Wisco Was Friday / Pre-Nats Is Saturday *Pre-Nats Results *Live Wisco Results *Full NCAA Results *Pre-Nats Preview *Wisco Preview

LRC Pre-Nats Results: CU and Thomas Curtin Winn Men’s Race, Erin Clark (CU) and Michigan Win Women’s
*Thomas Curtin and Edward Cheserek talk after 2015 Pre-Nats

MB: Official 2015 Pre-Nats Discussion Thread – King Ches just got beat by Thomas Curtin 

LRC Wisconsin adidas Invitational Recap: New Mexico Women (32 Points) Crush It; Wins For Syracuse Men (101 Points), Frosh Allie Ostrander (19:21 CR) And Marc Scott (23:35) We break down the biggest regular season meet of the year. Who flopped? Who surprised? We tell you.

MB: Official Live Wisconsin Invite Thread 2015 The New Mexico women have crushed it and we have a freshman winner, but not the one you think as Ryen Frazier was 38th. Syracuse wins the men’s race as does Marc Scott of Tulsa 

• Oregon Running Pre-Nats As They Want To See The Course – Only 2 Women From Oregon Women’s 2012 Title Team In Louisville Remain
• Coach Johnson Is Thrilled The Man Who Threw A Rock At Molly Grabill’s Car Has Been Sentenced To 70 Months In Prison

Athletics Kenya Drama

• Kenya Is In Danger Of Losing The 2017 IAAF World Youth Championships As Their Budget Hasn’t Been Approved By The Government As of now they have no money to start planning and are hoping the budget is approved before the IAAF sends inspectors to check-up on things.
• AK Plans Farewell Party For Long Serving President Isaiah Kiplagat Many will be celebrating that he’s leaving.

De Grasse Not Going Pro?! Or Going Pro?

Andre De Grasse’s Mom Denies Report He Is Going Pro Earlier we had the news that the Toronto Star reported that Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse was going pro. Now his mother is denying the report and said De Grasse doesn’t even have an agent. Further proof very little good has come out of Toronto this week. *Discuss

News From South Africa

• Oscar Pistorius To Be Released From Prison On Tuesday He’ll be moved to house arrest until the prosecutions appeal is heard on November 3rd.
• Opinion: Oscar Pistorius Is Going Home. Reeva Steenkamp Is Not
• MB: Lock your doors, protect the women and children – Oscar P’s getting out of prison on Tuesday

2016 World Indoor News

• Medal Ceremonies For 2016 World Indoors Will “Take Place On The Other Side Of The Willamette River, At Pioneer Courthouse Square” Lannana hopes to have a live symphony orchestra play the national anthems.
• Allyson Felix And Jason Richardson Confirm They Want To Compete At 2016 World Indoors Richardson and Felix filmed commercials for the event.

News From Kenya

• The Spring Marathon Season Just Got Weaker: Kenya Says 2016 Olympic Marathoners Can’t Run Any Marathons After February Stupidly, the deadline appears to be February 14th, ruling out Tokyo. Many press reports are saying Kenya will run an Olympic Trials. We haven’t read anything that makes us believe that is true as David Okeyo said, “We are coming up with a plan and policy which is being developed and as soon as we agree, we will let you know the best way we will select the marathoners.”
• AK Lifts Ban On Rosa Associates And Volare Sports “For The Sake Of Athletes” Supposedly they’d been banned for ties to doping.

Elite Men’s Distance News

• Mo Farah’s Wife Gives Birth To Baby – A Boy
  *MB: Mo Farah’s Wife Gives Birth To A Baby Boy!
• Luke Puskedra Latest Addition To Rare Group Of Fast Marathoners Over Six Feet Tall Despite the rarity, Wilson Kipsang and Dennis Kimetto are both 6 ft. There are also two elite women marathoners over 6 ft.
• Haile Gebrselassie Wins Athletics Weekly Poll To Decide The All-Time Greatest Men’s Distance Runner Geb finished with an impressive 45.6% of the vote with Emil Zatopek second (20.3%), Kenenisa Bekele third (15.2%) and Mo Farah fourth (8.6%). Surprising that Farah was so far down on a UK website. However, most of the LRC staff would agree.
• Elite History: First Modern Olympic Marathon Winner Will Appear On Greek Coin Greece will honor the winner of the first modern Olympic marathon, Spyridon “Spyros” Louis, who won the first modern Olympic marathon (actually ~40K) in 1896 in 2:58:50.

Olympic News

• 2024: IOC To Involve Top Sponsors In Bidding Process For 2024 Olympics Companies will give advice to bid cities and are supposed to give it equally without “any financial or commercial relationship.” Yes, no opportunity for scandal or collusion here. Move along.
• 2016: Rio Olympic Tickets May Prove Elusive For Jamaicans Apparently the 40,000 tickets that were allocated to them have been sold out.
• 2020: Tokyo 2020 Chairman Says Tokyo Is Going From “Strength To Strength” Despite Olympic Stadium And Logo Controversies

Elite Distance News: Sunday’s Amsterdam Marathon Is Stacked

• Two-Time World Marathon Champion Abel Kirui Trying To Get Back On Top In Amsterdam On Sunday 33-year-old Kirui has struggled in recent years with a stress fracture in 2013 and DNF at Boston 2015, but thinks he’s in shape to challenge his 2:05:04 PR from 2009.
• Amsterdam Preview: Abel Kirui Vs. Defending Champ Bernard Kipyego And CR Holder Wilson Chebet (2:05:27) Also Tsegaye Mekonnen (2:04:32), Jonathan Maiyo (2:04:56), Markos Geneti (2:04:54), Dadi Yami (2:05:41), Feyisa Bekele (2:06:26) and Eliud Tarus (debut – 60:04 half).
• Berlin Marathon Champ Gladys Cherono Victim Of Social Media Impersonator Someone started a fake Facebook account using her name and tried to raise funds for “charity.”
• RunningTimes Q&A With New Mexico Coach Joe Franklin After some key international recruits and transfers, the women Lobos have been ranked #1 all year. They’ll get to prove that this Friday at the Wisconsin Invitational.
• Sara Hall Shares Her Chicago Marathon GPS/Heart Rate Data She says that in the first half she was “running with a good pack of guys” but struggled to keep pace when she was left on her own the second half of the race.
• Alexi Pappas Blogs About Training With Her “Biggest Role Model In Sport And Life,” Deena Kastor, In Mammoth Lakes Last Month Pappas said she gained a lot of confidence and insight from training with Kastor and even watching her train.