Half debut for Allie, first race since neck surgery in December. She said she hopes to run 70-72min. Philly's PB is 72, but her 2:25 Berlin Marathon suggest she could go sub-70. However she's early in her training block for London (she said not tapered or aiming for a PB), after an iron deficiency that lead her to DNF a 10k and scratch from the Houston Half. How have you got?
I think both are good for the sport. I enjoy their content as well. Allie has the better chops but this is not her distance, yet. Phillys iron deficiency probably sets her back further in training. Allie has has a better stretch of running fitness. (Surgery was not running related). Allie ends up faster than Philly (I think Philly is also traveling further and Allie has been at altitude in Boulder now for a few months ) but neither actually win the women’s race.
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Half debut for Allie, first race since neck surgery in December. She said she hopes to run 70-72min. Philly's PB is 72, but her 2:25 Berlin Marathon suggest she could go sub-70. However she's early in her training block for London (she said not tapered or aiming for a PB), after an iron deficiency that lead her to DNF a 10k and scratch from the Houston Half. How have you got?
I think Allie will have a great debut. Her training has been going really well.
Sara Hall is racing this morning as well (the race just started).
Philly has actually been in Flagstaff for 2 weeks (training for London), but I agree with the iron. Yeah it's a long race for Allie, but she's also done well at sub-ultra trails. It will be interesting to see how she does
I always root for Allie. I wish she'd lay off some of the lame videos and get rid of that albatross boyfriend but I do like her running content and her playfulness.
Is it? Seem tedious to me. On the map, you have to enter athletes separately, but then you have to know who to enter. Plus it doesn't show splits, just a running clock and average pace. Unless I'm missing an auto update version, on the results page, you have to know which mile mark has results, otherwise you get blanks. Looks like only Mile 6.9 works that I can find so far. I see Mile 7.9 and average pace on the map page, but on the results page it is still blank.
Hall has been training at altitude in Ethiopia. This will be a good gage to see where she is fitness-wise for Boston, but I don’t think it would make sense to go all out.