London Marathon 2016 - Official Thread

With better sleep Bekele can be even better than 90% next time.

I watched the pace car drive past. It just doesn't drive through the finish line. If he genuinely didn't know how close he was to the WR it was because he wasn't paying attention to it.

i predicted last year top 3 in london as well in berlin,this year i knew before the raace kipchoge ,biwot .as ex world class marathon runner ,now coach:kipchoge supose to check a watch chrono &calculate his finish time ,adjust slow or little faster to break world record ,in the futur with a good competitor untill 40km he can break 2h2,need to stay behind the pacemaker to break wind save energy 4 late in the race ,i cant advice more ...........he need more consultations

for the olympic its another story ,?will see

asdfdgjdfgrg wrote:

Kipsang 5th in 2:07:5something. His best races are probably behind him.

I hate to say it but he is done. I feel bad for him. Very beautiful runner he is.

Metric Miler wrote:

jflo wrote:

And spare a thought for Sumgong's courageous performance in the women's race

Absolutely. Amazing.

Kipchoge has the performance of the day of course, followed by Sumgong and then Bekele in my opinion.

I think Sumgong's performance was up there too although the time wasn't that fast.

She banged her head on the tarmac and still performed.

The others didn't recover - Mergia and Mary.

jflo wrote:

4:38 Mile.

My God

Post of the morning!!

Great race, Kipchoge very inspiring. I wanna know what happened to Bekele at 25km, he must of wasted so much energy catching back up with the leaders and apparently he isn't running over an hour in training which is about the time he got dropped

rojo wrote:

jflo wrote:

4:38 Mile.

My God

Post of the morning!!

No Rojo. This was the post of the morning:

per wrote:

The neon headbands are gone. Biwott ad Kipchoge are serious now. Kipchoge removed his last, so he has the edge.

wtfunny wrote:

ventolin^3:

...For anyone to break 2"06 will be a miracle. ...

This isn't a terrible call .. there were, after all, only two athletes who broke 2:06.

They just happened to break it by nearly 3 minutes.

Only two athletes? What on earth are you talking about?

Trying to get caught up, sounds like an amazing men's race, any word on Hall?

New PB for Sara Hall. 2:30:05ish, looked great.

My impressions from not watching the race. I have ONLY read this thread.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Overall:

Great races on both sides with some drama.

Anyone watching on the international feed (sounds like including the NBCSN announcers) missed much of the important stuff as it wasn't shown.

Men's race:

1) WOW KIPCHOGE. A Total beast and the best marathoners in the world. When I saw their early splits I thought, "This isn't going to end well."

2) Bekele is BACK.

3) Repeat #1. He could have broken world record in London with slightly better pacing or even someone letting him know it was still a possibility earlier. He killed it the last 2k.

Women:

1) Fall Provides Drama.

2) Sumgong wins it despite getting smacked on pavement!

3) Does AK put Keitany on Olympic Team?

4) Wonder if British press will talk about Sumgong's false positive in 2012. She had a medical exemption.

KIPCHOGE said in his interview afterwards on the BBC, he knew he had the 30km record and HE himself slowed down between 30-40km. Not the fault of there not being a pace car, mis-informed, not told soon enough ect. as speculated above.

The guy knew he was on record pace and just missed it. He got his job done, which was to defend his title. It just goes to show when he makes the record his aim, he will undoubtedly kill it!

sredlums wrote:

wtfunny wrote:

This isn't a terrible call .. there were, after all, only two athletes who broke 2:06.

They just happened to break it by nearly 3 minutes.

Only two athletes? What on earth are you talking about?

http://www.marathonguide.com/history/records/alltimelist.cfm?Gen=M

Only 2 athlete broke 2:06 at this race, dummy. Not all time...

wejo wrote:

My impressions from not watching the race. I have ONLY read this thread.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Overall:

Great races on both sides with some drama.

Anyone watching on the international feed (sounds like including the NBCSN announcers) missed much of the important stuff as it wasn't shown.

Men's race:

1) WOW KIPCHOGE. A Total beast and the best marathoners in the world. When I saw their early splits I thought, "This isn't going to end well."

2) Bekele is BACK.

3) Repeat #1. He could have broken world record in London with slightly better pacing or even someone letting him know it was still a possibility earlier. He killed it the last 2k.

Women:

1) Fall Provides Drama.

2) Sumgong wins it despite getting smacked on pavement!

3) Does AK put Keitany on Olympic Team?

4) Wonder if British press will talk about Sumgong's false positive in 2012. She had a medical exemption.

Wejo,

I think AK can pick the following:

1. Eliud Kipchoge

2. Stanley Biwott

3. Anyone (who is strong) including kipsang but not Kimetto.

Women:

1. Jemima Sumgong.

She beat arguably Ethiopia's best runners. She even fell.

...and why not?

2. Florence Kiplagat

3. Mary Keitany. She has to be on the team if AK is a federation worth its salt.

Too bad that Gladys Cherono won't be there.

Sub Max wrote:

New PB for Sara Hall. 2:30:05ish, looked great.

Wow, great to hear!

Not much talk of Kimetto. Blows up with 1:10:xx second half & finishes 9th. Third in London a year ago & has struggled since. What's to be expected going forward??

Sub Max wrote:

KIPCHOGE said in his interview afterwards on the BBC, he knew he had the 30km record and HE himself slowed down between 30-40km. Not the fault of there not being a pace car, mis-informed, not told soon enough ect. as speculated above.

The guy knew he was on record pace and just missed it. He got his job done, which was to defend his title. It just goes to show when he makes the record his aim, he will undoubtedly kill it!

Kipchoge did make the record his aim in Berlin last year. He ran 2:04:00 with his shoes falling apart. Now he's run 2:03:05 on a harder course with improper pacing to start. Dude could run 2:02:20 or even faster if the stars aligned for him.

British number 2 Tsegai Tewelde didn't seem to quite understand the language Gabby Logan was using.

Interesting.