Archived Homepage For December 03, 2013
Archived Homepage For December 03, 2013
Going To The Well
– Nick Symmonds talking about one of his biggest goals for 2014, which is to break the Beer Mile World Record. Symmonds also wants to break the American record in the indoor and outdoor 800, indoor and outdoor 1,000 and the WR in the 4 x 800 relay.
- Writing a paper about letsrun message board community
- "No other form of physical activity matches the hubris of runners"
- Why are you up so early?
- Top Cyber Monday Deals for Runners
- Estimate your world ranking at your best distance
- Kawauchi 2:09:05 for 3rd @ Fukuoka
- Wife and I put up our xmas tree today. When do you put up your tree?
Better Late Than Never – 2013 NCAA All-American / Award Photos
Distance News: 2014 Is About The Beer Mile For Nick Symmonds
Nick Symmonds Focused On Running Fast Times In 2014 Non-Championship “Down Year” Symmonds has a list of six records he’d like to break this year, including 4 American records, 1 World Record and the Beer Mile WR. He’s even hoping to get sponsored by a beer company for the attempt.- USATF Will Announce The Winning Bid For The 2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials This Week It’s between Los Angeles, Houston and Cincinnati.
- Preview: Magdalena Lewy-Boulet Running The North Face 50-Mile Championships This Weekend Against A Deep Ultra Field $10,000 in prize money will be on the line.
- Didn’t Visit The Site Over The Holiday?The Daily Relay Shares Thanksgiving And Weekend Race Highlights
- Lottery Registration Opens For 2014 TCS New York City Marathon
- Sub-2:00 18-Year-Old Jessica Judd Up For UK’s Young Sports Personality Of The Year
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
*Full List Of NXN Team and Individual 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.
MB:Footlocker Regional Results & Final
MB:NXN at large bids
Jamaican Anti-Doping News
- Jamaican Journalist Talks About What It Will Take For JADCO To Become WADA Compliant He says a lot comes down to the need for more funding.
- Jamaican Opinion Piece Praising Dr. Paul Wright And Renee Anne Shirley For Speaking Out About JADCO Deficiencies Two have been attacked by many top Jamaican officials and media outlets, but this writer feels they deserve praise.
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 of 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.
*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 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
Despite New Colorado And Washington Laws On Marijuana Use And New Higher Threshold By WADA, NCAA Stricter Than Ever The NCAA actually reduced its threshold a ton from 15 to 5 ng/ml at the beginning of 2013.
Sprint Stuff
USATF Names LaShawn Merritt And Brianna Rollins The Jesse Owens And Jackie Joyner-Kersee Athletes Of The Year Merritt: “I’ve had Olympic medal seasons, World Championship seasons, undefeated seasons, [but] the fact that USA Track & Field honored me during one of the toughest seasons I’ve had, where I had to work harder than ever and it required so much focus, it means so much that they noticed that.”- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Plans On Focusing A Lot More On The 200m Moving Forward To Next Year She wants to do the 60m at World Indoors and then go sub-22 seconds in the 200 outdoors (her PR is 22.13).
- List Of Top Overall Male Sprinters Based On Combination Of Points From IAAF Tables For The 100, 200, And 400 Usain Bolt, Michael Johnson and Tyson Gay are the top 3.
- Knee Injury Forces UK’s Perri Shakes-Drayton To Switch From The 400 Hurdles To The Flat 400 At Worlds, she tore the posterior cruciate ligament and cartilage in her knee and her coach feels it will affect her hurdling moving forward. She won the flat 400 at Euro Indoor Champs last year and had the fastest indoor time in the World in 2013 (50.85).
- Usain Bolt Cleans Up At Racers Track Club End Of The Year Awards Night
IAAF Recap Of Bolivarian Games Highlights included Colombia’s Rafith Rodriguez with a double win in the 400 and 800 (45.62 and 1:45.14) and Rosibel Garcia taking the 800 and 1,500 (2:01.98 and 4:09.79).
German Anti-Doping Lab Using New Steroid 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.
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.
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.
Sunday Road Action *2013 Fukuoka Marathon Results
- 2013 Fukuoka Marathon: Martin Mathahi Wins (2:07:06) As Yuki Kawauchi (2:09:05) Steals Show With Third Sub-2:10 Of 2013 – Bobby Curtis PR (2:13:24)!!! Kawauchi made a bold move and got a 10-second lead just past halfway and became the first Japanese man to break 2:10 three times in a year, pleasing the Japanese federation but not himself. Ireland’s Alistair Cragg fell off the pace before 5k and ran over 2:23.
*2013 Fukuoka Marathon Results
*IAAF Recap - MB:Official 2013 Fukuoka Thread
MB: Kawauchi 2:09:05 for 3rd @ Fukuoka - South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka (2:09:29) And Ethiopia’s Aberu Kebede (2:23:28) Win Shanghai Marathon
- Kenyans Chelimo Kipkemoi (2:15:00) And Sharon Cherop (2:41:12) Win Hot Singapore Marathon Cherop’s win was expected but Kipkemoi’s wasn’t. He started 35 seconds behind everyone else and was running his 3rd marathon in 3 months.
- Japan Running News Recaps Non-Fukuoka Weekend Action Highlights include a track 10,000 where six men went sub-28, led by Ethiopian Agato Yashin Hassan, who won with 27:46.35.
- Eritrea’s 2:07 Marathon Man Samuel Tsegay And Uganda’s Rebecca Cheptegei Get Wins At “Cross de la Constitucion” XC Race In Spain IAAF article also recaps two other XC meets in Spain and France.
This Is What It’s Come To: NY Times Chart Tracking The Movements Of Schools Between NCAA Conferences If you’re confused about which schools are in which conference or where they moved from, this chart helps break it down.
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.”
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