October 6, 2020 | LetsRun.com

Wednesday Double World Record Attempts in the City of Running – Valencia *How to Watch

LRC Could the Men’s 10,000 and Women’s 5000m Record Both Fall? NN Valencia WR Day Preview Joshua Cheptegei already has Kenenisa Bekele’s 5,000m world record. Now he’s after the 10,000m. Letesenbet Gidey has’t won a 5,000 since 2016 but she wants the WR and Shadrack Kipchirchir wants sub 27.

Distance Stuff

World Athletics Looks Back At Their “Top Five World Half-Marathon Championships Legends” “Mr. Half Marathon” Zersenay Tadese tops their list with five world half titles to his name. Geoffrey Kamworor, Paula Radcliffe, Paul Tergat and Tegla Loroupe are the others on their list.
2021 Houston Marathon Cancelled Due To Coronavirus The race was scheduled for early January.
Bowerman Track Club Courtney Frerichs Video – The Extra Year Ep. 1 In this 9 minute video Frerichs talks about the postponement of Tokyo 2020, training through COVID and the BTC time trials.
Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Interview With Meb Keflezighi They talk about life during the pandemic and civil unrest, his longevity in the sport and being a dad.
World Half Champs Entry Lists Available

Monday / More Weekend Results

Eric Jenkins (13:52) And GB’s Laura Weightman (15:10) Win At The “Fast 5k” In The UK On Monday Jenkins beat out Andrew Clarke by 5-seconds while Weightman dominated Jess Hull by 40.
Oklahoma State Wins Ninth Consecutive Men’s Title At Cowboy Jamboree They beat out Iowa State by 9 points while the Iowa State women won with 29 points ahead of OSU’s 48. Iowa State had both individual winners in Wesley Kiptoo (23:34.5) and Callie Logue (20:38.6).
Ole Miss Men, Notre Dame Women Win Live At The Lou Classic Ole Miss dominated the men’s side while Notre Dame beat out Ole Miss women by 7 points. *Results
FSU Women; Georgia Men Claim Team Titles At FSU Invite
Rojo on the MB: Monday NCAA XC Musings: Is Iowa State’s Wesley Kiptoo going to be the next NCAA star?
France’s Sasha Zhoya Speeds To A World U20 110H Lead With 13.27 In Madrid *Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal Runs Norwegian NR And World Road 5k Lead With 15:04 Win In Norway
MB: HSer Aidan Puffer Runs 14:25 In NJ
AW Weekly Round-Up

Kip Keino Classic – Altitude 5,000m WR Goes Down! *Results

Nicolas Kimeli Runs Kenyan All-Comers’ Record; World Champions Timothy Cheruiyot, Hellen Obiri And Beatrice Chepkoech Take Victories At Kip Keino Classic Kimeli ran 13:08.32 (the fastest time ever at altitude) to win the 5,000m over Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi (13:08.91). Cheruiyot held off Kumari Taki to win the 1,500m in 3:34.53 to 3:35.00 while Obiri won a close race over world 10,000m bronze medalist Agnes Tirop in the 5,000m 15:06.36 to 15:06.71. Chepkoech won the steeple in 9:29.05 and Abraham Kibiwot took the men’s race in 8:17.60.

The Fans React To London On Our Message Board / Fan Forum

**NCAA News *XC Results**

Q&A Ok. State Coach Dav e Smith Is Pumped As His New $25 Million XC Course Prepares To Host 2020 Cowboy Jamboree Smith says the long break due to Covid-19 has taught him a lot as he’s thrilled by how good his men look. “This team is amongst the best groups I’ve ever had, including or equal to some teams who’ve won national championships. I’m excited about that. I think they’re excited.”
*OK State XC Course Photo Gallery

In Addition To Cutting Men’s Track/XC, University Of Minnesota Will Also Cut 14 Women From XC (34 To 20) And Reduce Track Rosters By 18 Women Per Season
The Stride Report Previews This Weekend’s NCAA XC Action At Ok. State, Fl. State And Louisville *Results
Oregon Track And Field Athletes Will Finally Get To See The New Hayward Field On Friday
How Will NCAA Coaches Prepare Teams For NCAA Indoors And XC Two Days Apart? Only complete morons would schedule the two events like this. Shhhh. The secret is many expect indoor track to be cancelled.

More US News

By Vote Of 10-8, Minnesota Officials Shut Down HS State XC Championships You can still have 7 regular season meets. What a joke.
US Congress Unanimously Passes Bill That Gives Govt. Right To Remove Board Members From USOPC The IOC rules technically forbid governments from interfering in their affairs but we doubt they’ll have the guts to suspend the US for designing a bill mainly to protect people from sexual abuse.
Brooks Running Is Donating 200 Pairs Of Running Shoes And 90 Sports Bras To Fire Victims In Oregon

Non-London Distance News

Day One Highlights from Japanese National Track and Field Champs The biggest shocker came in the men’s 1500 where #1 seed Hideyuki Tanaka collapsed with 50m left in his heat.
The Stewart McSweyn Interview 3 years ago, McSweyn was a steeplechase also-ran. Now he’s the Aussie record holder at 1,500, 3,000 and 10,000.
*MB: Aussies: If I told you 4 years ago that Steward McSweyn would have the Aussie record at 1,500 (3k and 10k), what would have said?
Sydney Thorvaldson (3rd At NXN) Commits To Arkansas She was the top underclassman at NXN last year.
Canada’s Marco Arop (By Way Of Miss. St. And Sudan) Is Dreaming Big For 2021: “My goal is to win the Olympics.” Arop is still based at Mississippi St. and he talks about how Brandon McBride was reportedly confronted by a racist man with a shotgun on a run.
Long Video Interview With NC State Star (And Wofford Transfer) Hannah Steelman She became an NCAA All-American in the steeple and 5k in the same day in 2019.
Start lists for Kip Keino classic Hellen Obiri and 12:51 man Nicholas Kimeli is on them.

Non-Distance News

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Instagram Post Sparks Pregnancy Rumors Apparently some fans thought they saw a “baby bump” in a recent Instagram post.
World Athletics Profile: Twenty Years After Her Olympic Hammer Throw Triumph, Kamila Skolimowska’s Legacy Lives On Poland’s Skolimowska won the “most unexpected gold medal of the [2000 Sydney] Games” with a big upset over the two pre-meet favorites.
World Athletics Introduces New Rule For Take-Off Fouls For The Long And Triple Jump The rule has to do with how it is determined if a jumper fouled or not by going over the take-off line.
Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson-Herah Calls Her Coach, Stephen Francis, A “Genius”

The Slippery Slope To The End Of College Track And Field May Start On Friday When The UMinn Trustees Vote

Guest Op-Ed College Track And Field (And Women’s Sports) Is Under Attack At The University Of Minnesota NCAA track and field and women’s sport’s future may be decided on Friday in Minnesota. If the men’s track, gymnastics and tennis teams are cut, then Minnesota will need to ax 77 women’s participants to be in compliance with Title IX. That would mark a total reduction of women’s opportunities by more than 29% in less than five years.

SAFP Wants A Fast 100m In 2021

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Chasing Olympic Title, But Also Super Fast Times In 2021 “Yes, I want to stand on the podium for sure but I think also if I can run fast and do it, then yeah. I really want to run 10.6 or even 10.5 and I want to break the 22-second barrier for the 200m and run 21.”

The 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon Leaderboard / Results Men’s Preview Women’s Preview TV & Streaming

LRC Shura Kitata Snaps Eliud Kipchoge’s 10-Race Win Streak To Win 2020 London Marathon With a half mile left, 4 men were still battling it out for the win. With 200 meters to go, it was a 3-way sprint finish. Shockingly, none of those men was Eliud Kipchoge.

LRC Analysis Eliud Kipchoge Lost A Marathon – What Happened? For the first time in over seven years, Eliud Kipchoge was beaten in a marathon. Here’s how it happened.

More London Coverage

Eliud Kipchoge Has A Classy Reaction After His Shocking London Loss “It’s not the end of the world that I can’t win. It’s not suicide for Eliud Kipchoge to be beaten.”
AW: “Storming Sara Hall Reflects On “Redemptive” London Marathon” Hall says she went into “hunt mode” on the final lap. She also mentioned that she’ll be trying to make the US Olympic team in the 10,000m.
The Guardian: “Strangest Ever” London Marathon Is A Virtual Hit With 43,000 Runners
Sara Hall: “I didn’t make our Olympic marathon team, and that was a massive disappointment, but God’s always redeemed it in my career, and this was my moment of redemption.”
RRW: Brigid Kosgei Dominates, Shura Kitata And Hall Surprise At London Marathon
The Telegraph: “World Record Holder Eliud Kipchoge Dethrones As Shura Kitata Sprints To Men’s London Marathon Title”
The Telegraph: “Brigid Kosgei Makes Light Of Appalling Conditions To Retain London Marathon Title”
The Telegraph: “Eliud Kipchoge Reveals Blocked Ear Struggles As He Finishes Surprise Eighth In London”
World Athletics London Recap
BBC London Marathon Play-By-Play
BBC Video: Photos And Videos From The Virtual London Marathon

Other Results

High School: Foot Locker Cancelled

LRC 2020 Foot Locker XC Champs Cancelled Bummer for a ton of high school kids. *Discuss

New Mexico Requiring High Schoolers To Race With Masks On (At Altitude) Other states are requiring athletes to wear a mask at the start and finish line, but New Mexico is taking things to the extreme and requiring it during the entire race.
MileSplit: Athletes React To Cancellation Of Foot Locker Nationals

Free Coaching Advice

Steve Moneghetti Shares Sample Training And Talks About How He Played Mind Game With The Africans The 13:25/2:08 guy won bronze in 1997 at Worlds.
Struggling To Maintain A Certain Pace In A Race? Maybe You Should Speed Up That trick worked well for 1002 Olympic marathon bronze medalist Lorraine Moller. “I was stuck in this negative feedback loop,” Moller says. “To break that loop, I’d run to the front of the pack.”
Joe Rubio, Tom “Tinman” Schwartz And Amy Yoder-Begley Tell You How To Evaluate Your Training Log The coaches explain how to spot red flags when you survey your training log.
Scientific Study: Higher Mileage Runners Less Likely To Have Nagging Achilles Pain One Year After Injury Than Lower Mileage Runners
1 Hour Video Chat With Olympian And Ohio St. Coach Khadevis Robinson

Admin News

Study Estimates There Has Been An Over $6.7 Billion Loss From Cancellation Of Japanese Marathons The study is estimating losses for fall 2020 through spring 2021, but doesn’t even include all the races cancelled between February and September this year.
Porscha Dobson Named New Dartmouth Director Of Track And Field And Cross Country Dobson is the first African-American woman in the Ivy League to lead both men’s and women’s programs. She previously served as associate head coach at Penn.
Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori Claims The Olympics Will Take Place “No Matter What Happens”
Helsinki Olympic Stadium Officially Opens Again With A New Mondo Track It was shut down in 2016 for refurbishment and renovation which reportedly cost around $410 million.
Possible Joint Bid From South Korea And North Korea For The 2032 Olympics
Athletics Weekly (AW) Relaunches Under New Ownership The magazine will now be published monthly by 21six.

News From Japan

Japan Running News: Source Says 2021 Tokyo Marathon Being Moved To The Fall The race is currently scheduled for March 7th, but the announcement of the postponement is expected on October 9th.
58.5% Of Responders In A New Japan Survey Want Limited Spectators At Tokyo 2020 An interesting response from the survey was that people are most excited for the marathon, which overtook the usual favorite, swimming.
Japan Deliberates How To Lift Entry Ban On Tourists In Preparation For Tokyo 2020 Japan currently has an entry ban for 159 countries, but they want tourists to come to the Tokyo Games.
A Fifth Tokyo 2020 Staff Member Tests Positive For COVID

London Women

LRC American Sara Hall Runs The Race Of Her Life To Finish 2nd In 2020 London Marathon In 2:22:01 An American hadn’t finished in the top 3 in London since 2006 but Sara Hall ran the race of her life and mowed down everyone in the field save Brigid Kosgei (2:18:58) to finish second in 2:22:01 after outkicking world champ Ruth Chepngetich. US Olympian Molly Seidel was 6th (2:25:13).

Women’s Recap Brigid Kosgei DOMINATES 2020 London Marathon, American Sara Hall Shocks Field To Finish Second Kosgei winning convincingly may not have been a shock but the name of the second-place finisher sure was – Sara Hall.