Week That Was

LRCWTW: Chris Solinsky Doesn't Do 26.2, Arne Gabius Does Do 26.2, Remembering When 2:06 Was Really Fast, Meb K Has Run A Lot And Wilson Kipsang Is Psychic

US Weekend Action – Results: *Mayor’s Cup *NCAA (D2 Conferences)

• Mayor’s Cup XC In Boston:RRW Back To The Future: Re-Energized Mary Cain Explains Move East Cain declined to be interviewed by LRC but did speak to RRW.
• RRW Race Recap Liz Costello And Trevor Dunbar Win Memorable 2015 Boston Mayor’s Cup Cross-Country *Full Results
  *MB: Liz Costello & Trevor Dunbar FTW – Mary Cain Third
  
• Buze Diriba Sets Course Record; Tyler Pennel Ties Record At EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler Diriba won in 52:55 with Tara Welling the top American in 5th. Pennel won in 46:50 with Chris Solinsky running 50:09 for 12th.
  *MB: Saw Chris Solinsky Today
• Recommended Read: Chris Solinsky Still Hasn’t Given Up On His Olympic Dreams Solinsky gave up on the marathon and is planning on going for it one more time on the track this winter and spring. Good article as he talks about getting past his fear of racing and how he wish he got the chance to take on Mo Farah back in 2011.
  *MB: Solinsky Still Has Olympic Dreams
• Paul Kimugul (65:24) And Natasha Wodak (1:18:57) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Oasis Vancouver Half Marathon

New York (Marathon) News

• Interesting Read: A Walk Through Meb Keflezighi’s NYC Marathon Career Starting With 2002 Through 2015 Assuming he finishes this year, he’ll be tied with Grete Waitz for the most NYC marathon finishes as a pro.
• Recently-Graduated NY High Schooler Mikey Brannigan Wins 1,500 Paralympic World Title He ran 3:56.50 to beat Iran’s Peyman Nasiri Bazanjani by .03 at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
• AP: Fueled By The Running Boom, The NYRR Has Grown Into A Force With Huge Financial Muscle How big and how quickly has the NYRR grown? Well, NYRR events had more than 290,000 finishers in the last 12 months. “That’s the equivalent of staging a Boston Marathon every 5 ½ weeks.”
• Fortunte Q&A With NYRR CEO Michael Capiraso And NYC Marathon Race Director Peter Ciaccia There were almost 51,000 starters in last year’s race, but Ciaccia thinks “logistically, the marathon can get bigger.”
• At 71 Years Old, Florida Woman Connie Brown Holds The Longest NYC Marathon Streak This year will be her 37th run; she has a best time of 3:37:54 from 1982 and “ran” almost 8 hours last year. Dave Obelkevich has the longest streak overall with 38 consecutive finishes.

Sprint Stuff

• Video: Sumo Wrestlers Racing Is The Best Thing Ever These 300+ pound men duke it out over 40 meters.
  *Full Video (Article’s Video Cuts Off)
• Trayvon Bromell Says He’ll Run 2016 Indoors In His First Season As A Pro USA’s medal chances at Portland 2016 just got that much better.
• Nice Tribute To Former US 400H Champ And Record Holder Carl McBain, Who Passed Away At 97 Years Old McBain was ranked #1 in the world in 1940, but never got to go to the Olympics because of WWII. The NR he set that year (51.6) stood for 10 years.

Sprint / Jump News

• German Amputee Long Jumper Markus Rehm Smashes Paralympic Long Jump WR With 8.40m Leap To Win IPC Title
• MB: One footed German Markus Rehm jumps 8.40m – distance that would have won 2012 Olympic gold!!
• Chinese Sprinter Su Bingtian Pleads: “Don’t call me the next Liu Xiang.” “I just want to do my best in sprint events and if one day I find I cannot make any more progress, I will quit.”

Pre-Frankfurt: German Arne Gabius Thinks He’s Got A Good Shot At 27-Year-Old German Record Of 2:08:47 In Frankfurt Sisay Lemma, Bazu Worku and Micah Kogo are all in the men’s race. *Watch Live At 5am ET

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).

How Low Will He Go?

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

Caribbean Sprint Stuff

• 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

• USTFCCCA Podcast With Thomas Curtin On His Shocking Defeat Of Edward Cheserek At Wisconsin
• 2013 Foot Locker Runner-Up Hannah DeBlasi Commits To Stanford
• #2-Ranked XC Prep Katie Rainsberger Verbally Commits To Oregon

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.

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