– President Barack Obama giving a shout out to Abbey D’Agostino for her sportsmanship during the Rio Olympic 5,000m in his speech to Team USA at the White House.
LRC2016 NCAA Men’s XC Preview: Syracuse #1 In The Nation, Could Be Challenged By #2 Stanford, #3 Oregon, #4 Georgetown We break down the top teams in the country. The front three teams are all stacked.
LRC More Previews: #5 Iona, #6 Arkansas, #7 NAU, #8 ColoradoColorado could do much better if it doesn’t redshirt its freshman.
LRC Usain Bolt On Whether Or Not He Could Break Five Minutes In The Mile: “Of course! I’m not that bad.” Bolt was super confident about it, laughing at the suggestion he couldn’t run faster than 5 minutes and cites his 2:07 800m PR.
*MB: Usain Bolt runs a 2:07 800m. Can he break 5?
RRW Ryan Hill (With A Kick) And Aliphine Tuliamuk (Thanks To A 4:43 Opening Mile) Win USATF 5k Champs At CVS Downtown 5k In Providence Jordan Hasay 3rd.
LRC Who Rocked The LetsRun.com Rio Prediction Contest? A State Champion High School Coach, A Dude on His Honeymoon – The Talented Winners Span The Globe See who the kings and queens of LetsRun.com are. Our winners hail from all over the globe. A state champion coach from the US won overall, but other winners included a woman from England, a 66 flat half-marathoner from Atlanta and a Canadian. Our runner-up made his picks just days after landing the woman of his dreams.
LRCDebate: After Berlin, Who Is The Distance Running GOAT – Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie Or Mo Farah? The LRC “brains” may have reached a rare consensus.
Discuss: Has Bekele just legitimised his WRs? Clean? GOAT?
Listen On Demand Special Berlin Marathon Track Talk Podcast With Professor Of The Marathon Sean Hartnett Get the inside scoop on one of the greatest marathons ever. Plus, learn about the reaction of Bekele and Kipsang and the friendship between Bekele and Eliud Kipchoge.
LRCThe King Is Back – Kenenisa Bekele Runs 2:03:03 To Defeat Wilson Kipsang In A Race For The Ages In Berlin What a race. Kenenisa Bekele won an epic duel with Wilson Kipsang in 2:03:03 to Kipsang’s 2:03:13 despite getting dropped twice. Aberu Kebededominates women’s race in 2:20:45. *Rewatch The Race Here
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LRC Russian Hackers Release Galen Rupp And Shalane Flanagan Anti-Doping DataRupp had three TUEs listed, all in 2009 for asthma/allergy medication. (Interestingly, Alberto Salazar has written that Rupp had 2 TUEs from 2010 onwards which weren’t in the hack). Flanagan had one, for an IV after being dehydrated at the Olympic Marathon Trials in February.
*Discuss: Galen Rupp, Shalane Flanagan Among Latest Round of Fancy Bears Hacks
WTW The Kenyans Are Really Good At The Half Marathon, The Paralympics Come To An End, Drama At The World Triathlon Champs, Slow Times At The Philly Half, And Usain Bolt Gives Up On The 200? This week we try to figure out why Kenyans are way better at the half marathon than the marathon, point out that the US road 5k champs were won in a time that was slower than the 5k split of a European half marathon, learn that it’s better (from a performance perspective) to be a double amputee than single amputee in the Paralympics, and wonder if fast times will ever return to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon.
Did you know that 2016 produced the slowest world leading time in the men's 5000 in 23 years? We know that and a whole lot more.
LRC The Russians Have Hacked WADA And Want You To Think Simone Biles Is A Drug Cheat Because She Takes ADHD Medicine Russian hackers have gotten their way into WADA and published a positive drug test for American star Simone Biles. In reality, the positive test is a good thing for the anti-doping movement as it shows the tests work as Biles should have tested positive for the ADHD med she openly declared she was taking.
*MB: The Russians Have Hacked WADA: Leaked Drug Tests/TUEs – Real or Not?
LRC USA’s Mikey Brannigan Dominates 1,500m At Paralympic Games Brannigan ran like the boss in the Paralympic T20 1,500.
*NBC Video:Race Highlights, Interview With Brannigan And His Parents And Reaction Clip From His Former HS Watching At Home
Roy Griak: #19 Ranked Portland Men And #30 Portland Women Win Roy Griak Invitational Surprising upsets, especially on the women’s side, although #6 ranked Boise State ran without AllieOstrander. Colorado State’s Jerrell Mock and Boise State’s Brenna Peloquin took the individual titles. *Results
*MB:PORTLAND PILOTS WIN GRIAK!!!?
*MB:Oklahoma Men’s team goes home DEVASTATED
*MB:Ostrander at Griak?
Panorama Farms: MB:#12 BYU men shock #1 Syracuse at Panorama Farms InviteJustyn Knight got the course record, but Syracuse’s Joel Hubbard DNFed, costing them the team win. *Results
Women LRC 2016 NCAA Women’s XC Top 10 Countdown: #2 Providence And #1 Colorado – Is #1 Colorado Wetmore’s Best Team Ever?Is #1 Colorado Mark Wetmore‘s best team ever?
LRC #6 New Mexico, #5 NC State, #4 Oregon And #3 Stanford
LRC #10 Michigan State, #9 Oklahoma State, #8 Michigan And #7 Boise State
Men LRC 2016 NCAA Men’s XC Preview: #10 Washington And #9 WisconsinAfter 43 straight NCAA appearances, the Badgers were absent in 2015 but they should back in a big way in 2016 thanks in part to a guy who ran 14:07 in HS on less than 40 mpw.
*MB: Very impressive. Wisco’s Morgan McDonald ran 14:07 in HS on less than 40 mpw
LRC Molly Huddle Talks About Losing Her 5k American Record And Her NYC Marathon Preparations: “I Kind of Miss The Track Already” (fixed) Molly Huddle may have recently lost the 5,000 American record she once held but she’s not too upset about it, “(Sub-14:40) that’s where the record belongs – we’ll see how much lower it can go.”
*MB: Molly Huddle on Shannon Rowbury breaking her 5000 AR, “(Sub-14:40) that’s where the record belongs.”
D'Agostino said she had a sense, even before her race, that something special might happen. "I felt this affirmation that yeah, I really am going to be there for some reason other than this race performance."
LRC Might Dathan Ritzenhein Have A Chance To Win The 2016 NYC Marathon? We Break Down The 2016 NYC Marathon Elite Fields We break down the fields for you and note that the men’s field is short on African talent – could that open the door for a win by America’s Dathan Ritzenhein? Molly Huddle will have her hands full on November 6 as Mary Keitany is looking for a 3-peat against Berlin champ Gladys Cherono, 2015 NYC runner-up Aselefech Mergia and Joyce Chepkirui.
*Press Release From NYRR
*MB: 2016 NYC Marathon Fields released – Does Ritz have a chance (only 4 other sub-2:08 guys in the race)?
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