November 29, 2013 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“A lot of people think it (not being able to feel her legs) might be beneficial. I can’t feel the pain or lactic acid, so in that way, it can be. I can’t feel my legs or tell how much I’m picking up the pace. I judge pace by the rest of my body, by my arms and breathing. I might think I’m going faster than I really am.”

“I’m good at keeping my focus. I don’t think about it until I’ve finished. If I do think about it, by accident, it could make me emotional and scare me. So I ignore it.”

“… The number one thing I’m thankful for is that I’m able to run still. It’s not something that’s guaranteed. I’m so thankful for that, beyond words. I can’t waste that gift.”

– Prep runner Kayla Montgomery talking about the difficulties of trying to race with multiple sclerosis, which causes her not to be able to feel her legs and collapse at the end of every race. Montgomery won the North Carolina State Meet and will try to qualify for Foot Locker tomorrow at the Foot Locker South Regional.

Thanksgiving Day Action

Sam Chelanga Wins 77th Manchester Road Race As Aaron Braun Is 2nd And Donn Cabral 4th Former NCAA mile champ Miles Batty was 9th. Kenyan Alice Kamuny won the women’s race as Desi Davila was 5th and Lisa Uhl 9th.
*Results
David Torrence And Kim Conley Win Silicon Valley Turkey Trot 5K Torrence won in 13:34 as Diego Estrada was 2nd in 13:38. Leonard Korir and Shadrack Biowott were 3-4; Alan Webb was 7th (13:56). Conley won in 15:29 over Sally Kipyego (15:37), Brie Felnagle (15:44.5) and Betsy Saina (15:44.7).
*Full Results
*MB Thread
David McNeill Wins Fort Collins Thanksgiving Day Run, Beating Fernado Cabada By 1 Second McNeill won the 4-miler in 18:49. Recent Adams State graduate and DII All-American Kristen Arendt won the women’s race in 21:57. Olympic marathon trials 12th placer Wendy Thomas was 4th.
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European News

This Guy Can’t Catch A Break: French TJ World Champ Teddy Tamgho Hospitalized After Fracturing His Shin During Training
Fionnuala Britton Going For Individual Hat Trick As Ireland Women Try To Defend Their Euro XC Champs Title
GB Looking To Finish At The Top Of The Medal Tables At Next Weekend’s Euro XC Champs Last year everyone on the team (senior, U-23 and junior) walked away with a medal.

2013 European XC Is Next Weekend

Luke Caldwell, Kate Avery And Tom Farrell Make UK Team For 2013 European Cross-Country Championships Avery and Caldwell are in the U-23 race. Farrell’s in the senior race, where he was 4th last year.
Iona’s Kate Avery Is Pumped To Be Picked “I didn’t expect a medal but it was so cold, muddy and windy that it was like a British race,” she told BBC Sport. “I’m just over the moon and then to be picked by GB is a huge bonus for me.”
Emelia Gorecka Targeting Second European Junior Title In Last Year At U-20s
Other Start Lists For European XC (Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, Holland, France, Ukraine, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Czech

More News From Europe
1st Tenants Move Into London 2012 Olympic Village Apartments They are viewed as very cheap for London at £910 ($1475) for a one-bedroom.
Meet Britain’s Female Sprinting Sensation – 17-Year-Old Dina Asher-Smith This summer the European junior 200 champ won bronze in the 4 x 100 in Moscow at the World Champs.
Mo Farah And Christine Ohuruogu Make Final 10 For 60th BBC Sports Personality Of The Year AwardAndy Murray won Wimbledon: Game, set, match.

More XC / Distance News

Lukas Verzbicas Back In “Heavy” Training And Racing 10K Turkey Trot In San Diego This Week His comeback from his spinal cord injury is going well and he says his goal is to make the Olympics in 2016 team in the triathlon or track 5,000 or 10,000.
*MB: Verzbicas’s chances at 2016 or 2020 Olympic team in TRACK
Ethiopia’s Hiwot Ayalew Wins Cross L’Acier XC Race In France, Beating 3-Time World XC Silver Medalist Linet Masai Kenya’s Cornelius Kangogo defended his title in the men’s race.
Nuclear Reactor Disaster-Hit Village To Rename Main Street In Yuki Kawauchi’s Honor Kawauchi will make an appearance at the town’s new half marathon race on December 8th.
Irish XC Star Fionnuala Britton Denying Media Requests In Order To Focus On Training Ahead Of Euro XC Champs In 2 Weeks
Many Top Europeans Did Their Final Tune-Up Last Weekend For Euro XC Champs

Post T-Day: Remember To Be Thankful

Recommended Read:DyeStat Feature On Kayla Montgomery, A Prep Runner With Multiple Sclerosis Who Won The North Carolina State Meet Her legs go numb during every race and she has to have someone at the finish line to catch her so she doesn’t go down. She’s trying to qualify for Foot Locker Nationals at the Foot Locker South Regional on Saturday.
*Local News Feature On Montgomery
Spikes-Mag Profile On Trinidad & Tobago’s 400 Hurdles World Champ Jehue Gordon: From Tragedy To Triumph Gordon used his difficult home life (where his father was an alcoholic and his house was destroyed in a landslide in 2008) as motivation to be able to help his family financially.

Russian Olympic Torchbearer Catches Fire During Relay (Includes Video) This has been a rocky torch relay as the torch has gone out dozens of times, including after President Vladimir Putin handed it over in Red Square last month.

Carl Lewis Clashes With His Houston Neighbors After His Dogs Kill A Yorkshire Terrier And Bite Its Owner Neighbors are unhappy that the two dogs were allowed to stay living in the building after passing a rabies test.

US / NCAA

Recommended Read:Great Interview With Fernando Cabada Talking About His Life, Career, Future And LetsRun.comCabada talks about feeling like an outsider in the sport, living on 25 grand a year, today’s drug culture and why he’d never dope, hopes of making the 2016 Olympics in the marathon and how he spent 40 hours a week on LetsRun.com when he was in college.
RR#2:Part IV Of RT Series “A Season Inside Oklahoma State Cross-Country”: Cowboys Slip To Third In NCAA Coach Dave Smith: “You always feel like you kinda let the guys down when we don’t win, like maybe we should have done something different, or tweaked this or tweaked that. But when you look at it and you got beat by 80 points, there would have to be a major change to make that different.”
MileSplit Weekend HS Coverage: California States, Final NXN Regionals, First Three Foot Locker Regionals
4 Athletes Join Furman Elite, Including Craig Forys And 2011 World Champs Steepler Stephanie Garcia
Abbey D’Agostino USATF Athlete Of The Week After Winning NCAAs

2013 NCAA XC Women’s Photo Gallery (Over 650 Photos)

2013 NCAA XC Men’s Photo Gallery (Over 720 Photos)

More coming soon. We’re having some trouble with our Awards Ceremony/All-American photo gallery. You can see it here now but many of the photos are upside down.

LRC 2013 NCAA XC Special SectionMen’s ResultsWomen’s ResultsFull Video Replay Of 2013 NCAAsLRC Beautiful People Photo Gallery

2013 NCAA Cross-Country Championships
Additional LetsRun.com Event Coverage

Admin News

Kenyan Doping News

IAAF And Kenyan Government To Build A Blood Testing Lab In Nairobi The center will serve Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and the central Africa region.
Kenyan Opinion Piece Speaking Out Against Government’s Reluctance To Investigate Doping Claims “Authorities seem worried about what could be found, who could be caught and at what cost … It is easy to conclude that a certain fear has made our athletics chiefs to stop looking, testing and asking.”