Looking Ahead On The Roads

• December 4: Former WR Holder Patrick Makau Returns To Fukuoka To Shoot For A Hat-Trick Victory Makau has won the past two years, but will face two others with sub-2:05 PBs including World silver medalist Yemane Tsegay (2:04:48) and James Kwambai (2:04:27). Field also includes Yuki Kawauchi, Eritrean record holder Yared Asmerom, Poland’s Henryk Szost and 2012 Olympic 10,000 bronze medalist Tariku Bekele in his debut.
• December 4: Olympic Champ Jemima Sumgong Vs Two-Time World Champ Edna Kiplagat At Montferland Run 15K In The Netherlands
• Seb Coe Will Be At The Beirut Marathon Next Weekend

Small Russian Doping Updates

• Russian Parliament To Consider Proposed Bill Which Would Criminalize Doping At least they’re acting like they’re trying to clean up doping.
• Russian Bobsled Federation President Dismisses Claims World Championships Should Be Moved As Call For Boycott Grows Some athletes have threatened a boycott as Worlds is there next year despite Russia not having a working anti-doping agency.

Previous NYC Marathon Headlines

• Good Read: Deena Kastor, Kara Goucher And Shalane Flanagan Talk About “The Magic” Of Making Their Marathon Debuts At NYC They each reminisce about their debut and share some pointers for the next class of marathon debutantes, Molly Huddle and Kim Conley.
• NYC Marathon Forecast Calling For Good Conditions A low of 45 and a high of 54 with partly cloudy skies.
• Chris Chavez Writes About Running The NYC Marathon From The Perspective Of A Spectator, Runner And Journalist

Cheats Of All Kinds In The News

• 43-Year-Old Kenyan “Wins” Nairobi Half Marathon After Jumping Into The Race At The End John Mwangi Nyaruai broke the finish tape, but thankfully was exposed as a cheat and DQed.
• Pathetic: After Being Caught Doping, Rather Than Return Her 2008 Olympic Silver Medal, Cuban Discus Thrower Yarelys Barrios Appears To Have Sold It On Ebay For $11,655 Barrios was caught in this summer’s doping re-tests of frozen samples.
• Writer From The Guardian Rips The IOC For Their Reaction To The Independent Anti-Doping Report From RIo 2016 Ridiculously, the IOC ignored the many downfalls and negative takeaways and came out with a statement praising the “successful anti-doping program” in Rio.
• WADA President Craig Reedie Calls Independent Anti-Doping Report From Rio “Alarming” The report found that more than a third of the athletes in Rio hadn’t been tested once in 2016.
• Russian HJer Anna Chicherova Appealing Against IOC Decision To Strip Her Beijing 2008 Bronze Medal Chicherova, the London 2012 Olympic champ, was caught in re-tests of her frozen samples.
• Over-Dependence On Government Funding Identified As Key Reason For Kenyan Rio 2016 Corruption A report claims that key government officials lobbied for paid positions on the Kenyan Olympic Committee thanks to the amount of money they had given.

Set WR, Get New Agent

• Keni Harrison Dumps HSI And Emmanuel Hudson, Picks Up Claude Bryan As Her Agent
• Eilish McColgan Wants Standardized Drug Tests Across Countries

Pre-NCAA Conference News

Big 10 Big 10 XC Champs Preview Women’s race has #6 Penn state vs. #9 Michigan. Men’s side led by #14 Michigan and #18 Wisconsin.
*Good Read: Erin Finn Has Bounced Back From Obstacle To Obstacle To Put Herself In Contention To Win An Individual XC Title Finn got a stress fracture in June and didn’t start running until mid-August, but finds herself in great shape entering championship season.

USTFCCCA Conference-By-Conference Meet Recaps/Highlights

Fan Polls LRC Nation Says Colorado Women, Northern Arizona Men Are Strong #1s, Colorado Men Will Lose First PAC-12 Title We’ve tabulated your votes in our national and conference polls.

LRC Preview Part II: What To Watch For At The Big 12, Big 10 And Ivy League Meets? The No. 9 Oklahoma State men will look to make it 9 straight Big 12 titles on Saturday, while the No. 18 OSU women will look to upset No. 12 Baylor and No. 15 Iowa State. At Big 10s on Sunday, the men’s race is wide open with No. 14 Michigan battling No. 18 Wisconsin and No. 19 Indiana, but the highlight is a showdown between No. 6 Michigan and No. 9 Penn State in the women’s race.

More XC News

• Etrain’s Predictions ACC, PAC-12, BIG 10, IVY (HEPS), BIG 12, SEC, BIG EAST, MOUNTAIN WEST, WEST COAST
• Jesse Squire’s The Weekend’s Best College XC Matchups
• *MB: Henry Rono and Steve Prefontaine only won 3 Pac-10 xc titles, who beat them?
• Maurica Powell Says Katie Rainsberger Has A Special Mindset “What makes her different from other kids who’ve had a lot of success in high school is that she’s not really super outcome oriented.”

Mid-Distance News

• Recommended Read: Jim Ryun Tells All In An Extensive Interview If you don’t know a lot about the former WR holder and first sub-4 prep (or even if you do), this is a great read as Ryun shares a ton of insights starting from the beginning of his career through present day.
• The Oregonian: “Alberto Salazar Wishes Mary Cain The Best” Salazar said he agreed with her decision and that the last 6 months John Henwood has been writing her workouts and Salazar was only advising.
• MB: Matt Centrowitz Almost dies in theme park accident Centro wasn’t actually involved in the accident, but tweeted that he had only gotten off the ride 15 minutes before an accident killed four people.
• BBTM: Who Has The Fastest Married Couple Mile PR Combo? Will Leer and Aisha Praught recently got married, but they are only 3rd on the list which is led by Shannon Rowbury (4:20) and her husband Pablo Salares (3:54).
• Q&A Catching Up With Nick Symmonds, Who Talks About His Career In General And Dealing With Missing The Olympic Trials  Symmonds says when he pulled out of the Trials he was in a “deep depression for a day,” but that was a big improvement over his 2014 injury where he was in a deep depression for 3 months.