Quote Of The Day
– Japan civil servant runner Yuki Kawauchi talking about his surprise defeat by the unknown amateur Hideyuki Ikegami. Ikegami set a PR by more than 2:30 to win the Tanigawa Mari Half Marathon in 1:03:09 to Kawauchi’s 1:04:17.
2014 Bupa Great Edinburgh XC – Double American Victories To Start 2014 *Results
LRCGarrett Heath Over Asbel Kiprop And Kenenisa Bekele; Chris Derrick Dominates 2014 got off to a great start for Americans Garrett Heath and Chris Derrick as Heath beat both Bekele and Kiprop to win the 4k and Derrick dominated the 8k. It was a long day for the American women. Also, who finished higher? The third placer at Foot Locker or third placer at NXN in the junior boys race?
- IAAF Recap: USA’s Heath Upsets The Stars In Edinburgh Heath, who is aiming for World Indoors, blasted Kiprop on the finishing hill, “I just put my head down, sprinting and hoping that nobody would come past me.” Derrick’s getting ready for USA XC and ultimately the Brussels 10,000.
- Athletics Weekly: Gemma Steel & GB Women Have Good Day
*European Athletics Recap - Full Video Replays: *Men’s 4K*Men’s 8K*Women’s 6K*More Videos
- MB:Garrett Heath wins Great Edinburgh Cross-Country
MB:Great Edinburgh XCountry 8K – Derrick Dominates!!
MB: Bupa– USA Men, Team Silver, Indiv Gold - Pre-Race:Asbel Kiprop Looking To Defend As He Launches A Season Where He Plans On Attacking Hicham El Guerrouj’s 1,500 WR
Formerly One Of The Toughest Races In The World To Win
2011 World Jr. XC Champ Geoffrey Kipsang, 2009 World XC Champ Florence Kiplagat Win 2014 Kenyan Police XC Champs If the Kenyans don’t put the 58:54/2:06:12 21-year-old Kipsang on the World Half team in March in Copenhagen, they are foolish. Kiplagat, who won Berlin in Sept, remained red hot as she also won in Delhi recently.- Geoffrey Kipsang Is Planning To Run The Tokyo Marathon And The World Half Marathon Championships In 2014
- Florence Kiplagat Says She Wants To Win The World Half Marathon Championships And Break Mary Keitany’s 1:05:50 WR
- IAAF RecapGeoffrey Mutai said he wasn’t on top of his game here as he’s packing some extra weight and recently had malaria. He is thinking about focusing on XC for a while and running the African Cross-Country Championships in March.
US Women Distance News: Kara Goucher Leaving Nike?
WSJ: Kara Goucher Might Be Looking To Leave Nike According to an anonymous insider, Kara is negotiating with other shoe companies with a final deal expected in February (though Nike will have the chance to re-sign her due to a contract clause giving them the right of first refusal).
*MB:Kara looking to leave Nike, according to WSJ- Stephanie Rothstein-Bruce Expecting A Baby “I felt pretty lucky mixed with ‘wow we really did it that fast?’ Take the combo of 2 lanky noodle distance runners, running 80-110 miles a week, suppressed libido, tired sperm and what odds would you give them of procreation?”
*Competitor Q&A With Rothstein-Bruce Rothstein-Bruce talks about joining the recently formed Northern Arizona Elite and the running-related issues surrounding her pregnancy. - Christin Wurth-Thomas Is Also Pregnant The 3:59 1,500 performer in 2010 who ran zero 1,500s in 2012 or 2013 is expecting at age 33.
This Weekend:
Loaded Fields Set For 2014 Chevron Houston Marathon – Aramco Houston Half Marathon To Host USA Half Marathon ChampionshipsMeb Keflezighi leads a men’s half field that includes Aaron Braun, Luke Puskedra, Shadrack Biwott and Josphat Boit. The women are led by Adriana Nelson, Serena Burla, Sara Hall, Mattie Suver and Lisa Uhl. Defending champion Bazu Worku (2:05:25) leads the men’s marathon field while Afework Bekele (2:23:59) leads the women.
Pro/Con Debate – Should Every Big Track Meet In The US Be Held In Eugene? *Discuss On MB:Eugene: track ghetto or capital?
No: LRC Eugene Fatigue: It’s Not In The Sport’s Best Interest To Have Every Big Track Meet In Eugene Hayward field is amazing. It’s our sport’s Fenway, but the Red Sox go on the road half the time, don’t they?
*Abrahamson:Eugene: Track Ghetto Or Capital? We loved this piece from last month and it inspired us to write our own.
*Throws Coach:Is The Eugene Monopoly On The NCAA Meet Is Good For Track Fans? “I’m a high school teacher, and $1,000 for a trip to Eugene when it cost me $60 to get to and from Des Moines? You tell me, which ‘fans’ are the NCAA appealing to?”- Yes:Texas A&M Coach Pat Henry: TrackTown USA Earned NCAAs Do you think all big meets should basically go to Eugene? Email us and we’ll post your column.
Another College Coach Finds The Pro Lifestyle Better Than College
LRCMark Coogan Talks About His Move To New BalanceWe caught up with the 1996 Olympian this afternoon to ask him about his move. Who’s coaching Abbey D and Dartmouth this spring? Is Abbey following him to New Balance? What happens to Ben True and Sam Chelanga? How hard was it to say goodbye?
Extensive Interview With Abbey D’Agostino By Gary Cohen She talks about this year’s XC Champs, plans for 2014 and decisions about pro running. The interview is from before the Mark Coogan-New Balance announcement, so she doesn’t comment on that.
*New Balance Press Release:Abbey D’Agostino’s Coach Mark Coogan Leaving Dartmouth To Lead Coaching For New Balance All of the shoe companies are seemingly starting their own groups.
*Dartmouth Press Release
Ritz And Meb In Boston
American Field Announced For 2014 Boston Marathon – Ritz To Make Boston Debut And Will Compete With Desi, Meb, Shalane And Many OthersAlso in the field are Jason Hartmann and Nick Arciniaga, while the US women are led by Shalane Flanagan, Desi Davila and Amy Hastings.- RRW: Boston Marathon To Feature Top-Notch American Athletes
- MB: RITZ TO DO 2014 BOSTON MARATHON (debut)
More Distance Results: Yuki Kawauchi Loses To A Fellow Amateur
- IAAF Weekend XC Round-Up: World XC Silver Medalist Hiwot Ayalew Wins Elgoibar XC RaceLinet Masai and World 5,000 silver medallist Mercy Cherono were third and fourth. Ugandan Timothy Toroitich won the men’s race over Kenyan studs Conseslus Kipruto and Emmanuel Bett.
Unknown Runner Hideyuki Ikegami PRs By More Than Two-And-A-Half Minutes To Beat Yuki Kawauchi And Get CR At Tanigawa Mari Half Marathon Ikegami ran 1:03:09 to Kawauchi’s 1:04:17. Kawauchi’s two brothers also ran, one finishing 13th (1:09:18) and the other 26th (1:11:53).- World Champs Marathon 4th Placer Ryoko Kizaki Leads Kyoto Team To National Women’s Ekiden Win
- Jorge Maravilla Sets CR To Win US 100K Trail Championships In Texas Maravilla ran 8:02:27 (7:45 pace) to win. 52-year-old Meghan Arbogast took both the women’s open and women’s masters titles in 10:12:57 (9:51 pace).
NCAA Indoor Gets Going *All NCAA Weekend Results
- Arkansas Men & Women Win Season Opener At HomePatrick Rono won the 600 (1:19.92), Kemoy Campbell (1:52.01) the 800 and Stanley Kebenei the 1,000 (2:26.47).
*Full Men’s Results
*Full Women’s Results - University Of Florida Opens Indoor At Birmingham Invite With 13 Event Victories NCAA 1,500 runner-up Cory McGee won the 800 in a meet record of 2:07.47.
- Penn State Women Set Collegiate 4 x 200 Record (1:35.65) Running At HomeRobby Creese and Brannon Kidder led Penn State to victories in the 4 x 800 (7:36) and DMR (9:59). *Full Results
No, It Isn’t April 1st:Convicted Oregon Pimp Sues Nike Over Lack Of Shoe Warning Label Apparently he stomped some guy’s face in, was sentenced to prison and is suing Nike for $100 million as they didn’t have a warning label saying the shoes could be used as a deadly weapon. You can’t make this stuff up.
More Pro News: Farah Running From Taxman
- Mo Farah Claims U.S. Residency To Avoid UK Taxes The headline says it could save him millions in taxes.
- Video Of Fernando Cabada Doing A 10-Mile Tempo In Preparation For This Weekend’s US Half Marathon Championships In Houston Cabada says he’s in great shape and has had the best training/racing of his life and is shooting for the win (or at least top 5) in Houston.
- Former Olympic Champ Pamela Jelimo Is Fit And Healthy As She Prepares To Defend Her World Indoor 800 Title In March
- UK Writer Criticizes Media For Analyzing Jessica Ennis’ Pregnancy From An Athletic Perspective What does she want from them? Her pregnancy wouldn’t be newsworthy if she wasn’t an athlete, so of course people are going to ask questions with athletics in mind.
Where Your Dreams Become Reality
LRCWhen Should You Give Up The (Olympic) Dream? We Tell You - The Oldest American First-Time Olympians Revealed
Along with the oldest American first-time Olympians, we crunch the numbers and tell you which US 1,500 guys should "hang 'em up" before 2016 and why there is hope for Chris Solinsky to make his first Olympic team in 2016.
Sochi 2014 News
- IOC Member Gian Franco Kasper Accuses Russia Of Corruption Saying A Third Of It’s Budget For Sochi 2014 Has Gone To Bribes
- Russia Arrest 5 Terror Suspects Who Were In Possession Of Explosives And Ammunition The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the suspects belonged to an international terror group.
Top Women In The News
Alberto Salazar Reflects On Mary Cain’s 500/800 Double And The Running Form Changes They’ve Been Making He also says she’s run some of her best workouts despite being behind in her mileage and said she will “in a month be ready to run faster than she did outdoors at all distances.”- Keith Hanson Talks About Desiree Davila Training In Kenya And Says He Thinks She’ll Be Ready To Contend For The Win This Year At Boston Her fall comeback races along with recent training tell them she’s on her way back to where she was in 2012.
- With Lindsey Vonn Out With Injury, Could Lolo Jones Fill The Role As USA Golden Girl For Sochi 2014? She’ll have to make the team first and that will be announced on January 19th.
- 2000 Olympic Heptathlon Champion Denise Lewis Writes About Jessica Ennis’ Pregnancy And Gives Her Some Advice “If Jessica Ennis-Hill thought that becoming Olympic champion was the most incredible feeling you can experience, she should wait until she becomes a mother.”
Bekele Chooses Paris For Marathon Debut
Triple Olympic Gold Medallist Kenenisa Bekele Will Make Debut At April 6th Paris MarathonNick Symmonds Signs With Brooks
The Oregonian On Symmonds’ Departure:Symmonds Doesn’t Rule Out Living In Eugene After His Career Is Over
LRCNick Symmonds Is Thrilled To Have Say At Brooks – “Just sitting in Eugene twiddling my thumbs waiting for Nike to call me – that was not satisfying for me.” In an exclusive chat with LetsRun, Symmonds reveals the financial the deals offered to him by Nike and Brooks were similar, but at Brooks he’s got input. Symmonds also talks about training without Mark Rowland, how fortunate he is as compared to Leo Manzano, and the high quality of journalism one can find on LetsRun.com each day.
LRCAnalysis: 4 Quick Thoughts About Symmonds’ Move The Brooks Beasts Track club has a high profile member now as Symmonds is leaving Nike, Oregon and coach Mark Rowland to move to Seattle and Brooks.
More: Press Release From Brooks With Video Announcement From Symmonds:Brooks Running Company Jumpstarts 100th Year with a Clear Focus on the Future of Run, Signing Olympian Nick Symmonds.
MB: *Nick Symmonds’ Free Agency Is Soon To Be Over – New Shoe Deal Coming At 1pm ET – – Update has signed with Brooks!!
*NICK SYMMONDS WITHOUT A SPONSOR
*Who does Brooks cut to afford Symmonds?
*Who does Nick Symmonds think he is? LeBron?
New Running Shoe Introduced
LRCMizuno Running 2014: The Launch Of The Wave Paradox
Mizuno used its "One Minute/One Product" pitch at the 2013 Running Event to talk about the new Mizuno Wave Paradox.
Other Pro News
- Russia’s Olympic HJ Champ Ivan Ukhov Jumps 2.38m World Lead At Chuvashya Governor Cup In distance action, Worlds 1,500m finalist Elena Korobkina won the 3K in 8:55.90, Anna Shchagina the 1,500m in 4:14.38 and European bronze medallist Maryna Arzamasava took the 800m in 2:04.76. Elsewhere, Jenn Suhr opened her season with 4.55m in Colorado and Olympic PV champ Renaud Lavillenie cleared 5.93m in France.
- Olympic Champ Felix Sanchez And World Champ LaShawn Merritt Will Go Head-To-Head In 400 At Perth Track Classic On Feb. 22nd
Winter Running
- Hey East Coasters, When’s The Last Time You Saw The Sun?Study Suggests That Vitamin D Supplements Can Help Reduce Risk Of Injury During Winter
- Michigan Running Club Starts Crowdfunding Campaign To Plow Bike Path
A-Rod Banned For Entire 2014 Season For Drug Use In an appeal, he had it reduced from 211 games to 162, but it is still the longest ban for drug use in baseball’s history.
Mary Cain’s Pro Debut
RRWMary Cain Makes Pro Debut; Finishes Second In 500, Wins 800 At Armory
In her first race as a pro, Cain lost but ran the 7th-fastest 500 ever.
*Alberto Talks About Cain’s Races: He talks in great detail about her form changes, which Cain described incorrectly, and reveals she’s behind on her mileage but faster than last year.
MB:Mary Cain about to run a 500 at gotham cup
MB: Mary Cain beaten in pro debut
*DyeStat Video Interview
Bekele Explains Why Paris: “I have many years running together with Mo. But at the moment I want to get experience. … So for that reason Paris is better at the moment for me.”
Olympic Heptathlon Champ Jessica Ennis Is Pregnant (So Is Stephanie Rothstein-Bruce & Christin Wurth-Thomas)
Olympic Hepathlon Champion Jessica Ennis Is Pregnant And Will Miss 2014 Season This means she’ll miss the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, but says she’s committed to coming back for Rio 2016.- Paula Radcliffe Talks About Coming Back From Childbirth She warns Jessica Ennis not to rush back like she did.
- Scientific Evidence Says Athlete-Mothers Can Actually Physically Benefit From Pregnancy Science shows that mothers often have an increase in red blood cells and certain hormones including testosterone. There were even rumors in the 1970s that female East German athletes were getting pregnant and having abortions because of the benefits.
- Sports Stars Who Returned To Glory After Having ChildrenPaula Radcliffe won NYC 10 months after giving birth. Liz McColgan won the 1991 World Champs 10,000 less than a year after giving birth and also won NYC that year. *Another List Of 11 More Mothers From UK Independent
Doping News
David Epstein, Watch Out: LRCGuest Column: The Doping Double Standard In American Sports Needs To End: Track Star Tyson Gay Can Only Wish He Were In The NFL Former NXN qualifier and now Columbia University student Sami Aziz talks about the doping double standard in the US. If Tyson Gay were in the NFL, he’d have competed at Worlds this year. In track, his career might effectively be over.
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