October 23, 2015 | LetsRun.com

LetsRunW – Women’s Distance News

Q&A About Coming Back From Pregnancy With Defending NYC Marathon Champ Mary Keitany She says it was easier to come back after baby #2 and her win in NYC was her most thrilling ever.
Q&A With Aussie Milly Clark, Who Shocked Herself By Running 2:29 In Amsterdam She is now #9 in Australia history and her coach was just hoping for a sub-2:35, maybe 2:32.
Lucy Kabuu (2:19:34 PR) To Headline Women’s-Only Saitama Marathon On November 15th Two-time 5,000 world silver medalist Sylvia Kibet (2:26:16) could challenge in her second marathon.
National University Women’s Ekiden Championships Preview – Ritsumeikan Set To Make It Five Straight If they win, it will be 9 of the last 12 years.
*Japan > USA? MB: Brett Larner implies last year’s Mich State women (NCAA champs) might only get 7th or 8th in Japanese championships
In First Race Since Finishing 5th In 1,500 In Beijing, Laura Muir Will Begin Road To Rio With Scottish Cross-Country Relays This Weekend
Free Steeple Drills From The UK’s Top Steepler In 2015, Lennie Waite The former Rice steepler shows you how to get ready for the steeple (pics).

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.

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.

Unconventional Free Training Advice

MB: Parents, do you want your kids to be a pro runner (or model)? Don’t give them antibiotics when they are 1 or 2 A large scientific study shows that those that are on antibiotics when they are young end up being about 3 pounds heavier than those that aren’t at age 15.

Shoe/Industry News

LRC The Future Has Arrived – Nike Gives Michael J Fox A Pair Of Self-Lacing Shoes Fox famously wore similar shoes in Back to the Future II way back in 1989.

Marathon & Beyond Magazine To Cease Publication In December Say it ain’t so. We are forever indebted to the magazine for doing the best profile ever on LetsRun.com as shown here.
Newton Running Shoes Sheds 36% Of Its Work Force, But Says It’s Definitely Not Going Out Of Business They now have 25 employees but have been hurt by online sales of close-out shoes at really low costs and the consolidation of specialty running stores.
Have You Never Had A Chance To Visit The Nike Campus? Jeff Benjamin Gives You A Tour (With Pics) A little disappointing to see that doper Mary Slaney‘s plaque is still up.

Hurdle News

Good Q&A With Aries Merritt After His Kidney Transplant – Merritt Reveals He Thought He Won The World Title In Beijing He had lost so much weight he was 100% focused on not hitting any hurdles and didn’t see the two guys on his outside.
After Disappointing 2015, A Remotivated Cornel Fredericks (48.17 400H PR) Is Relocating From SA To England To Get Ready For Olympic Assualt In 2016
A Look Back At The Diamond League Season For Sprints And Hurdles

Good/Bad News From Kenya

The Good Paul Tergat Says Drug Cheats Aren’t Welcome At Kenya’s 2015 Sports Personality Of The Year Awards (SOYA) In the US, we induct dopers into our HOF, as shown here and here.
*Sponsors Pledge More Than $160,000 For SOYA Awards
And Bad Kenya Govt. Fails To Pay Out $78,000 At Last Minute For Paralympic Worlds – Kenya Fails To Show Up As A Result They may miss out on Rio now as a further result.

Meet High Point Runner Chernet Sisay Orphaned at age 9, he roamed the streets of Addis Ababa until he got adopted by a Boston family, where he led Brookline to two state titles in XC.

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).

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

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?

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-Ann 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 is 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.