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At some point in the last few months I discovered that both versions of the ARRS database, the static one and the searchable version , are gone. Last week David Monti posted a link to the ARRS history of an event he covered in Race Results Weekly, I guess copying and pasting a link from last year without looking at it, and that reminded me to write something about the loss of the database. The Association of Road Racing Statisticians was basically a one-man show operated from the remote Northern California shores by Ken Young . When the site existed its intro read: The Association of Road Racing Statisticians (ARRS) is an independent, non-profit organization that collects, analyses and publishes results and statistics regarding elite distance running at distances 3000m and longer...The data of ARRS is stored in the ARRS database, which has more than 1.3 million performances from more than 240,000 races by more than 95,000 elite and sub-elite distance runners worldwide...This website ...

It's been 122 days since the 122nd Boston Marathon. Of what the two exceptional people who won that day accomplished, William   Shakespeare summed it up better than any other commentator in his Sonnet 122:       Beyond all date, even to eternity;      Or at the least, so long as brain and heart      Have faculty by nature to subsist;      Till each to razed oblivion yield his part      Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd. What else needs to be said? But the other thing that remains from that day is, of course, this: Worst punditry ever? #Yuki pic.twitter.com/AwjeuZDtOt — Xempo Running (@xempouk) April 16, 2018 In the 122 days since Boston this clip has been on my mind a lot. The commentary here by Larry Rawson and Al Trautwig was exceptionally bad, but it wasn't unique to them and highlighted many of the problems with marathon TV broadcasts and especially their hosts and commentator...

by Brett Larner The 4th-place finish by Volha Mazuronak of Belarus at last weekend's London Marathon turned heads around the world.  Her time of 2:23:54 may become a national record pending the annulment of times run by Belarussian Alexsandra Duliba following January's announcement of Duliba's suspension on biological passport violations.  New York Road Runners professional athlete consultant David Monti was quick to point out Mazuronak's splits , a 1:13:19 first half, 1:10:35 second half and 7:08 for the final 2.195 km split from 40 km to the finish, the fastest closing split in the London women's field and on a par with or better than the 6th through 10th-place men there.  Mara Yamauchi , the second-fastest British woman ever in the marathon, wrote an analysis noting the similarity between Mazuronak's splits and those in a 2012 JRN analysis of performances by Eastern European women represented by Russian Andrey Baranov and his Spartanik agency. B...

Hayward Field, Eugene, OR, 6/1/12 click here for complete results 1. Wilson Kiprop - 27:01.98 - PB 2. Moses Ndiema Masai - 27:02.25 3. Bitan Karoki (Team S&B) - 27:05.50 - PB 4. Emmanuel Kipkemei Bett - 27:07.90 5. Geoffrey Kirui - 27:08.44 6. Lucas Kimeli Rotich - 27:09.38 7. Eliud Kipchoge - 27:11.93 8. Mark Kosgei Kiptoo - 27:18.22 9. Micah Kemboi Kogo - 27:23.04 10. Mike Kipruto Kigen - 2723.75 - PB 11. Paul Kipngetich Tanui (Team Kyudenko) - 27:27.56 12. Denis Masai - 27:32.79 - PB 13. Josphat Kipkoech Bett - 27:39.65 14. Kevin Chelimo - 27:46.10 15. Titus Kipjumba Mbishei - 27:59.15 Pre-race Athletics Kenya announced that the top two finishers would earn guaranteed places on the Kenyan Olympic team, with the third spot decided at a later date.  Saitama-based Karoki's PB run was thus not enough to assure that he will make it to the London. In the women's 10000 m, Aomori Yamada H.S. graduate and former Suzuki team member Lucy Kabuu Wangui  dropped ...

Half-marathon national record holders Atsushi Sato (Team Chugoku Denryoku) and Kayoko Fukushi (Team Wacoal) at the 2011 Chicago Marathon press conference.  Photo (c) 2011 Dr. Helmut Winter http://www.letsrun.com/2011/fukushi-1006.php A good piece on Kayoko Fukushi  by Race Results Weekly's David Monti  ahead of Fukushi's highly anticipated run at Sunday's Chicago Marathon.  Here's hoping we don't see this again: Before: After: Click here for a documentary on Fukushi's debut at the 2008 Osaka International Women's Marathon.

The New York Road Runners held a press conference June 2 at Icahn Stadium as part of a National Running Day event to announce that Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie and Japan's #1 marathoner, Arata Fujiwara , will run this year's ING New York City Marathon on Nov. 7. JRN was there to cover the event. One of the better birthdays I've had. all photos (c) 2010 Yasunori Sakamaki all rights reserved

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http://www.thefinalsprint.com/2008/08/injury-forces-noguchi-out-of-olympic-marathon/ As with the Times Online's Rick Broadbent a few days ago and Reuters before that, New York City Marathon Elite Athlete Coordinator and Race Results Weekly editor David Monti made uncredited use of my translation work in the above article published on The Final Sprint website, in this case the entire quotation of Mizuki Noguchi's withdrawal statement. As I said in response to Mr. Broadbent's utilization of my work , I provide professional-quality translations free of charge on this blog and am happy to have them distributed elsewhere. I ask only to receive due credit as the translator out of respect for the significant portion of my time I put into making this information available outside Japan.