You're right. I wasn't looking closely enough as I tend to do. So Culpepper is the winner as I asserted on my first post.
You're right. I wasn't looking closely enough as I tend to do. So Culpepper is the winner as I asserted on my first post.
the last American Boston win wrote:
Greg Meyer sub 4 indoor/ 2:09 flat
Forgot about Greg Meyer, though, again, it's hard to compare marathon times. Unless the weather was sub-par in Boston that day, I still prefer to use a course like NYC, which, in any given year, I consider to be a more difficult course, whereas Chicago is probably the easiest, though at least it's not point-to-point and doesn't lend itself to an "aided" time. They are all very close in combined IAAF points.
Was Hall in HS when he ran 3:42 for 1500? Or was that in college? And he never really pursued the 1500 or mile after HS, is that right?
cant remember wrote:
Was Hall in HS when he ran 3:42 for 1500? Or was that in college? And he never really pursued the 1500 or mile after HS, is that right?
According to iaaf.org it was in June 2001. Hall would have been almost 19 years old, so it must have been his freshman year at Stanford.
He did it in his last year of high school, unfortunately overshadowed by one Alan Webb.
Sagarin wrote:
the last American Boston win wrote:Greg Meyer sub 4 indoor/ 2:09 flat
Forgot about Greg Meyer, though, again, it's hard to compare marathon times. Unless the weather was sub-par in Boston that day,
Right. Everyone that wants to throw out Hall's 2:04 should also be throwing out Meyer's 2:09. There was a tailwind that day.
freddy L wrote:
He did it in his last year of high school, unfortunately overshadowed by one Alan Webb.
Good catch. I guess he was just a pretty old (but not over-age) HS senior.
Paul Cummings also ran a 3:56.4 for a full mile
Ryan Hall covered 26.22 miles on foot in 2:04:58, therefore he is indeed a 2:04 marathoner
another non-american with a healthy resume who has not run a marathon who could be on the list if he stays healthy or even wants to run that stupid distance:
kenenisa bekele = 3:32 1500. i imagine he could run 2:10
freddy L wrote:
He did it in his last year of high school, unfortunately overshadowed by one Alan Webb.
When did Culpepper run 3:55? College? As a pro? Certainly not in HS since only 5 Americans have gone sub-4 in HS.
If I recall, Hall never pursued the mile in college, or did he? So we're using a HS time to talk about him factoring into this comparison about the mile and marathon.