NXN High School Team Nationals *Full Results *Boys (With Splits) *Girls (With Splits)

LRC Girls Race: Katelyn Tuohy (16:44) Crushes Field As Fayetteville-Manlius Survives To Win 11th Title In 12 Years Tuohy set another course record and F-M won another national title (its 11th in 12 years), but just barely.

LRC Boys Race: Aidan Troutner (15:03) Wins NXN Thriller As Loudoun Valley Sets Meet Record For Fewest Points (89) Troutner pulled the upset and will go to BYU next year. Drew Hunter‘s former team, coached by his parents, set a record for low points at the meet thanks to great running and two transfers.

• NXN Discussion: Do the right thing, Foot Locker- Invite Katelyn Tuohy to FL finals
• NXN Live Thread
• Is FM officially the great high school team ever?
• The #1 high school boys team in country has 4 runners better than the #1 on the #2 boys team in the country
• Katelyn Tuohy is the GOAT among HSers 
• The Officially Unofficial Lane vs. Tuohy Thread 
• What a race by Troutner: Brodey Hasty goes home DEVASTATED!!!
• Top New York boys team got second at NXN while everyone slept on them!!

General Sport / Olympic Updates

• Thomas Bach Claims IOC Cannot Act As A World Government But Will Prioritize Human Rights In Olympic Host Cities The paris 2024 and LA 2028 Games will be the first to specifically include human rights principles in their host contracts.
• Opening Session Officially Kicks Off 2017 USATF Annual Meeting USATF president Vin Lananna spoke and gave out eight “President’s Awards” including one to his predecessor Stephanie Hightower.
• South Korean Military Considering Rescheduling Exercises With US To Avoid Clash With 2018 Winter Games The exercises have been denounced by North Korea as a rehearsal for a potential invasion.
• Rio Olympic Velodrome Hit By Fire For Second Time This Year Once again, a second small hot air balloon landed on the roof and set it on fire.
• Birmingham Will Have To Wait To See If It Will Host The 2022 Commonwealth Games They were the only official bidder, but their bid was “not fully compliant” and now cities from Australia, Canada, and Malaysia have updated their bids.

Distance News

• Good Read: Sara Hall Doesn’t Believe In Getting Down To An “Ambiguous Race Weight” Before A Big Competition “[The scale] doesn’t tell me anything because I’m not trying to be a certain weight. I focus on my energy levels and figure when I’m fueling well and not eating a lot of junk, my body finds where it needs to be.”
• Podcast: Carrie Tollefson Interviews Allie Kieffer In The Wake Of Her Amazing Breakthrough 5th-Place Finish At The NYC Marathon Kieffer set a 15-minute PR at NYC to finish 5th. She talks about that performance as well as future racing plans.
• 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Former Olympic Champ Stephen Kiprotich Kiprotich is a big fan of Hollywood action and Chinese Kung Fu movies.
• RIP: 2:32 Ethiopian Marathoner Zenash Gezmu Dies At 27 Years Old
• Mikey Brannigan Named USA Paralympian Of The Year Brannigan won three paralympic world medals (two gold) in the 800, 1,500 and 5,000.
• If You Speak French: beIN SPORTS Documentary On Japan Marathoner Yuki Kawauchi

Taking Winter Running To A New Level

• Irish Sub-4 Minute Miler Paul Robinson Runs The Fastest Mile Ever In Antarctica Running on snow with a temperature of -13° Fahrenheit (with the windchill) Robinson (who has a 3:35 1,500 PR) ran 4:17.9. *Video
  *2nd Article: Robinson – “The coolest thing I’ve ever done.”
• Video Of This Year’s Antarctic Ice Marathon The winning times were 3:37:46 for the men and 4:56:37 for the women.

US Distance News

• Bowerman Track Club’s Jerry Schumacher Named USATF Nike Coach Of The Year BTC athletes won three World medals and a World Marathon Major in 2017.
• Recommended Read: Brandon Hudgins Gives An Update On His Ongoing Battle Against Vasculitis And Talks Running In General Hudgins discusses his training and how he copes with fighting his illness, shares some inside info like his favorite runs and inspiration and gives some life/training advice.
• Edward Cheserek Gets Sponsored By Polar The heart rate sensor/activity tracker company also sponsors Molly Huddle, Gwen Jorgenson, Will Leer and Kate Grace.

International Distance Racing

• Ethiopia’s Dire Tune Makes Triumphant Comeback, Winning The Florence Marathon With 2:28:55 In Her First Race In 6 Years Tune hadn’t raced since 2011 Worlds as she took time away from running to become a mother. Bahrain’s Zelalem Bacha won a tight men’s race as he and Ethiopia’s Tadesse Mamo both ran 2:14:41.
• Olympic 10,000 4th Placer Alice Aprot Wins Alcobendas, Spain XC Race By 34 Seconds Eritrea’s Aron Kifle won the men’s race while in Germany, Alina Reh got a 2-second upset victory over 3:58 woman Konstanze Klosterhalfen.
• World U20 Medalists Selemon Barega And Zeyneba Yimer Win Hard-Fought Battles At Great Ethiopian Run 10K In Addis Ababa Barega beat out national XC champ Getaneh Molla and defending champion Moges Teumay to win by 3 seconds while Yimer also won by just 2 seconds.
  *Sad News: Two Racers Die At Great Ethiopian Run
• Kaleab Ghilagabr (2:12) And Yumiko Kinoshita (2:34) Win Osaka Marathon Japanese cancer survivor and past 2:11 man Satoru Kasuya ran 2:19:50 for 4th place.
• Arata Fujiwara Wins Tsukuba Marathon Four Weeks After Breaking Toyama Marathon CR
• Osaka Geijutsu University Takes Nikko Irohazaka Women’s Ekiden

IAAF Admin

• IAAF Say They Will Continue The Current Freeze On Transfer Of Allegiance From Country To Country The rules will be reviewed again in March 2018.
• Nanjing, China Awarded The 2020 World Indoor Championships They beat out bidders Belgrade, Serbia and Torun, Poland.

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International Distance Results

• Ethiopian 17-Year-Old Yeneblo Biyazen Leads 12 Men Under 28 Minutes At Japanese 10,000 Biyazen made his debut at the distance with a 27:32.
• GB’s Emelia Gorecka Was In Tears After Bouncing Back From Stress Fracture To Win Liverpool XC Challenge And Book A Trip To Euro XC Champs Gorecka won in a sprint finish over Worlds 1,500 semi-finalist Jessica Judd. Ben Connor won the men’s race.
• Universal Entertainment Ekiden Team Scores First National Corporate Women’s Ekiden Title Since 2012

Athlete Of The Year

Mutaz Essa Barshim (HJ) And Nafissatou Thiam (Heptathlon) Are The 2017 World Athletes Of The Year Barshim beat out fellow finalists Mo Farah and Wayde Van Niekerk while Thiam won the award over Almaz Ayana and Ekaterini Stefanidi.

• Good Read: Profile On Wayde Van Niekerk’s 75-Year-Old Coach Anna Botha, Who Is The IAAF Coach Of The Year Botha talks about how she started coaching, playing music during training to help athletes find rhythm and says she was so mad after Van Niekerk hurt his knee in a celebrity rugby game that she wanted to “wanted to murder people.”
• Eight Athletes Receive World Record Plaques Including Joyciline Jepkosgei For Her 1:04:52 Half Marathon Sydney McLaughlin (400H), Mondo Duplantis (PV) and Trey Cunningham (60H) got plaques for their WJRs.
• Play-By-Play From IAAF 2017 Awards Night
• Athletics Weekly Article
  
• Usain Bolt Wins IAAF President’s Award The President’s Award recognizes and honors great service to athletics.

Manchester Road Race And Silicon Valley TT *Silicon Results *Manchester Results

Silicon Valley TT: Edward Cheserek Wins 1st Race As Pro – Runs 13:38 This is the race that Alan Webb beat Galen Rupp in 7 years ago. Webb won in 13:36 – Rupp ran 13:39.

Manchester: RRW Paul Chelimo Wins, Buze Diriba Outkicks Molly Huddle As Both Break Course Record At 2017 Manchester Road Race Molly Huddle led the entire women’s race but Buze Diriba outsprinted her and won in a course record of 23:57. Chelimo got the win after Chris Thompson went out hard.
*MB: Happy Thanksgiving! Manchester Road Race Live Thread- Updated: Paul Chelimo Wins, Buze Diriba Outkicks Molly Huddle 

Brothers John And Ray Treacy Are Back As Manchester Co-Chairs This Year John Treacy – the ’78 and ’79 world XC champ – helped make the race internationally famous when he won it in 1978.

Foreign News Of Note

• Preview Of Big Weekend Of Japanese Action As Yuta Shitara Goes For Japanese 10,000m record The biggest question mark is can  Yuta Shitara break the Japanes 10,000m record at the Hachioji Long Distance meet? Shitara is the guy who broke the Japanese record in the half in 1:00:17 and then ran 2:09:03 at Berlin the next weekend.
• What A Joke: Kenyan Tourism Boards Honors Wilson Kipsang And Sarah Chepchirchir Chepchirchir is the sister of Noah Talem, the husband and coach of Rio Olympic champ and drug cheat Jemima Sumgong. No one in this group should be honored until Sumgong comes clean.
• Preview Of Sunday’s Irish XC Championships Fionnuala McCormack is not running.
• Preview Of Sunday’s Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon

News From Outside The US

• British Athletics Publishes 2018 IAAF World Indoor Champs Selection Policy
• Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon Numbers Down By More Than 10,000 As Many Kenyans Were So Obsessed With Their Presidential Election That They Didn’t Train “It is not about the finances. The people who had shown interest in the race had not prepared themselves to run,” he added.
• Sports Ethics Professor Has Some Interesting Things To Say About Doping “With regards anti-doping, people thought the days of state-sponsored doping were over. Well, wake up and smell the coffee! More and more is coming out about China all the time.”
• Before He Gets Serious About Soccer, Usain Bolt Has Been Helping Australian Cricketers Get Faster
• IOC Bans Four Russian Skeleton Athletes For Life Over Sochi Doping, Including Olympic Champion Alexander Tretyakov
• IAAF Is Hiring New Head Of Communications At Its Monaco Headquarters Sounds like a great job. Note, you’ll be the #2 communications man or woman – not #1. Or you can work for free in the US: TrackTown USA Hiring A Bunch Of Interns – Communication, Social Media, Marketing And Videographer Interns.

Christian Taylor Gives Out Free Tips On Competing And Dating “I think most women think chivalry is dead. But by opening a door for a lady, or seating my girlfriend at dinner – just a small gesture can go far. My dad instilled that belief in me. Being a gentleman can make a cool night, a really special night.”

Pro Distance News

• Recommended Read: 31-Year-Old Mother Of Three Was The Feel-Good Story Of The Summer, But Sponsorship Deal Still Eludes Her Vaughn and industry experts talk about the state of sponsorship and why it can be difficult for someone like Vaughn (a 31-year-old not in a training group) to get a deal even after making a World team.
• Hartford Courant: Bernard Lagat Running Manchester Road Race For First Time Lagat says he’s planning on running his first marathon in 2019; probably either NYC, Chicago or Boston.
• March 4: Mo Farah And Callum Hawkins Will Go Head-To-Head Over Half Marathon At The Big Half In London
• MB: Jared Ward Has 4.8 Out Of 5 stars On RateMyProfessors.com Ward teaches statistics at BYU.
• MB: Funny Video – Normal People Try To Run Mo Farah’s 5K Pace On A Treadmill

Today’s Sprint Stuff

• Recommended Read: BBC Looks At How The British Virgin Islands’ Sports (Including World #1 Hurdler Kyron McMaster) Are Recovering After Hurricane Irma National rugby team coach: “One of the lads was five minutes late for training. When I asked him why, he said: ‘Because my roof caved in during the night.'”
• Usain Bolt Is Recovered From His Hamstring Injury And Back In Training … For Soccer He is talking about training hard with the Jamaican national coach and has been invited to train with a team in Germany (Borussia Dortmund).
• Czech Republic’s Former European 400 Indoor Champ Denisa Rosolova Announces Retirement At 31 She is pregnant with her first child.

Sprints And Jumps

• Pistorius And Steenkamp Families Outraged About Recently Released Oscar Pistorius Movie, “Oscar Pistorius – The Blade Runner Killer” Both families are considering taking legal action.
• Tips For Sport And Life From Olympic 400 Champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo Some interesting takeaways is that Miller-Uibo is married to Estonian decathlete Maicel Uibo and her father’s name is Shaun.
• Andre De Grasse Wants To Make Up For Glasgow 2014 Disappointment With Gold Coast 2018 Success At the 2014 Commonwealth Games De Grasse didn’t make the final, but is a different runner since then.
• US Jumper Will Claye Has His Own “Fall Up” Clothing Line Out
• Podcast Interview With US Olympic Triple Jumper Chris Benard Benard was 6th at Worlds and had the 4th best jump in 2017.
• USA’s World LJ Silver Medalist Jarrion Lawson Talks About What He Does To Fight Injury And Stay Healthy

Euro XC News

• European Weekend XC Circuit Round-Up: Kenya’s World XC Silver Medalist Alice Aprot Wins In Spain She beat Spain’s Nuria Lugueros by almost a minute.
• Happy Thanksgiving: Turkey Dominates With 9 Of 12 Golds At The Balkan XC Championships

2017 AOYs

• Emma Coburn And Sam Kendricks Win The USATF Jackie Joyner-Kersee/Jesse Owens Athlete Of The Year Awards
• IAAF 2017 Athletics Awards Are Friday In Monaco

NCAA XC MBoard Talk

• Official 2017 NCAA XC Discussion Thread 
• 26 year old Ednah Kurgat Wins NCAA D1 Title. 
• NAU WOW! – NAU Dominates With Three In Top 10 
• Justyn Knight Makes History – 1st Canadian-Born Male To Win NCAAs
• BYU — CHOKE CITY 
• Portland ruins sport, gets 2nd at NCAAs The Pilots, who tanked their conference meet, ended up beating BYU for 2nd. 
• OK State men finish 29/31 at NCAAs 
• Ed Eyestone: Don’t let Casey Clinger leave on his mission!!! 
• NCAA XC 2017 favourite is………another Australian 
• Huge props to Amy-Eloise Neale! She picked up 17 spots late to finish 2nd. 
• Karissa Schweizer?? 
• Unreal: Flotrack $30 feed cut out mid-race, then they went to a commercial!!
• FloTrack Boycott 
• NCAA XC darkhorse picks
• Ednah Kurgat will win the women’s XC championship by over 30 seconds…
• Who wins it? a) Justyn Knight b) Grant Fisher c) Other
• History buffs: Has a Canadian born runner ever won a NCAA cross men’s title?