American men stunk it up. What happened? Not enough double threshold training? if only they did more morning workouts at 5:20 pace followed by the PM workout!
Not a surprise that they stunk up the joint save for Simbassa. What is a surprise is that Cheserek still doesn't have citizenship. I don't get it.
Shoutout to Alphonce Simbu on Tanzania. Last weekend he ran and won the African Military Games marathon in Nigeria in 2:17. Today he ran a PB of 2:04:38 for 4th place, very impressive
Looks like it’s 2.26 (by her!) so this beats that if this is an eligible course. Really good time.
Not sure why you guys aren’t all over this. You spend your whole time criticising your own male marathon runners…
And the men’s record is 2:04. 4 minutes off the WR. Not 17
but the American women's record is 2:18 and now the American women's masters record is 2:23. So that is approximately the same difference as that between the male WR and the male masters WR. No American man (Ryan Hall excluded) has run 2:04 much less one over the age of 40... we're not talking about the overall female masters WR here and your post referenced the overall male masters and overall male WR. wrong comparison.
Excellent coverage! Why can’t American ‘Thons be this good.
And Australian....hope Sydney watching how to do it. You could watch runners coming over line for more than 30min after winner, not random interviews and ad breaks
And the men’s record is 2:04. 4 minutes off the WR. Not 17
but the American women's record is 2:18 and now the American women's masters record is 2:23. So that is approximately the same difference as that between the male WR and the male masters WR. No American man (Ryan Hall excluded) has run 2:04 much less one over the age of 40... we're not talking about the overall female masters WR here and your post referenced the overall male masters and overall male WR. wrong comparison.
This is all correct of course, but begs the question(s), why the American ladies are a) 13 minutes behind the American men, b) 9 minutes behind the WR, and c) 3 minutes behind the British NR from 21 years ago (despite all the shoe and other advantages).
A related question might be why the AR is still at 2:05 since 2002 (and why the men are 5 minutes behind the AR).
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