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MB: Official 2017 Chicago Marathon Live Discussion Thread

LRC Last Minute Drama In Chicago: Kenyan Emmanuel Bett Enters Marathon At Last Minute – Is He There To Ensure An Honest Pace For Galen Rupp? Kenya’s Emmanuel Bett – who shares the same agent as Rupp – has been entered in the race.
*MB: Might Galen Rupp have his own rabbit in Chicago? A Ricky Simms’ athlete is a last-minute addition to Chicago 

LRC U.S. Fans, Rejoice! Americans Galen Rupp & Jordan Hasay Both Say Their Chicago Marathon Buildups Were Their Best Ever Slow prep races mean nothing to Rupp and Hasay. Rupp is finally healthy and completely focused on the marathon, while Hasay has been hitting her long runs harder and says her speed work has gone “a lot” better than before Boston.
*MB: Rupp on distance running: “it’s boring as hell” –  New interview before Chicago
*MB: What time would Rupp have to run in Chicago for you to consider him the greatest American marathoner of all time?
*MB: Rupp for the win Sunday?

LRC The Inside Scoop From Friday’s Chicago Marathon Press Conference  Tirunesh Dibaba wants to lower her 2:17:56 PR, Renato Canova says defending champs Abel Kirui & Florence Kiplagat are around “90%” of where they were last year.
*American Sam Chelanga Thinks He Ultimately Can Run At Least 2:06
*American Diego Estrada Says He Can Run 2:07 Right Now (In Monza)

LRC Chicago Marathon Preview Podcast Right after the press conferences ended, we gave you the inside scoop.

Recommended Read 40 Great Moments From 40 Years Of Chicago Marathons
*This is the 40th Chicago Marathon and Carey Pinkowski has been in charge of the last 27 He’s increased the field size from 6k to 44k.

Non-Chicago News Of Note

• NY Times: You Need To Keep Exercising As It Increases # Of Neurons In Your Brain And May Help Prevent Dementia
• Want To Make $7,000? All You Have To Do Is Run 2:21:48 Or 2:42:30 At Armory’s Indoor Marathon In March Prize money has been increased for a world record.
• Who Will Be The 2017 European Male And Female Athletes Of The Year? Mariya Lasitskene (RUS), Ekaterini Stefanidi (GRE), Nafissatou Thiam (BEL), Anita Wlodarczyk (POL), Ramil Guliyev (TUR), Kevin Mayer (FRA), and Johannes Vetter (GER) are your finalists.
• Commonwealth Games 2022 Bidding Deadline Extended As Their Only Bid (Birmingham) Was “Not Fully Compliant”
• AK Finds That 4 Teenage Girls Were Being Sexually Molested At A Training Camp “This was not a camp because where on Earth do you have young girls aged between 14 and 16 years being inappropriately massaged by a shameless adult who has bad intentions, pretending to be an athletic coach.”
• Court Of Arbitration For Sport (CAS) Dismisses Appeal Of Russian High Jumper Anna Chicherova Against Decision To Strip Her Of The 2008 Bronze Sadly, she still is an Olympic champ.
• WADA Lifts Partial Suspension Of UCLA Laboratory’s Accreditation
• Ruth Jebet, Yomif Kejelcha And Michael Jordan Racing In 4-Mile Road Race In The Netherlands On Sunday – Watch It Live At 8 AM ET

More Chicago News

• Galen Rupp Addresses Drug Allegations, Talks At Length About About Salazar And Clean Sport “I feel like people have stopped believing in their fellow man, fellow woman, and it’s sad. Part of the cool thing about sports is seeing someone do something incredible and wanting to do that someday. Call me naive, but that’s the power of sports.”
• Jordan Hasay: “I’d say on paper, I’m definitely fitter than Boston.” Hasay says she actually did some workouts with Rupp, tempoing the beginning of his long run or doing 400s during his mile repeats.
• Q&A With Abel Kirui On His Humble Beginnings As The Son Of A Poor, Single-Mother Farmer Kirui says that some days they ate dinner “only by the mercies of God.”
• Galen Rupp And Jordan Hasay Look To End The Longest US Victory Drought In Chicago Marathon History The last American winner was Deena Kastor in 2005. Rupp says he’d “love for it to be a 2:05 or 2:06 race.”
• RRW: Sixteen Years Ago This Week, Catherine Ndereba Was First Woman To Run Sub-2:19 A nice look back at Ndereba’s 2001 run which was paced by LRC co-founder Robert Johnson.
• Video: Course Tips From Three Chicago Marathon Legends Running Chicago? Get some free advice from Paula Radcliffe, Khalid Khannouchi and Catherine Ndereba. who all set WRs here.
• Short Audio Clip: Jordan Hasay Talks About The Marathon Hasay said whenever she was frustrated with her track performances, her parents would say, “Well, one day the marathon … just keep going until that.”

Doping / Corruption News

Notable Distance News

• Cam Levins Making His Half Marathon Debut At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon On October 22nd Levins says he’s going to run with the marathon pace group at 63 minutes. He also talks about how he’s back to doing high mileage with his former college coach Eric Houle, has done a lot of training with Ryan Vail, and comments briefly on the coaching at NOP.
• Former European Indoor 800 Champ Jenny Meadows Is Shocked That Since “Retiring” She Can Make More Money As A Rabbit Than She Could Competing Meadows also said it’s “damn hard” to stay in good enough shape to pace races which may deter her from doing it again for the 2018 season.
• Video: Jakob Ingebrigtsen Needs To Be Helped To The Finish Line After Collapsing In Norway Mountain Race The sub-4 teenager finished 30th in what reportedly is “the world’s steepest race.”
• NY Post: Pro Marathoner Runner’s Penis Exposed During Final Sprint To The Finish Slovakian Jozef Urban seemed unaware of his exposed parts as he finished the Kosice Peach Marathon in 10th place (2:21). *Viral Video (NSFW)
  *MB: Runner’s Ding Dong Is Exposed During Marathon
• IAAF: Teen Prodigy Ajee Wilson Comes Of Age With World Bronze Medal Wilson’s coach Derek Thompson had a ton of praise for his star athlete and says how easy going and easy to coach Wilson is.

LetsThrow.com

• US’s North American Hammer Throw Record Holder Gwen Berry Says The Greatest Challenge Of Her Career Was Overcoming Her Anxiety To Make Her First US Team In 2016 Berry was projected to make the Worlds team in 2013, but anxiety-fueled asthma caused her to black out while throwing in the ring. She failed to make the top 3 in 2014 and 2015 as well, but finally got her “mind more together” in to make Rio 2016.
• World Shot Put Bronze Medalist Stipe Zunic Talks About How He Copes With His Dislike Of Travel As A Pro Athlete Jet lag, being a big guy in a cramped space and having had to make an emergency landing in a charter plane when the cockpit glass started to crack are a few reasons Zunic hates to fly.
• Free Javelin Coaching Advice From UK Record Holder Goldie Sayers Sayers gives a very thorough rundown of javelin technique basics. *Part 2

US Distance Stuff

• Pretty Cool: One Photo Captures Three Neck-And-Neck Races At The USATF 10-Mile Champs The men’s race, women’s race, and the “equalizer bonus” all came down to a sprint finish between Leonard Korir, Shadrack Kipchirchir, Sara Hall and Notosha Rogers. Korir Kipchirchir ended up winning the men’s race as well as the $10,000 bonus for beating Hall by 1.2 seconds.
• RunBlogRun: What Do Elite Distance Runners Do In The Off Season? Cathal Dennehy talks to Emma Coburn, Colleen Quigley, Brenda Martinez, Jenny Simpson, Nick Willis and Chris O’Hare about their off-season activities.
• Kevin Castille Breaks The Men’s 45-49 World 5K Best With 14:29 Win At The USATF Masters 5K Champs In Syracuse The previous best was 14:31 by Kenya’s Wilson Waigwa back in 1994. Sascha Scott won the women’s race in 17:50.
• Emma Coburn Is Now A Race Director As The Elk Run 5K In Her Hometown Of Crested Butte, CO Is In The Books 500 runners participated, including Olympians Paul Chelimo, Courtney Frerichs and Aisha Leer.
• Flotrack Video Profile: Futsum Zienasellassie – Take Nothing For Granted
• Leo Manzano Speaks To Kids At McFarland High School