Boston Women's field is out and it's LOADED - Jepchirchir vs Jepkosgei vs Seidel

Here is our analysis of the field which features 7 sub-2:20 women.

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2022/01/the-2022-boston-marathon-womens-field-is-out-its-incredible-best-in-races-history/

Amazing field.

FINALLY

This race will be a career ender for a few Americans. If you are over 38 years old and finish out of the top 10 it is time for retirement.

Why 38 because if you can’t pb at 38 then you most certainly can’t make an Olympic team at 40.

Would be great to see Keira d'Amato too. Based on her Strava, she is in epic form. I expect she is going to put in a great performance this weekend in Houston.

Why mention Desi amongst the others?

sandwedge wrote:

Why mention Desi amongst the others?

Previous Boston winner, Olympian and a LetsRun favorite, duh

Can you guys ever write a title to a thread without the word “loaded” when talking about the field

moorest wrote:

Would be great to see Keira d'Amato too. Based on her Strava, she is in epic form. I expect she is going to put in a great performance this weekend in Houston.

I agree - her workouts have been totally astonishing. I get why she may not want to double back so quickly and do Boston though. With her wheels, running track later in the year is an option as well.

no names mentioned wrote:

FINALLY

This race will be a career ender for a few Americans. If you are over 38 years old and finish out of the top 10 it is time for retirement.

Why 38 because if you can’t pb at 38 then you most certainly can’t make an Olympic team at 40.

Last I checked, what you need to do to make the Olympic team is get top 3 in the marathon trials....so don't count out anyone until the top 3 finish in that race ....crazy things have happened at the trials! 😁

Great fiield...will be interesting to see how Molly follows up her stellar 2021.

Wow! Very legit, am happy to see they didn't lose the biggest names (besides Kosgei) to any of the secondary European marathons in the spring.

Disko Eric wrote:

Can you guys ever write a title to a thread without the word “loaded” when talking about the field

Wejo and Rojo went to the Yahoo! School of Journalism. They took a class called "Clickbait 101". The summary in the student handbook says:

"In this class you will learn how to get people to click articles simply by using power words in the your article or thread title"

The final assignment is to write 15 headlines that think people will click on!

"The womens field at this years Boston Marathon is LOADED!"

"You'll never believe what Sara Hall did!"

"You have to check out the epic end of this race!"

"$50 off!! These super shoes are therr lowest price ever"

"Ryan Hall is JACKED in his last post"

But hey, it works. we clicked on it :)

fhdhfghdfhg wrote:

moorest wrote:

Would be great to see Keira d'Amato too. Based on her Strava, she is in epic form. I expect she is going to put in a great performance this weekend in Houston.

I agree - her workouts have been totally astonishing. I get why she may not want to double back so quickly and do Boston though. With her wheels, running track later in the year is an option as well.

I think she'll go sub-2:20 in Houston. The progression in all of her rep sessions that she posts on Strava are incredible. But she wants to make the World's team and that means competing on the track later in the season.

On topic, this field is amazing. Everything that you could want except maybe a shock debut for Gidey or Hassan, but that's a wish too far. For the first time that I can remember, I'm actually excited for the Boston marathon

Desi needs to retire, she had two good marathons in her life one 20 mi/hr tailwinds and the win due to other marathoners basically died during the race so just pure luck. Don’t know why people try to see her as an amazing elite athlete. She can probably run an equivalent to 2:30 at most on a flat course very pathetic that’s why she only runs Boston.

Time to retire.

abcrunning wrote:

Desi needs to retire, she had two good marathons in her life one 20 mi/hr tailwinds and the win due to other marathoners basically died during the race so just pure luck. Don’t know why people try to see her as an amazing elite athlete. She can probably run an equivalent to 2:30 at most on a flat course very pathetic that’s why she only runs Boston.

Time to retire.

Troll. She's been an extremely consistent marathoner. She's had 2 great marathons, but nearly all of her other marathon have been decent to good.

no names mentioned wrote:

FINALLY

This race will be a career ender for a few Americans. If you are over 38 years old and finish out of the top 10 it is time for retirement.

Why 38 because if you can’t pb at 38 then you most certainly can’t make an Olympic team at 40.

Imagine looking at this field and being excited that it might cause a runner or two to fail and quit.

What a stupid way to look at elite fields.

abcrunning wrote:

Desi needs to retire, she had two good marathons in her life one 20 mi/hr tailwinds and the win due to other marathoners basically died during the race so just pure luck. Don’t know why people try to see her as an amazing elite athlete. She can probably run an equivalent to 2:30 at most on a flat course very pathetic that’s why she only runs Boston.

Time to retire.

Wow, jealous of her success or something? I don't understand why people say Boston 2018 was luck. Part of being a good marathoner means being resilient. It's not all about running super fast on easy courses. She was the toughest and the best on that day in those conditions. She's an Olympian and a Boston marathon champion. You don't get to that level without being an amazing elite athlete.

no names mentioned wrote:

FINALLY

This race will be a career ender for a few Americans. If you are over 38 years old and finish out of the top 10 it is time for retirement.

Why 38 because if you can’t pb at 38 then you most certainly can’t make an Olympic team at 40.

I know you're talking about Americans so this is neither here nor there, but just for interest's sake, both top Canadians Malindi Elmore and Natasha Wodak ran their marathon PBs recently at ages 38-39 and just competed in Tokyo, placing 10th and 13th if I recall right. Elmore was 40 competing in Tokyo and Wodak just turned 40.

abcrunning wrote:

Desi needs to retire, she had two good marathons in her life one 20 mi/hr tailwinds and the win due to other marathoners basically died during the race so just pure luck. Don’t know why people try to see her as an amazing elite athlete. She can probably run an equivalent to 2:30 at most on a flat course very pathetic that’s why she only runs Boston.

Time to retire.

I disagree. Des is good for the sport but she needs to go back to Hansons training. She doesn’t finish her races like she once did. Back in the day she would grind people down over the last 10k. Now she gets beat. The OT were the perfect example. I thought she was going to win over the last 5k but she can no longer grind it out.