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Enough Left For One More?

“It’s been pretty much a dream year for me. As an athlete you have to be grateful when the goals you had at the beginning of the year are all checked off and there’s nothing left. So for me, it’s rare. I haven’t had a season where it’s gone so smoothly before. … I definitely hit the roads hard this year. I enjoy the road racing a lot, but I will say I’m getting kind of tired. I’m feeling the effects of the extra races, and I’ll be glad to be done at the end of November.”

– Molly Huddle talking ahead of her title defense at Sunday’s .US 12K Champs. Huddle has had an amazing year with an American record and US title at 5,000m on the track and three US road titles. If she wins Sunday, she’ll become the first to win four US road titles in one year. *Live Stream Starts At 7:05AM

.US 12K Champs *Results

RRWRecap & Results:Molly Huddle Dominates As Unknown Brian Shrader Wins Men’s RaceHuddle won with a comfortable 13-second lead over Emily Sisson while NAU All-American Shrader won in a sprint finish with Diego Estrada and Aaron Braun. Huddle and Christo Landry finish the year as the overall USARC series winners.
*MB: What can you tell me about Brian Shrader? Just won US 12K Champs.

Pre-Race

RRW:USA Road Circuit Title And A $45,000 Payday Within Reach For Sara Hall At .US 12-K Championships Hall is the overall leader despite never winning a USARC race this year, but only 2 points ahead of Molly Huddle and Brianne Nelson.
Molly Huddle Looking To End A “Dream Year” With A Win At .US 12K Champs She talks about being a pre-race worrier, running the marathon before 2016 and her season which included an American Record at 5,000 and 4 US titles.
Pre-Race Press Conference With Molly Huddle, Sara Hall, Aaron Braun And Christo Landry Huddle and Landry are trying to become the first to win 4 US road titles in one year.
Joan Benoit Samuelson Running The Masters Race At .US 12K Champs
MB:Us National 12K – Who you got?

Previous .US 12K Champs News

Q&A With Christo Landry, Who Has Already Clinched USA Running Circuit Points Title Before .US 12k Champs Landry has had a dream year with US titles at 10k, 10 mile and 25k plus a marathon PR.
Q&A With Kim Conley, Who Is Running Sunday’s .US 12k
Q&A: Aaron Braun Looking To Defend His Title At .US 12K Champs This Sunday Braun is in good shape as this is the focus of his fall season. He’s planning his second marathon this winter or spring after his debut in March was a total bust (2:19:51).

Pre-NCAA Regional News

New LRC NCAA Fan Polls Regional Rankings / Predictions Colorado A Unanimous #1, Michigan State Still On Top
LRC Who Gets In If We Use The Butler Projections Instead Of The Rankings?
LRC Women’s Preview: Who’s Going (And Not Going) To NCAAs?
LRC 2014 Men’s Cross-Country Preview: Who’s On Track To Qualify For The Big Dance?
MB:Duke Men and Women Forfeit Regional – will run only individuals. PATHETIC in our minds.
Iowa State’s Crystal Nelson’s Rise To NCAA XC Contender Has Surprised Even Herself
Q&A With Walt Drenth, Coach Of #1 Mich. State Women – “It’s been a blast to coach them.”
Only 6 Irish Athletes In Class Of 2014 Went To NCAA For College But Many Of Them Are Starring At RegionalsSiofra Cleirigh Buttner of Villanova, who was 12th at Big East, is one of them.
Ole Miss’s 2nd-Place Showing At SECs Was Best Since 1968 – A Look Back At The 1968 Ole Miss XC Team
Good Read Eastern Michigan Men Aren’t Likely To Make It, But They Are Still Dreaming Big

AOY?

A Look At What The World Athlete Of The Year Men’s Finalists – Renaud Lavillenie, Dennis Kimetto And Mutaz Essa Barshim – Achieved In 2014

Track People Making News Unrelated To Running

News From Europe

Evan Jager, Watch Out: Bouabdellah Tahri – Who Won Bronze In 2009 But Hasn’t Steepled In 3 Years – Is Returning To The Event
Gosforth Harriers Running 140-Mile Relay To Raise Money For Paralyzed Drew Graham The 15-time NCAA XC All-American at Adams St. broke his neck this summer. *Donate Here
South Africans Slam British Tabloids For Erroneously Spreading Rumor That Oscar P Can’t Be Monitored At Home As He Has No Ankles For An Ankle Bracelet
Apparently White Boys Can SprintDid You Know That 17-Year-Old Brit Tom Somers Ran 20.37 For 200 This Summer?
Brit Wants Doha To Get 2019 Worlds As Marathon In Heat “Would Be Great Race” Heat certainly would be the “X” factor. “It can make for unexpected things to happen and that should be part of racing.”

Japanese News: Japanese Team For Chiba Ekiden Released – Murayama Twins Lead Way For Nov. 24th Event

Distance Legends In The News

Hicham El Guerrouj Among Twelve Latest Inductees Into IAAF Hall Of Fame
Full Profile And Interview With Tegla Loroupe, The First African Woman To Win The NYC Marathon She is someone who used her running success to improve things back in Kenya, saying, “…Yesterday you were poor, and today you are rich. What makes you forget where you come from? Go and empower the people over there, be the person of the people.”

NCAA XC Regionals LRC Men’s PreviewLRC Women’s Preview All DI Regional Results All NCAA Results

Official List Of Qualifiers Released, Including At-Large Individuals

LRC Who Goes Dancing? NCAA XC National Qualifiers (Team And Individual) With AnalysisWe list all the team and individual qualifiers for the Big Dance and give quick analysis of each of the region’s action.

LRCWomen’s Qualifers Who is in? Who is out?

LRCMen’s Qualifiers We’ve unofficially figured out the 13 at-large teams thanks to the genius of Bo Waggoner.

LRCNCAA Regionals Live Coverage

DIII: A Look At The Official Division III NCAA Team Qualifiers And Who Might Get The At-Large Spots*All Results

Not Your Everyday Pro Running News

MB: Gerry Lindgren’s hilarious advice to middle of the pack runners
At Least We Know He Wasn’t Doping:Lance Armstrong Tries The Beer Mile, DNFs After First Lap*Discuss
US Sprinter And Former NCAA Champ Aurieyall Scott Arrested For Robbery And Battery Scott (a 7-time All-American for UCF) tried to steal items from a Walmart and then punched a store manager and fled after she was discovered. *MB Thread
Oscar Pistorius Sharing Exercise Equipment And Exercising With Notorious Gangster In Prison Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir is in jail on kidnapping and attempted murder charges.
Bad: Jessica Ennis Is Sent Rape Tweet In Response To Her Stance On Sheffield United Stadium Controversy She spoke out on Sheffield United signing convicted rapist Chad Evans and one fan reacted by tweeting, “I hope he [Evans] rapes her.”

Outside NCAA Coverage

Maksim Korolev Outruns Edward Cheserek Apparently Cheserek shut it down after he saw he wouldn’t catch Korolev.
Oregon Men And Women Sweep West Regional For First Time In 26 Years The men beat Portland by 11 points led by Cheserek and Eric Jenkins 2-3 finish, while the women were 15 points ahead of Boise State and Stanford.
Shelby Houlihan Wins West Over Emma Bates And Elise Cranny She beat Bates by just under 3 seconds while Cranny was 14 seconds back.
Colorado Men And Women Sweep Mountain Both teams put 5 runners in the top 13 to win comfortably.
Anthony Rotich Wins Mountain Regional Helping UTEP Get A Surprise Berth To NCAAs Their first since 2007.
#1 Michigan State Women Capture Great Lakes Regional They were led by Leah O’Connor‘s and Rachele Schulist‘s 1-2 finish.
William & Mary Women Win XC Regional For 1st Time They won the Southeast by 8 pts. The W&M men only finished 12th.
Iona Women Win First-Ever Regional Meet, Led By Kate Avery’s Individual Victory Providence was a distant 2nd and Dartmouth 3rd.
Syracuse Men Win NE Regional Over Providence And Iona Syracuse won even sitting two of their top runners.
Virginia Men And Women Qualify For NCAAs The men won the Southeast Regional while the women were 2nd.
Badger Men Win Great Lakes Regional
Badger Women Run Down Automatic NCAA Berth
Longhorn Men Advance To Nationals They finished 9 points behind Arkansas.

NCAA OTB

US News Of Note

Suzy Hamilton To Publish Memoir In JuneFast Girl, Running from Madness comes out in June. *Pre-Order Here We predicted this way back in July.
Portland Track Festival Adds Two Meets, Including The “Portland 10,000” On August 8 – Will Any Big Pros Show?
Rich Kenah Reveals Atlanta Track Club’s Deal With Mizuno Includes Huge Elite Athlete Component The ATC is looking to hire a full-time coach by January 1 and wants to have one male and one female Olympian by 2020. *Press Release
Sports Illustrated’s Tim Layden Says Eugene Is The Right Place For The 2019 Worlds (And Vin Lananna Agrees) Lananna: “We do track and field. We will bring an authenticity to the event … We’re twenty-four, seven, three-sixty-five.” Meanwhile the #1 Oregon – #2 Colorado matchup wasn’t even on the Eugene paper’s website.
*Qatari School Children Show Support For Doha 2019 IAAF World Championships Bid
The Rich Get Richer: HS Star Grant Fisher Commits To Stanford
Houston Marathon Foundation Will Give A Total Of $40,000 To Becky Wade, ZAP Fitness And Team USA Minnesota
Manteo Mitchell Has Signed A Sponsorship Deal With Baltimore-Based Under Armour

Week That Was

LRCWeek That Was: Frank Shorter Is Full Of It (Or Right?); Drugs, Drugs, Drugs; Ryan Hall Vs. Josh McDougal & Ingrid Kristiansen

We look at whether the Kenyans are only good because they cheat in light of Frank Shorter's comments, plus we compare Ryan Hall and Josh McDougal, and look at throwback Ingrid Kristiansen.

A Look At What The World Athlete Of The Year Women’s Finalists – Val Adams, Genzebe Dibaba, Dafne Schippers – Achieved In 2014*Video

Atlanta Track Club And Mizuno Announce Long-Term Partnership Mizuno will be the Official Footwear and Apparel Partner of Atlanta Track Club starting in January and the deal is being promoted as “More than a Sponsorship: A long-term commitment to the Atlanta community.” *Video

Track Fans, Just Remember You’re Not Alone:A Total Of 358 Million Watched The 2014 European Championships On TV

Bringing Lydiard To The Masses – Run Faster By Running More Relaxed

LRCBook Review: 80/20 Running By Matt Fitzgerald Another book by prolific author Matt Fitzgerald is out, but this one, which once had the proposed title of High Mileage Manifesto, intrigued us so much Robert Johnsonwrote the foreword as it attempts to bring Lydiard to the masses. “It would have been nice if this book had existed from late 198os to the late 1990s, during the dark days of American distance running.”
*MB: Matt Fitzgerald’s new book 80/20 Running – Rojo what can u tell us about this book since you wrote the foreward

Sunday’s International Action

Stacked Fields For Atapuerca XC Race:All Three World XC Medalists In Japhet Korir, Imane Merga And Teklemariam Medhin Also Muktar Edris (12:54.83), 2011 World 10,000m champ Ibrahim Jeilan, and others. Wome: World XC medalistsHiwot Ayalew and Belaynesh Oljira and World 5,000 silver medalist Mercy Cherono.
Yokohama Women’s Marathon: Olympic Champ Tiki Gelana Will Try To Break Out Of Her Slump Tomorrow Gelana faces 2:23 Kenyans Philes Ongori and Caroline Rotich and Japan’s cross-country skier-turned-marathoner, Azusa Nojiri (2:24:57).
Valencia Marathon: Felix Kipkemboi Returns To Defend His Title After Setting A Spanish All-Comers’ Record Of 2:07:14 Last Year He faces KenyansJacob Kendagor (2:07:53), Stephen Tum (2:06:35) and Albert Matebor (2:05:25 3 years ago). Kenya’s Emily Samoei (2:26:52) leads women’s race.
Istanbul Marathon:Ethiopia’s Bazu Worku (2:05:25) Faces A Slew Of Sub-2:10 Kenyans Including Josphat Muchiri Ndambiri And William Chebor Women’s field has Russia’s Olympic bronze medalist Tatyana Arkhipova (2:23:29) and Ethiopians Amane Gobena (2:23:50) and Merima Mohammed (2:23:06).
Feb. 21: Mo Farah Plans To Open Up 2015 Season At Birmingham Grand Prix