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Quote Of The Day

“I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever. Instead, I was emotionally and physically abused by a system designed by Alberto and endorsed by Nike. This is what happened to me… Alberto was constantly trying to get me to lose weight. He created an arbitrary number of 114 pounds and would usually weigh me in front of my teammates and publicly shame if I wasn’t hitting weight. He wanted to give me birth control pills and diuretics to lose weight — the latter of which isn’t allowed in track and field…Alberto yelled at me in front of everybody else at the meet. He told me that I had clearly gained five pounds before the race. It was also that night that I told Alberto and our sports psych that I was cutting myself and they pretty much told me that they just wanted to go to bed….First, Nike needs to change. In track and field, Nike is all-powerful. They control the top coaches, athletes, races, even the governing body. You can’t just fire a coach and eliminate a program and pretend the problem is solved. My worry is that Nike is merely going to rebrand the old program and put Alberto’s old assistant coaches in charge. Secondly, we need more women in power. Part of me wonders if I had worked with more female psychologists, nutritionists and even coaches, where I’d be today. I got caught in a system designed by and for men which destroys the bodies of young girls. Rather than force young girls to fend for themselves, we have to protect them.”

– Mary Cain making some serious allegations against Alberto Salazar and Nike in a New York Times video essay about how she was pressured to use unhealthy methods to lose weight while she was running for NOP.

Mary Cain Makes Serious Allegations Against Alberto Salazar And Nike

LRC Full Transcript of NY Times Video: Mary Cain Says She Was “Emotionally And Physically Abused By A System Designed By Alberto [Salazar] And Endorsed By Nike” In an explosive New York Times video essay, Cain claims she was pressured by Salazar to lose weight (to get down to 114 pounds) and was weighed in front of teammates and “publicly shamed” if she didn’t hit weight. She also says Salazar wanted her to take birth control pills and diuretics to shed pounds – the latter of which is against track and field’s rules according to Cain. Cain also says she became suicidal and started to cut herself and says when she told Alberto Salazar and Darren Treasure that she was cutting herself that “they pretty much told me that they just wanted to go to bed.”
*MB: Explosive New York Times article: Mary Cain breaks silence about NOP

Many Aren’t Happy About The IOC’s Marathon Move

Good Read:InsideTheGames’s Michael Pavitt Wonders If Moving The Olympic Marathon Will Come Back To Haunt The IOC Pavitt wonders what kind of message this sends to future potential host cities when Tokyo organizers were not even consulted beforehand about the move.
Canadian Race Walker Criticizes IOC Motives For Moving Marathons And Race Walks To Sapporo Evan Dunfee: “The IOC saw the narrative the media was pushing and got scared,” Dunfee wrote. They made a decision to try and protect their brand and avoid negative PR (they don’t care about athlete welfare).”
Japan Athletics Officials Slame Decision To Move Olympic Marathon And Race Walks From Tokyo To Sapporo JAAF training chief Kazunori Asaba said, “It’s like the athletes who had been training for many years to climb Everest were told just nine months before they would go to a different mountain.”

Sprint Stuff

Dawn Harper Nelson Coming Out Of Retirement To Train For 2020 Tokyo Games The former Olympic 100H champ retired last year to focus on becoming a mother, but realized even when she was pregnant she still wanted to compete.
Double Olympic Champion Elaine Thompson Ties The Knot She is now married to sprinter Derron Herah (51.01 400H PB). Jamaican 4×400 world medalist Tiffany James also got married on the same day.
Finalists Announced For IAAF Female Rising Star Award NCAA 100m champ Sha’Carri Richardson makes the shortlist.
GB 400 Hurdler Jack Green Announces Retirement The 28-year-old two-time Olympian (48.60 PB) plans to move to coaching.
Jamaica’s 2018 Commonwealth 110H Champ Ronald Levy Has Surgery For Stress Fracture In Shin Levy didn’t find out until the start of this season that he had been training and competing with the fracture for a whole year. Despite the injury he was still the Jamaican national champ this year.

More Weekend Action

Daniel Kiebet (2:09:44 CR) And Hirut Tibebu (2:23:40) Win Istanbul Marathon Kibet was actually one of three pacemakers, but stayed in the race and won it by 13-seconds.
Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio (2:07:06 CR) And Sutume Asefa (2:23:31) Win Beijing Marathon
Marius Kimutai (2:10:05 CR) And Agnes Jeruto Barsosio (2:25:20) Win Hangzhou Marathon
Kenya’s James Mburugu (29:04) And Ukraine’s Sofia Yaremchuk (33:01) Win Corsa Dei Santi 10k In Rome
Tokai University Wins First National University Ekiden Title in Sixteen Years
Konica Minolta and Asahi Kasei Win Regional New Year Ekiden Qualifiers
Recap Of English Cross Country Relays
Athletics Weekly Weekend Round-Up

Other Distance News

Meb Explains Why He Believes Everyone Should Run At Least One Marathon “If you can overcome those challenges to get ready for a marathon and get to that finish line, it changes your life.”
T&F News Video Interview With Raevyn Rogers Rogers talks about winning 800m silver in Doha, her training, tactics, Tokyo 2020 and more.
IAAF Weekend Road Preview Marathons in Beijing, Istanbul and Hangzhou.
November 21:More Than A Dozen Of History’s Greatest Milers Will Reunite At The World Athletics Heritage Mile Night In Monaco Names there will include Hicham El Euerrouj, Jim Ryun, Seb Coe, Kip Keino, Peter Snell, John Walker, Eamonn Coghlan and Steve Cram.
MB:Professional boxer Andy Hiroaka runs 14:26 for 5k
MB:Ohio State High School Cross country meet postponed a week due to flooding
MB:New york post writes garbage article on how marathons are bad for you

From The IAAF

International Federations Discuss Consensus On Establishing Rules For Transgender Athletes Looks like rules will center around testosterone with a 5nmol/L limit to compete as a female.
Entries Open For IAAF Fan Photograph Of The Year Contest The winner will receive travel, accommodation and tickets for two people to a Diamond League meet of the winner’s choice.

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

Laura Muir Aiming To Break 1000m World Record At Glasgow Grand Prix In February Muir sits second on the all-time list with her 2:31.93 only behind Maria Mutola‘s 2:30.94 from 1999.
Q&A With Ajee Wilson On Her Early Years In The Sport Wilson shares her advice to high schoolers and talks about where she got her best advice and who she looked up to as a young athlete.
Five-Time World XC Champ And Former Marathon WR Holder Paul Tergat Honored At International Athletics Film Festival In Spain Tergat received a trophy and a two-minute video review of his greatest races was shown.
Finalists Announced For 2019 IAAF Male Rising Star Award The list includes World 5000m silver medalist Selemon Barega and Jakob Ingebrigsten.

One Final Look Back At NYC

LRC 4 Final Thoughts On The 2019 New York City Marathon: The NY Men’s Field Was Shallow, Desisa DNFs Early and Adidas Surprises? We take one final look at the NYC Marathon where for the first time all-year half the podium spots were taken by non-Vaporfly wearing athletes.
*MB: Stat of the Day: Heading into NY, 33 of 36 (91.67%) podium finisherss at the AWMMs in 2019 were wearing Vaporflys.

NCAA Updates

Vin Lananna Sees “Boundless” Potential As New Director Of Virginia’s XC And Track Programs Lananna talks about how he wanted to be a “hands-on coach” again and shares his thoughts on the future of Virginia.
UC Santa Barbara Men’s And Women’s XC And Track Programs Cited For NCAA Violations UC Santa Barbara self-detected and self-disclosed the violations which for the XC team, included mandatory logging of training in the summer.
NAU, BYU And Colorado Stay Ranked 1-3 In Week 6 NCAA Coaches’ Poll Oregon had a huge jump up from 16th to 6th.
*Men’s Regional Rankings
Arkansas And Stanford Women Remain 1-2 In Week 6 NCAA Rankings BYU moved to 3rd and Washington down to 4th.
*Women’s Regional Rankings
Colorado’s Joe Klecker And New Mexico’s Weini Kelati Are NCAA Athletes Of The Week At PAC-12, Klecker became the first Buffalo to win an individual title since 2007 while Kelati dominated at Mountain West Champs.

More From NYC

NY Times Article On Girma Bekele Gebre – The Sub-Elite Who Made The NYC Podium Gebre is a NYC regular as for years he’s spent two or three months at a time living and training in NYC with the West Side Runners Club. His coach says he’s probably ran 100 races in the NYC area.
NY Times:Joyciline Jepkosgei’s NYC Marathon Upset Caps A Year Of Leaps And Turmoil From the Caster Semenya testosterone debate to debate over Nike’s new shoes and Alberto Salazar‘s doping ban, it’s been a year full of controversy.*Great pre-race read:How Mary Keitany went from maid to marathon champ
42-Year-Old Sinead Diver Finished Fifth In NYC Diver is Irish, but represents Australia where she has lived since 2002.
AP:Lelisa Desisa Drops Out Of NYC 29-Days After Taxing Win In Doha Desisa was in 17th place at the seven mile mark when he dropped out.
How Fast Did The “Celebs” Run In NYC Tiki Barber ran 4:18:24.
NY Times:2019 NYC Marathon In Photos

NYC Messageboard Talk

NCAA Conference XC Champs Weekend Live Results: PAC-12 ACC Big Ten Heps Mountain West Big 12 Big Sky *Conference Champs Central (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.
Big 12: Iowa State men (34) and Oklahoma State women (52) win The women’s team race was super tight as just 4 points separated 1st and 3rd.
SEC: #1 Arkansas women (21) and #11 Ole Miss men (35) roll at SECsVincent Kiprop of Alabama and Katie Izzo of Arkansas were your individual champs
Big East: Villanova men (36), Butler women (52) win titles
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.
Big Sky: NAU Men And Women Sweep Big Sky Conference Titles NAU freshman Drew Bosley won the men’s race. Montana State’s Camila Noe took the women’s.
*MB: J Eastwood finishes 8th at Big Sky XC Championships
Mountain West: Weini Kelati And New Mexico Women Win Mountain West Championships New Mexico won easily while Kelati finished 49 seconds ahead of teammate Ednah Kurgat. Utah State and Dallin Farnsworth won the men’s competition.
Patriot:Army men get revenge on Navy, win by 3; BU women win
West Coast: BYU Men And Women Sweep West Coast Conference Champs Conner Mantz and Whittni Orton won the individual titles.
MAC: Eastern Michigan Men Get Record 23rd MAC Win
*5th Straight MAC Title For Eastern Michigan Women
USTFCCCA Conference Champs Weekend Recap

Hot Weather Marathoning

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike Accepts Marathon Move, But Says They Won’t Pay For It Koike: “I would describe what occurred here as a decision without agreement.”
GB’s Charlotte Purdue Says Sebastian Coe Should Apologize For The Dangerous Doha Marathon At World Champs Purdue was one of the 28 women who dropped out in the hot Doha conditions and she called the whole thing a “sh– show.”
AP:Runners Have Mixed Opinion On Moving Olympic Marathon Out Of Tokyo Most runners quoted in this article (including Des Linden, Jared Ward, Kellyn Taylor and Shalane Flanagan) seem to prefer it had stayed in Tokyo. Lelisa Desisa supported the move, but Aussie Sinead Diver made the good point that it’s not even guaranteed to be much cooler in Sapporo (estimates are only 3 degrees F cooler at the start).
After Dispute With IOC, Tokyo Reluctantly Agrees To Move Olympic Marathon North To Cooler Climates Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike: “Although I do not agree with the IOC decision, I will not interfere with the choice made by the authority vested with the right to deliver the final word.”
MB:Is this a joke? Tokyo Officials says it will cost $300+ million to move Olympic marathon to Sapporo

NYC Previews

LRC 2019 New York City Marathon Preview Podcast + Camille Herron and Rojo Hobby Jogging Love We break down the 2019 NYC Marathon fields.

LRC Women’s Preview: Will the Course Record Finally Go Down? Who Will Be the Top American: Sara Hall, Des Linden, or Kellyn Taylor? Can Mary Keitany get the only thing she doesn’t have in New York – the course record? How will the Americans, Sara Hall, Des Linden, and Kellyn Taylor do?

LRCMen’s Preview: After an Epic Year of Marathoning, What Does NYC Have in Store? NYC’s elite men’s field isn’t deep at all, but with Geoffrey Kamworor coming in off a half marathon WR, Lelisa Desisa chasing an unprecedented Worlds/NYC double, and Jared Ward entering in terrific shape, the men’s race should still be a good one.
*MB: Who wins the men’s race at the 2019 NYC Marathon? Kamworor, Desisa, Kitata, or Tola? Does the course record go as well?

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.

Doping News

WADA To Meet With Russia To Discuss Laboratory Inconsistencies Later This Month According to ARD journalist Hajo Seppelt, Russia failed to answer WADA’s questions regarding the data. They only answered 23 of 31 question and didn’t answer them fully.
USADA Head Travis Tygart Blasts Investigation Into NOP Athletes Calling It A Waste Of Time Tygart says USADA already “left no stone unturned” in its years-long investigation into Alberto Salazar.
WADA President Craig Reedie Says They May Retest Old Stored Samples For NOP Athletes
UK Anti-Doping Reviewing Whether It Needs To Follow WADA’s Lead To Investigate Salazar-Coached Athletes
IOC Pledges $10 Million To WADA Half of the money will go toward storing samples from pre-Olympic testing and the other half toward investigation and research.
RUSADA Head Yuri Ganus Calls On President Vladimir Putin To Support Anti-Doping Movement
Kenyan Teenager Angela Ndungwa Munguti Fails Doping Test
AP:Two Russians Banned For Doping At Past Olympics Sprinter Yulia Gushchina and LJer Anna Klyashtornaya both received bans, although neither of them are still competing. Russian shot putter Olesya Sviridova also received a new 4-year ban after it was discovered he violated the terms of his previous doping ban.
WADA To Launch New Whereabouts App This Month Many athletes have complained that the previous one was difficult to use.

2019 TCS NYC Marathon Men’s Preview Women’s Preview Tracking & Results TV & Streaming

LRC Geoffrey Kamworor Powers to Second NYC Marathon Title in Three Years Kamworor ran his final 10k in 29:14 and got the win as Jared Ward took top American honors in 6th and Abdi Abdirahman set a new US masters record of 2:11:34 at age 42.

LRC Joyciline Jepkosgei Dazzles in Marathon Debut, Just Misses Course Record The half marathon world record holder just missed the course record with her 2:22:38 win. Des Linden led early and ended up the top American in 6th in 2:26:42.

Doping News

BBC:WADA To Investigate All NOP Athletes WADA president Craig Reedie: “The clear question is did any of the allegations concerning Salazar and his operations result in athletes cheating themselves, which might have influenced their performance and might have involved the winning of competitions. We need to look at that and we will.” *Discuss
Belarusian HJer Dzmitry Jabokau Gets 1 Month Doping Ban After Positive Test For Diuretic
MB:Team sky doctor admits to ordering testosterone

2019 USATf 5k Champs *Top 10 Results

LRCUSATF 5k Quick Takes: Rowbury and Jenkins Talk NOP, Aaron Templeton Breaks Out, and Jessica Tonn Returns Home We caught up with the top performers in NY this morning including the winners – Shannon Rowbury (15:43) and Anthony Rotich (13:48).
*MB: Eric Jenkins on Salazar: “I totally understand why he’d get banned…(He) pushed the line and clearly he pushed it too far.”

LRC Scott Simmons Raves About Anthony Rotich’s Potential: “I Honestly Think He’s a Guy Who Can Medal on the World Stage” Rotich, a 4-time NCAA champ in college, is now a US citizen and Olympic medallist hopeful according to coach Scott Simmons.

British Olympic Sprinter James Ellington Launches Legal Action Against Former Teammate Nigel Levine Over Motorcycle Crash Ellington says he needs money to continue training and rehabbing from the injuries he sustained in the crash where Levine was driving. But Ellington is also suing the driver of the car which seems strange because the crash can’t be both Levine or the other driver’s fault.

Previous NYC News

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 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