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LRC Dealing With Depression: How I Got Past Suicidal Thoughts While Running In College For a while, life didn’t feel real to Nico Composto – it existed entirely in his head. Might a fall from the 12th floor window make all the pain go away? Thankfully, Composto realized that suicide wasn’t the answer. He shares his powerful story of how he overcame suicidal thoughts out of a desire to help others.

More Action/News From Last Weekend

• Kenneth Mungara Broke His Own Masters Marathon WR At Gold Coast Marathon By 2 Seconds – 2:08:42
• Japan’s Risa Takenaka Wins Women’s Race At Gold Coast (2:28:25)
• Andy Wacker And US Men Get Individual And Team Silver At World Mountain Running Champs, Women Get Bronze
• Rich Kenah Talks About His Vision For The Atlanta Track Club – To Develop Olympians And Provide Running Opportunities For The Community

Latest Evan Jager News

Evan Jager Is Headed Back To Park City For Altitude Training – Not Planning On Changing Much – “Of course, I’m happy I made the Kenyans worried.”
*MB: New Evan Jager interview: “I just couldn’t believe how fast I was running.”

LRC Evan Jager 8:00.43 American Record Paris Steeplechase Photo Gallery

2015 British Athletics Championships *Schedule / Results

• IAAF Recap Of British Champs Dina Asher-Smith set a meet record in the 100 (11.08), Christine Ohuruogu was beaten and only ran 52.04, Laura Muir won the 1,500 by running a 60 from 700 to 1,100.
• Chijindu Ujah Wins Men’s 100 In 10.10
• Isobel Pooley Equals The British High Jump Record With 1.97m
• Greg Rutherford Wins LJ But Isn’t Happy – “I cannot ‘jump like a doughnut’ if I’m to win World Championships.”
• US-Born Sisters Tiffany Porter And Cindy Ofili Go 1-2 At British Championships
• Zharnel Hughes Wins 200 In 20.42
• Zharnel Hughes’ First Runs For GBR Result In Fastest Times In 200m Heats (20.55) He let up in the last 40m. 20.55 wouldn’t even make the final at USAs but is the fastest in GBR.
• Zharnel Hughes Shrugs Off “Plastic Brit” Tag After Winning 200m Heat
• 19-Year-Old Dina Asher-Smith Is Doing Well Balancing College And Running As She’s Aready Run 11.02 British Record This Year
• Holly Bradshaw (Bleasdale) Is Back In Vault After 16 Months Away From Competition
• Heptathlon Stars Jessica Ennis-Hill And Katarina Johnson-Thompson Will Finally Battle On Sunday (In 100H)
• Chris Tomlinson Hasn’t Broken 8.00m This Year

2015 Canadian Champs *Schedule / Results *Free Streaming

• LRC Fiona Benson Wins Tactical Canadian 800m Title In 2:08.52 – Corey Bellemore Wins Men’s Title
• LRC Thomas Riva, Nicole Sifuentes Win 2015 Canadian 1,500 Titles – Nate Brannen Only 5th, Cam Levins 6th (includes race video) Sheila Reid was 4th in the women’s.
  *MB: Levins vs Brannen in Canadian Nationals 1500m Today. Who Wins?
  *MB: Cam Levins just ran a 4:07 for 6th place in 1500m Canadian Nationals
• Andre De Grasse Wins 100m Title In 9.95 Matt Hughes has won the steeple.
• Cam Levins Beats Mo Ahmed To Win 5k, Nicole Sifuentes Wins w5k
• Pre-Meet: Canada’s Fastest Man Andre De Grasse Hopes To Put Canadian Sprinting Back In Spotlight “I’m capable of competing against the big dogs. Canadian sprinting hasn’t been around for what? Maybe 15 years. No one knows about Canada any more. Everyone’s hearing about the U.S. running fast, Jamaica running fast. I want Canada to be back up there.”
• Preview Of Women’s 800: Can Upstart Fiona Benson Beat Olympians Melissa Bishop And Jessica Smith? Annie LeBlanc, aka Mary Cain slayer, will also race.
• Preview Of Women’s 1,500 Former NCAA champ Sheila Reid will battle World Indoor bronze medalist Nicole Sifuentes and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Kate Van Buskirk.

Sergey Bubka Says He’d Have “Zero Tolerance For Doping” In Athletics And Pledges Reforms If Elected IAAF President “There is no excuse” for doping, he said.

Sprint News

• LRC Wayde Van Niekerk’s 43.97 African Record Lasts Less Than 24 Hours As Isaac Makwala Runs 43.72 (includes race video)
• 21-Year-Od Henricho Bruintjies Sets A New SA 100-Meter Record Of 9.97 In Switzerland His previous best was 10.06.
• Crazy Stat: Asafa Powell Has Twice As Many Sub-10 100s As Usain Bolt In His Career Powell has done it 88 times, Bolt is #3 at 33. Maurice Greene did it 53 times.
• After Running 10.80 To Finish 2nd In Paris 100m, Blessing Okagbare Will Long Jump For 1st Time In 2015 In Lausanne

Distance Women

• Lengthy TFN Q&A With Jenny Simpson Simpson’s parents are going on the TFN trip to Beijing to watch her run the World Champs
• RIP: RW: Friends Honor The Memory Of Former Dartmouth Runner And Women’s Rights Advocate Nina Brekelmans, Who Died At 25 In Washington, DC Fire
  *Washington Post Article On Brekelemans She’d recently received a Fulbright grant and was going to research Jordan’s distance runners.
  *House Where Fire Took Place Had No Rental License
  *Obituary