NYC Men

LRC  Geoffrey Kamworor Blitzes 4:31 25th Mile To Grab Lead And Holds On To Win 2017 New York City Marathon The 24-year-old Geoffrey Kamworor had accomplished an awful lot in his young career but he’d never won a marathon until today.

NY Message Board Men’s Talk:

• Kamworor takes the win in NYM as I predicted! 
• What An Amazing Final Race For Meb Keflezighi 
• Galen “2:10 Guy” Rupp could have won NYC!
• Both Kipsang and Keitany ran a dumb race. 
• Kevin Hart currently bombing the last 20 miles at 12+ minute pace 

Full NY Coverage In 2017 TCS New York City Marathon Special Section

Pre-Race News

*Good Read: NY Times: Meb Keflezighi Reveals His Secret Is His Mom’s Himbasha All Meb’s family are in town to celebrate his final marathon.
*Industry News: NY Times: The Running Bubble Has Popped, But They Haven’t Heard It In NYC Participation in many races throughout the country has declined and road races are starting to see people resist the inflated prices.

USATF 5K Champs

LRCShadrack Kipchirchir (13:57) Wins 6-Way Kick, Molly Huddle Earns USATF Title #25 (15:24) At 2017 USATF Road 5K ChampsKipchirchir beat out Thomas Curtin & Kirubel Ersassa as 6 men finished within 2 seconds of each other, while Huddle dusted a field that also included Molly Seidel (2nd, 15:35) and Natosha Rogers (3rd, 15:39). Full results in article.
*MB: USATF Abbott Dash to the Finishline 5k USATF Champs LIVE Thread

• Good Read: RW: Desiree Linden Is Using Shorter Races To Burst Out Of A Running Slump “I feel like I would rather try to shake things up and fail miserably, but at least try, than just keep doing the same thing and getting the same result.”
• RRW:USA 5-K Titles For Kipchirchir & Huddle at Abbott Dash To The Finish
• USATF:Huddle Dominates, Kipchirchir Sprints To Victory At USATF 5K Champs

Non-NYC Distance News

• Good Read:Extensive Q&A With Prolific Top Road Racer Stephen Sambu Get to know the 26:54 10,000m man who’s racked up a ton of Ws on the roads including a fourth consecutive win at Falmouth this past summer.
• Athletics Illustrated Opinion Piece On Mo Farah’s Move From NOP And Salazar To London And Gary LoughChristopher Kelsall asks if leaving Salazar was really about distancing himself from the USADA investigation, pointing out that Lough doesn’t live in London either (he is based in Monaco).
• Short Q&A With Worlds 800 Silver Medalist Melissa Bishop Bishop says her greatest fear is that post-track life “won’t be comparable to the feeling of excitement and adrenaline of racing in a packed stadium.”
• From Last Weekend:Kevin Castille Dominates USATF Masters 15K Champs In A New 45-49 American Record of 46:21
• Shitaraless Honda Wins East Japan Corporate Ekiden

Running Warehouse Prediction Contest

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

• Recommended Watch: Meb The Home Stretch Episode 1: Excellent Five Part Documentary Taking A Look Back At Meb’s Career And His Training For His Final Marathon
  *Episode 2 *Episode 3 *Episode 4
• RunBlogRun: Ghirmay Ghebreslassie Returns to Defend NYC Crown Ghebreslassie’s parents didn’t want him to become a runner, but when he won the 2015 World title his father cried and said, “Even if someone told me that I’m going to die tomorrow, it’s enough for me to see from my son such special things.”
• Can Wilson Kipsang Go From DNF In Berlin To NYC Win? Kipsang will look for some redemption to make up for the disappointments he faced in Berlin and with his political ambitions for 2017.
• Interesting Read: Discover The History Of The NYC Marathon The inaugural NYC Marathon had only 127 registrants with only 55 finishing.
• NY Times: How Climate Change Affects The Marathon This NY Times piece claims that temperatures in the 60s make the average person run 12 minutes slower than when it’s in the 40s and that asks if the Montreal Marathon will be the world’s most prestigious by 2050 due to climate change.
• IAAF NYC Preview Shalane Flanagan: “I think I’ve always had a sense of urgency when it comes to the marathon because if you can arrive at the start line healthy and fit … it’s rare to have both of those on the same day.”
• ESPN: Meb Keflezighi’s Marathon Career By The Numbers Meb’s gone through an estimated 285 pairs of running shoes since going pro.
• Edna Kiplagat Says Her Preparations Have Gone Well Ahead Of Her Third Marathon Of 2017 Busy year for Kiplagat, who won Boston, was 2nd at Worlds and now is racing NYC.
• Police Step Up Security For NYC After Manhattan Terrorist Attack
• From London: Can Anyone Stop Mary Keitany From Winning A Fourth NYC Title?

Week That Was

LRC Week That Was Taper Edition: Brit Goes Sub-2:10, Sara Hall PRs, Conference XC Winners And Losers, And Justyn Knight Fan Boys Mo FarahWe get you up to speed on the running world.

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.

Russian 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.