Sunday NCAA XC Action *All Results *More Conference Championship Coverage

• Big 10s: MB: Wisconsin officially….. 8th at big tens. Michigan first Illinois second Matt McClintock was impressive up front, running 23:12 to win.
• Mick Byrne: “This is just a real bad day in the office. Unprecedented in Badger history.” They were hurt as two-time champ Malachy Schrobilgen dropped out with injury.
• McClintock: “I’ve always known how to race well, which is something that has helped me beat guys that are more talented than me.”
  MB: Big 10 women upset: #15 Penn St over #2 Michigan Erin Finn won the individual title.
• Michigan Disappointed To Get Beaten Erin Finn: “It’s okay to be disappointed, but we can’t let ourselves be devastated. We have to get angry …”

Non-LRC NYC Coverage

• Recommended Read: 60-Year-Old Airline Pilot David Walters Bounces Back From A 2:45 In Chicago With 2:47 In NYC For Another Age Group Win You might remember Walters as he was featured in the WTW last week. Here, the former All-American and OT qualifier talks about how he’s kept the dedication and ability going as a 60-year-old.
• Form Geeks Rejoice: Interesting Analysis Of The Top Pros’ Running Form From NYC Does part of Mary Keitany‘s success come from her hands?
• RRW: Mary Keitany, Stanley Biwott Sweep Titles At TCS New York City Marathon
• Inspirational Blue Collar Running: NY Times Video On An Ecuadorian Prep-Chef Living And Running In NYC Julio Sauce ran 02:40:07 for 100th place on Sunday.
• How Did The Celebrities Do In NYC? Retired tennis pro James Blake, actors Ethan Hawke and Katrina Bowden, musician Alicia Keys and former NFLer Tiki Barber all finished 26.2.
• In Her First Year After Leaving NYRR, Former CEO And NYC Race Director Mary Wittenberg Handed Out Water At Mile 2
• NY Times: A Dazzling Encore For Mary Keitany, And P Promising Debut For Laura Thweatt
• NY Times: Stanley Biwott Wins
• NYC “Knitting Runner’”Crocheted Flowers Along The Course For Alzheimer’s Awareness

Good Read: Weber State Assistant Coach Isaac Wood Coaches Prison Inmates For A Jail Yard Marathon The fastest ran 3:30:53.

Life And Death

• Woman Runner Falls Into Water-Filled Storm Drain And Gets Stuck For 2 Hours The freak accident almost had her stuck there overnight, but two men driving by noticed her hand sticking out of the drain and rescued her.
• Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Files For New Trial His lawyers say that having the trial in Boston was improper.
• Two Coaches Save The Life Of Heart Attack Victim At Florida HS Meet

Friday And Saturday NCAA Conference Action *All Results *More Conference Championship Coverage

More Saturday Results:

• Big 12: MB: Ok State Dominates Both Team Races Vegard Oelstad (Ok. State) and Perez Rotich (Iowa State) are the individual champs.
• Big East: MB: Georgetown Men Beat Nova By 1 Point, Providence Women Cruise Patrick Tiernan and Sarah Collins won individually. Tiernan ran 22:23 – was the course short?
  
• Patriot: MB: Navy Men Go 1-2-3-4 as they totally dominate!! Bucknell win’s the women’s race.

Friday Results:

• PAC-12 MB: Colorado Men Do It Again. Stay Undefeated at Pac 12 Meet and Beat Stanford by 11. The Colorado women won as well (narrowly over Oregon). Cheserek and Cuffe take the individual titles.
  *Aisling Cuffe: “(The victory) meant a lot, to stick with it and mentally staying in the game while being out.” “… I learned how much I missed racing.”
  *Mark Wetmore Talks About CU’s PAC-12 Sweep “We definitely aspired to do the sweep and it happened.”
  *Cheserek Joins Steve Prefontaine And Henry Rono With Three-Time PAC-12 Titles But Cheserek is the first to win three consecutive.
  *MB: GRANT FISHER??????  *MB: The Brothers Rosa
• ACC: MB: Syracuse Men Crush It, Virginia Women Edge NC State Thomas Curtin and Molly Seidel grab individual titles.
• SEC: MB: Arkansas puts on a clinic at 2015 SECs. Men win with 25, Women win with 38!! Antibahs Kosgei and Dominique Scott are individual champs.
  *MB: Ole Miss falling apart
• Ivy Heps: MB: Columbia Men And Princeton Women Win The Lions were way ahead at 7k but barely hung on. Awad and Bird take the individual titles.
• Mountain West: MB: #1 New Mexico Women Roll, Air Force Men Pull Out Squeaker Allie Ostrander and Jerrell Mock are your individual champs.

LRC LetsRun.com NCAA Cross-Country Fan Polls Conference Edition: Colorado And New Mexico Are Dominant National #1s You, the most knowledgeable fans on the planet, have voted. Find out the results.

Big World XC News

World Cross Distances Are Changing To 10km For Both Genders The men will no longer run 12k and the women will no longer run 8km. Weirdly, the junior races will still be different distances.
*MB: Wow. World Cross races to switch to 10km for both genders to have gender equity. Will NCAA follow suit?

More Distance News

• Betsy Saina Joins Bowerman Track Club The former NCAA champ from Iowa State represented Kenya at Worlds, where she was 8th in the 10,000.
• Now Back From Pregnancy, Former World Junior XC Champ Pauline Korikwiang Shooting To Make Kenya’s 2016 Olympic Team In The 10,000 Korikwiang has no results from 2013 or 2014, but has made a comeback this year finishing 8th at the Kenyan World Championships Trials.
• Security Lines At The Marine Corps Marathon Kept Some Runners From Making The Start Some runners waited for more than an hour to get to the start.
  *MB: Marine Corp Marathon was a mess
• Nov. 8: Kenya’s Elijah Kiprono Kemboi (2:07:34) Leads Field For The Beirut Marathon He’ll face Ethiopia’s Edeo Mamo, Jackson Limo of Kenya and Bahrain’s Isaac Korir.
• Sunday: Preview Of Japan University Men’s Ekiden Championships: Aoyama Gakuin Ready To Break Four-Time National Champs Komazawa’s Streak

• Recommended Read: The Story Of How Japanese Citizen Runner And LRC Hero Yuki Kawauchi Came To Be Learn about the “penalty laps” his mom used to make him run as a 7-year-old, his transformation from injured/burnt out high schooler to a 2:08 marathoner, and his life as a pro, which apparently includes accepting no appearance fees.
• Sally Kipyego Is “Excited” But “Anxious” Ahead Of Her Highly Anticipated Marathon Debut As of March 2014, Kipyego had never run more than 14 miles, so just doing 20+ mile runs in marathon training has been a big change.
• Wednesday AM In NYC: Meet Haile Gebrselassie, Wilson Kipsang And Jen Rhines At New York Running Company Shoe Store From 8AM to 10AM, meet these three marathon greats for autographs, a shake-out run and breakfast.
• Short Interview With World 10,000 Silver Medalist / World XC Champ Geoffrey Kamworor He says he’s done everything the same in training as Eliud Kipchoge so got a lot of confidence when Kipchoge won Berlin.
• Meb Keflezighi Talks About Bouncing Back For The OT In February “People think you need 12 weeks [for a marathon training cycle]. I just need to recover from New York. That’s rule number one.”
• Meb Breaks Down The NYC Marathon’s 5-Borough Course

More Distance News

• Molly Huddle Campaigning For A Female Runner Emoji “Though it’s a lighthearted topic very low on the totem poll of gender equality issues, the request was serious and I would love to see it happen.”
• Arne Gabius After His 2:08:33 German NR: “The second half felt like chewing gum. It seemed to never end. It hurt all right.”
• Columbia XC Photo Essay Check out the day-to-day of an Ivy League cross-country team.
• All-American And Oregon Alum Daniel Winn To Join B.A.A. High Performance Team After graduating this year, Winn won 1,500m silver at the NACAC Championships.

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