Upcoming: Solid 800 Action Set For Sunday In Berlin

• Tomorrow: Mohammed Aman Faces Solid 800 Field As The Highlight Of ISTAF Berlin Meet He faces  Taoufik Makhloufi, Adam Kszczot and Olympic 800m bronze medalist Timothy Kitum.
• Monday: Good Fields Set For USA 20K Champs: Molly Huddle Faces Amy Hastings, Amy Van Alstine, Becky Wade And Adriana Nelson Men’s side has Chriso Landry, Sean Quigley, Diego Estrada, Matt Llano, Fernando Cabada.
• Cool Race Sep. 6th: Christine Ohurogu, Lynsey Sharp, Jenny Meadows And Eilidh Child To Race Over 500m At Great North CityGames Two 800 runners vs. 400 and 400H sprinters. Should be interesting.
• Yuki Kawauchi Racing Sunday’s City To Surf Marathon In Australia
• Two Weeks: Africa Announces Team For IAAF Continental Cup Stacked distance squads including Nijel Amos, Mohammed Aman, Caleb Ndiku, Isiah Koech, Eunice Sum, Hellen Obiri, Genzebe Dibaba, Hiwot Ayalew.
• Preview Of Sunday’s Hokkaido Marathon – Masanori Sakai (2:09) And Yuri Kano (2:24) Lead Men’s And Women’s Fields

US Distance News

• Sara Hall Postpones Fall Marathon Debut After Her Appendix Bursts She says her training was going very well, but then she had to have emergency surgery and lost too much running time to run her marathon debut this fall.
• Matt Elliott Taking Two-Year Leave Of Absence From His Teaching Job To Try To Make 2016 Olympics
• Good Profile On Kate Grace, Who’s Made Big Strides The Last Two Years To Be One Of The Top US Mid-D Runners Asked if she had expected to make such big improvements in such a short amount of time she said, “Is it weird to say yes? Or, I think to be an athlete, human?, is to dream big.”
• A Look Inside Alexa Efraimson’s Decision To Turn Pro Her coach, Mike Hickey, said he sometimes consults with Alberto Salazar for advice and it’s possible Efraimson could could occasionally join Mary Cain for workouts.
• Interesting Q&A With Phoebe Wright About Random Running And Non-Running Stuff She says her most embarrassing running moment is when she peed her pants at NCAAs.
• Kim Conley Blogs About Base Training Back At Home In Sacramento

• Olympic Cross-Country Skier Kristin Størmer Steira Wins Norwegian Track 10K Championships She said, “It was surprisingly fun. I thought 25 laps around a track would be boring, but it was a good atmosphere.”
• Former 800 Olympic Champ Wilfred Bungei Elected Nandi County Athletics Kenya Chairman
• Triathlete Pulls, Carries And Pushes His Twin Brother With Cerebral Palsy To Finish Line Of Ironman Steen Mondrup used special equipment to bring his brother Peder through the course in 14 hours, 42 minutes.

Huffington Post: “Big Five Have Changed College Sports Forever” “Goodbye Boise State. Goodbye Butler. Cinderellas are no longer welcome in big-time college sports.”

North American Distance News

• US 20k Is Monday: Christo Landry Is One Of The Favorites As He’s Been On Fire In 2014 He’s won US titles at 10 miles, 25k and 10k. Can he add 20k? Sounds like it. “It’s been a high-mileage summer,” Landry said. “I’ve been hitting goals I haven’t seen before.”
• Good Read: Bridget Franek Announces She’s Been Dropped Financially By OTC Elite And Is A Free Agent A introspective blog piece. Team LRC is open for applications.
• Q & A With Former Notre Dame Runner Jeremy Rae, Who Has Joined The Guelph’s Speed River Track And Field Club
• 1964 Olympic 5,000 Champ Bob Schul Is Giving Back To His Hometown At Age 77 “I always tell my runners you have to have some ego. It doesn’t mean you have to shout from the rooftops. When you go into a race you’ve got to know you can win this thing. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
• Boston-Based European Bronze Medalist Chris O’Hare Hands Out Medals To Teens At Scottish U20 Age Groups Champs The perks of being a medalist.
• Running USA: Nation’s Largest Road Races Have Grown 73 Percent Over 13 Years

• DyeStat’s Girls Preseason Top 100 XC Rankings: CT’s Hannah DeBalsi Leads
• DyeStat’s Boys Preseason Top 100 XC Rankings: MI’s Grant Fisher Leads