Official 2023 Tokyo Marathon Discussion Thread / Cam Levins Tokyo Marathon prediction thread

No, Mo 2:05:11
Faster than Moen, which is 05:48

Faster than KHANNOUCHI's 2:05:38

Great women's race too, 2:16 pace at 40k

He’s the Art Garfunkel of running. Under appreciated and rocks a loose fro’

Khannouchi ran 2:05:38. We need to wait for the official time, which will likely be 1 - 2 seconds slower than the currently posted time.

Gelmisa impeded and blocked Esa in the last 60 meters.

Yet in Chicago Emily Sisson going for the American record was literally never on the camera the whole race lol

I'm convinced that the gap between Western runners and the Africans and Japanese is mostly mindset and training, rather than purely genetics

For majors in America they never check back in with the top Americans. For majors in Japan, they never check back in with the leaders. Crazy.

Really happy to see Cam run 2:05. But sad that he couldn't quite hang with the leaders at the end again.

CAM with HUGE North American record. better than Knanouchi"s 2:05:38...Congrats to the hardest working guy in running.

2:16:28 for Wanjiru, Great race on both sides

The true sad thing was that we didn't get to witness his greatness because of the coverage. It's worse than any American's coverage.

Betsey Saina finished 5th in 2:21:40. She's an American citizen now.

Betsy Saina 2:21.40 in her first race for the USA

The people covering these races- NBC, ESPN, Flotrack, Runnerspace, Really have to have someone on this message board learning how to cover these races.

Keeping the camera on that 7th place runner was one of the dumbest things I've seen.

Strong contender for the Paris Olympic team.

And World Champs this year.

It's funny, I was thinking of that race too. Exact opposite of what happened today in Tokyo. Surely there is a happy medium to be found?

I was watching the Latin American ESPN broadcast and all they showed was the japanese guys, I don't get it. If I was watching the Japanese stream, sure I would get that. but why would south americans prefer to watch the Japanese guy in 7th place over the lead pack??

What do you mean her ‘first race for the US’?

That comment makes zero sense and you’re supposed to know what’s going on?

Why not say ‘first marathon’?