Great North Run and CityGames *Elite Photos
Haile G Remains Undefeated as Adere Repeats!! *LRC Thread on Race Haile G still has got the goods as he put on a great show and crushed the field in poor conditions in England. He remained undefeated in 210 and won by almost 2 minutes in 59:33 as American Dathan Ritzenhein was
4th in approx 62:34.
*Haile G's Undefeated 2010 Season Continues Sunday In Britain In addition to Ritz, he'll also be facing former world 5,000-meter record holder in Sir Chris Chataway.
More From Britain: Craig Mottram & Hannah England Win Distance Races At Great North CityGames Craig Mottram won the 2-mile by 1-second in 8:31. *LRC MB: Mottram wins 2 mile over Birms...Bads...Thompson...and No Farah
*In Commonwealths Tune-Up, England Beats Australia 5-4 At Great North City Games
*Special Portable Track Makes City Games Possible
Recommended Read 10 Years After Speeding To Olympic 100-Meter Glory, Marion Jones Is Now Teaching Others (And Herself) To Slow Down Before Making Big Decisions Australia's Daily Telegraph has written a very long piece on Jones, who is busy giving speaches to schools and writing a book due out Oct. 24th.
Inspiring Read Former World Jr. Champion (And Galen Rupp's Workout Partner) Julius Achon Is Helping Children One At A Time In War-Savaged Uganda
Minnesota Native Garrett Heath Hoping To Win Grandma's Minnesota Mile *Race Website
Commonwealths Are Approaching
- Originally Hoping For Double (800/1,500) Commonwealths Glory, Nick Willis Says Repeating As 1,500 Champ Is Big Enough Of A Challenge
- John Walker Urges New Zealand's Athletes To Ignore Terrorism Fears And Go & Compete In India Walker raced Steve Ovett in front of 65,000 in 1990.
- The $port Has Changed Forever
None Of Jamaica's 6 Sub-10 Guys Will Run 100m At Commonwealths
Recommended Reads About 1,500 Men
- Andrew Wheating Gets Props & Talks Big In Sports Illustrated For the youngsters that have never purchased a magazine in their life, there are few bigger honors in US sports than a Sports Illustrated feature. In this one, Wheating, who is known for running from the back, says he's not afraid to try to try to run on David Rudisha's shoulder in a world record attempt.
- A Brief Chat With Nick Willis Willis talks about his comeback, his feelings on drug cheat Rashid Ramzi and even Alan Webb being a third wheel.
- Alberto Salazar Talks In Depth About Alan Webb's Comeback Apparently, Five Guys burgers and beers are out as Webb has lost 8 pounds. Prior to his 3:36, Webb was discouraged as he struggled to run 10 200s in 27.5.
More 1,500 Talk
*Nick Willis Talks Up His Chances For Commonwealth Games On New Zealand Radio
*Steve Cram (The Socialist?) Gives Interview On How To Manage Money The headline claims he's a socialist but if you read the piece, he's far from it.
*As Commonwealth Games Approach, Australian Columnist Wonders "What Happened To Australia's Mid-D Depth?" Lots of people at the start of the year, but now many are injured.
We Guess A Dane Having The WR Was The Equivalent Of Stolen Livestock
*Thousands Greet David Rudisha As The Warrior Returns Home "Whenever a moran goes to war, the way Rudisha did, he is given such a reception on his return, especially if he successfully seized back the stolen livestock."
*Rudisha's Prized Gift Is A Framed Photo Of His Father Being Celebrated For Returning With Olympic Silver In 1968
Doug Logan In The News
LRC: Why Doug Logan Is Out At USATF And Where It Goes From Here LetsRun.com co-founder Weldon Johnson offers his analysis of the Logan dismissal. The outsider likely had zero built-in allies in USATF, which even USATF admits is an organization that is inherently "dysfunctional" in its setup. And when an outsider, not an insider, over-promises and possibly
under-delivers, he's immediately
thrown to the curb as no one's got his back. Regardless, the key thing to focus on is not why he's gone but what type of person does USATF hire to replace him and how do we prevent history from repeating itself as it appears the initial search process was poorly done.
More Logan:
*Phil Hersh: How The Logan-Hightower Relationship Went From Kiss-Kiss To Kiss-Off In The Last Year
*Logan Replacement Likely To Come From Within Sport
*SI Claims Logan Secured $10 Million-A-Year Deal With Nike If that's the case, they couldn't be too far off their $12 million goal for sponsorship for 2010.
Random Interesting Distance-Related Links
- Ryan Gregson Talks About His Navicular Stress Fracture He thinks too much training caused it. "I am a boy who's been trying to keep up with the men."
- 15-Year-Old Japanese Runner Break 30-Year-Old Jr. High 2,000 Meter Record His time of 5:34 equates to about 4:21 in the mile.
- A Look At The Kiwi Connection To Western State Steve Willis, brother of Nick, talks about how a ton of Kiwis have made the trek to Western State. The Internet apparently has killed the connection as the Kiwis are going all over now.
- A Brief Chat With US 20k Runner-Up Stephanie Rothstein The former Brad Hudson-coached runner is now with Greg McMillan. She almost quit the sport but now is going to the World Championships in the half marathon along with her boyfriend Ben Bruce.
- $12,500 On Line At Grandma's Minnesota Mile Minnesota natives Garrett Heath and Will Leer headline the field.
- Craig Mottram Talks About His Comeback
Random Interesting Non-Distance Related Links
- Usain Bolt Is Really Talented At Everything As He Can Also Dance Like Michael Jackson
- Triple Jump Fans Rejoice
Famed Flemish Crime Wrtier To Write Biography On European Triple Jump Bronze Medallist Svetlana Bolshakova We didn't know there was so much interest in an obscure jumper - the fact she's pleasant on the eyes couldn't have hurt.
Decathlon News
- European Championship Decathlon Rematch On Tap For This Weekend In France
- Former Decathlon Great Daley Thompson Rips Athletes Who Are Skipping Commonwealth Games
Good News
Dick Patrick Wins NYRR George Hirsch Journalism Award
Week In Review
LRC Week In Review: Webb, Lukas V, Nelson, Ritz, Culpepper And Miss Universe Runner-Up This week, we start things off by telling you how hard it is for Americans to medal in this day and age of African domination by showing you there is more Kenyan talent entered in an obscure marathon in the Netherlands than has ever existed in the US. We then give unsolicited coaching advice to Alan Webb and Asbel Kiprop, give props to American Tim Nelson and compare him to Dathan Ritzenhein and Alan Culpepper, talk about triathlon stars of the past and present, and finally introduce you to Asafa Powell's future wife - the runner-up at the Miss Universe pageant. All of that and we introduce you to a new star of the sport.
Foreign News
- German
HighLong Jumper Christian Reif Smashes PGA Champ Martin Kaymer In Poll To Become German Athlete Of The Month - UK Athletics Trying To Avoid Dengue Fever At Commonwealths
- Christine Ohuruogu Will Defend Her Commonwealth 400m Title Next Month
- Decathlon Great Daley Thompson Says He'd Be At Commonwealths If He Was Still Competing
Bye Bye, Doug - We Hardly Knew Ya ...
Stephanie Hightower For USATF CEO? The USATF president won't rule out being considered. If she's selected, it seems to us it shouldn't be a $450,000-a-year gig.
Doug Logan Out At USATF Logan, who less than two years ago was a unanimous pick by the search committee to be USATF CEO, was canned by the USATF board on Monday. We're shocked he was fired, especially considering
USATF may owe him a $1$2 million severance. It'll be interesting to see why the board fired Logan. Logan's biggest problem (besides the dysfunctional organization that faces every CEO of USATF) may have been promising way too much. We thought the whole "Project 30" report was a waste of time about a non-existent problem. Nonetheless,
we gave Logan props for letting the
Olympic Trials go to the highest bidder. We want to see what the board says on this one. If you'd like to comment on Logan's firing on or off the record, email us or post in our forums in the threads below:
More: Washington Post: Logan Vowed To Clean House And Now He's The One Shown The Door
NY Times: Steph Hightower Says It's Halftime Between Olympics And Time To Make Changes
Reuters: Board President Steph Hightower Admits She Didn't Vote For Or Against Doug Logan When He Was Hired How a board member could not have enough info is ridiculous - either for them personally or the search process in general.
Chicago Tribune: Next Guy Had Better Be At Least $2 Million Better Than Logan
On The Boards: USA Track & Field dumps CEO Logan *Farewell Doug Logan, we hardly knew ya... *Deena Kastor Comments
Commonwealth Games News
- New Zealand Committee Meeting To Determine Whether To Cancel Sending A Team To Commonwealth Games This is a classic example of bureaucrats justifying their jobs. We bet a lot they send a team. These are the same people that likely voted to have the Games in Delhi.
- Olympic Silver Medallist Eliud Kipchoge Replaces Olympic Bronze Medallist Edwin Soi On Kenyan 5,000 Team Kipchoge is also the 2010 world leader but his first race was his best.
- Indian Head - We're Ready
Lukas V Update
DecaNation Meet *Results
- Will Leer, Nick Symmonds And Lisa Aguilera Pick Up Wins In France (Results only) Their winning times were nothing to write home about. Also Erin Donohue beat world leader Anna Alminova.
- DecaNation Recap IAAF
- David Oliver Wins Again In Hurdles To Lead US To Victory As Rodgers Beats Lemaitre In 100m
- More Weekend Action: Ivan Ukhov Goes World-Leading 2.36 In High Jump
NCAA XC
Penn State: Penn State XC: Georgetown Women Win, Princeton Men Edge Georgetown
*Men's Penn State Results (Donn Cabral Wins)
*Women's Penn State Spiked Shoe Results
Former NCAA Mile Champ Sean Jefferson, Now A Pro Triathlete, Wins Indiana XC Meet We had no idea he had "gone to the dark side" last year.
It was a slow XC weekend, but the USTFCCCA website has more results.
Saturday Was A Really Slow News Day And We Are Trying To Find A Few Links That Might Interest You
- Australian Olympic Marathoner Lee Troop Wins CU's Alumni/Tryout XC Race
- Other NCAA XC Results
- Japanese National University Champs Day One & Two Recap
- "Tired" Caster Semenya Returns Home To Train For Commonwealths
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Usain Bolt's Book Gets Rave Review For Its Marital Advice
Philly Half and USs 5k This Weekend *US 5k Champs At 11:05 AM EST
Philly: LRC Matthew Kisorio Slays Gebre Gebremariam As Ryan Hall Struggles 5k man Matthew Kisorio showed that Gebramiam is beatable afterall but it takes a 4:24 3rd mile to do it. Ryan Hall was never a factor and struggled mightily (63:55) as Brett Gotcher (62:50) was the top American but he was beaten by former NCAA runners Simon Bairu, Alistair
Cragg, Wesley
Korir and Shawn Forrest.
LRC Meseret Defar Wins as Shalane Flanagan Runs 68:36 2004 Olympic 5000 meter champ Meseret Defar's move up to the half marathon was a successful one as she defeated the hottest road race on the planet in a sprint finish to get the win as Shalane Flanagan became the 4th fastest American in history.
Pre-Race: Hall Very Confident: "I wasn't totally in top-notch shape last year, but I think I'm in better shape this year."
Men: Ryan Hall Vs. Gebre Gebremariam Vs. Abderrahim Goumri Gebremariam, the 2009 World XC champ, has been tearing up the roads in 2010, winning everything in sight. Hall, however, has the best half PR of the group.
*defar VS flanagan....who ya got?
Women: IAAF Preview Of Women's Race @ Philly Half 2010 Boston champ Teyba Erkesso is a late edition. *Shalane Flanagan Interview Prior To Race
Providence: Molly Huddle And Aaron Braun Lead Entrants For US 5k Race
Random Links
- The Wall Street Journal Looks At New York's Oldest Marathon - Yonkers The race is the 2nd-oldest in the US and once was a big event in the US.
- 99-Year-Old Wins Triple Gold At Japanese Masters Champs
Sprint News
- Tyson Gay Satisfied With 2010 Season
- Usain Bolt Not Excited About Restarting Training On October 4th
- Usain Bolt Wants To Retire On Top Whether he thinks he'll still be on top in 2016 will likely determine how long he sprints.
- Usain Bolt Show Continues In Melbourne
The Ultimate Honor - 1st Lydiard Legend Marathon Takes Place Today The race will retrace the legendary Waiatarua route. *Marathon Website
Local Council Demands That 2012 Olympic Marathon Finish In The Stadium *Radical Changes Proposed To Olympic Marathon Course That Would Result In The Runners Not Finishing In The Olympic Stadium The Olympic stadium finish is one of the hallmarks of the Olympics but the proposed new course features loops in the famous part of London with the Houses of Parliament, St Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge.
More BUPA Great North Run News
- Life Of A Scribe: An insider’s view of how athletes behave and the Great North Run Weekend ...
- RRW: 10 Years Later, Gebreslassie Is Honoring Promise To Run Great North Run In Sydney in 2000, Geb planned on making his half marathon debut at the GNR. He is pumped to finally get to show up 10 years later and had the press eating out of his hands at the press event with Dathan Ritzenhein.
- Martin Lel's Bad Luck Continues - Lel Pulls Out Of Great Run With Fever Also, Irina Mikitenko is out due to the flu and as a result, Brit Mara Yamauchi has a much better chance for victory.
- Recommended Read Former 5,000-Meter World Record Holder Sir Christopher Chataway Hopes To Beat 80% Of The Field on His 80th Birthday At The Great North Run
- Martin Fagan Leads Strong Irish Contingent
Doping Allegations
- South African Sprinter Alleges She Was Injected With Actovegin Without Her Knowledge By A Former E. German Coach Not a surprise, since doping athletes without their permission was standard protocol in the DDR.
- Person Making Accusation Wants Spot On South African Athletics Board
- Meet The Alleged Doping Doctor Here
Our Apologies In Advance ... More Bolt
Australian Rugby Union Player Wins Gatorade 100m Bolt In 11.10 That seems like a slow time for the fastest rugby player in Australia. Bolt was on hand to give his training tips and talk to the press. He did run a celebrity relay.
*Bolt Says He Wants To Run 9.4, Refuses To Go Shark Diving
*Usain Bolt Takes His Show To Australia's Football And Rugby Players smh.com.au
*Video Of Bolt And Footballers In Australia
*Cathy Freeman Honored With Plaque At Sydney Olympic Park
Distance News Before This Weekend's Great Half Marathon (And 5k) Action
- Ryan Hall Blogs About Preparations For Philly And Running The Tioga Pass Ryan is facing a real test this weekend versus Gebre Gebremariam and Abderrahim Goumri in Philly less than a month before Chicago.
- CVS Downtown 5k US Champs This Weekend Recent US record holder Molly Huddle is running.
- Ray Flynn And Eamonn Coghlan And Marcus O'Sullivan Talk About First Fifth Avenue Mile
- Oops: S. African Parliament Calls Caster Semenya "Mr."
- Will Leer, Garrett Heath Running Sunday's Grandma's Minnesota Mile
- Andrew Lemoncello And Claire Hallissey Picked For World Half Marathon Champs
This Weekend - Incredible Half Marathon Action
UK: Gebrselassie Vs. Martin Lel Vs. Ritz At Great North Run Americans may not be too familiar with the
Great
North Run, but it gets over 50,000 entrants and is a big deal in Britain and this is the 30th anniversary. Michael Johnson is doing a BBC special on the run this Sunday. But all we care about is the fields it has and it does a good job of culling interesting
matchups. They seem to use the same model that the NYRR uses.
Women: Mara Yamauchi Vs. Berhane Adere, Irina Mikitenko And Constantina Dita At Women's Great North Run
On The Boards: Hey Brits Explain The Great North Run To Us Once they wake up, they'll help us out.
Previously Mentioned:
Philly: Meseret Defar To Make Her Half Marathon Debut Versus Shalane Flanagan Defar raced infrequently in Europe this summer but won the 3k at the Continental Cup last weekend. Doubtful she's been doing much half training,
but she has run 14:12 for 5k.
Men: Ryan Hall Vs. Gebre Gebremariam Vs. Abderrahim Goumri Gebremariam, the 2009 World XC champ, has been tearing up the roads in 2010, winning everything in sight. Hall, however, has the best half PR of the group.
*defar VS flanagan....who ya got?
New: Washington DC: Catherine Ndereba To Run Sunday's Inaugural Woodrow Wilson Bridge Half Marathon Ndereba may be on the back nine of her career, but she won the Philly race last year. Steve Nearman, former running writer for the Washington Times (the guy who broke the story on Alan Webb making $250,000 a year out of college), is the race director of this new race.
Villanova And The Ducks Go To Washington
- Villanova XC Also Goes To The White House The Wildcat women's team keeps getting overlooked.
- Oregon Women's Team Meets President Obama They were a part of a group of NCAA champions in the "lesser" sports visiting the White House.
- Jordan Hasay Blogs About The Visit
- More Presidential News: Allyson Felix Having Her First Presidential Council Meeting On Physical Fitness And Then Is Off To Bahamas
Drug Cheats Rejoice
104 Baseball Cheats Can Breathe Easier Tonight As Court Rules Government Illegally Seized Records Of Their Positive Drug Tests
Underdogs Rejoice Man With 15th-Best PR Wins Japanese University 5,000 Title
Random News
- Bolt & Jamaican Posse Arrive In Australia We'll pay $20 to the first person who sends a package of Gatorade Bolt Lemon Ice to LetsRun.com's headquarters.
- List Of Charges Against Former Athletics South Africa Head Leonard Chuene Is Long The guy seemingly belongs in jail for theft.
- Ridiculous 17 Men & 19 Women Make Finalists Stage For European Athlete Of The Year You can vote online if you want.
Drug News
Former University Of Iowa NCAA Standout Racheal Marchand Tests Positive For EPO Marchand was fifth at the NCAA XC champs in 2008 and quit her job this past year to train full-time for the 2012 Olympics for Puerto Rico. We and everyone else are bit late on this story, but this message board thread is all over it.
*Racheal Marchand Wins XC Race, Refuses To Talk To Reporter, Her Mom Blasts Reporter In Comments Section
*Flashback: Racheal Marchand Quits Her Job As A Drug Rep To Train Full Time For 2012 Games
On The Boards: Former NCAA standout EPO busted
Jamaican Editorial On Drugs Says Don't Go The Way Of USA "One recalls that not so long ago, Jamaicans would scoff at the
achievements of American athletes within the context of their pervasive
use of performance-enhancing drugs. While this has indeed been verified
over time, we have to safeguard against a similar tarnishing of our yet
favourable international sporting image, in the face of these mounting
drug-related incidents."
Sprint/Field News
- Double Doesn't Look Too Difficult For Allyson Felix Schedule-Wise In Daegu
- Usain Bolt With Advice On Life: "I think it's important to live life, and to enjoy life. You can't stress about things because stressing doesn't change problems."
- Walter Dix's Agent (His Brother) Looks Back On Walter's 2010 Season
- Breaux Greer May Be Back
Marathon/Half Marathon News
This Weekend In Philly Meseret Defar To Make Her Half Marathon Debut Versus Shalane Flanagan Great matchups on the men's and women's side. We're glad to see the Rock N Roll Series wants to stay in the competitive running
sphere. Defar raced infrequently in Europe this summer but won the 3k at the Continental Cup last weekend. Doubtful she's been doing much half training,
but she has run 14:12 for 5k.
*defar VS flanagan....who ya got?
This Weekend In Philly Ryan Hall Vs. Gebre Gebremariam Vs. Abderrahim Goumri Gebremariam, the 2009 World XC champ, has been tearing up the roads in 2010, winning everything in sight. Hall, however, has the best half PR of the group.
Brendan Foster Reflects About The Great Run's 30 Years Of Greatness Haile G will make his great run in the 30th year. The race is the world's largest half marathon and Europe's most popular race.
Sprint News
- Gatorade Bolt Lemon Ice Now Available Get on a plane and get to Australia, as it's only available there.
- Allyson Felix Contemplating 200/400 Double At Next Year's Worlds Felix: "[The Diamond League] definitely was difficult, but I don't think it was anywhere near to what the next couple of years will be (like)."
Rock N Roll Marathon People - Please Read This
One Of New Zealand's Most Popular Road Races Only Costs Just $15
It also only has 400 people and is 66km long but we like it.
Desiree Davila Talks About Her Preparations For Chicago She's running Chicago instead of NY, which also is the US champs, and could give her a $40,000 payday (Shalane Flanagan, however, is running NY).
Athens Marathon Celebrating Its 2,500th Anniversary This Year
Bolt/Powell Gossip/News
- Usain Bolt Off To Australia, He'll Begin Training Again October 4th, His Coach Is Building Him A Grass Hill To Train On
- Asafa Powell Says Partying Is Out Of The Question Right Now, Reveals He Is Engaged To A Miss Universe Runner-Up We can't believe we didn't know about the Miss Universe connection. For more info on his fiancée click here.
Drug News
IAAF To Reject Slap-On-Wrist Punishment For Shelly-Ann Fraser They're reportedly recommending a 6-month suspension. Considering she hasn't competed this summer, we don't see the difference.
Mottram On The Comeback Trail
One We Missed From The Weekend: Craig Mottram Beats Sub-28 Guy Chris Thompson In Britain In Road 10k Mottram, however, is not on the Australian Commonwealth team despite the fact he's rounding into form at the perfect time.
Recommended Read Meet Joe & Jim Rosa The twins from New Jersey are two of the best high schoolers in the country. Brad Hudson thinks Joe Rosa's Holmdel course record equates to the 13:30s for 5,000 as a junior in HS.
You Can Still Talk About Logan
Aussie News
- Australia's Forrest Gump Trying To Run From North Pole To South Pole That's not a joke.
- Steve Hooker Talks About Up & Down Year, Continental Cup And Upcoming Commonwealth Games
- Usain Bolt Has Landed In Sydney
Usain Bolt Dancing Like Michael Jackson
Last Lap (Or Full Race) Of Lagat's 3k American Record (It's Super-Impressive)
More On The Boards
- Why is it that cyclists wear their fancy racing uniforms at any chance they get?
- defar VS flanagan....who ya got?
Willis 3:35, Webb 3:36
Recent Photo Gallery: Milan
Continental Cup Day 1
Of Possible Interest On The Boards
- Former Pro Tennis Player Justin Gimelstob Gets $10,000 If He Runs 4:45 Or Better In NYC
- Rojo: So I was crossing the Canadian-US Border Returning To the US........
- Sub 5 minute Mile or Sub 3 hour Marathon. Which is a better achievement?
Congrats To One Of The Good Guys
Pete Julian Named Washington State XC Coach Julian was one of the guys who helped bring the US XC Champs to Boulder.
NCAA XC Glorified Practice Season Underway (More Results Here)
- Washington Men And Women Win Dual Vs. Washington State
- Arkansas Men Sweep Top 10 Places In Dual Meet
- Aussie Marathoner Lee Troop Wins CU Time Trial
- Wisconsin Men Sweep
- Stanford Men And Women Don't Sweep
- Duke Men And Women Sweep Top 5
- Mark Wetmore Speaks After Win
Tyson Gay 9.92 Over Nesta Carter (His Last 20m Is Sick)
Great Deals
Rudisha's 1:41.01!!!!!
Webb's 3:41 Win In Antwerp (More Here)
Rudisha Over Kaki In Brussels
Random Distance News/Profiles
*A Look At The "Little Killer" Course In Connecticut
*Molly Huddle Interview
*Arkansas' Shawn Forrest Living The Dream
*Athens Marathon Celebrating 2,500th Anniversary Of Battle Of Athens