Matt Withrow?
Matt Withrow?
Clerk wrote:
Brent Vaughn's 13:18.
Vaughn won X-country Nationals.
Dingler wrote:
Dixie Normose wrote:This may be a bit of a stretch as he did some decent stuff before but nothing close to this level. Essentially nothing - for someone of his potential - since.
Moses Mosop. Boston
Mosop's Boston performance is not even close to being a one run wonder. If the tailwind in Boston that year was worth about 2 minutes then he essential ran 2:05. A few months after Boston he ran 1:26:47 WR for 30k on the track (equivalent to just under 2:05 for a marathon). He then ran mid-2:05 in Chicago that fall and low-2:05 in Rotterdam the following spring. His half PR is 59:20, equivalent to just under mid-2:04. If we want to go even lower in distance his 10000m PR is 26:44 equivalent to sub-2:04 and his 5000m PR is 12:54, equivalent to about just under 2:04.
The tailwind wasn't worth 2 minutes.
If the tailwind was worth 2 minutes, why did Geoffrey Mutai nearly break 2:05 in hilly NYC with 0 rabbits?
That (NYC 2011) was the greatest marathon performance of all time, and any "wind aid" from Boston 2011 was canceled out by the difficult newton hills that a berlin or chicago lack.
Wang Junxia
1988 Olympic Trials 1500 - Jeff Atkinson and/or Mark Deady...take your pick. The fact that those two guys made the team ahead of Jim Spivey was the ultimate indictment of the U.S. team selection process.