More From The Weekend: Nick Willis, Anita Hinriksdottir Impress

• Nick Willis Starts His 2014 Season Off With A 3:55.98 Mile Win In New Zealand
• Weekend Indoor Roundup: Iceland 18-Year-Old Anita Hinriksdottir Ran A New European Junior Indoor 800 Best With A World-Leading 2:01.81 Injury-plagued 2011 World PV champ Pawel Wojciechowski made a comeback with 5.76m and elsewhere Olympic champ Renaud Lavillenie went 5.75m and Silke Spiegelburg cleared 4.71m to set the WL. Also WL marks set by World silver medallist Murielle Ahoure @60m (7.05), Kamaria Brown @200 (22.96), Carvin Nkanata @400 (tied WL w/ 46.36), and Cindy Billaud @60H (7.96).
• Zola Budd Wins Charleston Marathon In 2:59:42
• USTFCCCA National Athletes Of The Week: Texas A&M’s Prezel Hardy And Arkansas’ Dominique Scott Hardy set collegiate leads in the 60 (6.56) and 200 (20.70) while Scott ran a collegiate-leading mile (4:38.49) and anchored the Arkansas DMR to a collegiate-leading 11:25.58.

• Police In Sochi Searching For Possible Female Suicide Bomber
• In Wake Of Boston Marathon Bombing, Tokyo Marathon Conducting Terrorism Contingency Drills

Scotland Names Team To Take On GB, Northern Ireland, USA And Commonwealth Select Team At Sainsbury’s Glasgow International Match On January 25Chris O’Hare was named in the 1,500.

African Distance News

• World 1,500 Bronze Medalist Hellen Obiri Dominates Kenya Defence Forces XC Champs As Defending Champ And World 10k Silver Medalist Gladys Cherono Is 5th Rotterdam Marathon winner Jemimah Chelagat was 2nd and 2012 Boston champ Sharon Cherop 6th. Other notable names included 1997 World 10k champ Sally Barsosio in 14th and 2008 Olympic 1,500m champion Nancy Langat in 15th. In the men’s race Leonard Oloitiptip defended his title as former World XC champ Joseph Ebuya was 6th. Elsewhere, former Boston Marathon Champ Caroline Kilel won her county championships in Kericho.
• Kenya’s Paul Tanui And Ethiopia’s Hiwot Ayalew Win XC Meet In Seville, Spain Ayalew has now won her last 5 races in a row. Here she blasted away from World 5,000 silver medalist Mercy Cherono in the last 800m as Cherono faded to 3rd. World 10,000 bronze medalist Tanui led from the gun and held off Uganda’s Timothy Toroitich by 2 seconds as Emmanuel Bett was 3rd and Olympic bronze medalist steepler Abel Mutai back in 7th.
• Evans Ruto (2:09:33) And Win Dinknesh Mekasha (2:28:08) Mumbai Marathon Titles Ruto missed the CR by only a second and said he would have gotten it if the “joggers” in the race hadn’t gotten in his way.
• IAAF XC Weekend Roundup: Sub-27 10Ker Titus Mbishei And Diamond League Steeple Pacer Virginia Nyambura Win Abdijcross XC Race

1:42 Man Abubaker Kaki Will Face Poland’s Adam Kszczot At Feb 9th Flanders Indoor Meet Kaki was out with injury most of 2013, not having raced since last February.

• Japan: Yuki Oshikawa Runs 1:03:36 To Beat Yuki Kawauchi By 4 Seconds And Break Okukuma Half Marathon CR It was a deep field as the top 6 were all under 1:04. In the high school boys 10k division, the top 20 were all sub-31:00 with the fastest time 30:09.
• Team Nagano Becomes First Team To Win Sixth National Men’s Ekiden Championship Title
• Kyudenko Corporate Women’s Team Runs Down Defending Champion Ritsumeikan Uji H.S. To Win Kita-Kyushu Invitational Women’s Ekiden By 10 Seconds
• Australia: Runners Tribe Hunter Track Classic RecapKaila McKnight won the 1,500 in 4:09; Madeline Heiner wonthe steeple in 10:03. Nick Toohey took the 800 in 1:47.97.

Farah In Kenya Prepping For London

• Mo Farah Spending A Month In Kenya Doing Altitude Training At Lornah Kiplagat’s Training Camp Ahead Of London Marathon
• London Marathon Performance Will Dictate Mo Farah’s 2014 Plans And Possibly Direction Of Rest Of His Career

Interesting Distance Stuff

• NJ-NY Track Club Team Members Share Their 2014 New Years Resolutions It’s interesting to just go down the list of names and realize how stacked this team is now: Robby Andrews, Russell Brown, Kyle Merber and Donn Cabral to name a few.
• Worth A Click:Phoebe Wright Tweets: “Let’s be real, who hasn’t wanted to face swap Galen Rupp and Mary Cain.”
• Guys, Your Girlfriends Can Relate:Chronicles Of An Endurance Athlete’s Wife The wife of a triathlete talks about how she got a false first impression of his life as she met him when he was on down time recovering from an injury and had already fallen in love with him by the time he got healthy.
• IAAF Profile On Norway’s Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal, Who’s Training For The World Half Marathon Championships In Copenhagen March 29th Bjerkeli used to be a cross-country skier and still uses it as cross training when she’s home in Norway in the winter.
• Study Finds Exercise Doesn’t Lead To Increased Calorie Consumption There are a lot of runners out there putting in 100-mile weeks who would probably disagree.
• Massachusetts House Votes To Create “Boston Strong” License Plate Some portion of plate cost would go to One Fund Boston.

2014 London Is Going To Be Awesome – Men’s Field Announced – Mo Farah Faces A Stiff, Stiff Test

LRC6 Thoughts On The 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon Elite Men’s Field – A Win By Mo Farah On April 14th Would Be The Greatest Achievement Of His Career Fantasy marathoning will once again be taking place in the real world in London yet again this year as the field is loaded. We break it down and tell you why if Farah wins it will be the best accomplishment of his career. But we also tell you how last year’s field was deeper and who isn’t running London.
*RRW: 2014 London Elite Men’s Field Announced – Mo Farah To Face Stacked Men’s Field The field includes six sub-2:05 guys, including world record holder Wilson Kipsang and 2:03:02 man Geoffrey Mutai.
*UK Headline:Farah Braces Himself For Baptism Of Fire In London Marathon
*MB:FARAH TO FACE WORLD’S BEST AT 2014 LONDON MARATHON :elite field announced
*MB:Ibrahim Jeilan Running London!