Official 2013 ING New York City Marathon Live Discussion Thread

They're saying Viktor Röthlin is from USA... should be Switzerland unless he has a US address or something? He's 39 now, should be back at age 40.

wejo wrote:

Good morning everyone. Rojo is complaining I'm not contributing. I set it up so if you click on this thread it will take you to the last page you viewed.

19:59 for 4 miles. Toni Reavis just pointed out that when they ran 2:05 in 2011 they went through in 19:58.

I guarantee they're not running 2:05 today unless there is an act of god and the wind changes direction.

You also made it so we can't read the first page of the thread. Brilliant...

ESPN2 is blowing the coverage right now. The race is ON AND NO ONE BUT YOU ON LETSRUN HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TEH WOMEN'S RACE.

no way wrote:

we are talking 20+ seconds per mile that the pack needs to gain on her now. only a major collapse would lose it for her. Though with the marathon, there are many epic collapses that have happened.

ok, well 515s from rita jeptoo would do it to. bout time they woke up

Letsrun just got a shout out on the Eurosport coverage, saying how the "10mph wind predicted on letsrun was correct"! Pretty cool.

I've been trying to stay patient but i'm starting to get pissed with the lack of race coverage.

beating a dead horse with the boston marathon tragedy. I would love to actually watch the race

Wow, this is terrible. Chicago coverage had it's faults but it was head and shoulders over this crap.

Is there still a race happening? I haven't seen much of it in quite a while.

Happy New Year

Has the ball dropped yet?

is there a stream of just the race anywhere??

I thought espn2 was doing a great job for a long time until they had the native American story then the interview during the race and since then I cant even tell you how long it has been since the actual race has been shown this is very upsetting

They've stopped interviewing spectators now and gone off a=on a story about Boston without any reference to the leaders.

ESPN2 watcher wrote:

It's about time wrote:

Still no mention of Yuki

Yeah, he's quite an unusual story. Plenty to talk about there.

Not really to the american audience. He's not a super elite, won no real well known races, not an american. outside of the cult of let's run. No one cares.

So much for last special interest story.

They've used split screen a bunch. They had both the women's leaders and women's chase pack on the screen while they were crossing the bridge, for example.

I agree with folks complaining about the cut-away. Iwish they would adopt the soccer model and rather than run ads just find some advertiser who wants their logo up on the screen for a chunk of time and to have this section of the race brought to you commercial free by Company X.

Men's leaders hit halfway @ 1:05:07

I've been watching 15 minutes and this is the 3rd special interest "feature". Is it so hard to tell us what pace the women are running? Are the two leaders running too hard and are going to collapse? Is the chase pack just running too slow?

Mutai and Biwott looking dangerously relaxed and strong, I fear there's your one-two right there. Anyone else think Meb's form is just a little bit lopsided? Like he's protecting his left side. I'm all for Meb but it doesn't look good right now...

ABC's coverage is pathetic