An Inside Look At What Going Pro Out Of HS Is Really Like

LRC New $50,000 BMW or a $70,000 Lexus? What It’s Like To Go Pro In Track & Field As A Teenager In recent years, Ajee Wilson, Mary Cain, Alexa Efraimson, Drew Hunter, Kaylin Whitney, Candace Hill,  Vashti Cunningham and the Lyles Brothers have all gone pro early. We take a look at that it entails.

LRC Running Warehouse Nationals Prediction Contest!

LRC LetsRun.com Running Warehouse D1 Cross-Country Prediction Contest Tell us who will win NCAAs and win some cool Running Warehouse and Saucony prizes.

LRC 2016 NCAA XC Men’s Team Preview: Can Northern Arizona Send Futsum Zienasellassie And Coach Eric Heins Out On Top? The men’s team race is full of intrigue. Will Syracuse defend or will Colorado reclaim the title? Can NAU get the storybook ending? Could Stanford lose its conference but win NCAAs? And don’t forget Arkansas.

Doping News

• Usain Bolt On Brushing Off Doping Questions: “I’m not going to let somebody else rob me of that moment. I feel good because I know I’ve done it clean.” Talking about Justin Gatlin getting booed in Rio Bolt said, “[I felt sorry for him] a little bit. But then, after all the talking that was going on all season, not that much.”
• Banned Former IAAF Treasurer Valentin Balakhnichev Warns Russia To “Prepare For The Worst” Ahead Of Richard McLaren’s Second Report Not at all surprising, but this is the first we’ve seen mention of the possibility of Russian doping corruption at the 2013 World Champs in Moscow.
• The Guardian Reviews New British Play, “Deny, Deny, Deny,” Which Depicts Doping In Sport  The play sounds interesting as it follows a young ambitious sprinter who is convinced to turn to doping by a controlling coach.
• Russian Athletes To Know Final Criteria To Be Readmitted To International Competition By December
• WADA Suspend Accreditation Of Doha Anti-Doping Laboratory For Not Meeting Standards

Women’s Marathon News

• Outside Magazine: What Did Molly Huddle, Kim Conley And Gwen Jorgensen Learn In Their Marathon Debuts? While they all feel like they can do better the next time, none of them plans on running another marathon any time soon. Huddle said 2018 at the earliest.
• Meet US’s Sub-2:30 Marathoner Lindsay Flanagan, Who Has To Constantly Explain To People That She Isn’t (Related To) Shalane She’s not related to Shalane, but her coach says if there is a “marathon gene, Lindsay probably has it.”
• After Her Impressive Debut In NYC, Sally Kipyego Is Likely Made The Transition To The Marathon For Good She still plans on running some track races, but the focus will be at 26.2 and she’ll likely run another this spring.
• Molly Huddle Is Relieved To Have The NYC Marathon Behind Her After some downtime, Huddle will turn her focus to training for 2017 Worlds in the 10,000m.
  *Podcast Q&A With Molly Huddle From Before NYC

High School News

• York High School Gives Legendary Coach Joe Newtwon A Champion’s Retirement Send-Off Hundreds from the school and community came out to celebrate Newtwon’s 61 years of coaching, which included 29 state titles.
• NXN Regionals Have Started: Minnesota Schools Get All Four Auto Spots At NXR Heartland Regional
  *Illinois Dominance At NXN Midwest Regional
  *DyeStat NXN Northwest Regional Recap
• DyeStat State-By-State High School State Championships Coverage

Anti-Doping News

• Strings Attached: IOC Increases WADA Funding By $500,000 In Return For “Active Cooperation With Russian Investigation” The IOC has its own commission looking into the doping in Russia, but apparently Richard McLaren has refused to share his findings with the IOC as he prepares his final report.
• Out Of 26 Summer Olympic Sports, 80% Of Total Anti-Doping Spending Came From Just 6 Of Them The six federations weren’t named, but the UCI is apparently the largest spender.
• IOC Approve Re-Election Of Craig Reedie To Serve Three More Years As WADA President Reedie will stand for re-election at a WADA meeting next weekend.
• Vladimir Putin Orders Anti-Doping Improvements To Be Made In Russia Among other things, Putin is having the government establish a new anti-doping lab at Moscow State University.