Marathon Times to Beat - if you can.

add retired steeplechaser wilson boit kipketer who ran his first marathon today in 21521

Boston now has a 2 wave start with the 2006 cutoff being 3:30:42 to get into wave 1, the 1st 10,000 runners.

http://www.baa.org/FAQs.asp

Not that I mean to defend Sean Combs, but the guy trained for the NY marathon in 8 weeks and he ran the race with tendonitis in his knee.

Yes he had the help and support and crap, but 8 weeks for a guy that was never a former pro-athlete (Lance) is impressive.

How about Lloyd Scott, the dude who did the marathon in the deep sea diving suit?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1939394.stm

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As far as celebrity marathon times to beat, how can anyone forget Brandon Moen's near world record setting treadmill effort of 2:43.51?

Which landed him about 20 minutes shy of the record.

No he said he ran the 400m in college!!!He ran as slow as Oprah - she is more impressive b/c she is old and overwieght even by non-runner standards. Joan Rivers predictions?

random lurker wrote:

Not that I mean to defend Sean Combs, but the guy trained for the NY marathon in 8 weeks and he ran the race with tendonitis in his knee.

Yes he had the help and support and crap, but 8 weeks for a guy that was never a former pro-athlete (Lance) is impressive.

NY runner wrote:

Joan Rivers predictions?

DOA.

NY runner wrote:

No he said he ran the 400m in college!!!

He ran as slow as Oprah - she is more impressive b/c she is old and overwieght even by non-runner standards.

Joan Rivers predictions?

In defense of Oprah, her weight goes up and down a lot, but when she ran the marathon in 1993, her weight was way down and she was not overweight. I went looking for a pic, but could not find one quickly, but she looked pretty fit then.

As to a JR prediction, DNS.

She will not even toe the line.

werknesh kidane is another celeberty considering trying a marathon in the next 2 years.

as for the joan rivers prediction, i dont think rivers will run her first marathon as fast as kidane will run hers.

Mark Allen is great but not sub 30 10k after swimming

Get a clue and do some research before you diss. Mark ran countless open road 10Ks in under 30-31, incl Bolder Boulder at altitude in Feb. he ran the Cherry Blossom primarily to honor Nike who was sponsoring the event in about 47:xx.

2:40 marathon OPEN=sub hour 10 miler anywhere thus 2:40 Ironman marathon= well you do the math

The men's backwards WR is 3:34 or thereabout. Pretty sad if you can't beat that running forward.

Normann Stadler, the Winner Iron Man Hawaii 2006 ran a 2:55:03 marathon after the swim and bike.

What was Lance's time (with only the run)?

I'm surprised no one has said Alan Turing, didn't he run around 2:46 back in like the 1940's?

Yes, Turing apparently ran 2:46:03 in 1948. Keep in mind that the winning time at the Olympics that year was just under 2:35.

Didn't a guy run Boston last year in 3:03 or something while juggling?

I'm sure chicks dig him.

Nell McAndrew 3:10:52 London Marathon 2005

Besides Jalabert's 2005 NYCM, he also ran London in 2006 (2:57:39) and Barcelona 2007 (2:45:52). So Lance has some work to do if he wants to beat JaJa's best time.

Denise Hazlick, the msnbc writer who wanted to do an iron man - Vancouver 2005 6:39.

That is good for a time in about the top 95% of all marathoners.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=935905&thread=935905

Jacob, all 436 Lbs wrote:

Denise Hazlick, the msnbc writer who wanted to do an iron man - Vancouver 2005 6:39.

That is good for a time in about the top 95% of all marathoners.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=935905&thread=935905

I just searched for her in the results on the marathon's webpage and she is not there.

I also searched for her on Marathonguide.com and she is not there either.

Did she bandit the race?

Found her, official time 6:36:16