With even pacing, John Kellogg thinks Mary Keitany could have run 2:15 and change today

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:But great athletes always do a statement performance after being left off the Olympic team, Komen 1996, Bekele in Berlin 2016, Keitany hours ago. There is a long list. Her next performance will be slower I bet.

no

komen had run at least 1 race before his 7'20 which was a "tired looking 13-flat" just 44 hours before his rieti run

if he wanted to make a statement, it was not done in his 1st race after missing games

similarly for keitany, you seem to have missed that she ran an epic 65'13 in february behind jepchirchir's then WR of 65'06

she did not make a statement performance just in february but done it twice, so your assertion is wrong

as for kennster, as he missed rio, the only race he was going to run that year after that miss was going to be berlin & nothing inbetween

physics is not generous but it offers "even-pace" conversion for races which start fast & slow but not very good for -ve splitting

from drag considerations thru any fluid :

http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/physics/basics.html#section5

you take cube of speed * distance

for her 2 halves of 66'54 / 70'07 ->2"16'51 ?!

someone kindly find all her 5k splits as only initial 4 given :

15'31/15'46/15'58/16'11

likely get a clocking of 2"16-low/mid, but like i said, physics is not generous...

Another poorly disguised attempt by LR to make people think that Paula wasn't on anything and that all the other women marathoners just aren't tough enough, except for Mary.

Obviously 2:09:59.

It's Egun wrote:

Are we not all done with John Kellogg?

Seriously.

Yeah, you tell 'em! And while we're at it, I've heard enough from Vigil, Shorter, Gags, .....ALL those old farts. Absurd that us know it alls have to even hear these geezers breathing let alone hear them speak to their life's work.