Turkey Day Action –Manchester Road Race  *Results

LRC Ben True Wins Sprint Finish Over Leonard Korir, Galen Rupp 10th, Emily Sisson Dominates Sisson took down Edna Kiplagat while True won in a tight finish as Galen Rupp struggled with asthma and was a nonfactor. Video of finish and top results.
*RRW: Ben True, Emily Sisson Win 80th Manchester Road Race
*Hartford Courant: “Ben True Wins Men’s Race In Manchester Road Race In Thrilling Fashion; Emily Sisson Is Women’s Winner”
*MB: Official Manchester Road Race Discussion Thread

Silicon Valley Turkey Trot: American Morgan Pearson Takes Down Quality Field The men’s race which included Drew Hunter (13:56), Lawi Lalang (13:44), German Fernandez (13:39), Olympian Shadrack Kipchirchir (13:36) and others was won by Morgan Pearson in 13:32. Caroline Chepkoech (15:18) won the women’s race which included Alexi Pappas (15:44), Leah O’Connor (15:54) and Kate Grace (16:03).
*MB: Drew Hunter: 13:56 today
*MB: Morgan Pearson 13:32 @ Silicon 5km
*MB: Alexi Pappas ran under USA at Silicon Valley TT
*MB: 13 year Grace Ping 16:36 age record

Atlanta: Nearly 12,000 People Compete in Atlanta: Sam Chelanga Outkicks Kirubel Erassa (14:21 to 14:25) as Natosha Rogers Wins Women’s Race

NY: Robby Andrews’ Sister Kristin Breaks A Turkey Trot Course Record Twice In The Same Day At the Marli Run Kristin Andrews ran 16:39 to win the women’s race and doubled back in the men/open race in 16:29.

Idaho: Slagowski Beats Symmonds (By A Lot) 

• What makes Bill Aris’ Fayetteville-Manlius teams so special? For starters, they’ve already had practice today (on Thanksgiving) *Discuss
• Not been following the HS scene? Get all 50 state meet results here

Upcoming Distance Action

• Sunday: Uganda’s Former World XC 5th Placer Timothy Toroitich Faces Steepler Jairus Birech And Eritrea’s Aron Kifle At Alcobendas Spanish XC Race Women’s race has former Euro XC champ Fionnuala McCormack vs Ethiopia’s Etenesh Diro (5th in the 2012 Olympic steeple).
• Sunday: IAAF Preview Of IAU 100K World Championships: Sweden’s Jonas Buud And GB’s Joasia Zakrzewski Are The Favorites
• Next Sunday: Daniel Tapia, Sergio Reyes, Stephanie Bruce And Clara Santucci Lead US Field For CIM Marathon The international field is lead by Elisha Barno (2:09:45) and Sarah Kiptoo (2:26:31).

Doping News Making The Headlines

• New York Times: Jere Longman On Kenya’s Decision To Drop All Charges Against Federico Rosa We told everyone not to rush to judgment on this, particularly after CAS said Jeptoo had hidden her doping from him.
• Travis Tygart Says Athletes Have Good Reason To Be Irate With The Lack Of Progess In Anti-Doping Fight “Look at the Rio IO report – 4,000 athletes out of the 11,000 that were in Rio had no tests prior to the Rio Olympics? Our athletes are saying,’What on earth is going on here?’ How is that possible? 1,900 of them in high-risk sports? No tests before getting to Rio? It’s incredible.”
• WADA Publishes 2015 Testing Figures WADA did 303,369 tests last year and 1.26% of those were positive.

Next Week, USATF Will Select A New President

Ken Goe: Who Should Be USATF President – Vin Lananna Or JJK? Lananna is a visionary with a plan (but with conflicts of interests) whereas JJK is one of the most famous female athletes in history.

Mid-D News

• Good Read: Washington Post: Matt Centrowitz Says He’s Going After The US Mile And 1,500 Records; Plans To Do Some 5Ks Next Year Centro talks about his athletic start in soccer, wanting to “enjoy the moment” now that he’s Olympic champ and shares a 6 x 400 workout where he averaged 51.3.
  *MB: Centro Says He is Running 105 miles per Week
• Matthew Centrowitz Sr.: “The Rockefellers probably talked about money, the Kennedys holding office. In our house, we talked about racing splits.” Younger Centro says he runs 105 miles a week, part of the reason he chose the University of Oregon was he didn’t see a lot of drinking, weighs 135 pounds and has a resting heart rate between 45 and 50.
• Carie Tollefson Video Interview With Nick Symmonds Symmonds talks about retirement (2017 will definitely be his last year), Run Gum, and being an advocate for pro athletes.
• Runner’s Tribe Q&A With Brenda Martinez A pretty extensive interview which includes Martinez talking about the structure of her training, what it’s like being coached by Joe Vigil and the OT/Rio.
• Drew Hunter Talks About Learning To Cook On His Own And His Mom Explains The Effort That Goes Into Feeding A Family Of 11

More From 2016 NCAA XC

• RRW: After Bloody Fall At NCAA XC Champs, NC State’s Eli Moskowitz Is Recovering Well Who said cross-country isn’t a contact sport?
  *MB: Elijah Moskowitz of NC State looks like he got punched in the face at NCAA’s
• Every Point Counts: RW Speaks With Oregon’s 5th Woman Maggie Schmaedick, Who Beat Out Michigan’s Jamie Phelan By A Tenth Of A Second To Win Oregon The Team Title “In that moment I didn’t know she was from Michigan and I didn’t know that the points were as close as they were … I didn’t find out until later that my final push mattered as much as it did.”
• Podcast Q&A With Pat Tiernan After His Upset Win Over Edward Cheserek Tiernan talks about NCAAs, the decision to not wear hat/gloves, competing at the Olympics, and more.
• Mark Wetmore On CU Women’s 3rd Place: “They were out a little too tentatively, in fact a lot too tentatively, and then it was a catch-up race the whole way.”
• Ben Saarel Became Only The Third Colorado Buff To Be An All-American Four Times The other two were Adam Goucher and Stephen Pifer.
• The Denver Post: Katie Rainsberger’s 4th Place Finish Was The Highest Ever For An Oregon Freshman
• List Of All DI All-Americans

More From The Weekend (Non-NCAA)

• Kimutai Cheruiyot (2:15:53) And Taylor Ward (2:36:25) Win Philadelphia Marathon
• Tsegaye Getachew (63:54) And Biruktayie Degefa (71:42) Win Philly Half Marathon In the 8K, former Penn star Thomas Awad won in 24:00 as Sophy Jepchirchir took the women’s race (26:57).
• Ultrarunner Jim Walmsley Sets New Course Record At The JFK 50-Mile, The US’s Longest-Running Ultramarathon Walmsley’s time was 5:21:28 (6:25 mile pace).
• Olympic 1,500m Finalist Laura Weightman Wins British XC Race By Over A Minute
• Video: High Schooler Rebecca Story Runs 9:59.85 3,200 To Set Tennessee State Record The time also puts her #12 on the US all-time list. *Results

NCAA XC Women *Men’s Results *Women’s Results *LRC Video Interviews

LRC Final Upsets Galore – Oregon Women Pull Off Biggest Upset In NCAA History, Missouri’s Karissa Schweizer Your Surprise NCAA Champion Two big upsets.

Full 2016 NCAA Cross-Country Women’s Results (team results fixed)

Videos: Karissa Schweizer On The Win *Maurica Powell On Oregon’s 1-Point Win *More

• Discuss: Karissa Schweizer won NCAAs this year and didn’t even qualify last year (and was 155th in 2014)
• Erin Clark off day costs Colorado women NCAA XC title! 

Outside Coverage  

• MU’s Karissa Schweizer Used Her Big Kick To Go From 6th To 3rd On THe Track In The Spring
• Register- Guard: Oregon Women Win NCAA Cross-Country Championship
• Michigan Women Nearly Won The Program’s 1st NCAA Team Title

Full Coverage In Our NCAA Special Section

The Latest Pro News

• After Injuries Kept Her From Defending Her Olympic Title, Sally Pearson Has Sacked Her Coach And Decided To Coach Herself “Now I take responsibility for everything that I do in my training and my competitions and I feel actually that there’s a lot less weight on my shoulders,” said Pearson, who has already competed at a low-key meet.
• Men’s Track Stars Have Been Avoiding Each Other For Decades: Seb Coe Faced Steve Ovett Only 6 Times At 800 And 4 Of Those Were In The Olympics
• Caster Semenya Is On The Cover Of Elle In South Africa
• The Most Underappreciated Gold Of The Games RR IAAF Profiles Jeff Henderson – The Man Who Went From 4th To 1st On His Last Jump In The LJ In The Olympics
• Kiwi Zane Robertson Has Joined Sub2 Project – Will Make Marathon Debut In 2017 “I do think it’s possible, but first the right situation and preparation must be achieved. I’m not saying it will be me but Sub2 is about pushing limits and breaking barriers.”
• Jamaica Gleaner: Nike Blocked Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce From Leaving Stephen Francis They reportedly were willing to let her leave – if she trained with Allyson Felix.
• Usain Bolt’s Team Hid Fact That His Pre-Rio Ankle Injury Came At A Nightclub

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.