Saturday Morning Pro Action

• Philly: MB: R’n’R Philly Half Results – Tim Ritchie Scorches 61:23 Half, Krifchin and Spence Gracey both break 70 
• NY: RRW Donn Cabral And Alexi Pappas Celebrate Halloween With NYRR Dash To The Finish Line 5-k Wins *Results

The 2015 TCS New York City Marathon Is Sunday *TV & Streaming Info *Tracking & Results

LRC Men’s Race Preview *LRC Women’s Race Preview

Sunday: LRC Official 2015 TCS New York City Marathon Live Discussion Thread

Friday: RRW Alana Hadley, Laura Thweatt And Sally Kipyego Are Ready For New York City Marathon Debuts

American Laura Thweatt gets pub in UK’s Guardian Thweatt: “The strengths you can get from marathon training, and then the race itself, is huge, so it was going to be a good way to get the foundation and strength going again to really just get back on track.”

LRC 2015 NYC Marathon Men’s Press Conferences: Geoffrey Kamworor Is Committed To The 10,000 In Rio But Very Excited To Run NYC Kamworor said it has been his dream to run in the New York City Marathon. We also catch up with Boston champ Lelisa Desisa, World Champs silver medalist Yemane Tsegay, 2:04 man Stanley Biwott and Mexico’s Juan Luis Barrios.

LRC America’s Nick Arciniaga Is Ready For A Top Five Finish And PR In New York Nick also said he thinks there are over 20 guys who have the potential to run sub-2:10 in the marathon at the Olympic Trials.

RRW Veteran Jelena Prokopcuka Set For Another NYC Podium Run

Thursday:

RRW Meb Keflezighi Is Running His 10th NYC Marathon – Ten Facts You May Not Know About “Marathon Meb”

LRC 10 Minutes With Legend Haile Gebrselassie: Geb Reveals How He’d Beat Mo Farah – “I’d finish him early” – As He’s Inducted In NYRR Hall Of Fame With Paul Tergat, Paula Radcliffe And Tegla Loroupe It doesn’t get any better than Thursday in NYC for LRCers as Haile Gebrselassie, Paul Tergat, Paula Radcliffe and Tegla Loroupe were all in one room.

LRC Wisdom From Meb Keflezighi And Bob Larsen: How Meb Is Approaching His First Marathon As A Master Larsen: “His training in this last month has been really good … When he’s been healthy for several weeks, like he is now, he usually comes up with a real good performance.”
*Bob Larsen Jokes That If Meb Isn’t Recovered For Olympic Trials, USATF Should Just Postpone Them Shhh. Bob, don’t give them any ideas. USATF is famously known for doing whatever it wants.

LRC NYC Marathon Thursday: A Look Into The Buildups Of Defending Champions Wilson Kipsang And Mary Keitany We get insight into the fitness of the two defending champs.

More NYC News

• Road, Track, XC, Geoffrey Kamworor Is A “Man For All Surfaces” Kamworor is a “throwback” to a time when runners weren’t so specialized and excelled often on the dirt, roads and track.
• Recommended Read: Ed Caesar For The New Yorker: “How New York City Made The Modern Marathon” Caesar writes that on Sunday, “Few runners will know that the city whose streets they are about to race through created the marathon as we understand it today.” Fans of this classic LetsRun thread will be thrilled to know it all started with a “marathon on a track.”
• Caroline Rotich’s Coach Says She’s In Better Shape Now Than When She Won Boston Before being coached by Ryan Bolton, Rotich used to make a living racing all the time at second-tier events with less prize money rather than big race/big paydays.
• Videos: Celebrities Receive Bibs Includes former NY Giant Tiki Barber, retired tennis pro James Blake and Dave Obelkevich, who has the longest streak of NYC finishes (39).
• Former Tennis Pro James Blake Running NYC; Discusses Police Brutality Blake was victim of an excessive-force arrest when he was mistakenly identified as a suspect.
• Wheelchair Athlete Tatyana McFadden Returns To NYC As She Shoots For Her Third Consecutive Grand (Boston, London, Chicago, NYC)

Random Stuff

• Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costumes A Huge Seller This Year Like Halloween everywhere else, of course it’s being made controversial.
• SPIKES: Is James Bond Actually A Track And Field Athlete In Disguise?
• Canadian Breaks Guinness World Record For Half Marathon In Suit Nicholas Mizera ran 1:35:47 in a blue suit and bow tie.
• California High School Coach Fired Because Of Parent Complaint?

RIP Kenyan Olympic Marathon Trials – October 15 – October 27, 2015

LRCBreaking: Kenya Shelves 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials - Will Select Team Based On Marathon Results From 2015-2016

We Hope Alberto Salazar Has Read This: After Accidental Death, Some Scientists Question Cryotherapy’s Safety An extreme version of ice bathing, scientists and health professionals are unsure about benefits and possible negative side-effects. Salazar and the NOP are well known users of the treatment.
*Cryotherapy Videos: Mo Farah and Dathan Ritzenhein.

Sprint Stuff: Another HS Phenom Goes Pro

• 16-Year-Old Sprint Star Candace Hill Is Going Pro The WY champ is currently in negations, but it is rumored that Asics is the favorite to sign her.
  *MB: Candace Hill going pro
• He’s No Asafa Powell, But Usain Bolt Is Getting Close To His 50th Sub-10 Clocking Bolt has 45 legal sub-10s while Powell has the dominant record with 93 and Maurice Greene is second with 53. Justin Gatlin is close to 50 as well with 46.
• Bobsledding Is Giving GB Sprinter Mark Lewis-Francis A Second Chance At A Pro Sports Career Lewis-Francis lost his track funding and had a lot of medical bills to pay. Now he gets lottery funding as a bobsledder and can try to do both sports.
• Asafa Powell Might Race Less In 2016 To Enhance Olympic Medal Chances After ending the year on a disappointing note, Powell realized the 13 or 14 races he ran before Worlds were probably too many. By contrast, Usain Bolt only ran 6.

Doping Busts

• LRC 2008 Boston Marathon Runner-Up Abderrahime Bouramdane Of Morocco Is Banned For Doping – Caught By Biological Passport The five-time top 5 placer at a major is banned for two years and all results since April 14, 2011 are nullified.
  *MB: Shocker (sarcasm): Moroccan Abderrahime Bouramdann – 2008 Boston Marathon runner-up – banned for doping
• Russian Olympic Hammer Thrower Maria Bespalova Banned For Doping
• Never Too Young To Dope: Chinese Youth Games Athlete Fails Drug Test
• AK Vice President David Okeyo Explains How The Kenyan Anti-Doping System Works And How They’re Trying To Improve Athletes who want to have a “B” sample tested need to pay for the test themselves and often, caught athletes don’t want to give up the doctors/agents who “misled” them.