Olympic triathlon champ Alex Yee to debut at 2025 London Marathon

another thread that shows how out of touch americans are with anything that happens outside the borders of america. i particularly enjoyed the shoehorning of much slower americans into the conversation.

Bruh he's not out sprinting Pogacar

A completely ridiculous statement built without any substance at all, but yeah you go with it buddy ha!

In regards to race day, Emile (if running) will be the leading Brit, he's a level above at present and finely tuned with marathon experience, Yee will apply himself accordingly in training and with it being his home city, he'll no doubt push the pace to impress, but he's not raced a half let alone a marathon.

No doubting his aerobic abilities or running talent, but this has the potential to go either way in my opinion - same ilk as Jakob in Copenhagen Half earlier this year.

Fair play to the guy for taking on the challenge - he's very likeable, and a good representative of top level sport; as a fellow Brit, I'm hoping he'll fly round.

I'll be on the championship start line that day, just behind him & the fellow elite's; I'm still unsure whether I'll go with him from the gun, or sit and kick on the mall - I have to April to work it out though, right.

If I’ve learned anything over the years it is that triathletes are only marginally faster if they focus on one sport. What makes them world class is the ability to be very good in three sports at the same time. It also makes them not quite world class elite in any of the three. Even if they focus on just one.

his mum and dad live a mile from the startline. he will get big ££££ to turn up, the fans will be out in force. what more could you want

Lost of Brits posting on this thread.

he gonna be making some sweet babies with Keeley tonight after the big party 8===> - - -

see ya there

Cmon, he's going to run 2:18

So typing his name into a search engine to answer your question is either something you haven't learned is possible or you're just too lazy to do yourself?

Pearson's 1:01 shows it can be done & Yee is usually running a lot better than he is. I guess it depends how much he's actually going to focus on this & what his plans are for 2025 & beyond. I think sub-2:10 is reasonable with some swim/bike training happening. I don't doubt he could run 2:07ish with a dedicated marathon block.

I believe he's planning on sticking with short course through 2028. There's one WTCS race in February and then the next one is in May. Would be interesting to see him race in February before the marathon. If he's enticed by a T100 contract, a lot of racing is required there. Can't see fitting a stand alone marathon into that race schedule. Nothing to lose in 2025 to take an appearance fee & try to clock a good marathon. Plenty of time after that to dial back into short course.

No chance. More like 2:16 or 17. Max 2:12.

He has a strange overbite

Emile Cairess - D.O.B 27 Dec 1997 - track PBs
5,000m 13.26.40 - 2022
10,000m 27.34.08 - 2022

Alex Yee - D.O.B 18 Feb 1998 - track PBs
5,000m 13.29.18 - 2019
10,000m 27.51.94 - 2018

To note: Yee finished 3rd in the National X/C Champs in 2022 while Cairess placed second.

He did 13:37 in the 5000m while still a junior. If he had pursued running instead of triathlon, he could've had a great career

Gwen Jorgensen would like a word...

It's worth pointing out that Jakob's Half was 48 hrs after he ran the 1,500m DL final, at the end of the same summer he ran the 1,500/5k Olympic double. Yee has a much higher likelihood of this going well than Jakob did.

Before triathlon or anytime she never could compete with runners, she was the best tri runner in her days. Different with Alex and Morgan.