December 28, 2017 | LetsRun.com

The LetsRun.com World And US Rankings Are Here – Who’s #1?

LRC Women’s 3/5k: 2017 LRC World & US Rankings, W 3K/5K: Hellen Obiri Reigns Supreme, Shannon Rowbury US #1 Obiri was dominant this year and gets the top spot. *Discuss 3k/5k rankings here

LRC Men’s 5,000: M 3K/5K: Muktar Edris Edges Mo Farah For Top Spot, Paul Chelimo #3 Mo Farah‘s loss at Worlds cost him the #1 ranking. *Discuss 5k Rankings Here

LRC Women’s 1,500: Faith Kipyegon Is #1 Again; Jenny Simpson Ranks #3 Simpson gets credit for the silver at Worlds and winning USAs.
Discuss: World and US Women’s Rankings are Here: Faith Kipyegon #1 in World, Jenny Simpson #3 Give us your feedback

LRC Men’s 1,500: Training Partners Elijah Manangoi & Timothy Cheruiyot Lead The Way, Matt Centrowitz Still US #1 Sorry, Robby Andrews fans, Centro is still atop the US.
*Discuss: 2018 World and US 1,500m Rankings Here, Share your opinion

Previous LRC Rankings: *Women’s 800*Men 800

RIP Jamaican 1960 Olympic 4 X 400 Bronze Medalist Malcolm Spence, 81

Russian Doping Updates

IOC Accused Of “Cowardice” For Failing To Help Protect Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov Russia has been pushing for Rodchenkov’s extradition and his lawyer thinks the IOC should step in and tell Russia they must stop.
Vitaly Mutko Steps Down As Head Of Organizing Committee For The 2018 FIFA World Cup Mutko claims he’s taking time away to focus on fighting against his lifetime Olympic ban.
Russia Paralympic Committee Holding A Qualifying Meet With 50 Athletes Despite The Fact That They’re Still Banned From Pyeongchang 2018 A final decision on Russian Paralympians hasn’t been made yet (the IPC is separate from the IOC).
Non-News: Vladimir Putin Does Not Plan To Attend Winter Olympics

2017 Recap

IAAF End-Of-Year Jumps Review Mutaz Essa Barshim and Maria Lasistkene dominated the HJ this year.
The Irish Times 2017 Track And Field Review: Shocks Galore Under A Cloud Of Doping Questions Ian O’Riordan writes, “Mo Farah and Usain Bolt bid farewell, but not in the manner most had expected them to.”

The Best Of 2017

LRC The 2017 LetsRun.com Awards: Runner And Rookie Of The Year, Upset Of The Year, Doping Excuse Of The Year & More Shalane Flanagan and Galen Rupp are US runners of the year and Joyciline Jepkosgei and Eliud Kipchoge international runners of the year. Did your favorite runner make the cut?
*Discuss: LetsRun.com Year End Awards: Galen Rupp and Shalane Flanagan US Runners of Year, Noah Lyles Rookie of the Year and More …

LRC LetsRun’s Best Articles Of 2017: A Day With Eliud Kipchoge In Kenya, The Summer Of Alan Webb, The Rise Of Syracuse & Many More Looking for some reading in your time off from work? We’ve got you covered.

LRC The Best Races Of 2017 With Video: Gold & Silver For U.S. In The Steeple, Shalane Wins NYC, Kipchoge Runs 2:00:25 & More From the track to the roads we’ve got you covered. We reflect on the most exciting races of 2017, including history from Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs, major marathon wins from Shalane Flanagan and Galen Rupp, the brilliance of Eliud Kipchoge and some NCAA action.

Worth A Read

Profile On US 5k Legend Tim Broe’s High School Coaching Success At Wellesley, MA Broe is also doing a great job with Saucony Freedom Track Club. “The school is a pressure-cooker. I have kids who are crying because they didn’t get into Harvard.”
Ryan Crouser Wants To Break Drug Cheat Randy Barnes’s World Record In The Shot In 2018 Crouser wants to do it clean and goes to http://informed-choice.org/ to make sure the supplements he uses are legit. Crouser uses a device called TrackMan to figure out the optimal speed and angle on his throws. Crouser is a throwing stud and is the national high school record holder in the discus.
2:05 Marathoner Sondre Moen To Race World 5k Champ Muktar Edris Dec 31 At BOclassic Desi Linden is racing on women’s side.
Alan Pascoe, Former Top British Hurdler And Sports Marketer And Meet Promoter, Talks About Success In Life
Stephanie Bruce to be Sponsored by Hoka Exclusivley Going Forward Gives a Big Thank you to Oiselle Both companies supported her during pregnancy #2.
Andrew Butchart Expecting Big Things In 2018 – The Scotsman
Nigel Levine, British 400m Man, Who Was European 4 X 400 Champ, Reportedly Tests Positive, Awaiting “B” Sample He tested positive for the banned asthma drug clenbuterol, which also can be used to cut weight.

Justin Gatlin Scandal Updates

Alan Abrahamson: “Zero Facts Implicating Justin Gatlin – That’s A Scandal?” Abrahamson argues that the Telegraph is unfairly going after Gatlin and blowing the story out of proportion. We agree that the British media is biased against Gatlin, but you can’t downplay his association with Dennis Mitchell.
With Dennis Mitchell Out Of The Picture, What’s Next For Justin Gatlin? Speaking under the condition of anonymity, one coach said, “I’d tell him, ‘Sorry sir, we run a clean camp here.'” and another said, “Taking Gatlin now means press and drama and BS in your camp.”
Gatlin May Sue The Telegraph For Defamation

Doping News

MB: Lolo Jones Suggesting US’s 2012 Olympic Bronze Medalist Kellie Wells Could Also Be A Doper (Same Coach & Agent As Gatlin)
Dick Pound In The Telegraph: “The Future Of Sport May Well Be At Stake If This Doping Problem Is Not Solved Once And For All”
The Telegraph Evaluates Dennis Mitchell’s Comments On “Designer” Drugs Which Were Made Famous By The BALCO Scandal Mitchell said there were “simple easy stuff” as well as “complex” drugs and it was only the simple things “you’re gonna get busted on.”
Seb Coe Claims Russia Is “Moving In The Right Direction” Towards Having IAAF Suspension Lifted There is still no set date for their return, but it definitely won’t be in time for the 2018 World Indoor Champs.
IOC Establish Task Forces To Tackle Corruption In Sport

More Gatlin Doping News

Agent Robert Wagner Claims He Invented The Story About Obtaining Banned Drugs To Impress The Undercover Reporters Wagner claims it was all “just big talk.”
Justin Gatlin’s Samples Expected To Be Re-Tested After Latest Drug Scandal
Opinion Piece: “Remorse Is The Very Least That Justin Gatlin Should Be Showing For An Athlete Association With Dennis Mitchell” Steve Magness said it best when he asked, “If you’re Justin Gatlin and you’re coming back from a four-year drug ban, why in the world do you say that you want a guy who has tested positive before to coach you?”
Irish Hurdler Thomas Barr Calls Out Justin Gatlin After He Issued Statement That He Had Not Used PEDs Barr tweeted, “Correct me if I’m wrong, but have you not served two bans for PEDs?”
Many In Sport Once Again Calling For One Strike Lifetime Bans An interesting note is that a number of Wagner’s clients as well as his wife have served doping bans.
The Telegraph: “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word For Justin Gatlin And His Drug-Cheat Mentor”
Sports Experts Call For FBI To Investigate Doping In Sport After Latest Gatlin Scandal

The World’s Biggest XC Fan

LRC Meet Mr. Cross-Country, The Sport’s Biggest Fan Cross-country’s biggest fan, Michael Mahon, resides in Massachusetts, where for the past 33 years he has traveled to over 1,747 career meets, bag of cans in tow. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
*Michael Mahon – Mr. Cross-Country – Share Your Favorite Story Here

Add This To Your Christmas List?

Independent Study (Funded By Nike) Finds That Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% Actually Could Make You Run Faster They found energy saving of between 2% and 6% – with an average of 4%. A big criticism of the study is it wasn’t blind testing, so the placebo effect could be at play.

NCAA News: The Bowerman Award

Oregon’s Raevyn Rogers Wins Women’s 2017 Bowerman Award Rogers beat out jumper Keturah Orji and thrower Maggie Ewen to become the third Oregon woman to win the award.
*Video Interview With Rogers *Register-Guard Article
Tennessee’s Christian Coleman Wins Men’s 2017 Bowerman Award Coleman won the award over sprinter Fred Kerley and decathlete Lindon Victor to become the fourth SEC male winner in a row.
*Video Interview With Coleman
Video: Watch Bowerman Presentation Replay
Register-Guard Article On Former Duck Raevyn Rogers Rogers gives an update on her training situation since she’s moved to Philly to join Derek Thompson‘s group with Ajee Wilson and Charlene Lipsey.
2:03 800 Woman Ruby Stauber To Transfer From LSU To Oregon She was 5th at NCAA indoors last year.
Video: 2017 USTFCCCA Coaches Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony Inductees included Allyson Felix‘s coach Bob Kersee.

Honolulu Marathon *Results

RRW Lawrence Cherono (2:08:26) And Brigid Kosgei (2:22:14) Smash Course Records At Honolulu Marathon, Win $50,000 World record holder Dennis Kimetto dropped out again. Nick Symmonds ran 3:00:35.

RRW King Cheserek Wins Battle Of Sexes Kalakaua Mile In Hawaii And Defeats Nick Willis And Will Leer The race does not give splits and makes the runners essentially time trial it by feel. Excellent.
*MB: Nick Willis’ 8-Month Pregnant Wife Runs 6:59 Mile In Hawaii

USATF Club XC Champs Men’s Team And Ind. Results Women’s Results

Club Nats Men’s Results: Ian La Mere And Tinman Elite Win La Mere is on Hansons-Brooks.
Women’s Results: Sarah Pagano Of BAA and Hansons Brooks Win Women’s Title

USATF Recap
Discussion: Official USATF Club Nationals Thread
RR: Inspired By XC Origins, Hansons-Brooks Puts U.S. Distance Back On The Map This week should be the final race for Bobby Curtis.
RR: Ahead Of Club XC Champs, The Georgetown Running Club Remembers The Tragic Loss Of Two Of Its Members
*Lauren Woodal Roady’s Memorial Page
*Nina Brekelman’s Memorial Page

Distance News

Edna Kiplagat Declared World Marathon Majors Winner After Jemima Sumgong’s Doping Ban This is the third time Kiplagat has won the $500,000 WMM title.
Former Olympic Champ Meseret Defar Looking Forward To Making Her Marathon Debut In 2018 Defar hasn’t raced a lot the last few years, but says she wants to “assure my fans I’m in athletics to stay.”
Nick Willis Looking To Double Medal In The 1,500/5,000 At The 2018 Commonwealth Games Only twice in CWG history has someone medaled in both events at the same Games (the first time was Kip Keino in 1970). Willis won 1,500 bronze and was 10th in the 5,000 back in 2014.
Podcast Q&A With Nick Symmonds Symmonds talks about his career, business and 3:00:35 marathon debut.

2017 Comes To An End

Mutaz Barshim Is T&F News Male Athlete Of The Year 11 competitions and 11 victories for Barshim in 2017.
IAAF End-Of-Year XC/Road Racing Review There were a lot of impressive road performances this year, highlighted by two WRs, one at the half marathon (Joyciline Jepkosgei‘s 64:52) and the other Mary Keitany‘s 2:17:01 “women’s only” record.
What Do You Think? Vote For DyeStat’s Performers Of The Year: High School Boys *High School Girls *College *Pro *Relays
17 Brits Make Athletics Weekly’s Event-By-Event Top 10 World Merit Rankings Mo Farah is Britain’s sole top world-ranked athlete as he’s #1 in the 10,000 (but only #2 in the 5,000).
Mary Keitany’s 2:17:01 Is T&F News’s Women’s Performances Of The Year
German Javelin Thrower Johannes Vetter’s #2 All-Time Throw Was T&F News Top Men’s Performance Of 2017

IAAF End-Of-Year Hurdles Review Omar McLeod continued to dominate while WR holder Keni Harrison continued to falter on the biggest stage, finishing 4th at Worlds as Sally Pearson won.
World Discus Champ Sandra Perkovic Named Croatian Sportswoman Of The Year (All Sports)

LetsJump.com

Four-Time World LJ Champ Dwight Phillips Reflects About His Early Career When He “Competed Off Talent Alone” And Wasn’t “Educated” About The Technical Aspects Of His Event Philips says he almost quit the sport in 2001 when he was offered $85,000 a year for a pharmaceutical sales job.
BBC Video Interview: World LJ Champion Luvo Manyonga Talks About Battling His Crystal Meth Addiction And Desire To Break The World Record Manyonga got an 18-month ban in 2012 for his crystal meth use.
World HJ Champ Maria Lasitskene Named Female Russian Athlete Of The Year Undefeated in 2017, Lasitskene won the award over athletes from all Russian sports.
Video: Chaunte Lowe Finally Receives Her 2008 Olympic HJ Bronze Medal Lowe was in tears as she was awarded the medal at a special ceremony earlier this month.

Merry Christmas!

Screenshot 2017-12-25 at 09.39.51 Pros/College Stars Share Their Christmas Greetings On Social Media Mo Farah, Eliud Kipchoge, Evan Jager, Andre De Grasse, Sally Pearson, Lolo Jones, Jordan Hasay, more.

Ryan Gregson And Genevieve LaCaze Are Engaged!!! A great Xmas gift for the couple.

Great News From Kenya

XMas Spirit Eliud Kipchoge, Marty Keiatny, Sally Kipyego, Matthew Birir Bring Loads Of Presents To Kids In Hospital In Kenya Birir is the 1992 Olympic steeplechase champ ahead of favorite Patrick Sang (now Kipchoge’s coach).

Elijah Manangoi, Faith Kipyegon, Helen Obiri All To Run World Indoors In March

Outside LetsRun Year In Review

US Distance News

February 10: Emma Coburn, Jenny Simpson, Brenda Martinez And Boris Berian Headline At The New Balance Indoor Grand Prix In Boston Coburn and Simpson will go head-to-head in the 3,000.
Tips For Sport And Life From Courtney Frerichs Some interesting facts about Frerichs: she always eats Froot Loops on race day, she ran a 70-mile week on her honeymoon and she and her husband “avoided dating each other” in college because they were teammates.
Video: BYU Athletes Jonathan Harper And Chase Horrocks Run A 3:43 Downhill Mile It was the first “sub-4” for both of them as they have 4:02 PRs.

More 2017 In Review

Runner’s World’s Top 10 Underappreciated Stories Of 2017 Did you miss the guy who had Centro tattooed on his back, the horse who chases runners and outsmarts police, or the guy with surgically created elf ears that runs fast 5Ks with his dog?
Kenyans Dominated Big City Marathons In 2017 Mary Keitany‘s 2:17:01 was definitely the highlight, but USA had a solid year as well with wins at Chicago (Galen Rupp) and NYC (Shalane Flanagan).
Bring Back The Mile’s Best Mile Moments Of 2017
IAAF End Of Year Reviews: Relays Not a highlight, but the biggest relay story of the year might have been Usain Bolt‘s hamstring injury bringing him down in the World 4 x 100 final.
Video: The Best Viral Sports Clips Of 2017 Pro track and field got one clip and there was another from the London Marathon.
IAAF Starting Their 2017 End-Of-Year Reviews *Racewalks
The Most Popular Runner’s World Stories Of 2017

Oscar Pistorius Appeals His Increased Murder Sentence Pistorius’ jail time was increased from 6 to 13 years after an appeal from the prosecution.

Birmingham Officially Named Hosts Of The 2022 Commonwealth Games Birmingham will be the first city in the UK to introduce a hotel tax to cover budget shortfall.

Upcoming Indoor Action

February 3: Asafa Powell Leads Strong Jamaican Contingent For The 2018 Millrose Games Powell will line up in the 60 against World 110H champ Omar McLeod while Natoya Goule is in the 800. The 3,000 has Emma Coburn vs. Aisha Praught Leer.
2018 USATF Indoor Championships Schedule Announced, Tickets Available USA Indoors are February 16-18 in Albuquerque, NM.
February 25: Great 3,000 Set For Glasgow Indoor GP With Paul Chelimo Taking On Conseslus Kipruto And GB’s Andrew Butchart
February 25: UK’s Adam Gemili And CJ Ujah Added To Glasgow Indoor GP 60m Field

Justin Gatlin Scandal 2.0?

Justin Gatlin’s Entourage Caught Up In Undercover Doping Sting, Gatlin Fires Coach Dennis Mitchell The Telegraph from the UK went undercover and said they needed help training an actor to be an athlete in the film. Robert Wagner, an agent who occasionally works with Gatlin, and coach Dennis Mitchell both reportedly said they could get him steroids with the agent also saying Gatlin used them. *Discuss

Gatlin’s Agent Robert Wagner Says He “Played Along” Because He Knew What Was Going On Dennis Mitchell said, “I never suggested in any way that any of my current athletes used any banned substances …”
Justin Gatlin “Shocked And Surprised” At Doping Allegations Against Dennis Mitchell “I am not using and have not used PEDs. … I fired [Mitchell] as soon as I found out about this.”

Mo Farah Shocks Himself And The Bookies

Screenshot 2017-12-17 at 21.15.39 A Stunned 50-To-1 Longshot, Mo Farah, Wins British Sports Personality Of The Year Award Farah had been nominated for the award so many times and somehow only once finished once in the top 3 (he wasn’t even in the top 3 with double Olympic wins last year) that he didn’t attend in person this year and was stunned to win. The live national TV video feed then went out. Video and Farah’s reaction here.

A Four-Time Tour Winner Goes Down?

Four-Time Tour De France Winner Chris Froome Failed Doping Test Froome tested positive for levels of an asthma drug double the allowable limit.
MB: Chris Froome could lose Vuelta a España title after found to have excessive levels of asthma drug
The Independent: What Next For Froome? Will He Be Banned? Has He Been Suspended? What Did He Take?
Froome Hires Top Anti-Doping Lawyer As German Rival Hits Out At UCI “Double Standards”
The Guardian’s View On Chris Froome’s Failed Drug Test Apparently only one of the BBC’s 12 Sports Personality Of The Year finalists (including Mo Farah) doesn’t have doping questions surrounding them.

RIP Joe Newton *Joe Newton Archives

A Legend Has Passed: Joe Newton RIP 1929-2017 Newton’s York high school teams won 28 state XC titles and the first NXN title, but most importantly he shaped thousands of kids lives. *Pay Your Respects Here

Post-Christmas Day News

Mo Farah Targeted With Racist Messages After His “Merry Christmas” Instagram Post Farah is a practicing Muslim and received offensive messages for acknowledging Christmas.
Athletics Weekly: What Did British Track And Field Athletes Do On Their Christmas? Most of the distance runners polled said they would put in the usual one to two easy runs they’d normally have on a Monday.
MB: How far did you run on Christmas?

Russian Scandal Updates

Vitaly Mutko Temporarily (6 Months Or Less) Stands Down As Russian Soccer Union President To Fight Lifetime Olympic Ban Mutko may also resign as head of the organizing committee for next year’s World Cup.
Russian Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov Says He Still Fears For His Life Apparently a US official warned Rodchenkov’s lawyer that Russian agents may be looking for him.

Non-Year End Recap News

Maria Lasitskene Opens Indoor Season With 2.00m In Minsk, Makes Attempts At 2.08 World Record Lasitskene, who is undefeated in 2017, becomes the first over 2.00 in December. Video of jump here.
Meseret Defar To Make Her Marathon Debut In 2018
Nick Willis Going For 1,500/3,000 Double At Commonwealths
Valerie Adams Says Birth Of Her Daughter Kimoana Saved Her From Retirement As She Prepares For Commonwealth Games
Injury-Free Lavillenie Looking Forward To The 2018 Season
British Sprinter James Ellington May Sue Nigel Levine Over Bike Crash Levine is the guy who reportedly tested positive this week, so not a good week for him.
Lengthy Interview With Sonia O’Sullivan: “We’d look over at Szabo and her doctor’s big, black bag, wondering why did she need a doctor?” O’Sullivan competed against a slew of suspected dopers.

Wow

Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials Standards Announced And They’re 2:11 For Men And 2:29 For Women To qualify for the Trials in a non-Japanese qualifying race, you have to run under 2:08:30 or average sub-2:11 in 2 marathons. In the qualifying races, being top 3 Japanese and sub-2:11 is the standard. Unbelievable. *Discuss: Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials Standards Announced 2:11 for Men, 2:29 for Women

Japanese Action: Pauline Kamulu Runs 1:08:04 To Break Sanyo Ladies Half Marathon Course Record As 5 Go Sub-1:10

Scotland’s Favorite New Running Couple

BBC: “Love Blossoms As Lynsey Sharp And Andrew Butchart Launch Scots’ Team Tartan” Butchart and Sharp talk a bit about their relationship as they prepare to represent Scotland at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Things Have Came A Long Way In A Short Time For Scotland’s Andrew Butchart Butchart wasn’t at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and only ran his first 5K in 2014, but now will be looking for a medal at the Gold Coast 2018.
Lynsey Sharp Has High Hopes For The “Second Half” Of Her Career Sharp has made some big changes for the second half with a move from the UK to California and a new sponsorship with adidas.

African Distance News

Paul “Mr. Silver” Tergat Looks Back At When He Was Runner-Up In the 2000 Olympic 10,000 To Haile Gebrselassie “It was hard to accept losing by just 0.09. Maybe if I had competed in the 100m dash rather than the 10,000m it might have been easier to accept.”
Q&A With 10,000m WR Holder Almaz Ayana, Who Gives Some Insights Into Her Training Ayana says she averages around 150km (93 miles) a week.
Edna Kiplagat Still Hungry For More As She Aims To Defend Her Boston Marathon Title

Upcoming Road/XC Racing

January 13: Three-Time Winner Garrett Heath, Chris Derrick, Leonard Korir And Club XC Champ Ian La Mere Lead Team USA For Great Edinburgh XC Challenge The women’s team has Desi Linden, Molly Seidel and Natosha Rogers. Juniors are lead by Foot Locker champs Claudia Lane and Dylan Jacobs.
Yuki Kawauchi Added To 2018 Boston Marathon Elite Field It was also announced that Kawauchi will run the Marshfield Road Runners New Year’s Day Marathon with the goal of breaking the record for most sub-2:20 marathons (he is currently tied at 75 with US’s Doug Kurtis).
December 31: Molly Seidel, Stephanie Bruce And Sarah Pagano Lead Field For NYRR Midnight Run In Central Park Christo Landry leads the men’s race.
January 28: #4 All-Time Japanese Woman Yuka Ando (2:21:36) Leads Field For The Osaka Women’s Marathon
Southern California Fires Affect Numerous Road Races One of the largest wildfires in California history has lead to the cancellation or postponement of many races.

Japanese Road News

Winter Olympic News

What A Joke: Russian “Neutral” Uniforms For 2018 Games Could Be Red And White With “Olympic Athlete From Russia” On It How about blank beige uniforms? Can’t get much more neutral than that.
Russian XC Skier Accused Of Being A “Traitor” For Allegedly Informing On His Teammates He denies that he “slandered” any teammates.
Salt Lake City Set To Bid For 2030 Winter Olympics They last hosted the Games back in 2002.
Denver Considering Bidding For The Winter Olympics (Possibly 2026) Denver was supposed to host the 1976 Games, but withdrew due to financial concerns.
IOC Release Verdicts Against Russian Athletes Including An Olympic Skating Champ That Was Cleared Of Doping

Sunday Road Action

Kenenisa Bekele Wins TSK 25K, But Nowhere Near The WR With 1:13:48 There was talk of the 1:11:18 WR and Bekele said he wanted at least his 1:12:47 PR, but Bekele actually fell off the leaders at one point before coming back to win by a good margin. Ethiopia’s Degitu Azimeraw got an upset 3-second win over 2015 World marathon silver medalist Helah Kiprop.
*MB: Kenenisa Bekele Comes Up Short in Breaking 25k world record
With A Rare Negative Split, Yuki Kawauchi Wins Hofu Yomiuri Marathon In 2:10:03, Tying The Record For Most Career Sub-2:20 Marathons With 75 Misaki Kato dominated the women’s race by 11 minutes with 2:28:12.
Peter Kimeli Some (2:14:49) And Kyrgyzstan’s Viktoria Poliudina (2:33:25) Win Shenzhen Marathon In China

Rupp And Flanagan To Boston 2018

Loaded American Field Set For 2018 Boston Marathon With WMM Winners Galen Rupp And Shalane Flanagan Joined By Jordan Hasay, Desiree Linden, Molly Huddle And Dathan Ritzenhein (link fixed) Rupp and Flanagan will go try to get back-to-back WMM victories. They’re also joined by Abdi Abdirahman, Ryan Vail, Shadrack Biwott, Sara Hall, Kellyn Taylor and Deena Kastor will also race. *Announcement Video
*Flanagan: “My heart ♥️ said … give it one more chance, try again. See everyone in Boston on Patriots Day.”
*MB: Rupp is running boston, scared of running a real marathon
*MB: Flanagan, Hasay, Huddle, and Linden ALL set to race Boston 2018!

Foot Locker High School XC Champs Results Race Replay

LRC Claudia Lane Dominates To Repeat As Champ, Misses Joining Sub-17:00 Club (link fixed) 17:03 for Lane as only 3 women in the last 30 years have ever gone sub-17. She’ll attempt to be first-ever 3-time girl’s champ next year.