sub 2:01 marathon
sub 3:40 mile
sub 1:39 800
sub 26:00 10k
sub 12:30 5k
go
sub 2:01 marathon
sub 3:40 mile
sub 1:39 800
sub 26:00 10k
sub 12:30 5k
go
Sub 2:01 thon
Brodudeiah wrote:
Sub 2:01 thon
This. All that has to happen is for the course to be slightly undermeasured or for their to be a solid tailwind. So many variables can make it happen.
jamin wrote:
Brodudeiah wrote:Sub 2:01 thon
This. All that has to happen is for the course to be slightly undermeasured or for their to be a solid tailwind. So many variables can make it happen.
Are we talking official 2:01 marathon? I mean it could happen in Boston but not be a record.
I sort of think with all the money in marathons that the incentive is there.
Not a clue wrote:
sub 2:01 marathon
sub 3:40 mile
sub 1:39 800
sub 26:00 10k
sub 12:30 5k
go
The guy to ever run a sub 2:01 marathon would have to be able to run the last two items listed. Or darn close to.
Tossup to which of those would happen first - hard to say when the second or third item listed would happen. Maybe soon?
Every road race or track race a neo-sprint if you look at;
4:11 or faster for the 10 km
4:01 or faster for the 5 km
4:37 or faster for the marathon - the days when that pace would win quite a few 5 km races, and still does in most local races. Think about this!
sub 26:00 10k. Unless its a short or net-downhill 'thon, I don't see 4:37 pace extended past mile 20.
Also, I feel that the monetary incentive given in marathoning is what leads to fast times. If track had the same prize purse per distance race that a major marathon did, would these records have a better chance of being broken (clean of course)?