– The Guardian‘s Shaun Walker writing about how outrage over Russia’s Winter Olympic ban has been fueled by comparisons to World War II.
Loaded American Field Set For 2018 Boston Marathon With WMM Winners Galen Rupp And Shalane Flanagan Joined By Jordan Hasay, Desiree Linden, Molly Huddle And Dathan Ritzenhein(link fixed) Rupp and Flanagan will go try to get back-to-back WMM victories. They’re also joined by Abdi Abdirahman, Ryan Vail, Shadrack Biwott, Sara Hall, Kellyn Taylor and Deena Kastor will also race. *Announcement Video
*Flanagan:“My heart ♥️ said……give it one more chance, try again. See everyone in Boston on Patriots Day.”
A Legend Has Passed: Joe Newton RIP 1929-2017 Newton’s York high school teams won 28 state XC titles and the first NXN title, but most importantly he shaped thousands of kids lives. *Pay Your Respects Here
Club Nats Men’s Results: Ian La Mere And Tinman Elite Win La Mere is on Hansons-Brooks.
Women’s Results: Sarah Pagano Of BAA and Hansons Brooks Win Women’s Title
Defending Champions Geoffrey Kirui And Edna Kiplagat Will Return For The 2018 Boston Marathon Both will be coming off an excellent 2017 where Kirui won World gold and Kiplagat the silver. *Video Release
*April Fools Comes Early:Boston Marathon Announces New Vaporfly-Adjusted Qualifying Times Men in the 18-34 age group will need to run a 2:57:30 instead of 3:05:00. *Discuss
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.
Foot Locker: Claudia Lane Wins Foot Locker West Regional By 1:12
Kaan Kigen Ozbilen And Yasemin Can Make It A Turkish Double Victory At European XC Championships Ozbilen won by 9 seconds over Spain’s Adel Mechaal, helping Turkey to a 3-point team win over Spain. On the women’s side, Can won easily while GB took the team title.
LRC Claudia Lane Dominates To Repeat As Champ, Misses Joining Sub-17:00 Club (link fixed) 17:03 for Lane as only 3 women in the last 30 years have ever gone sub-17. She’ll attempt to be first-ever 3-time girl’s champ next year.
LRC Dylan Jacobs Wins To Make Carl Sandburg High In Illinois The First With Two Different FL Champs (Lukas Verzbicas) As Soph Graydon Morris Is 2nd Jacobs turned the tables on rival Daniel Kilrea as sophomore Morris moved up to take second and could become the second boy ever to run at 4 Foot Lockers (Jorge Torres).
Wow! LRCNorway’s Sondre Moen Makes History, Smashes European Record To Win Fukuoka In 2:05:48 Moen, who ran 59:48 during his buildup, became the first non-African born male to break 2:06 on a record-eligible course as he stunned the world and Bedan Karoki. 2012 Olympic champ Stephen Kiprotich grabbed second in 2:07:10 just ahead of the Suguro Osako, who set a new Nike Oregon Project record of 2:07:19.
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
RRW Lawrence Cherono (2:08:26) And Brigid Kosgei (2:22:14) Smash Course Records At Honolulu Marathon, Win $50,000 World record holder Dennis Kimetto dropped out again. Nick Symmonds ran 3:00:35.
RRW King Cheserek Wins Battle Of Sexes Kalakaua Mile In Hawaii And Defeats Nick Willis And Will Leer The race does not give splits and makes the runners essentially time trial it by feel. Excellent.
*MB: Nick Willis’ 8-Month Pregnant Wife Runs 6:59 Mile In Hawaii
Sara Hall completed a nice double, Tim Ritchie kept the Saucony team rolling, Parker Stinson went for it, a 50-year-old made the Trials, and a history lesson on Jerry Lawson.
*Recommended Read:USA Marathon Champ Sara Hall Defies Convention Hall has always had great range and now is enjoying the success her non-standard approach is bringing. “In my mind, I flash back to times that you are thinking you aren’t even good at this sport. It makes you realize that, wow, when you hear those voices, don’t believe those voices.”
RRWSara Hall And Tim Ritchie Win 2017 USA Marathon Titles At Cal Int’l MarathonHall won in 2:28:10 just 5 weeks after running 2:27:21 in Frankfurt while Ritchie ran a new PR of 2:11:55.
*CIM Going The Extra Mile To Stop Race Cheats In addition to analyzing results, CIM hired Marathon Investigation’s Derek Murphy to help catch cheats and even catch people pre-race who tried to hire a “bib mule.”
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