2015 LRC Year-End Rankings

LRC2015 LRC Year-End Rankings, Men’s 10,000: Surprise, Surprise - Mo Farah And Galen Rupp Are The World And US #1s

LRC2015 LRC Year-End Rankings, Women’s 10,000: Vivian Cheruiyot Leads The Way As Three US Women Are In Top 6

Training Tips From The Top

• Steve Magness: “The Value Of Moderate Training Days” Magness talks about the benefit of having “in-between days” that aren’t easy or hard.
• Video Interview: Jordan Hasay Gives Training Tips For High Schoolers: “Steady, Long-Term Progress”
• Top British Atheltes Give Their Tips For Success Some good advice from Tom Farrell, who says to be patient and enjoy the process.

Time To Say Goodbye To 2015

• Recommended Read: Daily Relay Does Comical “Yelp Reviews” For 2015 Their reviews for Usain Bolt, Genzebe Dibaba, Russia and others are spot on. For Nick Symmonds they say: “In dispute with the city over a zoning ordinance. Has yet to reopen. Will review again next year, hope it’s open when I go back.”
• IAAF 2015 Mid-D Review: Asbel Kiprop Made His Competition Look Like A Joke As Genzebe Dibaba Made History
• Athletics Weekly Does A Month-By-Month Recap Of 2015
• BBTM: Month-By-Month, The Best Of the Mile In 2015 One of the biggest highlights came at the year’s end with the mile returning to NCAA outdoors.
• Usain Bolt Wins His Fifth International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Athlete Of The Year Award He was voted the winner over Novak Djokovic (tennis) by sports journalists from 91 countries. The women’s award went to tennis star Serena Williams while Genzebe Dibaba and Dafne Schippers finished 2-3.
• Jamaican Writer Calls Danielle Williams’ World 100H Gold The Best Of 2015
• Strava Shares Their Best Photos From 2015
• Athletics Illustrated Shares Their Top Articles/Interviews In 2015

Pro Distance News

• With His Insomnia Issues Mostly Behind Him, Bobby Curtis Is Rested And Focused On Making The Olympics With A 2:10 Performance Curtis used to suffer from extreme insomnia and struggled to sleep for more than 3 hours a night in college.
• Eliud Kipchoge And Mare Dibaba Make Donations To The AIMS Marathon Museum Of Running In Berlin
• Lauren Fleshman Starting A Once-A-Month Q&A Podcast

Sprint Stuff

• IAAF Personal Bests Q&A With Queen Harrison Harrison says she’s obsessed with hair extension and has a whole duffel bag full of them which she calls her “Bag O’Hair.”
• With Another Post-Season Athlete Of The Year Award Under His Belt, Usain Bolt Has His Sights Set On Achieving History In Rio

End-Of-Year Reviews

• IAAF End Of Year Review – Long Distance When it came to Worlds, Mo Farah was once again dominant as Genzebe Dibaba vs. Almaz Ayana was a highlight on the women’s side.
• Joe Bosshard, Emma Coburn’s Boyfriend, Blogs About The Top 5 Track Meets He Attended In 2015 Monaco tops his list, one spot ahead of Worlds.
• Video: Season’s Greetings From The Diamond League

Sprints / Field Event News

• Greg Rutherford’s Girlfriend Sexually Harassed Online By Tyson Fury Fans After Greg Rutherford’s Criticisms They referred to her as a “little slut” and threatened serious sexual violence.
• Good Profile: After Setting Multiple PRs And Getting 5th At Worlds, Dina Asher-Smith Was Pleased With Her 2015 Comeback From 2014 Hamstring Tear Asher-Smith talks at length about wanting to be an Olympian as a kid, being a full-time student and history major, but hesitates to speak about doping. Though she says she believes Dafne Schippers and Usain Bolt are both clean.
• Sanya Richards-Ross Hoping To Defend Her Olympic Gold And Win Her Fourth Successive Relay Gold She didn’t make Worlds in the 400, but says it was because of overtraining and she’ll hold back in 2016.
• Jessica Ennis-Hill Talks About Winning World Gold Only 13 Months After Giving Birth “Before I had Reggie, I was selfish. As soon as I had a child, he became the priority. Now, I fit my training around him. I’ve changed as an athlete.”

A Very Slow Weekend For Results

• Jenn Suhr Clears 15-7 (4.75) At Upstate NY Classic She took three attempts and missed at 16-1. She plans to compete again on Tuesday in her hometown of Fredonia.
• Kenya’s Cornelius Kangogo Wins Corrida Pedestre International de Houilles 10K In 28:10 He beat Ethiopia’s Haymonot Alewe by 1 second. Ethiopia’s Zerfie Limeneh won the women’s race in 32:07.

RIP National Scholastic Athletics Foundation Co-Founder Michael Byrnes

End-Of-Year Reviews

• DailyNation Kenyan Year-In-Review: “Kenyan Athletes Write History, But Doping Rears Its Ugly Head” Kenya topped the medal tables at Worlds, but the year was also bogged down with doping and corruption accusations.
• IAAF 2015 End-Of-Year-Review: Jumps If last year was the “year of the HJ,” this year was the triple.
• 2015 End-Of-Year Review: Hurdles The men’s 110H was the most competitive hurdles event of the year.
• Canadian Year-In-Review Canadians took home five medals from Worlds, two of them gold.

Another IAAF Doping Bombshell?

• Nick Davies, Seb Coe’s Chief Of Staff, Stands Down Over Leaked Email He is voluntarily standing down until the IAAF Ethics Commission reviews his case. By the way, this is the same commission that saw no problem with Coe being paid six figures a year by Nike. *Telegraph Article
• IAAF Deputy General Secretary Nick Davies Implicated In “Secret Plan” To Delay Naming Russian Dopers Until After 2013 Moscow World Championships A leaked email between Davies and Papa Massata Diack showed that Davies manipulated the release of dopers to avoid the bad press that would come with a slew of Russian bans ahead of Moscow 2013. *BBC Article
• Davies Claims He Was Only “Brainstorming” Ways To Convolute The Truth “My email … was brainstorming around media handling strategies to deal with the serious challenges we were facing.”
• Hajo Seppelt Calls It The “Most Explosive Email I’ve Ever Seen About Lies/Doping Cover-Up”
  
• IAAF Lawyers Send Threatening Legal Letter To Hajo Seppelt ON Behalf Of Coe/Davies
• MB: If this doesn’t sink Coe nothing will
• LRC Archive: IAAF Spokesman Nick Davies Writes LetsRun.com About Reports IAAF Did Not Follow Up for Retesting 150 Suspicious Samples from 2006-2008
• LRC Archive: BBC World: Why Did IAAF General Secretary Nick Davies Write A Passionate Letter To LetsRun.com Instead Of Issuing A More Traditional Statement

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)