Philly Half Thread -

dumm-dumm-dumm duuuuuuuuumm wrote:

Way to go, Andrew Dumm!...A solid time for the UVA [Jason Dunn] product to follow up his Marine Corps Marathon win from last October. Should continue to build a name for himself over the next two or three years. Look for him to do some good things!!!!!!

Its the web Dumm Dumm - not a bastion of the king's english for sure. If you want correct and proper grammar - read the Wall St. Journal. I imagine McKeon is doing this on the fly - mistakes will be made. Although the interruption at the end was very unfortunate and ill timed - i'm sure putting together a web cast is not as easy as we'd like to think it is.

get paid norm wrote:

I hear Norm Jones doesn't have a sponsor. Who is going to pick him up? The race directors better at least give him a lower bib number from now on.

Who's Norm Jones? I thought Hall won?

To put Hall's 61:53 in perspective, 7 guys went under 59:33 2 weeks ago at Rotterdam, and Geb split faster.

I thought Hall won, but that's saying Norm Jones. Who was the real winner?

Is there any way to see a rebroadcast of this race?? I checked rocknroll.com & universal sports - nothing.

Where are Bairu and Rohat? I thought that they were the big competition for Hall in this race. That is what all the yahoo's were reporting in the pre race fake hype. You know the same hype that said that mats were going to be set at the 15k-10mile-and 20k marks because we were going to see a bunch of AR in route.

Really, the thread should be entitled, "Hall toasts three Kenyans in the final mile."

That's the news here. It's a sight we haven't see very often. Those four runners hung together for the entire race. No surges--which surprised me--but an honest pace, if not a blazing one.

Then, right at 12-mile point, Hall takes off. One guy falls off, Ndereba and Limo hang, then Limo falls off. Ndereba and Hall are together briefly, and then Hall makes a very strong move and Ndereba can't hang with him.

Say what you want about third-string Kenyans (and Limo is hardly that, although he's no Lel): Hall ran exactly the race he wanted to run, and he toasted three guy, one of whom would, in any other year, have won the race and helped incrementally prop up the myth of Kenyan world dominance.

Not this year. In retrospect, Hall controlled the race. Now, it's interesting to speculate about what would have happened if one of those guys had made a strong move somewhat earlier. But that's not what happened. And what happened is heartening.

Seriously did Ryan Hall lose to this Norm Jones guy? Why is no one talking about this?

My guess is he's a wheelchair athlete. So technically Hall lost the race to the finish line...

Clearly Ryan Halls fault about the commercial. If he had run 61 flat like he was supposed to, he would have been done already. Don't hate the messenger.

kudzurunner wrote:

Really, the thread should be entitled, "Hall toasts three Kenyans in the final mile . . . and then NORM JONES comes out of NOWHERE to take it in the last 200m. What an upset!"

I fixed your thread title.

Rabbits are silly wrote:

That is what all the yahoo's were reporting in the pre race fake hype. You know the same hype that said that mats were going to be set at the 15k-10mile-and 20k marks because we were going to see a bunch of AR in route.

What fake hype? Hall asked for official splits and he didn't deliver.

WTF? I trained harder than anyone, up to 40 miles A WEEK. I ate the pasta dinner and only had one glass of wine last night, and I whoop butt on, not only that young punk Hall, but those other Kenyan guys and what do get? NO RESPECT, No nothing! Rip off!!!!

It'd be nice, when looking at the all-time list, to see somebody fill in the gap between Hall and the next fastest time. Over a minute, it's an eternity.

Yes, i found the replay up on runrocknroll.com & philadelphia.competitor.com now.

jayzzee wrote:

Is there any way to see a rebroadcast of this race?? I checked rocknroll.com & universal sports - nothing.

why would he ask for a 10k split for record purposes? He let the first mile go out in 4:48, he didn't really intend on going for any records.