2019 London Marathon fields are out and are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! Field even includes Americans Huddle, Sisson and Derrick.

3hr-marathoner wrote:

Derrick won't win it this time but he has a good shot a breaking 2:10. For comparison, here are some other Americans who have concentrated on the 5/10 before having success at the marathon: Frank Shorter 13:26/27:45/2:10:30. Alberto Salazar 13:11/27:25/2:08:13. Meb 13:11/27:13/2:08:37. Derrrick 13:08/27:31/????

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger CD fan than I, but come on man, that 5k PR is from 2013 and the 10k PR is from 2012. That's a long @ss time ago. A better comparison would be Matt Tegenkamp 12:58/27:28/2:12:39.

Please please please prove me wrong Chris! Stay healthy and knock one out!

...and kiptum, and cam, and Derrick!

Looking at Henry’s Szost’s wikipedia page, his coach from 2010- 2015 (when he ran started running fast marathons) was Leonid Shvetsov, who it seems had a pretty open “secret” about how to run fast for the marathon.

Whoops . Wrong link, sorry. http://www.coachnorrie.co.za/2010/11/22/comrades-double-record-holder-shvetsov-named-as-drug-supplier/

Lol. Yea. Similar to the East African open "secret" no?

2:10-low for Derick. Around 2:21-low for Huddle. Not sure about Sisson or Kieffer.

Kiptum is dangerous.

It is ordered by bib number which is decided by a combination of factors - some athletes occasionally request a certain number and they may 'hold' certain numbers as well for athletes especially return winners, WR holder (e.g. number 1). The lower down numbers are a combination of when the athletes firmly confirm, appearance fee, PBs and other factors.

jhand366 wrote:

2:10-low for Derick. Around 2:21-low for Huddle. Not sure about Sisson or Kieffer.

Makes sense. London is about 3 minutes faster than NY and that would mean NO IMPROVEMENT for Derrick but this board will wet their panties over a time. Pretty silly when you think about it.

Former Hillary supporter wrote:

ric flair woo wrote:

chris derrick is the american distance running hero we need but don't deserve

If Pre was alive, he would win the London marathon.

You’re joking, right?

Would like to see Cam Levins get down to 2:04.xx to 2:05.xx range!

I can tell a wrong info in the list ;) Mikael Ekvall Sweden is not a debutant, he has run 2:12 .

JS , The Man! wrote:

Coach JS runner has been asked to be one of the pacemakers! Organizers ask for 1:01 at half!

Is this true JS?

Just asking wrote:

JS , The Man! wrote:

Coach JS runner has been asked to be one of the pacemakers! Organizers ask for 1:01 at half!

Is this true JS?

Yes, I can confirm that. My coached runner Sammy Nyokaye,Kenya, will be one of the pacemakers.

He won a big half marathon in Kenya at high altitude a couple of years ago at 1.01. 40 , only 8 sec from world best half at high altitude ever. In that race he beat runners with 59 min PR:s at the half. We now try to set him in his life very best shape and he will probably fix that 1.01 half the organizers want as passing time in the London marathon.

blamb61 wrote:

Would like to see Cam Levins get down to 2:04.xx to 2:05.xx range!

I'd love that. Quirky, but definitely a heck of a nice guy.

blamb61 wrote:

Would like to see Cam Levins get down to 2:04.xx to 2:05.xx range!

If he got down to 2:07 , I’d be pleasantly surprised!

No Kenenisa Bekele.

It is good we don't have to see him fail again.

COMPLETE BULL DOO DOO

Sammy Nyokaye (whover he is,) is not a pacer at London

With a four year old PB of 62.13 he could not run 61.00 or anything close

https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/sammy-dismas-nyokaye-297980

What a joke of a post

Milethon wrote:

rojo wrote:

Ok, in the first post, I listed all of the runners by their PRS. I was quite proud of myself as I had to bring out my Princeton econ skill for the first time in 20 years and sort them in excel as the organizer's list of elites was in some sort of bizarre order.

Here is how the organizers listed the elites. I will send a free Letsrun tshirt or $5 - whichever you prefer - to the person who can find and then explain the logic of the following list. I can see no logical order to this list at all.

I would guess it has to do something with when the athlete declared or confirmed entry into the race.

Definitely this. They try and get the big names in first, then fill the rest.

If it were organised by appearance money like some are posting then Farah would definitely be above Geremew, if not Kipchoge also. Think what you will of that, it's the truth. Farah in a home marathon would be paid mega money by Virgin.