Sara Hall (69:27) and Laura Thweatt (70:17) both PRd at Sunday's Gold Coast Half Marathon

Age breaker wrote:

It is amazing that she is still running pb's at 35 years old. When was Desi or Shalane or Kara's last PB? They all seem to be just hanging on while Sara is still improving.

She is someone to watch in 2020.

She is one of my picks to make the Olys in the ‘thon. You can quote me.

She's been running fantastically since ditching Magness. Still not sure why she ever started using him in the first place!

If you can change the Lebron thread title, change this one. No one cares about 69:27 and 70:17 half marathons.

But a 44 year old running 2:09! That's giving us Masters some serious hope!!! Especially those who took up running late like he did.

Mags sucks wrote:

She's been running fantastically since ditching Magness. Still not sure why she ever started using him in the first place!

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LetsRun.com wrote:

Women's Half Marathon

1. Sara Hall (U.S.A.) - 1:09:27 - PB

2. Sinead Diver (Australia) - 1:09:53 - PB

3. Laura Thweatt (U.S.A.) - 1:10:17 - PB

4. Anna Matsuda (Japan) - 1:10:52 - PB

5. Ellie Pashley (Australia) - 1:10:57 - PB

In the full marathon, Kenya's Ruth Chebitok won the women's race in a new course record of 2:24:49 as compatriort Kenneth Mungara (Editor's note: 44 yrs young) won the men's race in 2:09:49. Boston marathon champ Yuki Kawauchi was 9th in 2:14:51.

https://twitter.com/GCMarathon/status/1013204666832728064http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2018/07/chebitok-crushes-course-record-mungara.html

This is a great thread because it is about PERFORMANCES. 35 yr old Hall and 44 yr old Mungara. They are both heroes.

I wish this was the standard for all future threads. Can you imagine if there were no future threads about Linden, Flanagan, Goucher, Ritz, Ryan Hall, or any other runner that is done performing? That would be great. The standard should be RUN WELL AND WE TALK ABOUT YOU. Stop living in the past. Anything other than performance is embarrassing and does nothing to move the sport down the road.

20 Second PR wrote:

Age breaker wrote:

It is amazing that she is still running pb's at 35 years old. When was Desi or Shalane or Kara's last PB? They all seem to be just hanging on while Sara is still improving.

Desi and Shalane are just hanging on? When is the last time Sara Hall won a major marathon? I'm happy for her, but come on now.

Might be searching for a major championship, but she takes the podium Sunday-Sunday in the looks department. It all balances itself out.

LordEric44 wrote:

1. Sara is a great athlete , highly under rated

2. Ryan is a great coach

3. Vancouver Canucks will be 2018-19 Stanley Cup Champions

1. Yes

2. Maybe

3. Not a chance

If anyone watched the last 10 minutes of the men's race you will know how crazy it was. Mungara and Murayama appeared to be battling each other until Fukuda came from 19 seconds back at 35k to join them at 40k. Murayama then started wobbling over the road having stomach issues and vomited with like 1k to go, Mungara started moving away from Fukuda but Murayama came back with a furious sprint and only just was held off. The 3 guys finished within 3 seconds of each other, all went sub 2:10, Murayama PB'd by 7 minutes (he is a sub 61 half man at his best, but his first two marathon's didn't go to plan) and Fukuda PB'd by 5 minutes

Amazing performance by a 44 year old. Just makes me realize how slow I am compared to the true elites in the 40-44 male AG.

juddy96 wrote:

If anyone watched the last 10 minutes of the men's race you will know how crazy it was. Mungara and Murayama appeared to be battling each other until Fukuda came from 19 seconds back at 35k to join them at 40k. Murayama then started wobbling over the road having stomach issues and vomited with like 1k to go, Mungara started moving away from Fukuda but Murayama came back with a furious sprint and only just was held off. The 3 guys finished within 3 seconds of each other, all went sub 2:10, Murayama PB'd by 7 minutes (he is a sub 61 half man at his best, but his first two marathon's didn't go to plan) and Fukuda PB'd by 5 minutes

+1

If Mungara watches that back he'll be surprised at how close Murayama got.