Saturday Action

MB: Chris Derrick runs 27:38.69 in Japan, race is dominated by 3:28 man Ronald Kwemoi in 27:33! November is full of intrigue in Japan. Race video available.
*Japan Running News Recap

• Rio 5,000 6th Placer Andrew Butchart Coasts To British Euro Cross Trials Victory Butchart won over fellow Olympians Callum Hawkins and Andy Vernon while Gemma Steel won the women’s race.
• Uganda’s Timothy Toroitich And Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack Win IAAF Series XC Meet In Alcobendas, Spain Toroitich won over Eritrea’s Aron Kifle and steepler Jarius Birech while McCormack dominated by more than 30 seconds.
• Tomorrow: Mick Clohisey And Ciara Mageean Lead Fields For Ireland National XC Champs
  *After Getting A Controversial Marathon Spot In Rio, Paul Pollock Looking To Make The Euro XC Squad No Questions Asked Pollock proved critics wrong as he was the top Irishman in Rio in 32nd place.
• IAAF Weekend XC Report: Ethiopia’s World U20 Champions Selemon Barega And Beyenu Degefa Win In France At the Tuskys Wareng XC race in Kenya, Ronald Kirui and World 5,000 finalist Irene Cheptai took the wins.
• Japan Post Group Wins Japan National Corporate Women’s Ekiden Championships The team featured Rio track Olympians Ayuko Suzuki and Hanami Sekine.

NCAA News

• Justyn Knight Says Not Making The Rio Olympics Motivated Him This XC Season “I told myself to remember the feeling of hurt and make sure not to feel like that again.”
• IAAF Profile: “The Best Is Yet To Come For Edward Cheserek” Cheserek shares he ran “14-something” when he started running in Kenya “without even training” and Coach Andy Powell says he’s “never worked with anyone as good as Cheserek,” including Matt Centrowitz.
• Good Read: NY Times Obituary For Legendary Texas Coach Stan Huntsman When Ohio University (where Huntsman got his master’s) cut their track program, he was so angry he mailed back his degree and had the school remove his plaque from the hall of fame.
  *USTFCCCA Tribute In his career, Huntsman produced 41 N.C.A.A. individual champions and 201 All-Americans.
  *MB: Former “UT” Track Coach Stan Huntsmann Has Died
• Register-Guard: Kate Murphy Headlines Oregon’s 2017 Recruting Class The Ducks are also getting Susan Ejore, a Kenyan junior college transfer who was NJCAA XC runner-up.

Craziness In Kenya

• Chaos Takes Place In Kenya As Olympic Association Meeting Is Stormed By Professional Athletes’ Association Holding Signs Calling Kip Keino A Criminal
• Kenyan Olympic Vice Chairman Accused Of Nike Theft Offers To Repay $10,500 That Was Put Into His Account With His Knowledge
• Kenyan Journalist Says There Is No Chance The Olympic Official Who Allegedly Stole $10,000+ Worth Of Nike Kit Will Go To Jail
  
• Man Who Allegedly Stole Nike Kit Is Also Being Investigated For Reports He Sexually Molested Minors That Were Part Of Swimming Federation
  
• Ekumbo Formally Chaged With Two Counts Of Theft

More News From Africa Wayde van Niekerk And Many South African Stars Likely Won’t Be At 2017 SA Champs – They’ll Be At World Relays Instead

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 non-factor. Video of finish and top results.
*RRW: Ben True, Emily Sisson Win 80th Manchester Road Race
*Hartford Courant: Salazar Says Rupp Did Poorly As ” Cold dry air is the worst.”
*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’s 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

NCAA XC News

Week That Was One More Look At A Great NCAA XC Meet: Patrick Tiernan Really Brought It, Meet Karissa Schweizer’s Running Family, Colorado Came Even Closer Than You Thought To Winning, Plus Some DII And DIII Love We take one more look back at an incredible NCAA XC Meet.

• Good Read: 8 Things To Know About The Surprise Women’s XC Champ Karissa Schweizer Including the fact that her grandfather is an Iowa coaching legend and he and both parents starred in college at Minnesota State-Mankato.
• Jesse Squire Tries To Put Oregon’s NCAA Win In Historical Perspective And Compares It To Villanova’s 1985 NCAA B-Ball Title We 100% disagree. ‘Nova wasn’t pre-season #4 in B-Ball.

News From Overseas

• Old School: Olympic 1,500 Champ Faith Kipyegon Won’t Do Any Indoor Track Races – Will Focus On Cross-Country Instead
• Mo Farah Documentary “No Easy Mile” Comes Out December 5th – Watch The Trailer Exclusively Here The film includes clips from Usain Bolt, Thierry Henry, Lord Coe, Haile Gebreselassie, Alberto Salazar and Tania Farah. You can purchase the DVD here. Earlier in the year, the BBC released a different documentary called “Race of His Life.”
• Racism? Christine Ohuruogu Says Sports Boards Are Not Open To BAME People BAME means black, Asian and minority ethnic people. We guess she’s not aware of the USATF board, where 11 of 16 members are black.
• Catching Up With Cindy Ofili She was 4th at NCAA outdoors and 4th at the Olympics
• Kenyan Who Won Kass Marathon Over Weekend, Bornes Jepkirui, Is Now Training For World XC “So far, I feel the hand of God in my career and I hope the same continues even as I eagerly train to try my luck in the World Cross Country team,” said the 2:32:00 marathoner.
• 2018 European Championships – A Mini-Olympics – Already Has 35 TV Deals With Free Over-Air Channels In Place In addition to Athletics, the competition will also feature Aquatics, Cycling, Gymnastics, Rowing, Triathlon, with a new Golf Team Championships.

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

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.