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Women’s Distance News

• Sarah Brown And Her Husband Talk About Training Through Pregnancy And How They Were Initially Confused Why She Was Running Poorly This Summer Before they knew she was pregnant, her husband thought it was mental and Sarah said, “I thought I needed to woman up.” Turned out she was 6 weeks pregnant
• Suzy Favor Hamilton Blogs About How To Deal With Pre-Race Anxiety
• GB’s Gemma Steel Undecided Whether She’ll Try To Run The 10K Or Marathon In Rio 2016 Given she hasn’t even run a marathon yet and has no immediate plans to make her debut, she probably should stick to the 10K.
• Carrie Tollefson Interviews Molly Huddle On Her Recent Road Racing Season And Hopes For 2016 Huddle has racked up an impressive 17 US titles.
• Q&A With Tollefson About Running During Pregnancy As She Prepares To Have Her Third Child She no longer competes as a pro, but still trains and is running 20-30 miles a week during her pregnancy.

General Track Stuff

• Very Cool: Interactive Map Shows Where Ever World Championships Medal Has Gone Since 1983 Break it down by event and gender.
• Voting Process For 2015 IAAF Athlete Of The Year Underway The first list of finalists will have 9 men and women and be announced in November.
  *Remember, Past Dopers Like Justin Gatlin Aren’t Eligible This is a new rule after there was an uproar when Gatlin was nominated last year.
• Seb Coe Supports Idea For An Athletics League In The Style Of Crikcet’s Indian Premier League There would be inter-city competitions with athletes like Usain Bolt and David Rudisha representing whichever city was willing to pay for them.
• Seb Coe Signs Agreement For New Training Center In India

International Sprint News

• Thirty Years Ago East German Marita Koch Ran The Still-Standing 400m WR Of 47.60; BBC Asks “Can We Believe It Was Genuine?” About 90% of LetsRunners will tell you, “Hell, no.”
  *BBC Audio Discussion There is evidence that Koch cheated, but the IAAF can’t use it because of the WADA 10-year statute of limitations. Even so, the IAAF didn’t have to induct her into the Hall of Fame.
• Oscar Pistorius’ Family Criticizes South African Authorities For “Undermining” His Rights By Delaying His Parole Hearing
• Former World Champ Kim Collins Says “Politics” Is Hindering Growth Of Track In St. Kitts And Nevis Collins was infamously sent home from the London Olympics for having a conjugal visit with his wife.
• GB 400 Hurdler Eilidh Child Getting Married This Month And Then Looking Ahead To 2016 The Commonwealth Games silver medalist was really disappointed to finish 6th at Worlds and wants to medal in Rio.
• Ato Boldon Interviews Nambian Legendary Sprinter (And His Former Rival) Frankie Fredericks Fredericks was the 1993 World 200 champ and still has the 200m indoor WR.
• Jumps: GB High Jump Record Holder Isobel Pooley More Motivated Than Ever After Raising The Bar In 2015 She was hoping for a top-8 finish at Worlds, but tore a ligament in her ankle in training and didn’t make the final.

The Integrity Of Our Sport And The At-Large Process Is At Stake

LRCNCAA XC Weekend Recap: Wisconsin Jeopardized The At-Large Process And Should Be DQed From Louisville + No. 1 Colorado Debuts And The Six-Man XC Team That Beat Everyone At Notre Dame

Doping News

• Rita Jeptoo’s Former Coach, Claudio Berardelli, Has His Contract Terminated After Another One Of His Athletes Fails Drug Test Berardelli was with the management company run by Federico Rosa. Rosa didn’t think the coach was complicit, but wasn’t “paying enough attention to his own athletes.”
• Olympic Figure Skating Bronze Medalist Carolina Kostner Has Her 16-Month Suspension Extended By 5 Months By CAS She was banned for helping cover up for her ex-doping boyfriend, Olympic race walk champion Alex Schwazer.
• Seb Coe: “We take [anti-doping] very, very seriously and we need to make sure that the public believe what they watch in a stadium is legitimate.” Coe also compared Usain Bolt eventually retiring to Muhammad Ali and pointed out how everyone thought boxing would be in trouble when Ali retired, but it was fine.
• Coe Says Independent, Faster Drug Testing Is Coming

2015 NCAA XC Action Heats Up – A Great Weekend Of Action *Rocky Mount. Results *Louisville Results *Princeton Results *UW Results *Notre Dame Results *Paul Short Results *All Results

Rocky Mountain Shootout: Mark Wetmore Thrilled As His #1 Men And #2 Women Roll Ben Saarel ran unattached as apparently he’s coming back from injury. *Results
*Can Colorado Sweep NCAAs? Mark Wetmore: “You’d be surprised how little we talk about that. I don’t have any pep talks or rah-rah speeches in me. They know what’s on the line …”
*MB: Colorado debuts at Shootout, thoughts?

Louisville: Erin Finn And Michigan Women Win, Mason Ferlic And Iona Men Win (Results)

Princeton: 2015 Princeton Inter-Regional Cross-Country Results – #28 Princeton Women Beat 3 Ranked Teams, #19 Indiana Men Win (Results) The women of Princeton upended No. 18 William & Mary, No. 21 North Carolina and No. 25 Villanova.

UW: Oregon Ducks Claim Team Titles, Edward Cheserek And Aisling Cuffe Win Individual Titles (Results) Lots of big names ran but lots didn’t (Elise Cranny, Jim Rosa, Sean McGorty, Grant Fisher, Jake Leingang and Blake Haney). Sub-4 frosh Matthew Maton was 8th.

Notre Dame: UTEP And New Mexico Roll, Anthony Rotich And Super-Frosh Ryen Frazier Take Individual Titles (Results) UTEP’s super-frosh Jonah Koech (1:46 PR) was 3rd.

Paul Short: GTown Men Upset Villanova (Results) Patrick Tiernan and ‘Nova went 1-2 but still lost to the Hoyas.

Arkansas: Arkansas Men And Women Dominate Chile Pepper Invy Dominique Scott dominated the women’s race while Tulsa’s Marc Scott won the men’s.

Kansas: Iowa State Men And Kansas Women Win Rim Rock Classic

USTFCCCA Recap of weekend action

HS: MileSplit Weekend HS Rundown

• Pre-Race News: LRC NCAA Weekend XC Preview: No. 1s Colorado And New Mexico To Debut, Stanford Vs. Oregon, And Much More
• Q&A With Oregon Super-Frosh Matthew Maton Before His Collegiate Debut He says his training is different now as he now is “focused on the workout days, rather than every day needing to be a hard effort.”

MB Talk: Official 10/2-10/3 Weekend NCAA XC Talk – Notre Dame, Paul Short, UW, Rocky Mountain, etc.

• MB: Colorado debuts at Shootout, thoughts?
• MB: What the heck is wrong with the Wisconsin men? (only 7th at Louisville)
• MB: Matthew Maton and Tanner Anderson impress in collegiate debuts
• MB: Baxter, Sarah welcome to college!

More Distance News

• Good Read: Jenny Simpson And Shannon Rowbury Share Their Experiences And Give Advice On Racing In A Pack Some free coaching advice from two of the best.
• Haile Gebrselassie Hosts Hour-Long Radio Show For “Radio Everyone” Geb plays some of his favorite music and interviews former Olympic champ Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
• Steepler Lalita Babar Trying To Win An Olympic Medal For India At Rio 2016 At Worlds, she set a NR to make the final, where she finished 8th.
• Kenyan Jonathan Ndiku Runs 13:13 To Highlight Weekend Track Action In Japan
• Motivated By Alysia Montano’s 2014 US Champs Run, IOC Doing Research On Pregnancy And Elite Athletes
• Kurashiki H.S. And Okazaki Gakuen H.S. Win First Kurayoshi Ekiden Titles

News From Europe

• Truly Mind-Blowing 52-Year-Old Marathoner Steve Edwards Has A New Goal – 1,000 Marathons In A Sub-3:20 Average Finish Time! He’s run 684 and the first 600 were at an average of 3:15.
• Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne And Munich Marathon Organizers Ask German Olympic Federation To Reconsider Not Sending Philipp Pflieger (2:12:50 In Debut) To Olympics The Germans have stupidly set their standard at 2:12:15. *MB: Unreal: Germany’s Philipp Pflieger debuted in Berlin at 2:12:50 – Olympic federation says he can’t go to the Olympics
• World Javelin Champ Katharina Molitor Is Also A Professional Volleyball Player
• 20-Year-Old 12.84 Hurdler Lucy Hatton Turns To Crowdfunding For Rio 2016 Olympic bid She’s already raised £1,520 but should have come to the NCAA. She’d be a star and have everything paid for until she was 22. Donate here.

Shoe Brand/Store News

• Interesting Read: GQ: Sneaker Wars: Inside The Battle Between Nike And Adidas Stealing battling for endorsers, stealing employees and filing lawsuits, this rivalry puts the one between Jenny Simpson and Shannon Rowbury to shame.
• Turf War Between Nike And Under Armour Gets Political In Portland Nike irate that Under Armour will pay for and sponsor new soccer fields in two Portland parks. Portland mayor even stepped in to try and stop the parks & recreation commissioner from going through with it.
• Running Store Owner And Employee Chase Down Vandal Who Had Been Shooting At Windows Afterwards they acknowledged that they were lucky the 6-foot-2 and 265-pound criminal decided to run first and fight second.
• Boulder Running Company Stores To Be Re-Branded JackRabbit The Running Specialty Group wants its stores unified under one brand rather than 20 different names as they’ve acquired local stores around the country. If they want to be tottally honest, Finish Line might be a better name as that’s who owns them.