amkelley wrote:
I don't know Albertson, but I live in his neck of the woods and I was in two of the recent races at which he obliterated the marathon course records (Two Cities in November and Modesto two weeks ago). His ability to recover from very high-level efforts is just amazing. I don't know whether he has the talent to get from being a 2:16 guy to a sub-2:10 guy, but he's young and improving and one can always hope!
Yes! His ability to recover is unmatched.
Can somebody explain the significance of this record? I don't get it. I always viewed indoor track as training before outdoor. Why do indoor marathons exist, how often are they run, and how many people run them?
the obvious question wrote:
Did he ever get lapped?
He was lapped TWICE by TWO different runners in the first 20k.
It would say that is about a 2:12:xx on a fast outdoor marathon course . Have to keep an eye on him for the OT
Hounddogharrier wrote:
It would say that is about a 2:12:xx on a fast outdoor marathon course . Have to keep an eye on him for the OT
Dark horse of the trials?
Dark horse coming in wrote:
Hounddogharrier wrote:
It would say that is about a 2:12:xx on a fast outdoor marathon course . Have to keep an eye on him for the OT
Dark horse of the trials?
Keep it on the Down low . The unsophisticated won’t understand the significance. Look at Allie K indoors and outdoors thoning
This converts to 2:15:48 on the BU track
Hardloper wrote:
This converts to 2:15:48 on the BU track
Since B.U. is the 4% of indoor tracks, it actually converts to 2:12:36
Hounddogharrier wrote:
It would say that is about a 2:12:xx on a fast outdoor marathon course . Have to keep an eye on him for the OT
At 211 laps, if we assume each turn adds 0.5 seconds, he'd shave off 3:31, so 2:14:38. I don't think it's worth anything muster faster than that
Is he the second coming of Michael Wardian? Can race without much recovery between, runs good (but not world class) times, and does zany bits like the indoor track WR.
amkelley wrote:
I don't know Albertson, but I live in his neck of the woods and I was in two of the recent races at which he obliterated the marathon course records (Two Cities in November and Modesto two weeks ago). His ability to recover from very high-level efforts is just amazing. I don't know whether he has the talent to get from being a 2:16 guy to a sub-2:10 guy, but he's young and improving and one can always hope!
Sub 2:10! Let's slow the roll a bit. Congrats on the fine effort, but let's not go crazy. He doesn't need that much sycophancy inflating expectations about future performances.
Let us not be stingy with our sycophancy, especially when we have a new object of attention. We can always turn it around and start hating him, at any moment.
Why do we have all these random records?
Random record wrote:
Why do we have all these random records?
So slow white people can still break records.
He is a 4:00/miler so he has the speed to run 2:10.
Bobfake9899 wrote:
amkelley wrote:
I don't know Albertson, but I live in his neck of the woods and I was in two of the recent races at which he obliterated the marathon course records (Two Cities in November and Modesto two weeks ago). His ability to recover from very high-level efforts is just amazing. I don't know whether he has the talent to get from being a 2:16 guy to a sub-2:10 guy, but he's young and improving and one can always hope!
Yes! His ability to recover is unmatched.
Perhaps, but other than Yuki Kawauchi, a number of prominent ultrarunners come to mind, most significantly, Georgio Calcaterra (marathon PB of 2:13). See the dates and his results in 2000 for example. This is not a complete list of his races.
https://more.arrs.run/runner/11806These days, Christopher Zablocki who was also racing the indoor marathon, and who has been profiled on these pages (see link), is also a prolific marathoner.
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/02/meet-interesting-man-running-chris-zablockis-long-road-los-angeles/I would think a 2:14-2:16 talent who can handle a heavy diet of quality races would be a good candidate for ultras (either road or trails), but we shall see if either of these guys ever pursue it.
When I try to envision what hell would be like, I think of running a marathon on an indoor track. And the heat, by god the heat.
brogan1 wrote:
Can somebody explain the significance of this record? I don't get it. I always viewed indoor track as training before outdoor. Why do indoor marathons exist, how often are they run, and how many people run them?
I agree, this is stupid. Run a real marathon.
Free_the_thigh wrote:
brogan1 wrote:
Can somebody explain the significance of this record? I don't get it. I always viewed indoor track as training before outdoor. Why do indoor marathons exist, how often are they run, and how many people run them?
I agree, this is stupid. Run a real marathon.
Isn't 26.2 miles real indoors or outdoors?
He made $7000... Pretty sure all the people who are criticizing him on here would run an indoor marathon if they made $33 dollars a lap.