Shalane Flanagan

Historian , tell us was Desi's 10th place 2:23 fastest 10th place ever in major?

Fastest time by an american being the 2nd american in a marathon ?

How do Desi's top two times at Boston stack up against Joan's top two Boston times ?

Information please wrote:

Historian , tell us was Desi's 10th place 2:23 fastest 10th place ever in major?

Yes, previous best "10th place" was 2:25:18 from London 2011.

HardLoper wrote:

Information please wrote:

Historian , tell us was Desi's 10th place 2:23 fastest 10th place ever in major?

Yes, previous best "10th place" was 2:25:18 from London 2011.

Joan's 2 best at Boston : 2:22:43 , 2:26:54

Desi's 2 best at Boston : 2:22:38 , 2:23:54

A) Since when did she get violently ill? Are we all just making up stories now?

B) She did not run a 15:44 last 5k.

D) There's a number between 2 and 4.

She did get violently ill. Universal Sports didn't show it but viewers watching the local WBZ.com saw it.

Shalane ran a great race.

Nigel Incubator Jones wrote:

She did get violently ill. Universal Sports didn't show it but viewers watching the local WBZ.com saw it.

Same feed as universal sports just different announcing. You can't seriously think they had different cameras and vehicles out there for their own footage. Nice try.

Please! She went on national TV and made a fool of herself.

Nigel Incubator Jones wrote:

She did get violently ill. Universal Sports didn't show it but viewers watching the local WBZ.com saw it.

She DID get ill- it was witnessed by people there who I talked to.

Anyone who wants to sabatogue this thread please go away.

This is the kind of intelligent discussion we need after races.

Way to go Shalane and Desi!

Yes, Desi ran a very good race. You've got to think these two women would go sub-2:20 in Rotterdam, but they'd rather run Boston.

I just realized that Shalane never ran a 15:44 split. That was Jeptoo's split. Shalane just gradually slowed over the last 10,000m.

Shalane's last 10,000m was about 34:40.

Jeptoo's last 10,000m was about 32:46.

Meb's last 10,000m was about 30:39

Oh Wise Track Historian, Since every single spectator had a cameraphone, undoubtedly snapping thousands of pictures of Shalane at every mile ... it's interesting that no evidence of this "violently ill" Shalane exists.

He is obvious a liberal. He likes to rewrite history to make it more appealing to the masses.

reer wrote:

D) There's a number between 2 and 4.

Well played, my comrade.

Kevegan wrote:

Oh Wise Track Historian, Since every single spectator had a cameraphone, undoubtedly snapping thousands of pictures of Shalane at every mile ... it's interesting that no evidence of this "violently ill" Shalane exists.

I wasn't there. I just heard it second hand. Some others said on another (not Universal) feed that she got sick during the race, so I'm not sure. I did hear Shalane say in the interview that she was having trouble keeping water down after the race.

Stevenson wrote:

Same feed as universal sports just different announcing. You can't seriously think they had different cameras and vehicles out there for their own footage. Nice try.

Actually, no. It wasn't the same feed. Idiot.