Sunday Road Action

• Japan Running News 2013 Fukuoka International Marathon Preview Kenyan defending champion Joseph Gitau (2:06:58) leads a very deep field that includes 2007 World Championships 10,000 bronze medalist Martin Mathathi (who will try again at the marathon after dropping out of last year’s race) and Polish NR holder Henryk Szost (2:07:39). Japanese entrants are led by Yuki Kawauchi and Arata Fujiwara and other top competitors include US’s Bobby Curtis, Canada’s Reid Coolsaet and Ireland’s Alistair Cragg, who will once again try to finish a marathon.
  *Q&A With Ireland’s Alistair Cragg, Who Is Hoping For Success At Sunday’s Fukuoka Marathon After DNF’ing His Other Two Marathon Attempts He said he’d like to run sub-2:10 and give himself a shot at the Irish NR (2:09:15).
  *IAAF Preview
• 2012 Boston Marathon Champ Sharon Cherop (2:22:28) Leads Field For Sunday’s Singapore Marathon She’ll face Belarusian record holder Aliaksandra Duliba, who was fourth in Chicago in 2:23:44. 2:08 Ethiopian Haile Haja leads men’s field that has a slew of sub-2:10 runners, including 2007 world champion Eliud Kiptanui (2:05:39).
• Daily Nation Preview Of Sunday’s Nyeri Half Marathon In Kenya Local rivals Paul Maina and Philemon Baary lead the field.

German Anti-Doping Lab Using New Streroid Test Has Found 266 Steroid Cases In Past Year The new test has caught some track athletes and will eventually be used to re-test samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

More Distance News

• World Champions Ezekiel Kemboi And Eunice Sum Named 2013 Athletics Kenya Athletes Of The Year
  
• Photo: NCAA Champ Edward Cheserek Receives Huge Standing Ovation At Oregon Football Game
• Ireland Women’s Euro Team Title Hopes Hurt By Injury Of Mary Cullen
  
• Spikes-Mag Interview British Cycling Star Emma Pooley Pooley quit running for cycling due to injury and became the 2010 cycling time trial world champion and 2008 Olympic silver medallist. But she later came back to running and recently won the Lausanne Marathon in 2:44.

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

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