Manchester Road Race And Silicon Valley TT *Silicon Results *Manchester Results

Silicon Valley TT: Edwad Cheserek Wins 1st Race As Pro – Runs 13:38 This is the race that Alan Webb beat Galen Rupp in 7 years ago. Webb won in 13:36 – Rupp ran 13:39.

Manchester: RRW Paul Chelimo Wins, Buze Diriba Outkicks Molly Huddle As Both Break Course Record At 2017 Manchester Road Race Molly Huddle led the entire women’s race but Buze Diriba outsprinted her and won in a course record of 23:57. Chelimo got the win after Chris Thompson went out hard.
*MB: Happy Thanksgiving! Manchester Road Race Live Thread- Updated: Paul Chelimo Wins, Buze Diriba Outkicks Molly Huddle 

Brothers John And Ray Treacy Are Back As Manchester Co-Chairs This Year John Treacy – the ’78 and ’79 world XC champ – helped make the race internationally famous when he won it in 1978.

USA Corner

• LRC WTW: An American Wins A Marathon In Japan, Mo Farah Gets Knighted And Joshua Cheptegei Does What Sir Mo Rarely Did And A 2nd Team Blows Off Conference But Rocks NCAAs All of that and more – including a man breaks 2:06 for the 5th time in his life and finally wins a marathon in the process.
• LRC Is Northern Arizona Poised For A Three-Peat? Are We Witnessing The Building Of A Dynasty In Flagstaff? Plus learn what NAU distance coach Michael Smith learned from sprint/jumps guru Dan Pfaff that was key for them to nail their taper.
• LRC 10 Final Observations On The 2017 Cross-Country Championships, Including A Look At The Biggest Chokers And Overachievers
• Dyestat: Dye Stat Has An In-Depth Look At University Of Portland Giving Thanks For Is 2nd Place NCAA Finish Rob Conner‘s boys got it done.
• Legendary CT Coach Laddie Lawrence Of Staples Has Been Coaching For 50 Years And His Team Has A Shot At Making NXN

It’s Award Season

IAAF Gala Is Friday And IAAF Council Meetings Are Saturday And Sunday *Live Updates Emma Coburn is in Monaco for the festivities.
*A Kenyan Look At IAAF Athletics Gala Did you all realize World 1,500m champ Elijah Manangoi is the older brother of world under 17 champ George Manangoi?
*IAAF Council Meeting Will Be Broadcast Live On YouTube On Sat And Sunday

More IAAF News: IAAF Announces With Events Will Be At Each Diamond League Event

Cheaters Making Headlines

More NCAA XC

• Have You Avoided Seeing Any NCAA Results? Well, You’re In Luck: MB: Flotrack Unlocks All NCAA Race Videos Their email said, “Our holiday gift to you.” … We hope they include a gift receipt.
• Jesse Squire Shares His Thoughts On This Year’s NCAA XC Champs Squires says weather was a non-factor, the organization could have been better and the race was “unusually international.”

Road Racing News

• Good Read: Shalane Flanagan Still Keeping Her Options Open As She Contemplates What’s Next Flanagan says it’d be hard to pass up Boston, but wants to start a family. “It’s so important for me to weigh what races I’ll run if I continue, with what is weighing on me to stop.”
• NYC Marathon Form Analysis – What Are Shalane Flanagan’s Strengths And Weaknesses?
• March 4: Mo Farah To Run Inaugural London Half Marathon

• RW: What Happens To The Tons Of Discarded Clothing At The NYC Marathon? This year runners dumped 86,000 pounds of clothes at the race and in 2014 (when it was much colder) there was 207,000 pounds.
• High Entry Fees Getting You Down? You Can Run This Marathon For A Dollar-A-Mile This April marathon in Massachusetts costs $26.21 to enter.
• Irish Marathoners Sergiu Ciobanu And Breege Connoll Run 2:16:08 And 2:37:29 At Valencia To Secure Euro Champs Standards

Sad News From The NCAA

• RIP: Former Texas Tech Track Coach Gerald “Corky” Oglesby Dies At 81 Oglesby was a legend at Texas Tech, working with the university for 50 years.
• RIP: Western Kentucky Assistant Track Coach Willie Johnson Dies At 34 Johnson was in his 5th year at WKU and had coached 28 athletes to All-American honors.

Roads: And Then There Were Two

Leonard Korir Runs 59:52 To Become Second American Under One Hour Barrier – Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Almaz Ayana ran 1:07:11 in her debut. *Discuss

• World 10,000 Silver Medalist Joshua Cheptegei Just Misses 15K WR With 41:17 Victory At The Zevenheuvenlenloop (Seven Hills) 15K Cheptegai missed Leonard Komen‘s record by 4 seconds to become #2 all-time. Birke Debele won the women’s race in 48:52 as the top 4 were only separated by 4 seconds.
  *MB: Official 7 Hills 15k WR Attempt Discussion Thread
• Sammy Kiprop Kitwara Crusises To A 2:05:15 Spanish All-Comers’ Record At The Valencia Marathon Kitwara won a close race with Evans Chebet (2:05:30) as the top three were all sub-2:10. Ethiopia’s Aberu Mekuria Zennebe won the women’s race in 2:26:17.
• MB: Tommy Curtin (29:21) And Molly Seidel (33:03) Win Flanigan’s Rockin’ Rib 10K In Florida Kevin Castille set a new M45-49 age group WR with 29:51 in 3rd.
• Eritrea’s Hiskel Tewelde Just Beats Out Birhan Nebebew By 1 Second With 61:13 At The Boulogne-Billancourt Half In France Third and fourth place were very close as well in 61:17 and 61:19. Ethiopia’s Rahma Tusa smashed the women’s CR with 68:29 to get a comfortable win.