Quote Of The Day
– Usain Bolt talking about how the current circulation of misinformation in the press about Jamaican drug issues is losing him sponsorship opportunities and costing him money.
- 2013 .US National Road Racing Championships
- NCAA Regionals: Surprises and Chokes
- ALAN WEBB 7TH PLACE @ RICHMOND 8k 23:10
- MARY CAIN GOES PRO
- Worst running advice someones ever given you
- Kenyan goat farmers have race with cheetahs and WIN
- New Improved LetsRun.com: Share Your Feedback
- Official 2013 NCAA Cross Country Field - Who's In and Whos Out? Find Out Here
$100,000 .US Road Champs *Results
LRCMolly Huddle Sets 12-K World Best - Wins Inaugural .US Road Running Championships
Molly Huddle and Shalane Flanagan put on a show as both women better the previous world's best for 12k at the inaugural .US 12k Championships. In the end, Huddle was too good and took home $20,000 and the world's best.
LRCAaron Braun Wins First US Title - Captures 2013 .US National Road Championships
Braun earned a big payday as he pulled away late after Abdi suffered a bad mid-race fall. Shadrack Biwott was second and won the 2013 USARC series over Matt Tegenkamp. Chris Solinsky was a DNF.
- LRC 2013 .US Road Race Photos
- Results: Molly Huddle World Best And Aaron Braun First US Title$100,000 in Prize Money.
- On The Boards:Message Board Thread On Race
- On The Boards:Huddle’s World Best! :Where Does it Rank?
- LRCSome Of America’s Best Battle Over 12k For $20,000: Four Quick Thoughts About The 2013 .US National Road Racing Championships
- RRW: Matt Tegenkamp Recovered from Marathon Debut, Ready for USARC Finale
- More Coverage On The LRC .US Championships Page
Alan Abrahamson Talks About Portland’s World Indoor Bid Victory And How For Track To Get Bigger In The US, It Needs To Host Big Meets In Major Markets “When was the last time you ever heard any of your European, Asian or African friends say, gee, you know, I want to vacation in the United States and I think I’m going to go to – Portland? San Francisco, absolutely. New York, definitely. Disneyland, for sure. Portland? Get real.”
One Of The Year’s Biggest Questions Has Been Answered: Cain Goes Pro
LRCMary Cain Turns Pro
Cain will continue to run under Alberto Salazar and attend college while competing as a professional.
*Discuss
*Mary Cain And Alberto Salazar Receive Awards At 2013 World Athletics Gala In Monaco Cain go the Female Rising Star Award and Salazar received the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award.
*MB: CAIN GOES PRO
*MB: This week’s sign of the Apocalypse: Mary Cain’s role model is Mary Decker
*Mary Cain talks about going pro
Doping
WADA Doubles Doping Ban To 4 Years In New Code
The new code also offers flexibility and reduced sentences for accidental doping and cooperating with authorities.
WSJ: Head Of Jamaican Drug Testing – Herb Elliott – Has Fabricating Graduate Degrees On His Resume
“His official resume says he earned a master’s in chemistry from Columbia University and a medical degree and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Université Libre de Bruxelles, but available official records don’t indicate he submitted work at either University.”
- Seb Coe – We must not lose the war on drugs or track will be viewed like pro wrestling (a farce)
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Threatens To Stop Running Internationally Unless Jamaica Federation Defends Its Athletes We understand her sentiment but if she does that, then all of the cynics will think they are dirty.
- Phil Hersh Reviews Lance Armstrong Documentary Which Came Out Friday
The New LRC
LRCWelcome To The Improved LetsRun.com
We’re proud to reveal today a new refined version of LRC. It’s still the same site you know and love, but with a cleaner design and lots of new features. Click here to read about the changes and give your feedback.
- Erik Speaks: The mysterious man behind the cleaner LetsRun.com speaks. He also reveals his 5k PR here.
- Athletics Illustrated Reviews LRC Renovation “It’s getting a makeover and it looks good, and familiar. Of all the changes that are being undertaken, remaining familiar is the smartest marketing stratagem they could make.”
Regionals Are Complete. Who Goes Dancing? *Regional Results
LRCThe 31 Men's Teams For 2013 NCAA Cross-Country Nationals Are ...
The LRC super computer has crunched its numbers with the help of Bo Waggoner's incredible program and we have the 31 teams going to the Big Dance for you. Four Ivy League teams made it.
LRC2013 NCAA Women's Cross-Country Teams Announced - The 31 Women's Teams Going To The Big Dance Are ...
Duke - ranked #4 in the coaches' polls to start the season (and #1 in the LRC poll) - will not be going dancing. We've got all 31 teams for you.
Other Weekend Action
- Takashi Ichida Wins Crazy Photo Finish At Ageo City Half Marathon In Japan As First 5 Are Within 2 Seconds Of Each Other Ichida won in 1:02:36 as Kazuto Nishiike (1:02:36) was 2nd and 5th place was 1:02:38. The top 18 all broke 1:03 and Yuki Kawauchi was 20th in 1:03:05 only 2 weeks after NYC.
- Russia’s Albina Mayorova Wins The Yokohama Women’s Marathon In 2:25:55 She had almost a 3-minute gap over second place.
- World XC Champ Japheth Korir Vs. Imane Merga And Eritrea’s Teklemariam Medhin In Spanish XC Meet Today
- MileSplit Weekend XC Coverage: NXN Northwest & Midwest Regionals, VA/NJ/MA States, NY Federations
- Kass Marathon On Tap For This Morning In Kenya As Tons Of Up And Comers Try To Make Their Mark Men’s and women’s defending champions Weldon Kirui and Agnes Jepkosgei try to become the first in the race’s history to defend their titles.
World Indoors Coming To America
Portland To Host 2016 World Indoor Championships
The World Indoor Championships are returning to the USA for the second time ever as Portland won the right to host World Indoors in 2016.
On the boards:Indoor Worlds 2016 to Portland, OR
Random
- Toni Reavis On Incognito-Martin Scandal: Boys Will Be Boys
- Twenty Years Ago Today, The Armory Came Back As Track And Field Center
- Under Armour Buys MapMyFitness For $150 Million Meanwhile, LRC thought about starting a mapping service back when Google maps started. Oh well.
Friday’s Doping Updates
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Interview With Admitted Drug Cheat Christian Hesch A Year After His Suspension For Using EPO Hesch says if he went back to running it would just be “as a way to put up a middle finger to a bunch of people. That’s not a good reason to come back. That doesn’t help anything. That doesn’t show any contrition.” (bold added, earlier it was left out).
*Original NY Times Article That Broke The Hesch Story- Less Than 3 Months Before Sochi Winter Games, WADA Says It Has Issue With Russian Anti-Doping Lab
- Former BOA Chairman Sir Craig Reedie Set To Be Elected New WADA President He is running unopposed.
- BBC: WADA Weakened By Funding And Constitution
- WADA’s Official Statement On Jamaica: “WADA is satisfied that the Minister has accepted the practical suggestions.”
- WADA’s Summary Of First Day Of Its Conference
The Sensation That Is Sweeping The Country And Possibly The Most-Read Article In LRC History
Over 10,000 Likes On Facebook:
LRC The Time Of My Life: Staten Island Native Mike Cassidy Shares His Experience Finishing The NYC Marathon Hand-In-Hand With His Hero Meb Keflezighi In the span of one hour in NYC, Cassidy went from almost dropping out at 10 miles to finishing with the “highest honor of [his] career.” A definite recommended read.
*MB:Mike Cassidy Meb Article: Share Your Appreciation Here
WAG: Bolt And SAFP 2013 Athletes Of The Year
Usain Bolt And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Named 2013 World Athletes Of The Year- Bolt Says Jamaican Doping Issues Are Costing Him Sponsorship Opportunities And Money “In every sport there are drug scandals and problems but people get it done and move past it. That’s what we have to do because it’s really costing me money now, and I’m not too happy about that.”
- IAAF President Lamine Diack Criticizes WADA For “Ridiculous Campaign” Against Jamaica And Kenya Diack: “It was like a campaign, with WADA trying to make a statement.”
- Bolt Talks To Monaco Media; Says He’s Only Been Back In Training For A Week And A Half And Is Sore TJer Teddy Tamgho Talks About His Amazing Comeback Year Where He Won Worlds And Jumped Over 18m. This after not being out all 2012 with injury.
- Hurdlers Jehue Gordon And Brianna Rollins Talk To Press At WAG
Free Training Advice
- Ryan Vail Shares His Favorite Marathon Workout We like it – 4 mile tempo, 10 mile run, 4 mile tempo. TLT.
- Alberto SalazarTells Seb Coe The Key To Mo Farah’s Success Has Been More Weights And Running Faster On His Easy Days This article is written by Coe himself, who claims he can still run 7 minute miles at age 57.
Field Event News
- Valerie Adams Meets With Media In Monaco Prior To 2013 WAG
- Olympic LJ Silver Medallist Khotso Mokoena Wants New Passion – Is Going To Start Triple Jumping
- Russian HJers Anna Chicherova And Svetlana Shkolina Meet with Media Before World Athletics Gala
- Olympic Discus Champion Sandra Perkovic Meets with Media In Monaco
Spice Up Your Friday With Today’s Weird Running News
- Might Olympic 800 Silver Medalist Nigel Amos Give Up Running To Be A DJ? That is one writer’s fear anyway as he says Amos is now a club DJ at a at a corner bar and “is always in the papers for the wrong reasons.”
Coyote Runs With Lead Pack During Arizona State XC Championships- Man Proposes To Girlfriend At 24.5 Miles Into NYC Marathon Along with family and friends, he had a 25-person cheer squad on the course where they went by holding signs saying , “Say yes.” She did and they finished together in 4:25.
- Japan’s “Monkey Runner” Breaks Four-Legged 100m World Record (Video) He ran (?) 16.87 seconds.
- Cool Idea:“Nomadic” Rio 2016 Olympic Handball Arena To Be Moved And Made Into Four Schools After The Games That has to be one of the best ways ever to make sure Olympic buildings don’t become “white elephants” for the host city.
LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”
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American Strong: The Untold Story of How American Teamwork Helped Meb Keflezighi Win Boston
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A Real Running Hero:
The Flo Groberg Story
Flo Has Now Won the Medal of Honor
