December 8, 2015 | LetsRun.com

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LRCWTW: Kara Goucher Improves, A Pro Runs A 2+ Minute 10,000 PR, Odell Beckham Jr.'s Mom Was A Mega Track Star, And Might The Recent Scandals Be Good For Track And Field?

We break down the week in running by introducing you to Odell Beckham's mom and the most-improved pro in the US and tell Kara Goucher fans to be encouraged but keep things in perspective.

USATF Annual Meeting In The Books

USATF Closes 2015 Annual Meeting In Houston With Some Very Important Resolutions Some key changes give USATF voting members more power so things can’t happen like last year when the Board went against an 85% majority vote to put Stephanie Hightower on the IAAF council rather than Bob Hersh. Nick Symmonds will be happy that requirements for when athletes have to wear Team USA gear were made more clear.
*Becca Gillespy Peter’s Summary Of Key Changes
*Lauren Fleshman: Quick Guide To Two Key Resolutions At The USATF Annual Meeting
Lauren Fleshman Proposes Resolution To Gives Athletes More Opportunity To Market Themselves Sponsor Logo On Uniform
USATF Activist Becca Gillespy Peter Points Out How There Are Major Issues With USATF’s Whistleblower Policy There “isn’t really a way to report anonymously” and there are major conflicts of interest since Board member investigations have to go through the lawyer paid by the board.

Sunday Evening *Full Results For Pacific 10k Pursuit

Kim Conley Wins In 31:58.54 As Chelsea Reilly And Rochelle Kanuho Also Get 32:15 Standard Jordan Hasay ran 32:46.04. Winning men’s time was 28:31 as Ben Blankenship was a DNF.
*Race Recap By Kevin Liao

Sunday’s Marathons Fukuoka Results 2015 CIM Results

Fukuoka: Former WR Holder Patrick Makau Repeats In 2:08:18, Current World Record Holder Dennis Kimetto Drops Out Yuki Kawauchi ran 2:12.48.
*Japan’s Satoru Sasaki Was Third In 2:08:56 To Put Himself In Olympic Contention His previous PR was 2:09:47.
*Fukuoka Live Thread

Kenya’s Elisha Barno (2:11:51) And Ethiopia’s Serkalem Abrha (2:31:29) Win 2015 Cal International Marathon Titles Kenya’s Elisha Barno made his move after the 20-mile mark, surging ahead of the lead pack at “The Wall” to win the 33rd annual California International Marathon in 2 hours, 11 minutes and 51 seconds on Sunday. *Results

Kenya’s Julius Maisei (2:17:24) Wins Singapore Marathon As Doris Changeywo Wins Women’s Race In Debut (2:44:26) 2012 Boston Champ Sharon Cherop was third in her 2nd marathon in two months.

Australia: David McNeill And Eloise Wellings Win Zatopek 10,000m To Book Tickets To Rio 28:03 for McNeill and 32:02 for Wellings. *Results

World 50k Champs: LRC Poster Camille Herron Wins World 50k Title (2nd World Title Of Year) As Tony Migliozzi Of USA Win’s Men’s Title Tony Migliozzi is a 2:17 marathoner. He has a blog and posts his training log online.
On The Boards: Americans win titles at IAU 50K World Championships
*LRC Poster Camille Herron wins her 2nd World Champ of the Year

From Tragedy To Triumph

LRC Feature The Miracle In The Black Hills: A Coach, A Fallen Teammate And A Season For The Ages In July, Black Hills State’s Gage McSpadden was struck by lightning and tragically killed at the age of 21. The team’s dream of a first-ever NCAA appearance, one that McSpadden had guaranteed, appeared to be shot. No one will ever forget how they responded.

Random Distance News

British Astronaut Tim Peake To Run A Marathon In Space He will actually also be the first Brit in space. With no gravity, he’ll have to run with a harness strapping him down to the treadmill.
Former UPenn 4:10 Miler Sets Guinness WR For Fastest Marathon In A Santa Costume 29-year-old Brian Lang ran 2:54:02 at the Philadelphia Marathon to break the previous record by 1:48.
New Rules Requiring 6-Hour Time Limit At Boston Will Affect Members Of The “Quarter Century Club” Some of the longest Boston “streaks” will be in danger as they finished just over or under 6 hours in the 2015 race.

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LRC Book Review"Two Hours" By Ed Caesar - A Wonderful Book Worthy Of 5 Stars And One We Consider "The Definitive Book On The Modern Elite Marathon"

Looking for a great Christmas present? We have a suggestion. Ed Caesar's new book Two Hours covers everything you would want to know about the marathon, from its roots in ancient Greek lore all the way up to the establishment of big-money major-city marathons in the late 20th century. It includes incredible behind-the-scenes access of Geoffrey Mutai in 2011 when he destroyed the course records in both Boston and New York. 5 out 5 stars.

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Sponsorship / Money News

Daily Relay’s Kevin Sully Looks At Andre De Grasse’s Reported $11.25 Million Contract He points out how De Grasse’s deal is so much more than Alan Webb got ($250,000 a year) in 2002 was considered a “monumental deal.”
New Balance To Replaces Asics As NYC Marathon Sponsor Is it bad for Asics that we didn’t even know they were a NYC sponsor?
IAAF Launches World Indoor Tour Four meets in February with the overall winner in every event getting $20,000 in prize money and automatically qualify for World Indoors.

News From South Africa

Judge Grants Bail To Oscar Pistorius, Extends House Arrest Sentencing is set for April 18th. In the meantime, Pistorius’ lawyers will appeal his murder conviction to South Africa’s Constitutional Court.
Athletics South Africa President Aleck Skhosana Found To Be “Grossly Negligent” After Failing To Take Action Against Major Scandal Several Years Ago The SA Olympic committee is asking Athletics SA why they chose Skhosana despite the allegations of corruption which surrounded his previous organization.

Women’s Pro Distance News

Meseret Defar Wins In Her First Race Back From Pregnancy At The Montferland Run 15K She ran 50:04 in her first race since September 2013. The men’s race was close with Abraham Cheroben getting the win as he and Geoffrey Yegon both clocked 42:54.
Caster Semenya Gets Married To Her Girlfriend
*MB: Caster Semenya Marries Girlfriend
IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With Canada’s 800 World Silver Medalist Melissa Bishop Bishop is best friends with a hammer thrower and thinks Ashton Eaton is the greatest athlete she’s ever seen.
Extensive Q&A With Canada’s Sasha Gollish, Who Finished 2nd Behind Kara Goucher At The RnR San Antonio Half Up until two years ago, Gollish was a triathlete but has made huge improvements since focusing more on running (Sunday was a 9-minute PR).
Marathoner Who Missed OT Standard After Being Sent Wrong Way Qualifies At CIM Samantha Bluske ran 2:47:20 in April after running an extra mile, but qualified with 2:41:10 at CIM.

2015 NXN Girls Results Boys Results *Highlight Video

MB: Official 2015 NXN Live Discussion Thread

LRC NXN RecapJunior Casey Clinger Wins Thrilling Boys' Race At 2015 NXN; Great Oak (CA) Claims First Team Title

Clinger, who as a soph ran 4:13/9:03 at altitude and was 8th at NXN, used a late move on the final uphill to pull away from Carmel (IN)'s Ben Veatch to win in 15:03. His win kicked off a great day for the state of Utah. Just 33rd in the nation in terms of population, Utah had 3 teams in the top 12 in the country. In the team race, Clinger's American Fork squad came up just short, taking second with 163 points to Great Oak's 114.
*Amazing MB Prediction: AUSTIN TAMAGNO will be upset by CASEY CLINGER

LRC NXN Recap:Katie Rainsberger - Daughter Of A Boston Marathon Champ - Wins 2015 NXN Title As F-M Girls Win 9th Title In 10 Years

Everything went according to form at NXN as the favorites delivered and Bill Aris became the John Wooden of girls cross-country running. Plus a 12-year-old finished in the top 15!

*Good Read: F-M Coach Bill Aris Writes About His Life, Coaching And His Stotan Philosophy

There’s More Money In Track Than You Might Think

Andre De Grasse Goes Pro – Signs With Puma In Richest Initial Deal In Track History – $11.25 Million The Canadian will no longer be running for USC as he’s joined Trayvon Bromell, who signed with New Balance, in the pro ranks. Nike has lost the battle for the top sprinters in the world on the men’s side.
Good Read: Trayvon Bromell Thinks He And De Grasse Could Be “The Next Biggest Things” Bromell says he “would have been crazy” not to go pro when the opportunity was offered to him.
Podcast: Andre De Grasse Says Puma Made Him An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse
*MB: Andre De Grasse has gone pro, allegedly for min of $11.25 million – could go as high as 30 million!!

A Lot Of Great Action Set For This Weekend

Sunday: Meseret Defar Making Her Comeback From Pregnancy At The Montferland Run 15K

Say It Ain’t So

LRCDid Mike Rossi - The Viral Marathon Dad - Try To Cheat LetsRun.com Out Of $10,000 On Saturday?

Has Mike Rossi cut yet another course, this time in an attempt to win $10,000 from LetsRun.com?
*MB: Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?

Book Review – The Animal Keepers Is Certainly A Keeper

LRC Book Review"The Animal Keepers" By Donn Behnke - A Terrific Tale Of What It Means To Be A Team

We highly recommend this book - hell, we call it "a triumph" - by Chris Solinsky's high school coach, Donn Behnke. Purchase here. 5 out 5 stars.

Doping And Sterility: Kenyan News Article Scaring Athletes Away From Doping “Be warned. Substances that sportspeople abuse to enhance their performance can tamper with performance on the home front …”

Sunday Morning *Results With Recap, Videos

LRCKara Goucher Wins Rock 'N' Roll Half Over Flanagan And Cragg, But The Real Winner Will Be Determined At The Trials

Kara dominated the race, but she was the only one of the top 3 racing as Flanagan and Cragg ran a more controlled effort. Aaron Braun won the men’s race. Videos with Kara, Flanagan and Cragg, plus results.

Cross-Country News

Other News Of Note

Shelayna Oskan-Clarke Talks About Her Amazing 2015 – From 2:01 To 5th At Worlds And 1:58
British Columnist Rips Linford Christie For Having Huge Ego And Being Christian?
Wesley Korir Is Thrilled Athletics Kenya’s Bosses Have Been Suspended “Our sport needs a lot of cleaning, our sport needs a lot of new blood and restructuring to make sure we deal with the problems we are facing.”
Roger Federer Wants Better Anti-Doping Program In Tennis And New Head Agrees “I think when you have news like you do, the IAAF and Russia, it raises alarms – as it should – and it makes us look at everything we do.”

Doping & USATF Convention

The 1st Of The 2005 Positives Announced? Maria Mutola To Get Another Medal As 2005 800 Bronze Medalist Tatyana Andrianova Gets Banned Is this the first of 28 yet to be banned athletes from Worlds 2005 and 2007?

USATF Awards: USATF has the Jesse Owens awards at night and a whole different set of breakfast awards. Plus: Former NYRR CEO Allan Steinfeld Wins USATF Robert Giegengack Award For Volunteerism The best news out of the convention essentially is no major negative news so far.

Pro Distance News: Ritz Is Injured

Dathan Ritzenhein Adjusting His Marathon Training As He Deals With Hip Injury Leading Up To The Olympic Trials He has bursitis in his hip and is doing about half his mileage on the Alter-G.
Florence Kiplagat Focused On Breaking Her Own Half Marathon WR Rather Than The Olympics She wants to get under 65 minutes and until she knows she’s on the Kenyan Olympic squad isn’t going to change her training for a race she might not run.
Past Individual Champion Alemayehu Bezabeh Will Lead Spanish Team For Euro XC Champs Next Weekend

Seb Coe Grilled For Three Hours By UK Culture, Media And Sport Select Committee

Seb Coe Grilled With Three Hours Of Questions Over Doping Scandal Coe was asked the same questions and, for the most part, gave the same answers he’s been giving.
The Telegraph: “More Questions Than Answers From A Master Politician … Evasive Responses Left The Committee Barely Any The Wiser” Apparently at one point Hajo Seppelt burst out with “Liar” and “Not true” in reaction to Coe’s words.
Guardian’s Sean Ingle: “Coe: From “King Of World After London 2012″ To Waffling Apologist For IAAF”
Coe Admits To Concerns Over Doha’s Right To Host 2019 World Champs Coe avoided answering whether he was going to launch an investigation or not.

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