November 17, 2020 Homepage Archive

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Quote Of The Day

“My training wasn’t great. My last two weeks, I wasn’t in great shape, but the second to last week I did 133 miles and the week of, I did 120. For whatever reason, I can cram miles in. I probably wouldn’t recommend that to people.”

– Olympic Trials 7th placer CJ Albertson talking about how he crammed mileage in the last two weeks to get in shape to break the 50k world record.

Will We See 0, 1 Or 2 NCAA Champs This Winter?

LRC Why Are NCAA Indoors And NCAA XC Scheduled For The Same Weekend? And Will They Happen At All? The NCAA XC champs will be held on March 15, just two days after NCAA Indoors. Jonathan Gault spoke to several top NCAA coaches to figure out why the schedule turned out that way – and how they’re adjusting. Many coaches indicated they are likely to blow off one of the championships entirely.
*MB: Several top NCAA xc coaches indicate they are likely to blow off one of the winter champs entirely

European News

COVID News

British Racewalker Tom Bosworth Talks About His Comeback From COVID And Warns Athletes Not To Come Back Too Fast “God forbid if somebody catches it a month out from an Olympic Games – you’re not going to stand much of a chance of competing, which is terrifying.”
Shonan Marathon In Japan Cut Back To 25k Over Coronavirus Fears Organizers of the February race said the extra time it will take to minimize congestion on the start line and course means they could only close roads for 25k.
2021 Simplot Games High School Indoor Meet Cancelled Due To Covid It was scheduled for late February.

NCAA News

MB:IVY LEAGUE CANCELS WINTER SPORTS Spring sports are postponed until at least the end of February and they won’t have any competition for fall sports during the spring semester.
Recommended Read:Runner’s World Takes A Deep Look Into The Economic Realities Of Colleges Sports And Why So Many Men’s Running Programs Are Getting Cut In 2018, 94 men’s DI programs and 125 women’s programs operated at over a $400,000 median loss. Power 5 schools were even worse with a median loss of over a million dollars.
Weekend NCAA XC Preview: DII XC National Invitational
Meet Recap: 2020 NJCAA DI XC Championships

Doping & Administrative News

Who’s Going Where

Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer And 2:12 Marathoner Jonas Hampton Join Team B.A.A. Rohrer was an 8-time All-American at Notre Dame, where she ran 15:29/31:58, while Hampton was 8th at the Olympic Trials.
*MB: Anna Rohrer goes pro and signs with the BAA – 2:12 marathoner Jonas Hampton signs as well

Conseslus Kipruto Could Spend The Rest Of His Career In Prison

Olympic Steeplechase Champion Conseslus Kipruto Charged With Having Sex With A Minor Kipruto is accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl and faces at least 20 years in prison if convicted. He has pled not guilty and has been released on bail.
Conseslus Kipruto’s Case To Be Heard In May 2021 Just a couple months before the Tokyo Olympics.

Doping News

Canadian Steeplechasers Chantelle Groenewoud And Jessica Furlan Upgraded To 2013 World University Gold And Silver The two originally finished 4th and 5th, but all three of the original medalists (Russia’s Yulia Zaripova, Ukraine’s Svitlana Schmidt and Turkey’s Gulcan Mingir) have had their results expunged due to doping bans.
WADA Optimistic “Full-On” Testing Can Resume Before Tokyo 2020 Coronavirus has curtailed testing, but WADA says they are back up to around 80% their normal level.
Russian Athletics Marks 5-Year Anniversary Of Doping Suspension World HJ champ Mariya Lasitskene wrote on Instagram, “When even five years isn’t enough to get back your flag and anthem.”
UK Anti-Doping Launching “Protect Your Sport” Initiative To Encourage Athletes To Report Suspicions Of Doping This came in response to a predicted 30% drop in the number of reports by athletes this year.

XC Meet Of Champions Results Live Coverage / Video Replays

Mason Ferlic Drops Paul Chelimo To Get Big Win At XC Town USA Meet Of Champions Race In Terre Haute Ferlic put 10 seconds on Chelimo over the final 1,000m of the 8k race. Former UW star Amy-Eloise Markovc won the women’s race, outkicking NAIA sophomore Emma Wilson by 1.4 seconds.
*MB: Chelimo loses 8k by 10 sec to Mason Ferlic

High School:

Bolt Speaks

COVID Talk

News From The UK

RIP

Canadian Running Mourns Loss Of Legendary University Of Windsor Coach Dennis Fairall Fairall, who died last Friday at 67, had been living with the rare degenerative disease PSP (progressive supranuclear palsy) and stepped away from coaching duties in 2016.

MB: Wejo’s Former Yale Coach Steve Bartold Has Died He also had great success at St. John’s.

MB: Hugh Short – former WR holder at Georgetown – dies at 98 after a life well lived From setting a world record at Georgetown to listening to the I Have A Dream Speech in-person to having the longest marriage in Vermont, Hugh had quite a life.

Sexual Predators Get Punished

Former Coach Dr. Ken Porter Charged And Arrested In Edmonton It is alleged that between 1976 and 1980, Kenneth Thomas Porter, 72, who was a coach with the Edmonton Olympic Track and Field Club, sexually assaulted five underage teen males while under his supervision.
*MB: Dr. Ken Porter arrested and charged today in Edmonton
*MB: Burning my OTTAWA LIONS singlet *
Ontario Track Coach Evon Buchanan Is Banned For Life For Sexual Harassment That Occurred In 2003 And 2004.

Japanese Action

Kenyan Richard Kimunyan Yator Runs 27:01.74 To Win 10,000m At The Nittai Time Trials In Japan Yator just beat out Jonathan Ndiku by .19. Japanese 18-year-old Yamato Yoshii ran 28:08.61 (#4 on Japan all-time U20 list).
Japanese Universities Hold Joint 20k Time Trial In Place Of Cancelled Ageo City Half The race was won in 58:53 by Kazuya Nishiyama.
Japan Running News’ Ekiden Weekend Roundup
Nobeoka Nishi Nippon Marathon Canceled In Japan The race was scheduled for February 14.
AW Weekly Round-Up: Japan’s Eiki Takashahi Breaks World 10,000m Racewalk Best The time was 37:25.21.

Recruiting News

Arkansas Signs Four “Impressive” Distance Recruits Their top recruit looks to be Carmie Prinsloo from South Africa, who has PRs of 4:17.09 (1,500), 9:18.92 (3,000) and 16:39.64 (5,000).
Eleven High Schoolers Sign Letters Of Intent With Illinois Track/XC Includes Foot Locker 12th placer (and NXN 16th placer) Annalyssa Crain.

Manangoi Gets 2-Year Ban

Former World 1,500m Champ Elijah Manangoi Gets Two-Year Drug Ban For Missed Drug Tests Manangoi had been provisionally suspended, but has had his ban confirmed by the AIU.
*MB: Elijah Manangoi banned; says he missed one test due to traffic jam, another because a 3rd party failed to update it
Elijah Manangoi Accepts Ban Decision: “I have acknowledged that I made a mistake … it will be difficult to forgive myself.”

Stay Fit (Or Get Fit)

World’s Oldest Woman – 117-Year-Old Kane Tanaka Of Japan – Still Planning On Doing Olympic Torch Relay In 2021
*MB: God bless her. Kane Tanaka, 117, the oldest woman in the history of Japan, loves Coke and America
How Should You Train If You Get Covid-19? Experts recommend using the 50/30/20/10 rule (reduce your training by 50% the 1st week, 30% the next).
Nurse Loses 105 Pounds By Watching Her Diet And Adding In Runs
Running In Milwaukee – America’s Most Segregated City The mission of F.E.A.R. (Forget Everything And Run) is to “bridge the fitness gap” in Milwaukee’s communities of color by increasing representation and exposure to the sport of running, especially long-distance runs.

Sprint / Jump News

The Best Running Podcast Out There

LRC A Tale Of 2 Marathoners (Jordan Hasay + Tierney Wolfgram), Salazar’s Alleged Attemted Kiss Of Kara Goucher, Discrimination Is Bad, Plus Positive Press For Christian Coleman We break down the latest in Olympic running news including Jordan Hasay disappointing and 17-year-old Tierney Wolfgram impressing. Plus SC members, hear our take on the election in the bonus content.

Jared Ward And BYU Mechanics Expert Iain Hunter Talk Super Shoes On One-Hour Podcast

Future Action

2020 Delhi Half Marathon (Nov 29th) Is Loaded As Usual – 12 Sub-60 Men And 9-Sub-70 Women Will Compete Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu, the 21-year old two-time defending champs from Ethiopia, headline the stacked fields.
*MB: A race to get excited about – 2020 Delhi Half Marathon (Nov 29th) is loaded as usual.
Want To Run A Marathon Relay With Your Friends? The ASICS World 42.2k Ekiden Launched On Wednesday And Runs Through November 22nd
2021 London Diamond League Will Be Held On A Tuesday To Avoid Wimbledon Final And Other Events In 2018, someone stupidly put the Athletics World Cup on the same day as the World Cup and Wimbledon finals.

Inside Japan Distance Culture

Recommended Read:Why Japan Is An Island Of Greener Pastures For Kenyan Athletes A lot of interesting insights into the Japanese running culture why Kenyans are attracted to it and how they sometimes struggle to adjust.
British Olympian Mara Yamauchi Tries To Explain “The Magic Of The Ekiden” She describes it as, “Japan’s cultural icon of the running world which turns solitary running into the most gripping of team sports.”
Osaka Women’s Marathon To Be Held On January 31st With Limited Field Normally the race has a 3:10 entry cutoff, but that’s being moved to 2:50 which is expected to decrease the field from about 500 to around 100.