September 25, 2014 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“We all deserved to win – at least we did from a politically correct revisionist perspective, but in some Orwellian spin, apparently some of us deserved it more than others, and by some of us I meant me, the guy who gave all.”

– Timothy Tays, our September Blue Collar Runner of the Month, writing in his book Wannabe Distance God on how many of us want the guy who tries the hardest to win, when often that isn’t the case.

Berlin is Sunday

LRC Berlin PreviewShalane Chases History and Deena's 2:19:36 American Record

Shalane Flanagan has said that her only goal is to break Kastor's record on Sunday and that everything else -- including winning the race -- is secondary to that. She has a good shot at her first major victory but will have company in the form of 2:21 women Feyse Tadese (Paris CR holder) and Tirfi Tsegaye (Tokyo CR holder, won Dubai in 2013).

Week That Was

WTWDeena, Paula, German Fernandez And Andrew Wheating Are All Back (To Different Degrees), A New High School Star, Some Free Coaching Advice And More

41-year-old Deena Kastor broke the master's world record at the half marathon, German Fernandez~~is back~~ ran well, Paula Radcliffe is back racing, and so is Andrew Wheating. Plus, some coaching advice from Caleb Ndiku and news on a new star in the American high school ranks.

HS XC News

Eritrean World Junior Team Member Weini Kelati Now Running For High School Team In Virginia Kelati represented Eritrea this summer, placing 8th in the 3,000 at WJs, but has now moved to the US to live with her cousin, a former Foot Locker finalist. She ran and won her first high school XC race this past weekend.
MB:The Great Oak High School Juggernaut *DyeStat Article

Pro Distance News

Recommended Read: Boulder Track Club’s Laura Thweatt “Is The Best Runner You Only Sort Of Know” Learn about the runner who went from never making NCAAs in college to running 15:04 and becoming one of the best 5K women in the US.
Great Interview With The US’s First And Only Olympic 10,000 Gold Medalist Billy Mills Read about the life/career of Mills, who talks about the shock of winning Olympic gold in 1964, setting the 6 mile WR, racing against Gerry Lindgren, his friendship with Mohammed Gammoudi and more.

Biathlon Relay Gold Medal Presented To The Soviet Union’s Nikolay Kruglov At The 1976 Winter Olympic Goes For $28,750 At Auction

More Weekend Road Action: The Return Of Paula

Paula Radcliffe Returns To The Roads For The First Time In More Than 2 Years With 35:49 Third-Place Finish At Worcester City 10K Radcliffe said she went out too fast and would have liked to gone under 35 minutes, but that her foot is fine, which is the main thing. The race was won by 19-year-old Jenny Nesbitt in 34:22. *Athletics Weekly Article
Kenya’s Linet Masai And John Mwangangi Win Dam tot Damloop 10-Mile In The Netherlands
Ethiopians Gebo Burka (2:11:18) And Biruktayit Eshetu (2:29:42) Get The Wins At The Sydney Marathon
Kenyans John Kyalo Kyui (2:14:50) And Purity Kimetto (2:38:53) Win Siberian Marathon In Cold Conditions The #4 fastest 10Ker ever, Nicholas Kemboi, was outside the reported top 5 (slower than 2:30), so likely a DNF.

Blue Collar

LRC Wannabe Distance God Book Review And Blue Collar Runner Of The Month #2 Unless you ran in the Big 8 Conference in the early 1980s, you’ve probably never heard of Timothy Tays. His book, Wannabe Distance God, explains what it was like for him to run under the legendary Bob Timmons (Jim Ryun‘s coach) at Kansas and how he (like many LRCers, we suspect) struggled to come to terms with the fact that he was never going to be one of the world’s elite. Tays’ story is compelling and his passion for the sport and desire for greatness make him our September Blue Collar Runner of the Month.
Previous BCRM: A Real Running Hero: The Flo Groberg Story Former Maryland track and field and cross-country runner Flo Groberg helped thwart a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. This is his story.

Marathon News: Blowout LRC Coverage Of This Weekend’s Berlin Marathon And Shalane Flanagan’s AR Attempt Coming

Chance Encounter With Geoffrey Mutai Helped Take Dennis Kimetto To The Top Of Tthe Marathon World Last year’s Tokyo and Chicago course record holder is running Berlin this weekend.
Runner’s World Guide To Fall 2014’s Top Marathoners They take a look at the top pros and where they are running.
Amy Hastings Talks 2014 BofA Chicago Marathon
2012 Boston Champ Sharon Cherop To Take On Philly Half Winner Aberu Kebede At Next Month’s Frankfurt Marathon

The Definition Of Stupidity: Africa, Australia May Soon Compete In Asian Games

NCAA News

Q & A With Florida State’s Colleen Quigley, Who Thinks That Having Interests Outside Of Running Helps Her
Arkansas’ Dominique Scott And UMass Lowell’s Robert Allen Are DI XC Athletes Of The Week Scott won the Missouri Southern Stampede by 26 seconds while Allen won Iona’s Brother Doyle Meet of Champions at VCP in 25:32, beating a field that included NCAA steeple runner-up Stanley Kebenei.
Weekend NCAA XC Recap: How Did The Top Ranked Teams Do? One of the highlights was Michigan men/women sweeping the Big 10 Preview meet.

Future NCAA Star? Seven-Year-Old Runs 21:21 5K To Break Single-Age World Record

Philly RnR Half Results5K Results

RRW Deena Kastor Sets Masters World Record Of 69:36, Aberu Kebede Wins In 68:39 Kara Goucher also returned to racing.

RRW Beddan Karoki Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll Philly In 59:21 – Fastest Time In US This Year The race was also the 13.1 debut for Dejen Gebremeskel.

5k: Bernard Lagat Comes Up Short In 5k American Record Attempt – Lawi Lalang Runs 13:29, Lagat 13:31 In Phiily

Yohan Blake Buys House In Need Of Repairs From Jamaican Govt. For $461,000 That’s more than $52 million in the Jamaican currency.

Boulder Marathon Race Director Being Accused Of Fraud Runners say he failed to secure permits for the event, but used last year’s floods as an excuse to cancel the race which was supposed to be in two weeks.

Random News

Kona Underpants Run Organizers Going For World Record The race is the Thursday before the Kona Ironman. Everyone wears underpants, although women can wear a sports bra.
1980 Olympic 100m Champion Allan Wells Helped Inspire Lynsey Sharp’s Commonwealth Games Silver Medal Sharp’s dad was a sprinter with Wells back in the day.
CNN: Christian Taylor Triple Jump Champ Profile The dude is a stud, great at the triple, long jump and not bad at 400.
Ambassador Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Becomes Ambassador-At-Large For Jamaica

Interesting Reads

Rosa Twins Thrilled With Summer Training, Hoping For Big Season For Stanford At NCAA Cross The twins also admit it’s a bit awkward that they are good friends with Edward Cheserek due to their NJ ties.
Great Q&A With WMM Leader Tsegaye Kebede, Who Is Running Berlin: “I get home from somewhere, I eat, I rest, then I train. There are no distractions. I have no vices.” He also says Kenenisa can get the WR in Chicago.
Bolt On Jamaican Drug Positives: “There were mistakes but there weren’t any serious drugs.” He added, “It is still bad: the drug scandal. But it was a good thing it wasn’t like they were deliberately going out of their way to take drugs.”
*Bolt Still Dreaming Big, Says With “Perfect Season” He Will definitely have the chance to break the 100m world record.” His big goal is a sub 19 200m.
MB:Teen with one prosthetic leg, wants healthy leg removed so she’ll be better at Paralympic sports The headline in the Daily Mail was “Cut off my foot so I can run faster.”
Anthony Whiteman Tells You How He Ran 1:48.05 At Age 42 And 3:42.02 At Age 40

USA 5K Championships Top 20 US ResultsTop Overall Results

RRW:Molly Huddle Earns Fourth USA 5-K Title In 15:10; Diego Estrada Wins Emotional First National Title (13:56) Huddle won by 15 seconds over Jordan Hasay in second; Mary Cain was back in 6th (15:53). Estrada won in a kick over German Fernandez (13:57.0) and Maverick Darling (13:57.5). Matt Centrowitz was 7th in 14:03.2.