2nd Asmeron
3rd Shimizu
4th Guta
2nd Asmeron
3rd Shimizu
4th Guta
zatopek wrote:
2nd Asmeron
3rd Shimizu
4th Guta
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Another fun one in the books. Time I was in la-la land, gents.
Anyway is was fun. Thanks everybody. Se you next race.
Thanks to everyone for the updates. Can't believe Tergat pulled it off. Where's 430Miler? I guess he'll be all over the boards tomorrow talking about the GOAT.
A wonderful bit of correspondence. Thank goodness there was a very dynamic race to describe!
Many thanks to Brett Larner for all the pre-race translation and sussing out the webcast software.
- rr
Ditto all that. Once the pacers dropped things got really interesting.
I haven't read through the thread to see if anyone posted this already, but NHK just put up a video digest of the race. You should be able to watch it overseas:
Masaya Shimizu's interview afterwards was pretty funny. He said that when he took the lead and kept doing the surges it was because the pace was getting slow enough that he was afraid his twin brother Tomoya, the other Shimizu, was going to come back. Masaya had run four or five marathons and only had a PB of 2:12:31, but Tomoya debuted last year in 2:09:23. Masaya also said that he's glad he made the WC team but even happier that he beat his brother. 1-2 domestic finish for them.
Thanks for all the updates guys. Much appreciated.
CONGRATS TO THE GOAT!!!!
good luck for tergat and
abiyot guta who is my friends.and good luck for all!!!1
are you waching now? who i can find the vidio?
The race has been finished for over 12 hours now.
Remember last week some turd tried to convince everyone that Tergat wouldn't even show up because he had a history of no-shows? Well... 2:10:22 at age 39!