November 18, 2013 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“I’m taking some credit for Molly’s record. I was a good rabbit for her.”

– Shalane Flanagan, jokingly taking credit for Molly Huddle‘s new 12k World’s Best that Huddle set Sunday at the inaugural .US National Road Racing Championships in Alexandria, Virginia. Flanagan pushed the pace and also broke the old record.

$100,000 .US Road Champs *Results

LRCMolly Huddle Sets 12-K World Best - Wins Inaugural .US Road Running Championships

Molly Huddle and Shalane Flanagan put on a show as both women better the previous world’s best for 12k at the inaugural .US 12k Championships. In the end, Huddle was too good and took home $20,000 and the world’s best. *Video Interview With Molly After Her World’s Best
On The Boards:Huddle’s World Best! :Where Does it Rank?

LRCAaron Braun Wins First US Title

Braun earned a big payday as he pulled away late after Abdi suffered a bad mid-race fall. Shadrack Biwott was second and won the 2013 USARC series over Matt Tegenkamp. Chris Solinsky was a DNF.

LRC 2013 .US Road Race Photos
More Coverage On The LRC .US Championships Page

WADA News

IAAF President Lamine Diack Criticizes WADA For “Ridiculous” Campaign Against Jamaica And Kenya Diack: “Stop all this nonsense! I read in the newspapers and it was like a campaign against Jamaica and I think it was ridiculous. They are the most tested athletes in the world!”
WADA Provisionally Suspends 2014 Sochi Games Lab In Moscow, Russia The lab faces suspension unless it significantly improves the reliability of its results by Dec. 1.

65-Year-Old SA Distance Legend Sonja Laxton Injured Badly In Hit-And-Run While Running Laxton, who won 70 national titles and broke 28 SA records in her prime, is not in critical condition, but will need multiple surgeries to repair her joints.

One Of The Year’s Biggest Questions Has Been Answered: Cain Goes Pro

LRCMary Cain Turns Pro

Cain will continue to run under Alberto Salazar and attend college while competing as a professional.
*Discuss

*Mary Cain And Alberto Salazar Receive Awards At 2013 World Athletics Gala In Monaco Cain got the Female Rising Star Award and Salazar received the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award.
*MB: CAIN GOES PRO
*MB: This week’s sign of the Apocalypse: Mary Cain’s role model is Mary Decker
*Mary Cain talks about going pro

Doping

WADA Doubles Doping Ban To 4 Years In New Code
The new code also offers flexibility and reduced sentences for accidental doping and cooperating with authorities.
WSJ: Head Of Jamaican Drug Testing – Herb Elliott – Has Fabricating Graduate Degrees On His Resume
“His official resume says he earned a master’s in chemistry from Columbia University and a medical degree and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Université Libre de Bruxelles, but available official records don’t indicate he submitted work at either University.”
Seb Coe – We must not lose the war on drugs or track will be viewed like pro wrestling (a farce)
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Threatens To Stop Running Internationally Unless Jamaica Federation Defends Its Athletes We understand her sentiment but if she does that, then all of the cynics will think they are dirty.
Phil Hersh Reviews Lance Armstrong Documentary Which Came Out Friday

Other Top Weekend Action: Alan Webb Runs 23:10

Imane Merga And Hiwot Ayalew Defend Their Titles Against Deep Fields At XC Race In Atapuerca, Spain Merga outsprinted Kenya’s Emmanuel Bett (2012 10K World leader) and Eritrea’s World XC bronze medalist Teklemariam Medhin to win by 1 second. World XC champ Japhet Korir was 6th. For the women World XC silver medalist Ayalew beat Linet Masai to win by 9 seconds. 5,000 World silver medalist Mercy Cherono was 3rd.
Alan Webb Disappointed After Finishing 7th Place In Richmond Road 8k (23:10) Webb: “Today was pretty bad. I got dropped. I tried to go for it, and those guys just ran away from me.”
*Results
*MB: ALAN WEBB 7TH PLACE @ RICHMOND 8k 23:10
Ethiopian Abebe Mekuriya (2:17:35) And Irina Alexandrova (2:39:06) Get The Wins At The Philadelphia MarathonNick Hilton was the first American, running 2:19:36 in his debut for 3rd as Amanda Marino was the first American woman in 5th (2:43:57).
Two Sub-2:30s In One Day? Nope: Michael Wardian Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll San Antonio Marathon In 2:31:19, Heads To Second Start Line In Las VegasAbraham Rutto won the half marathon in 1:07:16 over Patrick Rizzo (1:08:10).
*MB: Will Michael Wardian run two sub-2:30 marathons today? He ended up running 2:57:56 in Vegas.
2010 World Half Marathon Champion Wilson Kiprop Dominantes At Kass Marathon 12K Josephine Jepkoech won the women’s race.
*Little-Known Thomas Kiplagat (2:18) And Prague Half Marathon Champ Alice Chelang’at (2:40) Claim Victory At The Kass Marathon In Kenya

WAG: Bolt And SAFP 2013 Athletes Of The Year

Usain Bolt And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Named 2013 World Athletes Of The Year
Bolt Says Jamaican Doping Issues Are Costing Him Sponsorship Opportunities And Money “In every sport there are drug scandals and problems but people get it done and move past it. That’s what we have to do because it’s really costing me money now, and I’m not too happy about that.”
IAAF President Lamine Diack Criticizes WADA For “Ridiculous Campaign” Against Jamaica And Kenya Diack: “It was like a campaign, with WADA trying to make a statement.”
Bolt Talks To Monaco Media; Says He’s Only Been Back In Training For A Week And A Half And Is Sore TJer Teddy Tamgho Talks About His Amazing Comeback Year Where He Won Worlds And Jumped Over 18m. This after not being out all 2012 with injury.
Hurdlers Jehue Gordon And Brianna Rollins Talk To Press At WAG

A Look Back at the Years of Bolt and SAFP

IAAF Look Back At Usain Bolt And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s 2013 Year On The Track

Regionals Are Complete. Who Goes Dancing? *Regional Results

LRCThe 31 Men's Teams For 2013 NCAA Cross-Country Nationals Are ...

The LRC super computer has crunched its numbers with the help of Bo Waggoner's incredible program and we have the 31 teams going to the Big Dance for you. Four Ivy League teams made it.

LRC2013 NCAA Women's Cross-Country Teams Announced - The 31 Women's Teams Going To The Big Dance Are ...

Duke - ranked #4 in the coaches' polls to start the season (and #1 in the LRC poll) - will not be going dancing. We've got all 31 teams for you.

*NCAA Announces Div. III Championships Qualifiers

MB Discussion:

MB:NCAA Regionals: Surprises and Chokes
MB:Another 2007 grad third in Midwest Region
MB:ACC Power Conference of Men’s XC
MB:BYU without Ward finishes 6th at Mountain Region
MB:Official: Who’s In and Who’s Out?

Spice Up Your Friday With Today’s Weird Running News

Might Olympic 800 Silver Medalist Nigel Amos Give Up Running To Be A DJ? That is one writer’s fear anyway as he says Amos is now a club DJ at a at a corner bar and “is always in the papers for the wrong reasons.”
Coyote Runs With Lead Pack During Arizona State XC Championships
Man Proposes To Girlfriend At 24.5 Miles Into NYC Marathon Along with family and friends, he had a 25-person cheer squad on the course where they went by holding signs saying , “Say yes.” She did and they finished together in 4:25.
Japan’s “Monkey Runner” Breaks Four-Legged 100m World Record (Video) He ran (?) 16.87 seconds.
Cool Idea:“Nomadic” Rio 2016 Olympic Handball Arena To Be Moved And Made Into Four Schools After The Games That has to be one of the best ways ever to make sure Olympic buildings don’t become “white elephants” for the host city.

More Weekend Results

Kenyan Felix Kipkemoi Keny Wins Valencia Marathon In Spanish Soil Record Of 2:07:14 Ethiopia’s Azalech Masrecha won the women’s race in 2:27:01.
Kenya’s Patrick Terer Defends Title At Turin Marathon with 2:08:52. 40-year-old Italian Ivana Iozzia won the women’s race in 2:34:12.
Kenya’s Rebecca Chesire Beats 2008 Olympic 5,000 &10,000 Silver Medalist Elvan Abeylegesse To Win The Istanbul Marathon Chesire ran 2:29:05 to Abelyegesse’s 2:29:30. France’s Abraham Kiprotich won the men’s race in 2:12:28.
Russia’s Albina Mayorova Wins The Yokohama Women’s Marathon In 2:25:55 She had almost a 3-minute gap over second place.
*IAAF Recap

Non-Marathon Results

Takashi Ichida Wins Crazy Photo Finish At Ageo City Half Marathon In Japan As First 5 Are Within 2 Seconds Of Each Other Ichida won in 1:02:36 as Kazuto Nishiike (1:02:36) was 2nd and 5th place was 1:02:38. The top 18 all broke 1:03 and Yuki Kawauchi was 20th in 1:03:05 only 2 weeks after NYC.
MileSplit Weekend XC Coverage: NXN Northwest & Midwest Regionals, VA/NJ/MA States, NY Federations Kass Marathon On Tap For This Morning In Kenya As Tons Of Up And Comers Try To Make Their Mark Men’s and women’s defending champions Weldon Kirui and Agnes Jepkosgei try to become the first in the race’s history to defend their titles.
Japan Running News Nittai University Time Trials Recap: Kenyan Jonathan Ndiku Wins 5000 In 13:14Suguru Osako highlighted the Japanese performances with 13:20.

World Indoors Coming To America

Portland To Host 2016 World Indoor Championships

The World Indoor Championships are returning to the USA for the second time ever as Portland won the right to host World Indoors in 2016.

On the boards:Indoor Worlds 2016 to Portland, OR

The New LRC

LRCWelcome To The Improved LetsRun.com

We’re proud to reveal today a new refined version of LRC. It’s still the same site you know and love, but with a cleaner design and lots of new features. Click here to read about the changes and give your feedback.

Erik Speaks: The mysterious man behind the cleaner LetsRun.com speaks. He also reveals his 5k PR here.
Athletics Illustrated Reviews LRC Renovation “It’s getting a makeover and it looks good, and familiar. Of all the changes that are being undertaken, remaining familiar is the smartest marketing stratagem they could make.”