The 5th ave mile was won in 3:48 by Kerr last year. it still doesn’t count because it is downhill. Maree has the record at 3:47 but again, that’s downhill
This is an interesting one - was Giles an add in the last days or so? Because I wonder if YN knew he would have to run this hard to win the race (and in the end he didn't) especially with Zurich in 4 days time.
I am interested to see how both these guys run coming off this (assuming both will be there). I can't ever remember a road mile being put on at this point in the season - one week out from basically the final weekend of the season, where you had guys probably in those meets running in it. It didn't look like they were just floating across the line there.
Fair questions. Good for Giles on what has to be an all-time weird season. I'd tend to agree that Yared probably thought this was going to be a tune-up effort and not fighting tooth-and-nail with someone for the record. Does make me dubious about him beating any of the big 3 in Zurich. Pretty funny how hectic the start was, and only 3 guys go under 3:55. Road miles make everyone go out like lunatics.
Regardless that World Athletics has only recently (last year) made the road mile a world record distance, the 5th Avenue Mile course is not record eligible. Separation=100% and the elevation change is greater than 1 m/km.
Net-drop course, obviously, or it would be the road record. There have been about 20 Fifth Avenue times faster than Giles' record, including Josh Kerr's 3:47 last year. They're aided-course times.
Regardless that World Athletics has only recently (last year) made the road mile a world record distance, the 5th Avenue Mile course is not record eligible. Separation=100% and the elevation change is greater than 1 m/km.
The elevation rule makes sense to me, but I dont understand the point of the percent difference of separation between start and finish. why would a road record require curves or turns?
Regardless that World Athletics has only recently (last year) made the road mile a world record distance, the 5th Avenue Mile course is not record eligible. Separation=100% and the elevation change is greater than 1 m/km.
The elevation rule makes sense to me, but I dont understand the point of the percent difference of separation between start and finish. why would a road record require curves or turns?
A tailwind or headwind can reek havoc on a ptp course like the Boston marathon. The 1983 and 1994 as well as whatever year that Hall ran his 2:04, were all heavily aided by a hurricane pushing them along the course.
Trason stans will melt down about any discussion of the women's world record for 100km which was set at Saroma-ko and the Japanese were able to get a waiver from the IAAF to ignore the seperation issues with that particular course to validate the ungodly 6:33 record (pre-clown shoes.)
It would be interesting to see if the affect of wearing road shoes not spikes affected the relative order of the field. I know even at my level, different people i run with in training run relatively better in say the vaporfly compared to the dragonfly, even over similar sessions.