Her official time was 2:26:53 at 3 women broke 2:30. For the men, Brendan Gregg was one of 3 men under 2:13 and he won in 2:11:21.
Deeper CIM results here:
Brittany Moran (9th place) deserves to be sponsored by LetsRun.com based on her name alone.
Hahaha!!
Too bad the qualifying window hasn't opened yet...
Breaking news. Runners run fast on downhill course.
Yea but 2:11 & 2:26 are about right for the top-2. Not like we saw a bunch of sub-2:10's & 2:25's. Rojo just going for more click bait. These were solid times on a course that is fast for many reasons.
So everyone's "upgrading" to alphas now? vapors not enough?
Can't get used to the huge size of those things, damn.
Bet dozens of them in a pack are loud and ridiculous.
But does explain all the time/record improvements.
Work Commute Track Club wrote:
Breaking news. Runners run fast on downhill course.
I mean, yeah, it's a fast course. But still, Sara's result was impressive. The fact that she's also a 1500 specialist, and a mom with a day job makes it even more so.
What a killer debut by Sara Vaughn! Wow! As the poster above mentions, she is a 1500m specialist. It doesn't matter what the course is like, you still have to perform. To go sub 2:30 as a middle distance athlete...wow!
"CIM magic" = aided by downhill.
Unless you have run it, you do not know the hills in that race. Going up and down those hills killed my legs. I rather be running London course .
We don't care what your opinion is. World Athletics regards it as aided, and the excessively fast performances support it as aided. Magic = aided.
For what it's worth, ran Chicago last year in 2:48 and CIM this year in 2:55 in similar shape. The rolling hills, including downhills, can be quite punishing. It's a fair course.
I agree that the California International Marathon course is not as easy as one might think well you do is read about it and not endure it in person. Those hills, oh my, can they deceive! I know cuz I ran the thing yesterday completely by feel instead of pacing myself by time. That said, as 5' female, I noticed that if you have long legs you might be able to capitalize more from what the course gives you, as the physics of those undulations might accommodate or encourage a longer "leap" ...but CIM is formidable for different reasons to different people! I'm a 54-year-old woman and I won my age group with 2:56:51 ... and it wasn't my fastest marathon as a 50-something yr-old. One must also understand that it's a commendably rural event, not raucous or noisy with city crowds... so if you feed off crowd support, you might not have your best race here..? Again, completely individual effects at play.
Fiona Bayly wrote:
I agree that the California International Marathon course is not as easy as one might think well you do is read about it and not endure it in person. Those hills, oh my, can they deceive! I know cuz I ran the thing yesterday completely by feel instead of pacing myself by time. That said, as 5' female, I noticed that if you have long legs you might be able to capitalize more from what the course gives you, as the physics of those undulations might accommodate or encourage a longer "leap" ...but CIM is formidable for different reasons to different people! I'm a 54-year-old woman and I won my age group with 2:56:51 ... and it wasn't my fastest marathon as a 50-something yr-old. One must also understand that it's a commendably rural event, not raucous or noisy with city crowds... so if you feed off crowd support, you might not have your best race here..? Again, completely individual effects at play.
Nice run, Fiona, but even nicer humble-brag!
More whining about the elevation loss. Why is it just this race? Courses with more than double this amount of drop don't generate the same ire from the angry mob. In fact, Rodger's 2 fastest lifetime marathons seemed to count as ARs and guess where they were run. No 10 page thread forms every year before or after Boston going on and on about quite a bit more elevation loss than CIM. Rupp runs 6 minutes slower than the AR (or doesn't even finish), no one screams about the 'ski slope' he was on. Every year with CIM it's the same thread. Isn't NYC net downhill? Everybody panic! NY marathon won by somebody - no wonder. It's downhill!
Also fed by WeJo or RoJo on the Friday podcast, suggesting that CJ Albertson could maybe run 2:07 since it's a "downhill" marathon. Listening to them, one would assume it was a marathon that was run down the side of the mountain. I don't think they were trolling, just uneducated/misinformed.
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