Quote Of The Day
– Harvard scientist Daniel Lieberman talking about the barefoot running craze, which he started with his scientific research 10 years ago.
Sunday Morning T&F – 2014 ISTAF Berlin *Schedule / Results (Lagat at 9:30 am ET, Centro 11:15 ET)
LRCSchedule and Results for 2014 ISTAF Berlin Meet Sam Chelanga, Andrew Bumbalough, Bernard Lagat and Lopez Lomong are in the 5000 at 9:30 am ET, and Matthew Centrowitz in the 1500 11:15 am ET. - m5k: MB:Nearing 40 years of age, Bernard Lagat run 13:06 gets 2nd Amazing considering he’ll be 40 in 103 days.
- m1500: MB: Centro 7th in Berlin in 3:34.78 – Gebremedhin over Wote FTW in 3:33
- m800: MB:Mo Aman beats Makhloufi and Kszczot He got the win in 1:43.53 to the Olympic champs 1:42.53 as Kszczot was 3rd. American Erik Sowinski ran 1:46.
US 20k Champs Are Monday in New Haven
- 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.
- Molly Huddle is enjoying running road-races after setting American 5000 record“I’ve been checking off the ones I have wanted to do,” said Huddle who says training partner Amy Hastings is very fit.
- 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.”
- Wife is running New Haven 20k w her husband’s bib after he died of brain cancer after 36-straight finishes
More Upcoming Races
- 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
2014 Weltklasse Zürich*Full Results
W 1,500 LRC Jenny Simpson Does It – Wins Diamond League Final And Title By Diving Across The Finish LineJenny Simpson threw herself across the finish line, just holding off Shannon Rowbury, to win the race and DL crown plus lay claim to the title of “World’s Best 1,500 Runner.”
M 5,000 LRCCaleb Ndiku Wins Race & Diamond League Title; Galen Rupp Hangs On For 3rd Rupp was right with Ndiku with 200 to go and didn’t quite have enough but still hung on for his best 5,000 of the year. Ben True (8th) also ran well and was in contention at the bell.
M 800 LRCNijel Amos Wins Vs. A Loaded Field To Show He’s Best In The World In 2014Let there be no doubt. Nijel Amos is the best 800m man in the world in 2014. Amos, already the Commonwealth Games champion and the African champion, is now the Diamond League champion after his 1:43.77 win versus a stacked field.
LRC Analysis: MB:Big Drama in Zurich: Official 2014 Wetlklasse Zürich DL Discussion Thread
The Rest Of The Meet
LRC Zurich Full Recap: Hiwot Ayalew Wins DL Title In Women’s Steeple; Seven Americans Win DL TitlesTunisia’s Habiba Ghribi beat Ayalew (2nd) and Emma Coburn (5th) in the race, but Ayalew still won the DL title and the $40,000 prize that goes with it. Americans to win DL titles included Jenny Simpson (1,500), Tianna Bartoletta (LJ), Reese Hoffa (SP), Christian Taylor (TJ), Michael Tinsley (400 hurdles), LaShawn Merritt (400) and Dawn Harper-Nelson (100 hurdles).
2014 NCAA Cross-Country – LetsRun.com’s Top 10 Countdown
LRC 2014 Women’s XC Preview: Entirely Home-Grown Michigan Is #1, Michigan State Is #2This year, the best team in Michigan may very well be the best team in the United States. Michigan State is led by NCAA steeple champ Leah O’Connor and will get a big boost from returners Sara Kroll and Julia Otwell, who redshirted in 2013. Michigan keeps its entire top seven from last year intact. AMAZINGLY all seven are Michigan natives.
Previous: *#4 Arkansas & #3 Georgetown
*#6 Florida State & #5 Butler
*#8 Stanford, #7 Oregon
*#10 Iowa State & #9 Colorado
NCAA XC Has Started *All Results
- USTFCCCA: 2014 Cross-Country Is Here “In a sport that’s been mostly bleached of any messy subjectivity, cross country remains wonderfully untamed and unknowable. … Cherish the one tiny slice of the running calendar left for Not-Knowing.”
- Redshirt freshmen win CU Time Trial and Wetmore is pleased Wetmore says most of the team had “good summers” as the top six men all finished within 1.5 seconds of each other.
*MB: University of Colorado team time trial results - Florida Men And Women Sweep Western Carolina XC Invite
- Fishduck.com Previews Oregon Men’s And Women’s XC Season They return their top individuals in Edward Cheserek and Annie Leblanc and have Sarah Baxter as an incoming freshman.
- Running Times: Five Storylines For The 2014 College Cross-Country Season Can anyone challenge CU men or Cheserek? Who are the favorites on the women’s side?
- Coach Khadevis Robinson Excited For LSU XC Season To Start Up
- So Is Football: Interview With Oregon NCAA 110H Champ Devon Allen On Football And The Prospects Of A Pro Track Career He also talks about accumulating Twitter followers, his football talent and playing with Oregon in the 2013 NCAA Football video game.
Uganda’s Two-Time Commonwealth Games 10,000 Champ Moses Kipsiro Plans To Switch To Marathon Next Year “You don’t wake up and say I am going to run marathon; it needs a serious plan.”
Doping And Politics
- No Decision Yet From Botswana On Amantle Montsho’s Doping Penalty
- Kelly Ann Baptiste’s (Trinidad And Tobago) Doping Suspension Remains In Effect For Now Her national federation tried to lift her ban as a reward for “giving substantial assistance” (a la Tyson Gay), but the IAAF are appealing the decision.
- Athletics Kenya President Isaiah Kiplagat Declares Election Of Former 800m Olympic Champ Wilfred Bungei Null And Void
International Distance News
- 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.”
4 Interesting Reads
- Q&A with Daniel Lieberman, 10 Years After “Born to Run” He’s the Harvard scientist who says humans evolved to run long distance barefoot. The rest is history. Random fact: Did you know myopia didn’t used to exist?
- Maybe track is popular in Europe: European Champs got huge ratings in Europe – more than 20% of all French TVs were tuned into men’s steeple where MMB was DQd
Remembering Sydney Wooderson – the man who if not for WWII might have been history’s first sub-4 minute miler The article said he’d likely have also won the 1940 and 44 Olympics which weren’t held. He was born exactly 100 years ago.- Toni Reavis says there are way too many athletes in the Diamond League finals Why don’t people have to qualify for the final?
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
Interesting, But Random …
- New Research: “Breakfast may just be another meal.” All of the stuff about it being the most important meal has no evidence behind it.
- Grand Canyon To Regulate Rim-To-Rim Runners
- Study: Soccer And Basketball Teams Can Have Too Much Talent, But Not Baseball (And Presumably XC/Track)
- Transfers Of Allegiances: Which Countries Have Gained Or Lost From People Switching From 1998-2014
Sprint/Hurdle/Jump News
- Mutaz Essa Barshim Recalls The 3 Favorite Jumps Of His Career The first time he made 2.20, then 2.30 then 2.40.
- Columnist: Usain Bolt Says He’s Old But Powell, Gay And Gatlin Are All 5 Years Older
- Newly-Retired Hurdler Andy Turner Reflects On His Career The 2010 European champ has a 13.22 PR.
- Swiss Youth Olympic Pole Vault Champ Angelica Moser Was Born To Be A Track And Field Star Her dad was an Olympic decathlete and her mom a national level heptathlete.
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