Official 2024 Chicago Marathon Live Discussion Thread (race is at 8:30 am ET on Sunday)

Womens leader passing Wolde!

John Korir wins with a big negative split

3rd time racing Chicago and first WMM victory. He's coached my Ron Mann and spends time in the USA frequently, 3 wins in a row now after winning Boilermaker and Falmouth earlier this year

The 24 split has to be in the wrong spot?
Broadcast said 5:21 for 24 and 4:45 for 25. Seems like the mark for 24 is too far.

Shoutout to Ruth’s pacer for taking her literally the full way. Frontrunning a 2:10 is no joke

Eyestone said she had a foot issue pop up last week and dropped

Yes. Honestly fair though with grainy coverage and them looking similar. But yeah I caught that too

Something in her plantar fascia. Was noticed earlier this week during taper.

This man better get a nice nice bonus

Keira D'Amoto DNF in the first half

Mohamed Esa and Amos Kipruto round out the podium. Ebenyo 2:06:04 debut

Now lets see this WR?

Massive PB by CJ Albertson if he keeps it.

Pretty sure that wasn’t Hosoya either behind CJ. That was Sadataka. Pretty poor stretch of commentary there unfortunately.

Dammit, the woman just said CJ Anderson. Maybe his legacy will be nothing to the masses after all..

I want to know what data they are looking at. Clearly, they are interpreting the data incorrectly or cherry picking data points. Are they looking at lactate at LT2? Are they looking at aerobic threshold pace? Are they looking at VO2 max? Are they looking at workouts? Are they looking at recent race results?

Say what you want about CJ. Hell of a run

Ok I was really wrong. Ruth did NOT blow up.

Nah a woman running sub 2:10 is absolutely insane. I thought I would never see it in my lifetime.

Looks like Panning narrowly avoided getting chicked