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).

USATF Annual Meeting Starts Today (Wednesday)

Nutrition News

• Study Finds Energy Drinks Alter Heart Function Putting On More Stress
• Study Says Moderate Eating, Not Extra Exercise, Key To Fighting Holiday Weight Gain

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.

LRC 2013 NCAA XC Special Section *Men’s Results *Women’s Results *Full Video Replay Of 2013 NCAAs *LRC Beautiful People Photo Gallery