– Nick Symmonds talking about his preparations and expectations ahead of his marathon debut at the Honolulu Marathon on Sunday.
LRC Girls’ Preview: Claudia Lane Looks To Close Out Dream Season With Repeat Title, Can She Challenge Venerable Course Record? Lane has won every race she’s run this year except one by over a minute. Incredible.
LRC Boys’ Preview: A Wide Open Race With Illinois’ Danny Kilrea A Slight Favorite As Trio Of Notre Dame Recruits Lead The Way This one is for the taking without a clear favorite like on the girls’ side.
RRWSara Hall And Tim Ritchie Win 2017 USA Marathon Titles At Cal Int’l MarathonHall won in 2:28:10 just 5 weeks after running 2:27:21 in Frankfurt while Ritchie ran a new PR of 2:11:55.
*CIM Going The Extra Mile To Stop Race Cheats In addition to analyzing results, CIM hired Marathon Investigation’s Derek Murphy to help catch cheats and even catch people pre-race who tried to hire a “bib mule.”
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2016 NCAA XC KARISSA SCHWEIZER Fights Back And Runs 15:17 To Beat 2017 NCAA XC Champ Ednah KURGAT (15:19) They ran at the annual BU December 5k.
Defending Champions Geoffrey Kirui And Edna Kiplagat Will Return For The 2018 Boston Marathon Both will be coming off an excellent 2017 where Kirui won World gold and Kiplagat the silver. *Video Release
*April Fools Comes Early:Boston Marathon Announces New Vaporfly-Adjusted Qualifying Times Men in the 18-34 age group will need to run a 2:57:30 instead of 3:05:00. *Discuss
Russia Banned From 2018 Winter Olympics; Former Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Gets Lifetime Olympic Ban Some Russians will still still be able to compete as individuals under the Olympic flag.
Usain Bolt Statue Unveiled In Kingston, Jamaica The eight-foot bronze statue shows Bolt in his trademark “to the world” stance.
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.
Foot Locker: Claudia Lane Wins Foot Locker West Regional By 1:12
Eliud Kipchoge Will Return To The London Marathon; Looking To Maintain His Unbeaten Record With A Third Title After winning in 2015 and 2016, Kipchoge skipped a year to chase the sub-2 hour marathon, but now he’s back and says, “I know that I have the world record in me so we will have to wait and see what happens.”
*Kipchoge Happy To Be Racing Mo Farah In London Kipchoge: “It’s great he will be racing because I’m sure that will make the atmosphere more special.”
*MB: Eliud Kipchoge is taking Mo Farah very seriously
Sara Hall completed a nice double, Tim Ritchie kept the Saucony team rolling, Parker Stinson went for it, a 50-year-old made the Trials, and a history lesson on Jerry Lawson.
*Recommended Read:USA Marathon Champ Sara Hall Defies Convention Hall has always had great range and now is enjoying the success her non-standard approach is bringing. “In my mind, I flash back to times that you are thinking you aren’t even good at this sport. It makes you realize that, wow, when you hear those voices, don’t believe those voices.”
Wow! LRCNorway’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.
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