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The Inside Scoop From Thursday’s Press Events

LRC Meb Reveals What He’ll Miss Most About NYC, Shalane Says She’s Had Her “Best Buildup Ever” & More Thursday Notes We also heard Jared Ward dish on the #2 BYU men, Shadrack Biwott discuss his move to Hansons-Brooks, and spoke with the NAZ Elite duo of Kellyn Taylor & Stephanie Bruce.

LRC Paul Chelimo Aiming For World Indoor 3k Gold, Brenda Martinez Done With The 800, Ben True Has A New Coach – Abbott Dash To The Finish Line USATF 5k Notes News and video interviews with Paul Chelimo, Molly Huddle, Ben True, Brenda Martinez, Hassan Mead, Leonard Korir and Des Linden in advance of Saturday’s USATF 5k champs in NY.

Running Warehouse Prediction Contest

LetsRun.com Running Warehouse NYC Marathon Prediction Contest There is this big marathon in New York on Sunday. Make it even more interesting.

Running Controversy: Citizenship, Gender And HS Uniforms

• Irishman Gary O’Hanlon Awarded Irish National Marathon Title Three Days After Race Turns out the Kenyan, Freddy Sittuk, who was initially awarded the title because he runs for an Irish club, didn’t meet the residency eligibility requirements.
  *From Monday: Irishman Loses His National Marathon Title To A Kenyan
• A Michigan High School Team Denied A Trip To The State Meet For Uniform Violation Northville HS was DQed for wearing different color sleeves under their uniforms.
  *Top Runner Reinstated For States After Appeal, But Team Remains DQed Two others were also reinstated since they wore no shirt under their uniform, but three was not enough for a team score.
  *MileSplit Article / Discussion Video The team appealed on the grounds that officials are supposed to give a formal warning to a team before DQing and here they didn’t.
• UK Athletics Considering Third Gender Plan This is not at all realistic at the pro track level, but apparently Scotland’s tried it out in some mass road races.

Russia Doping And The Winter Olympics

Previous NYC Marathon Coverage

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.

• Runner’s World Ranks Meb’s 5 Greatest Marathons Not surprisingly, his Boston win in 2014 tops their list.
• NYC Marathon Forecast Calls For Clouds, 50s And Occasional Light Rain
• NYC Marathon Officials Monitoring Security Following Terror Attack A truck plowed through a bike path in Manhattan killing 8 and injuring 11. NYRR cancelled their ceremonial Blue Line Painting for today, but other weekend activities should go on as planned.
  *MB: BREAKING: MANHATTAN: TRUCK MOWS DOWN PEDESTRIANS. SUSPECT SHOUTS ALLAHU AKBHAR
• USA Today: NYC Marathon Runners Vow Not To Be Deterred By Terrorist Attack
• 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.

No Mo Farah At NOP

MB: Breaking News: Salazar And Mo Farah Split Farah will be returning to the UK where he will be coached by Gary Lough – Paula Radcliffe‘s husband.

• The Oregonian: Alberto Salazar Says The Decision For Farah Leaving NOP Was Mutual
• Mo Farah Used To Make His Wife Sleep In An Altitude Tent With Him; Now They Have One That Splits The Bed From the second video interview in the article.
• The Guardian: “Mo Farah Splits With Controversial Coach Alberto Salazar And Returns To UK”
• The Independent: “Mo Farah Splits With Alberto Salazar But Denies It’s Due To Doping Allegations”
• MB: Nike Oregon Project GOES HOME DEVASTATED!

Need A Job?

• BAA Hiring A New High Performance Coach
  *MB: Terrence Mahon out at BAA – to return to California at end of 2017
• The IAAF Is Hiring A “Director Of Platforms And Distribution” You will be expected to play a key part “in helping to set the strategic direction of the organization.”

More Weekend Action

• Kenyan Marius Kimutai (2:08:33) And Ethiopian Shuko Genemo (2:27:02) Battle Strong Winds To Get Convincing Victories At The Ljubljana Marathon In Slovenia
• Irishman Loses His National Marathon Title To A Kenyan Kenyan Benard Rotich won the Dublin Marathon in 2:15:53 while his countryman Freddy Sittuk finished 4th (2:16:05). Sittuk was eligible for the national championships because he’s been running for an Irish club for years. Meanwhile Gary O’Hanlon, who finished 11th in 2:18:53, was disappointed to find out after crossing the line that he hadn’t won the national title. *Results
• Jemal Yimer (59:16) And Edith Chelimo (1:05:58) Get Comfortable Victories At The Marseille Cassis 20K
• Meijo University Women Win First National University Ekiden Title Since 2005
• Phillip Reid (65:51) Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll Los Angeles Half Marathon
• Athletics Weekly: Quality Races At British Masters XC Relays

A “Dreams Become Reality” Running Story

Recommended Read:  Check Out This Excerpt From Brandon Hudgins’ Book On How He Battled Against Vasculitis To Achieve His Dream Of Competing At The Olympic Trials In this excerpt from his book, Going the Distance: The Journey of a Vasculitis Patient on the Road to Olympic Glory, Hudgins walks through his decision to quit his job to chase the standard for the 2016 OT. Hudgins has gotten a lot of love over the years on the boards and was the LRC quote of the day a couple of years ago when he first went sub-4.
*Press Release On The Book *Buy It On Amazon

Men’s News That Makes The Cut

• 59:47 Man Sondre Moen Talks Briefly To Alberto Stretti About His Epic Race Last Weekend He reveals he ran the 2nd half alone but that Canova told him to go out with the leaders.
• Eliud Kipchoge Says Sub-2 Marathon Will Happen “Any Minute Now” At Press Event In Hong Kong
• Q&A with 1952 Olympic 100 Champ Lindy Remigino, Who Is Being Inducted Into USATF Hall Of Fame Amazing to think that they inducted someone banned from doping – Mary Slaney – long before an Olympic 100 champ. Interesting fact – Remigno’s son ran 1:49 in HS.
• Euro 5,000m Champ Ilias Fifa Temporarily Released From Prison After Doping Arrest He must check in with the judge twice a month and can’t leave Spain.
• Commonwealth Games 200m Bronze Medalist Jason Livermore Of Jamaica Given 2-Year Ban He has PRs of 10.03 and 20.13.
• Greg Rutherford Is Unsure About Tokyo 2020 – Says It All Depends If His Body Holds Up

Non-Distance News

• Recommended Read: Bleacher Report On Sydney McLaughlin: “The Track Phenom Who Chose College Over Riches” Liam Boylan-Pett profiles McLaughlin, who’s enjoying freshman year at the University of Kentucky, McLaughlin: “I wanted the experience of being a college kid. To walk on a campus, live on my own, get experiences to mature as a person and in the sport.”
• GQ’s List Of The 50 Greatest Living Athletes Four track athletes made the list, but none of them distance runners.
• 2018 Won’t Be Down Year For Sally Pearson, Who’s Chasing Double Glory At World Indoors And A Home Commonwealth Games
• Meet 17-Year-Old Molly Caudery, England’s Youngest Commonwealth Games Athlete Caudery won pole vault silver at the European U20 Champs this summer and is currently visiting colleges in the US (FSU and Kentucky).
• Sweden’s World Discus Silver Medalist Daniel Stahl Gives His Tips For Sport And Life “Discus is not life or death. It is just a sport.”
• GB National 110H Champ Dave King Aiming For A CWG Medal After Not Making It Out Of The Heats At Worlds

North American Marathoner News

• Donations Pour In To Compensate Canadian Marathon Champion For His $1,250 Celebration Trevor Hofbauer had an extensive finish line celebration which likely cost him the $1,250 bonus for going sub-2:18 (he ran 2:18:06). But Hofbauer doesn’t have to live in regret because a crowd-funding campaign racked up to more than $2,500 to make up for his missed time bonus.
  *MB: Canadian Runner loses $1,250 due to celebration
• Good Read: Sports Illustrated: “Ahead Of The 2017 NYC Marathon, Shalane Flanagan Isn’t Done … Yet” Read: Flanagan feels she is missing a WMM win from her career and is approaching NYC like it’s her last chance, because while that isn’t her plan, it could be. Flanagan also touches on the NOP investigation and Chicago performances.
• Recommended Listen: Cloud 259 Podcast Interview With Puerto Rico’s Beverly Ramos Ahead Of The NYC Marathon (Interview Starts At 4:35 Mark) Ramos discusses the struggles of living and training in Puerto Rico without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and trying to break her 2:36 NR in NYC. *Full Interview Transcript
• Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Jared Ward Ward talks about balancing training with work and family life as well as his goals for the NYC Marathon.