2022 Valencia Marathon Official Live Thread- Gidey Going for Kosgei's WR (Race at 2:15 am eastern/ 11:15 Pacific)

Anyone have men's top 10? I'm not downloading the marathon app just to see results. Thanks.

All 3 dropped out. CJ Albertson before 25k, Butler at ~35k, Wanders ??

You also noticed 👏

Kelvin Kiptum has been supreme over the half marathon in the last few years churning 58mins and 59 mins.I wasn't surprised at all by the performance. Sheillah Chepkirui too had a brilliant debut.

Many emerging top athletes took advantage of the fact that the spotlight was on Gidey and performed well.

The pacemakers strangely sabotaged the women world record attempt by deciding to stay with Gidey who was struggling in the last few kilometres instead of helping the leading athlete maintain pace and break the world record. That was out of order.

Yet again I am vindicated on Julian Wonders.Its nothing against him or Canova.I have tremendous respect for both of them .As I said before I watched for several weeks in Iten Kenya the training of that group it is clearly too much.The workouts are extreme.The athletes seem exhausted and overtrained.

I would say, there’s a better chance of Kiptum being clean at 23 than Kipchoge. Kipchoge, approaching 40 years old is an outlier.

Like a properly paced Chepngetich

Also, going out too slow and missing that first water bottle didn’t help. Pacers should’ve went with the winner for sure.

Sorry, I've missed, what about Wanders? Please, somebody explain what has happened in the race with him?

Sinead Diver smashes the Australian record with a 2:21:34! Not bad for a 45 year old.

Pretty sure he's just sarcastically responding to the doping allegations Kipchoge received because he ran a PB at age 38. The drugs are making him age backwards and all that.

pretty sure Radcliffe would be sub 2:14 with super shoes

It is a farce. If people want to pretend it's real, fine.

lol Kiptum is drugging without doubt

These performances are beyond suspicious

The times are dropping so much is there a new drug ?

Barely known athletes

It can't all be explained by shoes

I enjoyed reading this thread to get caught up. Some of the doping posts made me laugh.

just finished watching the replay of the Marathon, a couple thoughts:

- Gidey: I don't respect anyone who will call Gidey's run a flop. I was one of the many people who agreed she could run something really punchy (2:13low I think I said, maybe 2:12high if everything was perfect) but I think we all got swept up by her other PR's and didn't give the move to Marathon it's true respect. Running 2:16 for a debut is beyond solid, and she's so young.

- Beriso: am I missing something here?
2015 - 32:52 & 68:43 (not that those line up anyway)
2016 - 2:20:48
2017 - 2:22:15
2018 - 2:28:56 & 1:12:08
2019 - X
2020 - 2:24:51
2021 - X
2022 - 2:25:05 & 2:14:58???
WTF.

- Pacers: yeah probably should've helped the winner more, though tbh we don't know the exact guidance/what their pay was tied to. From looking at the splits though the Eurosport commentators were wrong about them every really being on WR pace. They were off it in the first 10K, worked back a bit and still missed it by 15s through Halfway. Do we think Beriso would've really been 55s quicker? Maybe but that's still a fair gap.

- Kiptum: couple people have commented about his previous results. Yes he's run 58:42 back in 2020 but has more recently run 28:27, 28:17 and 59mins twice. Do those really equate to a 2:01 Marathoner?...

- Wanders: I don't know what to say anymore that hasn't been said a million times. Overtrained to the point of irrelevance and it's sad that it looks like this is how he will be remembered in his career, the great talent that never quite was.

- Aussie's did great but Brett's 2:07 is a fantastic result after some tough races and should definitely get more respect. Huge props to the dude.