Official 2017 BMW Berlin Marathon Thread

The race is about to get REAL!

DON'T YOU DARE DROP OUT BEKELE

kipruto trains with kipchoge under patrick sang. pretty sure he's there to help.

likewise adola guye for bekele

El Keniano wrote:

Bekele doing his usual deceptive fall back.

You don't want to get gapped by 'the machine', if you plan to be there at the end.

Gap is increasing now!

Top 30 men at halfway.

1 Kipchoge, Eliud (KEN) M30 Kenia 1:01:29

2 Kipruto, Vincent (KEN) M30 Kenia 1:01:29

3 Kipsang, Wilson (KEN) M35 Kenia 1:01:29

4 Bekele, Kenenisa (ETH) M35 Äthiopien 1:01:29

5 Adola, Guye (ETH) MH 1:01:29

6 Milne, Alex (GBR) MH Enfield & Haringey A... 1:02:57

7 Shitara, Yuta (JPN) MH Japan 1:02:57

8 Kandie, Felix (KEN) M30 Kenia 1:02:57

9 Sano, Hiroaki (JPN) M45 Japan 1:05:10

10 Gokaya, Koji (JPN) MH JR East 1:05:10

11 Kikuchi, Masato (JPN) MH Konica Minolta 1:05:10

12 Tiruneh, Chalachew (ETH) MH helpAge 1:05:10

13 Belachew, Melaku (ETH) MH Äthiopien 1:05:10

14 Gelaw, Getaye Fisseha (ETH) MH Ankara EGO Spor 1:05:10

15 Vail, Ryan (USA) M30 USA 1:05:47

16 Pflieger, Philipp (GER) M30 LG Telis Finanz Reg... 1:05:47

17 Malaty, Benjamin (FRA) M30 Frankreich 1:05:47

18 Mellor, Jonathan (GBR) M30 1:05:47

19 Adams, Liam (AUS) M30 adidas Australia 1:05:48

20 Lashyn, Dmytro (UKR) MH 1:05:48

21 St. Lawrence, Ben (AUS) M35 1:05:48

22 El Jaddar, Ahmed (MAR) M30 TV Riehen 1:06:13

23 Pfeil, Valentin (AUT) MH 1:06:40

24 van Schuerbeeck, Willem (BEL) M30 Belgien 1:06:40

25 Sharp, Matt (GBR) MH Enfield an d Harringa... 1:06:40

26 Abdulaziz, Ebrahim (NOR) M35 Strindheim IL 1:06:41

27 Csere, Gaspar (HUN) MH BEAC Atletika 1898 1:06:41

28 Overall, Scott (GBR) M30 Blackheath @ Bromley 1:06:42

29 Lehmann, Adrian (SUI) MH LV Langenthal 1:07:03

30 Kinde, Yonas (ETH) M35 1:07:03

https://twitter.com/JRNHeadlines/status/911868234969706496

Adola still looking like he's jogging.

The gap to Bekele developed quickly. Really underwriters the pace the leader are carrying out so far

Either the tracker is reporting incorrectly, or someone else got his chip.

He is a hotshot on the local London scene, but his PR is 2:23ish I think. His half marathon PR is 67, so there is no way he has just improved that by 5 minutes, even if he was just time trialling a shorter distance today.

I'm rooting for Bekele. If anyone can get back to the lead pack, Bekele can do it.

Sledge_hammer wrote:

Who is that german woman? Damn annoying.

Dunno, but I wish she'd feck off.

Looks like he started to lose contact after the halfway. Then again he reeled in Kipsang last year. Regardless, it's a great effort to run wr pace in those conditions.

Also, kudos to the us guys staying up late/getting up super early just to watch this race, I'm having it easier since it's 9 o'clock in my location, the fans are a great part of this sport.

Sledge_hammer wrote:

Who is that german woman? Damn annoying.

+1

She got the same treatment last year. We'll see a lot of her as someone mentioned earlier, no helicopter shots of famous landmarks to pad out the coverage.

women half: 69:40

Sub 1:03 for shitara! Damn son!

Predication:

1. Kipchoge win with WR by a few seconds.

2. Kipsang with new PR

3. Adola

Not so big Mazungo wrote:

kipruto trains with kipchoge under patrick sang. pretty sure he's there to help.

likewise adola guye for bekele

FYI - Patrick Sang is the fastest steepler (lifetime best) to ever run NCAAs (for Univ. of Texas)

Rope-a-dope?

Adola looking a bit nervous.