Official TCS NYC Marathon Highlight Video (If you only want marathon highlights skip to the 1:30 mark)

Pro-Distance News

• Boulder Daily Camera Looks At Jenny Simpson’s Amazing Summer Season And How She Celebrated Afterwards Simpson describes riding a 2-mile toboggan slide in Switzerland, running to the top of the Eiffel Tower and her love for art.
• Cam Levins Talks About Being In The Oregon Project And Training With Galen Rupp And Mo Farah On first “easy” run with the group Levins said, “The last couple of miles were run in 5:15 or 5:20 and that was an easy run. I would never have thought to have even approach that pace for my easy runs.”
• In Wake Of Rita Jeptoo Drug Bust, Paula Radcliffe Calls For More Effective Testing In Kenya And Other “Black Hole” Areas She’s means regions in the world where there isn’t much out-of-competition blood testing.
• 17-Year-Old Alana Hadley Wins Indianapolis Monumental Marathon In 2:38:34 To Break Colleen De Reuck’s CR She won in cold and windy conditions. *MB Thread
• Will Leer Reflects On His 2014 Season Leer says the year was too long for him which was why he burned out a bit at the end.

• South African Prosecutors Officially File Appeal Over Oscar Pistorius Conviction And Sentence

• German Athletics Federation Rules That Disabled Athletes Can Compete At National Championships But Can’t Make National Teams This is in reaction to LJer Markus Rehm who won German Champs last year competing with a carbon-fiber blade.

• Cool Graphic: Watch Usain Bolt Race Against The Fastest Machines And Animals In The World Spoiler alert: he gets his ass kicked.
• Yohan Blake Back In Training On Comeback From Hamstring From Injury
• Former NY Giants Running Back David Wilson Serious About Moving To The TJ His football career ended because of a spinal injury, but the former All-American TJer is now training for the Rio Olympics.
• IAAF Work, Rest And Play Interview With Jamaica’s Youth Olympic 400m Gold Medalist Martin Manley His least favorite workouts: “Weights, because they are heavy …”

2014 TCS New York City Marathon *Tracking *Results *Photos

LRC  Wilson Kipsang The World’s Best Marathoner, Meb Keflezighi Impresses, 3 Americans In Top 10: Six Thoughts On The 2014 TCS New York City Marathon It came down to the final quarter and Wilson Kipsang was too good. Meb was top American in 4th. Top 40 results including Mark Coogan and German Silva in 39 and 40th.
*Interviews With Meb, Ryan Vail, Nick Arciniaga
*Top Results
*NY Times Recap Of Men’s Race *IAAF

LRC Official 2014 TCS New York City Marathon Live Discussion Thread Blow by blow as it’s happening.

More Marathon On The Boards: 

• Meb 4th, Top American Again, 10 minutes faster than 2013

• Bob Kennedy is back! Throws Down 7:21 Final Mile to Outkick Caroline Wozniacki

• USA Women: Who ya got for Rio

Late Night/Early Morning – Pre-Marathon Reading: LRC Renato Canova, One Of The Top Distance Coaches In The World, Writes About Rita Jeptoo And Doping In Kenya Canova coached Jeptoo when her career started.

Non-NYC Weekend Action

• South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka (2:08:43) And Ethiopia’s Tigist Tufa (2:21:52) Win Shanghai Marathon In CR Times Caroline Kilel was 2nd in the women’s race (2:25:22).
• Josh McDougal Wins Anthem Manchester City Half Marathon In 67:25 2008 Olympic Marathon Trials 7th placer Nate Jenkins was 3rd. *Results
• Down Goes Rupp: Matthew Maton Runs 14:45 To Take 10 Seconds Off Galen Rupp’s Course Record At Oregon State Meet *Discuss
• MB: Grant Fisher was 43 seconds off Ritz’s mark at Michigan State meet
• MileSplit High School XC Weekend Recap
• Josephat Kiprop (62:09) And Cynthia Limo (70:06) Win ABC Baringo Half Marathon In Kenya
• Komazawa University Makes It Four Straight National University Men’s Ekiden Titles
• Ethiopia’s Meseret Biru Wins Soweto Marathon (2:36:02)

• Sending The Wrong Message: Wisconsin High School Runner DQed For Helping A Collapsed Competitor Get To The Finish Line We understand DQing the runner who received aid, but see no reason to punish the runner who cost herself a lot of time and several places to help a competitor.
• IAAF Preview Tomorrow’s Shanghai Marathon: South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka Defends His Title Against A Deep Field Including Ethiopia’s Endeshaw Negesse (2:04:52) Also Kenya’s CGs runner-up Stephen Chemlany (2:06:24). The women’s field has Tigist Tufa (2:24:31), Eunice Kirwa (2:21:41), Mamitu Daska (1:08:20 half last month) Caroline Kilel (2nd at CGs).
• Athletics Weekly: Doha “Puts Eugene And Barcelona In The Shade” As It Dazzles In 2019 Worlds Bid
• Zimbabwe’s Collen Makaza And USA’s Emily Harrison Win IAU 50K World Trophy Final In Doha Michael Wardian was 6th.

Our Weekly Recap – Better Late Than Never

WTW Don’t Believe Doug Logan, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi Dies Too Young, 40-Year-Old Aces, And Jeff Nelson (Not Austin Tamagno) Is Still The Fastest Ever At Mt. SAC This week, we tell you not to believe everything Doug Logan (or the NY Times) tells you, remember Mbulaeni Mulaudzi at his finest and recall his stunning victory over a totally stacked field in 2009, determine that Jeff Nelson, not Austin Tamagno, is still the greatest in Mt. SAC history, and much more.