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Quote Of The Day

“We were good to go and expected to get the invite but it didn’t happen. … For four of those guys to be added in the men’s 1,500m is pretty unusual to be honest. Normally what they call the ‘universality athletes’ tend to be in the 100m because they’re reasonably close in terms of the distance and time. The further you go they’re more likely to get dropped off. So in a field of 45 to have four athletes who are probably going to be five to 10 seconds slower than the actual qualified athletes is pretty massive and I don’t think that’s a good look but we’ll just have to have those discussions. … I’m pretty disappointed in how they’ve run the process. … We had to break the news [to Nick Willis] and in fact the IAAF wouldn’t had even informed us had we not contacted them. We’ve had a number of emails suggesting they need to change their process because we’re not happy.”

– Athletics New Zealand high performance director Scott Goodman explaining how and why they found out at the last minute from the IAAF that Nick Willis wasn’t qualified for Worlds in the 1,500m.

Our Annual Top 10 NCAA XC Countdown

LRC 2019 NCAA Men’s XC Season Preview: Men’s Teams #10 Oklahoma State Through #6 Notre Dame We begin our 2019 NCAA XC countdown by unveiling the back half of the LRC top 10 which includes some big names – #10 Ok State, #9 Portland,#8 Colorado, #7 Oregon, #6 Notre Dame.

LRC 2019 NCAA Women’s XC Preview: #10 Michigan State Through #6 Washington In between those two we have #9 Oregon, #8 Michigan and #7 Stanford.
*MB: My gooodness. When did the NCAA start letting teams take pre-season altitude trips?

Week That Was

LRC Weekly Recap: Geoffrey Kamworor Gets His World Record (And Emotional), Woody Kincaid, USA Vs. Kenya Vs. Ethiopia Kamworor ran fast, Jordan Hasay didn’t. Shannon Osika and Elise Cranny keep improving and, yes, Woody MF Kincaid.

World Champs Start A Week From Friday

LRCTeam LRC’s Kelsey Bruce Tells Us How She’s Preparing For The World Championships MarathonAfter running for Team LRC at World XC in March, Kelsey Bruce earned her way onto Team USA for the World Championships in Doha. Read what she’s been up to.

Sprint & Field News

South Africa 100m National Record Holder Carina Horn Suspended After Testing Positive For Steroid-Like Substance Her NR is 10.98 and she’s run 11.01 this year.
T&F News Names Matthew Boling As Their High School Boys Athlete Of The Year
IAAF Inside Athletics Interview With Qatari 400m Hurdler Abderrahman Samba Ahead Of Doha 2019 Samba: “I don’t feel pressure because it will be my home.”
IAAF Profile:Grenada’s Pan Am And NCAA Javelin Champ Anderson Peters Got His Start Throwing Rocks At Mango Trees
Last Week: Poland’s Konrad Bukowiecki Throws 21.99m Shot Put In Karpacz
Dalilah Muhammad’s 52.20 World 400H Record Ratified By The IAAF So was Brittany Anderson’s 12.79 world U20 100H record.

Kenyan News: Kamworor Takes Down The WR

MB:World 1,500m Champ Elijah Manangoi Will Not Defend His Title In Doha Due To An Ankle Injury The timing of the announcement is surprising as when his brother made the team a few days ago he said, “We really thank God because going to the World Championships as two brothers is a great achievement for our family.”

Geoffrey Kamworor Breaks Half Marathon World Record With 58:01 In CopenhagenKamworor ran splits of 13:53 (5k), 27:34 (10k), 41:05 (15k) and 55:00 (20k) to break the record by 17 seconds. Five other men finished inside 60 minutes with Bernard Kipkorir taking second in 59:16. 2018 Tokyo Marathon champ Birhane Dibaba won the women’s race in 65:57 to beat out Evaline Chirchir (66:22). *Discuss

Kenyan Trials *Results

IAAF Recap Of 2019 Kenyan Trails World Junior silver medalist Ng’eno Kipng’etich surprisingly won the 800 over Emmanuel Korir.
Does Track Have A Popularity Problem Even In Kenya?Classy Fields But Empty Terraces At The Kenyan Trials Elias Makori writes, “A world class field, brilliant weather, free stadium and high adrenaline action. But the terraces at the Nyayo National Stadium still remained largely empty …”
Citizentv.co.ke Recap Young guns earn Kenya tickets for Doha Worlds.
*MB: Did a 19-year old threat just arrive for Ajee Wilson in Kenya’s Jackline Wambui?
Tearful Pre-Race Pep Talk By Elijam Manang’oi Motivates Younger Brother George Manang’oi To Qualify For Worlds In 1,500Timothy Cheruiyot crushed the field.
Top Two In Kenyan Trials 5,000 Await To See If They Can Go To Worlds As They Haven’t Taken Enough Drug Tests Neither of them has broken 13:10 for 5,000. The winner of the Trials was a total unknown guy best known for serving as the Monaco 1,500 rabbit earlier this year.
Steeplechase Women Cross Line Holding Hands At Kenyan Trials In “Sign Of Unity”Beatrice Chepkoech, Hyvin Kiyeng and Celliphine Chespol were timed at 9:45.15, 9:45.20 and 9:45.24 respectively.
*Hyvin Kiyeng:“I think we will … probably sweep the medals … we cannot allow the title to go back to America.”
Emmanuel Korir Wins 800m Semi To Advance To The Final While Michael Saruni Misses Out Korir won his heat in 1:46.6. Saruni struggled in his semi, only finishing 5th (1:47.2).
Michael Kibet Gets Surprise 5,000m Win At Kenyan World Champs Trials Kibet ran 13:26.83 to win over Kenyan national champ Daniel Simiyu (13:27.95).
*2nd Article Some top names that finished outside the top 3 included Olympic 10,000 silver medalist Paul Tanui and former world indoor champ Caleb Ndiku.
Nicholas Chirchir Hoping To Reclaim Kenya’s World 400H Title In Doha The late Nicholas Bett made history as the first Kenyan to win a sprint Worlds title in 2015. Chirchir is the only Kenyan qualified in the 400H.

News From The Caribbean

Bahamas Association President Says They Are In Jeopardy Of Not Sending A Team To Worlds Due To Lack Of Funds They say they proposed a budget of $116,000, but were only granted $25,000 by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.
Veronica Campbell-Brown’s Statue To Be Unveiled On October 20th In Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago Team Named For Doha 2019 World 200m bronze medalist Jareem Richards, 2012 Olympic javelin champ Keshorn Walcott and former world 100m bronze medalist Kelly-Ann Baptiste lead the squad.

Countries Start To Name Their Teams For Doha

Briana Williams Named To Jamaican World Team Despite Still Being Provisionally Suspended In Doping Case Her trial is set for September 23-25, so will end just two days before the start of Worlds. JAAA head Warren Blake said, “The window is really very tight, but we firmly believe in the principle of innocent until proven guilty …” But we wonder if they’d be this accommodating for a less high profile athlete? *2nd Article
Sprint Stars Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson And Omar McLeod Lead Jamaica’s Team For Doha
Ethiopia Select Team Of 37 For World Champs Muktar Edris will try to defend in the 5000, Yomif Kejelcha and Almaz Ayana in the 10,000s, Genzebe Dibaba in the 1,500, Hagos Gebrihwet and Selemon Barega are listed in both the 5k and 10k.
Long Jumper Jazmin Sawyers And Sprinter Imani-lara Lansiquot Added To GB’s World Champs Squad Lansiquot got in thanks to Dina Asher-Smith getting an auto spot by winning the Diamond League final.
Japan Announces Doha World Championship Team Yuki Kawauchi is in the marathon squad.
Australia Names Team Of 57 Athletes For Doha 2019

The US All-Time 5,000m List Has 3 New Additions

LRC RecapWoody Kincaid Burns Up Nike’s Famed Wooded Track With 12:58 PR For 5,00013:00 for Lopez, 13:01 for Centro. What a run by the Bowerman crew.

Thread:Woody Kincaid 12:58, Lopez Lomong 13:00, Matthew Centrowitz 13:00 at Nike Track in Beaverton
*MB:The next American sub-13:00 5k runner is……..Woody Kincaid???

Ken Goe’s Recap:“Woody Kincaid, Lopez Lomong And Matthew Centrowitz Get The Olympic 5k Standard On A Surreal Night”

An LRC Exclusive

LRCHow Does The Whereabouts System Work For A Professional Athlete? We Asked Jenny Simpson To Explain It Simpson explains everything she has to do to file her whereabouts information and doesn’t believe it’s that much of a burden: “If you miss three tests, it’s either because you’re cheating or because you’re an idiot.”
*MB: Jenny Simpson’s account of how testing works is troubling

More Colorado News Denver Post‘s John Meyer Looks At How Runners And Cyclists Are Increasingly Fighting On The Colorado Trails

Some Big Names Won’t Be In Doha

MB:Genzebe Dibaba Will Miss Worlds Due To Plantar Fascia Issues A statement from her managing company said she had plantar fascitis and a partial rupture which occurred during the Zurich DL meet.
MB: Nick Willis Misses World Championships By One Spot Due To Four “Gift Athletes” Willis didn’t have the standard, but expected to get in based on his position on the descending order list. However, four “universality athletes” (wild card athletes who get in because their country doesn’t have an athlete qualified in any event) ended up getting in ahead of him in the 1,500.
Kenyan Trials Winner Jackline Wambui (1:58.79) Withdraws From Kenya’s World Team At The Last Minute Article also mentions that it is unclear what will happen with the men’s 5,000m squad as AK is waiting for a response from the AIU on two athletes who weren’t drug tested enough.
*Update: Jackline Wambui out of Worlds after refusing to take testosterone level test The same goes for Linda Kageha who was on Kenya’s mixed 4×400 team.
MB: Nick Willis isn’t only one being screwed over by the IAAF and slow runners – Mark English also won’t be going to Worlds

More Pre-Worlds News

Potential Big Payday Awaits Athletes In Doha Over $7.5 million in prize money will be available with the winner of each event getting $60,000 (plus an extra $100,000 for a world record).
Weakened South African Team Named For World Champs The team is lead by defending LJ world champ Luvo Manyonga, but will be missing some of their big stars like Wayde van Niekerk (injury), Caster Semenya (testosterone rules) and 100m NR holder Carina Horn (doping).
Richard Kilty Voted GB Team Captain For Doha
29 Russians Will Compete In Doha As Neutral Athletes Defending champ Mariya Lasitskene is the favorite in the HJ and there are other medal contenders including 2015 world 110H champ Sergei Shubenkov.
Allyson Felix Named Part Of US 4 X 400 Relay Pool Felix won’t compete in an individual race as she was only 6th in the 400m at USAs.

Best Track And Field Podcast GUARANTEED

LRC Geoffery Kamworor World Record, Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials, Kipchoge Vs. Kamworor Fantasy Race, Training Tip And Term Of Week: Glowing Geoffery Kamworor got his world record and we break it down plus a lot more. Subscribe today on itunes.

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Olympic News

Registration Is Now Open For The 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials Obviously, for anyone who has the standard. Registration closes January 22, 2020. List of entries is here.
Thomas Bach Confident Of A Future Olympics Bid From Germany Despite Referendum Defeats In Munich And Hamburg “But these referendums, I believe, especially in Hamburg, have taken place under very specific circumstances and are not, I think, a statement really about the Germans on the subject of Olympic Games.”
Queensland, Australia Potentially Bidding For 2032 Games
Budapest Rules Out Bid For 2032 Olympics

More Weekend Action

Top 10 Results:Former Boston Champ Caroline Rotich (70:59) And Eritrea’s Daniel Mesfun (62:58) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Philadelphia Half MarathonBecky Wade was 2nd in 72:12 as Jordan Hasay ran 72:35 for 4th. Abdi Abdirahman was 3rd on the men’s side (63:32).
*MB:Jordan hasay 72:35 3rd in Philadelphia half
Cam Levins DNFs At Rock ‘N’ Roll Philly Levins said he “had an atrocious couple of nights sleep” leading up to the race and felt like he was “running in a haze.” He still feels good about his fitness ahead of next month’s Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
Felix Kiprotich (2:09:49) And Stellah Barosio (2:24:33) Break Course Records At The Sydney Marathon Barsosio ran the fastest time on Australian soil since the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
GB’s Sara Tunstall And Eritrea’s Petro Mamu Win Drei Zinnen Alpine Run Mountan Race In Italy

Vin Lananna Is Back

LRC Vin Lananna Speaks To LRC: On Why He Took The Virginia Job, Building Programs, & Winning NCAA XC With 3 Scholarships At Stanford Lananna says his goal is for UVA to be contending for national titles within 5 years and that he plans to be very hands-on when it comes to coaching: “I am gonna be the coach. I didn’t go here to be the administrator.”

Doping News

Trinidad And Tobago’s Commonwealth 100m Champ Michelle-Lee Ahye Provisionally Suspended For “Whereabouts Failures”
Michelle-Lee Ahye On Social Media:“Been taking a lot of L’s this year ??‍♀️?but that’s ok imma bounce back. I’m still living my best life tho ?” Ahye has been defensive on her twitter account. Also, she missed her last chance to compete (3 days before the suspension) because the airlines lost her luggage.
Caster Semenya Officially Being Upgraded To 2011 World 800m Gold After The Disqualification Of Mariya Savinova Also announced, South African javelin thrower Sunette Viljoen was upgraded to silver after the DQ of another Russian doper.
*AP: Caster Semenya To Finally Get Her Gold Medal From 2011 Worlds However, Semenya won’t attend the IAAF’s medal reallocation ceremony at Doha 2019 and instead will receive it from Athletics South Africa at a later date.
Two Of Russia’s Former Olympic Gold Medalists Had Their Neutral Athlete Status Rejected By The IAAF Those are dopers Anna Chicherova (HJ) and Elena Lashmanova (racewalk) who both have previous suspensions. Other past dopers including Olympic 800m bronze winner Ekaterina Poistogova were also rejected.
IAAF Approves The Application Of Russian Middle Distance Runner Yekaterina Ivonina To Compete As A Neutral Athlete

Weekly Podcast Is Out

LRC Podcast: Woody Kincaid Runs 12:58, Vin Lananna Is Back, Alberto Vs. Jerry, Japanese Marathon Trials, Noah Lyles “Issue” In Brussels Subscribe today on your favorite podcast player or listen above.

Rudisha Making News Off the Track

LRC David Rudisha’s Strange Summer Continues The bizarre summer of 2019 for the world record holder in the 800 continues. There has been some personal drama with his wife, a very serious car crash, and now a strange social media post.
*MB: David Rudisha’s instagram post

More Kenyan Distance News:

Recommended Read:IAAF Profile On Timothy Cheruiyot Who Is Looking To Break His Streak Of Championship Silvers At Doha 2019 Cheruiyot’s coach Bernard Ouma says that the difference between Cheruiyot and training partner Elijah Manang’oi is that “Elijah is more of a talent-dominant athlete while Tim is sheer hard work and some percentage of talent.”
October 27:40+ Star Mark Kiptoo Will Headline At The Frankfurt Marathon

Running Training 101

LRC Running 101: Six Keys To Becoming A Better Runner The basics of running explained with a high schooler in mind from Wejo.
*Discussion Thread

Non-Track News

Nike’s “Dream Crazy” Colin Kaepernick Ad Wins An Emmy The ad was named outstanding commercial at the Creative Arts Emmys.
Random Stat: How Much Do Tennis Players Run Per Match? On the high end, the study found David Ferrer ran around 10k during the 2015 Australian Open, while on the low end, Novak Djokovic ran only around half as much. Another analysis from the 2014 US Open saw that Caroline Wozniacki ran twice as far as Serena Williams (9.7k compared to 4.5k).

1 Rumor Turns Out To Be True

LRC Dathan Ritzenhein Withdraws From 2019 Chicago Marathon Chronic foot issues led to flare-ups in other areas, which caused the 36-year-old to withdraw ahead of the race on October 13. He still plans on racing the Olympic Trials in February.

New Balance 5th Avenue Mile Photos By Joe Hale (Click For Gallery With 362 Photos)

Assorted Distance News

Eliud Kipchoge Thinks Geoffrey Kamworor Can Break His Marathon World Record When asked about it Kipchoge said, “Absolutely! He is the man and everything is possible if we continue to embrace great planning, preparations, camaraderie, management and coaches.”
Podcast Interview With Parker Stinson Carrie Tollefson talks to Stinson about his buildup for next month’s Chicago Marathon, the Olympic Trials and what it’s like having Dathan Ritzenhein for a coach.
BBC Video:Jakob Ingebrigsten And His Family Talk About Their Sibling Rivalry Oldest brother Henrik Ingebrigsten says Jakob is “super focused and selfish, but in a good way.”
October 20:Ethiopia’s Former Dubai/Boston Champ Lemi Berhanu Hayle (2:04:33 PR) Gunning For The 2:06:52 Course Record At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Hayle will battle the clock as well as the current CR holder Philemon Rono and last year’s winner Benson Kipruto.

More Worlds News

Eight Defending Champions On USA’s Team For World ChampsTori Bowie, Kori Carter, Emma Coburn, Phyllis Francis, Justin Gatlin, Sam Kendricks, Brittney Reese and Christian Taylor return to defend their titles. *USATF Release
Japan Selects Team Of 55 For Doha WorldsYuki Kawauchi is in the marathon and three of the four sprinters who earned 4 x 100 bronze in 2017 are back, including Hakim Sani Brown.
Brazil Sending Team Of 43 To Doha
Germany Selects 71 Athletes For World ChampsKonstanze Klosterhalfen (1,500m) highlights the distance team.
Field Event Stars Lead Poland’s Team Of 44 For World Champs Their throwers are the ones favored to win medals, but they’ll also have two-time defending world silver medalist Adam Kszczot in the 800m.

The Japanese Marathon Grand Championship *Results

LRCShogo Nakamura Wins WILD And THRILLING Japanese Olympic Marathon Trials As Honami Maeda Crushes Women’s Field We expected the first Marathon Grand Championship to be the most dramatic marathon of the year and the men’s race more than lived up to the hype as it had an incredible blowup, an incredible finish and much more.
*MB: The Most Dramatic Marathon of The Year is Saturday – Official 2019 Japanese Marathon Grand Championship Discussion Thread
*IAAF Recap

World Champs Start September 27th

IAAF Will Use “Ground-Breaking Technology” For The 2019 World Champs Broadcast Their release says that they have “an array of new cameras that will provide innovative angles on the competition and behind-the-scenes pictures that have never been shown to the audience before.” For example, there will be cameras in the starting blocks.
Former Olympic PV Champ Yelena Isinbayeva Hopes RusAF Suspension Can Be Lifted Before World Champs With reports of banned coaches still working with athletes and allegations that RusAF forged paperwork to help HJer Danil Lysenko avoid a ban, it’s not likely that Russia will be unbanned in the next two weeks.
IAAF: State Of The Art Mondotrack Ready To Welcome Athletes At Doha 2019 Includes a cool time lapse video of the track being installed at the Khalifa Stadium.
The IAAF Look Back At Five World Records Set At The World ChampionshipsUsain Bolt‘s 9.58 and 19.19 at Berlin 2009 is definitely one of the most memorable world champs performances.
The IAAF Looks Back At Five Home Winners At The World Championships Japan’s Hiromi Taniguchi actually won the marathon when Tokyo hosted in 1991.
400 Hurdler Thomas Barr Highlights Provisional Irish World Team Only five who had the standards have been announced so far, but others who were close should also get in.

Hayward Field Construction Updates

The Oregonian: The New Hayward Field Is Taking Shape And It Will Be ImposingKen Goe writes that “UO track athletes will have virtually every need contained within the stadium including “meeting rooms, treatment rooms, locker rooms, an athletes’ lounge, an amphitheater and even a barber shop.”
Register-Guard: Robert Johnson Beams Over New Hayward Field Facility Johnson says he can’t wait to get the “Hayward Field magic” back. “I’ve been on the recruiting trail talking to kids about that Hayward magic and it dawned on me that we haven’t had a track meet here in two years …”
Critics Of The New Hayward Field Say It Overpowers The Surrounding Neighborhood And Campus Buildings

Christian Coleman Talks And We Listen

LRC Christian Coleman Releases YouTube Video About Whereabouts Failures, Criticizes USADA & Media, Says He Has Never Failed A Test “And Never Will” Coleman ripped USADA, which he accused of trying to land a “big fish” and says the whole episode cost him at least $150,000 in earnings.
*MB: Robert Johnson is an unprofessional, irresponsible hack and an idiot … and I have no problem tell him to his face
*MB: World’s fastest man Christian Coleman faces potential whereabouts failure ban for 3 missed drug tests

Big Collegiate News

LRC The Race For The Ages That No One Knows About: The US (NAU) And Japanese Collegiate Champs (Tokai) Just Raced Each Other In Cross-Country Last Weekend. Here’s What Happened. And the narrow 25-to-30 victory went to …
*MB: Just saw GREATEST Intl’ collegiate men’s XC race ever?

The Oregonian: Vin Lananna Opens Up About Leaving Oregon To Become Track Coach At The University Of Virginia Lananna says that he has realized he has missed coaching and working directly with athletes, but says he has no intention of resigning his USATF presidency.

MB: Vin Lananna Hired as Director of T&F/XC at University of Virginia

Better Running Shoes

LRC Top 10 Most Comfortable Running Shoes As Rated By You We got over 1,500+ shoe reviews last month and decided to do something with them. People rate shoes different ways but when we ask them what they want they often say “comfort.”