66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi

rising son wrote:

Yuki Kawauchi, the greatest undoubtably clean marathon runner in the world right now,

Pure f*cking bullshit.

The pictures from the race are pretty hilarious.

Wow, with a vest, even.

Yuki Kawauchi, the greatest undoubtably clean marathon runner in the world right now

Clean, as in, he showered after the race, correct?

rising son wrote:

Kawauchi is taking distance running into new territory with this accomplishment as never before in the history of distance running has such a huge amount of time been taken off a half marathon world record.

Are you retarded?

Lorenzo (Larry) Liberal wrote:

Wow, with a vest, even.

That "record" shouldn't count if he wasn't wearing dress shoes.

I still have the 10k run in a winnie the pooh head FKT at 39:51 but Guinness wasn't there to certify it.

somebloke wrote:

rising son wrote:

Kawauchi is taking distance running into new territory with this accomplishment as never before in the history of distance running has such a huge amount of time been taken off a half marathon world record.

Are you retarded?

I wonder who´s retarded?

Damn, I was planning on attacking this one some time back when it was 84 minutes. Considering the last two attempts have gotten significant coverage on RW, wonder how little this one will get considering it doesn't involve an American.

Still an impressive performance, hard to say how much the suit takes off considering you can still wear running shoes for the record.

habs wrote:

Damn, I was planning on attacking this one some time back when it was 84 minutes. Considering the last two attempts have gotten significant coverage on RW, wonder how little this one will get considering it doesn't involve an American.

Still an impressive performance, hard to say how much the suit takes off considering you can still wear running shoes for the record.

I've always worn running shoes with suits.

Many others do this as well.

habs wrote:

Damn, I was planning on attacking this one some time back when it was 84 minutes. Considering the last two attempts have gotten significant coverage on RW, wonder how little this one will get considering it doesn't involve an American.

Still an impressive performance, hard to say how much the suit takes off considering you can still wear running shoes for the record.

He says in the article that his record won't count because Kiwa isn't certified, so you've still got a shot.

Humourless idiot alert wrote:

somebloke wrote:

Are you retarded?

I wonder who´s retarded?

None of the distance greats, Geb Bekele or Radcliffe etc have broken any world record by so much of a proportion. Kawauchi's run this weekend was unprecedented in the history of modern distance running. At the very least his performance merits a front page headline, if not a black page.

How about he quits his job, starts running 120 miles a week and cuts the cr@p.

rising son wrote:

Humourless idiot alert wrote:

I wonder who´s retarded?

None of the distance greats, Geb Bekele or Radcliffe etc have broken any world record by so much of a proportion. Kawauchi's run this weekend was unprecedented in the history of modern distance running. At the very least his performance merits a front page headline, if not a black page.

But dude, the course wasn't certified. What if it was 18 minutes short?

Billy Chester Polyester ran a 2:24 marathon.

Tony Migliozzi ran a 1:09 half marathon in jeans and a flannel shirt training for the world 50k which he won.

fred wrote:

How about he quits his job, starts running 120 miles a week and cuts the cr@p.

That's the beauty of it. He doesn't care about going pro.

Giveasht wrote:

fred wrote:

How about he quits his job, starts running 120 miles a week and cuts the cr@p.

That's the beauty of it. He doesn't care about going pro.

Yuki finished ahead of every American runner at NYC. Yup, even those Americans who didn't have jobs and ran at least 120 miles per week.

The suit thing is meaningless.

The real story here is that he ran a full marathon in 2:11 the weekend prior, a 66 half this past weekend, and is set to run another full marathon this coming weekend. If he doesn't DNF and goes sub-2:20, then THAT would be amazing.

eotbs wrote:

The suit thing is meaningless.

The real story here is that he ran a full marathon in 2:11 the weekend prior, a 66 half this past weekend, and is set to run another full marathon this coming weekend. If he doesn't DNF and goes sub-2:20, then THAT would be amazing.

Fairly certain this is common for Mr. Kawauchi, including 2 sub 209s in something like 30 days.

Kawauchi is great.

I will always wonder if Kawauchi would be faster if he raced less and trained more conventionally with 2 peaks a year. I think he would be, although a 2:08 PR isn't chopped liver.

However, if he was more conventional he wouldn't be Kawauchi.