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Here is the finisher’s medal from the United States Air Force Marathon that took place on September 21, 2013 in Dayton, Ohio.

This medal is strong, yet classical, and most marathoners would love to add it to their collection.

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[medal photo submitted by Larry Keister – follow him on Twitter @royalkeister]

Here is the finisher’s medal from The Quad Cities (Half) Marathon that took place on September 22, 2013 in Moline, Illinois.

The half marathon was signified with a ‘Half Marathon’ ribbon attached to the medal.

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[medal photo submitted by Daniel Schell – follow him on Twitter @thedanielschell]

Here is the finisher’s medal from the ‘Love the Half’ Marathon that took place on September 22, 2013 in Irving, Texas.

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[medal photo submitted by RIF #60 Christy Bowers – follow her on Twitter @run2bake]

Breitbart is reporting that an Italian long distance runner, Devis Licciardi, was busted after a 10K race in Molfetta for trying to pass a drug test by using a fake penis filled with someone else’s urine.

He allegedly told the doctor he preferred to be alone during the test but the doctor refused, citing anti-doping laws that require a doctor to be in attendance.  Licciardi was caught attempting to siphon off uncontaminated urine from the fake “member” concealed in his underwear.

Licciardi, a member of the Italian Air Force team, if found guilty of having an extra penis in his undies could face a 2-year ban and years of public ridicule.

The cartoon guy at the urinal in the advertisement above is not Licciardi. It is believed to be Wario.

RIF #1 Joshua Holmes and RIF #259 Rob Distante

It’s time for the August Extreme Racer update! Not much has changed since the July update though. RIF #159 Diane Bolton is still in the lead with 1387.9 points, followed by RIF #190 John Kent Leighton in 2nd with 1246.3 points, and RIF #1 Joshua Holmes in 3rd with 1185.6 points.

On the Women’s Leaderboard, Diane is in 1st, followed by RIF #287 Carol Earles in 2nd with 798.59 points, and RIF #218 Carol Goslin is back in 3rd with 748.3 points. On the Men’s Leaderboard, John is in 1st followed by Joshua in 2nd and RIF #279 George Southgate in 3rd with 1064.07 points.

Once again, the Top Ten is split evenly with 5 Women and 5 Men which is very cool to see! Many of the Top Ten…in fact, quite a few Run It Fast Club members, are racing addicts with 50, 100, and 200+ races under their belts. When you realize how much they race, it’s not suprising that the in the last 8 months, our RIF Club Members have raced 21,575.96 miles! That total is made up of 992 races, including:

-17 100 Milers
-19 50 Milers
-55 50Ks
-382 Marathons
-120 Half Marathons
-53 10Ks
-176 5Ks
-170 races of non-traditional distances.

And that’s just from 74 of the 299 club members reporting in! In total, 76 RIF Club members have submitted points and/or monthly miles so far for 2013 (only points count in the standings so only 74 RIF Club members are listed below).

Here are the full standings through August:

Top Ten Overall
1. Diane Bolton – 1387.9 (RIF #159)
2. John Kent Leighton – 1246.3 (RIF #190)
3. Joshua Holmes – 1185.6 (RIF #1)
4. George Southgate – 1064.07 (RIF #279)
5. Carol Earles – 798.59 (RIF #287)
6. Carol Goslin – 748.3 (RIF #218)
7. Hideki Kinoshita – 727.4 (RIF #88)
8. Elaine Bickel Green – 716.7 (RIF #217)
9. Kerri Haskins – 661.6 (RIF #261)
10. Rob Distante – 624.63 (RIF #259)

Men’s Leaderboard
1. John Kent Leighton – 1246.3 (RIF #190)
2. Joshua Holmes – 1185.6 (RIF #1)
3. George Southgate – 1064.07 (RIF #279)
4. Hideki Kinoshita – 727.4 (RIF #88)
5. Rob Distante – 624.63 (RIF #259)
6. Denis McCarthy – 574.9 (RIF #263)
7. Danny Staggs – 454.9 (RIF #186)
8. Eric Waterman – 408.7 (RIF #289)
9. David Wingard – 333.9 (RIF #101)
10. Jeff Le – 320.16 (RIF #248)
11. Houston Wolf – 317.7 (RIF #254)
12. Billy Cannon – 306.8 (RIF #169)
13. Anthony Ohrey – 293.6 (RIF #27)
14. Nicholas Norfolk – 238.9 (RIF #116)
15. Arland Blanton – 236.7 (RIF #290)
16. Kevin Brandon – 203.7 (RIF #214)
17. Mark Watson – 194 (RIF #173)
18. Nathan Bass – 186.1 (RIF #174)
19. Jeff Liu – 178.6 (RIF #275)
20. Mark Ogletree – 163.7 (RIF #247)
21. Rodrigo Jiménez – 158.32 (RIF #203)
22. Steven Reagan – 156.3 (RIF #157)
23. Dennis Arriaga – 148.9 (RIF #140)
24. Josh Liggett – 142.5 (RIF #147)
25. James Krenis – 126.8 (RIF #67)
26. Bill Baker – 106 (RIF #196)
27. Nikiah Nudell – 94.8 (RIF #234)
28. Charles Carmen – 89.63 (RIF #255)
29. Kevin Ronayne – 89.1 (RIF #11)
30. Robin Robbins – 81.4 (RIF #33)
31. Rick Thiounn – 79.5 (RIF #111)
32. Stephen Griffin – 60.3 (RIF #48)
33. Neil Dryland – 57.2 (RIF #252)
34. Jason Scott – 55.5 (RIF #265)
35. Naresh Kumar – 50 (RIF #2)
36. Stewart Crouch – 29.3 (RIF #89)
37. Brian Wooldridge – 26.2 (RIF #141)
38. Chris Haynes – 26.2 (RIF #223)
39. Brennan Thompson – 25.5 (RIF #274)
40. Daniel Escue – 22.4 (RIF #187)
41. Austin Coates – 22.4 (RIF #241)

Women’s Leaderboard
1. Diane Bolton – 1387.9 (RIF #159)
2. Carol Earles – 798.59 (RIF #287)
3. Carol Goslin – 748.3 (RIF #218)
4. Elaine Bickel Green – 716.7 (RIF #217)
5. Kerri Haskins – 661.6 (RIF #261)
6. Heather Zeigler – 545 (RIF #246)
7. Suzanne Spiceland – 468.2 (RIF #280)
8. Michelle Walker – 422.3 (RIF #124)
9. Katrina Mumaw – 399.5 (RIF #268)
10. Laura Raeder – 392.5 (RIF #20)
11. Christy Scott – 382.8 (RIF #231)
12. Robin Mancinelli – 364.6 (RIF #134)
13. Lisa Gonzales – 319.26 (RIF #5)
14. Sandy Staggs – 274 (RIF #220)
15. Heather Shoemaker – 261.8 (RIF #44)
16. Alicia Eno – 246.1 (RIF #126)
17. Shannon Burke – 236.8 (RIF #171)
18. Donna England – 222.2 (RIF #277)
19. Amanda Staggs – 209.3 (RIF #210)
20. Michelle Lenahan – 192.08 (RIF #283)
21. Marj Mitchell – 188.6 (RIF #4)
22. Jennifer Wood – 183.4 (RIF #243)
23. Donna Pittman – 162.7 (RIF #181)
24. Beth Hosick – 145.5 (RIF #219)
25. Melanie Casey – 144 (RIF #202)
26. Christy Bowers – 131.22 (RIF #60)
27. Michelle Mitchell – 127.4 (RIF #133)
28. Jennifer Whitley – 82 (RIF #160)
29. Leigh Marsh – 61.7 (RIF #192)
30. Jill Hassen – 57.2 (RIF #242)
31. Natalie Torres – 55.5 (RIF #72)
32. Marlene Deem – 52.4 (RIF #189)
33. Martine Kincade – 26.2 (RIF #260)

Now that summer is coming to a close, I expect the racing to pick up. Will it have any affect on the standings? Check back next month to find out!

Some RIF Club business…

This month’s random drawing winner is RIF #261 Kerri Haskins! We will be sending her a Gone For A Run sign!

Don’t forget to submit your points/monthly miles next month for a chance to win! Anyone who submits races or miles or even to say they didn’t race/run because life got in the way is eligible for the drawing. We just want to hear what everyone is up to and it’s fun to see the race miles add up.

Details on joining Run It Fast – The Club

[Extreme Racer points are rewarded per each racing mile completed. Example: marathon = 26.2 points, half marathon 13.1 points, etc.]

[photo from Joshua Holmes]

Here is a look at where everyone is running this weekend. We had 12 responses this week. Good luck to everyone and Run It Fast!

To join Run It Fast – The Club then click HERE to read more details.

Here is the finisher’s medal from the Run With Heart Half Marathon that took place on September 14, 2013 in Mansfield, Texas.

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[medal photo submitted by RIF #60 Christy Bowers – follow her on Twitter @run2bake]

Here is the finisher’s medal from the Capital City River Run Half Marathon that took place on September 15, 2013 in Lansing, Michigan.

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Medal photo submitted by Carie Tagorda.

Rocky Balboa, American hero, rose to fame for his boxing prowess with his World Champion wins in the ring against James ‘Clubber’ Lang and Apollo Creed along with numerous bouts in between.

He showed us that an average American, with heart, could become a world champion!

While we knew no other boxer trained harder than Rocky, we didn’t know that during Rocky II that Rocky ran just over 30 miles during a single training run (watch above). It was a well hidden secret just how far Rocky went on that run across Philadelphia until this week.

We now know, thanks to Dan McQuade of Philly Mag, just how far Rocky went on that run. McQuade, upon recently viewing the movie, had this to say:

What’s always amused me about this scene is how absolutely little sense Rocky’s route makes: South Philly becomes North Philly becomes the Italian Market becomes North Philly again, and so on. Obviously, the montage isn’t meant to be taken seriously as an actual workout; it’s just a few scenes strung together so “Gonna Fly Now” can play and Rocky can finish at the top of the Art Museum steps.

But, I wondered, what if this roadwork were treated as one actual run? How far would Rocky go? Well, I decided to find out. I pieced together the routes Rocky could have traveled from scene to scene in this training montage and calculated distance.

So McQuade used a USA Track and Field online mapping/measuring tool to figure out just how far Rocky went during his Rocky II training run:

View the Actual Rocky II Training Route

Rocky covered 30.61 miles with little to no hydration, without Gu, without an ounce of tech-clothing, in high-tops.

Read the entire segment by segment breakdown of Rocky’s run across Philly, by McQuade HERE (fun read).

Rocky was ultramarathon cool before marathons or ultramarathons swept the country. I mean even by today’s standards, who goes out on a 30-mile training run?

I didn’t see Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather out running more than a handful of miles at a time during any of his recent training runs for fights.

And let’s not even talk about ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson. His cardio used to come exclusively from juggling pageant contestants and actresses in and out of his limo.

The only boxer that might have come close to the ‘Rocky the Ultramarathoner’ was Little Mac from Mike Tyson’s Punchout.

Mac used to get in several miles of training on the shoreline of New York City after defeating the likes of Glass Joe, Bald Bull and King Hippo.  His trainer, Doc Louis, would always lead the way on his 10-speed.

Rocky was hard-nosed like an ultramarathoner. He didn’t always win. Heck, his career record was 54-27-1, but he always bounced back, ready to battle to an inch of his life when the rest of us thought he was dead or better off dead.

Do long 30-mile training runs through Philly pay off? Well it wasn’t without merit as Rocky defeated Apollo Creed for some serious bling at the conclusion of Rocky II –  the WBC World Heavyweight Championship belt.

Long live, Rocky!

He did have a few pacers along the way!

Read Dan McQuade’s Article: How Far Did Rocky Go in His Training Run In ‘Rocky II’?

This is the finisher’s medal for the Valmiera Marathon that was held on September 15, 2013 in Valmiera, Latvia.

Very pretty medal.

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[medal photo submitted by RIF #133 Michelle Mitchell – follow her on Twitter @runnerchickey]