Official 2021 Boston Marathon Discussion Thread

TryAthlete wrote:

Kara is such a terrible commentator.

Kara is superb in her role. You must hate her, so with your bias you spitefully think your words have merit. Not so. She's friendly, insightful, and fair -- and that includes commenting about someone with whom she has a negative link, Galen Rupp, in yesterday's Chicago Marathon.

Just noticed Jenny Hitchings apparently just threw down a 2:45 - at age 58, 6:19 average pace

I wonder if she could be the first woman to OTQ at 60, depends what the standard is at in a couple years.

seriously man??? Why do you have to bring that obscenity here.

Jordan beat herself. If an elite women gets passed by someone running 2:40, is that really a big defeat? Shalane didn't "beat" jordan, Jordan beat herself.

not my real name wrote:

big Thanks to "Habs" for posting those in a really nice format, was fun to check it out.

I should look for the Tropf thread but I wonder if he managed to get a sub-2:30 average? I thought he was around 2:29 low after the first two, but 2:32 seems like it would put him just over, for the average. still nice work. Time for Wardian to get back in the game, haha.

Thanks, I posted a spreadsheet including top 100 women here if you're interested:

michimanx wrote:

Hasay 33rd 2:41:43

I hate to say it, but I think I have now officially given up on Jordan. I think she's now entered the Robby Andrews zone.

Great gal, I wish her only the absolute best, but I don't think I've got any hope left that she'll ever be an elite runner again.

Julian's comments from the other day made it sound like he's *sure* she will,... but he also sounded like he's sure she was at least in, say, sub 2:30 shape,... and she runs 2:41.

He and she tell us her workouts indicate something vastly better, but I don't see how that's possible with these kind of performances. If they're not just lying, we can only assume she's *totally* lost the mental toughness to compete --and I don't know how you get that back at this point, when it's so totally gone to hell.

Even with the super-shoes, it looks like Deena K's record is safe for a long while to come.

If Sara Hall has finally started to decline, it's hard to see any US woman threatening 2:20 for the foreseeable future.

Seriously, what a legend. 2:30.xx average for 3 days in a row as a medical resident?? That is incredible. Do you think that he was sleeping in till 10 every day to drive 45 min to a perfect trail for his easy run before dropping $15 on a hipster burrito and $4 on a garbage coffee at the hottest place in boulder?

king kimetto wrote:

moji wrote:

Uhmmmm Yuki dropped already

Shoot. From his Twitter it looks like he dropped because of a bad reaction to his 2nd Moderna shot? That really sucks, he had been destroying all his PR’s in his build-up this year.

From his personal facebook, he had a knee injury that recently cost him 10 days of running. This is his text from 4 days ago:

"I can't run in Boston marathon .

Because my left knee is so pain by falling .

My left knee isn't recovery now.

I couldn't run for 10 days.

And I am not easy about walking now.

I was disappointed after this injury.

But I think my injury was mysterious.

Because suddenly my wife had emergency operation a few days after my injury.

Her emergency operation was success.

But she is hospitalized until Sunday.

If I hadn't been seriously injured, she would have been alone from today.

But I can be with her due to a terrible injury.

I am sorry for the organizer and Boston buddies.

And , Good luck next Monday, every Boston buddies ‼︎

Your running will become " restartrunning " for people around the world.

My wife and I will do our best in recovery.

I will want to run with my wife in Boston marathon at next April.

See you again that time."

Congrats to Elaina Tabb (nee. Balouris)! Second place American Woman! I believe was a huge PR for her and a nice ending to her career (especially as her sort-of last pro race featured her shoe coming off at the start of the 10k Olympic Trials).

Runner10287 wrote:

LetsRun trolls. Americans are wimps. They never take risk in marathons and are afraid to blow up.

Also LetsRun trolls. CJ is an idiot for taking a chance and going for it.

^This

I do NOT believe this. A fabrication. Fake news. Whatever you call it, there is no way that the number is 95%.

"The Boston Athletic Association said 95% of runners were vaccinated."

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/boston-marathon-2021-rolling-start-times-covid-protocols/2513218/

Hasay is done.

Hall is proving to be overrated and poorly coached.

Embrace the future.

Molly Seidel & Emma Bates are so much more worthy of our attention than Hall or Hasay.

DanM wrote:

I do NOT believe this. A fabrication. Fake news. Whatever you call it, there is no way that the number is 95%.

"The Boston Athletic Association said 95% of runners were vaccinated."

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/boston-marathon-2021-rolling-start-times-covid-protocols/2513218/

I don't believe this stat at all. Very easy to fake a vax card when it's volunteers at the expo checking it. Tons of people are faking these now. And what was with the idiots starting the marathon wearing masks? Pure stupidity.

I assume they are going to run Boston in April in 2022?

Anyone know when registration will be for Boston 2022?

It is usually in September for the April race. Will they allow New York and November marathons to be qualifying events for 2022?

I looked this up the other day: November 8-12, 2021

And to answer the second part of your question: "The qualifying window began on September 1, 2019 and will close at 5:00PM ET on Friday, November 12." NYC is on 11/7/21.

sp2 wrote:

Even with the super-shoes, it looks like Deena K's record is safe for a long while to come.

If Sara Hall has finally started to decline, it's hard to see any US woman threatening 2:20 for the foreseeable future.

Emily Sisson.

Makes Paper wrote:

I looked this up the other day: November 8-12, 2021

Thanks.