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LRC Analysis 8 Takeaways After Cheptegei And Gidey Smash World Records In Valencia Cheptegei went 13:07+ – 13:03+ to set the new 10,000 mark and wipe Kenenisa Bekele from the record books while Gidey, who hadn’t won a 5,000 race in  four years, broke Tirunesh Dibaba‘s 5,000 world record.

Race Recap Joshua Cheptegei (26:11:00) And Letesenbet Gidey (14:06.62) Break Men’s 10,000 And Women’s 5,000 World Records In Valencia It was a special day for distance fans as a 12-year-old women’s world record and a 16-year-old men’s world record fell in Valencia.

• Interesting Read: How Long Will It Be Before Cheptegei Rocks The Marathon? Toni Reavis does some research and compares the amount of time that passed between 10,000 PR and marathon PR for former track greats Paul Tergat, Kenenisa Bekele, Haile G and Eliud Kipchoge. It was anywhere from 6 to 14 years.
• Toni Reavis: Watching A Kenyan WR Holder Help Pace And Then Embrace An Ethiopian WR Holder Made My Day The fact that Chepkoech rabbited this race was amazing. Her attitude about doing it was even more amazing.
• The Guardian: Cheptegei And Gidey Smash World Records Using Controversial Spikes “Both records will inspire controversy,” writes Sean Ingle.
• Some Of Kenya’s World Half Team Talk Sh** About Cheptegei’s Chances At World Half “Cheptegei and his colleagues are more of track athletes than road racing. We shall teach him a few tips in road racing. We are ready for him,” said one member. The #1 Kenyan, Kibiwott Kandie, who recently ran 58:38, was more respectful but admitted he wanted to win for Geoffrey Kamworor. “I feel honored and happy to represent my country for the first time.”
• Kandie: “I have trained hard.”

Get Ready For The Protests

Seb Coe Is In Tokyo Meeting With Olympic Honchos And Said He Supports Athletes’ Rights To “Take A Knee” At Olympics

US News Of Note

• UVA Men “Stun” NC State And UNC In Mid-Week Invitational Discount Vin Lananna at your own peril. Hasn’t he won more NCAA XC titles than any other active coach? The NC state women crushed the competition as expected. *Results
• Extremely Popular Norton (MA) XC Coach And Teacher Kent Taylor Is Inspiring Many As He Battles Stage IV Brain Cancer *Dyestat Interview With Taylor *GoFundMe

Previous Distance News

• October 10: Sifan Hassan, Faith Kipyegon And Yomif Kejelcha Chasing Fast Times At Distance Meeting In Hengelo Hassan is racing the 10,000m against Ethiopia’s Tsehay Gemechu and Kipyegon is taking another shot at the 1,000m world record which she just missed by 0.17 seconds in Monaco. Kejelcha is in the 5,000m against Aussie Stewart McSweyn.
• Tyler Day And Julian Kohnen Join HOKA NAZ Elite Day was a six time All-American at NAU and Kohnen was 10th place at the Olympic Marathon Trials.
  *MB: TYLER DAY Signs with NAZ Elite
• Go Be More Podcast With Will Leer Leer talks about his D3 career, the 2008 Olympic Trials, his proudest moment (his 5k at Mt. SAC), his least proudest moment (a meltdown post-race) and more.
• Go Be More Podcast Interview With Toby Tanser, The Founder Of Shoe4Africa
• January’s Osaka Half Marathon Canceled Due To COVID

Sprint Stuff

• 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 Song Featuring Sandi Morris And Noah Lyles From The 2019 Zurich DL Wins Swiss Industry Award Morris and Lyles performed the song, “Souvenir,” live along with Swiss pop band Baba Shrimps. Watch here.
• Q&A With Carl Lewis: “People Love Speed, That’s Just What It Is.” In this interesting interview Lewis talks about being the highest paid player on the Dallas Cowboys, COVID and the Olympics, his favorite Olympic medal and trying to bench press 300 pounds as a 60-year-old.
• GB Sprinter Dina Asher-Smith “Shocked And Hurt” By Gym Social Media Post Celebrating Black History Month They posted a workout titled “12 years a slave” (after the movie) and said, “slavery was hard and so is this.”

Admin News

• Good News For USA Athletes: Stephen A. Schwarzman Pledges $8,000,000 To USATF Foundation To Support Elite Athletes The gift will provide 65 athletes with annual awards of $30,000 for the next Olympic cycle.
• Vladimir Putin Claims Russian Athletes Are Victims Of “Unsportsmanlike Means” By Rivals Yeah, how dare the rest of the world call out Russia for state sponsored doping.
• World Players Association Calls On WADA To Ensure Athletes Currently Serving Recreational Drugs Ban Can Apply For Reduction WADA recently changed rules to decrease punishments for recreational drug use. The new rules go into effect on January 1, 2021.
• Caribbean Association Of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) President Brian Lewis Claims Thomas Bach’s Speech At The 2014 Sochi Olympics Broke Rule 50 In that speech Bach talked about world leaders keeping politics out of sports and tolerance which Lewis says was referencing Russia’s anti-gay laws.
• Senior Board Member For Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Resigns Due To “Growing Frustration” At “Lack Of Transparency” He is the second member of the Birmingham 2022 board to quit in controversial circumstances in recent months.
• Multi-Million Dollar Legal Cases Still Outstanding 10 Years After The Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games

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.

Road Race News

• Monday: Laura Weightman Shooting For Paula Radcliffe’s UK Road 5k Record Today At The “Fast 5k) She’ll face Jessica Hull while Callum Hawkins leads the men’s race against US’s Eric Jenkins.
  *Athletics Weekly Preview This will be Callum Hawkins’ first race since February.
• World Athletics: Six Historic Road Races Awarded Heritage Plaque Includes the YMCA Turkey Trot in Buffalo, NY (founded in 1896).
• Association Of International Marathons And Distance Races (AIMS) Conference Cancelled