– Excerpt from Athletics Weekly profile by Alex Mills of Qatar high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim, talking about Barshim’s transition from racewalker to distance runner to high jumper.
Stanford On The Boards:
LRC Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor Wins 2015 World XC Champs To Officially Arrive As A Star; Fierce Team Battle Goes To Ethiopia On The TiebreakerKamworor and teammate Bedan Karoki hammered from the front as Africa put on a clinic on how to run XC as Chris Derrick was the top non-African in 24th.
Women:19-Year-Old Agnes Tirop Becomes Youngest Winner Of World Cross Since Zola Budd Ethiopia won the team title as the US women, led by Sara Hall in 20th, were 7th.
Juniors:Letesenbet Gidey Leads Ethiopian Sweep Of Medals In Girls Race
*Ethiopia’s Yasin Haji Wins Junior Boys Race As Kenya Wins Team Title
LRC 4 Takeaways From An Awesome World XC Champs: Get Used To The Name Geoffrey Kamworor, The Vindication Of Sara Hall, LRC Is Popular In China, And African Domination Is A Good Thing The long trip to China proved to be well worth it. Have we finally found a rival worthy of Mo Farah?
LRC Interviews: Chris Derrick Talks After Finishing 24th *Brett Robinson 28th *Ryan Vail 34th *Bobby Curtis 37th
More in our World XC Special Section
LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running Shoe The running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it . We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews.
Documentary On Tarahumara Running Tribe Is Being Released Out On Saturday Digitally On Vimeo On Demand
The name is “Goshen: Places of Refuge for the Tarahumara Tribe.” Rent for $4.99, buy for $12.99. Watch here.
Moses Kipsiro Says Coach/Policeman He Accused Of Rape Has Murdered Another Athlete That Spoke Up Against Him & Tried To Abduct Kipsiro’s Brother The policeman denies everything and says it’s all made up, even the sexual assaults, by Kipsiro, who votes differently than him.
*Moses Kipsiro: “I am fearing for my life and my family. Yesterday one of my brothers (Ayeko Simon) was arrested over an incident.”
*Daily Mail: Mo Farah’s Training Partner Moses Kipsiro Receives Death Threats After Accusing Coach In Uganda Of Raping Young Female Athletes
Sergey Bubka Makes His Case For IAAF Head – Promises Complete Review Of Athletics If ElectedHis “Vision 2025” document is now out.
*Athletics Weekly On Bubka
Australia And New Zealand Name Initial Teams For IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 Memo to those down under – Worlds are in August, not April. As a result, Australia currently has zero men from 1,500 through 26.2.
Dathan Ritzenhein and Alvina Begay are the athletes who would appear to have broken the rules. Even more interesting is Salazar thought L-Carnitine would help Ritzenhein improve 2-3 minutes in the marathon. *Discuss Here
LRCThe Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30Thousands of you filled out our detailed running shoe survey in the fall and more of you ran in the Nike Pegasus+30 than any other shoe. Only problem is all of you need to find a new shoe, help us out below:
LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running ShoeThe running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it with data. We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews from you on the latest shoes.
Dibaba missed out on the world record (14:46) but was still very impressive, winning by 25 seconds. Lalang beat fellow Kenyan Wilson Too (13:35) for the men’s title, while Bernard Lagat was third in a world masters best of 13:40.
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LRC Remembering LRCer Van TownsendThe running world lost one of its bright lights this week with the death of Van Townsend.
*MB: RIP Van Townsend: Share Your Respects Here
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