Calli Thackery (8:44, 15:02, 68:56) daughter of Carl Thackery (1993 World HM Champs Bronze) after just coming 7th at the World Road Running Champs HM debut's at McKirdy Micro Marathon in 2:22:11 for 2nd Brit AT behind Paul - 6s ahead of Charlotte Purdue's lifetime best of 2:22:17 the other week in Berlin - and 6:55 ahead of second woman in the race.
Thought it deserved some props for a very strong debut at the distance, and I cannot imagine how Purdue is feeling right now seeing this, being a career Marathoner
Total legend, I trained with her a few years back… totally down to earth and obviously hard as nails when it comes to endurance as that’s a serious conversion from her half time.
Kinda surprised this didn't get more attention - obviously the sub-2:15s recently (esp Assefa and Hassan) have affected the paradigm a bit regarding perceptions of top times in women's marathoning, but debuting this fast while winning the race by over a mile is highly impressive. I remember Calli being a solid contributor on those historically-dominant New Mexico XC teams a few years back, so it's certainly cool to see her taking a step up to the global elite level with this performance.
Kinda surprised this didn't get more attention - obviously the sub-2:15s recently (esp Assefa and Hassan) have affected the paradigm a bit regarding perceptions of top times in women's marathoning, but debuting this fast while winning the race by over a mile is highly impressive. I remember Calli being a solid contributor on those historically-dominant New Mexico XC teams a few years back, so it's certainly cool to see her taking a step up to the global elite level with this performance.
Personally I think things like this fall under the radar because American publications are less bothered about British athletes, and British athletes who came up in the NCAA or are/were based abroad get horribly neglected by British media
Calli Thackery, Kate Avery, Jack Rowe, Ian Crowe-Wright, Kieran Clements, Charles Hicks, Rory Leonard, etc etc all came up in the NCAA and seem to get missed often in British media because they're not so obviously visibile. It's only when people are consistently forced on tv screens through major champs [Jess Judd, Marc Scott, Chris O'Hare] that people/publications finally start paying attention
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's indicative just of British mis-management of athletics. Jonny Davies has run 13:16 and been based in the UK all his life yet very few people know of him.
back to this - I'm sure the (lacking) size and notoriety of this race didn't help but ofc we all see how much people gush over Purdue when she PR's, and now as you say, nothing for this result, not even taking into account it being a debut!
It didn't get any attention because it wasn't a highly-publicized, major event. I actively try to follow the sport and the only way I heard about it was searching the results on the timing site.
Contrast with the Baltimore marathon which had a fraction of the talent and had multiple local news outlets cover the event and interview the winners.
Calli Thackery (8:44, 15:02, 68:56) daughter of Carl Thackery (1993 World HM Champs Bronze) after just coming 7th at the World Road Running Champs HM debut's at McKirdy Micro Marathon in 2:22:11 for 2nd Brit AT behind Paul - 6s ahead of Charlotte Purdue's lifetime best of 2:22:17 the other week in Berlin - and 6:55 ahead of second woman in the race.
Thought it deserved some props for a very strong debut at the distance, and I cannot imagine how Purdue is feeling right now seeing this, being a career Marathoner
Really impressive marathon debut. Charlotte’s gonna be pissed off. But brilliant for British running. Should be more publicised!
Apparently, the only met one year ago and they are getting married any day now. That's somem impressive work.
Speaking of impressive, can someone explain to me how they have drone footage of their engagement? When you are hiking out in the trails and a drone is following you, wouldn't she notice it? So as the guy do you just act like some jerk is spyaing on you? How do you pull it off?
Or do you film a recreation after the fact? Anyone know how it works. I've got to say the footage is amazing:
Kinda surprised this didn't get more attention - obviously the sub-2:15s recently (esp Assefa and Hassan) have affected the paradigm a bit regarding perceptions of top times in women's marathoning, but debuting this fast while winning the race by over a mile is highly impressive. I remember Calli being a solid contributor on those historically-dominant New Mexico XC teams a few years back, so it's certainly cool to see her taking a step up to the global elite level with this performance.
yeah I remember her too from the those great 2014/2015 New Mexico X-C teams-She seemed to be more of a 3k/5k specialist then; Definitely an impressive debut-sure helps to have the good genes!
Apparently, the only met one year ago and they are getting married any day now. That's somem impressive work.
Speaking of impressive, can someone explain to me how they have drone footage of their engagement? When you are hiking out in the trails and a drone is following you, wouldn't she notice it? So as the guy do you just act like some jerk is spyaing on you? How do you pull it off?
Or do you film a recreation after the fact? Anyone know how it works. I've got to say the footage is amazing:
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