Conner MF Mantz - 59:17 AR in Houston

Just listened to Mantz on Citius Mag & they were talking about why the record lasted for so long. Obviously Ryan Hall was talented & put it out of reach for some time. Thinking more about the common conversation on here about lack of fast marathon times & all that, Houston is really the only race in the US that attracts elite runners. It's the only World Athletics half in the US that carries a label. It also gets inconsistent weather (humid pretty much every other year) & comes at a time when people might be in their offseason/aren't as fit. I think it's lazy to just say Americans don't run fast when the opportunities really aren't there. Our best marathoners go to NYC/Boston & race sparingly before those events to not jeopardize one of their few paydays. We would see some fast marathons if everyone who just went under 1:02 was lining up for London/Berlin for their next two races. This years Houston race was really the first time in recent memory a lot of good runners, not outside of their primes, all targeted the half together, went for it, & got ok enough weather to do that.

LRC staff y mods are shamefully protecting Connor Mantz from all doping space-time! 😰😰

It should never have been broken. Pardon me but your post sounds so manicured and scripted rather than from true insight in the moment! It really seems like you are are sycophantic towards Connor..

Mantz def does not dope. Be real. He's as pure as anyone ever could be and has been drug tested multiple times. Clean every time.

“What am I on!? I’m on my bike, bustin’ my azz eight hours a day! What are you on!?”

Your word is as good as the others who say he is doping. If it’s require evidence to proof he is dirty it is also required anti evidence to antiprove he is doping.

The former is easier to achieve than the latter. It’s called the theory of falsifiability where it only takes 1 blip to corrupt the whole theory even if there exists 1 trillion pieces of anti evidence to anti prove his doping. It all dun matter, what matters is 1 down and you are always down.

he’s dirty and I agree 90%. There are others like fisher and hocker.

Someone said Paul tergat who was a freaking legend ran 59:17 and here we are Mantz also running same. Who would have thought Mantz was half as good as Tergat when he is running as fast as he is? If Tergat was clean and the superior athlete in terms of talent and physical conditioning then it leaves us wondering how clean Mantzy was.

One thing we come to learn about these guys is there are professional liars on top of professional dopers. Mantzy will face the real judgement throne at the pearly gates and not the make believe Joseph smith. And he will pee his pants and beg for for-give-ness-es.