Tuone Udaina wrote:
No, I think that there's a good chance that the course was a bit off of 42.195km.
Prior to 2003, Korir's best was 2:08:02 from a 3rd place in Rotterdam, '97. Since '03, his best has been a 2:06:38 in winning Rotterdam 2006.
What about Ryan Hall, then?
I don't know that it was off... I said only that I am one of many who suspects that it may have been. It could be that it was short, or it could be that Sammy just had the performance of his life that day.
geten wrote:
Tuone Udaina wrote:No, I think that there's a good chance that the course was a bit off of 42.195km.
Prior to 2003, Korir's best was 2:08:02 from a 3rd place in Rotterdam, '97. Since '03, his best has been a 2:06:38 in winning Rotterdam 2006.
What about Ryan Hall, then?
Not too many people are suspicious of his Houston run because no one else ran a career-making time on that course.
Well the quality of the field is usually a "little" bit better in Berlin than Houston HM...
you expect us to believe germans may have measured the course short by over 200m ???
Is t not possible that even the (gasp) Germans could make a mistake? You say that like Germans are improbably precise in everything they do. Sure, they do a good job, but nobody is perfect.
Having said that, I doubt the course was -that- short, if it was short at all. Does anyone have his km or mile splits?
I think it was one of those one-in-a-million races where the rabbit felt so good that he was able to continue the pace much further, allowing Tergat to do less work. The course wasn't short, there was something special about that race.
Let's get 'em in a 15K race now.
I actually think that one of the reasons the record is as good as it is, and why no one has gotton very close to it, is because Tergat and Korrir were going head-to-head for the win at the endof the race, and that the compitition at the end helped push them at the end.
Tuone Udaina wrote:
No, I think that there's a good chance that the course was a bit off of 42.195km.
The record was ratified. The course was certified. Every minute of the race is on film so you can retrace every single step they ran. You think it's short, go measure it. Otherwise put a sock in it.
Roccer wrote:You say that like Germans are improbably precise in everything they do
i'll take :
probably precise in everything they do
u sure bout that? wrote:
3wood wrote:sammy is already in near wr shape for 10k
He didn't even make the Kenyan XC team. How do you figure?
And because he was
1) injured
2) trials were held at high altitude opposed to his sea level base in Japan.
i read a quote of his :
"i'm not an x-c guy, i'm a road-runner ( &, obviously by implication - a track runner ) "
i think we can afford him largesse, as another professed non x-c guy, geb , gave his excuse for losing as
~ " my achilles tendons' can't take it "
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