Lots Of Foot Locker And NXN Regional Results, CA State Meet

• Sarah Baxter Wins 4th California State XC Title, Just Misses Own CR As Her Team Beats Saugus To Win Title As Well Baxter, who has never lost a high school XC race, is now just the third HSer to win 4 CA state XC titles, joining Sara Hall and Jordan Hasay. Making the day perfect was the fact her team won as well.
• State By State – NXN And Foot Locker Qualifiers
• Foot Locker South, Northeast And Midwest: NXN NY, SE And NE + CA HS Action Need proof that HS running is at an all-time high? The fastest girl in history (17:22) won’t be going to FL finals. 7-time NXN champions Fayetteville-Manlius makes it to NXN with just 32 points.
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Random, But Interesting

• 1968 Olympic 4 X 100 Gold Medallist Ronnie Ray Smith’s Funeral To Be Featured On TLC’s “Best Funeral Ever” Smith’s casket was wheeled across the finish line and then hoisted up atop a medal stand as family members gave a black power salute.
• Recommended Read: Excerpt From Sally Pearson’s Autobiography: Pearson was spotted by a coach at age 9 for being the most balanced runner he’d ever seen. Amazing. She talks about growing up without a dad and how her opinion of Usain Bolt has changed.
• Good News For Kiwis: New Zealand Has No Plans To Ban Olympians From Getting Drunk Like Aussies The Aussies are going as far to say you can get in trouble if they have drink and have “rambling conversations.”
• FIFA Wants Team Sports Treated Differently In Doping As They Have 1/10 The Positive Tests As Individual Sports FIFA claims their positive rate is .04% versus .4% for WADA and that it costs $2.5 million to catch one cheat in football but $250,000 in individual sports.
• Irish Distance Coach Backs Policy On Only Sending Top Competitors To European Champs They are sending no U-23 girls as they have a top-16 policy.

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More Turkey Trot Results

• Stephen Sambu Sets New Long Island 5K Record To Win Oyster Bay Turkey Trot Sambu ran 14:04 to break the previous record from 14:43 from 2009. The race is trying to raise money to buy a water purification system for Sambu’s village in Kenya.
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  *Results/Photos/Interview With Sambu
  *Pre-Race: Oyster Bay Turkey Trot runner Vies For Clean Water In Native Kenya
  
• Lukas Verzbicas Wins O’Side Turkey Trot 5-Mile In 25:16 Verzbicas talked about trying to qualifying for the 2016 Olympics in both the triathlon and either the 5K or 10K on the track. He said, “Triathlons are my focus now. But, down the road, running is my love and my future.”
• Jordan Chipangama Wins Dana Point Turkey Trot 10K As US Marathon Champ Nick Arciniaga Is 3rd (results)

Previous 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.
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• 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).
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• David McNeill Wins Fort Collins Thanksgiving Day Run, Beating Fernando 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.
  *Results

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.

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 Award Andy 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