NCAA / HS XC News

• Eritrean World Junior Team Member Weini Kelati Now Running For High School Team In Virginia Kelati represented Eritrea this summer, placing 8th in the 3,000 at WJs, but has now moved to the US to live with her cousin, a former Foot Locker finalist. She ran and won her first high school XC race this past weekend.
• Arkansas’ Dominique Scott And UMass Lowell’s Robert Allen Are DI XC Athletes Of The Week Scott won the Missouri Southern Stampede by 26 seconds while Allen won Iona’s Brother Doyle Meet of Champions at VCP in 25:32, beating a field that included NCAA steeple runner-up Stanley Kebenei.
• Regional Rankings In Division I XC Hold Steady Ahead Of A Big Weekend Of Races
• Weekend NCAA XC Recap: How Did The Top Ranked Teams Do? One of the highlights was Michigan men/women sweeping the Big 10 Preview meet.
• Arkansas Men Win Iona Meet Of Champions UMass Lowell’s Robert Allen was the individual winner. *Results
• Brown Women Win Iona Meet Of Champions Albany’s Silvia Del Fava was the individual winner. *Results
• MB: The Great Oak High School Juggernaut *DyeStat article

Biathlon Relay Gold Medal Presented To The Soviet Union’s Nikolay Kruglov At The 1976 Winter Olympic Goes For $28,750 At Auction

• 1:03 Half Marathoner Brett Hales And Former Olympic Cross-Country Skier Liz Stephen Win XTERRA Trail Run Nationals
• Megan Roche And Tim Tollefson Win USA 50K Trail Championships In CR Times Roche won over Olympian Magdalena Lewey-Boulet while Tollefson beat Ryan Bak.

Yohan Blake Buys House From Jamaican Government For Almost Half A Million Dollars

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.

More Pro Distance News

• Jenny Simpson Talks To The Denver Post About Her Epic Season “The significance of [winning the Diamond League] surpasses, for me, anything that I’ve ever accomplished in a single race.”
• Dathan Ritzenhein Spending A Few Weeks At The Olympic Training Center In Colorado Springs For Treatment Of His Injured Ankle
• UK Independent: “Paula Radcliffe is back on the start line today – but it’s not a ‘comeback.'” “I’m not expecting much; this isn’t a big comeback because I can only do what my foot will allow me to do.”
• Aaron Braun (29:00) And Brianne Nelson (33:05) Win Cow Harbor 10K Titles *Full Results
• British 1992 Olympic 800 Finalist Curtis Robb Wins 800 In 2:06 At 42 Years Old The race was in memory of former UK 800 champ Mark Sesay, who died last year at 40 years old.
• Eric Gillis (29:52) And Rachel Hannah (33:07) Win Canadian 10K Championships

• Ireland’s Ciara Mageean Looking To Continue Her Comeback This Fall By Medaling At Euro XC Champs After being out 2 years with injury, Mageean was 3rd last week at the Fifth Avenue Mile.
• Amanda Mergaert And Megan Malasarte Join Brooks Beasts Track Club Malasarte ran for the University of Georgia and was 4th in the 800 at NCAAs this year. Mergaert was 3rd in the NCAA 1,500 in 2013.
• Research Finds Correlation Between Successful Companies And CEOs That Run Marathons Researchers found companies with CEOs who run marathons have a 5% greater value.

Intersex – A Big Issue Facing Women’s Sports – Guest Column

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.

• The Mile Race Distance Gets Some Love From The WSJ For recreational runners, studies show they can get the same health benefits in a lot less time than marathon training.
• Where Will The Top XC Teams In DI Be Competing This Weekend? For the men, #12 Iona vs. #13 Arkansas at Meet Of Champions.
• New Research Shows Running Can Help Curb Junk Food Binges Running increases brain function associated with self control.

US Marathoning News

• Say It Ain’t So MB: Ritz injured again – pulls out of Philly half
  *More Philly News: Dejen Gebremeskel Says He’s Ready For Half Marathon Debut In Philly Gebremeskel, the Olympic 5,000 silver medalist, only ran one 5,000 on the track all summer. He’ll face 2012 Olympic 10,000 5th placer Bedan Karoki and many others.
• Shalane Flanagan Talks About Her American Record Attempt In Berlin Next Week We believe that since Flanagan will be paced by Rob Watson and Ryan Vail, so if she sets the record it will only be an American “best” – not record – unless the IAAF changes its rules, which makes no sense since Deena Kastor had a male pacer herself.
  *MB: Flanagan’s record(?) attempt
  *LRC Archives from April 24, 2006: Kastor Sets AR
• 2015 USATF Marathon Championships Awarded To LA – Will Take Place As Part Of LA Marathon On March 15th
• Good Read: Toni Reavis Remembers The Great John Kelley, Who Won Boston In 1957
  *$87,000 Statue Of 1957 Boston Marathon Winner John Kelley To Be Dedicated On Sunday In Mystic, CT Details of ceremony here.

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.

News From Asia

• India’s Version Of Caster Semenya – Dutee Chand – Refuses To Get Hormone Treatment, Resumes Training You can pretty much kiss women’s sports goodbye if she’s allowed to compete.
• Thousands Of Athletes Are Flooding Into Incheon, South Korea For 2014 Asian Games, Which Open Friday
• Next Asian Games Will Be In 2018 In Jakarta The 2014 Asian Games start Friday. The next games were initially awarded to Hanoi for 2019 but Hanoi backed out.
• Osaka International Women’s Marathon Establishes New “Next Heroine” Program The development program is focused on young corporate runners and studly collegians.