat With Nick Willis Webb hung out and trained with Willis some in Italy and was worried about being the 3rd wheel on a trip with Nick and his wife Sienna.
- Previous: Olympians Lagat Vs. Manzano Vs. Webb Vs. Willis At Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile
- Lebow's Fifth Avenue Mile Dream Still Alive At 30
Newsweek: The Case Against College Athletic Recruiting We must admit we don't get why totally obscure sports get supported at the Ivy League level, but then again, some might say track is obscure. No mention though of how athletes might succeed better after college.
US Distance News
- Gags (Frank Gagliano) Has Started Another Training Group From the Reebok Enclave to the Farm Team to OTC and now an unnamed team in New Jersey. It seems like every prominent East Coast grad is in the group, including Erin Donohue, Rob Novak, Julie Culley, LBP and Max Smith.
- A Preview Of Next Sunday's US Marathon Men's Marathon Championships & US Women's 10-Mile Champs 2008 champ Fernando Cabada will battle it out with Minnesota native Luke Watson in Minnesota.
- Flanagan & Koll Going Gaga Over Each Other On Twitter Meanwhile, we thought about changing the motto of LRC to "We don't tweet."
Doping News
- Authorities On Alert For Possible EPO Substitute The drug is called Hematide.
- Katerina Thanou And Costas Kenteris Trial For Making False Statement To Authorities Postponed
International News
- IAAF Won't Consider London For 2015 Worlds Unless Government Guarantees Bid
- Cape Town Missed Internal Deadline But Wants To Bid For 2020 Olympics They'd seem to have a much better chance to win than Durban.
Most Read Running Story Of The Week
Front Page Of Wall Street Journal: Men Who Run Women's Only Races Technically, most of the races aren't women's only. Some even invite men, like the Nike Women's Half Marathon, but then when a dude won it he was heckled.
Some Runners Aren't Happy That Competitor Group/Corporate Entities Are Taking Over Running Events
Max King & Lauren Fleshman Win 2010 XTERRA Trail Run National Championship
Marathons For The Masses
- Gallowalker: "It takes more mental fortitude than continual running." We disagree and have never understood why some Gallowalkers have to try and make themselves superior to runners.
- Meb Going On A Run With Subway's Jared Fogle
- SI's Peter King Running A Half Marathon October 2nd He said he'd run an ultra-marathon if the Bengals signed TO. Well, they did and King is (sort of) paying up.
British News
- It's London Vs. Beijing For 2015 Worlds The bigwigs of course have to tour the sites to make sure everything is okay even though London is hosting the 2012 Olympics.
- Interesting Read With Charles van Commenee, Head UK Athletics Coach
Philly Half & US 5k
Philly: LRC Matthew Kisorio Slays Gebre Gebremariam As Ryan Hall Struggles 5k man Matthew Kisorio showed that Gebremariam is beatable after all, but it takes a 4:24 3rd mile to do it. Ryan Hall was never a factor and struggled mightily (63:55) as Brett Gotcher (62:50) was the top American, but he was beaten by former NCAA runners Simon
Bairu, Alistair
Cragg, Wesley
Korir and Shawn Forrest.
Pre-Race: Hall Very Confident: "I wasn't totally in top-notch shape last year, but I think I'm in better shape this year."
LRC Meseret Defar Wins As Shalane Flanagan Runs 68:36 2004 Olympic 5,000-meter champ Meseret Defar's move up to the half marathon was a successful one as she defeated the hottest road racer on the planet in a sprint finish to get the win, as Shalane Flanagan became the 4th-fastest American in history.
More: Defar Wins As Heat Bothers Flanagan
Pre-Race: *defar VS flanagan....who ya got?
Providence/USA 5k: LRC Molly Huddle And Robert Cheseret Win 5k Titles American record holder Molly Huddle got a comfortable win on the women's side but on the men's side, it was newly-naturalized US citizen Robert Cheseret who got a surprise win. Don't know Cheseret? He's Bernard Lagat's brother as well as the guy who was able to beat Dathan Ritzenhein
for the NCAA title even though he fell down in the middle of the race.
A Brief Chat With Shannon Rowbury The 1,500 star will end her season in New York on Sunday.
Weird: Pro Meet In Kawasaki, Japan Has No Distance Races You'd think given the Japanese love of distance running that would be the highlight. Instead, it was highlighted by Christophe Lemaitre in the 100m.
Sprint News
- Tyson Gay Satisfied With 2010 Season
- Usain Bolt Not Excited About Restarting Training On October 4th
- Usain Bolt Wants To Retire On Top Whether he thinks he'll still be on top in 2016 will likely determine how long he sprints.
- Usain Bolt Show Continues In Melbourne
Villanova And The Ducks Go To Washington
- Villanova XC Also Goes To The White House The Wildcat women's team keeps getting overlooked.
- Oregon Women's Team Meets President Obama They were a part of a group of NCAA champions in the "lesser" sports visiting the White House.
- Jordan Hasay Blogs About The Visit
- More Presidential News: Allyson Felix Having Her First Presidential Council Meeting On Physical Fitness And Then Is Off To Bahamas
Recommended Watch: How The Toronto Marathon Was Won
Week That Was
LRC Week That Was: Amine Laalou Vs. Bernard Lagat, Alan Webb Vs. Nick Willis, Sara Hall, Joan Benoit, Menjo And Makau We've got it all covered. Alan Webb gave himself a C+ for his performance this weekend. We're giving our Week That was an A-.
This Weekend (Or Next Year): Freedom Run: Great Historic Scenery, A Race Director Who Is A LetsRun Fan, 1+ Hour From DC (Sponsored Post)
Freedom Run 5k, 10k, Half And Marathon
Freedom Run 5k, 10k, Half And Marathon This race has been doing some local advertising with us and today we were checking out the race website. We knew race director Mark Cucuzzella was a LetsRun.com fan and the race is in some incredible beautiful and historic scenery (the marathon goes through 4 national parks: Harper's Ferry, C+O Canal, Antietam and Potomac Heritage Trail Park. LetsRun.com foreign visitors - think Civil War sites). We didn't
know Mark has run at least a 2:35 for the marathon 22 of the last 24 years, including
a 2:34 in Boston this year. Pretty damn impressive. As for the race, there is a kid's run, 5k, 10k, half marathon, and full marathon, but everything is sold out this year except the full marathon. And the prices are super reasonable. $25 for the 10k, $40 for the half, and $70 for the marathon. The marathon is $75 now and there are a few spots left, but you'd better be ready as the race is this Saturday, October 2nd. If you can't make it this year, it seems like a race to consider
next year. Short youtube clip on the race to the left, more info here. Race director Mark is an MD, a Lt. Col in the Air Force, and also has a minimalist shoe store. We think that really is a first (the race didn't pay us for or approve this post, but they are one of our advertisers).
Finish Of Leonard Komon's 10k WR And Interview
The 30th Edition Fifth Avenue Mile *Top Results *Searchable Results *Photo Gallery *Video
LRC Recap: Shannon Rowbury Caps Season With Win In NY Many
people expected Shannon Rowbury to repeat on Sunday
on the streets of New York but she had a tough brawl with New Jersey's finest, Erin Donohue. Rowbury won last year and used her road skills to time her kick perfectly.
Men: Amine Laalou Earns Some American Respect Amine Laalou had
the top 800 and 1,500m times coming in, but everyone was focused on the strong American contingent. All the main contenders, including Bernard Lagat, were there with 100m remaining, but Laalou got the win.
*Photo Gallery *Race Videos
College XC Season Heating Up
Stanford: Recap
*Men's Results: Stanford Men Defeat Arkansas, NAU NCAA 5k champ David McNeill got the win as NAU sat 3 guys.
*Women: Stanford Women Defeat Cal
*Message Board Thread: Stanford Results
OSU: OSU Men And Women Win Cowboy Jamboree (German Fernandez 6th) The Cowboys ran as a team except for ringer transfer Girma Mecheso, who won the meet (Mecheso won the SEC as a freshman 2 years ago at Auburn before transferring last year).
*Message Board Thread: Girma
Roy Griak: Men: Duke Men Defeat NC State, New Mexico, BYU At Roy Griak New Mexico had 3 before Duke's 1st but could only finish 3rd.
Women: Arizona Women Win Roy Griak