Official 2019 RAK Half Marathon Discussion Thread

Dfhbbb wrote:

In Arabia, Friday and Saturday is the weekend. And moreover Friday is Sunday. And Saturday takes the place of...the first day of the weekend. If you know what I mean.

I know what he means, talking about how Muslims go to their place of worship on Friday as opposed to how Christians go to there place of worship on Sunday. But still, when read out loud, it cracks me up.

organic crunchy peanut butter wrote:

In the replay of the finish, you can see the flag guy holding the Ethiopian flag and then quickly switch to the Kenyan flag :)

Haha, yeah. Just went back and had another look.

Good coverage overall.

oldlegs wrote:

Calm down everybody--they showed the finish again. Whoever said it was brutal coverage is an idiot. Overall, that was the best coverage of a race I have ever seen....amazing times all around.

THAT WAS GREAT COVERAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Until the actual sprint to the finish) At least blowtrack didn't buy up the rights and hold the race hostage behind a paywall!!

Watching the average LetsRun hobby jogger forum poster now (except for myself of course).

SC Running Fan wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Horrible coverage. Missed Kiprop kicking past Hadis because the crew thought the race for third is more interesting.

It was fantastic coverage. Compare to the garbage we got from Houston a few weeks ago. Yes, not ideal they missed the kick from 150-50 meters to go but we got uninterrupted, intelligent commentary with splits along the whole way. Honestly, I thought Hadis had the win wrapped up and they did come back for the final run to the tape.

You do realize Houston was done by the local tv station don't you? At least they were smart enough to show the leaders as they crossed the finish line.

This was the best [free] race coverage ever. Anyone who thinks it was bad must be a very miserable and pessimistic human being.

What's the fastest half marathon debut for a female? Wondering where Teferi's debut ranks.

Like missing the winning shot in basketball showing the cheerlea wrote:

At least they were smart enough to show the leaders as they crossed the finish line.

Idiot, they did that here too.

jhand366 wrote:

This was the best [free] race coverage ever. Anyone who thinks it was bad must be a very miserable and pessimistic human being.

Yeah well, it was El Keniano.

Dafuk wrote:

They missed the sprint for first to show third place!

That was idiotic. I knew we were going to miss it and surely, it happened.

gfdfghd wrote:

of course wrote:

The camera missed Kiprop making the decisive move past Hadis because it was focused on the white boy in fourth?! Mother f*******

Who cares about 48 year old Kiprop. Wanders is 22. He'll be at 58 flat in a couple of years.

Actually Kiprop is 54.

They just showed it. wrote:

SC Running Fan wrote:

I would love to go back and watch those last 200 meters.

They just showed it.

Yes but there was very little suspense if at all.

Did you know the first day of the week in most countries is Sunday? Even in North America!

Calendar and days of the week were very influenced by religion:

For the Egyptians, it was the Râ (sun) day which was past to Romans who started their week with the day of the Sun. Sabbath's day for jews is Friday evening to Saturday evening, so technically their first day of the week is Sunday.

So in North America Monday is Sunday, while Sunday people are supposed to get busy and start their week, they instead take a break and some go to their worship place! Go figure!

It was pretty good coverage, there were a few technical difficulties with the camera cars and the cop cars were speeding around at 50 mph for seemingly no reason. They also missed the big move at the end for the win. Still really good coverage overall.

But does anyone get tired of the split between men's and women's race? If I want to watch a race, I want to see the whole thing develop, not be at the mercy of the producer switching whenever. It would be really easy to do, just have two live streams.

11 under 60? never been done before. ten has been done once only

Aussiestatman wrote:

11 under 60? never been done before. ten has been done once only

Must be the new EPO super hybrid drug that came out last year. It is proving really popular. That and a set of carbon springs.

Interestingly I just noticed on the IAAF site that the RAK HM has NOT had an IAAF Label since 2013 (Silver in 2011 and Gold in 2012), anyone know what the story is there ? No Anti-Doping tests as a result ? Hope something's been planned for Wanders' Euro record...

Aussiestatman wrote:

11 under 60? never been done before. ten has been done once only

Short Course.

Wow what an exciting race, a doped up age cheating Kenyan and a doped up European. The usual

The elite know wrote:

rojo wrote:

Since they are building these luxury hotels on the se main made islands, aren't they worried about sea temperatures rising? ANyone know?

The elite know "climate change" is a bunch of nonsense.

Do you know you are stupid or are you living in blissful ignorance?