Official 2015 U.S. Half Marathon Champs Discussion Thread

Great interview, too.

This guy is about 100x more interesting on a microphone than Ritz, Rupp and Hall combined.

What shoe is NB athlete Connelly wearing?

I would be happy to waddle a sub 1:11.

Dewey_Runner wrote:

Sara Hall's stride is a full-blown waddle.

Women's top 8

Kim Conley 69:44

Brianne Nelson 70:16

Janet Bawcom 70:46

Sara Hall 70:50

Annie Bersagel 70:58

Juliet Bottorff 71:30

Mattie Suver 71:51

Katie Matthews 71:57

Men's top 8

Diego Estrada 60:51

Jared Ward 61:42

Girma Mecheso 62:16

Meb Keflezighi 62:18

Matt Llano 62:22

Aron Rono 62:25

Jeffrey Eggleston 62:41

Mario Mendoza (didn't get a time; this isn't the same guy the Mendoza Line is named for)

milethon wrote:

I would be happy to waddle a sub 1:11.

Dewey_Runner wrote:

Sara Hall's stride is a full-blown waddle.

Yeah, what a stupid statement by Dewey_Runner, who probably has longer legs and runs much, much slower.

dag son wrote:

milethon wrote:

I would be happy to waddle a sub 1:11.

Yeah, what a stupid statement by Dewey_Runner, who probably has longer legs and runs much, much slower.

It's true- these threads are great but some idiot always has to say something stupid.

He doesn't like Hall (and I'm sure he has never met her, he's just an idiot) so he has to say something negative.

He was commenting on her form, that's all, calm down dude, not like he was disparaging her character! She does have a funky, very upright, almost backward lean. Very easy to spot in a large pack like today.

52.43 wrote:

Go to

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Your welcome!

my welcome is what?

2015 US Half Marathon Women Results - Olympic Trials Qualifiers

1 Conley, Kim (USA) Women CA 25-29 28 1:09:44

2 Nelson, Brianne (USA) Women CO 34 1:10:16

3 Bawcom, Janet (USA) Women AZ 36 1:10:46

4 Hall, Sara (USA) Women AZ 30-34 31 1:10:50

5 Bersagel, Annie (USA) Women F2 31 1:10:58

6 Bottorff, Juliet (USA) Women MA 23 1:11:30

7 Suver, Mattie (USA) Women CO 27 1:11:51

8 Matthews, Katie (USA) Women MA 24 1:11:57

9 Jimison, Lauren (USA) Women CA 24 1:12:01

10 Williams, Alisha (USA) Women CO 32 1:12:12

11 Wade, Becky (USA) Women TN 25 1:12:18

12 Kleppin, Lauren (USA) Women CA 26 1:12:31

13 Crouch, Sarah (USA) Women NC 25 1:12:51

14 Foster, Kara (USA) Women PA 24 1:13:06

15 Cappello, Heather (USA) Women MA 34 1:13:07

16 Pagano, Sarah (USA) Women MA 23 1:13:08

17 Santucci, Clara (USA) Women PA 27 1:13:09

18 Dicamillo, Katie (USA) Women RI 28 1:13:09

19 Morgan, Allison (USA) Women KY 32 1:13:10

20 Cummings, Sarah (USA) Women NY 26 1:13:11

21 Sullivan, Susanna (USA) Women VA 24 1:13:13

22 Robertson, Jodie (USA) Women NY 30 1:13:38

23 Bergman, Jennifer (USA) Women MD 23 1:14:03

24 Scherf, Lindsey (USA) Women NC 28 1:14:07

25 Peyton, Meghan (USA) Women MN 29 1:14:28

26 Pease, Sarah (USA) Women TX 27 1:14:36

27 Swisher, Kristin (USA) Women TX 31 1:14:57

28 Maxson, Allison (USA) Women CA 28 1:15:00

2015 US Half Marathon Men Results - Olympic Trials Qualifiers

1 Estrada, Diego (USA) Men AZ 25 1:00:51

2 Ward, Jared (USA) Men UT 26 1:01:42

3 Mecheso, Girma (USA) Men PA 26 1:02:16

4 Keflezighi, Meb (USA) Men CA 39 1:02:18

5 Llano, Matthew (USA) Men AZ 26 1:02:22

6 Rono, Aron (USA) Men OR 32 1:02:25

7 Eggleston, Jeffrey (USA) Men CO 30 1:02:41

8 Gotcher, Brett (USA) Men CA 30 1:02:49

9 Keveren, Sean (USA) Men VA 24 1:02:52

10 Proctor, Gabe (USA) Men CA 24 1:03:13

11 Mueller, Tyler (USA) Men WI 23 1:03:21

12 Crain, John (USA) Men OK 22 1:03:21

13 Hilton, Nicholas (USA) Men AZ 25 1:03:23

14 Kremske, Dan (USA) Men OR 25 1:03:23

15 Payne, Ben (USA) Men CO 33 1:03:25

16 Richards, Malcolm (USA) Men CA 32 1:03:26

17 Graves, Griffith (USA) Men NC 24 1:03:27

18 Molke, Robert (USA) Men NY 23 1:03:27

19 Finan, Eric (USA) Men MN 25 1:03:29

20 Curley, Craig (USA) Men AZ 26 1:03:31

21 Dedering, Josh (USA) Men WI 24 1:03:31

22 Given, Robert (USA) Men SC 23 1:03:33

23 Ashe, Eric (USA) Men MA 26 1:03:33

24 Maiyo, Augustus (USA) Men CO 31 1:03:37

25 Shaw, Ethan (USA) Men MA 24 1:03:41

26 Graham, Thomas (USA) Men CA 20 1:03:52

27 Tapia, Daniel (USA) Men CA 28 1:03:52

28 Boit, Josphat (USA) Men CA 31 1:03:53

29 Moore, Joe (USA) Men KS 31 1:03:55

30 Hampton, Jonas (USA) Men CT 25 1:03:57

31 Fauble, Scott (USA) Men OR 23 1:03:59

32 Epperson, Andrew (USA) Men CO 24 1:04:04

33 Atkins, James (USA) Men NC 29 1:04:06

34 Hales, Brett (USA) Men UT 28 1:04:10

35 Macpherson, Scott (USA) Men MO 27 1:04:17

36 Leblanc, Jarrett (USA) Men TX 24 1:04:19

37 York, Brandon (USA) Men AL 29 1:04:22

38 Peterson, Jonathan (USA) Men MN 26 1:04:26

39 O'Connor, Matthew (USA) Men MO 28 1:04:30

40 Sienko, Jacob (USA) Men OR 22 1:04:35

41 Bendtsen, Chris (USA) Men NY 22 1:04:43

42 Dandena, Kiya (USA) Men TX 25 1:04:44

43 Harvey, Brian (USA) Men MA 27 1:04:44

44 Baker, Brock (USA) Men NC 28 1:04:48

45 Loeffler, Eric (USA) Men ND 38 1:04:48

46 Shields, Rex (USA) Men UT 26 1:04:49

47 Caccia, Gian-Paul (USA) Men NY 28 1:04:55

48 Flynn, Ricky (USA) Men SC 27 1:04:56

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kmaclam wrote:

He was commenting on her form, that's all, calm down dude, not like he was disparaging her character! She does have a funky, very upright, almost backward lean. Very easy to spot in a large pack like today.

So the right thing to call it is a "waddle"? Sure.

You are blithely ignoring that the idiot calling Hall's gait a "waddle" was obviously being derogatory, and NOTHING at all like your statement above.

I don't know WTF you mean by "funky" but Saif Shaheen had a very upright, almost backward lean. Which is of course totally synonymous with "waddling," right?

Big props to Thomas Graham. I ran into him on a plane from Raleigh to Charlotte (He was on his way to Stanford) and said he hoped to crack 65.

Oh so diego is US citizen when it suits him? Will he go back to running for Mex in 2016 when he can't earn a spot on any us team.

Plus this guy was hardly a novice he ran New Haven 20k last year.

John Crain isn't even a year out of NCC and threw down a 63:21, let's not overlook that.

if you follow Estrada on twitter, he talks about running what most would consider VERY low mileage. after the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot he tweeted this: "I've enjoyed the last few months of running 50ish miles a week... But it's time to get the big boy miles in for the Houston half marathon."what that meansm who know. but that was late Nov., so it's not like he came into this with months of 80/90/100 mile weeks under his belt.

dag son wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

Let's not go crazy. This was a great run by Estrada, but until today he had never even run a half. Could he conceivably make the team? Yes. But if he is to do it, he has 13 months to become a marathoner. That's a tough ask, even if the team should be easier to make than it was in 2012.

Simply because he just ran his first half doesn't mean he doesn't have the background. Isn't he highly distance-based?

Levins has never run a half but he probably has done more to 'become a marathoner' than more who have raced 13.1.

The team certainly does look easier for 2016 than 2012, that's for sure.

Let's track the next 18 months to the Trials... 48 performances under 65:00... how many of these guys end up running 2:15:30-2:16:30 at the Trials? One would assume with the proper training and motivation (and health), that we should have at least 30 guys under 2:16:30 at the Trials in LA, which would be amazing. Let's track how many are "cut out" for the Marathon distance.

Good luck and great performance from the American men today. See you in LA.

Graham is 20? Damn

it's not a question of if they are "cut out" for the marathon, it's whether or not they do the correct preparation/training.

GR wrote:

Let's track the next 18 months to the Trials... 48 performances under 65:00... how many of these guys end up running 2:15:30-2:16:30 at the Trials? One would assume with the proper training and motivation (and health), that we should have at least 30 guys under 2:16:30 at the Trials in LA, which would be amazing. Let's track how many are "cut out" for the Marathon distance.

Good luck and great performance from the American men today. See you in LA.

dag son wrote:

kmaclam wrote:

He was commenting on her form, that's all, calm down dude, not like he was disparaging her character! She does have a funky, very upright, almost backward lean. Very easy to spot in a large pack like today.

So the right thing to call it is a "waddle"? Sure.

You are blithely ignoring that the idiot calling Hall's gait a "waddle" was obviously being derogatory, and NOTHING at all like your statement above.

I don't know WTF you mean by "funky" but Saif Shaheen had a very upright, almost backward lean. Which is of course totally synonymous with "waddling," right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPFTUNn_Vc

Wow, sorry your day is off to such a sad start. I know sometimes I am disagreeable before I get in my run for the day. Check back in then, thx.

Exceptional under- the- radar- debut from Robert (Wilkerson) Given of Furman Elite, formerly a Furman runner himself. 63:33 is no joke! Griff Graves of Zap Fitness right ahead, might be a debut for him as well. Really great races from those two guys.