Happy birthday to Scullion.
Here's hoping he takes it easy tonight and doesn't retire again tomorrow morning.
Happy birthday to Scullion.
Here's hoping he takes it easy tonight and doesn't retire again tomorrow morning.
Ghost1 wrote:
jfrb wrote:
Is Ryan Hall the American Record holder at 2:04:58? If not, then Treacy is not the Irish record holder.
Treacy’s second best time was achieved in the Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles when he placed second in 2:09:56, and that should be the true Irish record before Scullion, in my opinion, bested that in London today.
Treacy’s time of 2:09:15 was accepted as the Irish record because Boston at the time was not off-limits for record-setting purposes back when Treacy ran Boston.
Scullion should now be recognized as the fastest Irish marathon runner of all time, but no disrespect to Treacy as that was a different era when 2:09 was the gold standard
Well the pretty remarkable thing about John Treacy and Los Angeles 1984 was this.
On August 3rd ----John ran his qualifying round of the 10,000 in 28:18 placing 5th in the fastest of 3 heats. His time would have won the 2 other heats.
On August 6th ----John then ran the 10,000 final in 28:28 and placed 9th, .6 seconds behind Steve Jones.
On August 12th---John won the silver medal with a 2:09:56 time in his first marathon ever.
He ran 2 tough 10,000 races in about a week before his first ever marathon.
Salazar, DeCastella, Seko, Dixon, Spedding, Lopes, etc...hadn't raced 2 tough 10,000 races 3 days apart then raced a marathon 6 days later.
John Treacy's performance on August 12th was really something special.
Yes, but Lopes had been hit by a car while training 6 days before the marathon, he broke the windshield.
Fan of the Green wrote:
Ghost1 wrote:
Treacy’s second best time was achieved in the Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles when he placed second in 2:09:56, and that should be the true Irish record before Scullion, in my opinion, bested that in London today.
Treacy’s time of 2:09:15 was accepted as the Irish record because Boston at the time was not off-limits for record-setting purposes back when Treacy ran Boston.
Scullion should now be recognized as the fastest Irish marathon runner of all time, but no disrespect to Treacy as that was a different era when 2:09 was the gold standard
Well the pretty remarkable thing about John Treacy and Los Angeles 1984 was this.
On August 3rd ----John ran his qualifying round of the 10,000 in 28:18 placing 5th in the fastest of 3 heats. His time would have won the 2 other heats.
On August 6th ----John then ran the 10,000 final in 28:28 and placed 9th, .6 seconds behind Steve Jones.
On August 12th---John won the silver medal with a 2:09:56 time in his first marathon ever.
He ran 2 tough 10,000 races in about a week before his first ever marathon.
Salazar, DeCastella, Seko, Dixon, Spedding, Lopes, etc...hadn't raced 2 tough 10,000 races 3 days apart then raced a marathon 6 days later.
John Treacy's performance on August 12th was really something special.
THANKS!!!!!
Wow, I had no clue that he even ran the 10,000 let alone 2 races’!!!!!!!! Thanks for the informative post, it’s why I come to Letsrun 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
Is Scullion running a spring marathon? London? Any Irish marathoners have the Olympic standard yet?
rather 22 wrote:
Fan of the Green wrote:
Well the pretty remarkable thing about John Treacy and Los Angeles 1984 was this.
On August 3rd ----John ran his qualifying round of the 10,000 in 28:18 placing 5th in the fastest of 3 heats. His time would have won the 2 other heats.
On August 6th ----John then ran the 10,000 final in 28:28 and placed 9th, .6 seconds behind Steve Jones.
On August 12th---John won the silver medal with a 2:09:56 time in his first marathon ever.
He ran 2 tough 10,000 races in about a week before his first ever marathon.
Salazar, DeCastella, Seko, Dixon, Spedding, Lopes, etc...hadn't raced 2 tough 10,000 races 3 days apart then raced a marathon 6 days later.
John Treacy's performance on August 12th was really something special.
THANKS!!!!!
Wow, I had no clue that he even ran the 10,000 let alone 2 races’!!!!!!!! Thanks for the informative post, it’s why I come to Letsrun 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
Shorter at Munich '72 ran his heat in 27:58, set the AR in the 10000 for fifth (27:51), then went on to win the marathon. Treacy's 2:09 is remarkable because of the heat in L.A. '84.