The Latest Results

• Jacob Kiplimo (26:51), Brigid Kosgei (29:54) And Hellen Obiri (29:59) Are Spectacular At Madrid’s NY’s Eve Race The Silvestre Vallecana’s net elevation loss of 55m (180 ft) feet is worth up to 32 seconds so Kiplimo’s mark won’t be a new WR.
  *MB: San Silvester Kiplimo 26:40 B. Kosgei 29:54
• Ethiopians Tamirat Tola (28:12) And Netsanet Gudeta (15:46) Win Boclassic 10k/5k In Bolzano, Italy Tola won over a strong field that included 7:58 steepler Jarius Birech (2nd place), world 5,000m champ Muktar Edris (4th place) and Zane Robertson (5th place).
• Chemtai Salpeter Breaks Course Record To Win The We Run Rome 10k In 31:46 Italy’s Daniele Meucci won the men’s race in 29:05.
• Julien Wanders Breaks His Own European Road 10k Record With 27:25 In France The old record was 27:32. Gete Alemayehu won the women’s race in a 31:12 CR.
• Bedan Karoki Wins 10k In Kenya In 28:22 – Says His #1 Goal For 2019 Is Tokyo Marathon Crown Steepelchasers Emmanuel Bett (28:23) and Amos Kirui (28:52) were second and third. Chepkemoi Mutai (33:34) won the women’s title by a minute.
• Meijo Breaks Mount Fuji Women’s Ekiden Course Record To Win 2018 National University Women’s Invitational Ekiden Championships 5-time defending champ Ritsumeikan was third.

Administrative News

• Pre’s Trail Nominated To Be A City Of Eugene Historic Landmark In case you are wondering, Pre’s Rock already has the designation.
• Russians Reportedly Discussing With WADA A Date For Moscow Lab Visit We say ban them if it doesn’t happen by year end – the deadline is December 31st – as Russia refused to let the WADA inspectors in last week.
• Russia Insists It’s Trying To Work With WADA And Says Video Plea Made By RUSADA Head Was Waste Of Time As He Doesn’t Know What’s Going On
• RUSADA Head Says Russia Is Playing A Dangerous Game By Missing WADA’s December 31st Deadline We think he’s putting his life in jeopardy by speaking out.
• European Athletics Head Svein Arne Hansen Thinks The Europeans Are Winning The War On Doping “We still have some bad apples but I have a feeling we’re a much, much cleaner sport – at least in my part of the world, in Europe, than we’ve ever been before.”

News From The UK

• BBC: Russia Will Miss End-Of-Year WADA Deadline
• Jake Wightman Has Sacral Strees Fracture – Will Miss European Indoors On Home Soil In Glasgow
• 7:42 British 3ker Nick Goolab Is Back On Track Thanks To A Life Coach After A 2-Month Retirement
• Alex Yee Clocks Second-Quickest Ever Parkrun At 13:57
• Jake Wightman Says His Favorite Athletics Moment Of 2018 Wasn’t Medaling At Euros Or CGs But Rather Eliud Kipchoge’s WR
• Sean Ingle’s Prediction For 2019 He says whatever CAS decides about Caster Semenya is going to piss someone off and also predicts that Russia won’t be banned by WADA.

Non-Distance Stuff

• Sandi Morris Went Viral In Germany Due To Controversy Over Billboard Photo Showing Her From Behind People accused meet promoters of sexism, but Morris actually defended the photo, saying she didn’t think it was sexist.
• Wayde Van Niekerk Making Return From Injury/Surgery During The European Outdoor Season
• IAAF: After Solid 2018 Campaign, Fred Kerley Ready To Take The Next Step As Doha 2019 Approaches Kerley talks about how a broken collarbone playing football steered him away from football/basketball and more towards track.
• Recommended Read: Shot Put Queen Valerie Adams Talks About Motherhood And The Difficulty She And Her Husband Had Trying To Conceive Adams says her daughter has shown her that “life is bigger than sports.”
• Allyson Felix Says She Was Initially Hesitant To Announce Her Pregnancy Because She Felt Pressure Trying To Live Up To Her “Pristine Nice Girl Image” “Having a child felt like I’d be risking my career and disappointing everyone who expected me to always put running first.”
• China’s World Shot Put Champ Gong Lijiao Shares The Highs And Lows Of Her Career

More Year In Review

• Eliud Kipchoge Is Track And Field News’ Men’s Athlete Of The Year
  *Noah Lyles Is T&F News’ US Men’s Athlete Of The Year
• Caster Semenya Is T&F News’ Women’s Athlete Of The Year They chose Shelby Houlihan as the US women’s athlete of the year.
• Runner’s World’s “Most Mind-Blowing Race Moments Of 2018” Eliud Kipchoge and Des Linden top their list.
• Eliud Kipchoge’s 2:01:39 Is T&F News’ Men’s Performance Of The Year
  *Beatrice Chepkoech’s 8:44.32 Steeple WR Gets T&F News’ Women’s Performance Of The Year
• European Athletics’ 2018 Season In Review A To Z (Part One)

Japanese News

• Japanese Running News 2018 Review: A Pretty Good Year For Japanese Men
  *JRN: “One Of The Best In History For Japanese Women Too”
• List Of All Yuki Kawauchi 2018 Race Results 39 results in 2018. Crazy.
• Kamimura Gakuen Girls Win First-Ever National High School Ekiden Title, Kurashiki Boys Make It Two
• Honami Maeda (69:12) Wins Sanyo Ladies Road Race
• Jan. 27th: Field For Osaka Women’s Marathon Released Led By Kayoko Fukushi (2:22:17).
• Tokyo 2020 Inundated With Volunteer Applications With More Than Double Their Target Amount Of Recruits They ended up with over 180,000 even though they only needed 80,000.
• Sorry, Can’t Use Your Drone To Watch The Olympics: Japanese Government Announce Ban On Drones Near Tokyo 2020 Venues Apparently 1,000 flights in Japan were delayed or cancelled due to drone sightings near the airport.

Assorted Distance News

• Good Read: How Did This Not Win IAAF Photo Of The Year? Patrick Sang Tells The Story Behind The Photo Of Him And Eliud Kipchoge Embracing After The 2:01:39 WR Sang, Kipchoge’s lifelong coach, says he didn’t sleep well for three days before the Berlin race as he worried if he had done right by Kipchoge.
• Former 800m World Silver Medalist Adam Kszczot On Why He Loves Running “I love running because it gives me a sense of freedom. That feeling of freedom ranks high on my list of priorities in life.”
• Nick Willis Runs 13:55 FTW At Night Of 5’s Meet In New Zealand
• Ryan Bolton to Join USA Triathlon High Performance Staff as Technical Advisor Bolton coached Caroline Rotich to her 2015 Boston Marathon win.
• Jan. 19: Kenya’s Olympic 10,000 Silver Medalist Paul Tanui And World Half Bronze Medalist Pauline Kamulu Lead Fields For The IAAF Northern Ireland XC Permit Meeting Former NCAA champ Kate Avery is also in the women’s race.
• Missed Result: Morocco’s Mohammed Ziani (2:10:44) And Ethiopia’s Tigist Girma (2:26:44) Win Guangzhou Marathon In China Pre-race favorite Moses Mosop was a DNS.

The Best Of 2018

• Michael Norman Wins The 2018 Men’s Bowerman Award Norman’s year was full of super-fast 400s as he broke the world indoor 400m record (44.52) and had the second-fastest 4 x 400 relay carry in history (43.06), plus the collegiate outdoor record with 43.61 to win NCAAs.
• Keturah Orji Wins The 2018 Women’s Bowerman Award Orji was the only three-time female finalist in the history of the award, but she finally won it this year after a season where she scored 38 points between indoor and outdoor NCAAs (winning two TJ titles and the outdoor LJ).
• Bring Back The Mile’s Best Mile Moments Of 2018 Ed Cheserek‘s 3:49.44 was definitely one of the highlights of the year at any distance.
• Mary Keitany Wins NYRR Pro Performer Of The Year Award Keitany now has four NYC Marathon titles to her name. Other finalists she beat out for the award included Jenny Simpson and Ben True, though they were both beaten out by two wheelchair racers in the voting.

Floyd Landis Big Talk Part II

LRC Floyd Landis On Life After Cycling, Runners Vs. Cyclists, CBD Products, Running A Business, And Donald Trump Landis shares some of the secrets he’s learned from his crazy life in part 2 of our recap of our talk with him. From a Mennonite upbringing, to crossing the line at the Tour first, to a doping suspension, denial, depression, and now fatherhood and a successful new business, Floyd has seen a lot.

Miss Part I? Part 1: Is There Any Hope For Anti-Doping? Floyd Talks Doping Then, Now And What Can Be Done Landis is one of the most notorious dopers in American sport, and the man who helped bring out the truth about Lance Armstrong. He’s got a lot of interesting things to say.