Rupp And Hasay At RnR Philly On 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 

Kenyan Marathoner News

• Recommended Read:Q&A With Director Of New National Geographic Documentary Taking You Inside Nike’s Breaking2 ProjectMartin Desmond Roe says he saw Eliud Kipchoge do a 40K training run at altitude where if he added on the last 2K he would have run a 2:08 marathon.
• Eliud Kipchoge Admits He’s Under Pressure To Run The WR In Berlin Kipchoge: “With the three of us I think I am the only one under pressure heading to the race in Berlin. If the two of them have 40 percent pressure, then I have 95 percent because of the time I ran in Monza and the Olympic gold as well.”
• Geoffrey Kamworor Looking Ahead To The NYC Marathon: “I’m Going For Victory And Nothing Else” Kamworor predicts a slower race since they “really don’t have fast people to push the field.”

Anti-Doping Updates

• Good Read:NY Times Tribute:Gary Wadler, Antidoping Pioneer, Had A Gift For Straight Talk Wadler was one of the first to start educating people about the prevalence and dangers of doping in sports.
  *AP: Anti-Doping Pioneer And Expert Gary Wadler Dies At Age 78 Wadler was a leading critic of the way US sports leagues (NFL, MLB) handled their “anti-doping” programs.
• 95 Of 96 Russian Doping Cases From McLaren Report Cleared By WADA These were cases with not enough hard evidence due to samples destroyed by the Moscow lab, but WADA is still pursuing others among the 1,000 McLaren found.
• IOC And WADA Respond After Group Of National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADOs) Call For Russia To Be Banned From 2018 Winter Olympics The NADOs called on the IOC to “stop kicking the can down the road and issue meaningful consequences” and accused the IOC of “dereliction of duty.”

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.

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.

The World’s First Sub-30k On The Roads By A Woman

LRC Joyciline Jepkosgei Smashes 10k Road World Record – Becomes First Woman To Break 30 On The Roads With A Sensational 29:43 The world half marathon record holder wasted no time getting after it as she broke the 5k road WR with a 14:33 split.
*IAAF Recap Benard Kimeli took the men’s race in 27:10.
*MB: Official 2017 Birrell 10k Dicussion Thread – Women’s Sub-30 WR attempt 

Doping / Corruption News

• 58-Year-Old Former British Olympic Shot Putter Paul Edwards Still Fighting Lifetime Doping Ban From 1997 Edwards has launched a Facebook page proclaiming his innocence and saying he will continue to fight to clear his name.
• Russian World HJ Champ Maria Lasitskene Hits Out At Russian Officials For The Slow Pace Of Anti-Doping Reforms The Russian federation head Dmitry Shlyakhtin hit back with, “Judging the federation’s work is the prerogative of the IAAF task force and the Russian Sports Ministry. Athletes should do their job, whether it’s jumping or running on tracks.”
• NY Times:Brazil Whistleblower Says He Told The IOC About Rio Olympics Corruption Years Ago The former official, Eric Maleson, went to the IOC back in 2011, but the IOC claimed they didn’t have “the capacity to make any criminal investigation.”
• Papa Massata Diack Calls Corruption Allegations Against Him “The Biggest Lie In The History Of World Sport”
• Former Australian Olympic Javelin Thrower Oliver Dziubak Fined For Selling Steroids Dziubak, now a pharmacist, got caught thanks to some text messages that came out during a messy divorce with his ex-wife.
• The Guardian:“Charities Still Waiting For The Millions Raided To Build West Ham’s New Stadium” The article says that the stadium was funded partly by money meant for charities and complains that West Ham got the stadium so cheap.

More Road News

• Ben Blankenship (4:07) And Heather Kampf (4:42) Win Close Races At The Minnesota Mile Blankenship won over Trevor Dunbar, Riley Masters and Patrick Casey, who all were clocked at 4:08 while Kampf beat Kenya’s Monicah Ngige by less than a second. *Results
• October 22:Dickson Chumba Going For The Canadian All Comers’ Record At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Chumba’s PR is 2:04:32 and the Canadian soil record is 2:06:54. Besides the clock, Chumba will have his hands full with defending champion Philemon Rono and Ethiopians Solomon Deksisa (2:06:22) and Endeshaw Negesse (2:04:52).
• Sunday:Georgina Rono (2:21) And Evans Sambu (2:10) Will Defend Their Titles At The Taiyuan Marathon In China
• Sunday:Kenyan Hilary Maiyo (62:41) Will Defend His Title At The Minsk HalfChristine Moraa Oiga (71:50) leads the women’s race.