Oh yeah. I forgot to mention that he did have a 12 minute head-start. ;)
Actual gun times. Marthy 1:12:46.
Makau only 65:28.
The conditions were apparently off. Reavis called them "curtain-of-rain conditions" and said Makau never found his rhythm.
A 25 yr old American sergeant smoked Patrick Makau today in a 13.1 race in Hawaii
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i see what you did there...rojo you should write story headlines for deadspin or the espn.com front page.
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If you ever hope to beat a Kenyan, pray for rain...LOTS of it!
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smallballinthatspopwarner wrote:
i see what you did there...rojo you should write story headlines for deadspin or the espn.com front page.
I would go with Yahoo or that idiot faux newspaper they have called the Huffy Poast -
Guess the seargeant got a promotion to 1st Lt. between the headline and the op.
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Rudisha's only loss last year came during a rainy race.
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may be some truth to that wrote:
Rudisha's only loss last year came during a rainy race.
And Rudisha said he didn't advance to the final in 2009 due to the rain in Berlin -
They should compete in Spain, but not in the plain.
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High Wire wrote:
If you ever hope to beat a Kenyan, pray for rain...LOTS of it!
Lol, it was a factor one of the times I did it. -
you post drunk like us
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Some say the world will end in fire and ice.
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Ted Poulos?
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missing 2nd Lt rank altogether wrote:
Guess the seargeant got a promotion to 1st Lt. between the headline and the op.
Some would call that a demotion...
Backbone -
rojo wrote:
seargeant
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might be wejo wrote:
rojo wrote:
sieargieante
needs more vowels
i before e & silent e
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Rain may slow a Kenyan down but snow will debilitate them. That is how you beat them.
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SSG skullcrusher wrote:
missing 2nd Lt rank altogether wrote:
Guess the seargeant got a promotion to 1st Lt. between the headline and the op.
Some would call that a demotion...
Backbone
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High Wire wrote:
If you ever hope to beat a Kenyan, pray for rain...LOTS of it!
A Duck wrote:
Lol, it was a factor one of the times I did it.
God, man.
Can you go through ONE THREAD without pointlessly inserting some tidbit about your supposed golden era? -
25 year-old Army first Lieutenant Stephen Marthy was the man's name:
http://tonireavis.com/2013/03/10/hawaiis-hapalua-rain-drops-keep-fallin-on-my-head/
Even though we had a dual meet every year at Cornell with Army, I don't remember him but he competed for Army in college.
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Like who?
