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LRCQ&A With USATF Marathon Champ Tim Ritchie, Who Explains What He Learned From Eliud Kipchoge And How He Ran 2:11 Off 85 Miles A Week

LRCParker Stinson Went For It, Tim Ritchie Got It Done, Sara Hall Doubled Down, A 50-Year-Old Made The Trials And A Jerry Lawson History Lesson

Distance News

• Kenya’s Diamond League Champ And World 1,500 Silver Medalist Timothy Cheruiyot Talks About His Career-Changing Moment In 2016 Cheruiyot says he was “conflicted” when he was asked to run as a pacer at the 2015 World Champs, but winning the Brussels DL final over Asbel Kiprop gave him confidence he could “beat anyone.”
• Courtney Frerichs Says As Recently As 2016 She Was Racing With Fear And It Was Taking Her Out Of Races Frerichs admits she would get “scared” of the competition or pace, but overcame that in 2017.
• Extensive Gary Cohen Q&A With Courtney Frerichs On her Worlds silver: “It is slowly becoming more real. But sometimes I have to pull the medal out to believe it actually happened. It’s such a dream come true.”
• Ethiopia’s World Indoor 3,000m Champ Yomif Kejelcha Joins NOP Kejelcha was also 4th in the 5,000 at the 2015 and 2017 World Champs.
  *MB: YOMIF KEJELCHA JOINS NIKE OREGON PROJECT
• Winner Chosen For Fan Photograph Of The Year The photo was of GB’s Callum Hawkins at the Great Edinburgh XC meet with fans cheering for him on the sidelines.
• Big Half In London Will Host 2018 British Half Marathon Championships Mo Farah vs. Callum Hawkins will be the highlight.

2017 Fukuoka Marathon Was Incredible *Fukuoka Results

Wow! LRC Norway’s Sondre Moen Makes History, Smashes European Record To Win Fukuoka In 2:05:48 Moen, who ran 59:48 during his buildup, became the first non-African born male to break 2:06 on a record-eligible course as he stunned the world and Bedan Karoki. 2012 Olympic champ Stephen Kiprotich grabbed second in 2:07:10 just ahead of the Suguro Osako, who set a new Nike Oregon Project record of 2:07:19.

• IAAF Recap Suguru Osako: “I gave my all to this race. … If I continue to train this way, I can continue to improve. I felt that I found a coach I can really trust. In Japan I did not find anyone like that.”
• MB: Official 2017 Fukuoka Marathon Discussion Thread
  
• MB: SONDRE MOEN of Norway runs 2:05:48 (!!!)to win the 2017 Fukuoka Marathon. How did he do it?
  
• Must Read: Renato Canova explains Moen’s amazing breakthrough: “Clean your minds, start to believe in yoursel[f], and go [all] in [on] hard CLEAN training if [you] are really interested in improving [your] performance.”

More Weekend Action

• Stanley Biwott (65:27) And Desiree Linden (72:44) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll San Antonio Marathon Biwott beat out Mexican Olympian Daniel Vargas by 14 seconds while Linden won by over 3 minutes.
• Derara Hurisa Desalegn And Gete Alemayehu Impress At The Ethiopian Clubs And Regions XC Meet Desalegn won over a field that included World 5,000 champ Muktar Edris and former World XC champ Imane Merga, who both ended up DNFs.
• Japanese Half Record Holder Yuta Shitara Wins Kumamoto Kosa 10 Miler In 45:58
• Pamela Rotich (2:32:31) Triumphs Over Rebecca Kangogo Chesir (2:38:48) At The Singapore Marathon Cosmas Koech Kimutai won the men’s race in 2:22:48.
• Felix Kiptoo Kirwa Wins Macao International Marathon In 2:10:01

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.