December 8, 2018 | LetsRun.com

The 40th Foot Locker XC Is Saturday Watch On Demand Results

MB: Official 2018 Foot Locker XC Discussion Thread

LRC Sydney Masciarelli Arrives As A Star, Outkicking Katelynne Hart In One Of The Greatest Foot Locker Finals Ever What an incredible race. Read all about it here and watch the epic finish as well.
*MB: Wow: Was that the greatest Foot Locker battle in history? Sydney Masciarelli edges Katelynne Hart for the title!!

LRC Cole Hocker (15:13.7) Uses Big Kick To Win 2018 Foot Locker National Title Hocker, who was second at NXN last week, broke away from runner-up Jake Renfree of Tennessee at the 3-mile mark.

**Thursday Night Marathoning *Abu Dhabi Top 10 Results**

MB: Official 1st Ever Abu Dhabi Marathon Discussion Thread

Rojo Speaks Was The Inaugural Abu Dhabi Marathon Course Short? I Think It Was – Update: I Know It Was – Here’s Video Proof The splits make no sense. I’m supposed to believe a 2:06 guy went 62:35-61:29 to run 2:04:04, running a big negative split in 70 degree temps with a 13:55 5k from 30 to 35k? Sorry, I can’t do that.
*MB: Length matters: Here’s why I believe the Abu Dhabi course was short

LRC Marius Kipserem Upsets Half Marathon WR Holder Abraham Kiptum In 2:04:04 At Inaugural Abu Dhabi Marathon, But Was The Course Short? Forty-four years after Muhammad Ali had his Rope a Dope moment in boxing, marathoning had its own version of it as Kipserem sprinted to a $100,000 victory after Kiptum grabbed the lead at the 2:02 mark.

Ababel Yeshaneh Wins Women’s Race In 2:20:16 (Results Only)

Pre-Race LRC One Of The World’s Richest Marathons Is Taking Place Tonight At 9 PM ET – Get The Inside Scoop On The Inaugural Abu Dhabi Marathon Here

European XC Champs Are Sunday In Tilburg *Live Streaming Info

Women’s Preview: Strong Opposition Awaits 2-Time Champ Yasemin Can Can is one of only two women to defend her title. Can she make it a hat trick?
Men’s Preview: Kaan Kigen Ozbilen Vs. Spain’s Adel Mechaal Headlines Star-Studded Field
Former NCAA XC Champ Kate Avery Named GB Euro XC Team Captain Avery is actually a seven-time Euro XC medalist.
FloTrack: Current And Former NCAA Athletes Competing At Euro XC
Live Streaming Info It will be available to stream in the United States, but there is some geo-blocking elsewhere.

USATF Marathon Champs *USATF Results

USATF Champs: Emma Bates Runs 2:28:18 To Win In Her Debut, Virtual Unknown Brogan Austin Comes From Behind To Defeat Matt Llano In 2:12:38 Stephanie Bruce 2nd on women’s side.
*RRW: Brogan Austin, Emma Bates Win USATF Marathon Titles At Cal Int’l Marathon
*Stellar Local Coverage From The Sacramento Bee: “Who were all those runners in the street? Competitors in the California International Marathon.”

*Official 2018 CIM Thread
*EMMA MF BATES
*Is CIM the Vaporfly 4% of Marathons? – ThonQuestion

Pre-Race:

RRW Emma Bates Thinks She Can Win The US Marathon Title On Sunday In Her 26.2 Debut Coached by a UPS driver and living in a house without electricity or water, Emma Bates says victory is the #1 goal.
RRW: His Arteries Repaired, Andrew Colley Is Ready To Run His First Marathon Colley had to have two surgeries on his legs to fix a rare condition which prevents blood flow.
RRW: Recovered From TCS NYC Marathon, Stephanie Bruce Seeks USA Marathon Title In Sacramento

Marathon Sunday: Fukuoka, Valencia

Fukuoka: Yuma Hattori Runs 2:07:27 To Become First Japanese Winner In 14 Years Yemene Tsegaye was 2nd, Yuki Kawauchi 10th (2:12:03). Japan now has 4 men under 2:07, 16 men under 2:10 and the USA has 1 under 2:12.
*Live Fukuoka Thread

Valencia: Leul Gebresilase 2:04:30, Tsegaye Kebede 4th In 2:05:20, Ashete Dido Wins Women’s In 2:21:14 4th fastest ever for Kebede, who used to be the world #1.

GB’s Stephanie Twell Runs Strong 2:30:12 Marathon Debut In Valencia The time makes her second-fastest GB woman this year.
Italy’s World Marathon Silver Medalist Valeeria Straneo Running Her First Marathon In Two-And-A-Half Years This Weekend In Valencia The 42-year-old has the fastest PR in the field (2:23:44), but after dealing with injuries for the last few years, she said she’s just happy to be back on the starting line.

NCAA Cross-Country Banquet Photo Gallery (60+ Photos)

Non-Elite News

Traffic Cameras Catch More Than 250 Runners Cheating At The Shenzhen Half Marathon In China There were 18 runners with fake bibs, three imposters and 237 course cutters. The included gif shows a bunch of runners cutting through trees from one side of the course to the other. The race organizers are banning them all for 2 years. Good on them. *CNN Article
Runner’s World: Interesting Stats From Last Year’s Strava Data Apparently a lot of Strava runners are getting a cold beer afterwards and as always, Thanksgiving was the most active day of the year in the US.

US Distance News

Extensive Q&A With US Olympian John Gregorek Gregorek qualified for the 1980 and 1984 Olympics, but only ran in 1984 because of the 1980 boycott. Gregorek talks about that, his 8-time All-American collegiate career, and his 3:53 miler son, Johnny.
MB: Adam Goucher rips Alberto Salazar and Rupp on Citius Mag Podcast Goucher says Salazar wasn’t actually interested in coaching him and wanted Goucher there as a training partner for Galen Rupp. We’re publishing our Goucher Q&A tomorrow.
MB: Parker Stinson being coached by Dathan Ritzenhein
Martin Hehir Talks Ahead Of His Marathon Debut At CIM About Training As A Pro While Going To Med School Heir is coached by Chris Fox as part of the new Reebok Track Club. Fox says, “We’re all amazed by him. I’ve been around professional runners for the last 30 years. Everyone just naps [between workouts]; Marty goes to med school. He’s a different guy.”

Jamaican News

Daily Mail: Brazil Soccer Legend Ronaldo Seen Hanging Out With Usain Bolt In Madrid Word is top-tier Turkish club Sivasspor is still trying to sign Bolt.
*Usain Bolt Going To Play Soccer In Mexico? There are reports that the team manager, Diego Maradona, wants to sign Bolt.
Olympic And World 110H Champ Omar McLeod Has Joined Florida Training Group With Justin Gatlin
High School In Jamaica Being Renamed After Veronica Campbell-Brown

LetsRun.com (Finally) Goes To Ethiopia

The Final Day In Ethiopia: Kenenisa Bekele’s Bar & Training “Camp” With A Guy Who Beat Gebrselassie At Worlds

Day 3 LRC Day 3 In Ethiopia: Hagos Gebrhiwet Wins, Haile G Dances, And … No Porta-Potties? LRC spent Day 3 at the Great Ethiopian Run, which saw wins for Hagos Gebrhiwet (28:54) & Foten Tesfaye (33:43). Our distinguished author even managed to run the race himself and went to Haile G‘s house afterwards.
*MB: Day #3 in Ethiopia: I broke bread with Haile G, watched him dance, and watched the Dallas Cowboys soar to 5-5 ask me anything

Day 2: MB: Day #2 in Ethiopia: I went to a kids race in Ethiopia…they give out finishers medals… ask me anything

Day 1 LRC LetsRun.com Goes To Ethiopia, Day 1: Arrival In Addis Ababa, Meeting Haile G, & A Run-In With The Ethiopian Military
*MB: LetsRun.com Is Making Its First Trip to Ethiopia. … What Should We Know and What Do You Want to Hear!?!!

More Weekend Action: USATF Club XC Champs Are Today *Live Results

Matt Centrowitz, Dathan Ritzenhein, Garrett Heath, Shadrack Biwott, Ben Blankenship, Hillary Bor, Luke Puskedra And Ryan Vail Lead Men’s Field For USATF Club XC Champs In Spokane, Washington The women’s race is led by Katie Mackey and starts at 3:45PM ET while the men’s is at 4:30PM ET.
*Video Will Be Available On Demand On USATF.TV *Meet Home
2:03:06 Man Moses Mosop Leads Field For The Guangzhou Marathon The former world 10,000 bronze medalist has had some ups and downs the last several years and hasn’t raced since 2016.
MB: Follow Camille Herron’s WR Attemept Herron is running the Desert Solstice 24-hour race, which starts today in Phoenix, AZ.
USATF Preview: Masters Athletes Ready For Cold At The USATF Club Cross-Country Championships
Over 2,900 Youth To Participate In 2018 USATF National Junior Olympic Cross-Country Championships

Previous HS XC News

LRC 2018 Foot Locker Preview: Meet Sydney Masciarelli, The Latest Prep Phenom, & Can Cole Hocker Bounce Back From NXN To Win In San Diego? We introduce you to Sydney Masciarelli, the 5’10” phenom who we think will win the Foot Locker crown in her first season of cross-country running.
*MB: Offiical 2018 Foot Locker XC Discussion Thread – And your 2018 winners will be….

LRC Q&A, Part II: Marc & Joan Hunter Explain Loudoun Valley’s Supplemental Work & Respond To Claims That They Recruit Transfers While the Hunters admit they have benefitted from transfers, they do not recruit and say they have actually talked several families out of transferring into their district.

LRC Q&A, Part I: Marc & Joan Hunter, Coaches Of Back-To-Back NXN Champions Loudoun Valley, Discuss Their Training Philosophy & How To Build A Champion The masterminds behind the boys back-to-back national champs share some of their secrets to the LetsRun nation.
*MB: How to win NXN two years in a row? Joan and Marc Hunter Q & A

The Week That Was

LRC WTW: Valencia Keeps Impressing As A Running City, Sacramento Is Olympic Trials Qualifying Central, And Who Is Running Sub-2:08? America isn’t the one running sub-2:08 (or sub-2:12 for that matter), which makes us wonder should the men’s marathon standard be changed to 2:28.

USATF News

Former World Triple Jump Record Holder And Two-Time Olympian Willie Banks Defeats Stephanie Hightower For Spot As USATF’s IAAF Council Representative Banks defeated Hightower in a 391-217 vote. Banks noted that Hightower made some “missteps” by not campaigning much and accusing Bob Hersh of making “racially charged” comments when she replaced him in 2014.
USATF Q&A With Hall Of Fame Inductee Bob Hersh
*LRC Archives: #WeAreUSATF – It’s time to show them you care -Final Editorial on Bob Hersh-Stephanie Hightower

2018 NXN Results Full Coverage

LRC Girls: Katelyn Tuohy Breaks Course Record As Summit HS (Oregon) Stops Fayetteville-Manlius Win Streak Tuohy was impressive and Summit HS became the first West Coast team ever to win NXN.

LRC Boys: Loudoun Valley Repeats With Lowest Score Ever, Liam Anderson First Under 15:00 It was a record-setting day with a course record (course is only 5 years is old) and LV breaking its score from last year for lowest ever.

DyeStat: Katelyn Tuohy Overcomes Pressure And Nerves To Capture Second Straight NXN Title Tuohy: “I definitely went out way too fast, got pretty excited, and paid for it toward the end. I was more happy with how I finished mentally than with my time.”
DyeStat: Summit Girls Break Through At NXN
*MileSplit: A Recap Of The Historic Girls Race At NXN
DyeStat: Loudoun Valley Becomes First Team To Win Back To Back Boys NXN Titles
DyeStat: Kashon Harrison Repeats As Kristin Fahy Adds To Family Legacy At Foot Locker West Regional Harrison was the first back-to-back boys winner since 1998 while Fahy followed in her brother’s footsteps to become the only sibling winners in meet history.
Runner’s World NXN Recap

MB: Official 2018 NXN Discussion Thread
MB: Tuohy will NOT win NXN
MB: Winning NXN and flying first class
MB: Did Liam Anderson set the NXN course record today?!

Pre-Weekend

Degitu Azmeraw Returning To Defend Her Title At The Kolkata 25K In India On the men’s side, Kenenisa Bekele‘s 1:13:48 India all-comers record is the goal for 58:42 man Eric Kiptanui and Ethiopia’s Birhanu Legese.
A Record Eight Countries Will Compete At The Asia & Oceania 24 Hour Championships In Taipei City
IAAF: Spanish All-Comers’ Records The Goals At Sunday’s Valencia Marathon

Week That Was

LRC WTW: A Plan For King Cheserek, Celliphine Chespol Gets Paid, A Race Director Doesn’t Have To Die In Shame We’ve come up with a brilliant plan for Edward Cheserek to end his winter season at the World XC Champs. Plus some free coaching advice and a 55-year-old is tearing it up on the roads.

Euro XC Champs Are December 9th In The Netherlands

Great Britain Names 40-Strong Team For European XC Champs Team includes Dewi Griffiths, Andy Vernon and former NCAA XC champ Kate Avery.
Can Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa Win His Fifth Successive Individual Medal At Euro XC Champs? Crippa is eligible for the under-23 race and would be the favorite, but has decided to skip ahead and race the top men in the senior race.
Germany Selects Team Of 30 For Euro XC Champs In Tilburg
EA: Spain Selects Strong Senior Men’s Team For Tilburg

Doping / Corruption

Kenya’s Kipyegon Bett Says He Won’t Appeal Doping Decision “Since It Involves A Lot Of Money That I Don’t Have At The Moment” Not to mention he would almost certainly lose considering they have him on an EPO positive and missed tests (some reports say he refused to take a test, others say he missed three out-of-competition tests).
Latvian Athletics President And Former Long Jumper Ineta Radevinca Tests Positive In London 2012 Retests She was 4th place and carried Latvia’s flag at the Closing Ceremony. If her suspension is upheld, she’ll make the third finalist from the 2012 women’s LJ to be retrospectively DQed.
MB: Asbel Kiprop on Living Under Doping Cloud
Leaked Documents Claim FIFA Ethics Judge Blocked Potential McLaren Investigation Into Doping In Russian Soccer It is suspected this was a ploy from FIFA to make sure doping in Russian soccer wasn’t investigated before the World Cup.

Olympic News

Tokyo 2020 Formally Propose Earlier Starting Time For The Marathon To Combat The Heat The marathons were scheduled for 7AM, but now organizers have asked the IAAF to move them to 5:30 or 6AM.
USA Gymnastics Files For Bankruptcy Following Sex Abuse Scandal They claim this will help them “expeditiously resolve” the claims made by sexual abuse victims.
India Submits Letter Of Interest To IOC To Bid For 2032 Olympic Games

News From The IAAF

Eliud Kipchoge And Caterine Ibarguen Named 2018 IAAF World Athletes Of The Year Yeah, if 2:01:39 didn’t do it, we don’t know what would. Armand Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin won male and female rising stars of the year. Joe Vigil won the IAAF coaching achievement of the year.

LRC IAAF Announces Tougher 2019 World Championships Entry Standards – Which Ones Were Changed The Most? The women’s 1,500 mark is now a full second tougher at 4:06.50 and the 10k drops all the way down to 31:50 from 32:15. The men’s 10k is now 27:40.

Budapest Officially Awarded 2023 IAAF World Championships They were the only candidate under the IAAF’s new model which ended bidding and introduced a ~~corruption~~ consultation process.
*MB: 2023 IAAF World Championships awarded to Budapest (Hungary)
WADA And The IOC Could Learn Something From Track And Field: IAAF Upholds Doping Ban On Russian Athletics Federation The ban is in place pending full access to doping data stored in the Moscow lab and financial compensation for the IAAF’s investigations. This is how it should work, you unban them after they fulfill the terms, not before.

Weekend NCAA Coverage

MB: FAST women’s indoor 5k – Ednah Kurgat, Weini Kelati, Sharon Lokedi, Allie Ostrander all run 15:16-15:14!
USTFCCCA Recap: Grand Valley State Men And Women Sweep NCAA DII Cross-Country Championships Individual titles went to Marcela Laguera of CSU Pueblo and Sarah Berger of Grand Valley State, who came out on top in the muddy conditions. *Results

Running With The Buffaloes 20 Years Later

LRC Q&A: Adam Goucher Talks Running With The Buffaloes, His Greatest Running Memories, & The Stress Of Becoming A Whistleblower Against Alberto Salazar & NOP Goucher reveals that he thinks a resolution is looming soon in the Nike Oregon Project doping case. “I think it’s coming very, very soon, but until there is that ultimate resolution, you’re just kind of waiting.”
*MB: Breaking: Adam Goucher says he thinks a resolution to the Salazar/NOP doping investigation is “coming very, very soon”
*MB: If Adam Goucher graduated in 2018, would he get a shoe deal?

LRC Where Are They Now? Catching Up With the Members Of The 1998 University Of Colorado XC Team 20 Years After “Running With The Buffaloes“ We catch up with the key figures from Running With The Buffaloes 20 years later.

LRC Running With The Buffaloes At 20: Author Chris Lear Reflects On The Running Cult Classic In An In-Depth Interview
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*MB: Running with the Buffaloes 20 years later – We catch up with Adam Goucher, Chris Lear and the Buffs

Pro Distance News

MB: Germany’s 3:58 Woman Konstanze Klosterhalfen To NOP? An article translated from German says she’s in Oregon being coached by NOP’s Pete Julian, but technically is “not part of the project.”
Vivian Cheruiyot Looking Forward To Making Her Olympic Marathon Debut At Tokyo 2020 First Cheruiyot will try to defend her London Marathon title and then says she’ll decide if she’ll run World Champs.
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Olympic Marathon Trials 6th Placer Kellyn Taylor Taylor talks about her marathon career and what’s next as well as being a pro athlete and a firefighter.