December 02, 2017 Homepage Archive

2017 Fukuoka Marathon Is Tonight Watch 10:10 PM ET US Marathon Champs Are Sunday

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Japan Running News Preview Of Fukuoka What a race. So many interesting storylines. Bedan Karoki headlines but there is tons of Japanese talent including legend Yuki Kawauchi, the NOP’s Suguru Osako, and one half of the Shitara twins (Keita). Plus sub-60 man Sondre Moen ofNorway and Olympic champ Stephen Kiprotich. Unfortunately Jake Robertson and two-time World XC medalist Teklemariam Medhin have withdrawn. *IAAF Preview

Sunday: Citius Mag’s USA Men’s Marathon Champs Preview The men’s race sees Nick Arciniaga take on Fernando Cabada, Daniel Tapia, Craig Leon and Tim Ritchie as Parker Stinson debuts.
*USATF Women’s Preview: Janet Bawcom Vs. Sara Hall Headlines USATF Marathon Championships At CIM The race also includes former Foot Locker champ Ashley Brasovan, Lauren Trotten and Katie Matthews. *Citius Preview
*Sara Hall Is Running Her Second Marathon In 5 Weeks At The USA Marathon Champs Hall was 5th at Frankfurt on October 29 with a new 2:27:21 PR, but couldn’t pass up the chance to run a national championship near her home at CIM.

NCAA News

Kipchoge Vs. Farah At London 2018

Eliud Kipchoge Will Return To The London Marathon; Looking To Maintain His Unbeaten Record With A Third Title After winning in 2015 and 2016, Kipchoge skipped a year to chase the sub-2 hour marathon, but now he’s back and says, “I know that I have the world record in me so we will have to wait and see what happens.”
*Kipchoge Happy To Be Racing Mo Farah In London Kipchoge: “It’s great he will be racing because I’m sure that will make the atmosphere more special.”
*MB: Eliud Kipchoge is taking Mo Farah very seriously

Russian Doping Updates

Laughable:Russian Government Says Grigory Rodchenkov Supplied The Drugs Himself Without The Athletes’ Knowledge So only Rodchenkov is guilty and he bought drugs/doped these athletes on his own out of the goodness of his heart? How convenient.
IOC Admits That Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov Was Telling The Truth About Russian Doping As They Ban Five More Russian Athletes
Thomas Bach Says The IOC Will Not Be Intimidated By Russia Over 2018 Winter Games Decision That’s right, the IOC really prefers bribes.
Alan Abrahamson Criticizes IOC Disciplinary Commission For Banning Russian Athlete Without Letting Them Face Their Accuser (Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov) Well, if Rodchenkov was to testify he would definitely need witness protection so he didn’t end up like the other two former Moscow lab directors.
Source Says Russia’s T&F Ban Unlikely To Be Lifted In Time For The European Championships In Berlin This August
Double Sochi 2014 Gold Medalist And Russian Flag Bearer Alexander Zubkov Stripped Of His Bobsled Gold Medals And Banned For Life
Second Russian Four-Man Bobsled Team From Sochi 2014 Disqualified For Doping This was the team that would have moved up to bronze after Russia’s gold-medal winning team was DQed.
IOC Accused Of Risking The Health Of Hockey If Russia Is Banned From 2018 Winter Olympics

LetsSprint.com

Sprint Hurdler Jasmin Stowers Writes About Her Hard Fall Concussion At This Year’s London Diamond League Meet Stowers also talks about the public reaction to her wig falling off and how she saw it as an “education exercise” as to why some black women wear wigs.
*MB:Black Women Track Athletes Lose Their Wigs
Yohan Blake Has Dropped Weight And Focused On Improving His Technique As He Prepares For An Early Start To His Season At The 2018 Commonwealth Games Blake says his form breaking down cost him in some races in 2017.
World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm Talks About The Challenges He Faced When Transitioning From The Decathlon To A Single Event The 21-year-old Warholm only made the switch to the hurdles in 2015 because he struggled with the throwing events in the decathlon (although he was the world U18 multi event champ).
T&F Tabloids:“Usain Bolt Frolicked At Naked Hot Tub Bash With Brit Barmaid After Wild Night Bolt reportedly brought two women with him back to his VIP lounge.
*MB:Usain’s Bolt and the barmaid.

Assorted Distance News

World 1,500 Bronze Medalist Filip Ingebrigtsen Talks About How 2016 Was A “Make Or Break” Year For Him As He Was Contemplating Quitting The Sport The turning point for Ingebrigsten was winning Euro 1,500m gold. Looking back at the race he said, “It was strange because it was like I was not tired at all. It was like I was running strides in training down the home straight.”
Recommended Watch:Nice 7-Minute Video Profile On Jordan Hasay Hasay talks about her start in running, the influence of her mother and the marathon.
USTFCCCA:Northern Arizona Gallops Closer To A Dynasty Four of NAU’s top 5 scorers at NCAAs return next year.
Shalane Flanagan Meets Fans In Her Hometown Of Marblehead
CAS Overturns Reduced Ban For Kenyan Runner Kenyan authorities gave a 20-month ban to Benjamin Ngandu Ndegwa, but CAS increased it to 4 years, which started over since Ndegwa competed while suspended.
Bystanders Giving CPR Save Collapsed Runner During A Turkey Trot In Boston

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 PR.
Daily Nation:20,000 Runners To Do Battle In Nairobi Marathon
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) MenWomen

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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 CoverageResults 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.

LRC Ednah Kurgat Wins And Leads New Mexico To Women’s Team Title At 2017 NCAA Women’s Cross-Country Championships New Mexico won its second title in three years as San Francisco was 2nd for the first time in program history with the lowest losing score in 20 years.

LRC Video Interviews From The 2017 NCAA Division 1 Cross-Country Championships All our post-race interviews on one page.

Non-LRC NCAA Coverage

The Cinderella Story That Wasn’t Quite Meant To Be – Colorado State Men Finish 9th Without Their Top Runner At the 2K mark, Colorado State was in 4th place, but then their top runner, Jerrell Mock (6th at the Mountain Regional), fell from 10th to 169th place to finish outside their top 5.
Defending Champ Karissa Schweizer On Her 11th Place Finish: “It Just Wasn’t My Day”
The Denver Post:Colorado Women Repeat Their Third Place Finish From 2016 Mark Wetmore talks about the balance of going out slow and feeling good, but “being buried” vs. going out hard and being in trouble.
The Denver Post:CU Men Struggle To 8th Place Finish Mountain Regional winner Joe Klecker had a bad day in 67th place.
Chris Bucknam Raves About The Heart Of His Team As His 15th-Ranked Razorbacks Finished 5th The only problem with the “rags to riches” narrative is they were 4th in the pre-season poll.
DII: Adams State Sweeps NCAA DII Cross-Country Team Titles It’s the first time the same school has won men’s and women’s titles in the same year since Adams State did in 2009.
DIII: NCAA DIII Cross-Country: North Central (Ill.) Men Win 18th Title, Johns Hopkins Women Win 5th In Last 6 Years North Central DOMINATED and won by 139.
NAIA: University Of British Columbia Sweeps Men’s And Women’s NAIA Titles
*Men’s Results *Women’s Results

NXN High School Team Nationals Full Results Boys (With Splits) *Girls (With Splits)

LRC Girls Race: Katelyn Tuohy (16:44) Crushes Field As Fayetteville-Manlius Survives To Win 11th Title In 12 Years Tuohy set another course record and F-M won another national title (its 11th in 12 years), but just barely.

LRC Boys Race: Aidan Troutner (15:03) Wins NXN Thriller As Loudoun Valley Sets Meet Record For Fewest Points (89) Troutner pulled the upset and will go to BYU next year. Drew Hunter‘s former team, coached by his parents, set a record for low points at the meet thanks to great running and two transfers.

General Sport / Olympic Updates

Thomas Bach Claims IOC Cannot Act As A World Government But Will Prioritize Human Rights In Olympic Host Cities The paris 2024 and LA 2028 Games will be the first to specifically include human rights principles in their host contracts.
Opening Session Officially Kicks Off 2017 USATF Annual Meeting USATF president Vin Lananna spoke and gave out eight “President’s Awards” including one to his predecessor Stephanie Hightower.
South Korean Military Considering Rescheduling Exercises With US To Avoid Clash With 2018 Winter Games The exercises have been denounced by North Korea as a rehearsal for a potential invasion.
Rio Olympic Velodrome Hit By Fire For Second Time This Year Once again, a second small hot air balloon landed on the roof and set it on fire.
Birmingham Will Have To Wait To See If It Will Host The 2022 Commonwealth Games They were the only official bidder, but their bid was “not fully compliant” and now cities from Australia, Canada, and Malaysia have updated their bids.

Distance News

Good Read:Sara Hall Doesn’t Believe In Getting Down To An “Ambiguous Race Weight” Before A Big Competition “[The scale] doesn’t tell me anything because I’m not trying to be a certain weight. I focus on my energy levels and figure when I’m fueling well and not eating a lot of junk, my body finds where it needs to be.”
Podcast:Carrie Tollefson Interviews Allie Kieffer In The Wake Of Her Amazing Breakthrough 5th-Place Finish At The NYC Marathon Kieffer set a 15-minute PR at NYC to finish 5th. She talks about that performance as well as future racing plans.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Former Olympic Champ Stephen Kiprotich Kiprotich is a big fan of Hollywood action and Chinese Kung Fu movies.
RIP:2:32 Ethiopian Marathoner Zenash Gezmu Dies At 27 Years Old
Mikey Brannigan Named USA Paralympian Of The Year Brannigan won three paralympic world medals (two gold) in the 800, 1,500 and 5,000.
If You Speak French:beIN SPORTS Documentary On Japan Marathoner Yuki Kawauchi

Taking Winter Running To A New Level

Irish Sub-4 Minute Miler Paul Robinson Runs The Fastest Mile Ever In Antarctica Running on snow with a temperature of -13° Fahrenheit (with the windchill) Robinson (who has a 3:35 1,500 PR) ran 4:17.9. *Video
*2nd Article: Robinson – “The coolest thing I’ve ever done.”
Video Of This Year’s Antarctic Ice Marathon The winning times were 3:37:46 for the men and 4:56:37 for the women.

US Distance News

Bowerman Track Club’s Jerry Schumacher Named USATF Nike Coach Of The Year BTC athletes won three World medals and a World Marathon Major in 2017.
Recommended Read:Brandon Hudgins Gives An Update On His Ongoing Battle Against Vasculitis And Talks Running In General Hudgins discusses his training and how he copes with fighting his illness, shares some inside info like his favorite runs and inspiration and gives some life/training advice.
Edward Cheserek Gets Sponsored By Polar The heart rate sensor/activity tracker company also sponsors Molly Huddle, Gwen Jorgenson, Will Leer and Kate Grace.

International Distance Racing

Ethiopia’s Dire Tune Makes Triumphant Comeback, Winning The Florence Marathon With 2:28:55 In Her First Race In 6 Years Tune hadn’t raced since 2011 Worlds as she took time away from running to become a mother. Bahrain’s Zelalem Bacha won a tight men’s race as he and Ethiopia’s Tadesse Mamo both ran 2:14:41.
Olympic 10,000 4th Placer Alice Aprot Wins Alcobendas, Spain XC Race By 34 Seconds Eritrea’s Aron Kifle won the men’s race while in Germany, Alina Reh got a 2-second upset victory over 3:58 woman Konstanze Klosterhalfen.
World U20 Medalists Selemon Barega And Zeyneba Yimer Win Hard-Fought Battles At Great Ethiopian Run 10K In Addis Ababa Barega beat out national XC champ Getaneh Molla and defending champion Moges Teumay to win by 3 seconds while Yimer also won by just 2 seconds.
*Sad News:Two Racers Die At Great Ethiopian Run
Kaleab Ghilagabr (2:12) And Yumiko Kinoshita (2:34) Win Osaka Marathon Japanese cancer survivor and past 2:11 man Satoru Kasuya ran 2:19:50 for 4th place.
Arata Fujiwara Wins Tsukuba Marathon Four Weeks After Breaking Toyama Marathon CR
Osaka Geijutsu University Takes Nikko Irohazaka Women’s Ekiden

IAAF Admin

IAAF Say They Will Continue The Current Freeze On Transfer Of Allegiance From Country To Country The rules will be reviewed again in March 2018.
Nanjing, China Awarded The 2020 World Indoor Championships They beat out bidders Belgrade, Serbia and Torun, Poland.

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International Distance Results

Ethiopian 17-Year-Old Yeneblo Biyazen Leads 12 Men Under 28 Minutes At Japanese 10,000 Biyazen made his debut at the distance with a 27:32.
GB’s Emelia Gorecka Was In Tears After Bouncing Back From Stress Fracture To Win Liverpool XC Challenge And Book A Trip To Euro XC Champs Gorecka won in a sprint finish over Worlds 1,500 semi-finalist Jessica Judd. Ben Connor won the men’s race.
Universal Entertainment Ekiden Team Scores First National Corporate Women’s Ekiden Title Since 2012

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.

Good Read:Profile On Wayde Van Niekerk’s 75-Year-Old Coach Anna Botha, Who Is The IAAF Coach Of The Year Botha talks about how she started coaching, playing music during training to help athletes find rhythm and says she was so mad after Van Niekerk hurt his knee in a celebrity rugby game that she wanted to “wanted to murder people.”
Eight Athletes Receive World Record Plaques Including Joyciline Jepkosgei For Her 1:04:52 Half Marathon Sydney McLaughlin (400H), Mondo Duplantis (PV) and Trey Cunningham (60H) got plaques for their WJRs.
Play-By-Play From IAAF 2017 Awards Night
Athletics Weekly Article
Usain Bolt Wins IAAF President’s Award The President’s Award recognizes and honors great service to athletics.

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

Doping Updates

Former Russian Biathlon Union President Will Provide Legal And Financial Support To Biathletes Stripped Of Sochi 2014 Medals It’s hilarious that he speaks of the cost to athletes’ careers and financial opportunities with no regard for the non-dopers whom the Russians stole from.
IOC Ban Three More Russians For Life Two skiers and a biathlete.
WADA Provisionally Suspend Accreditation Of Bucharest, Romania, Laboratory

Russian Doping News

Two More Russians Fail London Olympic Retests Russian 4 x 400 member Yulia Gushchina and LJ 5th placer Anna Nazarova both were banned. Gushchina had already been stripped of three relay medals from the 2008 and 2012 games due to failed doping tests by her teammates.
Counting Their Chickens? Russia Unveils 2018 Winter Olympic Kit Despite Doubts Over Their Participation
David Owen: “With Its Grand Finale Approaching, Sport’s Russian Decade Has Left A Toxic Legacy”
Russian Schoolboy Starts Campaign To Let Russia Compete At 2018 Winter GamesInsideTheGames writes that the “No Russia No Games” campaign “captures mood of country in denial.”
Russian Weightlifter Serving Doping Ban Competes In Russian Bobsled Competition Former European Youth champ Ilya Atnabayev was already halfway through a 4-year ban when he competed and won silver at Russia’s Bobsled Cup.
Vladimir Putin Sends Message Of Support To Russian Paralympic Athletes As They Face Threat Of Missing Pyeongchang 2018
Richard McLaren Says Athletes Have A Duty To Report Doping Offences

US Distance News

Interesting:Toni Reavis Wants To Take “One Last Look At What Will Go Down As The Defining Race Of The American Running Year” In Shalane Flanagan’s NYC Win Reavis analyzes some marathon “mind games” with Flanagan and Keitany, noting that Flanagan never looked back.
February 3:Elite Fields Announced For Camel City Elite Meet Top names competing include Paul Chelimo (3,000), Edward Cheserek (mile), Leo Manzano (mile), Craig Engels (800), Melissa Bishop (800), and Abbey D’Agostino (mile).
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With NAZ Elite Coach Ben Rosario Rosario talks about how NAZ Elite started, updates on his athletes and emphasizes the importance of getting involved in a running group to stay motivated.
Abbey D’Agostino And Jackie Joyner-Kersee Among Those Honored For Their Sportsmanship At The 2017 Musial Awards
May 6:Record Prize Money To Be Awarded At The 2018 USA Half Marathon Championships In Pittsburgh Pittsburgh is hosting the USA Half champs with $85,000 up for grabs.

More On The 2017 AOYs

Good Read:World HJ Champ Mutaz Barshim Reflects On The Journey That Has Brought Him From A Modest High School Athlete To The 2017 Athlete Of The Year Barshim was planning on stopping track after high school to focus on his education, but his now long-time coach Stanislaw Szczyrba hounded him until he agreed to try out one training camp.
Interesting Fact:Mutaz Barshim Actually Started In Track As A Racewalker And Ran Distance For Two Seasons
2017 Athlete Of The Year Nafissatou Thiam Confesses That After She Won Surprise Gold At The 2016 Olympics, She Was Afraid She’d “Never Be That Good Again” Thiam obviously needn’t have worried as she won Worlds and put herself #3 all-time in 2017.

Russian Doping Updates

IAAF Maintains Ban Of Russian Track And Field The IAAF said that Russia still hasn’t met the reinstatement criteria with satisfactory testing and enforcement against suspended coaches only being partially met and acknowledgement of the McLaren report and reinstatement of RUSADA not met at all.
*Russia’s Participation In 2018 World Indoor Champs Now In Doubt Worlds are in March, so it seems unlikely they’ll be reinstated in time.
Good Read:Dick Pound Warns IOC/Thomas Bach Not To “Stuff It Up” When Making Russian Decision On The 2018 Winter Games Pound says he had a “frank discussion” with Bach and agreed to “keep my mouth shut” from now on and that athletes need to organize because nothing “scares these old folks as much.”

High School Championship Season Is Here

Foot Locker Regional Results The Northeast, Midwest and South Regional races were Saturday.
*Full List Of Foot Locker Qualifiers So Far
*Foot Locker Recaps:*Northeast*South*Midwest
*MB: Foot Locker Watered Down This Year
NXN Regional Results:*New York *Northeast*Southeast *Northwest*Heartland*Midwest*South
MB:How out of this world is Katelyn Tuohy’s time at NY NXN Regionals Tuohy ran 17:01 to win by over a minute. That would have put her 35th in the boys race (although she ran faster last week with 16:52).
*MB:Bowdoin Park Racing Tips?
DyeStat:Brentwood’s Brody Hasty Wins NXR Southeast Three-Peat In His First Race Against High Schoolers This Year Hasty is the top returner from NXN last year, where he was 3rd.
MB: How did Loudon valley do so well at NXN southeast? What are their workouts?
Unattached Brentwood XC Club Misses Qualifying With 6th-Place Finish After a controversy surrounding the firing of their coach, the team quit racing for their high school for the year. *MB:What happened with Brentwood HS?
DyeStat NXN Region-By-Region Results, Recaps And Qualifiers
NXN At Large Teams Selected
MB:NXR SE discussion
MB:What are the criteria used to decide NXN at-large teams?
California State Meet:MB:Claudia MF Lane Strikes Again Crushes the California state record by 10 seconds with 16:30 at Woodward Park to win by over a minute. *Results
*DyeStat Article On Claudia Lane’s California State Champs Record Great Oak boys set a record by becoming the first to win 4 consecutive state titles.
*MB:CIF live results – so good
*10 Storylines At The California State Championships

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.

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 breaking 2:06 for the 5th time in his life and finally winning 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.”