Kenenisa Bekele Responds To Jos Hermens

LRC Kenenisa Bekele “Dismayed” By Jos Hermens’ Comments About His Professionalism After Berlin Marathon, Vows To Break World Record Bekele is confident that the best is yet to come for him at the 26.2-mile distance. “I definitely will break it before my retirement. For all the skeptics, I will show them with my hard work,” Bekele said, waving his hands with confidence. “I want to seize my future. And I don’t want anyone to get into my way of proving myself.”

Previous: LRC Jos Hermens: Kenenisa Bekele Must Become More “Professional” If He Is To Realize Marathon Potential

US Weekend Results: USATF 10 Miler *Results

• Shadrack Kipchirchir (47:33) Beats Out Leonard Korir By Less Than A Second To Win USATF 10 Mile Champs; Sara Hall Takes Women’s Title In 53:43 Hall beat out Natosha Rogers by 2 seconds while Aliphine Tuliamuk was 3rd.
• Kirubel Erassa (4:06) And Eglay Nalyanya (4:45) Win The Navy Mile In Washington DC This was the final stop on the Bring Back The Mile road series with Ben Blankenship and Emily Lipari the overall series winners.
• Joseph Gray And Ashley Brasovan Win USATF Trail Half Marathon Championships *Results

NCAA XC *All Weekend Collegiate Results

Notre Dame: Women #1 Colorado Edges #4 New Mexico At 2017 Joe Piane Invitational Weini Kelati was 6th in her first big NCAA race as UNM went 1-2-6-8-34 and Colorado went 3-7-8-10-18.
*Brie Oakley Was 12th In Her Collegiate Debut In The Race
*Anna Rohrer Redshirt
Men: #13 Southern Utah Takes Down #4 Colorado At 2017 Joe Piane Invitational The Alabama men went 1-2-3 individually.

Louisville: #1 NAU Men Crush It By Going 1-2-3-4 #12 Furman was 2nd while #7 Wisconsin was just 8th
*Allie Ostrander and Boise State Women Win

Dellinger: Men #6 BYU DOMINATES Oregon’s Dellinger Invite With 17 Points The Cougars placed 7 in the top 10. Oregon held out 1 guy while Stanford held out a ton.
Women: Katie Rainsberger And Oregon Cruise
*How Flat Is The Course At The Bill Dellinger Invitational? 

Cowboy Jamboree: Ok. State Men And Ole Miss Women Win Dave Smith said the men are ahead of where he thought they’d be. In the women’s race, Karissa Schweizer won by nearly 30 seconds.

Chile Pepper: Arkansas Men And Women Win The men’s race was 10k once again. D2 power Colorado School of Mines was 2nd in men’s race.

Paul Short: Utah State Rocks It
#24 Utah State Women, Who Came In Ranked #24, Get Upset Win Over #15 Nova And Others
*Unranked Utah State Wins Men’s Race In An Upset Over Georgetown. D2 #1 Adams State was third without star Sydney Gidabuday. Had he been up front, they might have won it.

News Relating To Kenya

• Great Headline: Kipchoge Is So Good He “Defies The Glorious Uncertainty Of The Marathon”
• It’s Official: Paul Tergat Is The President Of Kenya’s Olympic Committee Not a surprise as he was unopposed. *AFP
• Paul Tergat Faces Tough Task In Restoring Image Of Kenyan Olympic Committee As He Starts Day 1 Of His Reign “We must convince our youth to look at sports as a livelihood. “
• Kip Keino Had Led Kenya’s Olympic Committee Since 1999
• Good Read Illinois Doc Who Worked On Breaking2 For Nike Raves About Kipchoge’s Spartan Existence “You realize why people in the western world have so much difficulty competing with these guys. These guys don’t have any Facebook or Twitter. They run in the morning, eat, sleep, run more.”
• Catching Up With Benjamin Limo, Who Won Kenya’s Only Gold At 2005 Worlds On Last Day In Helsinki Retired, he’s a fixture at athletics meets when he’s not working on his dairy farm.
• Back With A Bang: Former World Half Silver Medalist/Rotterdam Champ Philes Ongori Returns From 2-Year Maternity Leave And Wins Half Marathon In Kenya Two years was much deserved as she had twins.
• Kenya Cahnges Its 2017 Domestic Schedule As Commonwealth Games Are In April And the African champs are in August.

Learn All About Guye Adola – Marathon’s Newest Star

LRC Unbelievable: Guye Adola – Who Just Ran The Fastest Debut Marathon In History – Claims He Didn’t Know He Was Running Berlin Until 4 Days Before The Race Learn the back story of marathon’s newest star Guye Adola, who says he only found out he was running the Berlin Marathon last Wednesday.
*MB: Learn some of the backstory behind Guye Adola – marathon’s newest star
Update: Adola’s coach claims that Adola had known he was doing Berlin for 4 months but didn’t tell his friends until 4 days before the race.

Previous NCAA XC News

• Allie Ostrander Making XC Comeback At Louisville Classic After Nearly Two Years Away Ostrander was runner-up at NCAAs her freshman year, but a sacral stress fracture kept her off the grass until now. Ostrander says she’s “had a good summer of training” and is “feeling great.”
• Register-Guard: At Long Last, Oregon Opens Its XC Season The season opener is 3 weeks later than planned after the Oregon Preview was canceled due to poor air quality. Andy Powell also revealed that Kate Murphy will most likely redshirt due to injury.
  *MB: Snowflakes get victory #2 of xc season: Thursday’s Oregon XC meet is cancelled due to air quality concerns
• RIP Hall Of Fame Coach George Dales, 96 Dales coached Western Michigan University to two NCAA team XC titles when coaching there from 1953 to 1970.
• Arkansas Women Primed For Top-10 Showdown At Notre Dame
• No. 5 Arkansas Men Hosting Chile Pepper Festival On Saturday
• Former NCAA Champions Melody Fairchild (3,000) And Tommy Skipper (Pole Vault) Among Latest Inductees To University Of Oregon’s Hall Of Fame

Upcoming Road Action

• Sunday: Leonard Korir And Aliphine Tuliamuk Lead Fields For USATF 10 Mile Championships Hosted By The Medtronic TC 10 Mile Korir will face Shadrack Kipchirchir, Martin Hehir, Futsum Zienasellassie and Christo Landry while the women’s race also has Natosha Rogers, Sara Hall and Shalaya Kipp. *USATF Release
• Sunday: Defending Champion David Kiyeng Faces Strong Opposition At The Kosice Peace Marathon In Slovakia Kiyeng got the surprise win last year in 2:08:58, but this year faces Gilbert Masai (2:09:49) and Richard Sigei (2:08:28). Janet Rono (2:26:03) and Sheila Jerotich (2:28:53) lead the women’s race.
• Sunday: GB’s Dewi Griffiths Looking For Another PR At The Cardiff Half Marathon Griffiths ran 62:53 for 7th at the Great North Run and a 28:27 10K last week and will face defending champ Shadrack Kimining. Violah Jepchumba (66:06) is also back after winning the women’s race last year.
• Saturday: Close Battle Expected At The Hengshui Lake Marathon In China Bernard Kiprotich Too (2:09:47) leads a field that includes six men in the 2:10 range while Peninah Arusei (2:27:17) and Tigist Memuye (2:27:39) are the top women.
• October 29: Germany’s Arne Gabius Targeting A Fast Time At The Frankfurt Marathon Two years ago, Gabius ran a 2:08:33 NR at Frankfurt and this year is looking to go through halfway in 64:15.
• October 22: Uganda’s Alex Chesakit Hoping To Upset The Kenyan And Ethiopian Favorites At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Chesakit’s PR is 2:13:06, but is hoping to go sub-2:10 in Toronto so he can qualify for the Commonwealth Games after visa issues kept him out of London Worlds.

NCAA / HS News

• Good Read: DyeStat Profile On The Progression Of Returning NCAA XC Champ Karissa Schweizer Last year Schweizer become just the 4th athlete to complete the NCAA triple crown (XC, indoor and outdoor 5K titles) and has bumped her mileage up to 80 miles a week looking to do it again.
• Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer To Miss 2017 XC Season With Hamstring Injury Rohrer had a procedure to “stimulate the repair of her hamstring” and that will keep her out for a couple weeks, but she’ll be back for track.
  *MB: Anna Rohrer redshirt
• 19-Year-Old India National HJ Record Holder (2.26m) Gets Scholarship At Kansas State Apparently he’s only the third athlete from India to compete in the NCAA.
• MB: Stanford only racing 3 times before regionals?
• MB: 2017 Paul Short XC Run Entries
• DyeStat: HS Sophomore Brynn Siles Enjoying A Breakthrough Season In Colorado Last year Siles could have had a chance to make NXN as a freshman, but was accidentally put in (and won) the open race instead of the championship.
• DyeStat: Sisters Olivia And Jaden Theis Pushing Each Other At Lansing Catholic High School In Michigan

9-1-1 Call Placed After Condo Resident Realized David Torrence Was Dead At Bottom Of Pool Is Released A resident saw Torrence in the pool when she went out to walk her dog at 6:30 am and assumed he was swimming but realized he was dead when she came back. He was staying at a cousin’s place while she was out of town.

What’s Next For The Great Kenenisa Bekele?

LRC Jos Hermens: Kenenisa Bekele Must Become More “Professional” If He Is To Realize Marathon Potential  Agent Jos Hermens thinks Kenenisa Bekele is capable of much more in the marathon if he can focus on training and not be distracted by his business empire. “Eight marathons, two wins, that’s not Kenenisa Bekele. … What do you want to be, businessman or professional runner?”
*MB: Great insight from Jos Hermens on Kenenisa Bekele

More Post-Berlin:

• Toni Reavis: “Mother Nature Says Nein In Berlin” Reavis says rather than focus on the missed WR, enjoy the great duel that emerged between Kipchoge and Guye Adola.
• Former Boston Winner Amby Burfoot Questions How Slow The Conditions Were In Berlin Burfoot points out how many of the elites still ran PRs even in the conditions and argues that 2:02:57, when it is broken, won’t be “busted by a big margin.”
• 2017 Berlin Marathon Stat Blitz Kipchoge’s top 5 marathon average is now 2:03:47, but that is still slower than Wilson Kipsang‘s, which is 2:03:45.
• Kenyan Op-Ed: “Kipchoge Helped Save Face For Kenyan Sport” Kipchoge’s run is a lone positive while Kenyan sport admins and politicians keep dropping the ball.
• MB: So are we gonna talk about Kipsang’s drop or what???