September 24, 2014 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“It’s been a really good summer. Training has gone about as well as possible, and I’m really excited for all the work the guys put in up at Mammoth and I think we’re going to get a lot better from it.”

and

“We don’t think about rankings at all. And we’re the perfect example over the past few years of a team that shows rankings don’t matter. We were ranked like second the past two years and finished I think sixteenth and nineteenth. So if anyone should know that rankings don’t matter it’s our team.”

– Identical twins Jim and Joe Rosa talking about the 2014 NCAA cross-country season with Running Times. Will the Cardinal underachieve again or break through for the program’s first NCAA title since 2003?

Week That Was

WTWDeena, Paula, German Fernandez And Andrew Wheating Are All Back (To Different Degrees), A New High School Star, Some Free Coaching Advice And More

41-year-old Deena Kastor broke the master's world record at the half marathon, German Fernandez~~is back~~ ran well, Paula Radcliffe is back racing, and so is Andrew Wheating. Plus, some coaching advice from Caleb Ndiku and news on a new star in the American high school ranks.

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

USA 5K Championships Top 20 US ResultsTop Overall Results

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.

More Weekend Road Action: The Return Of Paula

Paula Radcliffe Returns To The Roads For The First Time In More Than 2 Years With 35:49 Third-Place Finish At Worcester City 10K Radcliffe said she went out too fast and would have liked to gone under 35 minutes, but that her foot is fine, which is the main thing. The race was won by 19-year-old Jenny Nesbitt in 34:22. *Athletics Weekly Article
Kenya’s Linet Masai And John Mwangangi Win Dam tot Damloop 10-Mile In The Netherlands Masai ran 53:09 to win comfortably over Olympic marathon champ Tiki Gelana (53:57) while Mwangangi outkicked Eritrea’s Nguse Amlosom 45:45 to 45:47.
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.
Track: Germany’s Carolin Schafer And Estonia’s Mikk Pahapill Win Decastar IAAF Combined Events Challenge Meet In Talence, France
Kenya’a Willy Kibor (2:10:45) And Ethiopia’s Meserest Biru (2:31:00) Win Cape Town Marathon
Peter Kurui (64:33) And Nancy Kimaiyo (75:58) Win Chemususu Half Marathon In Kenya

Interesting Reads

Rosa Twins Thrilled With Summer Training, Hoping For Big Season For Stanford At NCAA Cross The twins also admit it’s a bit awkward that they are good friends with Edward Cheserek due to their NJ ties.
Great Q&A With WMM Leader Tsegaye Kebede, Who Is Running Berlin: “I get home from somewhere, I eat, I rest, then I train. There are no distractions. I have no vices.” He also says Kenenisa can get the WR in Chicago.
Bolt On Jamaican Drug Positives: “There were mistakes but there weren’t any serious drugs.” He added, “It is still bad: the drug scandal. But it was a good thing it wasn’t like they were deliberately going out of their way to take drugs.”
*Bolt Still Dreaming Big, Says With “Perfect Season” He Will definitely have the chance to break the 100m world record.”
Daily Relay: Indoor Success Certainly Didn’t Mean Much For Genzebe Dibaba, SAFP, Richard Kilty And Marvin Bracy In 2014
MB:Teen with one prosthetic leg, wants healthy leg removed so she’ll be better at Paralympic sports The headline in the Daily Mail was “Cut off my foot so I can run faster.”
Anthony Whiteman Tells You How He Ran 1:48.05 At Age 42 And 3:42.02 At Age 40

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.
MB:The Great Oak High School Juggernaut *DyeStat Article

Philly RnR Half Results5K Results

RRW Deena Kastor Sets Masters World Record Of 69:36, Aberu Kebede Wins In 68:39 Kara Goucher also returned to racing.

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.

5k: Bernard Lagat Comes Up Short In 5k American Record Attempt – Lawi Lalang Runs 13:29, Lagat 13:31 In Phiily

Trail Racing

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 In Need Of Repairs From Jamaican Govt. For $461,000 That’s more than $52 million in the Jamaican currency.

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.

The Definition Of Stupidity: Africa, Australia May Soon Compete In Asian Games

NCAA News

Q & A With Florida State’s Colleen Quigley, Who Thinks That Having Interests Outside Of Running Helps Her
NCAA Division I XC Rankings – Yet Again Nothing Changes In Top 10
Regional Rankings In Division I XC Hold Steady Ahead Of A Big Weekend Of Races
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.
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.

Future NCAA Star? Seven-Year-Old Runs 21:21 5K To Break Single-Age World Record

Pro Distance News

Recommended Read: Boulder Track Club’s Laura Thweatt “Is The Best Runner You Only Sort Of Know” Learn about the runner who went from never making NCAAs in college to running 15:04 and becoming one of the best 5K women in the US.
Great Interview With The US’s First And Only Olympic 10,000 Gold Medalist Billy Mills Read about the life/career of Mills, who talks about the shock of winning Olympic gold in 1964, setting the 6 mile WR, racing against Gerry Lindgren, his friendship with Mohammed Gammoudi and more.
Haile Gebrselassie Will Run The Bupa Great South Run 10 Miler On October 26th Not to be confused with the Great Scottish Run, the Great North Run or the Great East and West runs either.