Archived Homepage For September 30, 2017
Archived Homepage For September 30, 2017

NCAA XC *All Weekend Collegiate Action

Notre Dame: Women #1 Colorado Edges #4 New Mexico At 2017 Joe Piane Invitational Weini Kelati was 6th in her first big NCAA race as UNM went 1-2-6-8-34 and Colorado went 3-7-8-10-18.
*Brie Oakley Was 12th In Her Collegiate Debut In The Race
*Anna Rohrer Redshirt
Men:
#13 Southern Utah Takes Down #4 Colorado At 2017 Joe Piane Invitational The Alabama men went 1-2-3 individually.

Louisville:#1 NAU Men Crush It By Going 1-2-3-4 #12 Furman was 2nd while #7 Wisconsin was just 8th
*Allie Ostrander and Boise State Women Win

Dellinger: Men #6 BYU DOMINATES Oregon’s Dellinger Invite With 17 Points The Cougars placed 7 in the top 10. Oregon held out 1 guy while Stanford held out a ton.
Women: Katie Rainsberger And Oregon Cruise
*How Flat Is The Course At The Bill Dellinger Invitational? 

Paul Short: Utah State Rocks It
#24 Utah State Women, Who Came In Ranked #24, Get Upset Win Over #15 Nova And Others
*Unranked Utah State Wins Men’s Race In An Upset Over Georgetown. D2 #1 Adams State was third without star Sydney Gidabuday. Had he been up front, they might have won it.

Weekend NCAA Preview: Notre Dame Invy, Louisville XC Classic And Dellinger Invite Oregon vs. Stanford (men and women) at Bill Dellinger, Colorado (men and women) and New Mexico women at Notre Dame, NAU men vs. Wisconsin at Louisville.

$$$ News

Sport Politics

Upcoming Marathon Action

Week That Was

jeptooLRC WTW: Why It’s Bad To Run Super-Fast In Your First Marathon, Wilson Kipsang DNFs, And Rita Jeptoo Puts A Courtroom To Sleep Did you know Wilson Kipsang has run sub-2:05 EIGHT straight years? Plus Abebe Bikila‘s record lives on, John Kellogg nails yet another marathon prediction, and more.

Olympic News

News Relating To Kenya

Interesting Non-Elite Running News

Anti-Doping Updates

Fall Marathon Review

UK News

Marathon Drama In Poland

Learn All About Guye Adola – Marathon’s Newest Star

adola-featured-dont-useLRC Unbelievable: Guye Adola – Who Just Ran The Fastest Debut Marathon In History – Claims He Didn’t Know He Was Running Berlin Until 4 Days Before The Race Learn the back story of marathon’s newest star Guye Adola, who says he only found out he was running the Berlin Marathon last Wednesday.
*MB: Learn some of the backstory behind Guye Adola – marathon’s newest star
Update: Adola’s coach claims that Adola had known he was doing Berlin for 4 months but didn’t tell his friends until 4 days before the race.

Previous NCAA XC News

Upcoming Road Action

NCAA / HS News


9-1-1 Call Placed After Condo Resident Realized David Torrence Was Dead At Bottom Of Pool Is Released A resident saw Torrence in the pool when she went out to walk her dog at 6:30 am and assumed he was swimming but realized he was dead when she came back. He was staying at a cousin’s place while she was out of town.

What’s Next For The Great Kenenisa Bekele?

Kenenisa Bekele prior to the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon (photo by Jane Monti for Race Results Weekly)LRC Jos Hermens: Kenenisa Bekele Must Become More “Professional” If He Is To Realize Marathon Potential  Agent Jos Hermens thinks Kenenisa Bekele is capable of much more in the marathon if he can focus on training and not be distracted by his business empire. “Eight marathons, two wins, that’s not Kenenisa Bekele. … What do you want to be, businessman or professional runner?”
*MB:Great insight from Jos Hermens on Kenenisa Bekele

More Post-Berlin:

Anti-Doping News