Official BERLIN MARATHON 2023 predictions

Ah so that confirms it. I was excited at the thought of seeing Kenenisa vs Kipchoge, i suspect many others were too

Bekele confirmed

Also Kiplimo

Interview with 1985 winner Jimmy Ashworth

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Jimmy Ashworth - "Running gets under your skin" - Views from the Concourse

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Jimmy Ashworth won the Berlin Marathon in 1985. An athlete who can never be accused of not working hard enough, he's got a story to tell.

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Bekele appears not to be on the list, so this video is just speculative. As i understand it Kiplimo is there as a pacemaker. Calling Kipchoge for the win in 2:00:53

Last year, I think I found a pretty good live stream of the Berlin Marathon. This is always a hit and miss. I usually go on youtube and search for live and x- marathon. Sometimes it works well sometime it doesn't.

According to this Sweat Elite video from a few weeks ago Kiptum was doing:

4xmile in 4:40(2:54/km) + 5x1200(2:43/km) in 3:15 with 200m recovery

Kipchoge was apparently doing 8xmile in 4:40-4:42 (2:54-2:55/km) also with 200 recovery

For Kipchoge, this is the ultimate race! The mother of all those beautiful races he has run before like sub 2hours, Eneos, World record #1 and world record #2. He is not going to hold anything back. After this the focus will be the Olympics. This will give way to Kiptum to continue the chase for faster times.

My prediction:

2:00:29

Luis Orta with a 2:10.

Winning time 2:03:xx.

Not sure it will be Kipchoge or someone else.

when does this race start? now?

Where's the official Berlin marathon thread?

Here is pacing but no set splits for Kipchoge and Kipruto but one would assume someways faster than 62 through half but maybe they don't go together? Also I'm wondering who might go with 2:04:00 pace, someone like Philemon Kiplimo or even is Amanal Petros going there

I agree. Kipchoge has already said in past interview that if he doesn’t break 2 in sanctioned race, he wants to get as close as he can for others to go sub2.

I dont see Jacob Kiplimo listed there as a pacer.

Top 7 men and women on my profile thread. Times at halfway?

2:00:53

It appeared as if the leaders were opening just as aggressively as they did last year, but they settled in and backed off quickly. Most significant splits so far were 14:11 at 5k, 28:26 at 10k, 60:22 at halfway. with Kipchoge still having company. Let's see how this goes...

Last pacers step off at 32k, and Kipchoge has fallen off WR pace by over 20 seconds. Will he be able to rally for the finishing stages?