December 27, 2013 | LetsRun.com

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Good Read: Janet Cherobon-Bawcom Blogs About Spending Her Christmas In Kenya, About How She Never Thought She’d Be A Runner When She Was Younger And About Not Setting Goals She includes this picture of her when she was in high school before she became a runner.
RunnersTribe Q&A With Mid-D Runner Zoe Buckman On Her 2013 She was 7th in the 1,500 at Worlds.
MileSplit Weekend HS Coverage: Some Decent Indoor Meets In NY

Coach Of UK 400 World Champ Christine Ohuruogu Feels Her Best Years Are Bet To Come Even Though She’s Almost 30 He says “she is a 29-year-old in a 26-year-old’s body” and they are planning on her being at the peak of her career in Beijing 2015 and Rio 2016.

US News

Recommended Read: 3-Part Interview With US Hammer Thrower Ed Burke, Who Was The US Flag Bearer At The 1984 Olympics In LA Burke has a pretty inspirational story as he retired for more than a decade after a disappointing Olympics in Mexico City before coming back, throwing a PR, and qualifying for the 1984 team at age 44, twenty years after his first Olympics.
*Part 2: The Comeback
*Part 3: Carrying The US Flag
Running USA’s The 10 Best Moments for U.S. Long-Distance Running In 2013 We love their #1: Team USA’s silver medal at World XC with Ben True 6th and Chris Derrick 10th.
USA Today: “For many years now, sports have been more of a reflection of our society than the escape they used to be, and 2013 was one of the worst of all time.” USA Today writer Christine Brennan says goodbye to a year that included a lot of sporting negatives, including Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods‘ Masters rule-breaking and of course the Boston Marathon.

Nothing’s Going On – Get Off The Computer And Spend Time With Your Family

Mike Lupica’s Sporting Heroes For 2013 Are Men Like Tommy Meagher – Those Who Ran Into Chaos At The Boston Marathon
European 800 Champ Lynsey Sharp Is Training On Christmas – Are You? “I like to train on Christmas morning as then I’m hungrier for my Christmas dinner!”
A Video Merry XMAS/Happy Holidays To Everyone From USATF’s Star Athletes Zero distance runners make the cut.
Video: BBC Sport’s Coolest Sporting Moments Of 2013 Include Ohuruogu And Isinbayeva
Boring: Olympic HJ Bronze Medallist Robbie Grabarz Wants Curtains For His New House For Xmas
2013 Wasn’t All Bad For Athletics In South Africa Thanks To Johan Cronje And Lusapho April Yes, Athletics South Africa was a mess and Oscar P killed someone but Johan Cronje got a bronze and Lusapho April was third in NY.
2013 IAAF End-Of-Year Reviews – Relays

The Most Innovative Product Wejo Saw While at The Running Event 2013

LRC Bia Multi Sport GPS: The Only GPS With A Cellular Modem, SOS Alert And Live Tracking

LRC's Wejo travelled to the annual running specialty conference, The Running Event, in Austin earlier this month and he left being most impressed with a product that officially wasn't part of the conference. It's called Bia and it's the only GPS watch with a cellular modem, SOS Alert, and live tracking. If a loved one wants to know where you are when you're running and you don't want to carry a phone, this is the product for you. Read all about it.

End Of The Year News

Usain Bolt Only Gets 1 Of 96 Votes For AP Male Athlete Of The Year LeBron James got the most at 31 followed by Peyton Manning with 20.
Capital FM Review Kenyan Men’s Marathoning: Wilson Kipsang Soars In A Mixed Year For Marathoners
IAAF End Of Year Reviews: Multi Events Another year of Ashton Eaton dominance. Injuries kept the top women like Olympic champ Jessica Ennis from Worlds.
Martin Bingisser’s 2013 Men’s Hammer Rankings Hungary’s Krisztian Pars tops the list. He won all his meets this year except World Champs where he was 2nd.
Japan Running News Reviews Their Top Clicked Articles From 2013

Doping

Russia Bidding To Host An IAAF Diamond League Meet In 2014 It would be in Moscow.

Stuff From Russia

Russian Doping Problems Continue As Weightlifters And Cyclists Banned For Failed Tests
IAAF Looks Ahead To Feb. 2nd Russian Winter Meet Which Features Olympic HJ Champ Ivan Ukhov Vs. 2008 Champ Andrey Silnov Russia’s two-time Euro champ and professional model Darya Klishina highlights the long jump vs. US’s World indoor silver medalist Janay DeLoach.

Week In Review

LRCTessa Barrett's Amazing Story, Praise For Mary Keitany, Desi Davila And Craig Masback, RIP To A Legend, Ryan Hall Versus Khalid Khannouchi, And Ethiopian Training Secrets Revealed?

This week we start by talking about Tessa Barrett's amazing story, hand out belated praise to former USATF head Craig Masback and give some current praise to Mary Keitany and Desi Davila. Plus Khalid Khannouchi vs. Ryan Hall, RIP to a legend in broadcasting, is Haile G a good dancer, and at last the secrets of the Ethiopians revealed?

Do You Know What You’re Taking? USA Today Investigation Finds Companies Caught With Drug-Tainted Supplements Are Often Run By Executives With Criminal Backgrounds The supplement industry is largely unregulated, but sometimes when the FDA does test it has found many supposedly “all-natural” pills and powders to have potentially dangerous and illegal drugs.

Running Journalism News – Looks Like LetsRun.com Is The Only Independent Voice Still Standing

Jon Gugala Talks To Kevin Liao About The State (Or Lack Thereof) Of The Running Media And The Demise Of His Website “The Trailer”
*MB: Nick Symmonds Tweets His Support: “It’s time we stop letting bullies run the sport of T&F. Great interview @jongugala!”
February: Jon Gugala Talks To Liam Boylan-Pett On the Sorry State Of Track And Field Media What is your favorite media outlet for track and field? Why? JG: LetsRun.com. Is this really a question? It’s the freedom of speech. Absolutely. And LRC is the only medium that seems to value that. For all its faults, that’s where I’d pick.
Chicago Tribune‘s Phil Hersh Catches Up With “Sports Gene” Author (And Chicago Native) David Epstein A paperback version is coming out in April with a new chapter and the book has been translated into Russian, Slovak, Portuguese and Japanese (so far).

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Ultra News

Death Valley National Park Has Suspended All Endurance Races For 2014, Including The Badwater Ultramarathon According to the Death Valley National Park website, the reason is for a “safety evaluation of this type of activity,” which they expect to be completed by September 2014 at the earliest.
Are Death Valley Events Suspended Because Of High Levels Of Dangerous Radioactivity In The Park? EnviroReporter Michael Collins tested the radiation in November and found them to be way over what the California Highway Patrol considers “a hazardous material situation.”
MB: Badwater 2014 is off… Help bring it back!

New Zealand Ultra Runner Kim Allan Breaks WR For Running Without Sleep Allan ran for 500K (310 miles) without sleeping and it took her 4 days. Previous record was 486K.

Will The IAAF Appeal?

LRCAslı Çakır Alptekin Of Turkey - The 2012 Olympic Women's 1,500 Champ - Is Cleared Of Doping By The Turkish Federation

The Turks apparently don’t believe there was anything wrong with the Biological Passport of the already convicted doper, who dropped from 4:02 to 3:56 last year. The question now becomes – will the IAAF appeal? We wonder – was American Shannon Rowbury really the third-best clean person in the race?

Might Asafa Powell Be Next? Incoming New Head Of WADA Says Asafa Powell Doping Case Needs To Speed Up “He has been under a cloud and if he has broken the rules then sport wants the case finalised, if he hasn’t then he wants the cloud lifted.”

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