December 30, 2013 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“At the Commonwealth Games I think it will be different because the Jamaicans can put out a B-string team and they’d still be good enough to get a winning time.”

– UK sprints coach Lloyd Cowan talking about whether he thinks 19.98 man Adam Gemili, who was 5th in Moscow, will be the favorite at Commonwealths.

In Tightest Voting Ever, HJer Bohdan Bondarenko Wins Track & Field News Athlete Of Year Award The 23-year-old HJer, who went 7-10¾ this year, edged Usain Bolt by a single point as Mo Farah was third and Mo Aman fourth.

Sunday Action

MB: Bernard Kipyego has won 2013 Cochin Half Marathon in 62:56 over Emmanuel Mutai in 62:56 The winner of the women’s race was Helah Kiprop.
19-Year-Old Cornelius Kangogo Upsets Micah Kogo In France With 27:57 Win Kangogo ran 13:15 earlier this year and turns 20 on the 31st (meaning his B-Day was likely made up). Kogo ran 28:06. Ethiopia’s Afera Godfay won the women’s race (32:06) over Worknesh Degafa (32:12).
UK: Jonny Mellor Wins Ribble Valley 10k In UK In 29:12 The Brit ran 28:42 in Stanford this year.
*Triathlete Georgia Taylor-Brown Wins Women’s In 10k Debut In 33:34
Australia: Australia’s 18-Year-Old Jake Birtwhistle Beats Kenyans To Win Mile At The Silverdome In Tasmania
The Year 2013 In Photos According To Australia’s Athletics Illustrated
A Review Of Yet Another Good Year For The Kenyan Distance Runners

Doping News

2013 Daegu And Istanbul Marathon Winner Abraham Kiprotich Of France (Via Kenya) Tests Positive For EPO (Translated From French)
*MB Thread: Twitter rumour about Marathon EPO positive
Simon Hart: 2013 The Year Of Doping For Track And Field? The women’s Olympic 1,500 champ was involved in a drug scandal as were Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, Sherone Simpson and VCB.
Jamaican Editorial: Despite Successes Of Usain Bolt And SAFP In 2013, Let’s Remember The Harsh Lessons Of 2013 Harsh indeed as Asafa Powell, VCB and Sherone Simpson all tested positive.

Pole Vault / Jumps / Walking News

MB: British men’s walking takes huge hit – first male Olympian/World Champ walker since 1996 defects to Ireland
After Injuries Cost Her Much Of Outdoor Season, Holly Bleasdale Thinks She’s Back Better Than Ever “I’m hungrier for training. I feel like the break did me good psychologically … I feel like I’m in a much better place now.”
IAAF 2013 End-Of-Year Reviews – Jumps

Distance News

Phoebe Wright Blogs About Why Professional Distance Runners Are Fun To Date – They Are Excellent Binge Drinkers And TV Watchers And Are Good At Spending No Money (‘Cause They Don’t Have Any) A funny read to say the least.
Free Coaching Advice To All US Marathoners: Bill Rodgers Broke 2:10 And Won Boston For 1st Time – One Month After Running At World Cross
What Happens To Items Left At Pre’s Rock? They get thrown away.
Boston Marathon Director And Big-Time Runner Dave McGillivray Has Big-Time Heart Disease Just because you run a lot and don’t gain weight doesn’t mean you don’t have heart disease.
Emmanuel Mutai Is Running Half Marathon In India This Weekend – Says Berlin Is Faster Than Chicago As Weather Is Constant All Day Long
After Hosting Worlds, Moscow Hopes To Host IAAF Diamond League Meet At Luzhniki Stadium They also are hoping to get 2016 World Juniors.
2014 Xiamen Int’l Marathon To See Record 77,080 Runners For All Events (5k, 10k, 13.1, 26.2)

Field Event/Sprint News

Distance News

Good Read:Janet Cherobon-Bawcom Blogs About Spending Her Christmas In Kenya, About How She Never Thought She’d Be A Runner When She Was Younger And About Not Setting Goals She includes this picture of her when she was in high school before she became a runner.
RunnersTribe Q&A With Mid-D Runner Zoe Buckman On Her 2013 She was 7th in the 1,500 at Worlds.
MileSplit Weekend HS Coverage: Some Decent Indoor Meets In NY

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?

Blog It Up

Foot Locker Champ Tessa Barrett Blogs About Her Amazing Foot Locker Win The trip to San Diego started with the first plane trip of her life and ended with her first national title. As for mileage, she reveals it’s 40-45 mpw on six days and also reveals her favorite workout.
Dave McGillivray Gives The Inside Story On His Battle Against Heart Disease: Staying Alive (Healthy Vs. Fit) “For the better part of my entire life, I thought I was as close to invincible as was humanly possible. With all the running I have done, I thought no physical challenge was insurmountable,” says Dave McGillivray. “The biggest lesson I have learned from all of this is that being fit does not necessarily mean being healthy … I totally changed my diet (no meat, no fat, no soda, no beer, no anything that is bad for you) and have lost 21 lbs in these short two months””
*Previous: Boston Herald: Boston Marathon Director And Big-Time Runner Dave McGillivray Has Big-Time Heart Disease

Sprint/Jump News

UK Sprints Coach Says Adam Gemili Still Has A Long Way To Go Despite Finishing 5th In MoscowLloyd Cowan: “At the Commonwealth Games I think it will be different because the Jamaicans can put out a B-string team and they’d still be good enough to get a winning time.”
Jamaica Gleaner: An Athlete Ranked 15th In The World Now Makes Less Than Half (Just 15-20k) Of What He Or She Did A Few Years Ago
IAAF End-Of-Year Reviews Of Hurdles Action

Another Slow Weekend

Track & Field News Female Athlete Of The Year Is Valerie Adams(link fixed)Abebe Aregawi (5th), Meseret Defar (7th) and Tirunesh Dibaba (10th) were the only distance runners in the top 10.
Led by unbeaten Adams and shot putters, it was a great year for NZealand in track & field Adams has won 42 in a row and many of NZealand’s other top WC performers are young so “the future of New Zealand track and field looks bright.”
“What Determines A Runner’s Natural Running Pace?” Matt Fitzgerald Has The Answers Short answer – your brain.
Before Boston Bombing, College Dropout Was Living At Home With His Mom Working At Costco. Now He’s Traveling The Globe, Got $3 Million And A Book Deal But Is Legless
Japan Running News: The Top Ten Japanese Women Of 2013 It was a pretty good year for Japanese women as one got third in London, one got third in Moscow and the third fastest 10,000 also was run.
Prime Minister Medvedev Is “Not Sure That Everything Will Be Ideal And Smooth” For 2014 Winter Games*More From Medvedev
Micah Kogo To End Successful 2013 With 10kmRace In Paris On Sunday Kogo has had a nice year in 2013 – his first in the marathon – as he was 2nd in Boston and 4th in Chicago. He’s seeking his fourth victory in Corrida Pedestre Internationale de Houilles outside Paris.
*AFP: Except For 2 Marathons, Kogo Is Undefeated On Year With Wins At Falmouth And Beach To Beacon
Where Weather’s Always Fine For A Run – The NYTimes.com Guide To Working Out On An Indoor Track

Yearly Review

Memorable Moments 2013: A Look Back At Mo Farah’s Double-Double At Moscow Worlds Some inside info that we hadn’t read before. Historically, Mo has gone into the call room at the last minute – this year, he went there early.
Memorable Moments Of 2013: A Look Back At Christine Ohuruogu Winning Worlds Gold With Late Dip

Doping

End Of The Year News

Usain Bolt Only Gets 1 Of 96 Votes For AP Male Athlete Of The YearLeBron James got the most at 31 followed by Peyton Manning with 20.
Capital FM Review Kenyan Men’s Marathoning: Wilson Kipsang Soars In A Mixed Year For Marathoners
IAAF End Of Year Reviews: Multi Events Another year of Ashton Eaton dominance. Injuries kept the top women like Olympic champ Jessica Ennis from Worlds.
Martin Bingisser’s 2013 Men’s Hammer Rankings Hungary’s Krisztian Pars tops the list. He won all his meets this year except World Champs where he was 2nd.
Japan Running News Reviews Their Top Clicked Articles From 2013

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

Check Out The Message Boards During The Holiday Lull

Be Inspired

Oklahoma HS State Runner-Up In XC, Cody Jones, Was Within Hours Of Death This Spring (And In Hospital For 3 Months) He had a rare bone infection that was caused by micro muscle tears he got from overuse – one of only 2 people in the US to get it that way.
Life Of Arizona Wildcat Lezo Urreiztieta, Who Died This Month At Age 20, Was More Than Just Hurdles The 20-year-old died during brain surgery earlier this month. Here, he is remembered as a great person.
MB:Hurdler from U of Arizona Lezo Urreiztieta dies during surgery
American Elites’ New Year’s Resolutions – Both Running And Non-Running
MB:Ryan Hall’s NYear’s resolution for 2014 – “To run a 400 in 53 seconds in practice”.
Athlete New Year’s resolutions from the UK List includes Chris O’Hare who wants to enjoy the little things.

Doping

Coach Of UK 400 World Champ Christine Ohuruogu Feels Her Best Years Are Bet To Come Even Though She’s Almost 30 He says “she is a 29-year-old in a 26-year-old’s body” and they are planning on her being at the peak of her career in Beijing 2015 and Rio 2016.

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.

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.

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.

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