September 3, 2017 | LetsRun.com

Distance News On A Slow Weekend

Mo Farah Says Queen Elizabeth “Kind Of Knew Who I Was”
Farah Also Says He’s Moving Back To The UK After His Career Is Over But Not Simply Because Donald Trump Is President “Trump doesn’t help does he? That’s not the reason though, the reason is I miss it, we have all the family (in the UK).”
Bowerman Track Club’s Betsy Saina Has Been Preparing For Her Marathon Debut In New York By Training In Kenya Under Patrick Sang The Last Two Months
Klosterhalfen Reflects On Her Amazing Campaign, Is Already Eyeing 2018 When European Champs In Berlin Will Be A Huge Focus Next up for her is European XC in December. Does she race the U23s or go in the senor division?
Still Less Than 500 Americans Have Broken 4:00 In The Mile TFN lists it at 492.
Interesting Brother Of Famous Kenyan (His Name Has Now Been Withheld) Gives Specifics About How Lots Of Kenyan And Ugandan Athletes Are Age Cheats He says Benjamin Kiplagat steepled at World Juniors at 28. We mentioned who he was related to earlier but now he wants that private.
Duke Holds Its Opening Cross-Country Race – On A Track – Because It Was Raining

2017 Brussels DL Full Results TV & Streaming Information

LRC 2017 Brussels Diamond League Recap: World Champs Conseslus Kipruto, Faith Kipyegon And Hellen Obiri Earn Diamond League Titles In the men’s steeple, Evan Jager went for it but ran out of steam while Jenny Simpson ran a big seasonal best in the 1,500 but got smoked. *FULL RESULTS

America’s Next BIG Track Star Is Here LRC 20-Year-Old Noah Lyles Wins 2017 Diamond League 200 Final In Brussels How do you spell “total stud”? NOAH.

MB: Official 2017 Brussels DL discussion thread – Say it ain’t so The 2017 season end is near.
IAAF: Shaunae Miller-Uibo Completes 200/400 Diamond League Double With World-Leading 49.46 Ivana Spanovic didn’t win a LJ medal at Worlds, but beat out both Tianna Bartoletta and Brittney Reese here while Christian Taylor won the TJ over Will Claye.
Elaine Thompson Ends 2017 With Some Redemption By Winning 100m In 10.92
IAAF #2: Russian Neutrals Have Their Day As Maria Lasitskene Stays Perfect In The HJ With A 2.02m Win And Sergey Shubenkov Takes The 100H In 13.14
There Were Over 100 Athletes That Didn’t Accept A Spot In The 2017 Diamond League Final Injuries and burnout kept a lot of big name athletes from a chance at some serious prize money.
NZ’s Shot Put World Champ Tom Walsh Disappointed With 6th Place Season’s End “Really annoyed with myself for not being able to focused and do what I needed to do … today I was just trying too hard and I know when I try too hard it just doesn’t work.”

Recommended Read: The Guardian Profile On GB’s Colin Jackson – Phenomenal Athlete Who Came Out As Gay At 50 Jackson set a 110H WR at 12.91 that stood for more than a decade and he still holds the 60H WR.

Other News

Former Olympic LJ Champ Greg Rutherford Undergoes Hernia Operation Rutherford had to end his season with an ankle injury, but apparently that wasn’t all as he tweeted, “Heading down to have my groin chopped up and then reconstructed soon. They just need me to get changed … Have a tasty hernia that needs sorting out. Can’t wait.”
September 9: GB’s Diana Asher-Smith To Run The 150m At The Great North CityGames
Columnist Calls Idea Of Adding ESports To The Olympics “Equal Parts Hilarious And Embarrassing”

The Men Of The 800

World 800 Champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse Injured In “Violent Assault” Bosse says he has to end his season after suffering “multiple facial fracture” when he was attacked by three individuals.
*MB: Bosse suffers “multiple facial fractures” in a “violent assault” in casino parking lot
*Man Arrested In In Connection With Assault On Pierre-Ambroise Bosse The attack took place at 4AM in a casino parking lot in France. Reportedly, the three attackers had posed for a photo with Bosse.
Q&A With GB’s Worlds 800 4th Placer Kyle Langford Langford says he ran 1:45 as a teenager off less than 20 miles per week.

Pre-Brussels News

LRC 2017 Memorial Van Damme Preview: Jager & Kipruto Chase Sub-8:00, Jenny Simpson Tries To Turn It Around, Amos & Obiri Look To Cap Dominant Seasons All great things have to come to an end and the 2017 IAAF Diamond League season concludes with the 2017 Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on Friday. We break it down for you.

USA’s Darrell Hill Gets Surprise Win Over Ryan Crouser To Take Diamond League Shot Put Title And $50,000 Prize Money Hill was only 4th at USAs and 11th at Worlds, but came through clutch with a big PR on his final throw in Brussels to snipe the DL trophy from Crouser. World champ Tom Walsh was just 6th.
IAAF: Brittney Reese Vs. Darya Klishina And Tianna Bartoletta In The LJ, Tom Walsh Vs. Ryan Crouser In The SP, Elaine Thompson In The 100 Mariya Lasitskene leads the HJ and Christian Taylor the TJ.
Elaine Thompson Has One Last Chance To Redeem Herself Thompson lost both her races at Worlds as well as the first DL final in Zurich.

Masters News

Kevin Castille Is USATF Athlete Of The Week After Breaking Two Masters Records Castille won the USATF Masters 1 Mile Road Champs in a 4:24 age group record and broke Bill Rodgers‘ US Masters 45-49 10 mile record by over 3 minutes with 49:36 at the Crim 10.
Twitter Video: Hurricane Doesn’t Stop Veteran Runner From Putting In Some Shirtless Miles

Track Season Is Winding Down *Zagreb Results

Zagreb: 48 Hours After Setting 9:03.70 PR In Berlin, Kenya’s Norah Jeruto Gets Another Dominant Win In 9:04.56 In other distance action, Ajee Wilson got a controlled 800 win in 1:59.13 and Worlds 5th placer Selemon Barega won the 3,000 in 7:38 as Ben True and Ben Blankenship finished mid-pack. In the sprints, Yohan Blake ran 10.05 to beat Michael Rodgers and Asafa Powell and Sergey Shubenkov ran 13.12 to win over Devon Allen (13.19). Off the track Sandra Perkovic highlighted with two discus throws over 70m (70.83m best) and Sam Kendricks (5.60m PV) and Kamila Licwinko (1.96m HJ) took the jumps.
Tom Walsh Wins Zagreb Street Meet Shot Put With 21.50m
Rovereto: Kenyan 800 Runner Wycliffe Kinyamal Clocks 1:43.84 To Post The 4th-Fastest Time In 2017 Olympic and Worlds 800m silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba won the women’s race in 2:01.14.
Germany’s Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch Wins Eberstadt HJ Meet With 2.00m Clearance Jungfleisch beat out Worlds medalists Kamila Licwinko and Yulia Levchenko.
Friday: Brussels Provisional Entry Lists

Get Ready For XC

More Distance News

Kate Grace Leaves The Drew Wartenburg/Kim Conley-Led NorCal Distance Project; Moves To Portland
*MB: Kate Grace leaves NorCal Distance Project with “sadness and gratitude” – moves to Portland
Good Read: Eliud Kipchoge Explains How The Greatest Challenge Of His Career Has Been Dealing With The Pressure Before Races “In my younger days, I used to struggle. I couldn’t sleep before races and I couldn’t eat on the morning of my race.”
European-Athletics: Jakob Ingebrigsten Stole The Show At Norwegian Champs He won three titles (1,500, 5,000, steeple) and bronze in another (800). Another meet highlight was Karoline Grovdal‘s 9:13 NR in the steeple.
*MB: 16-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigsten Runs 13:35 To Win Norwegian National Champs
NCAA DI Men’s Pre-Season Regional XC Rankings
NCAA DI Women’s Pre-Season Regional XC Rankings

Non-Distance Post-Worlds News

Yohan Blake Says Usain Bolt Wants Him To Take Over As The Best Sprinter In The World
Minnesota’s Emerald Egwim Writes Long Letter Exposing Interesting/Potentially Corrupt Coaching Decision By Nigeria For 4 X 400 At Worlds The US-based runner ran on the team in the prelims but then a coach replaced her with his own personal runner who flew in from Nigeria the day before the final. The team ran slower in the final. Their time from the prelims would have medaled.
Noah Lyles Explains Why He Respects And Admires Usain Bolt But Doesn’t Idolize Him
Next Year’s GB Vs. USA Meet Will Be Called “The Meet,” Will Take Place On July 21 And Will Feature An “Innovative And New” Two-Hour Format

A Bunch More Nice Reads On David Torrence

Recommended Read: Will Leer, Chanelle Price, Kyle Merber And Others Share Some Inside Stories On David Torrence Torrence loved board games, wanted to be the first person to run a sub-4 mile barefoot on grass, did plyos and pushups at the track at 11PM after winning the Long Island Mile and was quite obviously an amazing person and friend.
AZCentral.com: Olympic Runner David Torrence Had “Found A Home” With Altis Training Group In Phoenix Before His Death Coach Ricky Soos says, “Until you had a conversation with him, you can’t explain how enthusiastic he was about any topic.”
Twin Cities Mile Race Director Remembers Three-Time Winner David Torrence Virginia Brophy Achman: “David was generous in victory; often sharing some of his winnings in free pints for race organizers and fellow runners after the event.”
David Torrence Died At The Same Age As His Father, Who Died In 1992 Of A Brain Aneurysm This report says Torrence went into the pool after a morning run. Torrence’s coach, John Cook, said, “He’s a very good swimmer. There is no way he could just drown, especially in a pool. Even if he gets a cramp.”
MB: How was the Dave Torrence Downhill Mile last night?

Hurricane News

Video Interview With Steve Magness About Training Through The Hurricane Magness talks about being resourceful to get in workouts with tactics like finding high ground to run on or even working out in parking garages.
MileSplit: Flooded With Disaster, Kingwood High School Runs Toward Recovery The XC team was hopeful for starting a good season, but the flooding has the school, track and local running routes under a few feet of water.

Jamaica / Bolt Updates

Usain Bolt Hurricane Donation Story Is A Hoax You may have read somewhere that Bolt donated $150 million to Hurricane Harvey victims, and the story apparently got over 25,000 likes on Facebook, but it’s not true. *Fake Bolt Story
Usain Bolt Statue To Be Unveiled In Jamaica In October
The Jamaica Gleaner: Preparing The Next Usain Bolt “There are (potentially) other Usains in our midst. All it will take to bring them to the fore is parenting, identification, mentoring and coaching.” … We’d also add freakish talent.
An Open Letter To JAAA President Warren Blake On The “Dissatisfaction” In Jamaica’s 2017 Worlds Performance Only 4 medals leaves this Jamaican columnist wondering if the reports of strife among the team (including an altercation between Stephenie Ann McPherson and Shericka Jackson) hurt their performances.
Japanese Junior Sprinter Hijiri Aomi Joins Racers Track Club In Jamaica

Labor Day Weekend Distance Action

Galen Rupp Leads Field For USATF 20K Champs In New Haven On Monday Rupp will face Leonard Korir, Sam Chelanga and Christo Landry. Aliphine Tuliamuk leads the women’s race against Jordan Hasay and Emily Sisson.
*USATF New Haven 20K Preview
Live Stream: Watch The Ultra Trail Mont-Blanc Race Live On LetsRun Through Sunday The 103-mile race takes place in the Alps with a route that goes through France, Italy and Switzerland.
*MB: Hardrock vs UTMB Talent
*MB: UTMB – Go Sage! Who you got?
Next Week: HOKA ONE ONE Long Island Men’s Mile Preview Nick Willis, Kyle Merber, Craig Engels, Johnny Gregorek, Chris O’Hare and more.

2017 New York International Field Released

MB: Defending Champs Lead The Way In New York’s International Field Including Ghebreslassie, the men’s field features 6 sub-2:08 guys including Desisa and Kamworor. Including Keitany, the women’s field features three sub-2:20 women and five sub-2:22s.

Zurich Weltklasse 2017 Photo Gallery

Road News: Bekele Joins Berlin

Kenenisa Bekele Joins Eliud Kipchoge And Wilson Kipsang In 2017 Berlin Marathon Field The race now has three of five fastest men of all time.
*MB: Bekele added to 2017 Berlin field
*Wilson Kipsang Says His Berlin Preparation Is “The Sharpest Ever” “I am doing everything right so as to be in top shape and try and win the race. The world record will then have to fall in just by itself.”
September 10: Mo Farah Will Defend His Great North Run Half Marathon Title Farah will be going for his fourth consecutive win.
Kevin Castille (4:24) And Renee Tolan (5:25) Win USATF Masters 1 Mile Road Championships On the age-graded tables, Castille was still the best while Sabra Harvey was the top graded woman with a 6:07 at age 68.
Shalane Flanagan, Meb Keflezighi, Jared Ward, Abdi Abdirahman And Kellyn Taylor Lead American Field For 2017 New York City Marathon Other top Americans include Shadrack Biwott, Christo Landry, Neely Gracey, Stephanie Bruce and Aliphine Tuliamuk.

General Distance News

Joe “Stringbean” McConaughy Sets Fastest Known Time On Appalachian Trail Running unsupported, McConaughy finished the 2190-mile route in 45 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes, breaking Karl Meltzer‘s record by about ten hours even though Meltzer was supported.
MB: Jakob Ingebrigsten Continues His Racing Season With 8:00 Victory At Norwegian Youth Championships This came about an hour after he finished second in the 400. *Video
Tokyo 2020 Is Growing Trees Along The Olympic Marathon Course To Provide Cool Shade For Runners The branches are being pruned in a specific way to encourage the growth of larger branches to block the sun.
Athletics Illustrated Q&A With GB 800 Woman Lynsey Sharp Sharp is a very low-mileage mid-d runner doing about 30 miles a week with a her longest run coming to about 45 minutes in the winter.
Carrie Tollefson Podcast Q&A With Amy Cragg On Her World Marathon Bronze, The BTC And 2018 Plans
#4 Ranked Arkansas Men Open XC Season With Dual Meet Sweep Against Tulsa And Oklahoma

Drug News

Positive Test On Bahamas World Champs Athlete Still Under Investigation The athlete still hasn’t been identified as they are waiting for results of the “B” sample.
RUSADA Appoints New Director General Yury Ganus was approved from a list of around 700 candidates.
Institute Of National Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO) Head Doesn’t Think A Fine Is A Big Enough Sanction For Russia’s Winter Sports Joseph de Pencier: “If it is only a fine, however, it feels like ‘pay to play,’ which would be very disappointing.”
WADA Prioritizing Research On The Extent Of Doping In Sports WADA would like to do more studies like the recent one (which the IAAF blocked for 6 years) which reported that over 30% of the athletes at 2011 Worlds were doping.
WADA Takes Financial Hit After Being Forced To Scrap Upgrade To Athlete Whereabouts System
David Owen: Would You ADAMS And Eve It? Problems With New Data Management System Contributed To Another Tough Year For WADA In 2016

LRC Opinion

LRC Week That Was: Mo Farah’s Epic Track Career Is Over, Ajee Wilson’s Incredible 2017 Continues, Plus Usain Bolt And Conor McGregor We look at all the action on the track plus a look at the 2017 Chicago Marathon field again.

LRC “I Love Pre, But This Meet Was Better”: A First-Timer’s Thoughts On Weltklasse Zurich Jon Gault shares his experience of the Diamond League finale.

Fall Marathon Season Is Near

Good Read: Pat Butcher Calls Berlin 2017 The “Best Elite Trio In A Marathon” Since Khalid Khannouchi, Paul Tergat And Haile Gebrselassie In London 2002 Butcher also discusses the “advancing years” of the Berlin trio which are probably even more advanced than they are on paper.
Abel Kirui Focused On Defending His Chicago Marathon Title This article is a joke as it doesn’t even mention Olympic medalists Feyisa Lelisa or Galen Rupp and calls Chicago 2017 “one of the strongest fields ever assembled.”
Gladys Cherono Shakes Off Hip Injury, Eyes Redemption In Berlin Cherono won Berlin in 2015 with 2:19:25, but injury has kept her from running any marathons in 2016 (she was 5th in Boston this year).
Kenyan Journalist Calls Berlin 2017 “Tough To Call” Before Explaining Why He’s Confident Eliud Kipchoge Will Win The race may end up being close, but on paper, picking the most likely winner is not a “tough call.”

RIP David Torrence – November 26, 1985 – August 28, 2017

LRC Remembering David Torrence: Olympian, US Champion, US And Peruvian National Record Holder And Legendary Downhill Miler Torrence has died unexpectedly way too young at age 31.
*MB: David Torrence is Dead: RIP / Appreciation Thread

LRC “A Beautiful, Genuine Soul”: The Running World Shares Its Tributes To David Torrence He will be missed.

Doping Updates

Doping Report Reveals That 30% Of The Athletes At 2011 Worlds Admitted To Doping About half the athletes at Worlds participated in an anonymous survey about doping. Over 30% admitted to doping, but only 0.5% of athletes at 2011 Worlds (where all were tested) tested positive. *AP Article
The Guardian: Sport Doping Study Revealing Wider Usage Published After “Scandalous” Delay The research took almost 6 years to officially come out as the IAAF had issues with it and one author accused them of purposely blocking its release.
AP: Ethiopia Shuts Down Drug Store Selling Banned Substances Ethiopia’s anti-doping office confirmed the pharmacy was offering EPO after they investigated in response to the most recent ARD documentary.