Jenna Boren won the women's race, and Team USA Minnesota's Antonio Vega continued his comeback with a second place finish at Sunday's IMT Des Moines Half Marathon. Boren, who runs for the TC Running Company, won her third Des Moines Half Marathon title in the last four years in 1:16:13, ten seconds off the course record(CR) she set last year. Vega was timed in 1:03:41 to finish 23 seconds behind winner Samuel Ndereba.
Both Ndereba and Vega beat the previous men's CR. Full and searchable results are HERE.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
More Clippings on HS Results
Stillwater Gazette report on the Suburban East Conference boys' Meet is HERE. Report on the girls competition is HERE.
Sun Current report on the South Suburban Conference Meet is HERE.
Sun Current Preview of the 6AA Section Meet on Oct. 24 is HERE.
Sun Current on Edina runners who ran well at the Lake Conference Meet HERE.
Chanhassen Villager report on Missota Conference Championships is HERE.
Sun Sailor report on the Wayzata girls triumph in the Lake Conference Meet is HERE. Boys race report on the battle between Wayzata and Edina is HERE.
East Otter Tail Focus report on the Perham XC teams is HERE.
Sun Current report on the South Suburban Conference Meet is HERE.
Sun Current Preview of the 6AA Section Meet on Oct. 24 is HERE.
Sun Current on Edina runners who ran well at the Lake Conference Meet HERE.
Chanhassen Villager report on Missota Conference Championships is HERE.
Sun Sailor report on the Wayzata girls triumph in the Lake Conference Meet is HERE. Boys race report on the battle between Wayzata and Edina is HERE.
East Otter Tail Focus report on the Perham XC teams is HERE.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Abdi Bile in Town for Run to Unite Fundraiser this Weekend
Yes/No: Will Antonio Vega break 1:04 at Des Moines?
Antonio Vega was sidelined in 2011 and part of 2012 with hip injuries. He has returned fit and fast in the fall of 2012 and recently finished ninth at the TC 10 Mile. Vega ran 47:53 in that race that served as the USA 10 Mile Championship. His personal record at the 10 mile distance is 47:43 while his half marathon best is 1:01:54.
Vega will travel to Des Moines, Iowa to challenge that half-marathon best and test his fitness. He has a shot at placing another Minnesotan in the IMT Des Moines Half-Marathon record book. Jenna Boren has the female course record in 1:16:03. The current men's record is 1:03:45, run by Ezkyas Tsegaya in 2011.
Vega will travel to Des Moines, Iowa to challenge that half-marathon best and test his fitness. He has a shot at placing another Minnesotan in the IMT Des Moines Half-Marathon record book. Jenna Boren has the female course record in 1:16:03. The current men's record is 1:03:45, run by Ezkyas Tsegaya in 2011.
Yes/No: Will Antonio Vega run faster than 1:04:00 at the Des Moines Half-Marathon on Sunday?
Antonio Vega ran 4:47 pace in the TC 10 Miler in early October. To break 1:04 at the Des Moines Half-Marathon, Vega would have have to run 4:53 pace. In Vega's personal record 1:01:54, he averaged 4:43 pace.
Halfmarathons.net describes the Des Moines course as "largely fast and flat."
Antonio Vega ran 4:47 pace in the TC 10 Miler in early October. To break 1:04 at the Des Moines Half-Marathon, Vega would have have to run 4:53 pace. In Vega's personal record 1:01:54, he averaged 4:43 pace.
Halfmarathons.net describes the Des Moines course as "largely fast and flat."
To play our game, simply type "yes" or "no" into the subject line of an e-mail and send it to us at DtBFantasy [AT] gmail [DOT] com before 8:00 A.M. CDT, Sunday, October 21th. Please put your answers in the subject line of the e-mail and make sure your full name appears somewhere in the e-mail.
My Answer: No
Last week's question was will the Collegeville Track Club win the Open Men category at the Pike Island Open Cross Country race on Sunday? The answer was no. Collegeville was ahead through four runners but did not finish a fifth man and finished as an incomplete team. Northwoods won the Open Race with a squad that was all at least 48 years old. Mike Mason remains in first with twenty-five points. Ryan Aylesworth, Gloria Jansen, Mike Henderson and Heather Jelen are all second with twenty-four points.
For all the results, please visit DtB Fantasy Corner, HERE.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
More News, Rankings are HERE
Strib story on Ephraim Bird of Hope Academy is HERE, Danielle Anderson story is HERE.
Fifth Annual Jack's Run honoring former Gopher equipment manager Jack Johnson is on Saturday, Cotober 20 at the Les Bolstad Golf Course at 5 PM. More info is HERE. Minnesota Daily article is HERE.
Duluth News Tribune article on the Glacial Trail 50 Miler is HERE, and on the Ashland WhistleStop Marathon is HERE.
Rochester Post-Bulletin report on the Big-nine conference championship is HERE, Rochester Mayo XC results are HERE.
MIAC Spotlight interview with Concordia Moorhead's Tanner Sakrismo is HERE.
The USTFCCCA rankings have the Gopher men falling from fourth to sixth in the Division I Regional poll and dropping out of the top 25 in the National poll. University of Minnesota women moved up two places to 25th in the National, stayed at third in the Region.
Division II.
Minnesota State Mankato stayed at 16th in the men's National poll, while the Winona State women stayed at 17th, Minnesota State Mankato again ranked 20th, while UMD retained the 28th spot.
In the Regional rankings, MSM men retained their third place ranking. The Winona State women(3), MSM(4), and UMD(8) held on to their Region rankings.
Division III
In the National poll, the St. Olaf men rose from unranked to 33rd. All three Minnesota women's teams fell in the National rankings. St. Olaf fell from 12 to 13th. Carleton fell from 19 to 23rd, and St. Thomas from 33 to 35th. In the Regional rankings St. Olaf's men rose two places to second, St. John's from one place up to fourth, St. Thomas three places up to sixth, while Bethel(8) and Carleton(10) held their spots. For the women, St. Olaf held onto second, Carleton fell one spot to fourth, St. Thomas dropped one to fifth, St. Ben's stayed sixth, Gustavus seventh, and Concordia(Moorhead) tenth.
Fifth Annual Jack's Run honoring former Gopher equipment manager Jack Johnson is on Saturday, Cotober 20 at the Les Bolstad Golf Course at 5 PM. More info is HERE. Minnesota Daily article is HERE.
Duluth News Tribune article on the Glacial Trail 50 Miler is HERE, and on the Ashland WhistleStop Marathon is HERE.
Rochester Post-Bulletin report on the Big-nine conference championship is HERE, Rochester Mayo XC results are HERE.
MIAC Spotlight interview with Concordia Moorhead's Tanner Sakrismo is HERE.
The USTFCCCA rankings have the Gopher men falling from fourth to sixth in the Division I Regional poll and dropping out of the top 25 in the National poll. University of Minnesota women moved up two places to 25th in the National, stayed at third in the Region.
Division II.
Minnesota State Mankato stayed at 16th in the men's National poll, while the Winona State women stayed at 17th, Minnesota State Mankato again ranked 20th, while UMD retained the 28th spot.
In the Regional rankings, MSM men retained their third place ranking. The Winona State women(3), MSM(4), and UMD(8) held on to their Region rankings.
Division III
In the National poll, the St. Olaf men rose from unranked to 33rd. All three Minnesota women's teams fell in the National rankings. St. Olaf fell from 12 to 13th. Carleton fell from 19 to 23rd, and St. Thomas from 33 to 35th. In the Regional rankings St. Olaf's men rose two places to second, St. John's from one place up to fourth, St. Thomas three places up to sixth, while Bethel(8) and Carleton(10) held their spots. For the women, St. Olaf held onto second, Carleton fell one spot to fourth, St. Thomas dropped one to fifth, St. Ben's stayed sixth, Gustavus seventh, and Concordia(Moorhead) tenth.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Team USA Minnesota News
Team USA
Minnesota’s Meghan Peyton participated in the “Save the
Children World Marathon Challenge” on October 16 in Bloomington along with representatives of the Minnesota Vikings football team, Vikings cheerleaders. and children from the Ramalynn Montessori Academy. The
elementary school was the first in the United States to be part of the Challenge
effort, which is helping bring awareness to childhood hunger.
Twenty-seven children, ages 11-13, from the school did a simultaneous relay
of a 26.2-mile marathon against 297 teams entered from around the world. Each
child ran 200 meters for a total of 210 laps to reach the full marathon
distance. Prior to the World Marathon, 36 children, ages 7-11, competed in a
1500 meter relay against 63 other teams from around the world.
The event, held on World Food Day, also featured a live internet feed with Patrick Makau, the current world marathon record holder, who sent his best wishes to the children taking part in the World Marathon Challenge for Save the Children.
Team USA Minnesota’s Antonio Vega will run in the IMT Des Moines Half Marathon on Sunday. Vega, who
was the 2010 USA Half Marathon Champion, has a best in the distance of 1:01:54.
Lance's Legacy
By Jim Ferstle
Lance Armstrong is a survivor. He survived a broken home, essentially growing up without a father. He survived cancer. Now he has to survive a test of his own making. The USADA's "reasoned decision" as the file on the investigation of doping on the US Postal/Discovery teams documents has been labelled, documents in detail what has been known in the cycling community for years. Doping was part of the culture. It was perceived as the only way to the top of the sport and was part of the mantra: "Everybody is doing it."
Everybody wasn't doing it, but enough were to transform the sport of cycling. The same could be said during this era about other sports, including track and field, and with the introduction of blood doping and use of rhuEPO, distance running. At a conference on the topic of doping in sport in the late 1990s at Duke University, Alberto Salazar was one of the speakers. He told the group that he was reluctant to encourage his own kids or anybody else's to get into the sport because it was perceived that doping was necessary to rise to the top.
In 1984, John Treacy, an Irish runner who later that year won a silver medal in the Olympic marathon and already twice won the World XC Championships, walked into a bathroom at the Meadowlands prior to the start of that year's IAAF World XC championships. There he saw members of the Spanish team injecting themselves with a red substance in syringes. Years later, I was at the table in a restaurant in the New York Hilton during New York City Marathon weekend with John, Minnesotans Mark Nenow and Steve Plasencia, Steve Scott, and other top runners of the era.
Talk got around to doping, and John reiterated his own vehement opposition to the notion that you had to do it to succeed. He knew others were doping. He knew it was a big problem in the sport that wasn't being properly addressed by the sports governing bodies. But that didn't make him believe he had to dope. He derived great satisfaction, he said, by beating the runners he believed were doping. Today John is the head of the Irish Sports Council, whose anti-doping unit polices the doping issue in Ireland.
Running has always had the advantage of being an individual sport where you won or lost based on your own talent and ability to perform. It wasn't the sort of team effort or culture where others could be pressured to give in to the temptation to dope just to keep one's "job" or stay at that level of the sport. The pressure to dope just to survive wasn't as intense, yet, as the recent case of California runner Christian Hesch illustrates, doping can be a strong temptation not only for Olympic level athletes, but for others as well.
Hesch only came forward with a confession of his guilt for using rhuEPO after he was caught by teammates who threatened to turn him in to USADA. Armstrong missed his first opportunity to join the other cyclists who admitted their use of drugs and accept a more lenient punishment by helping the agency attempt to get at the roots of the problem, the suppliers, enablers of doping that make the practice possible. Thomas Bach, and IOC VP, has urged Armstrong not to miss another, to "come clean," to essentially be part of the solution to the doping in sports cycle instead of part of the problem.
When Armstrong got cancer he devoted his considerable energy and determination toward dealing with his illness. Then he took one step further by trying to be part of the solution to the curse of cancer. Nobody expects him to confess. To tell all he knows about the dark underbelly of sports. But it would be, perhaps, a greater achievement than finishing first in the Tour de France seven times. If Lance Armstrong wants to be remembered for what he did for sport, he has a chance to step up and be remembered not as what Greg LeMond has called the sport's greatest fraud, but rather as someone who contributed to changing the course of modern sport. If he wants to be remembered for the good he has done or forgiveness for the damage he's caused, now is the time to earn it.
Lance Armstrong is a survivor. He survived a broken home, essentially growing up without a father. He survived cancer. Now he has to survive a test of his own making. The USADA's "reasoned decision" as the file on the investigation of doping on the US Postal/Discovery teams documents has been labelled, documents in detail what has been known in the cycling community for years. Doping was part of the culture. It was perceived as the only way to the top of the sport and was part of the mantra: "Everybody is doing it."
Everybody wasn't doing it, but enough were to transform the sport of cycling. The same could be said during this era about other sports, including track and field, and with the introduction of blood doping and use of rhuEPO, distance running. At a conference on the topic of doping in sport in the late 1990s at Duke University, Alberto Salazar was one of the speakers. He told the group that he was reluctant to encourage his own kids or anybody else's to get into the sport because it was perceived that doping was necessary to rise to the top.
In 1984, John Treacy, an Irish runner who later that year won a silver medal in the Olympic marathon and already twice won the World XC Championships, walked into a bathroom at the Meadowlands prior to the start of that year's IAAF World XC championships. There he saw members of the Spanish team injecting themselves with a red substance in syringes. Years later, I was at the table in a restaurant in the New York Hilton during New York City Marathon weekend with John, Minnesotans Mark Nenow and Steve Plasencia, Steve Scott, and other top runners of the era.
Talk got around to doping, and John reiterated his own vehement opposition to the notion that you had to do it to succeed. He knew others were doping. He knew it was a big problem in the sport that wasn't being properly addressed by the sports governing bodies. But that didn't make him believe he had to dope. He derived great satisfaction, he said, by beating the runners he believed were doping. Today John is the head of the Irish Sports Council, whose anti-doping unit polices the doping issue in Ireland.
Running has always had the advantage of being an individual sport where you won or lost based on your own talent and ability to perform. It wasn't the sort of team effort or culture where others could be pressured to give in to the temptation to dope just to keep one's "job" or stay at that level of the sport. The pressure to dope just to survive wasn't as intense, yet, as the recent case of California runner Christian Hesch illustrates, doping can be a strong temptation not only for Olympic level athletes, but for others as well.
Hesch only came forward with a confession of his guilt for using rhuEPO after he was caught by teammates who threatened to turn him in to USADA. Armstrong missed his first opportunity to join the other cyclists who admitted their use of drugs and accept a more lenient punishment by helping the agency attempt to get at the roots of the problem, the suppliers, enablers of doping that make the practice possible. Thomas Bach, and IOC VP, has urged Armstrong not to miss another, to "come clean," to essentially be part of the solution to the doping in sports cycle instead of part of the problem.
When Armstrong got cancer he devoted his considerable energy and determination toward dealing with his illness. Then he took one step further by trying to be part of the solution to the curse of cancer. Nobody expects him to confess. To tell all he knows about the dark underbelly of sports. But it would be, perhaps, a greater achievement than finishing first in the Tour de France seven times. If Lance Armstrong wants to be remembered for what he did for sport, he has a chance to step up and be remembered not as what Greg LeMond has called the sport's greatest fraud, but rather as someone who contributed to changing the course of modern sport. If he wants to be remembered for the good he has done or forgiveness for the damage he's caused, now is the time to earn it.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Stories You Might Have Missed
Minnesota Daily story on the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational is HERE.
Kare 11 story on a Blaine runner who helped a fallen runner during a race despite being on PR pace is HERE
St. Cloud Times story on St. Cloud Cathedral's Nick Golebiowski is HERE.
Chanhassen Villager story on the Wright County Conference meet is HERE.
Farmington Independent story on Kristine Benjamin, who has a rare lung disease, who finished the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon is HERE.
Stillwater Gazette story on the Pony boys win at the Alexandria Meet of Champions is HERE.
White Bear Press stories on the boys HERE and girls HERE at the Alexandria Meet of Champions.
MIAC Women's XC Athlete of the Week is St. Olaf's Jorden Johnson, a sophomore, who finished second at the Tori Neubauer Invitational last Saturday in a PR for 6K of 21:54.3 to lead the team to a runner-up spot. St Olaf senior Emma Lee, finished third in 22:04.8. Full results are HERE. The week before the St Olaf women finished fourth at the Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, IN. St. Thomas finished second, Bethel 16th in the 30 team field. Carleton was sixth, St. Ben's seventh, Gustavus ninth, Macalester 13th, Hamline 16th, Augusburg 17th, Winona State 20th. Full team results are HERE. Individual results are HERE.
The St. Olaf men finished fifth at the Jim Drews last Saturday. Dt Jonhn's was seventh, St. Thomas ninth, the Minnesota Running team was eleventh, Hamline 14th, Gustavus 18th, Macalester 20th, Augsburg 21st, and Winona State 26th. Full team results are HERE. Individual results are HERE. No male XC runner was nominated for the MIAC XC award this week.
Kare 11 story on a Blaine runner who helped a fallen runner during a race despite being on PR pace is HERE
St. Cloud Times story on St. Cloud Cathedral's Nick Golebiowski is HERE.
Chanhassen Villager story on the Wright County Conference meet is HERE.
Farmington Independent story on Kristine Benjamin, who has a rare lung disease, who finished the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon is HERE.
Stillwater Gazette story on the Pony boys win at the Alexandria Meet of Champions is HERE.
White Bear Press stories on the boys HERE and girls HERE at the Alexandria Meet of Champions.
MIAC Women's XC Athlete of the Week is St. Olaf's Jorden Johnson, a sophomore, who finished second at the Tori Neubauer Invitational last Saturday in a PR for 6K of 21:54.3 to lead the team to a runner-up spot. St Olaf senior Emma Lee, finished third in 22:04.8. Full results are HERE. The week before the St Olaf women finished fourth at the Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, IN. St. Thomas finished second, Bethel 16th in the 30 team field. Carleton was sixth, St. Ben's seventh, Gustavus ninth, Macalester 13th, Hamline 16th, Augusburg 17th, Winona State 20th. Full team results are HERE. Individual results are HERE.
The St. Olaf men finished fifth at the Jim Drews last Saturday. Dt Jonhn's was seventh, St. Thomas ninth, the Minnesota Running team was eleventh, Hamline 14th, Gustavus 18th, Macalester 20th, Augsburg 21st, and Winona State 26th. Full team results are HERE. Individual results are HERE. No male XC runner was nominated for the MIAC XC award this week.
Girls Class A Coaches XC Rankings
Team Rankings
| 1 | Esko | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | Waseca | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | Rochester Lourdes | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | --- | --- | --- |
| 4 | Trinity of River Ridge | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | --- | --- | 10 |
| 5 | Dover-Eyota | 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 12 |
| 6 | St. Cloud Cathedral | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | La Crescent | 7 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | Holdingford | 8 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | United South Central | 9 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 10 | Annandale | 10 | 10 | 11 | --- | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| 11 | Blake School | 11 | --- | --- | --- | --- | 12 | 4 |
| 12 | Minnehaha Academy | 12 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 10 | --- |
Individual Rankings
| 1 | Clare Flanagan | 11 | Blake School | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Emily Mantor | 11 | United South Central | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | --- |
| 3 | Emi Trost | 11 | Cannon Falls | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | McKenzie Holt | 11 | St. Cloud Christian | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Marisa Shady | 12 | Esko | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | Rachel Eickhoff | 10 | St. Cloud Cathedral | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 |
| 7 | Kayla Woltz | 12 | Chatfield | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 8 | Mary Naas | 10 | St. Paul Academy | 10 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 9 | Janessa Mueleners | 10 | Belle Plaine | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 12 | 10 |
| 10 | Hannah Goemann | 12 | United South Central | 11 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 11 | Sadie Novak-Klug | 11 | Waseca | --- | --- | 11 | 9 | --- | --- | 9 |
| 12 | Megan West | 12 | Mesabi East | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Boys Class A Coaches XC Rankings
Team
| 1 | Perham | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | St. Cloud Cathedral | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Minnehaha Academy | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Waseca | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| 5 | Blake School | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Esko | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | --- | --- |
| 7 | Winona Cotter | --- | --- | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 |
| 8 | Plainview-Elgin-Millville | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 9 |
| 9 | Redwood Valley Area | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 10 | Crosby-Ironton | 9 | 7 | --- | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| 11 | Martin County West | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 |
| 12 | Albany | 11 | 12 | --- | --- | --- | 7 | 7 |
Individual
| 1 | Matt Welch | 12 | Proctor | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| 2 | Charlie Lawrence | 12 | Foley | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Keeghan Hurley | 11 | Perham | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | Shane Streich | 10 | Waseca | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | Nick Golebiowski | 11 | St. Cloud Cathedral | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 6 | Ethan Wagner | 11 | Minnehaha Academy | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 7 | --- |
| 7 | Brady Speicher | 12 | Perham | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | --- | --- | --- |
| 8 | Ian Torchia | 11 | Rochester Lourdes | 8 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 7 | --- | --- |
| 9 | Billy Beseman | 10 | Perham | 11 | --- | 10 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10 | Pat Reinschmidt | 12 | Plainview-Elgin-Millville | 9 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 6 |
| 11 | Cade Ekstrom | 12 | Madelia-Truman/ML | 10 | 11 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12 | Nick Stoks | 12 | Canby-Minneota/LinHI | 12 | --- | --- | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
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