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Quote Of The Day

“It’s really cool to see some records being broken, but you have to put them into perspective. It’s a little frustrating to see people from the past being bumped off lists [because] they didn’t have access to [certain shoes]. From the history and the historical point of view, we just have to educate people and make sure that [they know] something different is happening right now. It’s also frustrating that someone can have an amazing race and we go, ‘What are they wearing?’ It’s not just the athlete anymore. It’s not just the conditions. It’s what shoes are they in. It adds an element that we have to consider afterward. There’s just a lot of questions right now. …It is an arms race and it should be a footrace. We should find out who the best athlete is and who can cover 26.2 better than the other person – not who has the newest or greatest technology.”

– Des Linden talking about her issues with the Nike Vaporflys.

2019 NCAA XC Conference Mania *All Results

MB: Conference Championships weekend

Pac-12: Colorado men win it (again) as #2 Stanford women DESTROY #3 Washington 27 to 55 The Colorado men came in tied for #3 in the country with Stanford but they won easily as Stanford was only third. Colorado was led by individual champ Joe Klecker as Thomas Ratcliffe was only 6th. The #2 Stanford women CRUSHED it beating #3 Washington, 27 to 55 as Fiona O’Keeffe got the individual win.

ACC:Syracuse men are back baby!! 6th-highest ranked team in ACCs win team title, NC State women win as well The Orange were only ranked 28th coming in but they got the win over #20 Notre Dame, #21 Florida St, #23 NC State, #24 UVA and #26 Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech’s Peter Seufer repeated for the men’s individual title as NC State’s Elly Henes – the coach’s daughter – won the individual title.

SEC: #1 Arkansas women (21) and #11 Ole Miss men (35) roll at SECs Vincent Kiprop of Alabama and Katie Izzo of Arkansas were your individual champs

Ivy League:Penn men upset Princeton, Columbia women win Columbia’s Kenny Vasbinder (24:32) and Yale’s Kayley DeLay (20:45) got the individual wins.

NCAA Conference XC Champs Weekend Live Results: PAC-12 ACC Big Ten Heps Mountain West Big 12 Big Sky *Conference Champs Central (All Results)

Syracuse Men And NC State Women Win ACC Conference Champs Syracuse won over Notre Dame by 5-points while NC State beat out Florida State by 12. Virginia Tech’s Peter Seufer repeated as men’s individual champ while NC State’s Elly Henes won the women’s race.
Penn Men Beat Out Harvard By 3-Points To Win Heps Champs Colombia’s Kenny Vasbinder took the individual title.
Columbia Women Win Heps Champs; Yale’s Kayley Delay Gets Individual Win Columbia scored 57 points while Harvard (89 points), Penn (89 points), and Princeton (90 points) were all separated by only one point.
Syracuse Men And NC State Women Win ACC Conference Champs Syracuse won over Notre Dame by 5-points while NC State beat out Florida State by 12. Virginia Tech’s Peter Seufer repeated as men’s individual champ while NC State’s Elly Henes won the women’s race.
Penn Men Beat Out Harvard By 3-Points To Win Heps Champs Colombia’s Kenny Vasbinder took the individual title.Columbia Women Win Heps Champs; Yale’s Kayley Delay Gets Individual Win Columbia scored 57 points while Harvard (89 points), Penn (89 points), and Princeton (90 points) were all separated by only one point.
NCAA Weekend Conference Champs Preview PAC 12, ACC and Big Ten champs highlight with top ranked match-ups.

College / HS News

LA Times:NCAA Now Allowing NCAA Athletes To Benefit From Their Own Name, Image And Likeness However, it’s still unclear exactly what this rule change means for athletes as far as what kind of “compensation” they can collect.
7-Time Colorado State Champion Cole Sprout Commits To Stanford Sprout was 3rd at NXN last year and has PBs of 4:04.19 and 8:40.73 for 3200m. *Discuss
MB:HS track coach Vicki Huber (former Olympian) is latest to claim that allowing trans-women to compete as women ruins sports “I will never support a scenario where a female has to step to the starting line to race against a male, even if that male identifies as a female.”
NCAA Athletes Of The Week Are Norfolk State’s Meshack Kipchirchir And Martha Bissah They won their respective races at the MEAC Conference Championships.
Bummer:Avila University (NAIA) Cuts Track And Field Team One Month Before Its First Meet

Olympic News

AP:Tokyo 2020 Officials In Feud With IOC Over Marathon Move It’s estimated that it will cost $310 million to move the marathon and there is talk that Tokyo could sue the IOC for damages.
A Look At How Hot Tokyo 2020 Might Be Compared To Past Olympic Games Looking at historical averages, Tokyo 2020 would have the fourth hottest average high temperature. Athens 2004 and Atlanta 1996 were the two hottest.
The Telegraph:Will A ” No-Deal Brexit” Hurt The UK’s Olympic Medal Haul? Some fear that the economy will be hurt so severely that elite sport funding will be cut.
Russian Paralympic Committee Claims Even If Russia Is Banned From The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, It Won’t Keep Them From The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics This is a comment from the head of the RPC, so might just be wishful thinking.

Amateur US Road Action

Ex Midshipman Jordan Tropf wins Marine Corps Marathon in 2:27:43 Tropf is doing his best juggling orthopedic surgery residency with two 24 hour shifts per week and training. He says it has been demoralizing to see the two zeros for mileage when he’s working the 24 hour shifts but thinks he’s been averaging about 90 miles per week.
Comedian Brittany Charboneau misses goal of 2:37:00 course record but comes away with Marine Corps Marathon win in 2:44:47
Chris Naimoli (48:37) And Fiona Bayly (57:58) Win At US Masters 15k Champs In Tulsa

Random But Interesting

Recommended Read:A carbon-fiber shoe prototype roundup A look at how New Balance, Asics, Saucony and Brooks are responding to the Vaporflys.
New Paris 2024 Logo Is Unveiled. Some Think It Sexually Objectifies Women? (Pic)
*Others think the haircut looks like Rachel’s in “Friends.”
Jared Ward Will Appear On Shark Tank On Sunday To Pitch His MyoStorm Meteor Storm Massage Ball
Kenyan Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed defends herself after netball team was stranded in South Africa “We were number two (in Doha) and that is what we should be celebrating-– that we’re a sporting nation like no other in the continent.”

American Distance News

Craig Engels Raves About Pete Julian and Sifan Hassan
*MB: Craig Engels on his social life: “I love to go on weekend trips, I like to party and everything.”
Recommended Read Profile of Maggie Guterl – the first women to win Big’s Backyard Ultra She did 250 miles to get the win.
Nine Quick Questions with Bryce Hoppel Hoppel shares how he get involved in the sport, his favorite college race (Big 12 DMR), and how he texts Jim Ryun.
Dathan Ritzenhein: How I Coached Parker Stinson To A 2:10 Marathon PB No mention of the experimental Saucony shoes, which is understandable as Ritz is a Brooks athlete.
Karissa Schweizer Q&A with hometown paper She thinks she could run 30-40 miles without stopping and says if she played football, she’d want to be a QB.
Magda Boulet comes up short in Tahoe Rim Trail FKT attempt It took her 50 hours and 40 minutes when the record is 47 hours and 29 minutes.

News from Britain Eilish McColgan and Michael Rimmer involved in serious car crash in India Neither was seriously hurt but the other driver was hurt badly and chaos ensued with death threats. *Facebook post

This Weekend’s US XC Action

NCAA DII Conference Championships Weekend Recap Colorado School of Mines destroyed Adams State on the men’s side, 28 to 73, for their 3rd RMAC title in a race that featured 3 of the top 5 men’s teams in the country. The Adams St women rolled in the girls race which had 3 of the top 6. *All US college results
Great Oak boys and girls win sweepstakes (again) at Mt. SAC Invitational The Great Oak boys are #1 in the country. It was their 6th in a row at Mt. Sac while the girls have won 11 in a row. *Dyestat
Lauren Ping (16:47) wins girls sweepstakes
Leo Daschbach (14:32) wins boys sweepstakes

International News

President of Uganda gives Joshua Cheptegei a brand new Mitsubushi
Mariya Lasitskene, not Sifan Hassan, crowned 2019 European Athlete of the Year Karsten Warholm won the men’s award.
Nigeria govt inaugurates a panel to investigate its Doha WC flop
A look back at how the Dublin marathon began 40 years ago
Kilian Jornet wins Annapurna Trail Marathon – final event of the Golden Trail World Series – in 4:45.05 CR Judith Wyder won the women’s race in 5:42:03.

2019 TCS NYC Marathon is Sunday Where to stay Men’s Preview *Women’s Preview

LRC For Sara Hall, A Dream Deferred Led to a Passion Realized 10 years ago, Sara Hall did not love running but felt obligated to do it even though she finished last at USAs as her husband Ryan was a star. Now, at age 36, the mother of 4 is the star and loving the sport more than ever and thriving with Ryan as her coach.
*MB: Jonathan Gault takes a look at the incredible resurgence of Sara Hall. Better than ever at age 36!

LRC 2019 NYC Marathon Media Day: The Men’s Course Record Is In Jeopardy, The Women’s Might Be, And Yes, Shoe Talk The pros weighed in on bouncing back from Worlds, chasing the course record (or not), and (of course) the Nike Vaporflys.

LRC Des Linden on the Olympics, Her Running Future, & the Great Shoe Debate: “It’s an Arms Race and It Should Be a Footrace.” Des Linden is free to speak her mind and she didn’t hold back when discussing her future, the new shoe wars and Rio 2016 – specifically did Shalane Flanagan and Amy Cragg have an unfair advantage?

IAAF Profile:Age No Barrier For 42-Year-Old Australian Marathoner Sinead Diver As She Heads To NYC Diver didn’t start running until she was a 33-years-old mom and made a breakthrough just last year when she ran 2:25:19 at the Melbourne Marathon (she then ran 2:24:11 for 7th place in London).
RRW Tyler Pennel Ready for Long-Awaited Marathon Comeback At TCS New York City Marathon This will be OT 5th placer Pennel’s first marathon in 18-months as he’s been struggling with a string of injuries.
Forbes Q&A With Geoffrey Kamworor Ahead Of NYC “I compare my career to climbing a tree. I’m always trying to climb up to the next branch and forget what I’ve left behind.”
Mary Keitany Craves a Fifth NYC Marathon Title If she does, she won’t have the record for the most NYC wins though as Grete Waitz won the race nine times between 1978 and 1988.
NY Times:The Best Places to Watch the New York City Marathon
15 Celebrities Running The NYC Marathon

Assorted Distance News

NY Times Q&A With Shalane Flanagan On Her Retirement, Alberto Salazar, And The Future Flanagan says she wasn’t surprised by Salazar’s ban and while she’ll be coaching the BTC, she’d also like to be a pacer for some of her athletes and mentioned helping “someone like Shelby Houlihan” to a 5k record.
James Kibet (13:11 5000m PB) And Clementine Mukandanga (2:30 Marathoner) Lead Fields For Corsa dei Santi 10k In Rome
Natasha Cockram Broke The Welsh Marathon National Record With 2:30:50 Four Days After Being Kicked In The Leg By A Horse Cockram works full-time and only recently considered Tokyo 2020 a possibility as she’s dropped her marathon PB from 2:49 in 2017.
MB:Sifan Hassan’s nightmare. Almaz Ayana says she’s healthy as he “knee surgery went really well” and getting ready
Bahamian O’Neil Williams Broke The National Marathon Record At Amsterdam After Sleeping Two Nights In The Airport He ran 2:29:26 to break his own record of 2:30:35. He says he still has aspirations of trying to run the 2:11:30 Olympic qualifying time.
November 9:Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi Going For Her Fourth Consecutive Win At Atapuerca XC Race In Spain
Tyler Andrews and Devon Yanko Victorious at 2019 USATF 50 Mile Road Championships

LetsRun Exclusives

LRC WTW: Sifan Hassan Does Not Break a World Record, Camille Herron CRUSHES One, Father-Son Marathon Record May Have Fallen The world records did not fall in Valenica as Sifan Hassan showed she’s human but we got some impressive father-son running and Camille Herron hitting a grand slam.

LRC Did Marathon World Record Holder Brigid Kosgei Actually Miss Any Drug Tests? Here’s What We Know After a Confusing Press Conference While her coach was quoted as saying “three times the anti-doping officials did not test her,” her agent Federico Rosa reports she has officially only missed one test. The Kenya authorities say she has been drug tested 54 times.

Distance News

Alberto who? A look at Haji Adilo – the coach of many of Ethiopia’s greatest runners He’s helped guide Lelisa Desisa and Kenenisa Bekele to greatness in recent weeks. “What makes Haji such a good coach is his ability to read each athlete individually,” Makke says. “He’s very understanding and genuine.”
Parker Stinson shares his day by day training 3 weeks out from his 2:10, admits he wasn’t all that confident heading into Chicago He gives credit to Ritz for helping him refocus and to Gwen Jorgensen for helping him ignore his so-so confidence as Jorgensen once said, “Feelings don’t dictate outcomes.”
Seb Coe on the training that led to his 3 WRs in 41 days in 1979 “Quality and intensity are key.”
RAK Half announces modified route for 2020, will allow spectators to get closer
Michael Sandrock takes a look at the 54 Coloradans – the most in the US for any state – who have made the Olympic Trials
Should you run with a cold? Scientific research says you can as it won’t make you stay sick any longer

Previous Distance News

Q&A With Garret Heath Some general questions about his career, training and diet.
Review For Linda Prefontaine’s New Book, “The Pre Log” The book includes pages from Steve Prefontaine‘s actual journals and logs.

Sprint / Jump News That We Found Interesting

Good Q&A with Usain Bolt who responds to Noah Lyles posting “Bolt who?” by saying he found it “funny” that Lyles failed to break his 200m record this year Bolt says he’s never had a conversation with Lyles, who posted “Bolt who?” to instagram after breaking a Bolt meet record mid-season, and it sounds like he doesn’t particularly want to. “I knew he wasn’t going to get it. It’s not easy.”
*Bolt expects Coleman to win Olympic 100 gold “His start is ridiculous. If he improves the last part of his race, he’s going to be, probably, unstoppable.”
From failed high school HJer to an all-time great in the LJ, the incredible Tajay Gayle story 5 years ago, Gayle didn’t even make the finals of the Champs in the HJ or LJ. Now he’s the 10th longest jumper in history.

Steven Gardiner realizes 2020 men’s 400 could be epic with himself, Van Niekerk and Norman: “We just might even see a world record, maybe,”

Vaporfly Podcasts

Kipchoge News

Watching Kipchoge run 1:59 with thousands of others enabled one Kenyan understand the national pride of the US.
Kipchoge 1:59:40 T-Shirts And Hoodies Now For Sale Too bad, his official time should be 1:59:41.

Non-Distance News

Bahamas 400m Sprinter Chris Brown Looking To Make His Sixth Olympic Games At Tokyo 2020 The 41-year-old and college track coach hasn’t raced in over a year, but says he’s been training.
Pretty Generous:Russian World Champions Maria Lasitskene (HJ) And Anzhelika Sidorova (PV) Share Prize Money With Teammates The two were randomly offered $157,000 and a new car each for winning worlds, but rather than keep all the money, they decided to split it with all their teammates who went to Doha. And Lasitskene gave the car to her coach.
IAAF Inside Athletics Podcast Interview With Ashton Eaton And Brianne Theisen-Eaton The couple recently announced they’re expecting their first child early next year. They talk about what life has been like since retiring as well as look back at some highlights and lowlights from their careers.

Vaporfly News

Toni Reavis says IAAF needs to take a page from NASCAR in dealing with Vaporflys In the 1990s, NASCAR decided they didn’t want tires to be the stars and the running community says now “we don’t want shoes to be our stars.”
MB: Vaporfy’s do it again!! 59 yr old Tommy Hughes runs 2:27:52 marathon as he and son set father/son world record in Frankfurt

Sprint Stuff

Usain Bolt Says He’d Be Up For Playing In The NFL “If They Call” Him Bolt would want to play for either the Patriots or Packers and says he was recruited for the NFL back in 2008 and 2012, but didn’t want to risk injury back then.
Elaine Thompson Still Waiting To Find Out How Much Recovery Time She’ll Need For The Injury Which Saw Her Pull Out Of The 200m And 4×100 At Worlds Thompson is currently walking in a orthopedic boot to protect her calf and achilles.
Brazil 2008 Olympic 4×100 To Receive Their 2008 Olympic Medals They were upgraded from 4th to bronze after Nesta Carter lost Jamaica their golds for failing a doping retest.
The JAAA Wants To Build Relationships And Strengthen Team Synergy For Their 4×100 Teams Ahead Of Tokyo 2020 Part of this will include some training together and competing more in the build-up to Tokyo.

Last Weekend’s Action *Valencia Results

MB: Camille Herron sets ANOTHER WORLD RECORD for 24 hours!!!! She ended up running 270.116 kms or 167.8 miles. Her old record was 262.192 kms. She averaged 8:34.9 mile pace for 24 hours.
*IAAF Article On Camille Herron’s 24 Hour WR

Valencia Half: Ethiopian delight: Yomif Kejelcha wins 3 way sprint for men’s title in 59:05, Senbere Teferi sets Ethiopian national record (65:32) as Sifan Hassan is 2nd (65:53) The women’s WR of 64:51 survives. Scroll down to 2nd story. *Results
*Video of Kejeclah’s sprint win
*Sifan Hassan praises Salazar after race: “He is the best coach there is, he does the best for his athletes,”
*Jos Hermens says Hassan will stay in Portland and they “have an eye on two, three, four American coaches.”
*MB: Official 2019 Valencia Half Marathon Discussion Thread
*Pre-Race: Hassan says she’s been under a lot of stress since Doha and isn’t sure how she’ll feel

Frankfurt:Kenya’s Valary Aiyabei runs 2:19:10, becomes 1st to break 2:20 at 2019 Frankfurt Marathon, Ethiopia’s Fikre Tefera Wins 4-way battle for men’s race in 2:07:08 Aiyabei went out on WR pace but her pacemaking husband dropped out at 15k with illness. Mark Kiptoo came up short in his bid for his own masters of 2:07:50 by running 2:08:09.
*Steph Twell sets new Scottish marathon record (2:26:40) She broke Liz McColgan‘s mark from 1997 by 12-seconds.

Tens of thousands in Japan watch Hakone Ekiden qualifier The Yosenkai half marathon is one of the coolest races in Japan. Add up the half marathon times of the first 10 runners for each school and the top 10 teams all qualify for the Hakone.
Talk About Tactical:Winnie Chebet Wins World Military Games 1,500 In 4:25.22
IAAF Weekend Road Recap

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”