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– Excerpt from an IAAF interview with Olympic and World marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich.
Tuesday: Zagreb Croatia World Challenge Results: Brenda Martinez Wins 1500 Brenda’s fine running at the end of 2014 continued with the win in 4:05 as Gabrielle Grunewald was 4th, Brie Felnagle was 8th, and Treniere Moser 11th.
LRC Nick Symmonds Update: 100% Healthy, Back Training and Lifting Friday was the one year anniversary of Nick’s Zurich 800m win, and Brooks Beasts TC coach Danny Mackey wrote in with an update on Nick.
Great Read:Meb Looks Back on 10 Year Anniversary of Athens Silver
NCAA XC Preview Continues
LRC Notes on the Team Races: Great Lakes Women and Pac 12 Men Lead The Way We’re done counting down the top 10 men’s and women’s teams in America, but we’ve still got some thoughts on the team races at NCAAs this year that didn’t make it into our previews. We re-score 2013 NCAAs minus seniors, tell you why the Pac-12 (men) and Great Lakes (women) are loaded and explain how women’s collegiate running is deeper than it’s ever been.
In case you missed our countdown due to Labor Day.
Women: #2 Michigan State, #1 Michigan *#4 Arkansas & #3 Georgetown*#6 Florida State & #5 Butler *#8 Stanford, #7 Oregon *#10 Iowa State & #9 Colorado
Men: #2 Stanford & #1 Colorado *#4 Oregon & #3 Northern Arizona *#6 Portland & #5 Oklahoma State *#8 Wisconsin & #7 Indiana *#10 Villanova & #9 Iona
Results From The Holiday Weekend
LRC Molly Huddle, Girma Mecheso Win 2014 USA 20k Titles At Faxon Law New Haven Road Race Molly Huddle defeated training partner Amy Hastings as former OSU star Girma Mecheso won his first USA title in humid New Haven.
*Discuss: New Haven *USATF Recap- Nick Arciniaga Wins Disneyland Half Marathon In 1:07:48
- NZ’s Tom Walsh Wins Zagreb Shot Put Over Tomasz Majewski And Reese Hoffa
- Austria’s Andrea Mayr And Eritrea’s Pedro Mamo Win In CR Times At World Mountain Running Races In Austria
Sprint News: Not A Good Day For Football Playing Tracksters
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cut Jeff Demps
- Former UK Discus Thrower Lawrence Okoye Cut By 49ers
- Usain Bolt Is The Star Of Village Scarecrow Contest A small village in the UK is getting some attention for the scarecrow version of Lightning Bolt.
Distance Q&A’s / Weekend Road Results
Random Q&A With Haile Gebrselassie You probably didn’t know he has a lucky pair of underwear he likes to wear when racing which he’s had for 10 years.- Interview With Commonwealth Games 5,000m Champion Mercy Cherono, Who Is Getting Attention In Kenya For Her Good Looks As Well As Fast Running
- Q&A With Patrick Casey, Who’s Taking Some Downtime After The European Season In His Home State Of Montanna
- Yuki Kawauchi Wins City To Surf Marathon In CR 2:12:55
- Jeffrey Eggleston Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon In 1:05:27 Lilian Marita won the women’s race in 1:15:29.
- Azusa Nojiri (2:30) And Shigeki Tsuji (2:15) Are Winners Of Hokkaido Marathon In Japan
Upcoming
- Tuesday Local Stars Blanka Vlasic And Sandra Perkovic Highlight Zagreb IAAF World Challenge Meet On Tuesday Ethiopia’s 3:59 woman Dawit Seyaum leads 1,500 field against Brenda Martinez. Men’s 800 has Kenya’s Olympic bronze medalist Timothy Kitum, 1:42.84 man Ferguson Cheruiyot and World Junior champ Alfred Kipketer, the 2014 world junior champion.
- Saturday: Geoffrey Mutai Racing Birell 10K In Prague On September 6th He’ll face Geoffrey Ronoh, the rabbit who stayed in the race and beat Wilson Kipsang in a half marathon.
We Entertain Our Labor Day Visitors
Jenny Simpson Talks After Her DL Win
LRC Exclusive Q&A With DL Champion Jenny Simpson After Her Win In Zürich: “I pulled off what seemed at times was impossible odds.” Over the weekend, LetsRun.com caught up with Simpson as she prepares to race the 3,000 at the second Diamond League Final in Brussels on Friday. Simpson talked about the contact at the finish line with Shannon Rowbury in Zurich, why she’s been so successful on the circuit this year and how she’s been inspired by runners such as Deena Kastor, Kara Goucher and Shalane Flanagan.
Other Assorted News
KingCoach Carl:Carl Lewis Gets Full-Time Coaching Job At University Of Houston- Amended 2014 WADA Prohibited List Officially In Force As Of September 1st The banned substance list has been amended to include Xenon and Argon.
- Teams Almost Finalized For IAAF Continental Cup In Less Than Two Weeks
- Berlin And Hamburg Competing To Be Germany’s Bid City For 2024 Or 2028 Olympic Games
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.
Saturday Action
- 2014 Deca Nation: Gia Lewis-Smallwood Sets New American Discus Record (69.17 m – 226′ 11″) – Donn Cabral & Will Leer 2ndKatie Mackey and Gabe Grunewald also competed.
*Team USA Wins DécaNation By 2 Points Over France 
Rory Bosio Repeats As Champ Of The 104-Mile Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc Race That Passes Through France, Italy And Switzerland She did a curtsy at the finish. MB: American chic wins big ultra – gives curtsy to French crowd*The American Men Get Spanked At UTMB 100
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 DQed
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?
Sunday Morning T&F – 2014 ISTAF Berlin *Full Results
IAAF Full Recap:Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk Highlights By Breaking The Hammer World Record With 79.58m In the competition was Germany’s former WR holder Betty Heidler, who finished 2nd (75.20m). Orlando Ortega beat Dayron Robles with 13.08 in the 110H, David Storl took the SP over Ryan Whiting; Robert Harting won the discus again.- LRCFull Results For 2014 ISTAF Berlin Meet Mo Aman edged Taoufik Makhloufi in the 800, Mekonnen Gebremedhin edged Aman Wote in the 1,500, Augstine Choge won the 5,000 as Bernard Lagat was second as he and Lopez Lomong both broke 13:10.
- M5k: MB:Nearing 40 years of age, Bernard Lagat run 13:06 gets 2nd Amazing considering he’ll be 40 in 103 days.
- M1,500: 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.
- W800: MB: Ouch – Maggie Vessey DFL in berlin in 2:02.25
- 100: Jamaica’s Kerron Stewart (11.25) And Trinidad And Tobago’s Richard Thompson (10.15) Are The 100 Winners
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 5,000 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 With 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
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