“He was very disappointed he didn’t do it last year,” said Matt Turnbull, Elite Athlete Coordinator. “He was in good shape, but it was very windy at the start. Now, he knows what the course is all about. He’s been training hard for it.”
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
TOMORROW - World Record At Carlsbad 5000?
Prague Half-Marathon: Philemon Limo, 59:30!
Limo, 25, has only been running seriously for two years, and racing at world class for 12 months. But he ran away from three men who have already gone sub-60. He beat Azmeraw Bekele of Ethiopia and his compatriot, Titus Masai by over a minute, clocking a superlative 59:30, and taking 37 seconds off the two-year-old course record, to become the third fastest man of the year at the distance.
His colleague Lydia Cheromei, who in contrast was winning world titles at the age of 13, more than emulated Limo. Her 1:07:33 took exactly a minute and half from the former record, and is the second fastest time in 2011.
Following his own sub-60 - a 59:39 clocking in Holland three weeks ago - Azmeraw was a marginal race favourite, and he set out to justify that claim. The Ethiopian was in the van behind pacemaker Edward Muge in the early stages of the race, along with Masai and another Kenyan, Jairus Chanchima. But Limo was lurking in the background, and stayed with the favourites when a group of five broke away after just five kilometres.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Renato Canova on Blood Doping
I continue to fight my battle for the credibility of middle distances, especially about African runners.
I continue to say that blood doping with the strongest athletes doesn't work, and CANNOT work. I know what I say, but, because of partial informations regardings normal people (in this case blood doping works), many persons suppose I'm naive, or stupid, or cheater.
I don't care, I know where is possible to arrive with talent and very hard GOOD training (isn't true that Training Hard you win easy : train WELL is also training hard, but not always training hard is training well), because some of the best athletes in the world (for example, the WR holder of steeple Shaheen, the World Champions of HM Florence Kiplagat and Wilson Kiprop, the WCCCh Imane Merga) are with me in training from long time, and I know everything about what they do (and they do what I plan for them to do).
But the main point is another :
Which kind of image you offer, about athletics, for young people having the passion of running ? Your message is that NEVER is possible running fast without doping, that everybody is a cheater, that there are no moral values and ideals in athletics. You are a TERRORIST OF TRACK AND FIELD, without any proof and also without any knowledge about what are you saying.
I put my face in this battle, I put in Letsrun, but I'll put also in Boston (I go there for the Marathon with Florence Kiplagat and Moses Mosop).
I don't fear to say the truth, also if somebody doesn't believe.
People don't have any idea till where is possible arrive, IN ABSOLUTELY CLEAN WAY, having big talent and motivation.
Do you think that, for example, Herbert Elliot in 1960 (able running without rabbit, in the Olympic Final, the WR in 3'35"6 when was 22), with the professionalism of today, the money of today, a long career, better tracks, total motivation for long time, could not run the same times of today, may be better ? And the same thing for Peter Snell, Sebastian Coe, the top English runners of 30 years ago.
Or EPO already was there, only for them ?
Shut up, big stupid mouth, and respect who works very hard every day for promoting athletic in their role : athletes as first, and coaches (many of them without any economica advantage), and managers, and organisers that struggle in finding money for their races. And, yes, also for physiologists and haematologists, that approach athletics for one simple reason : because, being a MEASURABLE sport, is possible to have research about enigines superior to the normal average.
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Marathon hopefuls set for timely boost
The AAI controversially decided to make the marathon standards for this summer's World Championships in Korea even harder than the 2:17 and 2:43 set out by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Athletics Ireland is demanding marks of 2:16 (men) and 2:38 (women) for Daegu because they felt that the IAAF standards were too easily attained, but the Irish Independent understands that AAI are contemplating softening their stance for London 2012.
The IAAF is expected to announce the Olympic standards in mid-April and it is not yet clear what the marathon mark will be, but they usually mirror those for the preceding World Championships.
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Christelle Daunay: “This year the French 10000m record is in my sights”
Many people might jump to the assumption it would be her last outing before a marathon in the middle of next month. After all she has run the Paris Marathon for three of the last four years, which is where she ran her best time of 2:24:22, to rank number four on the 2011 European list behind three Russian women.
However, this year her targets are a little different.
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Empire State of Mind: Brooklyn's Eddie Owens and the NYRR Half-Marathon
“It wasn’t a tough decision,” he said.
Owens, of course, ran in the 13.1-mile half marathon in Manhattan
March 20. And his impressive finish time of 1 hour, 7 minutes, 34 seconds – good for 37th in a field of top international pros, and the only teen in the top 100 – stands as one of the top high school distance running achievements of the year.
It’s better than that, in fact. There’s no official high school record for the half marathon, but the USATF lists the Junior record for the distance as 1:04:42, by 19-year-old Jay O’Keefe in 1983. But runningusa.org also lists all-time single-age bests, with Thom Hunt (1:08:07, 1975) holding the all-time age-17 mark (Owens’ age). Because the course was point-to-point, it is not record-eligible, but there’s no doubt it’s one of the best road efforts – beyond 10k – in prep history.
It all began on the heels of another attention-grabbing high school race that starred Lukas Verzbicas.
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ichael Kipyego is the promising debutant at the 31st ABN AMRO Marathon Rotterdam; Sammy Kitwara will be leading the pace makers
3000 metres steeple chase
In 2002 Michael Kipyego (27) conquered the junior world title at the 3000 metres steeple chase. At Grand Prix races, he regularly finished on the podium in this section. His personal best is 8.08.48. He was also impressive as a cross country runner: fourth in the World Championships of 2003 and sixth in 2007.
Kipyego
Kipyego will make the transition to the road this year. Initially he was planning to make his debut at the half marathon in April. However, his training is going so well that he has chosen to make the step to the marathon immediately in Rotterdam. Coach Patrick Sang: "It's amazing how fast Mike has adapted himself to the training. He is also physically ready." Kipyego is training with top athletes such as Emmanuel Mutai (second in London last year) and Bernard Kipyego (in 2009 second at the World Championships half marathon).
Sammy Kitwara
Sammy Kitwara (24) won the CPC Run The Hague in 2009. This year he wasn't able to impress in the city due to problems with his back. However, he is now in top condition again.
Kipruto
The Kenyan Vincent Kipruto (23) is on paper the fastest athlete in the 31st ABN AMRO Marathon Rotterdam (2.05.13). Last year the Kenyan Patrick Makau won in Rotterdam, in the fastest time of 2010: 2.04.48. The course record is in the hands of his fellow countryman Duncan Kibet, who in 2009, delivered the world's best performance in Rotterdam: 2.04.27.
Atsede Habtamu
In the women's section Atsede Habtamu is withdrawn from the race. The Ethiopian does not think her current form is good enough for her to compete in a marathon field that is as strong as the Rotterdam Marathon. Rita Jeptoo remains the fastest women at the start. The 30-year old Kenyan has a personal best of 2.23.38 to her name. That was the time she won in Boston in 2006.
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