Remember when we tried to convince ourselves that any American besides Mantz (on either Mens or Womens side) had a shot a a podium? lol
Same thing every year for a lot of people here, you can include whining about people raising money for charity and quality of the broadcast for something that is an afterthought nationally
Serious question for those who know might have any idea about broadcasting...Why is the coverage so bad for an event like this and yet an event like UTMB held in the mountains of France it can be crystal clear? I know one is Broadcast TV (Boston) and one is Internet Streaming (UTMB), but is that really the difference?
We've been asking this same question for most of the American majors for the past two decades.
2:04:58, Ryan Hall 2011 with massive tailwind, and at 35k Mantz is on 2:04:40 pace.
Thank you. So Mantz has a chance...
Not many seconds to spare, so little room for error on Mantz's part for absolute time. He seems in better shape than Hall was though re: tailwind for Hall.