John Wesley Harding wrote:
John Korir has a case for world #1 now, right?
Yes.. until 56:42 man runs 2:00-2:01
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runner23423 wrote:
Can someone who follows the sport more than me explain to me what's happened with this seemingly massive gender reversal in US marathoning? It felt like a few years ago, women like Seidel, Sisson, Bates, etc. were poised to be legit world competitors, and the men were lackluster. Now we've got, what, 4 US men finishing in the top 10 today and no US women even in the top 15? Mantz and Young way outperformed the women at the Olympics too. What's going on here, or am I off?
I think some of it is happenstance, and some of it is coaching. Seidel fell off for various health reasons; Sisson is still a massive talent that I hope shines in a couple big races in the future but has not yet done so beyond OLY trials and Chicago (she is 33 though, so likely only one more Olympic cycle in her), and Bates if I had to guess is suffering from sub-par coaching, having made little progress in recent years under Bosshard. For women, we do have Taylor Roe who could be a force if she stays healthy if she doesn't fall the Fiona O'Keefe route.
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runner23423 wrote:
Can someone who follows the sport more than me explain to me what's happened with this seemingly massive gender reversal in US marathoning? It felt like a few years ago, women like Seidel, Sisson, Bates, etc. were poised to be legit world competitors, and the men were lackluster. Now we've got, what, 4 US men finishing in the top 10 today and no US women even in the top 15? Mantz and Young way outperformed the women at the Olympics too. What's going on here, or am I off?
You do have women in the top 15. Frisbie is doing well in 7th.
The times these leading women are running are insane. They are on for a course record.
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harveyh88 wrote:
We even missed yehualaw getting dropped. Genuinely every single move has been missed
Helen Obiri pulling a Galen Rupp. She’s annoying Lokedi so much by running right on her heels. Lokedi keeps waving her arms at her
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Wow. Well, then that's an amazing time for Mantz.
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Lokedi keeps gesturing to Obiri. Reminds me of Kipchoge doing that to Rupp back in the day.
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Old Man Runner wrote:
The US women aren't even competitive anymore on the world marathoning stage.
Mantz would have been sub 2:03 at London!
London is not over 2 minutes faster than Boston, when the Boston weather is cooperative and the runners decide to run fast.
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Reed needs to hook up with Ed Eyestone and drop tinmom.
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Yeah, Frisbie and McClain have climbed since I'd posted/seen splits. Might just be some happenstance. McClain seems like a really strong closer, would be awesome if she keeps climbing
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Watch as Hellen reacts!
(FENWAY PARK)
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Rooting for Lokedi
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Jonathan Gault wrote:
Hell of a run by Conner Mantz. He was pushing so hard to break Kotut and Simbu those last two miles but just couldn't shake them.
He'll be a little bummed to have just missed two HUGE accomplishments as he was only 4 seconds off the podium and 8 seconds off of Ryan Hall's 2:04:58, the fastest marathon ever by an American.
But a huge 2:05:04 pb and 4th place is a tremendous run -- the best marathon of his life to date.
Quit kidding yourself JG. No one considers Halls 2:04.58 a record. He had a hurricane at his back. Mantz had a headwind the entire way.
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Obiri is done
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testingthisout wrote:
Really dumb question- why did they have the winner go to one side of the finish line and then directed the rest to the other? Conner looked like he was driving to where the winner had just finished and then suddenly was forced to go right. Don't think he'd have beat them there but that was rather odd. Is that the norm?
Because people organizing these races know s*** about running
Same goes to the broadcasters
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Obiri is getting dropped???
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3-peat in jeopardy right now. Obiri getting dropped...
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