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Quote Of The Day

“I think I’m a pretty normal – well, some people would say maybe not – but I have a family, a full-time job, I take my kids to Cub Scouts and soccer practice, I’m part of civic organizations, I do all this stuff normal people do, but at the same time I don’t think we need to be limited by what is considered normal behavior. I just have a really incredible interest in establishing about what’s possible for me and then shattering that.”

– US ultramarathoner Michael Wardian speaking after setting the record for the fastest time running all six World Marathon Major races in a year. Wardian averaged 2:31:09, crushing the previous mark of 2:46.

Week That Was

LRC New York by the Numbers, Laura Thweatt = Molly Huddle = Emily Sisson?, Ben Zobrist Cross Country Stud, and Never Ever Give Up We take a look at NYC by the numbers, remind you that Laura Thweatt debuted in NY last year almost as fast as Molly Huddle did this year, ponder if Emily Sisson is the next Molly Huddle, and are impressed by Ben Zobrist’s running skills.

Doping / Corruption

Recommended Read:The Japan Times:Former US Olympic 4 X 400 Champ And AAU President (Previous Name For USATF) Ollan Cassell Speaks On Doping, Corruption And The Move To Professionalism Cassell provides some interesting anecdotes like secretly recording conversations with Soviet Union business partners and explaining how he left out “a lot of stuff” from his published memoirs out of fear of lawsuits.
Former IAAF Vice President Ollan Cassell Claims Positive Drug Tests Were “Capped” At 12 During The 1984 LA Olympics Cassell says this was done to give the impression they were fighting doping while avoiding too big a scandal. Sadly, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of this type of thing happening at an Olympic Games.
Christmas Comes Early?Final Part Of Richard McLaren’s Russian Doping Report Will Be Released In Mid-December
Cyber Attack Targets Canadian Anti-Doping Agency USADA has also previously been targeted.
Dublin Cybersecurity Conference Will Address IT Security In Wake Of Fancy Bear And Other Recent Cyber Attacks

International Distance News

RRW Do nn Cabral, Bjerkeli Grøvdal, Win Abbott Dash To The Finish Line 5-KEric Jenkins only ran 15:07 and Mary Cain only ran 16:32.
Halie Gebrselassie Elected New Ethiopian Athletics Federation President Great news, but unfortunately it came too late to save Kenenisa Bekele‘s 2016 Olympic ambitions.
November 13: Imane Merga And All Three 2015 World XC Women’s Medalists Lead Fields For Cross de Atapuerca XC Meet In Spain World XC Champ Agnes Tirop and bronze and silver medalists Senbere Teferi and Netsanet Gudeta will get a World XC rematch.
Athletics Weekly Recap English XC Relays Olympians Steph Twell, Laura Weightman and Andy Vernon competed.

Sports Admin / Politics

USA Today:There Is Concern A Trump Persidency Would Hurt LA’s Olympic Bid Chances Four IOC members spoke on the condition of anonymity and said a Trump victory would be a “catastrophe” for LA.
New “Revolutionary” Ranking System To Be Implemented For Qualifying For European Championships Rather than time/distance standards, qualification will be based on head-to-head results and will require athletes to compete more often. Interesting concept, but might it just see some of the biggest stars skipping European Champs?
Yes, This Is Still Going On:Prosecutors’ Appeal Against Oscar Pistorius 6-Year Jail Sentence To Be Heard In Open Court
Russian Athletics Federation President Dmitry Shlyakhtin Hopeful Russia Will Be Cleared In Time For Euro Indoors In March He might not even be the president by then though as Yelena Isinbayeva will challenge him in an election on December 9th.
Parliamentary Committee Report On NOCK Rio Scandal Will Be Heard On November 15th The Kenyan Olympic Committee is still disbanded, but new elections and a new constitution are planed before the end of the year.
Tokyo Government Task Force Blames Huge Olympic Budget On Lack Of Leadership Apparently there is no one in charge with the authority to manage the budget.

College / HS News

Updated Men’s D1 Poll Has NAU Still Ranked #1 With Colorado Moving From 7th To 2nd BYU, Stanford and Syracuse fill ranks 3-5.
Women’s D1 Coaches’ Poll Still Has Colorado Ranked #1 With NC State Moving Into #2 Providence, Washington and Michigan are 3-5.
Debate:Does Title IX Need Reform? Read two arguments, one for and one against reforming Title IX. We’d say it could definitely use an update as things are a bit different now than 1972.
High Schooler With Autism Assaulted During XC Race Apparently the man who shoved him thought he was trying to take his wife’s purse. *MB Thread
*USA Today:After Judge Initially Denied Application, Warrant Issued For Man’s Arrest
Edward Cheserek Named PAC-12 Athlete Of The Year After Becoming First To Win Four PAC-12 XC Titles The women’s athlete of the year was Washington’s Amy-Eloise Neal.

NCAA News

Yale Daily News:“Hale Ross ’18 Remembered For Warmth And Wit”
*RIP Yale XC Runner Hale Ross Our thoughts go out to his family, friends and teammates. *Obituary
*MB: yale runner dies
Jesse Squire’s Quick Take On Conference Championships Weekend

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LRC America You are Not Done Voting – 2016 NCAA XC Regionals Fan Poll Voting Now Open! America you’ve got some voting still to do. 2016 NCAA XC Regionals Fan Polls voting now open.

International Distance News

Good Read:RIP 95-Year-Old Jack Braughton, One Of Britain’s Oldest Olympians In 1948, Braughton’s Olympic experience comprised of taking a morning off of work, hopping on a bus to the Olympic stadium, finishing 8th in his 5,000m heat and hopping on the bus back home.
Sunday: Canadian Running Magazine Profile On Great Britain’s Tsegai Tewelde, Who Escaped Political Crisis In Eritrea 8 Years Ago And Will Shoot For The Win At The Beirut Marathon Tewelde, a landmine blast survivor as a child, sought asylum in Scotland when he traveled for 2008 World XC Champs. Now he’s a GB Olympian and looking for a sub-2:10 in Beirut.
Next Sunday Delhi Half:Eliud Kipchoge Leads The Men; World Half Champ Peres Jepchirchir Gunning For Mary Keitany’s CR (66:54) Jepchirchir faces Worknesh Degefa (66:14) and Mary Wacera (66:29) while the men’s race also has 2012 Olympic champ Stephen Kiprotich.
Isaac Kipkoech (62:51) And Edith Chelimo (1:11:02) Win Foundation Baringo Half Marathon In Kenya

2016 TCS NYC Marathon Results Mile-By-Mile Leader Splits: Men And Women

LRC Mary Keitany Three-Peats In Dominant Fashion, Wins By Monstrous 3:35 (updated) Keitany’s margin of victory was the largest since 1984 as Sally Kipyego was second and Molly Huddle third in her debut.

LRC Molly Huddle Very Impressively Finishes 3rd in New York in Her Marathon Debut – Is A Low 2:20s Coming Soon? No one in the race fan a faster final 5.2 miles than Huddle.

LRC Mary Keitany’s Three-Year-Old Daughter Gives Mom All The Racing Advice She Needed: “Good Luck And Try Not To Fall Down”

MB: Official 2016 TCS New York City Marathon Live Discussion Thread

NYC Women On The Message Board

Recruiting News

NYC PreRace

LRC “We Are Clean” – Dr. Gabriele Rosa Talks About Turning Stanley Biwott And Jemima Sumgong Into Marathon Stars And Doping In Kenya The 74-year-old is thriving after coming out of a mini-retirement. Want the inside scoop on doping (or the lack thereof) in Kenya? Read this.

Complete Coverage In Our 2016 NYC Marathon Special Section

The Past, Present And Future Of Sprinting

+1 For The Sport:Usain Bolt Spearheading New Nitro Athletics Track Meet In Melbourne, Australia This February Bolt will captain the “Bolt All-Stars” as six teams of 24 athletes compete for the overall team title in a slew of traditional and unique track events.
*IAAF Article This will be Bolt’s first-ever race in Australia.
New York Post:“Usain Bolt’s Halloween – Women, Twerking And A Drug Test” Bolt had a typical “Bolt like” holiday, sending out pictures of himself with some female friends as well as a doping control form.
Andre De Grasse Hopes Bolt Reconsiders Retiring After 2017 “I love racing with him and he makes me better.”

Looking Ahead On The Roads

December 4:Former WR Holder Patrick Makau Returns To Fukuoka To Shoot For A Hat-Trick Victory Makau has won the past two years, but will face two others with sub-2:05 PRs, including World silver medalist Yemane Tsegay (2:04:48) and James Kwambai (2:04:27). Field also includes Yuki Kawauchi, Eritrean record holder Yared Asmerom, Poland’s Henryk Szost and 2012 Olympic 10,000 bronze medalist Tariku Bekele in his debut.
December 4:Olympic Champ Jemima Sumgong Vs. Two-Time World Champ Edna Kiplagat At Montferland Run 15K In The Netherlands

Post 2016 TCS NYC Marathon Elite News *Results

Daily Relay:From LA To NYC, Tyler Pennel Shows He Might Be One Of The Next Top US Marathoners 5th place in the Olympic Trials after making the race with a big move, Pennel bounced back from 2-months off with a sacral stress fracture to get 8th in NYC.
Lanni Marchant Pleased To Get 7th In NYC With The Fastest Time Ever By A Canadian Woman In 2:33:50 Marchant did a quick turn around from Rio where she did the 10,000m-marathon double.
*Veteran Canadian Marathoners Lanni Marchant And Reid Coolsaet Snubbed By Athletics Canada Funding Despite being two of Canada’s best marathoners, they were overlooked in favor of younger athletes.

Good Read: NY Times:Michael Wardian Sets Record As Fastest Person To Finish All Six World Marathon Majors Races In One Year Wardian’s average time from Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and NYC was 2:31:09. *RW Article
Meb Keflezighi Says He Will Retire After The 2017 NYC Marathon
Post-Race Article And Video On Olympic Champion Triathlete Gwen Jorgensen Jorgensen said she was disappointed with the race although admitted she knew coming in she “didn’t prepare properly.”
Toni Reavis’ NYC Marathon Photo Essay Reavis was watching and snapping pictures from one of the lead motorcycles.
Galen Rupp Likely Passed Up A Lot Of Money This Year In The Marathon While Rupp surely received big bonuses from Nike for winning the Trials and Olympic bronze, with appearance fees and prize money, he might have been looking at between $300,000 and $500,000 if he had ran NYC.

NYC Men ResultsMile-By-Mile Splits

LRC Ghirmay Ghebreslassie Wins, Abdi Abdirahman Of The US Third With Five Americans In Top 10 (updated) Age may be just a number as Abdi had a career-best finish at age 39! Ritz was a DNF.

LRC Defending Champion Stanley Biwott Drops Out Just Before 15k

NYC Men On The Message Board:

Non-NYC Action

Olympian Leonard Korir (47:13) And Buze Diriba (51:38) Win Pittsburgh 10 Miler Korir won in a close race over Kenya’s Kimatui Cheruiyot while Diriba’s run was the second-fastest women’s 10-mile ever on US soil. Emily Sisson was 2nd in 52:03.
This Sunday: Former Winner Hillary Yego Returns To Lead Field For The Athens MarathonPenina Wanjiru (2:36 PR) leads the women’s race.
Laura Muir Wins Scottish Short Course XC Title
This Sunday:IAAF XC Permit Series Starts This Sunday In Spain At The Cross De Atapuerca
*Meet Preview

More NYC Coverage

Recommended Read:“A Former NYC Marathon Champion-Turned Cabbie Struggles To Get His Family Out Of Strife-Ridden Ethiopia”Tesfaye Jifar won NYC with a CR in 2001, but now he works up to 16 hours a day as a cab driver in Boston, waiting for his wife and children to get their visas approved to join him in the US.
The NY Times Breaks Down The NYC Marathon Course Mile-By-Mile
Running Cartoon In The New Yorker: “A Somewhat Accurate Guide To The Marathon”
Top Americans Share The Hardest Workouts They Did Ahead Of The NYC Marathon Check out these impressive workouts by Molly Huddle, Dathan Ritzenhein, Kim Conley and more.
Why Did American Men Run Faster In New York Decades Ago? Five of the nine fastest US times were in the 1980s or before and the other four are Meb Keflezighi‘s. Bill Rodgers, Alberto Salazar and Ken Martin theorize why.
Good Read:AP: “NYC’s 5-Borough Marathon Reaches Milestone 40th Anniversary” NYRR chairman of the board George Hirsch talks about giving “under the table” payments to Bill Rodgers and Frank Shorter since back then you had to maintain your “amateur” status.
NYC Course Record Map See the breakdown of Geoffrey Mutai‘s 2:05:06 from 2011 in terms of pace, elevation and position on the course.

More NYC

Recommended Read:The New Yorker:George A. Hirsch Gives A First-Hand Account Of The Founding And Running Of The First NYC MarathonFrank Shorter having to hitchhike and Bill Rodgers having to get his car out of a police impound after the race are just a couple of the interesting insights into the “first five-borough” marathon.
Pretty Cool:2:17 Marathoner (15th Place In Boston) Harbert Okuti Is A Psychology Researcher Studying The Mental Side Of The Marathon Okuti will get some first hand research done on Sunday as he shoots to break 2:17 in NYC.