So my wife and I are running a marathon coming up and had an interesting debate-- what is the fastest combined time an American couple has run on the same day?
Rules being the couple has to run the times on the same day in the same race, have to have been officially married before the day of the race, and both officially American citizens at the time of the race.
Thoughts of possible fastest couples, I did very limited research on this so I for sure missed a couple.
Ryan and Sara Hall: obviously the fastest by PRs but not sure if they overlapped at any marathons, only one I can find is LA 2015 where Ryan dropped out
Ben and Steph Bruce: These two at CIM this year is the fastest I can find even though Ben could probably run a heck of a lot faster. Ben 2:24:50 and Steph 2:29:21 for a combined 4:54:11.
Deena and Andrew: Can't find much race history on Andrew but I'm sure he would be capable of running 2:20's if they did overlap
Anyone fast I missed? Maybe Des and Ryan Linden? Molly and her husband?