Official 2014 TCS New York City Marathon Live Discussion Thread

Need to know wrote:

Did he give her the Kipsang glare before pulling away?

Maybe... if she hit him in the home stretch.

CAMILLE PARKER wrote:

LOL, what a sad day for running when I'm more interested in Kennedy vs Wozniacki than any other match up

This is the future of Western running - celebrity match-ups. It'll bring in more money/viewers than fast Africans. They'll put a motorcycle camera on these guys, and make damn sure the feed doesn't drop out.

No, you were thinking the same.

This is the future of Western running - celebrity match-ups. It'll bring in more money/viewers than fast Africans. They'll put a motorcycle camera on these guys, and make damn sure the feed doesn't drop out.[/quote]

I was about to post this exact same thing - line up a load of sub 3h45 celeb marathoners and let them fight it out. Give the TV coverage something to cover after the pro races have finished...

patti wrote:

I was thinking the opposite...Desi looks so tiny, especially, in the line up of the per race pic of American women. She is standing next to Deena...and Deena is no bigger than a dot.

Mexican women are short in stature in general compared to Anglo women. What do you expect?

overall silly.

Worth noting that the front page flash results are not remotely correct. Mark Coogan, by running 2:55, did not finish in 39th. 100th place was 2:39.

And on the women's results it shows 31st place went to a woman who ran 3:48. 100th place was 3:09

Get it together, guys

Damn, Bill Demong, US Nordic Combined olympic medalist (ski jump + xc skiing), ran 2:33. That's impressive.

I would love to know what Kipsang said to Desisa before he took off.

Sorry. I messed up the 25 mile split. The last two miles those guys were flying..

Mile 25: 4:38 (2:05:31)

Mile 26: 4:33 (2:10:04)

55 seconds to the finish -. That’s 62.9 pace if he ran for a full 440 yards.

Men’s SPlits

Men’s Mile Splits

Mile 1: 5:51 (unofficial -mile marker has blown over)

Mile 2: 4:49 (10:40)

Mile 3: 4:47 (15:27)

Mile 4: 5:03 (20:30)

Mie 5: 4:57 (25:27)

Mile 6: 4:58 (30:25) - 10k 31:30

Mile 7: 5:15 (35:40)

Mile 8: 5:06 (40:46)

Mile 9: 5:05 (45:51)

Mile 10: 5:05 (50:56) - Still 2:13:30 pace

Mile 11: 5:14 (56:10)

Mile 12: 4:54 (1:01:04)- pack at 1:01:07

Mile 13: 5:12 (1:06:16)

Halfway - 66:55

Mile 14 - 5:04 - 1:11:20 11 in lead pack at 1:15…Meb, April, Mutai, Kiprotich, Kiypego, Kogo, Kirui, Kipsang, April, Gebremariam, Benti

Mile 15 - 5:09 (1:16:29)

Mil 16: 5:22 (1:21:51)

Mile 17: 5:11 (1:27:02) pack is 5 seconds back.

Mile 18: 4:51 (1:31:53). First sub-5 mile since mile 12. Kipyego is dropped.

Mile 19: 5:00 (1:36:53)

Mile 20: 4:56 (1:41:49)

Mile 21: 4:57 (1:46:46) Just before this Kipsang pushes it...On bridge just before 21 mile mark. Kipsang is stretching it out. Mutai goes with him. Desiss. and Gebre. Those major champs are going for it. Meb is trying to get back up there with Kiprotich.

Mile 22: 4:37 (1:51:23) 4:37!!! Down to 3.

Mile 23: 4:35 (1:55:58) Down to Desisa and Kipsang.

Mile 24: 4:55 (2:00:53) . Gebremariam is 21 seconds back in 3rd. Mutai 30s econds back in 4th. Mebs’s 6th. Vail is 10th.

Mile 25:4:38 (2:05:31)

Mile 26:4:33 (2:10:04)

Wu Ming wrote:

No idea about Keitany and Sumgong -- though they congratulated each other a few moments later -- but I rarely if ever see the Kenyan and Ethiopian top finishers acknowledge each other after finishing. I am sure it happens with some, sometimes, but it seems to me to be uncommon. They seem really enjoy beating each other as decisively as possible.

Edna Kiplagat stayed and hugged Tirunesh Dibaba at the finish in London 2014. The two also hugged in Great North Run a few years back.

Apparently ESPN has never heard of Facetime, Google Hangout, or Skype. I'm pretty sure I could've gotten a bit of footage going with nothing more than two iPhones. I think the 6+ is even image-stabilized.

"Elite?" runner Emily Kurian, bib 127. Why did she feel she needed to get in the mix and force the elite men to go around her at the 30k mark? The other "elite?" women were going to the side of the road to allow the men to pass.

"Elite?" Emily runs a 3:02 and finishes 65th overall for the women.

They give her a 30 minute headstart and the men catch her by 30k?

Last time I checked Norway, Canada, and Panama were not in the USA

NYRR needs to get their act together with results.

Annie Bersagel is an American living in Norway. The others are probably in a similar situation. It's not that hard to get your own act together.

watching again still pissed wrote:

Apparently ESPN has never heard of Facetime, Google Hangout, or Skype. I'm pretty sure I could've gotten a bit of footage going with nothing more than two iPhones. I think the 6+ is even image-stabilized.

How can people be this dumb? Do you know how bad cell phone reception gets when thousands of people are in the same spot trying to use it? You clearly don't know what image stabilization is either.

patti wrote:

overall silly.

Hiya Patti. Hope all is well.