Europeans and maybe people on the West Coast. It's 2 am on th East Coast and we are going to bed, but wanted to start this thread. We'll come back and see what happened when we get up.
The race is live on the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/
as well as Eurosport2.
http://www.bestsportgo.tv/20130913/vv-639965--52337cc4cd4eb3.63704735.html
Hope it's fun.
We just put a link on the front page talking about how the weather is stormy.
4:30 eastern for those wondering.
I'm off shortly to run in it. After a beautiful sunny day in the North East yesterday, it's wet and blowy here now.
Race is off in 3 hours.
Can't wait. Bekele wins farah second, haile takes the payday and drops out at 8 miles.
that woud mean that any time under 60 woud be helluva run
Why does everybody, race organizers included, keep calling the women's race "Meseret and Tirunesh" or "Defar vs. Dibaba"? Olympic marathon silver medalist Priscah Jeptoo, who ran 1:06:11 in February, is in the race. That's well over a minute faster than either of the Ethiopians has run. They're setting themselves up for a solid shot to the foot if Jeptoo shows the same class today.
Sleepy floyid wrote:
Watchathletics countdown clock must be wrong or something. It says just under 4 hrs to broadcast but it is 3:30 EDT right now.
No one can seem to agree. A poster up ahead who is going to run it said it's off in 3 hours. I thought I read 9:30 for a start time. It's 9 am right now in the UK (double checked
https://www.google.com/search?q=time+in+the+uk&oq=time+in+the+uk&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i64.4325j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8), so Watchathletics is saying 12:30 pm?
Okay watchathletics is now saying 33 minutes for me. Don't know if that's the broadcast or the race. Race might be at 10:30. (Which sucks, I don't feel like staying up that late, but whatever.)
Killarney wrote:
Okay watchathletics is now saying 33 minutes for me. Don't know if that's the broadcast or the race. Race might be at 10:30. (Which sucks, I don't feel like staying up that late, but whatever.)
wish they had it at 7-8 like most normal runs.
so when exactly is the race going down? ET
wickedclownlover wrote:
so when exactly is the race going down? ET
I DON'T KNOW, OKAY??
GAWSH.
Shit. Start time 10:40 for the half marathon. That's 5:40 eastern. Shit.
http://www.greatrun.org/App_Files/Gr_Files/Bupa-Great-North-Run-2012-Course-Map.pdf
This could be really quick. There's a 15-20mph south westerley wind. so from 5 to 12 miles will be right behind them.
Well you posted the 2012 link but 2013 is the same: 2:40 AM Pacific (5:40 EDT). Cant believe I woke up again. Pre-race coverage has started.
http://www.watchathletics.com/page/482/great-north-run-live-streaming
All go on Eurosport. Pre race interviews finished. Wheelchair racers about to start.
Women's race about to start.
5:13 first mile
Women's rabbit looks totally confused. She's going to fall over if she continues to keep turning around to look behind her.
Men's race to start in 15 minutes.
2 miles at 10:29