Where's Khalid?? or was he not running?
Where's Khalid?? or was he not running?
Austinbuffalo wrote:
Farmer Jane,
THAT is a bunch of HALF-FULL negative crap!!!
"The rest of the Americans..." Ryan Hall was our hero....it only takes one to build on....his performance was amazing....focus on that, or move to Cuba!
I was actually more pleased with Boston 06. I felt it was a better american showing, on a better stage (if your an american).
Khannouchi was visibly weaving by 25K... looked like the heat affected him quite a bit (he was drenched in sweat).
The temperatures at the finish were 69 degrees and 39% humidity. Beijing will be 20 degrees warmer and 50% points higher than today.
How does the "deepest field in marathon history" end up with a 2:07 winner which is great but a 2:14 9th placer and a 2:17 10th placer?
I thought marathon fields were deeper these days?
Say what? wrote:
How does the "deepest field in marathon history" end up with a 2:07 winner which is great but a 2:14 9th placer and a 2:17 10th placer?
I thought marathon fields were deeper these days?
quite a few of those deep people DNF(Geb) or fell back(Meb, KK, whoever else)
This post is funny in hindsight:
Colonel Klink wrote:
Cannot Watch! wrote:For his sake, hopefully earlier rather than later: then he can still run a good time rather than struggle in the last four miles.
agreed
>>>>That's terrible news about Jon!<<<
Aw geez that's what happened, sucks!!
I'm going nuts. I just followed the entire marathon through this thread within 10 minutes. I was able to avoid seeing the results prior, and instead followed it this way.
Hall ran the perfect race. He ran great and finished knowing that he left nothing on the course. I hope he gets a pic of him running side-by-side with Geb and frames it.
Say what? wrote:
How does the "deepest field in marathon history" end up with a 2:07 winner which is great but a 2:14 9th placer and a 2:17 10th placer?
I thought marathon fields were deeper these days?
A few elite runners are paid to run, the rest of the field is made up of a cross section of the general public, of which a very small proportion are serious runners.
Also there we're an unusually high number of elites dropping out. On another thread someone quoted that of the 60 people in the elite men's start, only 12 finished.