Nick Willis Shares His Wisdom

LRC Nick Willis Q&A, Part I: His Abbreviated Buildup For Worlds, The Key To His Longevity, And The Brilliance Of Jenny Simpson Over the next two days, we’ll be sharing 6,000+ words of wisdom from one of the world’s best milers – Nick Willis. One can learn a lot from Willis, as he’s a true student of the sport and a very good one – having made 7 of the last 9 global championship finals in the 1,500, winning two Olympic medals.
*MB: Nick Willis shares his wisdom with LetsRun.com

US 20k Champs *Results

LRC Galen Rupp Edges Leonard Korir For 2017 USA 20km Title At Faxon Law New Haven Road Race (Video) Jordan Hasay dominated the women’s race. Rupp won in 59:04 (62:18 half marathon pace). Hasay won in 66:35 (70:14 half pace).
*MB: Official US 20k Champs Discussion Thread
*MB: Vaporfly 4% wins men’s and women’s USA 20K Road Champs
*MB: NOP Salazar Domination: Rupp, Hasay win USATF 20K Champs 

• Hartford Courant: Hasay Faces New Haven 20K With New Focus
• New Haven Register: Olympic Medalist Galen Rupp Joins Faxon Law New Haven Road Race

Bolt Updates

• Usain Bolt To Get Two Statues In Jamaica, Not Just One One will be at the national stadium and the other possibly in the region where Bolt was born.
• Usain Bolt Visits Japan, Says He Wants To Do More Charity Work And Still Contemplating Playing Soccer He also mentioned possibly becoming a track analyst.
• Usain Bolt Predicts His World Records Could Stand For 15-20 Years “I think our era … was the best era of athletes. If it was going to be broken, it would have been broken in this era, so I think I have at least 15 to 20 more years.”

Some Idolize Bolt, Others Do Not

• Wow: Jamaican Journalist Thinks Jamaica Should Build Tourism Industry Around Usain Bolt As a result, he wants to see the following: “… (renaming) the road from Duncans to Martha Brae as the Usain Bolt Highway; the renaming of the Trelawny Stadium, the Usain Bolt Stadium of Excellence, the renaming of the William Knibb High School the Usain Bolt High School; the erection of a Usain Bolt statue in Falmouth; and finally, the creation of a Usain Bolt Museum in Sherwood Content.”
• Noah Lyles Explains Why He Respects And Admires Usain Bolt But Doesn’t Idolize Him
• Yohan Blake Says Usain Bolt Wants Him To Take Over As The Best Sprinter In The World

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

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.

• Kyle Merber Taking Steps To Honor David Torrence At Hoka One One Long Island Mile
• USATF Statement On David Torrence
• Steve Magness Writes About The Flooding In His Native Houston And David Torrence’s Death And Sees Hope
  
• Good Read: FloTrack’s Taylor Dutch Writes Tribute To Her Friend And Fellow Cal Berkeley Alum David Torrence 
• FloTrack Video Tribute
  
• MB: David Torrence Memorial Downhill Mile
• MB: This was David Torrence

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.

Not Your Everyday News

• Drunk Hood To Coast Runner Accused Of Stealing Porta-Potty Pickup Truck And Running Over A Runner David Blackmon drove through a field where runners were resting, hitting Cynthia Gillespie and fleeing the scene. Blackmon was arrested while Gillespie was lucky to escape with only bruises.
  *Hood To Coast Runner “Very Lucky To Be Alive” After Being Run Over And Dragged By Drunk Pickup Truck Driver
• GB’s Former World 110H Champ And BBC Commentator Colin Jackson Comes Out As Gay The 50-year-old Jackson says the reason he had not previously spoken of his sexuality was to avoid it being “sensationalized.”
  *The Telegraph Article Jackson came out in an interview for a Swedish television documentary, “Rainbow Heroes.”
  *MB: Colin Jackson comes out
• Woodlands High School XC Coach Shares How His Team Has Been Dealing With The Hurricane Rain In Texas Coach Juris Green: “Cross country is not supposed to be a clean sport, if you don’t finish muddy, there’s something wrong with that course. I think we’ll have every opportunity to get some really good cross country in.”
• Thomas Bach Says Violent Video Games Have “No Place At The Olympics” But E-Sports Are Still In The Running
• Video Blog On Cool Underground Pole Vault Competition In A Sand Mine Jeff Coover cleared 5.50m to set the American “underground pole vault” record.