– Excerpt from Daily Relay article by Mitch Kastoff about the rise of Boulder Track Club’s Laura Thweatt. Thweatt went from not getting recruited by Oregon, to not making NCAAs (while running for Colorado) to running 15:04 this past spring and becoming one of the top 5K women in the US.
Boulder Marathon Race Director Being Accused Of Fraud Runners say he failed to secure permits for the event, but used last year’s floods as an excuse to cancel the race which was supposed to be in two weeks.
LRC A Brief History Of Intersex Athletes In Sport Caster Semenya was a big story in 2011. Dutee Chand is a big story this year, and maybe Margaret Wambui? Some people are under the misconception that these are isolated incidents. They are not. A guest column on the intersex issue facing women’s sports, by a former 2:23 men’s marathoner who is now a multi-time national champ as a woman.
News From Canada:Canadian Record Holder Lanni Marchant Will Return To Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon On October 19th
And The Netherlands: Olympic Marathon Champion Tiki Gelana Will Headline This Weekend’s Dam tot Damloop 10 Miler In Netherlands She’ll face Linet Masai. On the men’s side, a lot of people are running, including defending champ and African 10,000m champ Nguse Amlosom and world junior 10,000 champ Joshua Cheptegei.
RRW Beddan Karoki Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll Philly In 59:21 – Fastest Time In US This Year The race was also the 13.1 debut for Dejen Gebremeskel.
Wallace Spearmon Gets 3-Month Doping Ban For Testing Positive For A Steroid Spearmon’s ban was only 3 months because USADA accepted his explanation that he was taking it in a therapeutic dose under the care of a doctor, but he never got a TUE.
*USADA Statement
*MB Discussion
LRC Q&A With Jack And Tim McGowan – The Sub-9 Twins Who Have Gone The DIII Route To Roger Williams University Someone stop the insanity. HS running is now so fast that sub-9 guys are going the DIII route. Meet identical twins Jack and Tim McGowan. *Discuss on theMB: Two sub-9 HSers go to the same college….. And it’s DIII…..
*NBC Nightly Did Feature On Their 4:07 Teammate With Autism, Mike Brannigan Together the three went sub-9 for two miles in the same race.
RRW:Molly Huddle Earns Fourth USA 5-K Title In 15:10; Diego Estrada Wins Emotional First National Title (13:56) Huddle won by 15 seconds over Jordan Hasay in second; Mary Cain was back in 6th (15:53). Estrada won in a kick over German Fernandez (13:57.0) and Maverick Darling (13:57.5). Matt Centrowitz was 7th in 14:03.2.
Ethiopians Gebo Burka (2:11:18) And Biruktayit Eshetu (2:29:42) Get The Wins At The Sydney Marathon
Kenyans John Kyalo Kyui (2:14:50) And Purity Kimetto (2:38:53) Win Siberian Marathon In Cold Conditions The #4 fastest 10Ker ever, Nicholas Kemboi, was outside the reported top 5 (slower than 2:30), so likely a DNF.
The Best Men’s 1-Day 100/200 Doubles Justin Gatlin has the best with 9.77 and 19.71, but Ato Boldon has 5 of the top 10.
LRCIt’s Time To Vote: NCAA XC Fans Super Polls Are Back The pro track season is over and that means it’s time to turn your attention to NCAA XC. Our LRC Fans Super Polls are back where you tell us the top 10 teams in the country and the top teams in each conference.
LRC New York Vs. Chicago, Your Worst Race Ever, Eugene 2018, $$$, PEDs In The Military, And Talent Does Not Go Away The Continental Cup brought to an end the 2014 track season and that means we turn our attention to marathoning – Chicago and New York. Plus a defense of Katie Mackey and Andrew Bumbalough, a look at $$$ – prize money & appearance fees – Kevin Durant vs. the IAAF and USATF, and Eugene 2019 2018?
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