Boston Women's field is out and it's LOADED - Jepchirchir vs Jepkosgei vs Seidel

Wow. Didn’t see that coming. Pity another 2 or 3 with times around 2.23 or 2.24 weren’t able to join. Just to fill out that 6th to 10th placing group. Going to be blazing fast. What is the CR?

2:19:59 (2014) Buzunesh Deba

desi has the win because she has trained like a bad@ss in the cold better than everyone else. and edna is likely the wisest woman on the course.

It would be cool if Sara Hall runs the "fastest marathon by an American" at Boston so that her and Ryan can share that honor.

abcrunning wrote:

Desi needs to retire, she had two good marathons in her life one 20 mi/hr tailwinds and the win due to other marathoners basically died during the race so just pure luck. Don’t know why people try to see her as an amazing elite athlete. She can probably run an equivalent to 2:30 at most on a flat course very pathetic that’s why she only runs Boston.

Time to retire.

How do you quantify what a "good marathon" is? Are only wins a "good marathon"? How does that work? Should anyone who doesn't finish first, or maybe in the top 3, retire after? How many current American woman marathon runners do you say are more consistently finishing better in races than she is? What recent race do you think points to her needing to retire? 4th in the trials is bad to you? Honestly, just curious - please give me your list of all the better more consistent American female marathon runners currently competing.

Men’s field announced 13 January

Aussiestatman wrote:

Men’s field announced 13 January

Beginning to wonder what positive surprises it will have. Could we see 6 or 7 of the top 20 go head to head? Possibly as deep as London last year because it’s almost a stand alone this season.

Will Boston 2022 take place? Seems a lot of cases of omicron, but most of it is just people getting the flu and return to normal after a few days. Whether the world realizes that is another story. They seem to order writing about the doom and gloom instead of people just get better.

Nine of my top 25 I wrote about here:

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10325412&page=5#post-113

unbelievable spokesperson wrote:

Will Boston 2022 take place? Seems a lot of cases of omicron, but most of it is just people getting the flu and return to normal after a few days. Whether the world realizes that is another story. They seem to order writing about the doom and gloom instead of people just get better.

Stfu dude

No Jordan? Has there been any word on her plans?

Funny, considering how easily Jeptoo ran away from her in the last miles, beating her by over a minute, but ultimately correct.