Official 2022 Chicago Marathon Thread - live reaction, commentary, analysis

reading the thread after the race, I wish there was a filter to remove all the non-substantive complaints; it'd be like a 4-page read.

You do realize no one at nbc chicago is reading this to consider your complaints?

Anytime I have made a thread inquiring about her relationship status, it gets deleted

Amazing from Chepengetich.

Maybe it was the last chance to get the WR after Gidey breaks it in Valencia.

Yeah have to think Gidey gets the WR in Valencia, and having the label as marathon world record holder is huge. Terrible coaching. The agent should've even known better.

It wasn't just NBC Chicago. The flotrack stream was also pretty bad even with no commercials or random interviews with people in the crowd. Maybe they were weren't given a choice of feeds from NBC though I'm not sure. At the end the commentators were frustrated they weren't showing sisson for some reason.

Sadly, the network(s) do not consider this an elite athletic competition in any way, shape or form. To them the Chicago marathon is more Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade than Olympic 1500 final. The elite competition is incidental. I don’t think this going to get better, only worse with time. Those in in a position to decide would probably laugh at our complaints otherwise. Rather than too little coverage and analysis of the elite races to humor a few of us geeks, they are probably complaining there is too much still. They want more heart warming stories about 5 hour hobby joggers and funny costumes.

It’s a quirk of road racing that elite competition occurs in the setting of a mass participation event. If you want serious focus, this needs to change. It’s like broadcasting super bowl as part of a simultaneous series of flag football games for little kids, the aged and the disabled.

Looking at the Strava number, yesterday, CJ Albertson split 20th place (~2:12:34) and then ran another 5 miles.

She also said that she didn't know what pace she was running until she crossed the line and asked her husband what her time what. What a mess.

But I wonder if it this actually helped her run faster. If she knew she was on 2:18:29 pace maybe she would have backed off a bit. Thinking you're going faster than American record pace could get in your head and make it feel harder than it is. Instead, she ran within herself off feel and got a massive PR.

Too bad Chicago is the only flat major marathon in the USA.

Mentioned several times during broadcast that Chepngetich is self coached.

They should have more flat marathons like Chicago and focus on fast times.

Maybe avoid Central Park in the NY marathon ?

American men are no longer in contention by the time they get to Central Park in the New York City Marathon -- the Central Park section of the race is only the last two miles, and it's not the part of Central Park with the largest hills.

The American men, again, are usually long gone before then anyway...

American men just need to get better, at risk of stating the obvious.

At least Chepngetich finished ahead of Lara.

Thanks for providing this. If you also calculate the splits, it is even more informative from a quick look.

16:23, 16:31, 16:23, 16:32, 16:20, 16:26, 16:33, 16:19, 7:00/15:57pace

Giving the splits is more important when they are uneven, because the change in the project time is based on the average pace, while the time to the finish is more closely track by using the 'marginal' pace of the last split. In addition, giving the splits lets you see how quickly the pace is slipping. If it is, it is likely that the next split is even slower. Of course, things like hills and wind also make a difference, but then the splits go up and down. I am guess that some of Emily's variation is caused by the wind. Someone made a useful comment about the wind getting better the last several kilometers, and the time from 35K to the finish was her best.

Thanks to all that made race comments. Why do people have to make half the comments about the wheelchair broadcast time, almost all of them are redundant.

You really have no clue.

Actually, she kind of did sacrifice the gift. If she'd run remotely sane splits, she would've broken 2:13. She threw a WR away by going out at freaking 2:07 pace.

'On an island?' What are you talking about? He had a pack of 6 to 10 guys with him for most of the race, and was tailing Hosoya all the way to the end.

Was she wearing a watch? Were there not big clocks along the course, at the very least at halfway?