Manchester Road Race *Top Results

RRW The King is Back! Edward Cheserek Destroys Paul Chelimo, Breaks Manchester Course Record On the women’s side, Celliphine Chespol won over Buze Diriba and Emily Sisson. *Hartford Courant article
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MB: New Provisional IAAF World Rankings Are Up These are provisional rankings with the official ones coming in January. In the future they will be used to qualify athletes for Worlds, but won’t be used in 2019.

Sprint Stuff

• Usain Bolt Says He’ll Decide By The End Of The Month Whether Or Not He’ll Continue To Pursue Soccer “I’ve got a lot of offers from a lot of other clubs out there. We’ll make a decision before the end of November if I’m going to go to another club or call it actually quits.”
• Recommended Read:GB Sprinter Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Gives Some Insight Into The Mental Side Of Being A Pro And The Mind Games He Used To Subject Himself To “It got to the point that strange superstitions took over: I can’t wear these boxers anymore, I have to wear the ones I used when I was running well, I have to go back to using that toothpaste, not this one. It was crazy.”
• Natasha Hastings Writes About Working To Help Young Girls Stay In Sports Longer “The drop-out rate in sports among teenage girls is scary. Especially because there are studies that show that girls who are involved in sports are less likely to become pregnant, they are less likely to become obese …”
• Jumps: Indiana Triple Jumper Arpinder Singh Tells How His Father Mortgaged The Family Land To Fund Singh’s Athletics Dreams Then when Singh won bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games he was able to pay off his father’s investment.

GB Distance News

• Athletics Weekly:Mo Farah Not Shying Away From Racing Eliud Kipchoge Farah is all for facing Kipchoge at the London Marathon and says, “I I feel like I can beat him at some point. I don’t know when it will be yet.”
  *Mo Farah Still Not Ruling Down A Return To The 10,000 For 2019 Worlds Or Even Tokyo 2020
• Scottish Athletics Is Considering Breaking Away From Great Britain At European Events They already do this at the Commonwealth Games, but at everything else compete for GB.
• GB’s Olympic 5,000 6th Placer Andrew Butchart Targeting European Indoor Gold In March After Recovering From Broken Foot “There’s not many people that can challenge me at 3,000m indoors, in Europe anyway. So a medal should be pretty comfortable, but the win is what I want and what I will be going for.”
• Seb Coe Hails Laura Muir’s “Mental Strength” After 2018 Glory Coe was full of praise for Muir, whom the IAAF ranked the top 1,500 woman in the world this year for winning Euro gold and the Diamond League final.

News From The British Media

• Mo Farah To Run The 2019 London Marathon Farah won in Chicago, but a win in London would be at another level.
• Michael Johnson Says He’s Nearly “Back To Normal” After Suffering A Stroke In September Two days after his stroke, Johnson couldn’t walk and it took the former WR holder 15 minutes to cover 200m.
  *BBC Article  “I told my wife I was confident of making a full recovery and not only will I do that, I will do it faster than anybody else has done before.”
• GB’s Steph Twell Says She Was Inspired To Make Her Marathon Debut By Callum Hawkins And Aly Dixon Hawkins has had a lot of success since stepping up with a 2:10:17 PR and finishing 9th at the Olympics, 4th at Worlds.
• British Masters XC Champs Recap

 2018 NCAA XC *D1 Results *D3 Results

Men LRC Morgan McDonald Gets His Storybook Ending As NAU Men 3-Peat At 2018 NCAA XC Champs McDonald redshirted last year to do what he did today: win the 2018 NCAA title on his home course. NAU became the first team to three-peat since Arkansas from 1998-2000.

Women LRC MAGS-NIFICENT: Dani Jones Leads Colorado Women To Dominant Win At 2018 NCAA Cross-Country Championships The Colorado women hadn’t been on top of the winner’s circle at the NCAA XC champs in 14 years but their drought was broken in style on Saturday as they won both the team and individual titles.

NCAA XC On The Boards

• Official 2018 NCAA XC Discussion Thread
• Dani Jones – NCAA Division I XC Champ 2018
• Morgan McDonald NCAA XC Champion 2018 
• M. Wetmore interview GOAT
• Grant Fisher’s Career: Disappointment?
• Can the 2019 Lumberjacks 4-peat?
• NCAA XC 2017 favourite is………another Australian 
• Who will win the women’s team title at 2018 NCAA XC – UNM, Oregon, Colorado, Boise State, or Arkansas?

D3: Paige Lawler Wins And Leads #2 Wash U To 1-Point Win Over #1 Johns Hopkins, 98 To 99
*Dhruvil Patel Wins And Leads North Central To Title