Free_the_thigh wrote:
Women splits look normal, same with other men
(Other than first place women, which says she crossed half at 1:04, but crossed 20 at 1:06)
No they dont' look normal. The race was mismeasured. I'm about to publish an article stating as such.
1) Negative splitting a marathon with temps in the70s and a dewpoint in the 60s is hard as hell. Yet we're supposed to believe the winner who had a 2:06 pb coming into tonight went 62:35 and then 61:29 to run 2:04:04?
2) And in the midst of that second half he ran a 13:55 5k between 30 and 35k (that's 1:57:27 pace)? No.
And the women's winner similarl ran a laughable 30 to 35k split of 15:55 (that's 2:14:19 pace)
There is no way people are going to run a huge negative split in low 70 degree temps with a dew point over 60. And you want me to believe a 2:06 guy before today went 62:35-61:29 with a
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