September 14, 2017 Homepage Archive

Weekly Recap

WTW Running’s Version Of Sergio Dipp, A New 10k WR, Galen Rupp, Jordan Hasay And More We take a look back at the week in running and along the way introduce you to a new road race in Colorado.

Looking Ahead to Sunday

LRCJordan Hasay and Galen Rupp will get their final tuneup races for Chicago at the 2017 Rock ‘n’ Roll Philly Half on Sunday Rupp doesn’t have much competition but Jordan Hasay will have her hands full in the women’s race with Meseret Defar and two Boston marathon champs.
*MB: Official 2017 Philly Half Discussion Thread – Rupp and Hasay get ready for Chicago

And You Thought Worlds Were Way Over

LRC The Greatest Race At Worlds You Never Heard About: The Epic Pure Guts Media 800 With LetsRun.com’s Jonathan Gault This race almost warranted a splash page. Side-by-side racing the final 100m. Full video, with post-race interview with hurdling great Allen Johnson.

LRCMeet The Winners Of The $200,017 Running Warehouse Worlds Prediction Contest A Londoner, a guy from Portugal, and a guy who used to manage the Guam track team came out on top.

NCAA / High School News

Will NCAAs Get A Break From Eugene?Hayward Field Renovation Pushed Back Again, 2019 Pre Classic And NCAA Championships At Risk The project is now starting next summer, two years after the originally planned start date.
Video Interview With Chris Solinsky On Why He Wanted To Become A Coach And His New Head Coach Position At The University Of Florida
DyeStat:Kingwood, Texas Girls Team Determined To Chase Running Goals Despite Hurricane Devastation With the school completely flooded, the students at Kingswood will have to share a neighboring school’s building by going half days for the year.
Former Boston Marathon Winner Amby Burfoot Writes About His Nephew’s Interesting Approach To The Pre-Season Time Trial As A HS Coach In Connecticut Rather than a big all-out race, he puts them into heats of 3,200m controlled races on the track where the kids don’t know the pace, but have to follow behind the rabbit who might be an alum, an OT qualifier or a 71-year-old former Boston winner.

Today’s Doping / Corruption Updates

Could Usain Bolt Get Back His 2008 Relay Gold? CAS Sets Date For Nesta Carter Drug Ban Appeal On November 15th, CAS will hear Carter’s appeal against the decision which stripped Jamaica (and Usain Bolt) of their 4 x 100 relay gold when Carter failed a re-test of his frozen sample.
IOC Admit Votes May Have Been Bought By Lamine Diack During 2016 Olympic Bidding Process Chicago 2016 never had a chance.
Delusional, Deceiving Or Just Dumb?Thomas Bach Blames Individuals For Current Credibility Issues And Claims IOC Organization Is Not At Fault Right, because allegations of bribery and corruption against IOC members is such a rare occurrence.
The Guardian:“Chris Froome And Mo Farah Are United In Success And Disputed Legacy” Sean Ingle writes that while both face skepticism regarding doping, Farah is grilled way more often than four-time Tour de France winner Froome.
Three Russian Cyclists Launch Lawsuit Against WADA And Richard McLaren After Being Banned From Rio 2016 They already failed in their appeals to CAS when they were initially barred from Rio.
Reuters:IOC Lawyers In Touch With Brazil Over Rio Games Chief Arrest

Great North Run *Results

Mo Farah Runs 60:06 To Win His Fourth Great North Run Title In A Row Farah finished 6 seconds ahead of Jake Robertson while Feyisa Lilesa and Zane Robertson were 3-4 and Dathan Ritzenhein 6th.
Mary Keitany Claims A Dominant Third Great North Run Title Over Vivian Cheruiyot Keitany ran 65:59 to Cheruiyot’s 67:54.
*MBGreat North Run – Official Thread
Mo Farah To Run The 2018 Virgin Money London MarathonFarah ran his one marathon at London 2014, finishing 8th in 2:08:21.
Video:Jake Robertson Proposes To His Girlfriend, Kenyan Magdalyne Masai After The Great North Run Masai finished 4th in the women’s race.
*MB:Jake Robertson proposes to Magdalyne Masai at the end of GNR half
*MB:Magdalyne Masai: will she compete for NZ in the World Champs & Olympics?

Check Out London’s New Office Building With A 150m Track On Top Of It

More Weekend Distance Results

Kenya’s Chemtai Rionotukei Breaks CR To With 2:29:36 To Win Taiyuan Marathon In China Ethiopia’s Azmeraw Bekele won the men’s race in 2:12:49.
Kenya’s Hillary Kiptum Maiyo Defends His Minsk Half Marathon Title With 63:19 As Lyudmyla Liakhovich (73:53) Took The Women’s Race
Georgia Women Win Bulldog SEC XC Preview

Sprinter News

Yoshihide Kiryu Becomes The First Japanese Man To Break 10 Seconds In The 100m Kiryu ran 9.98 at an intercollegiate meet in Japan.
Good Read:Ato Boldon Shares Some Career Advice That Helped Him Become A 4-Time Olympic Medalist “I have always had an ability to see the end before I even start. … If you see the end, then the steps that it takes to get to your goal don’t seem as hard, as rigorous, or as time consuming.”
Devon Allen Has Some Big Track Goals Including Breaking The 110H Decathlon WR And Becoming The First To Run Sub-13 In The Hurdles And Sub-20 In The 200 Oh, and if you didn’t catch Allen’s World’s pre-race starting line magic trick, there’s a GIF of that.
Usain Bolt Talking More Seriously About Trying To Play Soccer “We have a lot of offers from different teams but I have to get over my injury first and then take it from there.”
Usain Bolt Does Interview With Olympic Swimming Legend Ian Thorpe; Says He Could Beat Him In A Swim Race Bolt: “You can probably do freestyle, back stroke, breaststroke, whatever, but I can run on water, easy.”

NCAA XC Top 10 Countdown

LRC 2017 NCAA Men’s XC Preview: #4 BYU & #3 Arkansas Believe it or not, Arkansas hasn’t been on the podium since 2005 but that should change this year. BYU, which will be helped by super frosh Casey Clinger, likely will be there as well.

LRC 2017 NCAA Women’s XC Preview: #4 Oregon & #3 Stanford Reigning champ Oregon returns its top 2 from last year while Stanford returns nearly everyone and has a ton of new talent as well.

Previous:
Men:#6 Colorado & #5 Stanford
Men: #8 Oregon & #7 Wisconsin
Men: #10 Oklahoma State & #9 Iona
Women: #6 NC State & #5 Michigan
Women: #8 Penn State & #7 San Francisco
Women: #10 Providence & #9 Arkansas

Lots Of Interesting Administrative News

It’s Official: Los Angeles To Host The 2028 Olympics, Paris Gets 2024 Games Let’s hope no bribes were paid.
Good Read: Seb Coe Writes Editorial Saying If We Are Going To Win The Doping Fight, Everyone Must Be Fighting Against Dopers – Not Just The Testers That includes you – shady agents, federations and athletes that look the other way.
Dick Pound Is Irate IOC Is “Doing Nothing ” About Latest Corruption Crisis
IOC Donates $1 Million To Irma Victims In The Caribbean
Inside The Games Gives Thomas Bach A Hard Report Card Midway Through His Term As Head Of The IOC The gave him 4 Ds, 3 Cs, 1 B, and 2 As but one of the As was for “self preservation.”
WADA Tells Russia To Stop Shifting Blame For Its Doping Scandal The Russians have come up with the novel excuse that WADA should be blamed since the head of Moscow’s now discredited lab was licensed by WADA.
Sally Pearson Nominated For “The Don” Award “The Don” is the premiere award offered in Australian sports and Pearson already is one of two people to have own the award twice.

Interesting Reads

Toni Reavis Wonders If Technological Advances Are Hurting Runners The article includes interesting anecdotes from Moses Tanui, Wilson Kipsang and Moses Kipsiro.
Malcolm Gladwell Wonders If We Should Have A New Set Of World Records Every 10 Years Not a bad idea – FloJo‘s highly questionable mark would only be the WR for 1980-1989.
Study Says Running “Significantly Improves Boys’ Attitudes And Behaviors Associated With Healthy Masculinity”
Does Running Turn You On? Man Arrested For Masturbating While Watching Half Marathon In NJ
Joyciline Jepkosgei’s Husband Says She Didn’t Used To Be Good At Running For A Simple Reason – “She Was Fat!”
Ireland’s Ciara Mageean Ready For A Break After A Disappointing 2017 She ran 4:01 in 2016 but only 4:03 this year and bombed out in the first round of Worlds.

Non-Distance News

Ato Boldon Appears On House Of Run Podcast And Recaps 2017 Season
Free Pole Vaulting And Life Tips From British PV Record Holder Holly Bradshaw
Alan Abrahamson Gets You Up To Date On The Latest Olympic Bribery Allegations Carlos Nuzman, who was arrested with $150,000 in cash and a Russian passport at home, is accused of funneling $2 million to the Diacks.

5th Avenue Mile Photo Gallery*Race Recap Here If You Missed It

5th Avenue Mile

LRC Nick Willis (3:51.3) Wins His 4th Title & Jenny Simpson (4:16.6) Wins Her 6th At The 2017 5th Avenue Mile Willis kicked late to turn the tables on Chris O’Hare (who beat him on Thursday on Long Island) as Simpson earned her fifth straight title, tying PattiSue Plumer‘s 27-year-old event record in the process.

*MB: Official 2017 5th Avenue Mile Discussion Thread – Simpson v Coburn + King Ches makes his pro debut

Pre-Race: Nick Willis Q&A The star shared his wisdom with LetsRun.com.

Bolt Updates

Usain Bolt Now Says He Could Be Convinced To Return To The Track “If It Is Something Like A Floyd Mayweather Comeback” So he wants to be paid millions of dollars to run a race he is guaranteed to win? Sounds about right.
Usain Bolt Wants Prince Harry To Get Married So He Can Plan The Bachelor Party Bolt said he met Prince Harry’s girlfriend, actress Meghan Markle, at a wedding this year.
Usain Bolt Foundation To Organize Marathon In Jamaica

Marathon Updates

Dathan Ritzenhein Expects Mo Farah To Excel At The Marathon Now That He’s Made The Roads His Full Focus “I think there’s a lot of room for improvement there and he might not be as dominant as he was on the track right away but I don’t see any reason why he couldn’t be one of the best in the world at the marathon, too.”
Catching Up With Eliud Kipchoge As He Prepares For A World Marathon Attempt Against Wilson Kipsang And Kenenisa Bekele At The Berlin Marathon Kipchoge says he took a month off after the sub-2 hour attempt, got so many drug tests the last year he lost count and plans on continuing his career at least until the 2020 Games.
Ryan Vail Says He’s Working Out As Well As He Ever Has And He’ll Be Disappointed If He Doesn’t Break His 2:10:57 PR At The Berlin Marathon
Two-Time World Marathon Champ Abel Kirui Looks Back At HIs First World Title At Berlin 2009 Kirui says when he crossed the line he “went into a little dance.” “I didn’t even dance to music. The music was in my mind.”

Distance News

Copenaghen Half Marathon, With 5 Sub-60 Men And 5 Sub-69 Women, Will Be Broadcast Live On Sunday At 6 AM ET (11 CET)
Olympic Champion Kipchoge Signs Endorsement Deal With Isuzu He’ll get 7 million Kenyan shillings ($68k) and a new car.

Non-Distance News

Did You Know That Vashti Cunningham Isn’t The Best 19-Year-Old HJer In The World? Ukraine’s Yuliya Levchenko Is She was 2nd at Worlds and 2nd on the 2017 performance list.
Japanese Are Worried That Construction Workers On 2020 Stadium Are Working Too Hard One worker committed suicide recently and said he was overworked after doing 200 hours of overtime in a month. There is a shortage of construction workers in Japan after the tsunami.
Akani Simbine Is Disappointed With His 5th Place In 100 In Worlds – Says Hip Injury Cost Him A Medal He’ll go for the 100/200 double at Commonwealths in 2018.

News From Japan

Kiryu’s 9.98 100 Wasn’t The Only Great Performance At Their Collegiate Champs Yume Kitamura set a national university record 2:00.92. A Japanese woman has never broken 2:00.00. A new meet record in the men’s 800 was also set (just 1:47.92).
4 Japanese Athletes Were In Prague 10k Where Jepkosgei Broke WR Kenta Murayama was hoping to break the Japanese NR on the roads of 28:05 but ran over 29:00.

News From Kenya

Elijah Manangoi And Governor Of Narok County To Establish Training Camp, Hoping To Help Reduce Youth Unemployment Unfortunately, professional running is close to being a zero sum game. Only the fastest few get paid.
Former WR Holder Patrick Makau Isn’t Sure Which Stud Will Win The 2017 BMW Berlin Marathon

Sad News:Jamaican Sprinter Jordan Scott Dies In Car Crash In Kingston, Jamaica The 20-year-old was driving with with fellow sprinter Michael Campbell, who ran in the 4 x 100 heats for Jamaica at Worlds. Scott died in the crash, but Campbell survived and is currently in hospital.

Other Distance News

Team USATF Wins DecaNation Title For Tenth Time In 13 Years The US scored 122 points at the international ten-event meet to beat France by 19 points. Big names competing and winning for the US included Shannon Rowbury (2,000), Courtney Okolo (200/400) and Sam Kendricks (PV). *Full Results
Jake Gyllenhaal Movie About Boston Marathon Bombing Victim Jeff Bauman Premiering At Boston Hospital Today “Stronger” is in theaters on September 22nd. *Trailer
September 16:2017 USATF National 24-Hour Championships Return To Cleveland For 9th year

For The Running Form Nerds

Interesting Read:Great North Run Form Analysis: Mary Keitany Vs. Vivian Cheruiyot And Mo Farah Vs. Jake Robertson Has Keitany’s form actually deteriorated over the years? Why is Robertson’s form better during the race, but worse in the kick?
Women’s World Champs Marathon Form Analysis A look at winner Rose Chelimo, Edna Kiplagat and Amy Cragg.