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thanks, 445 argghhh! boston's ~20 min deficit was def a little more user friendly :)
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Introducing the wheelchair athletes...a.k.a. time to go get more beer
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looked but cant find wrote:
thanks, 445 argghhh! boston's ~20 min deficit was def a little more user friendly :)
I disagree, since they felt the need to show the women's finish for 15 minutes while the men were making important moves...at least we know we won't have that problem here -
By the way, you can follow the splits here:
http://results-2009.london-marathon.co.uk/index.php?event_id=RAT&split=FINISHNET&Submit=show+results+%3E%3E&a=t -
Apparently I was wrong on the third mile, it was 5:15. Followed by 5:2x.
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anyone mind posting a direct link to the feed...maybe that will work better
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Leading group down to four + pacer: Mikitenko, Yamauchi, Zhou, Okunaga. Next group with all other favorites about 30 m behind. Dita-Tomescu behind second group.
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pretty impressive PRs:
2009 Elite Women
Irina Mikitenko
GER 2:19:19
Catherine Ndereba
KEN 2:18:47
Zhou Chunxiu
CHN 2:19:51
Berhane Adere
ETH 2:20:42
Lyudmila Petrova
RUS 2:21:29
Constantina Dita
ROU 2:21:30
Svetlana Zakharova
RUS 2:21:31
Gete Wami
ETH 2:21:34
Mara Yamauchi
GBR 2:25:03
Martha Komu
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Here's a site summarizing the splits, the pace and the projected times during the race. Pretty good analysis of Boston, and their post-race report got some play on the homepage too, it was pretty decent.
London should be good from here.
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2009/04/london-2009-splits-and-pacing.html
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Leading group widens the gap. Last mile 5:07.
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Second pack looks to be 80-100m behind now. 5:07 fifth mile for first group!
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Note. I did not get the video to work on Firefox. I am watching on Internet Explorer.
http://www.universalsports.com/mediaPlayer/media.dbml?CLIP_ID=124902&_MODE_=EVENT&db_oem_id=23000 -
I'm watching it live on tv in England...we complain about our coverage...this is horrible. The elite woman are running, and they've been interviewing celebrities and random people for the past 10-15 minutes.
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Mrr82 wrote:
I'm watching it live on tv in England...we complain about our coverage...this is horrible. The elite woman are running, and they've been interviewing celebrities and random people for the past 10-15 minutes.
Yeah usually tv coverage of this sort of race is more focused on the fun run portion of the event.
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5:28 sixth mile. They're all over the place.
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flotrack updating via twitter...
can't believe this feed doesn't work in safari
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hopefully they will have lengthy interview with david and victoria beckham jk
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10k in 33:14. Second group about 15 seconds behind.
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Mikitenko, Yamauchi, Chunxiu, Okunaga are the 4 contenders. Rest are 15+ seconds back.
