Semiofficial Predict Mary Cain's Boston Marathon time

Mike Fanelli already broke the story. As usual wineturtle you are a day late and a dollar short

Although this will be fun to see how she does, I think this is a dumb idea...for publicity. I hope she doesn't get injured. Reminds me of having Abbey D run the 10K at heps on top of all her other races ("oh..it's just like a training run,"), after that she went down hill. Mileage run in a race is not the same as training mileage.

check the date

"I run for two hours or more nearly every week and have done so now going on 3+ years. My indoor season was only so so and therefore we upped the total weekly mileage immediately after Nationals. I'll treat it as a hard long endurance run but will still have an eye on the clock... 5:40 pace is not out of the question."

http://www.tracktalk.net/mary-cain-boston-marathon-t16100.html

I don't think she's going to run it all-out. It seems like the aim is just to use it as training, I guess. Still kind of weird, if you ask me...

No need to check the date BAA always runs it's marathon on Patriots Day (20 april2015) a state holiday and always the third Monday in April.

Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

check the date

A distance runner running a marathon isn't a joke...It is just a normal thing. I don't get why this is funny. I guess a sprinter moving up to the 'thon would be kind of funny, but that has been done (flojo)...

It would be like me going to one of my favorite pizza places and saying something like: "I'm going to have a mushroom pizza today...APRIL FOOL!...I'm actually going to have my usual pepperoni-topped pie!...ha ha ha."

The front page story about forum registration - now that is funny!

not an old wino wrote:

Mike Fanelli already broke the story. As usual wineturtle you are a day late and a dollar short

And as usual, you are dense, obtuse and in need of fiber.

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

A distance runner running a marathon isn't a joke...It is just a normal thing.

You're probably not a runner.

What makes it odd is that she usually runs 1500-800m races. She hasn't even paid that much attention to 5k and 10k, yet she's doing a marathon? She hasn't even done a half marathon yet!

It's not that it's necessarily a *bad* thing... just extremely unorthodox.

you're the joke wrote:

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

A distance runner running a marathon isn't a joke...It is just a normal thing.

You're probably not a runner.

Ryan Hall was a top class miler in high school (Cain's age).

Geb's first race was a marathon and he won an indoor WC at the 1500, and held the WR at 5,000 m (an event that Cain was considering running at the world trials couple of years ago).

Yes, a full 'thon takes some additional specificic prep, but it isn't as far from the 1500 as some think

cbenson4 wrote:

What makes it odd is that she usually runs 1500-800m races. She hasn't even paid that much attention to 5k and 10k, yet she's doing a marathon? She hasn't even done a half marathon yet!

It's not that it's necessarily a *bad* thing... just extremely unorthodox.

Have you been living under a rock? She ran the NYC half in 1:12.

I predict she drops out, by the end of the day.

Randy Oldman wrote:

cbenson4 wrote:

What makes it odd is that she usually runs 1500-800m races. She hasn't even paid that much attention to 5k and 10k, yet she's doing a marathon? She hasn't even done a half marathon yet!

It's not that it's necessarily a *bad* thing... just extremely unorthodox.

Have you been living under a rock? She ran the NYC half in 1:12.

Yes, my rock is cozy. Don't judge!

Randy Oldman wrote:

cbenson4 wrote:

What makes it odd is that she usually runs 1500-800m races. She hasn't even paid that much attention to 5k and 10k, yet she's doing a marathon? She hasn't even done a half marathon yet!

It's not that it's necessarily a *bad* thing... just extremely unorthodox.

Have you been living under a rock? She ran the NYC half in 1:12.

She did run the 5th Ave Mile, but can you show the results list where it shows that she ran the NYC half marathon in 2:12. I must have missed that one??

The real question is, "what workout will she do after the marathon?"

this one is also april fools right?

I see her as the second coming of Ryan Hall: DNS.

marymccain wrote:

I see her as the second coming of Ryan Hall: DNS.

So who says she's running the Boston Marathon? Cain's name does not appear among race entrants.

Think long think hard do not be afraid to use pencil and paper if you need too

rgr wrote:

this one is also april fools right?