it will be interesting to see if she breaks gouchers 68:05 course record, who else is in the field?
meseret defar is not running today because she is 8 months pregnant, so no alycia montano run the race despite pregnancy for defar.
it will be interesting to see if she breaks gouchers 68:05 course record, who else is in the field?
meseret defar is not running today because she is 8 months pregnant, so no alycia montano run the race despite pregnancy for defar.
still going on 52:53 for 10 miles, not having a good day, she is winning though.
you can click on leaderboard for results. http://running.competitor.com/live-results#b=RAS8T2UE&v=ptrack
she ran 69:44
she had a 5 minute and 20 second lead at 10 miles, she is probably pissed off that the race directors were unable to find a dozen or so 67-69 minute runners to challenge her and push her to maybe kastors 67:34 american record or maybe even the fastest american womens half marathon best 66:57 (not record due to being slightly downhill.
douglas burke wrote:
she had a 5 minute and 20 second lead at 10 miles, she is probably pissed off that the race directors were unable to find a dozen or so 67-69 minute runners to challenge her and push her to maybe kastors 67:34 american record or maybe even the fastest american womens half marathon best 66:57 (not record due to being slightly downhill.
Ryan Hall ran his AR all alone. Why should she be pissed and why does she need other runners to push her? Her time was pedestrian-ish. I bet she was talking a good game before the race and again failed to followthrough.
Geb soloed HM WRs, too. It's probably the easiest distance to run alone, really.
It was warm this morning, she's in the midst of a big block of training, she hasn't done any speed work, she hasn't been racing, this race was not a priority for her, etc. Given the circumstances, sub 70 is quite good and she'll be happy with it.
E Ric wrote:
Geb soloed HM WRs, too. It's probably the easiest distance to run alone, really.
Lacretia Perkins wrote:
Why should she be pissed and why does she need other runners to push her? Her time was pedestrian-ish. I bet she was talking a good game before the race and again failed to followthrough.
Oh, yeah. She was doing some world class yakking before the race. "Gonna fvck sh-t up!"
Geb had pacers for most of his race.
I thought she was preparing for USATF 19,000 2 weeks ago but decided to skip it in favor of starting marathon training. Seems she should be sharp right now.
Why doesn't she just join that little flock of angry birds?
Anyone not capable of breaking an American record should give it up.
Let's blame Obama!
I don't think it's a good result considering she wants to be near that pace for a full marathon this fall but it's early so it probably doesn't matter a whole lot in the scheme of things either.
Basically hard to know what the time means without knowing what her training was this week and knowing what sort of an effort it was for her.
You don't understand this business.
douglas burke wrote:
she had a 5 minute and 20 second lead at 10 miles, she is probably pissed off that the race directors were unable to find a dozen or so 67-69 minute runners to challenge her and push her to maybe kastors 67:34 american record or maybe even the fastest american womens half marathon best 66:57 (not record due to being slightly downhill.
Ran the race. Started about 3 people back from her. Race was run in warm, albeit overcast with little wind or humidity. Course had A LOT of turns in the first 6 miles through the Loop. Don't think it affected a hobby jogger like me but an elite may have found their rhythm disrupted. Course also has some sneaky up hills in the last two miles. Course was not the same as the one Goucher ran a few years ago. Similar but not the same. Definitely more turns. Would agree that her time seemed a bit slow for the conditions. All in all a pretty good day for Chicago in July where it is normally way humid at 6:30am. Andy Wacker was the overall winner in 1:06 mid.
Really surprised there are so many Flanagan haters.
She ran a solid time and I think was happy with it. She is in the middle of heavy marathon training. Probably did not taper. Ran 2:19:28 pace which is her goal. I think she got out what she needed from the race. Running sub 1:07 would not help her towards her marathon goal.
george oscar bluth wrote:
Really surprised there are so many Flanagan haters.
You must be new to letsrun.
Not that it matters, but the 10,000 was 25 days ago, so she hasn't done speed work for a month.
Bleu wrote:
I thought she was preparing for USATF 19,000 2 weeks ago but decided to skip it in favor of starting marathon training. Seems she should be sharp right now.
In her Twitter photo, she looks quite fit. I doubt she felt any need to run faster than she did today. I'd trust her to know what she's doing, moreso than I'd trust you guys to speculate on what she's doing