Kenyan News

• Recommended Read: Alan Webb’s Wife Blogs On His Career Change From Track To Triathlon A great blog post by Julia Webb who walks through the decision to move to the triathlon. She admits that Alan has made some “mistakes” during his career, including moving from coach to coach, but emphasizes that his lack of success in recent years hasn’t been due to lack of effort or dedication.
  *MB: Webb’s Wife’s Blog on His Career Change (link fixed)
• Great Athletics Illustrated Interview With Yuki Kawauchi Who Talks Extensively About His Intersting Training And Racing Schedule Kawauchi says he actually thinks the best race of his life was a 30K which he thinks was equivalent to a 2:06 marathon.
• Leo Manzano Blogs About His Training And Is Looking Forward To Racing New Balance GP Mile Next Saturday He said he was getting “very distracted with financial concerns” due to his lack of sponsorship, but his concerns were eased through help from his “supporters” who funded his training trip to Mexico.
• Extensive Gary Cohen Interview With Ultra Marathoner Catra Corbett Corbett is one of only four people to have finished over 100 events of 100 miles or more. She talks about her life changing transition from substance abuser to vegetarian ultra marathoner.

*2014 Sainsbury’s Glasgow International Match Results (USA Vs. GB Vs. Scotland Vs. CWealth)
*Armory New Balance *All Weekend NCAA Action

LRCGlasgow International Match: Bernard Lagat, Chris O’Hare, Laura Muir And Hellen Obiri All Win Scotland’s Laura Muir might have been the distance star of the day as she was very impressive in the women’s 800 where Chanelle Price PRed; Chris O’Hare won the men’s 1,500 over Britain’s upcoming star Charlie Grice; a Scottish record fell in the men’s 600 and reigning world champs Hellen Obiri and Bernard Lagat started off their 2014 campaigns with wins. *Results

• IAAF Full Meet Recap *USATF
• James Dasaolu Sets World-Leading Time Of 6.50 Secs. For The 60m At Glasgow International Match – Telegraph GB’s Holly Bleasdale returned from injury with a 4.62 win in the PV.
• MB:Bernard Lagat wins and Brits play “Born in USA” on speakers – Cram corrects them

• Will Leer Wins NAU 3,000 In 8:08.69 At 7,000ft Altitude In Flagstaff, AZ That’s about a 7:48 with the altitude conversion. NAU’s Brian Shrader (8:11.94) and Matt McElroy (8:17.11) were 2nd and 3rd; US Marathon champ Nick Arciniaga was 5th. *Full Results
• Oregon’s Laura Roesler Wins 800 At Rod McCravy Memorial Meet In 2:01.32 This is #2 on the NCAA all-time list indoors. *Duck Women Win 3 Events At Day 1 Of Rod McCravy Memorial Meet
• 4 Ivy League Records Go Down Over The Weekend Dartmouth got two conference mile records with Abbey D’Agostino (4:28.31) and Will Geoghegan (3:58.04) as Harvard’s Maksim Korolev set the 5000 record at 13:42.56 and Cornell’s Stephen Mozia set the shot put record with 67-4 (20.52 meters).
  *Dartmouth’s Will Geoghegan Sets New Ivy League Record In The Mile With 3:58.04 He broke the previous record of 3:58.52 set by Columbia’s Kyle Merber in 2010.
• Texas A&M Dominates Sweep In Triangular Meet Against LSU And Texas Tech *Full Results
• Arizona’s Nick Ross Breaks His Own HJ School Record With 2.31mNick Ross broke his own school reco Nick Ross broke his own school record in the men’s high jump competition, clearing 7-7 (2.31m) rd in the men’s high jump competition, clearing 7-7 (2.31m)

Leading US Women’s Bobsled Driver Elana Meyers Defends Lolo Jones Selection To Olympic Team

Rich Harshbarger Named New CEO Of Running USA

More Weekend Distance Results

• Ukraine’s Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko Becomes First In 14 Years To Defend Her Title At Osaka International Women’s Marathon She won in 2:24:37 as Japan’s Yukiko Akaba took second in 2:26:00. In her debut, Sairi Maeda set a Japan collegiate record of 2:26:46 for 4th.
  *IAAF Osaka Recap
• Fredrick Musyoki And Cynthia Cherotich Win Kenya Prisons XC Champs Musyoki beat out a field that included World 1,500 silver medalist Silas Kiplagat (11th place), Olympic 5,000 bronze medalist Thomas Longosiwa, African XC champ John Mwangangi (2nd) and defending champ Timothy Kiptoo.
  *This IAAF article says Longosiwa and Kiptoo dropped out and that the winners’ names are Fredrick Ndunge and Cynthia Jerotich.
• 1,000+ Show Up To Watch Willis Win 800 In 1:50 In His Hometown In NZealand Willis tried to negative split as he’s practicing on finishing for World Indoors. “Doing an 800m is a bit of a shock to the system to remember how to sprint again.”
• Athletics Weekly Recap Northern Cross-Country Champs In UK
• Jamaica’s Leading Long Distance Runners Will Compete At High Mountain 10K Road Race

• Kenyan Journalist Calls Kenyan Athletes Selfish And Says They Should Pay Their Taxes Like Everyone Else Does “I find it very selfish for a group of athletes, most likely making millions of shillings every year from their God-given talent of running, demanding exemption from paying taxes because they bring honour to this country.”
• Daily Nation: “Finally cornered by the taxman, athletes have nowhere to run.” If you haven’t been following the news on the Kenya tax law debates for athletes’ prize money, this article will get you caught up.

• Mary Cain Says Alberto Salazar Yelled At Her After Her 1,500 Heat At Worlds Because Of Her Poor Tactics Cain: “After the heats, we had a pretty intense talk, like: ‘you’re not supposed to do that.’ Oh my God. He was yelling. I felt so bad – he was so freaked out!”
• Cain Missed Her Prom Last Year To Run A 4:04 1,500 At Occidental Good interview with Cain, who talks about the decision to go pro and managing being a high schools student at the same time.
• Morgan Uceny Talks About Training In Boston And Getting Past Her Olympic Fall She says she’s was still very tentative in all her races last year as she was afraid of falling again.
• Q&A With New NJ-NY Track Club Member Rebeka Stowe Stowe ran for the University of Kansas and qualified for the 2012 Olympic Trials in the steeple.

A Good Day For Pro Distance Running: CGI Reinstating Elite Appearance Fees

LRC Community 1, Competitor 0: Competitor Group Goes Back On Decision And Will Immediately Reinstate Appearance Fees For Elite AthletesThis is a big victory for both the elites and the sport of running.
*And The LRC Nation, Too: No, Thank You: We Don’t Need Competitor Running The Vast Majority Of Big Running Events In This Country
*MB:Competitor Group Reinstates Appearance Fees
*RRW: In About Face, Competitor Group Reinstates Elite Athlete Support Program
*Competitor.com artilce