October 22, 2015 | LetsRun.com

How Low Will He Go?

LRCThe Future Of Luke Puskedra: How Difficult Is It To PR After Career Marathon #3?

Puskedra has run 2:10:24 and Andy Powell says he'll run "a lot faster." We take a look at how much runners normally improve after marathon #3.
*MB: LetsRun, What say you? What will Luke Puskedra's ultimate marathon PB be?

Disordered Eating, A Huge Silent Problem

LRC Huge Thumbs Up To Crystal Nelson For Discussing Her Eating Disorder And A Call To Hear From Those Who Have Overcome Eating Disorders Eating disorders are a hidden plague in our sport. We praise Crystal Nelson for being willing to talk about hers and call for other people to keep talking.
*Discuss: Finding The Proper Way To Discuss Eating Disorders/Women’s Weight Issues On LetsRun.com

Great Outside Read: The Silent Sports Health Crisis, Female Athlete Triad Everyone talks about concussions, but no one talks about the female athlete triad (disordered eating, low bone density, and amenorrhea – the absence of menstruation).

LetsVault.com

IAAF Interview With Austrian Paralyzed Pole Vaulter Kira Grunberg 10 weeks ago, Grunberg became a paraplegic after a traumatic training accident, but is keeping a positive attitude as she rehabs.
Yelena Isinbayeva Will Retire After 2016 Olympics She’s came close to retirement multiple times now, but we believe her when she says this is actually it.

Oscar P Updates

Oscar Pistorius Moves To House Arrest, But Legal Challenge Looms The verdict of his trial will be reviewed next month and if it is overturned, he could go back to prison for 15 years or more.
Reeva Steenkamp’s Mother Says She Wants No Revenge Against Pistorius “I don’t want to hurt him. He’s already a disabled person. I don’t want him thrown in jail and be suffering … that’s not going to bring Reeva back.”
Steenkamp’s Mother Reads Speech Steenkamp Was Supposed To Give At A South African School The Day She Died
AP: “The Rise And Fall Of Oscar Pistorius”
Pistorius’ Early Release Makes No Difference To Victim’s Family

Elite Marathon News

Frankfurt Is Sunday: Bazu Worku (2:05:16) Leads Field Of 12 Sub-2:10 Men And Koren Jelela Yal (2:22:43) Is Fastest Among Eight Sub-2:30 Women For locals, the interesting story will be 2:09:32 man Arne Gabius, who is gunning for the 27-year-old German record of 2:08:47 (Jörg Peter – 1988).
Q&A With Meb Keflezighi On His Training Ahead Of NYC Meb says during his career he’s ran over 100,000 miles, which equates to more than four laps around the world.
Wilson Kipsang Planning On Bouncing Back From World Champs DNF By Defending His Title In NYC Kipsang says he is in good shape and is expecting a fast time in NYC. He blames the “extreme” conditions in Beijing for his DNF at Worlds.
Bernard Kipyego Thrilled To Be A Two-Time Amsterdam Marathon Champ After He Went The First 10 Marathons Of His Career Without A Win Now the 2:06:08 man is dreaming of going after the WR.
Marathoner Lauren Kleppin (2:28:48) Joins Northern Arizona Elite
Eliud Kipchoge, Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, Gladys Cherono And Mare Dibaba Are Candidates For The 2015 AIMS Best Marathon Runner Awards The winner will be announced at a gala on Friday, November 6 ahead of the Athens Marathon.

MB: Mary Cain to race 2015 Mayor’s Cup XC Race on Sunday in Franklin Park

Vote For 2015 USATF Youth Athlete Of The Year World Youth 800 champ Sammie Watson (2:03.54 PR) was the lone distance runner on the list.

Week That Was

LRCWTW: We Double Down On Ryan Hall, Give Some Love To The Valencia Half And Abraham Cheroben, Try To Figure Out When Kenya And Ethiopia Got Good At The Marathon And Triple Jump Mania In Brazil

Ryan Hall may not be Joan Benoit but he's had a great career. But while we're talking of great careers, we bet you've never heard of Abraham Cheroben and he's now led the world at a major event 2 years in a row. Plus, we show you how bad Kenyan and Ethiopia used to be at the marathon.

Marathon News From Down Under

Aussie Jessica Trengrove Wins Melbourne Marathon in 2:27:45 – Punches Ticket To Rio She was paced by Craig Mottram and is now #6 all time for Australia.
Aussie Brad Milosevic (2:16:00) Wins Men’s Title And Becomes 4th Aussie With 2:17:00 Standard
Q&A With Australia’s Milly Clark, Who Ran A 2:29:07 Marathon Debut To Finish 3rd In Amsterdam That race put her 8th on the Aussie all-time list.

Oscar P Officially Out Of Jail

Video: What Happens Now That Oscar Pistorius Has Been Released? Pistorius is now on house arrest after serving 12 months of a five-year sentence.
AP: Oscar P Was Released A Day Early At Night To Avoid Media

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

Pre-Nats Thomas Curtin Of Virginia Tech Upsets Cheserek, Colorado Men, Michigan Women Win Curtin opened up an early lead on the pack and they could not catch him as Erin Clark of Colorado won on the women’s side. *Results

LRC Wisconsin adidas Invitational Recap: New Mexico Women (32 Points) Crush It; Wins For Syracuse Men (101 Points), Frosh Allie Ostrander (19:19 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.

Big And Important Calls For More Independent Drug Testing

IOC Says They’d Like WADA – Not Sports – To Conduct All Drug Testing This is 100% the right call. The IOC has asked WADA to study the feasibility of it all. We think WADA should test everyone – including MLB, NBA, NFL.
Seb Coe To Set Up IAAF Integrity Unit To Help Sport Fight Doping And Take Pressure Off Feds To Do So Coe: “I do want a system that is more independent, that relieves the [IAAF] Members’ Federations from some of the pressure, some of the resource implications, some of the challenges of a legalistic nature.” *IAAF Article
USA Cycling Moving Toward Zero Tolerance Policy On Doping Anyone with a doping past can’t work for them. Will USATF follow suit? We doubt it.

Elite Distance News

Molly Huddle And Her Agent Ray Flynn Talk About Her Impressive Streak Of Road Victories Since Worlds Huddle has racked up 4 national road titles and $51,050 in prize money in the last month and will also race the .US 12K Champs in November.
Lornah Kiplagat Says She’s Not Retired Yet And Is Training For The 2016 Olympics
The former 2:22 woman ran her last race when she DNFed the 2012 Olympics with injury, but she says she is healthy and back in training. She was born in Kenya, but has represented the Netherlands since 2003.
Andy Powell Expects Luke Puskedra To Run A Lot Faster In The Marathon Talking about differences under Powell vs. Alberto Salazar, Puskedra says he did more speed work ahead of Chicago and ran 120 miles a week compared with 160. He also feels he had no “balance” in his life when he was with NOP.
RIP: 1983 World Marathon Silver Medalist Marianne Dickerson Passes Away At 54
Jen Rhines Excited To Run The Philadelphia Rock ‘N’ Roll Half On October 31st Rhines is keeping it going as a 41-year-old, saying “I didn’t maximize [my half PR] in the prime of my career. It gives me something to shoot for and get excited about where I am now.”
Daniel Muiva Kitonyi’s 58:20 (4:41 Pace) 20K Leads Nihon University To Victory At Hakone Ekiden Yosenaki Qualifier The race broke the world record for depth as 72 men broke 61 minutes (4:54 pace) and 190 under 63:30 (5:01 pace).

A LRCer Is An American Hero

LRC LRCer Captain Flo Groberg Awarded The Medal Of Honor For Throwing Himself On A Suicide Bomber In Afghanistan Groberg was LetsRun.com’s Runner of the Month last August and if you missed our profile on him, it is a must read.
*Discuss

Jumps / Throws

Video Of Hilarious Pole Vault Fail Video is 6 seconds long; worth a watch.
NZ World 4th Place Shot Putter Tom Walsh Talks About Getting Back To Work As A Construction Worker As His “Down Time” Some interesting stuff here, including a look at what the income of a World Champs 4th placer SPer looks like. He’s bringing in okay money, but without a sponsor to cover travel expenses, he says he’s spending $34,000 on travel!
Derek Drouin Talks About Winning HJ Gold At Worlds In Thrilling A Three-Man Jumpoff Drouin shares his tips for dealing mentally with such a high pressured situation.
Tom Walsh Shares His Words Of Wisdom Walsh shares some thoughts about stress and travel. He also advises to bring ear plugs if you’re stuck rooming with snoring Reese Hoffa.
A Look At Euro AOY Candidate Greg Rutherford If it was a competition for “the best athlete of the last 4 years,” Rutherford would be hard to beat. He is now the reigning Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games champion.

Big Sprint News: New Balance!? Gets Into The Sprint Game

LRC Baylor’s Trayvon Bromell Goes Pro With New Balance (Updated) A big signing for New Balance as it gets into the sprint game, locking up the services of the world junior record holder and the future of American sprinting. Also big for Ricky Simms (Bromell’s new agent) as he’ll stay in the sprint game after Usain Bolt retires.
*MB: Trayvon Bromell signs with New Balance
Bromell And Agent Ricky Simms Talk About His Decision To Sign With New Balance Bromell: “In a moment like this, it’s a 50-50 chance if you decide to go back to school. You could get injured and your value would drop. We felt like the opportunity was in our face.”
Sally Pearson Considered Retiring After Injury This Year, But Was Inspired To Keep Going By Text Message From Aussie Cyclist Anna Meares Meares fractured her neck at a race in 2008, but came back to win gold in 2012.
Upcoming Sprinter Natasha Morrison Adds To The List Of Jamaicans Who Have Left MVP To Join Asafa Powell’s Group In Texas Morrison was lead-off leg for Jamaica’s gold medal-winning 4 x 100 team in Beijing, but was reportedly asked to leave MVP.

Not Our Favorite Book

LRCBook Review: "Fast Girl" By Suzy Favor Hamilton Fails To Make The Redemption Podium

If the details of being a high-priced hooker intrigue you, by all means buy this book. If not, we recommend you take a pass.

Distance News: Meet 60-Year-Old Pilot And Elite Marathoner David Walters

Recommended Read: RunningTimes Profile On Elite Masters Runner And Airline Piolot David Walters, Who Ended Up Piloting Dickson Chumba’s Flight After They Both Ran Chicago 60-year-old Walters began running while his parents were on a mission in Tanzania and he went on to become an NCAA All-American, sub-2:20 marathoner and roommates with Craig Virgin. In Chicago he ran 2:45 and looks to do the same in NYC next weekend.
RIP: 200 Attend Memorial Run To Honor Slain Dallas Marathoner David Stevens
*MB: Scary: Runner killed on White Rock Trail in Dallas
Terrence Mahon Blogs About B.A.A. High Performance Team’s Training Stint In Mammoth Lakes Athletes on the trip include Jen Rhines, Emma Bates, Juliet Bottorff and Emily Lipari.
Luke Puskedra Among The RRCA’s 2015 Roads Scholar Grant Winners He’s among six who will receive $5,000 in financial support
Mike McManus And Janet McDevitt Win USATF 5K Masters XC Championships In Saratoga, NY

The 2015 NYC Marathon Is Next Weekend

Meb Keflezighi After His Marathon Debut In NYC 2002: “This is my first and last marathon. I never want to do a marathon again.” Talking about the mistakes he made, Meb says, “I tell people I got my PhD that day. I know what to do, what not to do, and New York is where I learned my PhD.”
After A Breakthrough Couple Of Years, US XC Champ Laura Thweatt Is Making Her Marathon Debut In NYC
Legends Haile Gebrselassie, Tegla Loroupe, Paula Radcliffe And Paul Tergat Selected As NYRR HOF Inductees
26 NYC Marathon Facts From Its New Museum Exhibit Some interesting tidbits from the history of the 45-year-old race.
Brand New TCS New York City Marathon Pavilion To Open For Runners And Fans In Central Park On Monday, October 26 The Visitor Center will be located steps from the finish.

Paralympic News

Short Profile On NYC Marathon Wheelchair Athlete Josh George, Who Lost His Legs When He Fell Out A 12th Story Window As A 4-Year-Old
On USATF.tv: USATF Productiosn Launches New Short Film On Paralympic Sprinter Richard Browne “Tragedy to Triumph: The Richard Browne Story” tells how Browne went from football player to paralympian when he lost his leg in an accident falling through a glass door at a laundromat.
UK Wheelchair Paralympic Champion David Weir Complains That Worlds Is Too Close To The NYC Marathon

Random Road Stuff: How To Get Your Next Date

Chicago Marathoner Lands Date From Personal Ad Written On His Back He actually got Facebook messages from 12 different women. He wrote it on his back because he was trying to target runners rather than spectators.
Would You Like Your Photo Taken While Shaking Usain Bolt’s Hand? Well, All You Needed Was To Run A 17:58 5K That was the winning time of the road race in Falmouth, Jamaica on Saturday.
Virgin Money To Remain As London Marathon Title Sponsor Until 2020
British Mom Sets Stroller Word Record At Abingdon Marathon With 3:17:26

LRC Talks To The Guy Who Beat Edward Cheserek

LRC Meet Thomas Curtin, The Tea-Drinking, Bandana-Wearing Virginia Tech Senior Who Took Down Edward Cheserek At Pre-Nats We catch up with the Virginia Tech senior after his big win.

More NCAA:

NCAA DI Men’s Regional Rankings Undergo Major Overhaul The action at Wisconsin and Pre-Nats shook things up quite a bit.
Three New No. 1 Teams Rise In DI Women’s Regional Rankings Penn State, Mississippi State and Virginia all moved to the top of their regions.
Tulsa’s Marc Scott And Boise State’s Allie Ostrander Are Athletes Of The Week After Winning Wisconsin

IAAF / Seb Coe News

Seb Coe Releases Details Of New “IAAF Olympic Athletics Dividend” Program, Which Will Offer $25,000 A Year To Every National Federation For Sport Development The program will provide $22 million over four years and the IAAF will carefully approve the projects/programs submitted by federations.
Seb Coe Urges UK Politicians Not To Cut Sports Funding “Public expenditure cuts are expected but we must not let it happen in a rare activity in which we are envy of the world … You do not get excellence on the cheap.”
IAAF Confirms Bidders For 2018 World Junior And World Half Marathon Championships There is only one bidder for World Juniors and three for the World Half.

Japanese Distance Updates

Japan’s Yuka Mukai Runs World-Youth-Leading 5,000 Time With 15:31.92 She won against university and corporate runners as did high school senior Paul Kamais, who won the men’s race in 13:42.
Yuki Kawauchi Wins Takashiimadaira Half Marathon As Hong Kong’s Kit Ching Wins And Sets A NR In The Women’s Race
Saitama Marathon Announces Elite Field: 2:20:21 Woman Lucy Kabuu Leads The Way This is a Japanese Olympic selection race, but Brett Larner explains why it has a weak local field which has little chance for Olympic selection.
Sprints: Teen Sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu Runs 10.09 That’s his best in 2015 aside from his very wind-aided 9.87 from the Texas Relays.
*LRC Yoshihide Kiryu Archives

Monday: Memorial Run Will Be Held For Marathoner Killed On Dallas Trail 53-year-old David Stevens was murdered by a former Texas A&M football player last week while running on a trail in Dallas. The memorial run will be today at 6:30PM.
*MB: Memorial run for Dave Stevens

RIP To An American Trailblazer Who Has Died Way Too Young

MB: RIP: 2013 World Championships marathon silver medallist – Marianne Dickerson of USA – has died at age 54 Dickerson became a national hero after outkicking a Soviet athlete for silver at the first-ever women’s marathon global championship.

A Profile Of A Modern Day Female Trailblazer

A Look At The Life And Career Of Lornah Kiplagat The former World XC champion may be most famous for starting the high altitude training center in Eldoret. She now has her own Lornah Sports women’s sports line – check it out here.
*MB: Is this photo of Lornah Kiplagat running next to a lion photoshopped?

How To Make A Dumb Decision At The Last Minute

LRCIt's Official: David Okeyo And Athletics Kenya Really Don't Understand The Sport - Announcing A February Marathon Trials In The Middle Of October Is Ridiculous

Athletics Kenya doesn't think there is enough time to recover from London to get ready for the Olympics, so they've announced they'll hold an Olympic Trials in mid-February, ignoring the fact that at least the last 8 World Champs all ran an April marathon and the fact that there is less time between now and the Trials than between London and the Olympics.
*MB: Athletics Kenya's decision yesterday to have a February marathon Olympic Trials is totally absurd.

Women’s Sprint News

Hold Up … Allyson Felix Isn’t Committing To World Indoors Yet “My 60 isn’t that strong, and the 400 indoors becomes a different event altogether. I’ll have to talk to Bobby. He might want to throw me in some 400s, but I don’t know. I’m not sure if I would do that.”
SPIKES Talks To Jamaican Sisters Shermaine And Danielle Williams They are half sisters (same father, different mothers), but apparently Danielle got the better genes as she has the faster PR (12.57 to 12.78) and won Worlds (Shermaine was 7th) despite the fact they both agree Shermaine is the more dedicated athlete.
Young Sprint Star Jodie Williams Says She’s Focusing On The 200 Individually, But Will Also Train To Try To Make GB’s Olympic 4 X 4 Squad She’s against running it individually, though: “No one chooses the 400m, I don’t think. Hopefully I won’t end up as a 400m individual, but I can’t rule it out I don’t think.”
400 Runner Novlene Williams-Mills Wins Jamaican Courtney Walsh Award For Excellence

De Grasse Not Going Pro?! Or Going Pro?

20150612 DE GRASSE Andre6 KL 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

Caribbean Sprint Stuff

Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce

U.S. Olympic Bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator (The Driver For Lolo Jones) Switches Allegiances To Jamaica Jamaica has never sent a women’s bobsled team to the Olympics, but Fenlator is planning on recruiting Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce as a push athlete.
In Honor Of Back To The Future Day, BBC Makes Some 30-Years-From-Now Sporting Predictions Will the 100m WR actually be any faster?
EuroSport Writer Calls Out Usain Bolt’s Sub-19 200 Talk “There is simply nothing to suggest that he can do so. It’s now six years since he ran a personal best at either 100m or 200m … it now seems pretty clear that Bolt’s best days are in the past.”
Carifta 100/200 Champ Mario Burke Now A Freshman At The University Of Houston The 10.21 man is coached by Carl Lewis and hoping to make the 2016 Olympic team for Barbados.

NCAA News: Top HS Recruits Start To Commit

Post-Weekend NCAA Analysis

LRC NCAA XC Weekend Recap: Ches Goes Down (But He Shouldn’t Be Worried), Hail To The Victors, And A Wide-Open Women’s Individual Race What’s going on with Stanford? Are the Colorado men vulnerable at #5? The Michigan women are rolling as are the Arkansas men.

Big Changes To Men’s National Rankings As Colorado Stays On Top But Loses One Vote To Syracuse Stanford, Wisconsin and Villanova all plummet outside the top 20.
Women Rankings: New Mexico Still The Clear #1 But It’s Wide Open After That Michigan moved from 5th to 2nd and Arkansas moving from 11th to 4th.

LetsJump.com

Interesting History Lesson: Do You Know Dick Fosbury Wasn’t Actually The First To Try The Game-Changing “Fosbury Flop”? An old newspaper photo shows that before Fosbury was breaking records and winning the 1968 Olympics, Bruce Quande was “flopping” at the 1963 Montana high school meet.
IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Interviews All-Time LJ Great, Heike Drechsler Of Germany Drechsler won two Olympic and two World gold medals, with the first and the last separated by 17 years (1983 to 2004)! She also broke the long jump WR three times and won Olympic medals at 100 and 200.
Yelena Isinbayeva Eyes February Return To Competition Isinbayeva took 2014 and 2015 off to have a child after winning 2013 Worlds.

North American Distance News

Kenyan Flomena Chepchirchir Takes Horrific Fall In Toronto And Breaks Femur After Colliding With A Local Sub-Elite Male Chepchirchir will need surgery in Canada after falling and catching her foot in a streetcar track.
Good Q&A With Dathan Ritzenhein, Who Talks About Dealing With Injuries, His Love For XC And Defends Ryan Hall And Alan Webb “I don’t like it when I hear anyone talk about Ryan or Alan having gone ‘downhill.'”
“Eat Like An Elite”: Chris Derrick Tells You About His Diet Derrick lives with six BTC teammates. “Mo Ahmed, German Fernandez and Ryan Hill refer to themselves as the ‘Enchilada Team,’ but usually Elliott Heath and I will cook and they’ll clean.
Patrick Smyth Wins USATF Trail Half Marathon Championships He ran 1:18:29, which sounds slow, but apparently it was good enough to beat Max King by more than 2 minutes (King was 3rd – 1:22:35). Kimber Mattox won the women’s race.

US Women’s Sprints / Jumps

Profile On US’s Tianna Bartoletta, Who Won World LJ Crowns A Decade Apart Bartoletta talks about how much she’s changed from the college kid who was a shock winner at the 2005 World Championships.
IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With Sanya Richards-Ross Her greatest indulgences are pizza, rum and raisin ice cream and Skittles. The best athlete she’s ever seen is Mozambique’s former Olympic 800 champ Maria Mutola.

Sunday Road Action *Toronto Results

Toronto: 19-Year-Old World Junior Record Holder Shure Demise And 24-Year-Old Kenyan Ishhimael Chemtan Win As Canadian Record Attempts Come Up Short Eric Gillis was 7th in 2:11:31 as Lanni Marchant missed her 2:28:00 Canadian record by 9 seconds.
*Canada’s Lanni Marchant And Eric Gillis Qualify For Rio Olympics
*MB: Crazy battle for second place in Toronto Women’s Marathon – did race organizers get it wrong?

Other Completed Action

Amsterdam: Kenyans PR To Sweep Amsterdam Marathon – Bernard Kipyego Repeats In 2:06:08 As Joyce Chepkirui Runs 2:24:10
Valencia: Kenya’s Abraham Cheroben Puts Up World Leader At Valencia Half (59:10) For 2nd Year In A Row The World XC bronze medalist – Netsanet Gudeta of Ethiopia – took 32 seconds off the women’s course record by running 67:30. *Discuss
Lisbon: Kenya’s Purity Rionorip Sets Course Record In Lisbon Marathon (2:25:09) In Rain And Wind Beatrice Mutai (KEN) won the half in 69:50. In men’s action, Asbel Kipsang (KEN, 2:09:26) and Nguse Amlosom (ERI, 62:38) were the winners.
UK: Chris Thompson Wins Great Birmingham Run In 63:00 Dominika Napieraj (POL) won the women’s race in 73:39. Thompson: “I had to fight for everything today, from mile one to mile 13 … today everything was falling off.

Olympic Gold Medalists In The News

Frank Shorter Supports Call For More Independent Drug Testing
Peter Coe – Coach Of Olympic Gold Winner Seb – Posthumously Inducted Into England Athletics Hall Of Fame
Great Profile Of Christian Taylor, Who Will Do Whatever It Takes To Be The Greatest TJer Ever He’s followed coach Rana Reider to the UK and Netherlands and then decided to get totally crazy and switch jumping legs in 2014.

More Sprint/Jump News

New Documentary – Sub 10: The Invisible Barrier Of Speed – Examined Why Britain Sucks At Sprinting Is the lack of consistent warm weather to blame?

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.

Why Being Brilliant At Sport Is Still No Bar To Depression Double Olympic champ Kelly Holmes was a victim.

LRCDoes GPS Data Prove That Paris Has The Most Dedicated And Fastest Runners In The World? In The US, New York Beats Out LA And San Francisco

Non-Distance News

Jamaican Columnist Daydreams About Bolt Breaking Michael Johnson’s 43.19 WR In Final Race In London 2017 MJ set his WR at 31. Bolt will be 31 in 2017.
Finland Gives Early Olympic Selection To Javelin Throwers Tero Pitkamaki (Worlds Bronze) And Antti Ruuskanen (European Champ)

Upcoming Action: Solinsky And German Hit The Road

Next Sunday: Chris Solinsky, German Fernandez, Tyler Pennel And Kenyan Julius Kogo (61:47 Half) Lead Field For EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler Former World Champs 5,000 5th placer Buze Diriba, former All-American Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton and former US marathon champ Esther Atkins (Erb) lead women’s field.
Next Sunday: Ethiopians Sisay Lemma Kasaye (2:07:06) And Koren Jelela Yal (2:22:43) Are Late Editions To Next Frankfurt Marathon
This Saturday: Japan Running News Preview Of Saturday’s Hakone Ekiden Qualifier
This Sunday: Preview Of Great Birmingham Run Half Marathon Euro silver medalist Chris Thompson leads British charge as Spain’s former World Champs Marathon 5th placer Alessandra Aguilar heads women’s field.

Week That Was

LRCRyan Hall = Joan Benoit? Chicago Drops Pacers, We Celebrate Steve Jones's 1985 Run, + Great Advice From Joe Newton

Is Ryan Hall this generation's Joan Benoit Samuelson? Chicago drops pacemakers, we remember Steve Jones's magical 1985 run, and great advice from legendary coach Joe Newton.
*MB: Ryan Hall=Joan Benoit Samuelson?

Big Paydays For Two US Steeplers

MB: Max King And Bridget Franek Win Warrior Dash 5k World Titles And $30,000 The Warrior Dash, a 5k obstacle race, is perfectly suited for steeplers, who are crazy enough to do it and fast and athletic enough to dominate it.

Monday – US Road 10k *Results

LRCThe Molly Huddle Show Rolls On With 31:21 Win At USATF Road 10K Champs In Boston

Huddle earned her fourth USATF Running Circuit victory in the last five weeks, adding the 10k crown to the 20k, 5k and 10-mile crowns she claimed earlier this year. Her training partner Emily Sisson celebrated her 24th birthday by taking second while 2014 USA track 10,000 champ Kim Conley was the third American (fourth overall). Plus the return to action for Joan Benoit Samuelson.
*MB: Molly Huddle does it again – She just dominated Tufts Health Plan 10k for Women – 31:21 FTW!
*RRW: Huddle Wins Tufts 10-K In Event Record 31:21

Brojos And LRC Get Some Praise

LRC LetsRun.com Founders Robert And Weldon Johnson Named As Two Of “The 50 Most Influential People In Running” By Runner’s World LRC’s founders Robert Johnson and Weldon Johnson (Brojos) are among the 50 most influential people in running according to Runner’s World thanks to you. RW had high praise for the LRC audience, saying the Brojos are the “masterminds behind perhaps the most engaged online community of runners.”
*MB: The 50 Most Influential People in Running – wejo and rojo made the list!

The Integrity Of The Sport Is At Stake – Mike Rossi Is A Marathon Cheat And Should Have Been DQed From The 2014 Lehigh Valley Marathon

Lehigh Valley Got It Wrong: The Evidence Is Conclusive: Mike Rossi – The Viral Boston Marathon Dad – Is A Marathon Cheat And Should Never Have Been On The Starting Line In Boston In April, Mike Rossi gained international fame for his snarky response to a letter from his kids’ principal scolding him for taking them out of school for several days to watch Boston. A LetsRun.com investigation has revealed that Rossi’s principal was correct, the kids should never have been in Boston as the evidence is conclusive – their father didn’t legitimately qualify for the 2015 Boston Marathon. How confident are we that Rossi cut the course when he “ran” his 3:11:45 BQ qualifier at Lehigh Valley? Extremely. We’ll pay Mike Rossi $10,000 if he qualifies again in the next 12 months – and the qualifying time is 13+ minutes slower – 3:25.
*MB: Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?