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.
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 2:12:38Stephanie 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? –
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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.
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 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!?!!
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
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.
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.
LRCBoys: 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.
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.
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.
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
LRC 2018 NXN Boys’ Preview: Loudoun Valley (Va.) Tries To Become First Boys’ Repeat Champs In What Should Be A Tight Race The individual race is hard to predict as well but the top 10 boys in the country are all doing NXN.
LRC 2018 NXN Girls’ Preview: Katelyn Tuohy Eyes Repeat & Will Fayetteville-Manlius Be Beaten For The First Time Since 2013? (Hint: Probably) FM has won 11 of the last 12 girls national HS XC titles, but that streak should end on Saturday in Portland.
*DyeStat: NXN Boys Projections: Loudoun Valley Faces Big Challenge From FM And Great Oak
*DyeStat NXN Girls Projections: Naperville North, Summit, Great Oak Pencil Out As Co-Favorites
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