Philly Half Thread -

Well, I thought that surge was probably awesome, but its hard to say as we didn't see it.

He looks pretty fit. He put together a couple of those type of miles in the trials to drop the field. I wonder if he can do that after the hills in NY?

Anybody know the splits for the last mile/2k?

The said 427 for mile 13.

I thought I heard 4:27 from 12 to 13.

I'll never be able even read the word "chinchili" without getting a bad taste in my mouth. This is on par with NBC cutting a football game for Heidi.

The official company line on the glitch:

"SMcKeon: Again, we are very sorry about the commercial cutting in at the end. There was a delay on the feed that caused the commercial to run early. Please come back for the archived footage WITHOUT the commercial."

Anyone know what that means?

It means they're idiots and had the commercial on a timed loop since they are too inept to cue it with a real-live-hoooman!

Oh well, free is free! And at least the feed is re-playable!!

(I think rocknrollrun.com or somethign like that)

It means that what is put on the internet is slightly delayed from real time. So someone saw the finish live, forgot about the slight delay, and pressed the button to switch to commercial. Stupid mistake.

I thought announcing was pretty good. Better than the usual, hearing about training was cool

I just read the PDR recap that was just posted and I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with the level of professionalism displayed in the article. There is almost a typo or grammatical error in every single sentence. Microsoft Word should have picked up some of these errors.... Was this posted off a PDA?

Way to go, Andrew Dumm!...A solid time for the UVA [Jason Dunn] product to follow up his Marine Corps Marathon win from last October. Should continue to build a name for himself over the next two or three years. Look for him to do some good things!!!!!!

wayfool wrote:

I just read the PDR recap that was just posted and I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with the level of professionalism displayed in the article. There is almost a typo or grammatical error in every single sentence. Microsoft Word should have picked up some of these errors.... Was this posted off a PDA?

Prediction: Someone will slam you for this on the grounds that it's free and if you don't like it do it better yourself. And that will happen even though the author of the piece you're disappointed in has so far today dissed free Webcasts of Berlin and Philly.

10th avenue freezeout wrote:

Results: Good win in style for Hall, speed not there but great tactics, closing speed, strength. Note JC in 1:05

Top 10 Men

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Bib Name Time

17070 Norm Jones 1:01:10

1 Ryan Hall 1:01:52

6 Samuel Ndereba 1:01:57

4 Benjamin Limo 1:02:02

25 Valentine Orare 1:02:22

11 Mike Sayenko 1:05:05

31 Josh Cox 1:05:10

12 Andrew Dumm 1:05:42

24 Lee Troop 1:05:43

1705 Joel Mwaura 1:05:48

Top 10 Women

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Bib Name Time

17034 Cynthia Ferguson 56:53

Another average race for JC. Hopefully he can put together a great race instead of great training.

Except for the commercial, it was good coverage of Ryan. Good to have comments from people who know Ryan and his training partners

mmmmchinchili wrote:

Wow!!1My man Norm Jones came out of nowhere!

Way to go Normo! You took down some big names today!

I hear Norm Jones doesn't have a sponsor. Who is going to pick him up? The race directors better at least give him a lower bib number from now on.

13th best performance on the USA alltime list for a training run. Not bad.

59:43 ( 1) Ryan Hall (CA) 14 Oct 1982 14 Jan 2007 Houston TX USA

1:00:55 ( 1) Mark Curp (MO) 05 Jan 1959 15 Sep 1985 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:07 ( 2) Abdihakim Abdirahman- 2 01 Jan 1977 17 Sep 2006 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:17 ( 1) Khalid Khannouchi (NY) 22 Dec 1971 17 Sep 2000 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:20 ( 3) Khalid Khannouchi- 2 22 Dec 1971 19 Sep 2004 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:30 ( 2) Keith Brantly (FL) 23 May 1962 19 Sep 1993 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:32 ( 1) Paul Cummings (UT) 05 Sep 1953 25 Sep 1983 Dayton OH USA

1:01:43 ( 2) George Malley (OR) 28 Jul 1955 19 Sep 1982 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:43 ( 1) Mark Curp- 2 05 Jan 1959 14 Sep 1986 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:47 ( 1) Herb Lindsay (MI) 12 Nov 1954 20 Sep 1981 Manchester VT USA

1:01:47 ( 4) Bill Reifsnyder (NM) 13 Apr 1962 15 Sep 1985 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:47 ( 5) Jon Sinclair (CO) 04 Sep 1957 15 Sep 1985 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:52 ( 1) Todd Williams (MI) 07 Mar 1969 07 Dec 1991 Orlando FL USA

1:01:52 ( 1) Ryan Hall (CA) 14 Oct 1982 20 Sep 2009 Philadelphia PA USA

1:01:57 ( 2) Bruce Bickford (MA) 12 Mar 1957 14 Sep 1986 Philadelphia PA USA

fine performance winning in the midst of marathon training but don't call it a "training run." that was a race.

I like the webcasts

Announcing- B+ these guys are better than most

Internet feed- too bad for commercial and sound was bad. D

Hope there are more