Amane Beriso Shankule capped an amazing personal calendar year of running to become the World Champion as Gotytom Gebreslase got silver and Fatima Gardadi of Morocco prevented the Ethiopian sweep. Lindsay Flanagan led the Americans in 9th.

Plus a look at the HOT NCAA sprint action and could the Stanford men actually challenge NAU in xc next year?

The bad news: an American is almost certain to get lapped in Sunday's London Marathon. The good news: you can get lapped in London and still run really, really fast. We preview the chances of Jared Ward, Sara Hall, Molly Seidel, and Lindsay Flanagan. Could Sara Hall possibly break Deena Kastor's 2:19:36 AR?

The American wasn't confirmed to the field until late August but says she's ready to PR and also admits to being star-struck by Kipchoge. "I wanted to get my own picture of him like you know, from the bushes, but I didn't. I was like can I just hide and snap a picture?"  

Just how hard is this course? What are the pros saying? And why should Walking Dead fans be excited? We traveled to Atlanta to give you the scoop.

Another top names announced include US marathon champs Brogan Austin and Emma Bates as well as Stephanie Bruce, Lindsay Flanagan, Chris Derrick, Diego Estrada and Parker Stinson.

Korir will face 59:36 man Samuel Kosgei (PB from 2009), Matt Llano and Parker Stinson while the women's race also has 2015 Pan American Games Marathon silver medalist Lindsay Flanagan and Lindsey Scherf (71:45).

The women's field in the world championships is absurdly deep as it features 10 women who have broken 2:22.

The Colorado men and women shined brightly in different ways at Pac 12s, so did two American marathoners in Frankfurt, plus a look at Rita Jeptoo's doping suspension and the amount of foreign studs in NCAA xc.