Chuck Engle and John Piggott are listed 14 times. But Wardian ran the trials, and I don't think the other two did. On the women's side, Mary Akor tied for the lead with 5 times, including the third fastest.
fUrCeOsNhN wrote:
So Michael Wardian ran 12 marathons in 2007? What a beast...
You ran that on a track!!!! Jesus that is freaking crazy. What kind of aid did they set up and damn that is a lot of stress on one side of the body.
Hamburg April 2007
53rd Walsh McGuire 2:35:59/2:36:04
http://www.marathon-hamburg.de/participants/fsTeilnehmer.htm
mcgato,Nice work. I realize that you cannot find all of the exceptions, but Mbarak Husssein is one you should include. He is a US citizen, ran a 2:23:04 in 2007 and ran in the olympic trials (but DNF).For those who want to see master rankings, the world rankings for the marathon and 1/2 are here:http://www.mastersathletics.net/Rankings-2007.271.0.html
mcgato wrote:
2) I tried to exclude foreigners, but I don't know everyone and Google only told me so much. Some were obvious, such as Kenyan sounding guys from Albuquerque and Russian women from Gainesville, FL. Many are not as obvious. And the Yonkers marathon had too many for me research.
Mcgato,
Great list. Thanks a lot for doing this.
An idea: maybe make a list which omits multiple races, i.e. only has each athlete's fastest marathon if they ran more than one. That way people can see that they were the "x fastest" marathoner, in addition to ran the "x fastest" marathon.
I thought of doing that, but I couldn't figure out an easy and efficient way to do it. The reason it would be tough is that different marathons have different spellings of the same name, and some people are not consistent with their registration name. One example that I fixed was Hobie Call, who was also on the list as Hobart Call. But finding all of the other instances of Bill vs William, etc, seemed too difficult. Plus there may be two people with the same name. Just too much extra work. If I figure out an easy way, I can do it.
Any other updates that I should know about?
How about a deep half marathon list, a good way to see how the half converted to the full for alot of the top guys. Either way awesome work man!
I know more about track than you do Mc Gato
1st place guy should be on the list.
Fred Schmalz - 2:42:01
Frankfurt Marathon 28/10/07
thanks for the time and effort.
just wanted to point out that #392 A. Saft, #944 C. Newton, and #1344 J. Bryant ran those times at the Dupont Forest Trail Marathon on a very tough course in the national trail marathon championship
mcgato,
Great list, and thanks for doing that. In theory, if it is in excel (or a comparable spreadsheeet), couldn't you sort by last name (then first name, then by city?)? At that point you would be able to eliminate duplicates... perhaps use 2 sheets... an original that has all times (your master list), and then a second that is by individual best time. That might also help with the Bill/William Johnson from City,State (as you mentioned before).
pete
Who is on there the most times?
I see Wardian with about 12 times, John Piggott (master?) on there 14 times??
Julio Cesar Vieyr+f-Cort+¼z
Man, talk about getting the bottom of the barrel when it comes to last names.
Ricky Boobey wrote:
How about a deep half marathon list, a good way to see how the half converted to the full for alot of the top guys. Either way awesome work man!
i like the sound of that! but hey, mcagto, thanks for the list.
where's the link for the women's list? couldn't see it.
was there a list like this compiled in other tears like 06
extensive
Great list, but many repeats counted more than once. Michael Wardian, for example, is counted multiple times. Not just listed, but actually counted in the "rankings". This is true for many people.
http://www.letsrun.com/2008/womensmarathonlist.phpoutlaw wrote:
where's the link for the women's list? couldn't see it.
I am no computer code genuis, but i would think if you could write a program where you could read into it the excel file, and then write a code such that if the nth row of column 2 = any row < nth row, then delete. Something along these lines...this would get rid of subsequent slower times run by the same person
It still wouldn't account for different name spellings, but it would give people an idea of where they rank amongst US marathoners.
Thanks for the work, it is as comprehensive as one could hope.
one other thought i had would be to rank by state of residence. This may also prove difficult as all races probably don't include this, but it would be neat to see where you sit in regards to your state, who else is running fast, etc...