Road Mile World Record - Elliot Giles 3:51.3
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Was it hand timed? All times to 0.1" Or is there something in the rules re road races only being recorded to 0.1"?
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Not when that overweight slob has ED at 45 and a heart attack at 55.
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Mad Jock McJock wrote:
Was it hand timed? All times to 0.1" Or is there something in the rules re road races only being recorded to 0.1"?
I remember when road miles first became popular- 5th Ave, then there was a whole circuit- they were on TV (ABC) and the top runners competed. The IAAF said that all times had to be rounded up to the full second. Maybe, hopefully, they're rounding up to the 1/10th now?
If they went to the full second you'd eventually have multiple runners holding the record.
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Jed Clampett wrote:
Newname wrote:
They just began tracking this a year or two ago and ignore all times run previously.
IF true that is just silly. I refuse to even look it up.
It is dumb yet true.
You don't remember Hobbs K getting the WR last year in 3:56?
I am surprised by the number of posters who don't know this.
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1983 Boston Marathon times don\'t count wrote:
Makes No Sense wrote:
The elevation rule makes sense to me, but I dont understand the point of the percent difference of separation between start and finish. why would a road record require curves or turns?
A tailwind or headwind can reek havoc on a ptp course like the Boston marathon. The 1983 and 1994 as well as whatever year that Hall ran his 2:04, were all heavily aided by a hurricane pushing them along the course.
Trason stans will melt down about any discussion of the women's world record for 100km which was set at Saroma-ko and the Japanese were able to get a waiver from the IAAF to ignore the seperation issues with that particular course to validate the ungodly 6:33 record (pre-clown shoes.)
REEK havoc?
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The controversy with the 100k was that the original rule required courses to have a separation not exceeding 30% for records. Some politicking to the IAAF resulted in the rule changed to 50%
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Time for a reevaluation wrote:
sifansshass wrote:
Yared "lose" Nuguse amirite
What’s up with OAC this year???
Ritz loves to talk up a sad sack of injured runners and underperformers. More hype than substance
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miss mannners wrote:
Gucci wrote:
1. GILES Elliot 1994 Nike 3:51.3
2. NUGUSE Yared 1999 OACUS 3:51.9
3. KETER Vincent 2002 3:54.9
4. COOPER Jonah 1996 Under Armour 3:58.0
5. EL KABBOURI Osamma 2000 New Balance 3:58.0
6. FOKKENROOD Jesse 2002 3:58.8
7. BUSSOTTI NEVES Joao 1993 New Balance 3:59.0
8. MORNET Romain 1997 New Balance 3:59.4
9. VAN NOPPEN Thomas 1999 4:01.7
10. TOBLER Marcel 2001 New Balance 4:01.9This guy was very impolite and did not follow accepted protocol.
Ha, great catch :-)
As far as road miles go, the track record is 3:43. Wake me up when someone runs a 3:46. A 3:51 "world record" is a complete nothing burger at this point.
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runn wrote:
Gucci wrote:
1. GILES Elliot 1994 Nike 3:51.3
2. NUGUSE Yared 1999 OACUS 3:51.9
3. KETER Vincent 2002 3:54.9
4. COOPER Jonah 1996 Under Armour 3:58.0
5. EL KABBOURI Osamma 2000 New Balance 3:58.0
6. FOKKENROOD Jesse 2002 3:58.8
7. BUSSOTTI NEVES Joao 1993 New Balance 3:59.0
8. MORNET Romain 1997 New Balance 3:59.4
9. VAN NOPPEN Thomas 1999 4:01.7
10. TOBLER Marcel 2001 New Balance 4:01.9Thanks for posting! Nuguse got the record!! Unfortunately, Giles got it before him.
Nuguse got the US and American Record (north and south continents).
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Too big for their britches wrote:
Ritz loves to talk up a sad sack of injured runners and underperformers. More hype than substance
So the guy who didn't make it out of the semis in Paris is not an underperformer but the guy who runs 3:27 for a medal is?
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Just watched the finish; it didn't look like Naguse was pushing for the win at all.
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OldBob wrote:
Just watched the finish; it didn't look like Naguse was pushing for the win at all.
I thought that - he looked like he kind of gave up and didn’t push at all.
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Because of the potential for a tailwind to cause artificially fast times on a point to point course .
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Mike Boit is the road mile GOAT. Real racers recognize.
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