2:02:57!!!
– Dennis Kimetto speaking after setting the world record with 2:02:57 at the 2014 Berlin Marathon. No need anymore for the disclaimer, “The fastest time on a record-eligible course.”
- Kimettooooooooooo 2:02:57!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Congrats to Shalane Flanagan...
- Go to your local high school track and run a lap in 69.9 seconds.
- NOW do you not think a sub-2:00:00 marathon will happen?
- Where would your final run be?
- After collapsing near the finish, Alexa Efraimson finishes third in pro debut
Berlin Marathon*Photo Gallery*Complete Coverage Here *Berlin Results
LRC Dennis Kimetto 2:02:57: The 2:03:00 Barrier In The Marathon Is Gone Dennis Kimetto and Emmanuel Mutai put on a marathoning exhibition on the streets of Berlin and both broke the previous world record in the marathon and Kimetto was rewarded with a 2:02:57, the first sub-2:03:00 ever. *Video Highlights
*Elites React To Kimetto’s New WR On Twitter Wilson Kipsang: “1 year I was proud to carry the name of WRholder. Now I say congrats to my collegue Kimetto. #focusonNY #onedaymyrecordagain”
*Organizer Press Release *IAAF
Saturday XC Results
Roy Griak: #3-Ranked Michigan State Women Handily Win Roy Griack Invy Over #9 Iowa State Michigan State put 5 in the top 22. On the men’s side unheralded / unranked Southern Utah won over a slew of top-3o-ranked teams. They were lead by Nate Jewkes’ individual win over Craig Lutz. *Women’s Results*Men’s- AZ State’s Shelby Houlihan Gets Roy Griak Individual Win By 7 Seconds Over Baylor’s Rachel Johnson
- MB: Roy Griak 2014 *Unranked SUU wins 2014 Griak!! *Griak – why . times so slow?
- Stanford: Joe Rosa And Maksim Korolev Make Wrong Turn At Home Invy, Still Win Holding Hands In 23:16 Stanford sat most of their top runners, so only finished 3rd as Washington State won. Stanford women won as did Washington State’s Abby Regan. In her first race after signing with Nike, Alexa Efraimson had a big lead coming down the homestretch, but then collapsed twice (once right after the finish) and lost two spots, finishing 3rd. *Results
- MB: Alexa Efraimson finishes third in pro debut *Stanford. 24:25 wins in 2013 and 23:16 wins in 2014.
- OSU: Kirubel Erassa And Monika Juodeskaite Lead OSU To Cowboy Jamboree Sweep
Latest Doping Bans
- Five More Russians Get Banned For Doping Article doesn’t specify, but at least a couple of them are race walkers.
- Sweden’s Moroccan-Born 10K Champ Adil Bouafif Tests Positive
Sex Sells
Video: Aussie Hurdler/Model Michelle Jenneke Features In Top Gear Racing A Nissan GT-R Her sexy warmup routine video that went viral has got her way more sponsorship appearance opportunities than her actual sprinting.
High Jump News
- Just Wait A Second, Track Season Isn’t Over Yet:Mutaz Essa Barshim Says He Wants To Go For High Jump WR At Asian Games Less competition could actually help him since he doesn’t have to worry about jumping more heights to make sure he wins.
- RIP 94-Year-Old Dorothy Tyler, GB’s First Track Olympic Medalist Tyler won HJ silver in 1936.
Sprint / Field News
- Judge Stays Lawsuit By John Drummond Against Tyson Gay And USADA, Saying It Must Be Settled In Arbitration, Not Federal Court The case could to court depending on the outcome of arbitration.
- Yelena Isinbayeva Says She Will Not Compete In 2015, But Is Still Focused On Returning For Rio 2016 She’s only doing “light exercising” right now and says she won’t start full training until June 2015.
- Yohan Blake Recovering Well After Having Surgery On His Injured Hamstring, But No Timeline For His Return To Training
- Valerie Adams Has Successful Shoulder And Elbow Surgery
- UK 400 Hurdler Dai Greene Leaves His Longtime Coach Who Guided Him To World Champs Gold In 2011 Greene said it was mostly about moving to a different training location and trying something different since he’s struggled so much with injuries the past couple of years.
US Distance News
- Eugene’s Bid for 2019 World Outdoor Track & Field Championships Will Be Official Today We applaud Eugene for dreaming big even if we don’t think they should be selected for Worlds in 2019. Vin Lananna gets sh** done.
Galen Rupp And Michael Phelps The Most Drug Tested Athletes Of The Year By USADA Believe it or not, they are tested more than Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay. *Discuss In Our Forums- 2015 Boston Marathon Qualifier Acceptances Released – You Had To Run 1 Min. 2 Seconds Faster Than Qualifier To Get In Of course all LRCers made it with ease, being much faster than the qualifying time.
- Defending Champs Molly Huddle And Aaron Braun Return To .US National 12K Champs In November $100,000 will be on the line.
Marathon News: Blowout LRC Coverage Of This Weekend’s Berlin Marathon And Shalane Flanagan’s AR Attempt Coming
Chance Encounter With Geoffrey Mutai Helped Take Dennis Kimetto To The Top Of Tthe Marathon World Last year’s Tokyo and Chicago course record holder is running Berlin this weekend.- Runner’s World Guide To Fall 2014’s Top Marathoners They take a look at the top pros and where they are running.
- Amy Hastings Talks 2014 BofA Chicago Marathon
- 2012 Boston Champ Sharon Cherop To Take On Philly Half Winner Aberu Kebede At Next Month’s Frankfurt Marathon
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
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.
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
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.
Berlin Women
LRC Deena Kastor’s American Record Survives As Shalane Flanagan Runs 2:21:14, 2nd-Fastest Time Ever By An American, For Third At 2014 BMW Berlin Marathon Shalane Flanagan went for the AR in Berlin, but paid the price the second half. She was rewarded with a PR and the #2 time ever by an American and a third place finish as Tirfi Tsegaye (2:20:18) and Feyse Tadese (2:20:27) went 1-2 with PRs in front of Flanagan. *Video Highlights
*Shalane Flanagan Has No Regrets After Missing U.S. Marathon Record “We went big. I don’t race conservatively. We’d come to test our limits and we found out today where it was.”
Mo Farah’s Brother Faces Deportation From Britain To be clear, this is Mo’s brother Ahmed Farah. A separate person from Omar, who was recently arrested for attempted burglary and also not Mo’s twin, Hassan, who still lives in Somalia.
Africans Clean Up At The Asian Games
- Day 2: IAAF Day 2: Qatar’s Femi Ogunode Sets Asian 100m Record With 9.93 Apparently even the sprinters are African-born, though, as Ogunode is originally from Nigeria. He also just finished serving a 2-year doping ban in August.
- Ruth Chebet Gets Reinstated As Asian Games Steeple Champ After Having Her Medal Taken Away On Medal Stand For DQ She was DQed for stepping on the inside, but since she was way ahead and won by 4 seconds she was rightly reinstated.
- After Going Sub-10 For The First Time, Asian Games Champ Femi Ogunode Says He Can Beat Usain Bolt
- Day 1: IAAF Day 1:
Ethiopia’sUAE’s Alia Saeed Mohammed Took More Than 40 Seconds Off Her 10K NR To Win In 31:51 Top 3 in the men’s 5,000 were also former Africans (although to be fair, the winner was Moroccan rather than from Kenya or Ethiopia). - Controversial DQ In Women’s Steeple As
Kenya’sBahrain’s Ruth Jebet Loses Title After Stepping Outside The Track She ran 9:31, but the win would now go to China’s Li Zhenzhu, who ran 9:35. However, the IAAF recap has Jebet as the champ and doesn’t mention the DQ at all.
Ethiopia’s Pre-Race Favorite Belaynesh Oljira Wins Carrera de la Mujer 10K In Colombia She ran a CR of 33:52 (the race is at 8,600 ft. elevation). US’s Janet Cherobon-Bawcom was 9th (37:31).
High School XC: Alexa Efraimson’s First Race For Nike
Alexa Efraimson Talks About Collapsing At Stanford Invy In Her First Race As A Pro Efraimson said, “I sold out and gave it everything I have. As soon as I went down, I tried to recover as fast as I could and somehow get to the finish.”- DyeStat High School Weekend XC Recap
*Team Regional Rankings: *Boys *Girls
*Boys Individual Rankings Grant Fisher tops the list.
*Girls Rankings Recent Eritrean immigrant Weini Kelati is only ranked 10th, but consider Stephanie Jenks is ranked 5th and Kelati beat Jenks by 19 seconds in the WJ 3,000. - Dyestat Recap Of NXN Pre-Nationals Great Oak swept the boys and girls team race. They also had the individual winner in Destiny Collins. Gig Harbor’s Tristan Peloquin won the boys race.
Olympic News
- IOC Adds Anti-Discimination Clause To Host Contract They’re hoping to avoid a repeat of Russia’s anti-gay law controversy during the Sochi Winter Olympics.
- US 2024 Olympic Bid Gaining Ground, But USOC Still Not 100% Committed To Bidding If you didn’t already know, the USOC narrowed down potential bidders to Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Worlds 2019
- Eugene Officially Bids For 2019 IAAF World Outdoor Championships They face Doha and Barcelona and the IAAF will make it’s decision in November.
- Doha Claims Hosting 2019 IAAF World Championships Offers Opportunity In “Untapped Market” It will be very hard to compete financially with this bid.
Week That Was
WTW Deena, 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 FernandezRandom News
- Kona Underpants Run Organizers Going For World Record
The race is the Thursday before the Kona Ironman. Everyone wears underpants, although women can wear a sports bra. - 1980 Olympic 100m Champion Allan Wells Helped Inspire Lynsey Sharp’s Commonwealth Games Silver Medal Sharp’s dad was a sprinter with Wells back in the day.
- CNN: Christian Taylor Triple Jump Champ Profile The dude is a stud, great at the triple, long jump and not bad at 400.
- Ambassador Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Becomes Ambassador-At-Large For Jamaica
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
- 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
Philly RnR Half *Results*5K 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: 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.
NCAA XC News *Battle In Boston Results: Men, Women
LRC Oregon Men Dominate Battle In Beantown; Edward Cheserek And Eric Jenkins Go 1-2Cheserek and Ducks teammate Eric Jenkins went 1-2 in a slow men’s race as Oregon put four in the top six en route to a dominant win. The Ducks scored 24 to runner-up Syracuse’s 52, with Providence (79) and Georgetown (103) rounding out the top four. *Interviews With Cheserek, Jenkins, Andy Powell, Chris Fox
LRC Michigan Women Win Easily, BC’s Liv Westphal Gets Individual Title Michigan went 2-3-8 (Erin Finn, Shannon Osika, Brook Handler) to win on the women’s side, scoring 55 to runner-up Georgetown’s 77. Syracuse (134) and Boston College (192) were a distant third and fourth.
*Interviews With Liz Westphal, Erin Finn, Mike McGuire, Dana Giordano
Coast To Coast Battle In Beantown Message Board Thread Here
- This Week’s NCAA MB Chatter: *MB: Battle in Beantown this Friday (D1 XC) *MB: NCAA XC Dark Horse Pick?
(Mostly Women’s) Distance News
Good Read From RW:“10 Things We Learned From Deena Kastor Over Lunch” Some interesting tidbits from Kastor talking about her masters WR, the mental side of running and more. Sometimes she does a final stride before the start, not for warming up, but to psyche out her opponents.- Athletics Weekly Writer Angered UKA Will Only Take Men Who Can Make Top 30 At World XC Champs “Do we avoid the Africans like cowards and deprive British athletes of experience on the world stage?”
*MB: Pathetic: Great Britain’s new motto – “If you can’t win, then don’t try at all.” What a horrible message to send! - Cory McGee Joins New Balance Boston; Will Be Coached By Mark Coogan And Training With Abbey D’Agostino
- Q&A With Kim Smith, Who Is Recovering From Foot Surgery As a teenager she got to run with Arthur Lydiard as her best friend and sister were coached by him.
- Zola Budd Taking Comrades Marathon Officials To Court Over Her Disqualification From The Masters Race She was DQed from the masters race back in June for not wearing a separate age category tag on her vest.
Upcoming Road Action
- Sunday: World Champs 10K Bronze Medalist Belaynesh Oljira And 66:09 Half Marathoner Lucy Kabuu Lead Field For Carrera de la Mujer 10K In Bogota, Colombia The US will get representation from Janet Cherobon-Bawcom.
- Sunday: Stephanie Rothstein Bruce Blogs About Her Husband Ben Bruce’s Marathon Prep Ahead Of The Montreal Marathon She’s bummed the forecast is for hot weather as he was hoping to run fast.
- Oct. 19: Ethiopia’s CR Holder Meseret Hailu (2:21:09) And Kenya’s Commonwealth Games Champ Flomena Cheyech (2:22:44) Will Duke It Out At Amsterdam Marathon
Previous NCAA XC News
- LRC 2014 NCAA Cross-Country LRC Pre-Season Fan Polls: Colorado Men And Michigan Women #1
- Good Read: RRW: “Emma Bates’s Forest Fire”
- USTFCCA Weekend Preview: Roy Griak Features Interesting Matchup B/W Three Track Champs: Emma Bates (10K), Shelby Houlihan (1,500), Leah O’Connor (Steeple) Article also gives a unique metaphor to explain the somewhat complicated qualification process for NCAA Champs.
- Mason Ferlic And The Other Michigan Captains Helped Stabilize Team During Tranistion Period After Alex Gibby Was Fired In June
Distance News
Ben True Focused On Training For 2015 World XC Champs, Where He’ll Try To Replicate His Success From 2013 In 2013, True ran great, finishing 6th as the first non-African, leading the US to a surprise silver. He’s going to be doing altitude training for the first time in Guiyang China at 4,000ft.- Kara Goucher Blogs About Her Return To Racing At The RnR Philadelphia Half Last Weekend It was her first race in 15 months and she said, “It’s strange to come back to racing and run a time that is not your best, or even close to your best (my PR is 66:57), but to accept the time. The competitor in me is a bit embarrassed but the realist in me is satisfied.”
- Talking About His Disappointing Season, Asbel Kiprop Says He Had Some “Personal Domestic Issues” That Were A Distraction “As much as I trained hard I just couldn’t concentrate on my races owing to these problems. I just couldn’t take them off my head.”
- Asian Games Long Distance Preview
Blue Collar
LRC Wannabe Distance God Book Review And Blue Collar Runner Of The Month #2 Unless you ran in the Big 8 Conference in the early 1980s, you’ve probably never heard of Timothy Tays. His book, Wannabe Distance God, explains what it was like for him to run under the legendary Bob Timmons (Jim Ryun‘s coach) at Kansas and how he (like many LRCers, we suspect) struggled to come to terms with the fact that he was never going to be one of the world’s elite. Tays’ story is compelling and his passion for the sport and desire for greatness make him our September Blue Collar Runner of the Month.
Previous BCRM: A Real Running Hero: The Flo Groberg Story Former Maryland track and field and cross-country runner Flo Groberg helped thwart a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. This is his story.
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.” His big goal is a sub 19 200m. 
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
USA 5K Championships *Top 20 US Results*Top 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.
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