time waster wrote:
Here is what I got top ten from looking at the marathonguide site alltime list and pulling out the rabbited races. Sammy would be #10 if this is accurate. Not sure about Xiamen, if that had pacers bump Sammy to #9. When did LA do the battle of the sexes thing? No pacers there right?
2:03:02 Mutai, Geoffrey Boston 4/18/2011
2:03:06 Mosop, Moses Boston 4/18/2011
2:04:53 Gebremariam, Geb Boston 4/18/2011
2:04:58 Hall, Ryan Boston 4/18/2011
2:05:06 Mutai, Geoffrey NYC 11/6/2011
2:05:52 Cheruiyot, Robert Kiprono Boston 4/19/2010
2:06:13 Cherkos Feleke, Abreham Boston 4/18/2011
2:06:19 Mosop, Moses Xiamen 1/3/2015
2:06:28 Mutai, Emmanuel NYC 11/6/2011
2:06:32 Wanjiru, Samuel Beijing OG 8/24/2008
2:06:35 Geneti, Markos Los Angeles 3/20/2011
2:06:43 Cheruiyot, Robert Kiprono Boston 4/18/2011
Wow thank you. I'm fairly certain Xiamen is not paced so Mosop's time stays. As I expected most of the marks come from Boston 2011. I'm not crazy about including those times since they were obviously aided by the huge tailwind. So if you take out the Boston times (I believe Cheruiyot's 2010 mark was also the result of a tailwind, though not as much as 2011), the top 5 is:
2:05:06 Mutai, Geoffrey NYC 11/6/2011
2:06:19 Mosop, Moses Xiamen 1/3/2015
2:06:28 Mutai, Emmanuel NYC 11/6/2011
2:06:32 Wanjiru, Samuel Beijing OG 8/24/2008
2:06:35 Geneti, Markos Los Angeles 3/20/2011
Just goes to show how difficult it is to run fast times without pacers. Only one man has ever run sub 2:06 without pacers or the Boston tailwind.