November 25, 2017 | LetsRun.com

Athlete Of The Year

Mutaz Essa Barshim (HJ) And Nafissatou Thiam (Heptathlon) Are The 2017 World Athletes Of The Year Barshim beat out fellow finalists Mo Farah and Wayde Van Niekerk while Thiam won the award over Almaz Ayana and Ekaterini Stefanidi.
*Athletics Weekly Article
*Usain Bolt Wins IAAF President’s Award The President’s Award recognizes and honors great service to athletics.

High School Championship Season

Foot Locker Regional Results The Northeast, Midwest and South Regional races were today.
NXN Regionals: *New York *Northeast *Southeast*Northwest *Heartland *Midwest *South
10 Storylines At The California State Championships

Manchester Road Race And Silicon Valley TT Silicon Results Manchester Results

Silicon Valley TT: Edward 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: Paul Chelimo of the U.S. Army salutes the crowd as he wins the 2017 Manchester Road Race in Manchester, Conn., in 21:32 (photo by Jane Monti for Race Results Weekly) 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.

Foreign News Of Note

Preview Of Big Weekend Of Japanese Action As Yuta Shitara Goes For Japanese 10,000m record The biggest question mark is can Yuta Shitara break the Japanes 10,000m record at the Hachioji Long Distance meet? Shitara is the guy who broke the Japanese record in the half in 1:00:17 and then ran 2:09:03 at Berlin the next weekend.
What A Joke: Kenyan Tourism Boards Honors Wilson Kipsang And Sarah Chepchirchir Chepchirchir is the sister of Noah Talem, the husband and coach of Rio Olympic champ and drug cheat Jemima Sumgong. No one in this group should be honored until Sumgong comes clean.
Preview Of Sunday’s Irish XC Championships Fionnuala McCormack is not running.
Preview Of Sunday’s Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon

News From Outside The US

British Athletics Publishes 2018 IAAF World Indoor Champs Selection Policy
Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon Numbers Down By More Than 10,000 As Many Kenyans Were So Obsessed With Their Presidential Election That They Didn’t Train “It is not about the finances. The people who had shown interest in the race had not prepared themselves to run,” he added.
Sports Ethics Professor Has Some Interesting Things To Say About Doping “With regards anti-doping, people thought the days of state-sponsored doping were over. Well, wake up and smell the coffee! More and more is coming out about China all the time.”
Before He Gets Serious About Soccer, Usain Bolt Has Been Helping Australian Cricketers Get Faster
IOC Bans Four Russian Skeleton Athletes For Life Over Sochi Doping, Including Olympic Champion Alexander Tretyakov
IAAF Is Hiring New Head Of Communications At Its Monaco Headquarters Sounds like a great job. Note, you’ll be the #2 communications man or woman – not #1. Or you can work for free in the US: TrackTown USA Hiring A Bunch Of Interns – Communication, Social Media, Marketing And Videographer Interns.

Christian Taylor Gives Out Free Tips On Competing And Dating “I think most women think chivalry is dead. But by opening a door for a lady, or seating my girlfriend at dinner – just a small gesture can go far. My dad instilled that belief in me. Being a gentleman can make a cool night, a really special night.”

Pro Distance News

Recommended Read: 31-Year-Old Mother Of Three Was The Feel-Good Story Of The Summer, But Sponsorship Deal Still Eludes Her Vaughn and industry experts talk about the state of sponsorship and why it can be difficult for someone like Vaughn (a 31-year-old not in a training group) to get a deal even after making a World team.
Hartford Courant: Bernard Lagat Running Manchester Road Race For First Time Lagat says he’s planning on running his first marathon in 2019; probably either NYC, Chicago or Boston.
March 4: Mo Farah And Callum Hawkins Will Go Head-To-Head Over Half Marathon At The Big Half In London
MB: Jared Ward Has 4.8 Out Of 5 stars On RateMyProfessors.com Ward teaches statistics at BYU.
MB: Funny Video – Normal People Try To Run Mo Farah’s 5K Pace On A Treadmill

Today’s Sprint Stuff

Recommended Read: BBC Looks At How The British Virgin Islands’ Sports (Including World #1 Hurdler Kyron McMaster) Are Recovering After Hurricane Irma National rugby team coach: “One of the lads was five minutes late for training. When I asked him why, he said: ‘Because my roof caved in during the night.'”
Usain Bolt Is Recovered From His Hamstring Injury And Back In Training … For Soccer He is talking about training hard with the Jamaican national coach and has been invited to train with a team in Germany (Borussia Dortmund).
Czech Republic’s Former European 400 Indoor Champ Denisa Rosolova Announces Retirement At 31 She is pregnant with her first child.

Sprints And Jumps

Pistorius And Steenkamp Families Outraged About Recently Released Oscar Pistorius Movie, “Oscar Pistorius – The Blade Runner Killer” Both families are considering taking legal action.
Tips For Sport And Life From Olympic 400 Champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo Some interesting takeaways is that Miller-Uibo is married to Estonian decathlete Maicel Uibo and her father’s name is Shaun.
Andre De Grasse Wants To Make Up For Glasgow 2014 Disappointment With Gold Coast 2018 Success At the 2014 Commonwealth Games De Grasse didn’t make the final, but is a different runner since then.
US Jumper Will Claye Has His Own “Fall Up” Clothing Line Out
Podcast Interview With US Olympic Triple Jumper Chris Benard Benard was 6th at Worlds and had the 4th best jump in 2017.
USA’s World LJ Silver Medalist Jarrion Lawson Talks About What He Does To Fight Injury And Stay Healthy

Euro XC News

European Weekend XC Circuit Round-Up: Kenya’s World XC Silver Medalist Alice Aprot Wins In Spain She beat Spain’s Nuria Lugueros by almost a minute.
Happy Thanksgiving: Turkey Dominates With 9 Of 12 Golds At The Balkan XC Championships

2017 AOYs

NCAA XC MBoard Talk

Pistorius’ Jail Time More Than Doubled

Oscar Pistorius’ Jail Sentence Increased From 6 Years To 15 Years After Prosecutors Argue The Initial Term Was “Shockingly Light” An analyst says it came down to consistency, since 15 years is the normal minimum term for murder.
*2nd Article Pistorius still has the option to appeal the decision.

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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

We Didn’t Give This Enough Attention Last Week: Richmond Marathon Disqualifies Three Top Finishers Linked To Doping The men’s winner and the first and third place woman are represented by Larisa Mikhaylova, a Kentucky-based agent linked to many dopers. Big props to the Richmond Marathon for helping the integrity of the sport.
Is It Okay To Cheat If It’s For Charity? MB: Saucony Sponsors Possible 5K Course Cutter In Greece And Says It’s No Big Deal! When people called her out, Saucony Greece responded that they wouldn’t “feel shame” because she was running for charity.

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

Berhanu Legese winning at the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2017 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.

Sunday International Action

Kenyan Sub-2:07 Men Gilbert Kirwa And Henry Sugut Lead Field For The Florence Marathon In the women’s race, 2008 Boston Marathon winner Dire Tune is running her first marathon since 2011 and Viola Jelagat is doing a quick turnaround just one month after setting a 2:26:51 PB.
Germany’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen And National Half Record Holder Alina Reh Going Head-To-Head On Home Soil At The Darmstadt XC Meet
Switzerland’s Reigning Champ Fabienne Schlumpf And Sweden’s Meraf Bahta Will Line Up At The Warandecross XC Race In The Netherlands

NCAA XC Photo Galleries (800+ Photos Each Race) Men Women

More NCAA News

Non-Pro Running News

Recommended Read: Runner’s World: Battling Depression: “When The Best Therapy Is Right At Your Feet” RW editor Scott Douglas writes, “Running puts everyone in a better mood. But for some of us, our miles are key to managing depression and anxiety.”
Some Runners Wore Masks To Deal With The Pollution After the race one runner said, “My eyes are burning, my throat is dry. I have a running nose.”
*AP: New Delhi’s Polluted Air Doesn’t Deter Distance Runners One runner criticized the pollution saying, “In most countries, including China, it would be a state of alert. In India, we are running a half marathon.”
Will The US Have One Million Turkey Trotters In 2017? Thanksgiving is the most popular running day of the year with 961,882 finishing turkey trots in 2016.
World Marathon Majors Is Creating A Global Age Group Ranking System And Age Group World Championships The rankings will cover age groups from age 40 to 80+. Maybe we’re just low on sleep, but the point system seemed very confusing.
Jakobé Ford And Sabra Harvey Are USATF Youth And Masters Athletes Of The Year

High School Corner

Brentwood, TN Boys Team Competing At NXN Southeast Regional Unattached The team, third at NXN last year with top runner Brodey Hasty ranked #1 in the country, split from their high school at the start of the year and have been racing college meets unattached. Their issues with the high school surround some controversy with a coach that was fired.
Katelyn Tuohy Crushes Her Own Course Record By 18 Seconds At Bowdoin Park To Win New York State Federation Meet Before Tuohy set the record on November 4th, the mark belonged to former Foot Locker champ Aisling Cuffe.
MB: Video – Jordan Hasay Gives Talk At Her Former High School
Results: James Mwaura And Katie Thronson Lead Washington Sweep Over Oregon At Nike Border Clash

More NCAA XC Coverage

Ednah Kurgat: “It’s like a dream come true.” – Lobo Women Celebrate National Title
Stanford Signs Top Prep XC Recruits In Caitlin Collier, Rebecca Story And Joshua Schumacher
The Register-Guard: No NCAA Trophies For Oregon XC Coach Maurica Powell: “I think the girls overall, fifth was probably the best they could do today.”
RW’s 11 Favorite Photos From NCAAs
Non-XC: Texas A&M Brings In 18 Early Signing Recruits

NCAA XC Nationals Full Coverage Results For DI, DII And DIII *Streaming Info

LRC Favorites Justyn Knight And Northern Arizona Deliver And Win 2017 NCAA Cross-Country Titles Justyn Knight waited until the very end to win but NAU delivered its knockout blow early and now looks poised for a three-peat in 2018.