not it wrote:
I know that you are being provocative but your statements are essentially true. The marathon is an Okympic event while the 1/2 is not. It is like breaking the American record in the 2 mile and the an hour later somebody else breaks the 5k record.
The 2 mile can´t be compared with the HM. Nobody outside USA and GB cares about non metric distances.
middlingNAIAcoach wrote:
“ So she has the AR in the half. Few care.”
Lots of people care.
I'd care if it was a high-quality half. But a 67:15 is worth a 2:21, at best. It's the softest American record in all of athletics. There are at least 4 women who can break it right now, if they focus on the half (one of them is Hall herself). No-names (as far as ellites go) were very close to her today.
Idiot alert wrote:
not it wrote:
I know that you are being provocative but your statements are essentially true. The marathon is an Okympic event while the 1/2 is not. It is like breaking the American record in the 2 mile and the an hour later somebody else breaks the 5k record.
The 2 mile can´t be compared with the HM. Nobody outside USA and GB cares about non metric distances.
Isn't the half marathon a non metric distance too?
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
People like Joe Biden and genital warts more than they like you.
Man I wish I could "decline" into a 2:20 marathon and an american HM record.
MatthewXCountry wrote:
middlingNAIAcoach wrote:
“ So she has the AR in the half. Few care.”
Lots of people care.
I'd care if it was a high-quality half. But a 67:15 is worth a 2:21, at best. It's the softest American record in all of athletics. There are at least 4 women who can break it right now, if they focus on the half (one of them is Hall herself). No-names (as far as ellites go) were very close to her today.
This is correct. she's in the middle of her Boston training block. Let's see some people optimize their training specifically for a half and see what happens.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to react to an american record with "declining status". Maybe we can just be excited and happy for her? Is that too much to ask?
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
This is gross. Why is this thread up?
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
This is the worst take I have seen on the board in... well at least a day or two.
She will continue to be the classy woman that she is and continue to find contentment in the role that running plays in her full life.
Congrats to her, Ryan, and her kids for this accomplishment. I can't think of anyone more deserving in the sport.
Does anyone else wonder if some of Ryan's T is rubbing off on her ?
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
conversion calculator wrote:
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
I know you're probably trolling, but I'll bite. Ask yourself this - if you're 38 and just set the American record in the half marathon, how would you feel? I think 99.9% of us would feel jubilation.
Agreed. We all age, and we lose the sharpness of our intellect, our looks, and of course our athletic ability. How will Sara accept it? She'll have to deal with it the same way we all do. I suppose the fall is steeper for an elite athlete, but if I were her I'd be feeling pretty damn good right now, having just run the American record in the half.
Unlike you, I’m sure her ego isn’t so massive and fragile that she would care. At 37, she has accomplished more in running than you will in your lifetime.
Sara Hall will move on with grace. Soon she'll be watchher daughters compete that will keep her excited.
I always thought Sara Hall was a very sweet person. She is what my friend used to say; the whole package.
She will be that person forever.
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
Sounds like the downside of performance and effort is what kept you from giving your all.
This the same “Hoka goes home DEVISATED” guy?
huh. wrote:
Wise Old Man wrote:
If Gidey ran Houston this year she probably would have broken the men’s AR!!
No way, it’s nearly a 3-min difference that’s not patchable in our lifetimes. Gidey as well as Yehualaw were pretty confident based on their training that they could comfortably break sub-64 and Gidey was more optimistic of the two predicting (realistically in hindsight) that women could go down to 62-and-half before that blowout half marathon.
Men’s AR is 59’41”.
50:43 by Ryan Hall, Terry Cotton The Former Grossmont College and University of Arizona standout ran 59:41 on am EXTREMELY DOWNHILL Course, They literally take the runners in the Half Marathon put them on a bus and drive uphill for 13.1 Miles, Kills the quads, but fast times are pretty much guaranteed. Terry Cotton was an excellent runner, but even he would probably admit it was aided too much, basically a gimmick race.
agree wrote:
This the same “Hoka goes home DEVISATED” guy?
probably the same idiot who said that Molly Seidel is a doper. and that Natalie Cook was going to get blown out at Eastbay. like so many at letsrun, half troll and half bitter resentful failure.
Kobe Bryant is no Michael Jordan.