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Top Ten Stories of the Week
5/5/2018
These are the top ten stories based on views over the last week.
Let's understand how fast 18-year-old Phonex Kipruto ran today in Central Park
From the starting horn at the 14th UAE Healthy Kidney 10K run in Central Park in New York City today April 29, two runners—Kenyan training partners Rhonex Kipruto and Mathew Kimeli—set off to chase the bonus prize money, in addition to competing for the $10,000 first-place prize.
Passing the 5K split in approximately 13:39, the two were on track to break the event record, and they would only pick up the pace from there.
On the fourth mile, the 18-year-old Kipruto began to pull away from Kimeli, and he reached the 8-kilometer checkpoint in a world-best time of 21:45, breaking the previous mark by 17 seconds. Kipruto would then lower the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K event record by 27 seconds, crossing the finish line in 27:08; that time is also the fastest in the world this year to date, the fastest road 10K ever run in the United States on a record-eligible course, and the seventh-fastest road 10K of all-time (also on a record-eligible course). Kimeli would finish second in 27:19.
This is a New York Road Runners event. Prior to this race, Phonex finished 3rd at the Birell 10K last September in Prague clocking 27:13.
(04/29/18) Views: 1,832
Alberto Salazar still holds one American Road Record which he set in 1981
DID YOU KNOW: The American Road Record for 8K is 22:04. It was set over 37 years ago. On January 4, 1981 Alberto Salazar ran that time in Los Altos, California at the Runner's World Five Mile Invitational (5 miles is 154 feet longer than 8K).
It is a distance that is not run very often but that is a long time for the record to still be on the books. That same year Alberto won the New York City Marathon in 2:08:13 as he did the following year and 1980 as well.
He also won Boston in 1982 in 2:08:52. A race that would be known later as the "Duel In The Sun."
Dick Beardsley and Alberto (photo) battled right up to the end. Alberto was born in Cuba in 1958 and immigrated to the United States as a child with his family. Salazar currently is the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project in Portland, Oregon.
(05/01/18) Views: 1,269Bob Anderson
His goal is to raise One Million Dollars for a coworker battling Tonque Cancer
A man is using the deep rivalry between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys to help a coworker diagnosed with cancer.
When Texas school assistant principal, Bruce Hermans, learned the school's choir director, Allison Hartzell, was battling Stage 4 tongue cancer, he wanted to do something for her.
As an avid runner, Hermans decided to help raise money for Hartzell's treatment by running his first full marathon in his hometown of Green Bay.
Pitting Packers fans against Cowboys fans, the Run4Allison campaign's goal is to raise $1 million by asking fans to donate in the name of their favorite team.
Which ever team raises the most money, is the jersey Hermans says he will wear crossing the finish line at Lambeau Field during the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon.
(04/27/18) Views: 1,098
Sarah Sellers focus is now to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics after Boston
Sarah Sellers who came out of nowhere to finish second at the Boston Marathon, is turning her attention to trying to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Sellers, an Ogden (Utah) High School and Weber State graduate, initially wanted to hit the 'A' standard Olympic qualifying time of 2 hours, 37 minutes earlier this month in Boston.
As soon as she saw the weather — wet, windy and miserable — she abandoned that goal, but still hit the 'B' standard with her time of 2:44:04 (the 'B' standard is 2:45:00).
"I still don't feel like it's quite a reality yet, but I'm really excited because it's definitely very motivating to try really hard and to train smart, because there's a lot of really good marathoners in the U.S.," she said.
Sellers, a nurse anesthetist at Banner-University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, qualified for the Olympic trials, which will be held Feb. 29, 2020.
"I don't know what my potential is there, but I think I'm definitely motivated to do everything I can to do the best I can at the trials," she said. Sellers is taking it easy for a while to help her body recover from the marathon. She will try to incorporate things like strength training and biking, but doesn't anticipate running a race for awhile as she recovers.
(04/30/18) Views: 766
Bruce Tulloh, the original barefoot runner and world class runner has died at age 82
Bruce Tulloh, European 5000m champion in 1962, one of Britain's best and most popular runners of the 1960s, trans-America record-breaker, and an ongoing influential figure in British athletics as a coach and writer, has died aged 82.
In 1969, Tulloh ran 2876 miles across America from Los Angeles to New York City in 64 days. This is described in his book Four Million Footsteps, published by Pelham Books in 1970.
"I read Four Million Footsteps many times," said Bob Anderson. "It was a wonderful account of his journey across America. Bruce was a super friendly, inspiring runner and he will be missed."
Bruce told Simon Freeman (editor at Like the Wind Magazine). "Bruce Tulloh says he can’t remember a time when he wasn’t running. His mother was a runner and — according to Tulloh — she never lost a race. His whole family were active, sporty people, including the perceptive grandfather, an international tennis player."
He told Simon in 2015, "There’s nothing nicer for me than to go out to a lovely bit of grass or on to the beach and run,” he says.
“Even though nowadays I’ll be running a bit, walking a bit. It’s just a natural human activity.” And it is possibly thanks to his decision to not wear shoes that Tulloh will be best remembered.
However, it would be a mistake to think that there wasn’t science and planning behind the choice to go barefoot. He was the originial barefoot runner.
(04/29/18) Views: 625
Sandy Gage traveling the world running Marathons and Beyond, 101 so far
Sandy Gage got excited about running again, nearly 35 years after she competed with her high school track team.
Never did she imagine it would lead to traveling the world competing in marathons, 100 in total to be exact. The 61-year-old married mother of four adult children hit the 100-marathon mark April 7, and it wasn’t a standard 26.2-mile race, but a 100-mile ultra marathon at the 4,500-foot elevation mark in the mountains of Idyllwild in Riverside County, California.
“I wanted to run the 100-mile race to commemorate my 100th marathon,” said Sandy, a senior vice president at Merrill Lynch in Brea. “A lot of my family came out to watch and supported me the entire way.”
She finished the race in about 33 hours, taking a few hours off in the middle of the race to drain some blisters. She has no plans to stop running marathons now that she’s reached the 100-marathon mark. In June, she’ll compete in a standard 26.2-mile marathon in Machu Picchu, Peru, a race that takes runners to an elevation of 17,000 feet in the Andes Mountains.
There are several more on her schedule. She’s run the Boston Marathon twice, the Los Angeles and Huntington Beach Surf City marathons five times apiece, San Antonio, New York, Chicago, San Francisco marathons and marathons in Tokyo, Great Wall of China, Antartica, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Berlin and London. And there will be many more to come.
(04/28/18) Views: 512Josh Thompson/ Chino-Chino Hills Champion
Should Caster Semenya be forced to lower Testosterone levels to compete in Tokyo?
Caster Semenya is very much in the news lately. We have already published two stories about the new IAAF rule which will require Caster to take testosterone-lowering medication in order to compete on an international level.
Per the report: "The IAAF, will reportedly announce the creation of a new female classification to be known as Athletes with Differences of Sexual Development, which includes those with Hyperandrogenism, such as Semenya.
"From November 1, 2018, athletes who fit into that classification will be forced to undergo testosterone-lowering treatment."
Caster was born with this medical condition. Caster is a South African middle-distance runner and a gold medalist and for sure could easily pass for a man on the outside.
Last August Caster shared this story about her love story with her wife Violet Raseboya in a TV interview. "We met in a restroom in 2007. She was a runner and was being escorted by doping officials.
She thought I was a boy and said 'What is a boy doing in here?'" "I'm not a boy. You think I'm lost? You think I can just walk in here?" It took a while for them to start dating and Caster said it was her that told Violet about her feelings for her.
"We were in denial. She had a past. She had a boyfriend. (She) was trying to deny being in love with a woman" They got married in 2017.
This is a tough situation for the IAAF. Seb Coe just wants the competition to be fair. However, this is a medical condition a person is born with. Penalizing an athlete for a natural trait of her body does not seem right.
(05/01/18) Views: 433Bob Anderson
My Legs got so numb in Boston, it felt like I didn't have shorts on says Shalane
Shalane Flanagan posted this today, "That time I ran the Boston Marathon and my legs got so numb from the cold that it felt like I didn't have shorts on. And apparently...it looked like I didn't have shorts." Some of her fans comments: "But those muscles." "If my legs looked like that I probably wouldn't wear pants/shorts ever." “You needed ski pants that day." "Ha ha, at least you can laugh about it now! You lived to tell the tale! Superstar." Shalane kept running and finished in 7th place. (04/27/18) Views: 280
The first High School Runner to run a sub four minute mile in 1964, Jim Ryun is 71 today
DID YOU KNOW: Today is Jim Ryun’s 71st birthday. Jim was the first prep runner to run a sub-4:00 mile which he did in 1964 in 3:59.0. His 1965 time of 3:55.3 stood as a high school record for 36 years. A three-time Olympian in 1964, 1968 and 1972, Jim won the Silver Medal in the 1968 Olympic 1,500 meters in Mexico City, set World Records in 1966 of 1:44.9 for 880 yards (1:44.3 for 800m en route) and the mile (3:51.1). In 1967 he set World Records of 880 yards indoors (1:48.3), mile (3:51.1) and 1,500 meters (3:33.1), he tied Tom O’Hara’s indoor mile WR of 3:56.4 in 1971, was five-time NCAA champion at the University of Kansas, at Wichita East High School was three-time Kansas State mile champion, was 1966 Sports Illustrated ‘Sportsman of the Year’, 1966 Sullivan Award honoree, 1966 ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year, and Track and Field News 1966 and 1967 Athlete of the Year. Jim was one of my heroes that got me started running in 1973 and remains one of my heroes. Last summer Jim was awesome to be my milestone 100th interviewee at Gary Cohen Running. (Click on link to read the interview.) (04/29/18) Views: 146Gary Cohen
Galen Rupp is set to hit the streets of Prague May 6 and do battle in the Marathon
Galen Rupp is set to hit the streets of Prague just 20 days after cold, windy, and rainy weather and his resulting respiratory problems forced him out of the 2018 BAA Boston Marathon. His prior record in marathons found him on the podium four times in four starts (including two victories and a Bronze medal in the Olympics) and he will be looking to return to that form with a redeeming run in the 2018 Volkswagen Prague Marathon on May 6th. This will be Rupp’s second visit to the city after the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon in 2017 which he used as a tune-up for his second place finish in the 2017 Boston Marathon. “I’m excited to be running in Prague. I’ve done a lot of great training in the last few months and I’m looking forward to the race on May 6,” said Rupp. The American will face strong competition trying to beat him to the tape. Ethiopia’s Sisay Lemma who ran 2:04:08 earlier this year in Dubai will be wearing the No. 1 bib. Rupp did defeat Lemma in the Chicago Marathon in 2017 with a fast final 10 kilometers. Amongst the invited African, European, and Japanese runners there will be many others looking to claim the win including the 24 year old Barselius Kipyego a 59:14 half marathoner. Kipyego’s win in the Mattoni Usti nad Labem Half Marathon last September bodes well for a faster finish than his current marathon personal best of 2:13:06. (04/27/18) Views: 94
