August 20, 2014 | LetsRun.com

Week That Was

LRC Excessive Celebration, Where Are The Fans, Double Domination, Fast Moms, Slow Japanese And Running Backwards: The Week That Was Who had the performance of the week: Mo Farah,the shirtless Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad, Nijel Amos or Almaz Ayana? We span the globe to tell you and find video of Amos’ 800m victory over Mo Aman where they went out in 56. Plus Cooly, the twerking mascot.

It’s Time To Get Excited For Some Fall Marathons

NYC: RRW A Rejuvenated Kara Goucher Is Ready To Race Again: “The passion is definitely back and I am excited for it to start.” An honest Goucher admits that at the end in Portland she was going through the motions, “running it out” as the “passion was kind of gone.” Remotivated, she’s going to race the Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon in September and then New York (not announced but what else could it be?).

Chicago: MB: Kenenisa Bekele vs Eliud Kipchoge in ChicagoMarathon:what do you think about this duel?

Eindhoven: Road 10km And 15km World Record Holder Leonard Komon To Make Marathon Debut On October 12th In Eindhoven, Netherlands Sorry, we initially said Eindhoven was in Belgium.

More News Of Note

The Good: Police: Jogger Saves Kids After Stroller With Two Kids Strapped In Falls Into Reservoir In Brookline, MA
The Bad: Mo Farah’s Younger Brother Likely Didn’t See His Brother Win The 5,000 As He Was In Jail For Burglary
Falmouth Race Director Tommy Leonard Celebrated His 81st Birthday Last Week
Bizarre: Want To Run 6 Days In A Row? On An Indoor Track? Welcome To Six Days In The Dome, An Extreme Running Adventure

2014 Europeans Wrap-Up

Mark English’s Bronze In 800 Was Ireland’s Only Medal At Euros And Their 1st Mid-D Medal In 36 Years
*English Also Ran Leg On Irish 4 X 400 Team That Broke National Record Twice In 24 hours The record is now 3:01.67.
Chris O’Hare Was First Brit To Medal In 1,500 At Euros In 28 Years O’Hare, who is now coached by Terrence Mahon of adidas/BAA, is calling it a season, however, as his hamstring has been killing him.
*MB: Did anyone realize that Chris O’Hare is now coached by the BAAs Terrence Mahon?
Ireland’s Paul Robinson Felt Despair As Bronze Medal Slipped Away In Final Strides Chris O’Hare snagged the bronze at the end.
After Proving In Zurich They Are Europe’s Best, Team GB Looks For Global Supremacy Next
A Look Back At The Day-By-Day Hhighlights Of Europeans
Athletics Weekly Asks What Was Better – Euros Or Commonwealth Games? We know one thing. They should only have one of them in a given year.

Trail/Mountain Running

Pikes Peak: Former CU Buff Allie McLaughlin Wins Women’s Race, Leads Team USA To World Championship
Former Cornell Runner Sage Canaday Takes Title At Pikes Peak Ascent Canaday led Team USA to a dominant victory.
Leadville: In 1st attempt, Rob Krar Wins Leadville Trail 100 Ultra-Marathon Race With 2nd-Fastest Time Ever “Without a doubt that was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
Emma Roca (Spain) Wins Women’s Race

Sprint News – Usain Bolt Finally Runs His First 100 Of The Year

Usain Bolt Wins “Sluggish” 100m Race On Rio de Janeiro Beach In 10.06 He wanted a sub-10 but destroyed everyone as MLF was second in 10.42. Carmelita Jeter was only 3rd in the women’s race won by Brazil’s Rosangela Santos in 11.33 seconds.
*I need to compete in more races,” Admits Bolt
*Bolt Race Video
British Paper: “Our sprinters are hot on the heels of Usain Bolt.” Calm down, Brits. Euros was won in 10.06. Bolt ran that in his first race of the year.
2nd British Paper: “British athletics success sends ripples of fear around the globe.”
Olympic 4 X 100 Champ Darren Campbell Gives His Opinion On Current British Sprint Stars
Q&A With World Indoor Champ Richard Kilty, Who Says Michael Johnson Is His Idol

Falmouth Photo Galleries Road Race Mile

Road Race:

*MB: Who is the woman running with Meb in these four photos? Wow! (link fixed)
*MB: Tara Erdman…now I know how she keeps a sponsor

Mile:

At Last, The DL Resumes – Thursday at 2 pm ET – 2014 DN Galan – Start Lists/Schedule TV and Streaming

M 5000: LRC Galen Rupp Battles Caleb Ndiku; Ben True and Hassan Mead Chase Sub-13:00 While many of the top entrants have been racing CGs and African champs, Galen Rupp toes the line for the first time in six weeks – will he get the first DL victory of his career? Plus only one man has broken 13:00 this year – will that trend continue in Stockholm. Can Cam Levins get the Canadian record?

W1500/Steeple: LRC Jenny Simpson vs. Sifan Hassan vs. Abeba Aregawi; Emma Coburn Highlights Steeplechase These two women’s races are loaded as Simpson will try to get the AR in a race that features 4 of the 5 fastest women in the world in 2014.

*M 800: LRC Can 1500 Man Ayanleh Souleiman End Nijel Amos’ Dominance? Amos has only lost all year and it was to a 1500 man and Souleiman is in great shape.

IAAF Full Meet Preview It’s been more than a month since the last DL action. American fans, get pumped.
*Stockholm press conference highlights – Simpson/Rupp talk Simpson on w1500: “There is no strong, heavy favorite.” Rupp also talked about why it’s hard to run fast.

1st Ever – 2014 LetsRun.com Top 10 NCAA XC Countdown

LRC 2014 Men’s XC Preview: #8 Wisconsin & #7 Indiana Indiana ended Wisconsin’s 14-year run of Big 10 titles last fall and returns its entire top five. The Badgers will reload with the country’s best recruiting class and look to record their 19th consecutive top-10 finish come NCAAs. At Big 10s, the two could be in for a big battle.
Previous: #10 Villanova & #9 Iona

Sprint/Jump News

Next Week’s Big Meets

1st DL Final In Zurich Next Thursday Will Feature An Insane Men’s 800 David Rudisha, Mohammed Aman, Nijel Amos and Asbel Kiprop.
Dasaolu Vs. Gemili Vs. Bolt In Weltklasse Zurich 100m
All Of Germany’s European Medalists Will Compete At IAAF World Challenge Meeting In Berlin On 31 August

News From Kenya

After Winning Silver At CGs Champs, Florence Kiplagat Returns To Kenya And Wins 1st CPF Nairobi Diamond 10km Race In 31:42 The article incorrectly says she won bronze. *Amos Mitei Won Men’s Race In 27:42
Kenyan CG And African Champs Medalists Return Home, Govt. Is Satisfied With Performance, Focus Now Shifts To IAAF Continental Cup Imagine if anyone in the US govt. cared how the US track team did at Pan Ams.

LetsRun.com Goes To The New Balance Falmouth Road Race *Results

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LRC Stephen Sambu Breaks Away To Win Falmouth Road Race By 45 Seconds; Betsy Saina Wins Close Affair Over Gemma Steel, Molly Huddle Sambu’s incredible summer continued as Ben Bruce was 4th. Huddle was third on the women’s side.
*MB: And the winners of 2014 Falmouth Road Race Are … Stephen Sambu and Betsy Saina (Molly Huddle 3rd, Ben Bruce 4th).

LRC Kyle Merber, Katie Mackey Win Titles At Falmouth Mile Merber left it late but swung wide on the final turn to beat David Torrence and get revenge on Garrett Heath, who beat him at the Michigan Track Classic last week, running 3:56.46 for the victory as Jordan McNamara was a non-factor. Mackey went wire-to-wire and ran away from Stephanie Brown and Morgan Uceny to win in 4:27.79.
*MB: Merber wins Falmouth mile! *MB: Katie Mackey wins back-to-back Falmouth Miles

2 Recommended Reads

RR#1: Phil Hersh Profiles Kenenisa Bekele’s Preparation For 2014 Chicago – Bekele Says He Has No Regrets About His Track Career Bekele says he’ll do more long runs in preparation for Chicago as the marathon in Paris was harder than he thought it would be.

RR#2: German Long Jump Champ Gets Huge Feature In NY Times – And For Good Reason – He’s Got 1 Leg Markus Rehm won the German nationals with a massive 8.24 (27+ feet), which would have won him silver at Euros (which the Germans wouldn’t let him compete in). We don’t get the controversy – the IAAF should 100% ban all athletes with prosthetic legs.

More News Of Note:

Youth Olympics

IAAF Youth Olympic Games Preview We have no idea why this event exists but Mo Aman and Luguelin Santos did win gold in the 1st one 4 years ago.
Worried About Athletes’ Saftey, Japan Has Only Sent 1 Distance Runner To Youth Olympics The Japanese team was booed at the opening ceremonies as the Japanese deny the Nanking Massacre. Their one entrant is quite good (Nozomi Takamatsu, 4th WJrs 3,000).

LRC Profile The Long Road: Jordan McNamara’s Injury-Filled Path To Success A big fan of the sport since HS when he had pictures of Webb, Lagat and Goucher on his wall, Jordan McNamara is so determined to rise to the top that 14 stress fractures haven’t been able to stop him from becoming one of America’s best milers. Plus insight on OTC members Ben Blankenship, Pat Casey, Hassan Mead, Ciaran O’Lionaird and Andrew Wheating.