2017 Wisco And Pre-Nats Were Fri. / Sat. *Wisco Results *Pre-Nats Results *Other Results

Live Now: MB: Official 2017 Wisco / Pre-Nats Discussion Thread- Who you got?

Pre-Nats LRC 2017 Pre-Nats Analysis: Who Surprised And Bombed Today In Louisville? The #1 Colorado women were upset by #2 Oregon but don’t write them off. Individually, UNH’s Elinor Purrier upset Karissa Schweizer as well. In the men’s race, BYU’s Rory Linkletter got the win as the Cougars CRUSHED it. Who is better on the men’s side, #1 NAU or #2 BYU?

LRC 2017 Wisco XC Men’s Recap: Justyn Knight Edges Grant Fisher As NAU Dominates, But Who Were The Biggest Winners And Losers? Friday’s 2017 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in Madison played out very much the same as the 2016 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational as for the second year in a row, the No. 1 Northern Arizona men and Syracuse’s Justyn Knight emerged as the champions.  We break it down for you and tell you which teams flopped and which teams surprised.

LRC Wisconsin XC Women’s Recap: Ednah Kurgat Leads New Mexico To Victory (Updated with table) New Mexico claimed individual and team victories at the 2017 Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in Madison on Friday.

• Penn State Women Win Penn State National Open With Four In The Top Ten The men’s team finished runner-up to Oklahoma State.
• USTFCCCA: BYU No Longer Under The Radar After beating Oregon and Stanford at the Bill Dellinger Invite and vaulting to #2 in the country, coach Ed Eyestone warned his team, “We’re not going to be the best-kept secret any longer.”
• MB: BYU’s Casey Clinger Leaving For Mission After This Season
• Auburn’s Brenda Kigen Top Collegiate At Crimson Classic 6K; Unattached Runner Marta Freitas Wins Overall Team titles went to the Mid. Tennessee State men and Georgia Tech women. *Results
• USTFCCCA Wisconsin Recap

Marathon News

• Good Read: ESPNW: The Inspiring Story Behind Aliphine Tuliamuk’s Rise To The Top Of Elite Running Tuliamuk was one of 32 siblings and ran her first races in loafers and sandals. Now she’s getting ready to try to win the NYC Marathon as a US citizen.
• Sunday: World Marathon Champ Rose Chelimo Faces 66:19 Woman Ruth Chepngetich At The Rock ‘N’ Roll Lisbon Half Marathon World 10,000 4th placer Senbere Teferi is also in the field while Eritrea’s Yohanes Ghebregergis (60:21) is the men’s favorite along with three other sub-61 men and former World XC champ Imane Merga. Tokyo Marathon champ Sarah Chepchirchir (2:19:47) leads the women’s marathon while the men’s has 2:07 men Edwin Koech and Jacob Cheshari.
• A Marine With Prosthetic Legs Is Running 31 Marathons In 31 Days To Raise Awareness For Wounded Veterans Rob Jones lost both his legs when he was wounded by a landmine while serving in Afghanistan.
• Kathrine Switzer (The First Woman To Officially Complete The Boston Marathon) To Receive USATF Pioneer Award

Euro AOY Awards

• European Golden Tracks Awards Ceremony Is Today In Portugal
• Formidable Foursome Of Euro AOY Contenders Were All Undefeated This Summer High jumper Mariya Lasitskene, pole vaulter Katerina Stefanidi, heptathlete Nafissatou Thiam and hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk make for a hard choice.
• Distance Runners Konstanze Klosterhalfen And Yasemin Can Compelling Nominees For Euro AOY

Upcoming Action

• October 22: Kenyan 2:26 Woman Angela Tanui Looking To Turn The Tables On Ethiopia At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Ethiopian women have won seven of the last ten years, but Tanui is hoping for big improvements in what will be her second marathon.
• November 12: After A Surprise Win In 2016, Edwin Kiptoo Returns To Defend His Title At The Beirut Marathon
• Saturday: MileSplit Manhattan High School Invitational Preview
  *Finish Line Live Webcast / Meet Schedule

Some More Post-Chicago Tidbits

• Runner’s World: 6 Reasons Why Jordan Hasay’s Chicago Race Was a Shock – And 3 Reasons Why It Wasn’t Maybe most impressive was the fact that she finished so well after going out so fast (2:17:20 pace at 10K).
• Alberto Salazar Speaks More On Rupp/Hasay Post-Chicago “When [Hasay] caught [the fourth and third place women], I knew this would be a career changer. In the past, she struggled when she went out too fast. She slowed down and lost her confidence. This was a new Jordan.”
• Galen Rupp Named USATF Athlete Of The Week After Chicago Win

Upcoming: Great Fields Set For USATF 5K Champs

November 4: Matt Centrowitz, Paul Chelimo, Ben True, Desiree Linden And Brenda Martinez Lead Deep Fields For The USATF 5K Championships Hosted By The Abbott Dash To The Finish Line 5K Other top contenders include Leonard Korir, Hassan Mead, Abbey D’Agostino and Natosha Rogers.

Sunday: Three-Time Winner Wilson Chebet Leads Field For The Amsterdam Marathon Chebet won from 2011 to 2013 and this year faces fellow 2:05 men Mule Wasihun and Stephen Chebogut plus Zane Robertson and Tesfaye Abera (2:04:23 to win Dubai last year).

Post-2017 BOA Chicago Marathon

LRC Debate: The Big Debate: What Marathon Should Galen Rupp Run Next? Boston Or London? The LRC crew debates Galen Rupp‘s marathon career through 2021.

LRC Shalane Flanagan Reacts To Galen Rupp’s Chicago Marathon Win: “There’s still an investigation going on, so it’s hard to truly and genuinely get excited about the performances that I’m watching.” Two of America’s biggest marathon stars don’t know what to make of Galen Rupp‘s win in Chicago due to the ongoing USADA investigation. Meb Keflezighi said he was happy for Rupp and Salazar but added “there’s a lot of speculation going on and I would love to know what’s going on and how far it’s gotten.”
*MB: Breaking: Shalane and Meb react to Galen Rupp’s Chicago Win

LRC Editorial Galen Rupp – The Perfect Marathon Champion For America In The Year 2017 As we try to process what Galen Rupp‘s historic victory means, the number one word that comes to mind is this – polarizing. Just as our country is currently totally polarized by the holder of the Oval Office, Rupp’s victory is polarizing within the US running community.

Doping News: Is Microchipping Athletes The Next Big Thing?

• World Olympians Associate Chief Executive Calls For Athletes To Be Fitted With Microchips To Fight Against Doping Mike Miller: “We’re a nation of dog lovers, we’re prepared to chip our dogs and it doesn’t seem to harm them, so why aren’t we prepared to chip ourselves?”
  *The Guardian Article The microchips would theoretically detect changes in markers for illegal substances at all times. So no more micro-dosing.
  *iNADO Chief Warns Against Expense Of Athletes’ Rights Joseph de Pencier: “Personal privacy is too valuable to be jeopardized even for a good cause.”
  *MB: At last, they’ve found a way to stop dopers – microchip all elite athletes
• Only One Athlete Caught In 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Doping Retests The athlete was not revealed, but it was noted that all the medalists and all 170 Russian athletes were retested.
• IOC Still Unsure When Their Own Two Reports Into Russian Doping Will Be Completed These reports are supposed to determine Russia’s participation at the 2018 Winter Games.
• US’s 2012 Paralympic 200m Silver Medalist Shaquille Vance Gets Three-Year Ban For Evading Drug Test The former football player avoided the sample collection after being notified he was selected for an in-competition test.

2017 BOA Chicago Marathon *Tracking, Results

LRC Final American Galen Rupp Wins 2017 Chicago Marathon – 1st American-Born Winner In 35 Years The Cubs ended a 108-year losing streak last year. Rupp has broken a 35-year losing streak with 5 straight sub-4:40 miles.

LRC Alberto Salazar Addresses Leaked USADA Interim Report That Said It Was “Highly Likely” His Group Broke Anti-Doping Rules: “I Know That We Haven’t Broken Any Rules” Salazar didn’t answer why a leaked interim USADA report said it was “highly likely” his group had broken anti-doping rules. “You know what? I’m not gonna get into that. You would have to ask them what it is that they saw that they think that.” Plus commentary from Nick Willis and Stephanie Bruce.

LRC Final Tirunesh Dibaba Wins The First Marathon Of Her Career In Chicago In 2:18:31 As Jordan Hasay Runs The #2 Time In US History (2:20:57) Dibaba did what we expected her to do – run fast and win – while Jordan Hasay was amazing yet again.

• MB: Centro runs Chicago? Centro’s “marathon debut” ended with a DNF after 25K, having gone through the half in 1:18:36 (6-minute pace).

• Kenyan Journalist Says That Although He “Cringed” When Galen Rupp Won Chicago, He Thinks It’s Good For The Sport Elias Makori writes that it will motivate Kenyans to “not rest on their laurels” and is probably a little too hopeful when he thinks it will “most certainly help rekindle American interest” in the sport.
• Chicago Running Form Analysis: Is Form The Key For Galen Rupp And Jordan Hasay? Running form expert Jae Gruenke says Rupp has made some key changes since Rio and Boston that helped him win in Chicago.
• Post-Chicago Stat Blitz From Ken Nakamuta Tirunesh Dibaba‘s top 3 performance average is 2:19:01, third behind Paula Radcliffe‘s 2:16:48 and Mary Keitany‘s 2:18:19.
• Runner’s World Shares Some Human Interest Stories From Chicago Read about an 81-year-old that still works 70-hours a week and was making his marathon debut and another guy who has ran every single Chicago Marathon.

• Hasay And Rupp Were Blessed By A Catholic Priest Before The Race Salazar said they have been doing daily mass with Fr. Patrick Conroy, the chaplain of the US House of Representatives, whom they flew out for the race.
• Salazar On Hasay Vs. Rupp: “I told Galen, ‘I’m glad you won, but if you have to say performer of the day for the Oregon Project, I got to give it to Jordan.'”
• Brianne Theisen-Eaton Breaks 4:00 In Her Marathon Debut In Chicago Theisen-Eaton ran 3:55:08 and tweeted out, “[email protected]#k. I’m out. Never again.”
  *Register-Guard: The Eatons Are Moving To San Francisco
• Chicago Tribune: Galen Rupp Leads Strong Showing For American Runners At Chicago Marathon
• Runner’s World’s Favorite Social Media Posts From Chicago
• RRW: Rupp, Dibaba Dominate At Bank Of America Chicago Marathon
• IAAF Recap

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