Until 2017 TCN New York City Marathon

LRC Digging Deep: The Legacy Of Ryan Shay Ten Years After His Death At Olympic Marathon Trials 10 years ago this week, Ryan Shay died suddenly at the Olympic Marathon Trials in New York. We look at his legacy a decade later. *Donate To Ryan Shay Foundation

LRC 2017 NYC Marathon U.S. Men’s Preview: Can Meb Close Out His Career As The Top American? Or Will Jared Ward, Abdi Abdirahman Or Shadrack Biwott Stop Him? 4 real high quality American men that will battle in NY this weekend – past champ Meb Kefelzighi, Olympic sixth placer Jared Ward, the ageless Abdi Abdirahman and Shadrack Biwott, who has been top 5 in his last 2 majors.
*MB: Who will be the top American man at 2017 NYC Marathon? Meb, Abdi, Jared, or Shadrack? 

Fantastic Read Tim Layden: Meb Keflezighi’s Impact On US Distance Running Meb sums up things nicely with, “My story is the American Dream.”  Article includes scoop on Meb’s final workouts from Mammoth Lakes.

RRW: Fifteen Years Ago, The TCS NYC Marathon Put Women First In 2002, NYC moved from a mass mixed start to having the elite women go on their own earlier so they’d get their fair share of the spotlight. While common now, it was revolutionary at the time.

NCAA / High School News

• Stanford’s Grant Fisher And Colorado’s Dani Jones Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week For Their Individual WIns At PAC-12 Champs
• 9th Grader Kosuke Ishida Runs 8:17 To Break Japanese Junior High School National Record
• Updates Men’s Regional Rankings With Less Than 2-Weeks To Go Until Regionals
• Latest Women’s NCAA DI Regional Rankings
• DyeStat State-By-State High School State Meet Coverage

One Of The Best Weekends Of The Year – NCAA XC Conference Championship Weekend *Live Results & Schedule *TV & Streaming

MB: OFFICIAL 2017 NCAA Conference XC Champs Discussion Thread 

LRC 2017 NCAA Cross-Country Roundup: Interesting Stories And Stats From Friday’s Action What a crazy, fun, and exciting day. We try to cover it all – whether it was USC forfeiting at PAC-12s, #2 BYU perfect scoring #3 Portland, Colorado State winning title #1, Colorado losing title #1, Columbia going from last to first, Arkansas winning again, Lamar winning a nail-biter, Syracuse winning a laugher, or Alabama going 1-2-3 and losing.

LRC Super Fan Polls: New Mexico Edges Oregon On Tiebreaker To Be #1, NAU #1 On Men’s Side The LRC faithful have spoken and we’ve got their national and conference votes.

• ACC: Syracuse Men and Justyn Knight Roll *NC State Women Cruise Paige Stoner of Syracuse won the women’s title. 
  *MB: Bold prediction: USTFCCCA say V. Tech might beat Syracuse at ACCs. Really?
• Ivy League: Princeton Men Win For 8th Time In Last 12 Years With Just 28 Points *Columbia Women Win After Finishing Last In 2016
  
• PAC-12: Colorado Men Lose (To Stanford) For 1st Time Ever, #1 Oregon Women Upset By Colorado Race is so good it will be broadcast on PAC-12 network live for 1st time ever.
  *Stanford Recap
• SEC: #27 Arkansas Men Win 8th Straight Over #16 Ole Miss *#6 Arkansas Women Win 5th Straight With 35 Points The Alabama men were second after going 1-2-3, 
  
• West Coast: #2 BYU Goes 1-2-3-4-5 On #3 Portland *#4 San Fran. Women Win With 20 Points
  *MB: BYU Perfect Scores #3 Portland: most dominant performance in WCC History!!! 

Saturday

• American: UConn Women, Tulsa Men Win
• Big East: Villanova Women, Georgetown Men Win
  
• Big Sky: NAU Sweeps It’s the 11th straight win for the NAU men but a message board poster is more impressed with BYU.
  *MB: BYU 1, NAU 0 based off of respective conference performances
• Big 12: Iowa State Sweeps As OK State Comes Up Just Short In Bid For 10th-Straight Men’s Title On the men’s side, it was Iowa State 40, Texas 41 and OK State 44.
  *MB: Iowa State Wins BIG 12’s. Poke choke 2nd! Whaaat
• Patriot: Army Men Win 1st Outright Patriot League Title Since 2001, Bucknell Women Win
• Southern Conference: FURMAN PERFECTS SOCON w/ 23:57 AVG The women won handily as well.
• American: MB: Emmanuel Rotich wins the American conference meet with a 4:13 last mile after running off course We’ve received word that no wrong turn was made. *Results
• All Results

Sunday

• Big 10: Michigan Men Win Wisco went 1-2 but Kevin Sullivan‘s Wolverines are the champs.

More Message Board NCAA Talk

• The official 2017 HEPS CROSS COUNTRY thread
• Unofficial 2017 NESCAC Cross Country Thread 
• UAA Cross-Country Thread 2017 
• Big Sky XC – 2017 
• West Coast Conference XC Predictions 
• UGA XC 

Beer Mile WR Goes Down

Canada’s Corey Bellemore Runs New Beer Mile WR With 4:33.6 Bellemore broke his own WR during the halftime of a San Francisco Deltas professional soccer game. Track and field journalist Cathal Dennehy broke the Irish national record in 4th place with 5:25.2.

Doping Stuff

Is Drug Testing A Waste Of Money?

Ciarán Ó Lionáird Complains That Sport Ireland Has Continued To Drug Test Him After He’s Already Retired Ó Lionáird gives a bit of a rant about how he thinks drug testing is a waste of money that could go to athletes. “I proved I completed clean, but even if I didn’t, nothing about their behaviour suggested they would have been able to catch me if I was (doping). I still feel like you could micro-dose and get away with it, because people are.”
*Irish Examiner: Ó Lionáird Has Continued To Be Tested Because He Has Not Formally Issued A Retirement Notice To Sport Ireland

Week That Was

LRC WTW: The Year Of The Women’s Half Marathon, A Premature Celebration, And An Introduction To Fancy Chemutai And Sondre Moen 2017 has been a revolutionary one for women in the half marathon. We look at that, Fancy Chemutai and Sondre Moen, and a premature celebration and runners going off course.

News From Over The Pond

• IAAF Profile: Taste Of Success Has Given Young GB 1,500 Star Jake Wightman Hunger For More Recently Wightman was in Las Vegas for a meeting and got weird looks when he was running a tempo run on the Strip at 6AM on a Saturday.
• Greg Rutherford Leads 75-Strong England Team For 2018 Commonwealth Games *Full England Roster
• Team GB Continues To Be A Joke: Won’t Send Any Male Marathoner To Commonwealth Games Jonny Mellor ran 2:12:57 (63 seconds faster than the qualifying time), but wasn’t selected. “If every country adopted the mindset that they only took medal contenders to the championships, the Games would suffer because you’d only have three competitors in each event.”
• Diana Asher-Smith Says CWG Gives Extra Motivation For The Early Season “There’s absolutely no excuse not to do every single rep and every single step to the best of your ability.”
• Retired GB High Jumper Jayne Nisbet Writes Book About Eating Disorders, Hoping To Help Her Fellow Athletes “My story is proof that there is life after an eating disorder and shows those struggling that there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
• GB Sprinter Adam Gemili Thinking Of Going For Triple Gold (100, 200, 4 x 100) At Next Year’s European Champs

African News

• Haile Gebrselassie Talks About His First Year As President Of The Ethiopian Athletics Federation “I found that breaking records is hundred times easier than leadership.”
• World Half Marathon Record Setter Joyciline Jepkosgei (64:51) Wants To Run The World Half Champs And Then Move Up To The Full Marathon She plans to make her debut late 2018 or early 2019.
• SPIKES Q&A With Wilson Kipsang Kipsang talks about how he approaches his running as a self-coached athlete.
• Eliud Kipchoge Thinks The “Limit For A Human Being” In The Marathon Is Between 1:58 And 1:59
• Top Half Marathoner Violah Jepchumba (65:22) Sets Her Sights On A Fall 2018 Marathon Debut Jepchumba is #6 all-time in the half.
• Nigeria Athletics Federation In Crisis As Board Members Moving To Remove Its President
• November 12: Tigist Girma To Defend Beirut Marathon Title; Targeting 2:28:00 Edwin Kiptoo returns to defend his title in the men’s race as well.