Official 2017 London Marathon Live Discussion Thread

9:17 at 2 miles for men. Big lead pack.

Mare Dibaba and Tigist Tufa (2015 winner, last year's runner up after Sumgong) are running at a much more sensible pace. That might be where the real race is at.

That pace honestly looks like suicide.

Not so big Mazungo wrote:

Mare Dibaba and Tigist Tufa (2015 winner, last year's runner up after Sumgong) are running at a much more sensible pace. That might be where the real race is at.

This is what I thought. They are probably working together to work their way up because the others are running WAY too fast (compared to their PB).

Kenyanoo wrote:

The Scot wrote:

15.30 5k is she overcooking it?

Yep

Watched Boston last night, pretty sure I remember the men's 5 split was 15:24 there.

Not so big Mazungo wrote:

Mare Dibaba and Tigist Tufa (2015 winner, last year's runner up after Sumgong) are running at a much more sensible pace. That might be where the real race is at.

Agree. It's a sideshow, upfront. Ridiculous.

5K splits for men. Sub-2 pace baby!

1 KIBET, Stephen (KEN)Pacemaker 50 18-39 01:59:41 11:59:41 +00:00 00:14:11

2 BEKELE, Kenenisa (ETH) 1 18-39 01:59:44 11:59:44 +00:01 00:14:12

3 GHEBRESLASSIE, Ghirmay (ERI) 8 18-39 01:59:44 11:59:44 +00:01 00:14:12

4 LOTIANG, John (KEN)Pacemaker 54 18-39 01:59:45 11:59:45 +00:01 00:14:12

5 WANJIRU, Daniel (KEN) 6 18-39 01:59:46 11:59:46 +00:01 00:14:12

6 GACHAGA, Morris (KEN)Pacemaker 51 18-39 01:59:46 11:59:46 +00:01 00:14:12

7 ABERA, Tesfaye (ETH) 3 18-39 01:59:47 11:59:47 +00:01 00:14:12

8 KAROKI, Bedan (KEN) 35 18-39 01:59:47 11:59:47 +00:01 00:14:12

9 MENGSTU, Asefa (ETH) 10 18-39 01:59:49 11:59:49 +00:01 00:14:12

10 REGASSA, Tilahun (ETH) 7 18-39 01:59:50 11:59:50 +00:01 00:14:12

11 MESEL, Amanuel (ERI) 9 18-39 01:59:51 11:59:51 +00:02 00:14:13

12 KIRUI, Abel (KEN) 5 18-39 01:59:51 11:59:51 +00:02 00:14:13

13 LILESA, Feyisa (ETH) 4 18-39 01:59:55 11:59:55 +00:02 00:14:13

14 BIRECH, Cosmas (KEN)Pacemaker 55 18-39 02:00:02 12:00:02 +00:03 00:14:14

15 TEWELDE, Tsegai (GBR) 21 18-39 02:02:45 12:02:45 +00:22 00:14:33

16 KIPYEGO, Barselius (KEN)Pacemaker 53 18-39 02:03:03 12:03:03 +00:24 00:14:35

17 SIMBU, Alphonce (TAN) 11 18-39 02:03:04 12:03:04 +00:25 00:14:35

18 NDIRANGU, Simon (KEN)Pacemaker 56 18-39 02:07:44 12:07:44 +00:58 00:15:09

19 KIBROM, Ghebre (ERI) 14 18-39 02:07:44 12:07:44 +00:58 00:15:09

20 LAMDASSEM, Ayad (ESP) 12 18-39 02:07:47 12:07:47 +00:58 00:15:09

21 MEFTAH, Abdellatif (FRA) 15 18-39 02:07:48 12:07:48 +00:58 00:15:09

22 GUERRA, Javier (ESP) 13 18-39 02:07:49 12:07:49 +00:58 00:15:09

14:11 first 5K for men.

Am I the only one they can't stand the weirdly placed ads? It's like there's no warning - they're talking and all of a sudden there's an ad.

iRunfastXC wrote:

Am I the only one they can't stand the weirdly placed ads? It's like there's no warning - they're talking and all of a sudden there's an ad.

Yes it's annoying. It's because NBC is using the BBC broadcast and there are no commercials on the BBC. So they basically have to insert them and there's no elegant way to do that.

The pacer Caroline Kipkirui's 10,000m pb is 31:16 from last year.

https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/kenya/caroline-chepkoech-kipkirui-258564

She split 31:17 today.

5:16 mile now. It keeps slowing down.

Jonathan Gault wrote:

iRunfastXC wrote:

Am I the only one they can't stand the weirdly placed ads? It's like there's no warning - they're talking and all of a sudden there's an ad.

Yes it's annoying. It's because NBC is using the BBC broadcast and there are no commercials on the BBC. So they basically have to insert them and there's no elegant way to do that.

Yikes. Go America.

Anyways, it took FOREVER for Bekele to get that carb drink down. Anyone else see that? He was holding it and drinking it for, like, a full minute and a half.

1 Kipkirui, Caroline (KEN)Pacemaker 133 18-39 02:13:46 11:28:47 +00:00 01:03:25

2 KEITANY, Mary (KEN) 102 18-39 02:13:49 11:28:49 +00:02 01:03:26

3 DIBABA, Tirunesh (ETH) 107 18-39 02:15:27 11:30:28 +00:48 01:04:13

4 MERGIA, Aselefech (ETH) 103 18-39 02:15:28 11:30:28 +00:49 01:04:13

5 KIPROP, Helah (KEN) 108 18-39 02:15:28 11:30:28 +00:49 01:04:13

6 CHERUIYOT, Vivian (KEN) 130 18-39 02:15:29 11:30:30 +00:49 01:04:13

7 KIPLAGAT, Florence (KEN) 104 18-39 02:16:10 11:31:10 +01:09 01:04:33

Keitany starting to blow up?

This live stream is working for me, though make sure you have good adblockers and antivirus:

http://cricfree.sc/bbc-1-live-stream

Tewelde runs for Shettleston in Glasgow, his 5k pb is 14.44 :-)

muscles muscles wrote:

Keitany starting to blow up?

She doesn't look entirely comfortable any more.

66:54 for Mary Keitany at halfway