November 11, 2017 | LetsRun.com

NCAA XC Regionals *Results

LRC Georgetown Stays Home, Utah State Makes History And 6 Other Observations From The 2017 NCAA Regional Action And how about Al Cantello of Navy? In his 50th year as coach, he’s gotten the Midshipmen going to NCAAs for the 2nd straight year.

LRC Projected Men’s Qualifiers For 2017 NCAA Cross-Country Championships We name names and give you both the teams and individuals that will be competing at NCAAs.

LRC Projected Women’s Qualifiers For 2017 NCAA Cross-Country Championships We name names and give you both the teams and individuals that will be competing at NCAAs.

Message Board Talk

Official 2017 NCAA XC Regional Discussion Thread – Find Out Who Is Dancing Here
Flotrack Monopolizing NCAA Coverage – Charging $29.99 for D1, D2 and D3 Nats – Will we ever get anything free anymore!?!? Yep, that’s right. The NCAA is now charging for D2 and D3 nats.
BYU resting guys at regionals
Grant Fisher gets 11th at regionals
Is San Francisco’s women’s team for real?

LRC BYU Men (By Slimmest Of Margins) And Colorado Women Are Your New NCAA #1s In LetsRun.com Cross-Country Fan Polls The LRC faithful have spoken and we’ve got their votes.

Disturbing College News

Ex-Texas Coach Bev Kearney’s Lawyers Are Going To Question Under Oath Mack Brown And Former Texas President Next Week We have no idea why her lawyers think a football coach having sex with a trainer is remotely the same as her having sex with one of her athletes.
“20/20” Aired Special On Friday Night On Former Arizona Throws Coach Who Allegedly Put Knife To Athlete’s Throat – Athlete He Was Romantically Involved With The coach has allegedly admitted to police that he held a box cutter to the athlete’s throat and choked her in his office but he’s turned down a plea deal and he and his wife have sued the athlete, with whom he was romantically involved.
*MB: Anyone watch the 20/20 episode tonight on the former Ariz throws coach?
Loughborough University Throws Coach David Parker Suspended By UK Athletics After Inappropriate Relationship Allegation Parker was the world junior javelin champion in 1998.

Sunday’s Road Action

Lebanon May Be In Turmoil But 47,800 Will Be Running In Beirut This Weekend The favorite on the women’s side might be Eunice Chumba, who ran a 66:11 half marathon earlier this fall.
Go Figure Kenyan Is Favored At This Weekend’s Japanese National Marathon Championship *JRN Preview Yuki Kawauchi is running the mass participation race.
South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka (2:0740) And Ethiopia’s Roza Dereje (2:25:17) Will Defend Their Shanghai Marathon Titles Mokoka faces five sub-2:07 men including Dino Sefir (2:04:50) and Endeshaw Negesse (2:04:52). Dereje is up against two other former champions as well as former London champ Tigist Tufa (2:21:52).
$216,000 In Prize Money On The Line At Vodafone Istanbul Marathon There are sub-2:10 runners in the men’s field, including Bazu Worku (2:05:25), Jacob Kendagor (2:07:33), 2008 Olympic 10,000 bronze medalist Micah Kogo and also one of the fastest steeplers of all time in Paul Koech, who is running his second marathon. Visiline Jepkesho (2:21:37) and Meseret Mengistu (2:23:26) lead the women’s race.
World Champs 4th Placer Flomena Cheyech Will Try To Defend Her Title At The Saitama Marathon In Japan The second fastest runner in the field is fellow Kenyan Philes Ongori (2:23:22). *JRN Preview The race also serves as Japan’s national marathon championships.
Kenya’s Milton Rotich Shooting For The 2:10:37 Athens Marathon CR; Nancy Arusei Returns To Defend Her Title

Previous European Distance News

Mo Farah Stays On UK Lottery Funding After Switching To The Marathon Farah previously said he had likely ran his last race in a British vest, but this increases the chances he could run for GB again in 2020 in the marathon.
Saturday: Laura Muir Set To Defend Her Scottish Short Course XC Champs Title It will be her first race since Worlds. “I always think cross country at this time of year helps give you a good base for the following season on the track.”
Bizarre: French Man Receives Six Months Of Jail Time For His Controversial Running Attire The man made it a hobby to run around in custom soccer jerseys with names of notorious dictators and terrorists on them.

Some Big Names Finishing Out 2017 On The Roads

December 10: After Chicago DNF, WR Holder Dennis Kimetto To Race The Honolulu Marathon Nick Symmonds‘ chances at winning his debut marathon just took a big hit.
December 17: Kenenisa Bekele And Florence Kiplagat To Compete At Tata Steel Kolkata 25K In India

Another High School Star Chooses The NCAA

Pole Vault Star Armand Duplantis Signs With LSU Mondo’s father Greg Duplantis, mother Helena, and brother Antoine all went to LSU.

Sign Of Respect Or A Cheap Money Grab?

Stadium In Kenya May Be Renamed After The Late Sammy Wanjiru Officials hope that renaming the stadium will attract sponsors who will help renovate the aging facility.

Doping News

Jemima Sumgong Tried To Get A Reduced Ban After Admitting To EPO Use WADA will offer a reduced 2-year ban to athletes who immediately admit to their doping, but Sumgong did not do that at all. She had a whole court case trying to blame a hospital that says they never even treated her.
Good Riddance: US Track Coach Kenta Bell Accepts Lifetime Ban For Encouraging And Administering The Doping Of At Least Six Athletes Bell, the coach of the Thinking Feet TC, also tried to cover up an athlete’s positive test, provided false info to USADA and has a previous doping violation from when he was an athlete himself.
How Convenient: Internal Russian Investigation Tries To Put The Sole Blame On Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov For Doping Scandal They claim they found no proof of the institutional doping laid out in the McLaren report.
*Russia Wants US To Extradite Whistleblower Rodchenkov This is unlikely to happen, though, as Rodchenkov is in a witness protection program. Russia and the US have no extradition treaty.
Shot Put Queen Valerie Adams Could Have Her Winning Streak Of 56 Meets Extended To 95 This thanks to a possible extra backdated ban of disgraced Belarusian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk.
GPS Technology Among Ideas To Improve Anti-Doping Suggested At iNADO Symposium There were also calls for convicted drugs cheats to be barred from the medals podium, prize money and setting records … essentially a lifetime ban.
Russia Loses Two More 2014 Winter Olympic Medals After Two Cross Country Skiers Found Guilty Of Doping

International Distance News

World 5,000 Champ Hellen Obiri Stepping Up To The 10,000 For The 2018 Commonwealth Games Obiri, a former 1,500 runner, has never run 10,000m. She also wants to go for the 5,000m WR next year, held by Tirunesh Dibaba at 14:11.15.
Sunday: 2:09 Man Dominic Ruto Kipngetich Takes On Defending Champ Edwin Kiptoo At The Beirut Marathon
Callum Hawkins Named Scottish Athlete Of The Year After Setting The National Half Record At 60:00 And Placing 4th In The Marathon At Worlds In 2:10:17 Hawkins’ father and coach won the coach of the year award.
Brits Eilish McColgan And Sam Stabler Win Leeds Abbey Dash 10K

News From Europe

More LRC Exclusives

Mary Cain after an xc race last October (photo by Chris Lotsbom for Race Results Weekly) LRC Not Done Yet: Mary Cain Has Been Injured In 2017, Planning On Racing Again in 2018 Cain hasn’t raced or been heard from in almost exactly one year, but LRC has learned she’s planning on racing in 2018. The question now becomes, “How good will she be when she returns?” *Discuss

WTW Flanagan’s Close In NY Was Historically Fast, Jenny Simpson’s Roommate Gets 5th In NY And More What a week. In our weekly recap, we take one last week at the 2017 NYC Marathon and also have an update on new American citizen Sally Kipyego.

Kenyan Marathon Men: Watch Out, Kamworor Says He’s Just Getting Going

Geoffrey Kamworor Now Sets His Sights On Winning His Third Straight World Half Marathon Title Normally there is a big celebration at the Kenyan airport when a champion returns, but Kamworor wanted to keep it quiet. “I didn’t want a lot of fanfare because I believe I have just started doing well in marathon and there is more to come. When that time comes, we shall celebrate.”
Sports Illustrated Q&A With Eliud Kipchoge, Who Talks Breaking2, His Coach Patrick Sang And Other Random Stuff Kipchoge 14 notebooks of workouts for the last 14 years and he’s a big Roger Federer fan.

More On Shalane Flanagan’s Historic NYC Win

Q&A: Shaking, Yelling, Bawling: Shalane Flanagan’s Parents Relive Their Daughter’s Historic Victory Flanagan’s parents, two former running greats themselves, give some interesting insight on her training and younger days.
Mario Fraioli: Significance of Flanagan’s NYC Win Extends Far Beyond The Finish Line “Unlike two-time Olympic medalist and recently crowned Chicago Marathon champion Galen Rupp, Flanagan is empathetic and easy to root for, isn’t continually mired in controversy, and has made herself relatable…”
Athletics Illustrated‘s Chris Kelsall Calls Shalane Flanagan’s NYC Finish Line Celebration An “Indelible Moment”
RunBlogRun: Bill Rodgers Celebrates Shalane Flanagan’s Historic NYC Win

NYC Leftovers

MB: Wired Mag: Legal doping? Were Zoom Vaporfly 4% wearers twice as likely to negative split NYC? “The average Vaporfly runner ran the second half of the marathon a minute and a half slower than the first. But the average non-Vaporfly runner ran the second half five and a half minutes slower.”
Good Read: A Woman With Dystonia (A Movement Disorder Related To Parkinson’s) Ran The Entire NYC Marathon Backwards Justine Galloway has a 3:16 PR, but can no longer run forwards. However, determined not to stop running, she now runs backwards and finished NYC in 6:06.
MB: Allie Kieffer: “NYRR said you lose half your money if you click your watch at the end.” Was she joking?
MB: Joe Rogan and pals (stupidly) talking about Shalane Flanagan’s NYC Marathon win
MB: Was Shalane Flanagan’s close the fastest-ever by a woman in NY? How does it rank for any marathon?
The View From Kenya: Kenyan Journalist Justin Lagat Shares His Four Observations On NYC Geoffrey Kamworor proved you can have success at XC, the track and the marathon all in the same year.
NY Times: Video Of Some Of The Last Finishers Of The NYC Marathon These people finish after the official clock stops at 7:30PM, some of them taking over 12 hours.
Notes And Stats From The 2017 NYC Marathon Of the 51,307 starters, 50,766 finished.

From 3 To 26.2

jorgensen-gwen Olympic Champion In The Triathlon, Gwen Jorgensen, Is Quitting Triathlon To Run Marathons Full-Time, Says Goal Is Olympic Gold Jorgensen ran a 2:41 last year in NY on abbreviated marathon training.

USA Today: Jorgensen Will Be Upping Running Mileage From The 40 Miles A Week She Did For Tri To Over 100 “We’re on a tight time schedule. It’s not that long until Tokyo. … There’s going to be this huge learning curve in a small amount of time, and I’m going to have to take risks in training and competing.”
Jorgensen In RW: “There are a few people who think I’m crazy. Even my parents ask me, ‘Are you sure this is a good idea?'”
From The Archives: Gwen Jorgensen 2:41 off 40-50mpw

Assorted US Distance News

MB: Sandra Vi Sets Women’s Trans-USA Record She ran across America from San Francisco City Hall to NY City Hall in 54 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes.
*Check Out The Full 268-Page Thread On Sandra’s Run
Missouri State High School Association Rules Not To DQ Runners Who Gave And Received Assistance At The State Meet Meanwhile in Michigan, they’re DQing an entire team for wearing different color undershirts.
Fan Vote Open For 2017 USATF Jesse Owens, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Awards Distance runners up for the award are Galen Rupp, Emma Coburn and Shalane Flanagan.
Sad News: Runner Dies During Disney World Half Marathon

More US Distance Stuff

Shalane Flanagan Undecided On Boston 2018 “I want to let (a decision) come naturally. Maybe in a couple of weeks.”
Recommended Read: Arizona Daily Sun: Remembering Marathoner Ryan Shay, 10 Years Later (Part 1 And 2) NAU head coach Michael Smith writes about the “shocking, heartbreaking event that sent [the Flagstaff] community reeling.”
IAAF Profile: Courtney Frerichs In “Fantasy Land” After World Steeple Silver “There’s been a lot of ups, there’s been a lot of downs … I was super happy with the coaching but I was in Portland, I was alone, and it was raining. The move was a bit tough. There wasn’t a lot of sunshine.”