December 13, 2017 | LetsRun.com

Rupp And Flanagan To Boston 2018

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.”
*MB: Rupp is running boston, scared of running a real marathon
*MB: Flanagan, Hasay, Huddle, and Linden ALL set to race Boston 2018!

Assorted International News

Oscar Pistorius Hurt In Prison Fight Pistorius was allegedly involved in a fight and sustained a bruise over the use of a public phone.
Report Claims Botswana 400m Runner Lydia Jele Tests Positive Jele was part of the 4 x 400 squad that finished 7th at Worlds.
Mo Farah And Heptathlete Nafissatou Thiam Voted Athletics Weekly Readers’ Choice Award Winners Usain Bolt won the “lifetime achievement” award with 56.3% of the votes.
Tallest building in South Korea to display Olympic Torch LED until end of Pyeongchang 2018
Need A Job? IAAF Hiring An Event Operations Coordinator You’d get to live in Monaco.

European XC Champs In The Books *Results

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.

Irish Journalist Cathal Dennehy Rips Turkey: “Turks’ Shameless Talent Grab Playing A Sick Joke On European Athletics” Dennehy writes that it was “another proud day for Kenya” and another “up yours from Turkey” at the Euro XC champs.
You Can’t Make This Up: After Winning Euro XC Champs, The Four Kenyans That Made Up The Kenyan Team Posed With The Turkish Flag The Wrong Way
Video Highlights
GB Lands Five Gold Medals At Euro XC Champs The GB senior women didn’t have anyone in the top 5, but put 4 in the top 10 to win team gold. Andrew Butchart took individual bronze after Dewi Griffiths did the early leading and DNFed with a hamstring injury.
Former Two-Time Euro XC Champs Fionnuala McCormack Could Only Manage 12th This Year
Jakob Ingebrigsten Defends His Euro U20 Title GB’s Harriet Knowles-Jones won the women’s race.
After Near Misses, France’s Jimmy Gressier And Germany’s Alina Reh Take Euro U23 Titles Reh beat out her countrywoman Konstanze Klosterhalfen by 3 seconds as GB’s Jessica Judd was 3rd.
Britain Wins Inaugural Mixed Relay Gold

Honolulu Marathon *Results

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

Hot Track Action

Track/Olympic News

More From USA Marathon Champs

LRCQ&A With USATF Marathon Champ Tim Ritchie, Who Explains What He Learned From Eliud Kipchoge And How He Ran 2:11 Off 85 Miles A Week

LRCParker Stinson Went For It, Tim Ritchie Got It Done, Sara Hall Doubled Down, A 50-Year-Old Made The Trials And A Jerry Lawson History Lesson

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.”

USATF Marathon Championships *Results

RRW Sara Hall And Tim Ritchie Win 2017 USA Marathon Titles At Cal Int’l Marathon Hall 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.”

Message Board Talk

MB: Timothy Ritchie (2:11:56) And Sara Hall (2:28:10) Win 2017 USATF Marathon Championships At CIM Ritchie beat out Tyler McCandless by 32 seconds with the top 10 all breaking 2:15. Hall won the women’s race by over 2 minutes over Roberta Groner (2:30:38).
MB: CIM Race Tracking
MB: Holy hell the depth at CIM.
MB: Over/Under 3:30 @ CIM Sunday? No training runs over 5 miles, first marathon
MB: Ashley Brasovan is BACK, baby! The former Foot Locker champ was 17th in 2:40:19.
*Pre-CIM Q&A With Ashley Brasovan

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

The Commonwealth Games Are In April

Andrew Butchart And Lysney Sharp Hope To Be Scotland’s Golden Couple At The Commonwealth Games Butchart and Sharp, who started dating earlier this year, were both 6th and 8th at the Olympics and Worlds. So Butchart joked that this meet will be the tie breaker.
Australia Might Have A Smaller Track Squad Than England At Their Home Commonwealth Games As of now they are allowed to send 73 to England’s 75. The first of those could be chosen Thursday at the Zatopek 10K where Pat Tiernan, Brett Robinson and David McNeill will all race.
Scotland Name Commonwealth Games team Andy Butchart, Lynsey Sharp and Callum Hawkins lead the distance events.
Scottish 400 Hurdler Eilidh Doyle Ready To Embrace What Will Probably Be Her Last Commonwealth Games Talking about how her mindset has changed, “I’m also a lot more chilled out about it all now. Before, it was the end of the world if you didn’t do what you wanted to do (on the track).”

NCAA News – The 2017 Bowerman Award Gets Announced Friday

Former Bowerman Award Winners Have Racked Up A Lot Of Global Medals The most ever at one championship was Rio 2016 where six former Bowerman winners took home Olympic medals.
*Recapping The 2017 Men’s Finalists Christian Coleman, Fred Kerley and Lindon Victor.
*Recapping The 2017 Women’s Finalists Maggie Ewen, Keturah Orji and Raevyn Rogers.
Top NCAA Relays Teams From 2017 Honored By Timing Company Accusplit
Sydney McLaughlin And Indiana’s Ben Veatch Are NCAA DI Athletes Of The Week After Running US Junior Records McLaughlin ran 36.12 in the 300 while Beatch ran 13:57 over 5000 (although Chris Derrick ran a 13:48 as a junior, but it was never ratified).
Arizona State Getting A New 9-Lane Track
Florida Coach Mike Holloway Wins US Sports Academy Coaching Award
Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Performances From The Weekend

Russian Ban Updates

Russian Olympic Committee Vote Unanimously To Compete Under Neutral Flag At 2018 Winter Games
The Guardian: “Collaborators And Traitors: Russia Goes To War With Winter Olympic Ban” Shaun Walker writes, “Instead of looking to [Vitaly] Mutko or other officials for an explanation of how the country got into this mess, many Russians instead see their country as heroically standing up to a monstrous external aggressor …”
USA Today: Experts Say Lifetime Bans For Russian Athletes Are Unlikely To Stand A sports lawyer says CAS may accept disqualification of Sochi results, but overturn lifetime bans.
Russian State TV Will Broadcast Parts Of Winter Games With Russian Athletes Competing As Neutrals
Three More Russian Athletes File Doping Appeals

RIP Joe Newton *Joe Newton Archives

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

USATF Club XC Champs Men’s Team And Ind. Results Women’s Results

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

USATF Recap
Discussion: Official USATF Club Nationals Thread
RR: Inspired By XC Origins, Hansons-Brooks Puts U.S. Distance Back On The Map This week should be the final race for Bobby Curtis.
RR: Ahead Of Club XC Champs, The Georgetown Running Club Remembers The Tragic Loss Of Two Of Its Members
*Lauren Woodal Roady’s Memorial Page
*Nina Brekelman’s Memorial Page

Field Event News

Two-Time World Triple Jump Silver Medalist Pedro Pablo Pichardo Has Switched Citizenship From Cuba To Portugal He’s obtained Portuguese nationality, but won’t be able to represent them until the IAAF ends its freeze on allegiance changes.
Olympian And NCAA Champion Rudy Winkler Taking A 5th Year At Rutgers University Winkler graduated from Cornell in the spring, but is going to Rutgers for his master’s.
Tips On Sport And Life From Germany’s World Decathlon Bronze Medalist Kai Kazmirek Kazmirek emphasizes staying relaxed in competition, which is even more important over a 2-day decathlon event.

Boston 2018

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

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.

Foot Locker: Claudia Lane Wins Foot Locker West Regional By 1:12

RIP News

Tennessee Track Legend And Former 5,000m NCAA Champion Kathy Bryant Passes Away At Age 55 Bryant was a seven-time All-American and still holds Tennessee’s outdoor 5,000 record (15:37).
Recommended Read: Now A High School Coach Himself, One Of Joe Newton’s Former Athletes Looks Back At His Time Under Coach Newton Interesting notes: Newton didn’t let his athletes call him “Coach” (they called him Mr. Newton) and even 50 years later, Mike Lynn says he can’t bring himself to refer to call Newton by his first name.
Other HS Coaches Including FM’s Bill Aris React To The Passing Of Joe Newton
IAAF Tribute To Joe Newtwon

More Weekend Results

IAAF Weekend XC Round-Up: Brother Colm O’Connell-Coached 19-Year-Old Mathew Kimeli Wins Kenyan AK Series Meet In Iten Kimeli made a name for himself in the spring when he ran 27:14 to come in a close second behind Mo Farah at the Ostrava Golden Spike Meet 10,000m.
Kenya’s Dickson Kipsang Tuwei (2:10:03) And Ethiopia’s Rahma Tusa (2:25:12) Win Guangzhou Marathon In China
RRW: Canadian Betty Jean McHugh Sets 90+ World Record At Honolulu Marathon She ran 6:47:31, which broke the previous record of 8:53:08 from 1997.
AW: UK Weekend Round-Up

Foot Locker High School XC Champs Results Race Replay

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).

LRC Official Foot Locker Nationals 2017 Live Thread

Sports Governing News/ Russian Ban Not Really A Ban

More Russian Scandal Updates

Even When They Know The Whole World Is Watching: FIFA Actually Terminated The “Ethics” Committee Head Who Was Investigating Vitaly Mutko They also fired another member who who was going to block Mutko from the Fifa council, arguing that it would damage the prospects of the World Cup in Russia.
Thomas Bach Refuses To Apologize To Yuliya Stepanova Over 2016 Olympic Snub, But Encourages Her To Switch Her Nationality To Represent A New Country At Tokyo 2020 Bach says he recently met with and had a “friendly discussion” with the Stepanovs.
NBA Team Owner Mikhail Prokhorov Accused Of Paying Hush Money In Russian Olympic Doping Scandal Prokhorov, the former Russian biathlon federation president, allegedly paid an athlete to keep quiet about Russia’s doping.
Vitaly Mutko Denies State-Backed Doping, Slams IOC Ban

2017 Fukuoka Marathon Was Incredible *Fukuoka Results

Wow! LRC Norway’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.

IAAF Recap Suguru Osako: “I gave my all to this race. … If I continue to train this way, I can continue to improve. I felt that I found a coach I can really trust. In Japan I did not find anyone like that.”
MB: Official 2017 Fukuoka Marathon Discussion Thread
MB: SONDRE MOEN of Norway runs 2:05:48 (!!!)to win the 2017 Fukuoka Marathon. How did he do it?
Must Read: Renato Canova explains Moen’s amazing breakthrough: “Clean your minds, start to believe in yoursel[f], and go [all] in [on] hard CLEAN training if [you] are really interested in improving [your] performance.”

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