Quote Of The Day
– US hammer thrower and 1984 Olympic flag bearer Ed Burke talking about when he first qualified for and competed at the US Olympic Trials in 1960. This comes from a great 3-part interview with Burke, who shares his inspirational story of making a comeback after 10 years away from the sport to PR and make the Olympics at 44 years old. *Part 2: The Comeback *Part 3: Carrying The US Flag
- What are you doing for your Christmas run?
- How do you find a balance between eating for performance and eating like a human being?
- Do girlfriends and wives really mean it when they say 'don't get me anything for Christmas'?
- What's your favorite Christmas Hymn?
- What should I yell when I win the holiday run?
- Is it wrong for me to tell my 5 year old Santa's not real so i can get my 15 miles in on xmas?
US News
- Recommended Read:3-Part Interview With US Hammer Thrower Ed Burke, Who Was The US Flag Bearer At The 1984 Olympics In LA Burke has a pretty inspirational story as he retired for more than a decade after a disappointing Olympics in Mexico City before coming back, throwing a PR, and qualifying for the 1984 team at age 44, twenty years after his first Olympics.
*Part 2: The Comeback
*Part 3: Carrying The US Flag - Running USA’s The 10 Best Moments for U.S. Long-Distance Running In 2013 We love their #1: Team USA’s silver medal at World XC with Ben True 6th and Chris Derrick 10th.
- USA Today: “For many years now, sports have been more of a reflection of our society than the escape they used to be, and 2013 was one of the worst of all time.” USA Today writer Christine Brennan says goodbye to a year that included a lot of sporting negatives, including Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods‘ Masters rule-breaking and of course the Boston Marathon.
Do You Know What You’re Taking? USA Today Investigation Finds Companies Caught With Drug-Tainted Supplements Are Often Run By Executives With Criminal Backgrounds The supplement industry is largely unregulated, but sometimes when the FDA does test it has found many supposedly “all-natural” pills and powders to have potentially dangerous and illegal drugs.
NCAA News
- Interesting Stat From RW: 20% Of Schools Spending Ridiculous Amounts On College Football Bowls Have Made Cuts To Men’s Running Programs “It is acceptable for up to $118,750 in gifts to be given to a football team for making a postseason game … That max gift amount could cover about 14 percent of the expenses of a typical track and field and cross-country program at one of these institutions.”
- University Iowa Track Coach Lodges Complaint And Threatens Lawsuit Over Gender Discrimination In Hiring Process But wait, it’s not what you think. The coach complaining is a man who says the university repeatedly passed over qualified male candidates and that the head coach even joked he should get a sex change if he wanted a job.
Will The IAAF Appeal?
LRCAslı Çakır Alptekin Of Turkey - The 2012 Olympic Women's 1,500 Champ - Is Cleared Of Doping By The Turkish Federation
The Turks apparently don’t believe there was anything wrong with the Biological Passport of the already convicted doper, who dropped from 4:02 to 3:56 last year. The question now becomes – will the IAAF appeal? We wonder – was American Shannon Rowbury really the third-best clean person in the race?
Might Asafa Powell Be Next? Incoming New Head Of WADA Says Asafa Powell Doping Case Needs To Speed Up “He has been under a cloud and if he has broken the rules then sport wants the case finalised, if he hasn’t then he wants the cloud lifted.”
Move Over, Edward Cheserek And Abbey D …
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Let us proudly announced the real winners of NCAAs - our prediction contest winners, who highlight the best of LRC. We've got a repeat winner who can really crunch numbers, an Asics Aggie who ran Club Nats with some legends, and a guy who used to train with Bob Kennedy and has a proposal to fix the NCAA XC meet. Read all about them. Thanks to RunFanShop.com for sponsoring the contest.
Stuff From Russia
- Russian Doping Problems Continue As Weightlifters And Cyclists Banned For Failed Tests
- IAAF Looks Ahead To Feb. 2nd Russian Winter Meet Which Features Olympic HJ Champ Ivan Ukhov Vs. 2008 Champ Andrey Silnov Russia’s two-time Euro champ and professional model Darya Klishina highlights the long jump vs US’s World indoor silver medalist Janay DeLoach.
Week In Review
LRCTessa Barrett's Amazing Story, Praise For Mary Keitany, Desi Davila And Craig Masback, RIP To A Legend, Ryan Hall Versus Khalid Khannouchi, And Ethiopian Training Secrets Revealed?
This week we start by talking about Tessa Barrett's amazing story, hand out belated praise to former USATF head Craig Masback and give some current praise to Mary Keitany and Desi Davila. Plus Khalid Khannouchi vs. Ryan Hall, RIP to a legend in broadcasting, is Haile G a good dancer, and at last the secrets of the Ethiopians revealed?
Nothing’s Going On – Get Off The Computer And Spend Time With Your Family
- Mike Lupica’s Sporting Heroes For 2013 Are Men Like Tommy Meagher – Those Who Ran Into Chaos At The Boston Marathon
- European 800 Champ Lynsey Sharp Is Training On Christmas – Are You? “I like to train on Christmas morning as then I’m hungrier for my Christmas dinner!”
- A Video Merry XMAS/Happy Holidays To Everyone From USATF’s Star Athletes Zero distance runners make the cut.
- Video: BBC Sport’s Coolest Sporting Moments Of 2013 Include Ohuruogu And Isinbayeva
- Boring: Olympic HJ Bronze Medallist Robbie Grabarz Wants Curtains For His New House For Xmas
- 2013 Wasn’t All Bad For Athletics In South Africa Thanks To Johan Cronje And Lusapho April Yes, Athletics South Africa was a mess and Oscar P killed someone but Johan Cronje got a bronze and Lusapho April was third in NY.
- 2013 IAAF End-Of-Year Reviews – Relays
Ultra News
- Death Valley National Park Has Suspended All Endurance Races For 2014, Including The Badwater Ultramarathon According to the Death Valley National Park website, the reason is for a “safety evaluation of this type of activity,” which they expect to be completed by September 2014 at the earliest.
- Are Death Valley Events Suspended Because Of High Levels Of Dangerous Radioactivity In The Park? EnviroReporter Michael Collins tested the radiation in November and found them to be way over what the California Highway Patrol considers “a hazardous material situation.”
- MB:Badwater 2014 is off… Help bring it back!
- New Zealand Ultra Runner Kim Allan Breaks WR For Running Without Sleep Allan ran for 500K (310 miles) without sleeping and it took her 4 days. Previous record was 486K.
Weekend Round-Up: Desi Davila Races Again
Japan-Based Kenyan Sally Chepyego Wins Sanyo Women’s Half Marathon In 1:08:24 CRDesi Davila competed, finishing 7th in 1:10:51.- The Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan And Kenya’s Alex Kibet Get The Wins At Iris Lotto Crosscup In Brussels Former two-time Euro XC champ Fionnuala Britton was 3rd in the women’s race. Kibet won over Bahrain’s Albert Rop in a sprint finish.
- Olympic Pole Vault Champ Renaud Lavillenie Opens His Indoor Season With 5.93m To Win French Meet
- Yamanashi Gakuin Prep H.S. Wins Four-Way Finishing Sprint For First-Ever National High School Boys Ekiden Title The fastest 10K stage was 29:45.
- Toyokawa Girls Win Record-Setting Fourth Title At National High School Girls Ekiden The fastest 5K stage was 15:29.
- Kenyatta University Wins Kenya University Sports Association National Track Championships The meet sounds like it was a two-woman show as Sheila Kandie won the 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 and Florence Wasike won all the sprints and the 800m as well as the 400m hurdles, long jump, shot put and the two relay races. Hard to believe but that’s what the article says.
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Sunday’s Distance News
Phoebe Wright Blogs: “Meet my boyfriend, Track.” Wright humorously explains the many difficulties of dating as a professional runner. Wright: “Guy: Want to go out for drinks? Me: Yes! Except I don’t really drink. And I have to get in bed by 10 or so for a workout in the morning – so maybe something else instead?”- Ukraine’s 2:23 Woman Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko Will Defend Her Title At The January 26th Osaka International Women’s Marathon She faces Japan NR holder and 2004 Olympic Champ Mizuki Noguchi as well as two other 2:23 Japanese.
- Japan Running News Quick Weekend Preview: Desi Davilla Racing Sanyo Women’s Half Marathon On Monday
- Some Random Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Mo Farah He says his secret skill is making animal noises and that his childhood dream was to be a car mechanic.
- RunnersTribe’s List Of Top 10 Most Significant Debut Marathon Performances Of All-TimeJoan Benoit Samuelson gets the most recent entry for her victory in the first women’s Olympic marathon. LRCers have had debates on the “best” marathon every run (here and here) and a strong argument can be made for Sammy Wanjiru‘s 2008 Olympic victory.
Running Journalism News – Looks Like LetsRun.com Is The Only Independent Voice Still Standing
- Jon Gugala Talks To Kevin Liao About The State (Or Lack Thereof) Of The Running Media And The Demise Of His Website “The Trailer”
*MB:Nick Symmonds Tweets His Support: “It’s time we stop letting bullies run the sport of T&F. Great interview @jongugala!” - February:Jon Gugala Talks To Liam Boylan-Pett On the Sorry State Of Track And Field Media What is your favorite media outlet for track and field? Why? JG: LetsRun.com. Is this really a question? It’s the freedom of speech. Absolutely. And LRC is the only medium that seems to value that. For all its faults, that’s where I’d pick.
- Chicago Tribune‘s Phil Hersh Catches Up With “Sports Gene” Author (And Chicago Native) David Epstein A paperback version is coming out in April with a new chapter and the book has been translated into Russian, Slovak, Portuguese and Japanese (so far).
The Most Innovative Product Wejo Saw While at The Running Event 2013
LRC Bia Multi Sport GPS: The Only GPS With A Cellular Modem, SOS Alert And Live Tracking
LRC's Wejo travelled to the annual running specialty conference, The Running Event, in Austin earlier this month and he left being most impressed with a product that officially wasn't part of the conference. It's called Bia and it's the only GPS watch with a cellular modem, SOS Alert, and live tracking. If a loved one wants to know where you are when you're running and you don't want to carry a phone, this is the product for you. Read all about it.
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