Week That Was

WTW Usain Bolt Races Celebrities, Callum Hawkins Impresses, So Does Iona, Arizona XC Team Chases A Knife Wielding Thief, And Pick Your Parents Wisely Want to know what’s going on in the running world? This is your weekly read.

Sprint Stuff: Bolt, 100m Science And A New Documentary

• People Video Interview Wiith Usain Bolt: Where Does He Keep His 9 Olympic Golds, What Are His Post-Retirement Plans? Bolt jokes that if someone tried to steal them, they “probably wouldn’t get away.”
• Interesting Read: Scientific Breakdown Of The 100m – What Makes Sprinters Fast And How Much Faster Can We Go? A big part of speed is “how forcefully they can hit the ground in relation to their body weight.”
  *Video: A Scientific Look At The Key Structural Phases Of The 100m
• Looks Good: Trailer For New Documentary On The Rise And Fall Of US Olympic Sprinter Danny Harris “Crossing the Line” tells the story of how Harris’ meteroric rise (which included breaking Edwin Moses‘ 107-race winning streak) and his steep fall into drug addiction after he missed making the 1988 Olympic team.
• Video Interview With Olympic 100H Bronze Medalist Kristi Castlin Apparently Olympic medals are surprisingly heavy as Castlin says it’s gotten a bit annoying wearing it around.
• 3 “Super Simple” Things Olympic Medalist Tori Bowie Does To Stay Healthy She says sleep, muscle balance and mental focus are key for her.

Robert Young – Run Across America Fraud

LRC It’s Official: Robert Young An UltraMarathon Cheat Inspired in part by the fastest-growing thread in LetsRun.com history started by Asher Delmott, Skins – Young’s primary sponsor – has released a 100+ page independent report to determine if Young cheated in his run across America. The evidence is conclusive, he didn’t run the entire way.
*MB: Robert Young fakes run across America

Great Point: Sean Ingle: If Only Nike And Other Companies Responded With Independent Investigations When Their Athletes Were Accused Of Cheating “Wouldn’t it have been refreshing for Sky, having spent millions funding Team Sky, to bring in independent experts to check everything is above board with their TUE requests?”

NCAA News *All Weekend NCAA Results

• MB: Iona men and Yale women win Paul Short Invites Iona (34) crushed Georgetown, Adams State and the Ivies.
• MB: King Cheserek crushes field at UW by nearly 20 seconds, Oregon men put 3 in top 4
• Big Talent: MB: Stanford Frosh Thomas Ratcliffe Runs 23:17 Unattached – Wins Stanford Invite The kid is a big talent as he didn’t even do XC in HS. Of course, we already knew that as he ran 4:01.50 in HS as a part-time runner.
•  Olympic Medalists Jenny Simpson, Emma Coburn Rock The Rocky Mountain Shootout (As Spectators)
• #5 Arkansas Men Rock The Chile Pepper Meet
• Notre Dame: #1 Providence Women, #20 Ole Miss Men Win Ole Miss, led by individual chap Sean Tobin, edged #18 UTEP as #9 E. Kentucky was third. Anna Rohrer won the women’s title. The host Notre Dame men were DFL – 25th out of 25.
• Two Colleges In Missouri And Oklahoma Boycott NAIA XC Champs After NAIA Took Them Away From North Carolina Over Bathroom Law One college president called the NAIA’s action “political correctness gone berserk.”
  *MB: NAIA moves Nationals from Charlotte

Road Race News

• Interesting A Comparison Of The 5km Splits For Dennis Kimetto’s WR, Bekele’s 2:03:03 And Kipchoge’s 2:03:05
• 30:07 10ker Betsy Saina Running 2nd Career Half Marathon This Weekend At Great Scottish Run – Likely Will Make Marathon Debut In Tokyo
• Rio Olympic 9th Placer, Callum Hawkins, Just 24, Is Leading The UK Charge At The GSR
• Moses Kipsiro The Defending Champ At Great Scottish Run

Administrators Love To Spend, Except On Athletes

• In New Zealand, More Than 85 Sports Bureaucrats Earn More Than $100,000 A Year, Yet Gold Medalists Only Get $60,000
• Kenyan Govt. To Spend Nearly $6 Million To Upgrade Kenyatta University Hostels To 5-Star Hotel Standards For 2017 World Youth Championships All told, the World Youth Championships are costing more than $25 million. Wow.

The Real Winners From Rio – LRC Running Warehouse Prediction Contest

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.

Pro Distance News

• Abbey D’Agostino Making “Baby Steps” Progress After Her ACL Surgery Earlier This Month In her log she shares that she’s cleared to weight bearing and driving.
• Sub2 Hour Marathon Project Provides Some Info On The Special Fueling They Did For Kenenisa Bekele In Berlin Well, they don’t actually say very much and you can’t even buy the stuff until 2017, but they do say they “are proud of the fact that in just a few months we were able to take 2 minutes off” Bekele’s PR.
• Mo Farah Says He’d Like To Become The Fitness Coach For Arsenal Soccer Team
• Did You Know Shalane Flanagan Put Out A Cookbook? Carrie Tollefson has a video making a recipe from the “Run Fast, Eat Slow.”