Here We Go Again?

LRC USATF Releases Qualifying Standards For 2016 OIympic Track And Field Trials – Will We Have Yet Another Controversy As A Result? The Olympic Trials standards are out and we’re already worried there may be a huge controversy next summer. USATF’s guidelines only list an “approximate field size” and USATF had told LetsRun.com that the “sport chairs have the option to fill it out to that field size if they wish.” That’s ridiculous. Make it clear now.

Elite Distance News

• John Hancock Announces The Return Of Defending Champions Lelisa Desisa And Caroline Rotich To 2016 Boston Marathon
• Impressive:Former World Marathon Bronze Medalist Steve Spence Runs Sub-5:00 Mile For The 40th Consecutive Year The 53-year-old ran 4:55 to keep the streak alive again. He’ll try to take advantage of his current fitness and “knock off 2016 ” in January. *Discuss
• New Olympic Trials Standards Catch Athletes Off Guard As All Of A Sudden They Have Just 9 Weeks To Train Some had given up or had other racing plans. 2:18 man Josh Eberly: “The night before I found out [about the new standards] I was talking to my wife about whether to go for it in Houston.”
• Eliud Kipchoge Focused On Going For Marathon Gold In Rio 2016 “Rio Olympics is my main focus next year and I will take the opportunity fast if given a chance.”
• Team Europe Selected For January 9th Great Edinburgh XC Euro champions Sifan Hassan and Ali Kaya lead the squads.

Apparently Serena Williams Did Not Cheat At Her Own 5K She was photographed stopping to take a cab, but it was planned so she could be at the finish line to greet runners.
*MB:Serena Williams pulls a Rossi. Gets into a taxi at 2k mark to finish a 5k!

Studies Find Running Can Help Slow Progression Of Alzheimer’s Disease Apparently “no currently approved drug has had the same effect” as running in the pre-dementia phase.

Popular UK Track Is Under Water After Area Was Hit By Floods

NCAA: Vote Yes For The Mile

• Bring Back The Mile:The Mile Could Be Coming Back To NCAA Outdoors Coaches at the USTFCCCA Convention this week will vote on replacing the 1,500 with the mile at NCAA Outdoors. A similar proposal by Texas A&M’s Pat Henry was shot down in 2011, but that was before the IAAF started accepting mile times as qualifying standards.
  *Full PDF Proposal Put Forward By Southern Utah University Coach Eric Houle
• After A Torn ACL And Surgery Last Year Oregon Star Hurdler And Football Player Devon Allen Still Has Olympic Dreams Allen has been playing football this year and will return to track when the season is over with the goal of making Rio 2016.
• College Runner Blogs About Her Ongoing Struggle With Eating DisordersHannah Crist writes that she’s been improving since confessing her problem to her coach 6 weeks ago, but it’s a “constant battle.”
  *LRCEating Disorders Archive
• Before They Were NCAA Stars: SPIKES Talks To The High School Coaches Of The 2015 Bowerman Award FinalistsMarty Hannon knew Edward Cheserek had room to improve because they held him back after he got a stress fracture when he first came over from Kenya.

Maybe Running Won’t Kill You: Recommended Read:Q&A With Doctor About Recent Finnish Study Which Found Lower Cancer Rates Among Distance Runners Oncologist and runner Dr. Kenneth Kunz explains how being healthy is actually a public service.

Free Coaching Advice: Strava Users Beware – Don’t Get In The Habit Of Racing Your “Easy” Days The online app used by pros and hobby joggers alike tracks your runs through GPS and lets runners compete for the fastest times on certain routes.

Will Rupp Run The Trials?

MB:Galen Rupp solo 1:01:20 half marathon in Portland
*Rupp Says He Hasn’t Made A Decision About The 2016 Olympic Marathon Trials “I’m keeping my options open … I’m not sure what I’ll do.”
*LRC Will Galen Rupp Do The Olympic Marathon Trials?

Sunday Dallas Marathon Duo To Rio Relay Presented by AT&T

LRC The Greatest American Starting Line Of 2015 Was In Dallas For The Marathon Relays: Meb, Deena, Ryan Hall, Leo, Centro, Molly And More, Video And Recap What a star-studded field in Dallas. Interviews with Ryan Hall, Abdi, Chelanga, Ward, Puskedra, Leo, Centro, Robby, Ryan Hill, and Deena, Bersagel, and Becky Wade.
More LRC:Leo, Centro, Ryan Hill, And Robby Andrews Talk Mid-D, Pro Sports And World Indoors After Dallas RelaysGood news for track fans as all 4 want to do World Indoors.
*Becky Wade TV Profile Her mom says, “If you had asked me the most athletic of my children, Becky would not be at the top of that list.”

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.

NCAA Photos Galore *D1 Men’s Race (514 Photos) *D1 Women’s Race (486 Photos) *D1 Banquet*D1 Post-Race*DIII Men (257 Photos) *DIII Women (185 Photos)