Rojo, huge missed opportunity! You moved WAY too fast on the long sleeve shirt order. Should have waited until after Valencia and done a special run of shirts to commemorate the greatest marathon debut ever 👚😎
PS. That article is available exclusively for our SC members for 24 hours.
2:10:58
I remember when Ingrid K. ran 2:21, and that seemed other-worldly at the time. Now we are looking at a potential 2:10 by a woman. That's always been a solid American male time. Hell, 2:12, 2:13 has always been a solid American male time. I'd love to see her run an equivalent of that 62 minute half, but I'm not expecting it. 2:15 after a 1:07 split at halfway would be my guess. Still, it's been cool to see the progress in women's times over the past few decades.
I remember when Ingrid K. ran 2:21, and that seemed other-worldly at the time. Now we are looking at a potential 2:10 by a woman. That's always been a solid American male time. Hell, 2:12, 2:13 has always been a solid American male time. I'd love to see her run an equivalent of that 62 minute half, but I'm not expecting it. 2:15 after a 1:07 split at halfway would be my guess. Still, it's been cool to see the progress in women's times over the past few decades.
I see her at 1:05:00/1:06:00 at half marathon, and possible negative split second half. 2:09:50 -2:12:00. I think many underestimate what this female monster can achieve. She would have a spot on any male roster D1 distance squad. Outlier is Gidey.
What is really important since no one follows these weirdly named foreigners is what would Tuohy run. That is what we really want to know.
As Astro says - this Gidey chick is likely doping and WADA is letting her (and all the other Ethiopians, Kenyans and Ugandans) get away with it. Africa should be banned - Sisson is the real WR holder.
Correct, Sisson recently broke the CWR, which had previously belonged to Mizuki Noguchi.
As far as Gidey goes, I just don't care. A lot of people on this forum seem to be impressed by any "spectacle" regardless of legitimacy. I'm not -- an "enhanced" woman bouncing on springy shoes to a 2:13 (or whatever) isn't interesting at all.
I remember when Ingrid K. ran 2:21, and that seemed other-worldly at the time. Now we are looking at a potential 2:10 by a woman. That's always been a solid American male time. Hell, 2:12, 2:13 has always been a solid American male time. I'd love to see her run an equivalent of that 62 minute half, but I'm not expecting it. 2:15 after a 1:07 split at halfway would be my guess. Still, it's been cool to see the progress in women's times over the past few decades.
I think many underestimate what this female monster can achieve.
This is unacceptable language here. I hope it is not subconscious racism that leads to this kind of language.
It shows the level of denial in this sport that fans take seriously the possibility that an Ethiopian woman will likely run as fast as one of their greatest male runners, Abebe Bikila. We are watching a circus but many of you think it is real life.
It shows the level of denial in this sport that fans take seriously the possibility that an Ethiopian woman will likely run as fast as one of their greatest male runners, Abebe Bikila. We are watching a circus but many of you think it is real life.
Well it is a circus but it is still real life. Ghost thinks she can run 2:09 one day. Wasn’t the men’s world record 2:08 just a couple generations ago? She isn’t ever going to approach 2:09 but yes it is a circus and it is real, all too real.
It shows the level of denial in this sport that fans take seriously the possibility that an Ethiopian woman will likely run as fast as one of their greatest male runners, Abebe Bikila. We are watching a circus but many of you think it is real life.
Well it is a circus but it is still real life. Ghost thinks she can run 2:09 one day. Wasn’t the men’s world record 2:08 just a couple generations ago? She isn’t ever going to approach 2:09 but yes it is a circus and it is real, all too real.
It is entirely possible that LG is past her prime. I know she is young but she has not run close to her best times this year. I think we have seen the best of LG and that her decision to move to the marathon appears desperate to me. Expect a 2:15 or so.
I was a bit optimistic in thinking 2:15 or so and YET I was downvoted 37-2 by the know nothings who thought I was being pessimistic.
I’ll go out on limb and say 2:11:45. Think we are in for something crazy fast!
This comment had 22 thumbs up and 3 thumbs down. What's wrong with you people? Do you think that they hand out world records like candy? World records are world records because they are very hard to beat.
And thinking that a world record wouldn't just get broken, but broken by a massive amount? Where in the world do you guys come up with these wacky ideas?
If I could bet against you every time someone predicts a world record in one event or another, I would be right 99% of the time and I'd be rich!
I’ll go out on limb and say 2:11:45. Think we are in for something crazy fast!
This comment had 22 thumbs up and 3 thumbs down. What's wrong with you people? Do you think that they hand out world records like candy? World records are world records because they are very hard to beat.
And thinking that a world record wouldn't just get broken, but broken by a massive amount? Where in the world do you guys come up with these wacky ideas?
If I could bet against you every time someone predicts a world record in one event or another, I would be right 99% of the time and I'd be rich!
This comment had 22 thumbs up and 3 thumbs down. What's wrong with you people? Do you think that they hand out world records like candy? World records are world records because they are very hard to beat.
And thinking that a world record wouldn't just get broken, but broken by a massive amount? Where in the world do you guys come up with these wacky ideas?
If I could bet against you every time someone predicts a world record in one event or another, I would be right 99% of the time and I'd be rich!
To be fair, she did smash the HM WR on her debut.
There's no limit to the wonders that EPO will perform.
I am training for 800m and have no problems to run good HM race. I doubt that I could simply run marathon. It is over 90min race where You run out of energy stores.
Lots of my local good half marathon runnrers struglle running good marathon time.