Sixty days until Boston marathon, here is 60 profiles, one each day.

Aussiestatman wrote:

Lelisa Desisa is my pick to win it. Last year he won New York in the second fastest time in its history after not finishing in Boston. Previously, he had finished on the podium in six major marathons over five years. Among those races are a second and two thirds in New York. He had also won Dubai and has a silver medal from a world champs. In 2017 he was third in both the breaking2 at Monza and the New York marathon. This website ranked him 6th for 2018, David Graham placed him eighth, and me 5th.

Tomorrow my pick for the women’s.

Is Kirui running?

Meskerem Assefa is who i predict will win Boston. She is the only runner ranked in the top ten on this site for 2018 [9th]. Assefa is fresh from running her best ever time in winning Frankfurt in October. Earlier last year she won Nagoya and was second in Hong Kong. Her record in 2017 was wins in Houston and Rotterdam, 3rd in Frankfurt. She has run 8 times under 2:26, i wonder how many women could match that? Previous to her six years running marathons she had seven years as a 1500 meter runner with not much in between.

Frozen 2.0 wrote:

Aussiestatman wrote:

Lelisa Desisa is my pick to win it. Last year he won New York in the second fastest time in its history after not finishing in Boston. Previously, he had finished on the podium in six major marathons over five years. Among those races are a second and two thirds in New York. He had also won Dubai and has a silver medal from a world champs. In 2017 he was third in both the breaking2 at Monza and the New York marathon. This website ranked him 6th for 2018, David Graham placed him eighth, and me 5th.

Tomorrow my pick for the women’s.

Is Kirui running?

Abel or Geoffrey?

Sorry man. Whenever you have a plural subject (profiles) you have to use are not is.

We’re going to solve this one post at a time! What you didn’t learn in elementary school you can learn on Let’s Run!!!

Grammerly wrote:

Sorry man. Whenever you have a plural subject (profiles) you have to use are not is.

We’re going to solve this one post at a time! What you didn’t learn in elementary school you can learn on Let’s Run!!!

here is talks of where the profiles are, and that is in one singular place, this thread

+\- 50 places... Where will the first dude with full sleeve tats finish. Thanks.

Geoffrey Kirui, is the second most likely to win, imo. After a stellar 2017 where Letsrun ranked him best, above Kipchoge, last year was a little more subdued but he still was 2nd in Boston and sixth in Chicago. His best time of 2.06.27 doesn't compete with some of the other elites in this field, but he is the current World Champion, where he won by more than a minute.

Edna Kiplagat is my second favourite for the women in Boston. From being the third best marathon runner in 2017, winning Boston, winning silver at the world champs and fourth in New York; Edna’s 2018 was disappointing in comparison. 9th in Boston, 4th in Berlin. In 2016 she had podium finishes in Tokyo and Chicago. Edna has represented Kenya at the last 4 world champs, with successive golds in 2011 and 2013.

Disagree. She's not running like she used to. Hasn't had a good finish in a long time. I'm a fan, but this isn't a good pick.

Seriously Second? wrote:

Disagree. She's not running like she used to. Hasn't had a good finish in a long time. I'm a fan, but this isn't a good pick.

who would you think, Worknesh Degefa?

Aussiestatman wrote:

Grammerly wrote:

Sorry man. Whenever you have a plural subject (profiles) you have to use are not is.

We’re going to solve this one post at a time! What you didn’t learn in elementary school you can learn on Let’s Run!!!

s of where the profiles are, and that is in one singular place, this thread

My kids actually benefited well from the Aussie education, so you must have been fooling around the back of the class.

So simple example for you. If you gave us 60 apples in a box instead, would you say "Here is..." or "here are 60 apples"?

No prizes for correct answer.

Aussie, but educated elsewhere wrote:

Aussiestatman wrote:

s of where the profiles are, and that is in one singular place, this thread

My kids actually benefited well from the Aussie education, so you must have been fooling around the back of the class.

So simple example for you. If you gave us 60 apples in a box instead, would you say "Here is..." or "here are 60 apples"?

No prizes for correct answer.

Here is the box with sixty apples in it

Sisay Lemma is next, ranked 8Th by letsrun for results from 2018, breaking the course record in Ljubljana, second behind Rupp in Prague, and 5th in Dubai. Has been placed 4th in some of the big marathons in 2016 and 2017, after winning Vienna and Frankfurt in 2015. Back in 2013, he completed three marathons in under 2.10.

Aussiestatman wrote:

Aussie, but educated elsewhere wrote:

My kids actually benefited well from the Aussie education, so you must have been fooling around the back of the class.

So simple example for you. If you gave us 60 apples in a box instead, would you say "Here is..." or "here are 60 apples"?

No prizes for correct answer.

Here is the box with sixty apples in it

Good, you are learning fast.

Now repeat after me:

"Here is a thread with 60 profiles"

"Here are 60 profiles, one each day."

I know English is probably hard to master for foreigners, but you are Aussie ...maaate...you only have one language to worry about.

Aselefech Mergia is my third choice to win the women's race. i know you have to go back to 2012 to find her best time of 2.19.31 and she had a poor 2018 with dnf's in Boston and Berlin. Mergia previously had a win, a third and a fourth in London; 3 wins in Dubai, a second in New York, a second in Paris, and a bronze in a World Champs going way back to 2009.

Lawrence Cherono has the fastest time among the 30 elites listed. After 7th in London last year he smashed his own course record in Amsterdam, beating Wasihun and Deksisa. In 2017 he ran second in Rotterdam and won Amsterdam. His breakthrough was in 2016 where at Prague he won, defeated Felix Kandie, and took 2 minutes off his previous best time.

My fourth choice in the women’s field is Worknesh Degefa. The only question I have is can she back up after second in Dubai in January? Degefa only ran one marathon each of the last two years after arguably being the world’s best half marathoner across 2015 and 2016.

Kenneth Kipkemoi is next. Ranked by Letsrun above G.Kirui, Lemma, and Cherono for his efforts last year. He won Rotterdam then finished 4th in a very competitive Chicago marathon. He only began marathons at age 33 after being a leading half marathoner for 6 years before that.

fifth woman, imo, is Belaynesh Oljira. Last year she was second in Houston and Praha before recording her career fastest time of 2.21.53 in finishing 4th in Frankfurt. 6 weeks before that run, Oljira placed tenth in a half marathon in Copenhagen that was both very deep [third fastest tenth placing all-time] and quick, 68.36. She ran an inauspicious marathon in 2014 in Dubai, taking 3.06.02 to finish 27th, but took 44 minutes off that time to finish tenth in Boston 3 months later. Belaynesh has a rich history in distance running, in 2013 winning bronzes in the world cross country and world champs track 10000m. Won Houston half marathon in 2012 in 68.26 and won the Nice half marathon as a 19yo in 2010.