Be Inspired

• Oklahoma HS State Runner-Up In XC, Cody Jones, Was Within Hours Of Death This Spring (And In Hospital For 3 Months) He had a rare bone infection that was caused by micro muscle tears he got from overuse – one of only 2 people in the US to get it that way.
• Life Of Arizona Wildcat Lezo Urreiztieta, Who Died This Month At Age 20, Was More Than Just Hurdles The 20-year-old died during brain surgery earlier this month. Here, he is remembered as a great person.
  MB: Hurdler from U of Arizona Lezo Urreiztieta dies during surgery
• American Elites’ New Year’s Resolutions – Both Running And Non-Running
  MB: Ryan Hall’s NYear’s resolution for 2014 – “To run a 400 in 53 seconds in practice”.
• Athlete New Year’s resolutions from the UK List includes Chris O’Hare who wants to enjoy the little things.

Yearly Review

• Memorable Moments 2013: A Look Back At Mo Farah’s Double-Double At Moscow Worlds Some inside info that we hadn’t read before. Historically, Mo has gone into the call room at the last minute – this year, he went there early.
• Memorable Moments of 2013: A Look Back At Christine Ohuruogu Winning Worlds Gold With Late Dip

Field Event/Sprint News

• USA Today Video: Meet Winter Olympian Lolo Jones
• Six Of US’s Top HS Javelinists (Including Top 3 Girls) Are All Attending Kultan Keihas Project Javelin Elite Camp
• IAAF 2013 End-Of-Year Reviews For Throwing Events
• USC Preferred Football Walk-On David Sellens III Quits Football – Earns Spot On USC Track And Field Team
• A Commonwealths Medal Would Be Nice, But 20-Year-Old Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s Focus Is A Medal In Rio In 2016 She was 5th in Moscow.
• New Zealand Reporter Gives Pole Vaulting A Go – Hopes YouTube Moment Doesn’t Result

Distance News

• 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

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?

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.