Two women have broken away, one of them is Daba who was second last year. The leader is working left to right to keep Daba from drafting. Its going to be a long Marathon for the leader, 6:17 for the first mile and the rest of the pack is at least 30-40 seconds back
Apparently only 6:17 for the first mile. Doesn't seem too suicidal to me but I don't know what it's like on the ground. Makes me wonder why the pack is so slow? It's only 2:44 pace
http://www.runnersworld.com/race-training/pace-chart-600-659-pace-mile
Deba is leading with Tacist second.
A handchair race, really? I'm assuming these are able bodied people, why would they need to include that in a marathon?
first mile..... wrote:
Already over.
Deba wins
Jeptoo and Dado won't let her get too far.
BTW..this coverage is horrendous so far.
Memo to Jeremy Schaap:
McFadden is amazing but I wouldn't call her a runner. She's a wheelchair racer.
Do others call wheelchair racers runners? Was that a mistake or the PC police winning yet another one?
Here is the top 30 at the 3 mile mark:
1 104 Buzunesh Deba ETH 26 0:16:59 +00:00 5:40
2 134 Tigist Tufa Demisse ETH 26 0:16:59 +00:00 5:40
3 105 Valeria Straneo ITA 37 0:18:25 +01:27 6:09
4 119 Adriana Nelson CO/USA 33 0:18:26 +01:27 6:09
5 129 Julia Mallon CA/USA 34 0:18:26 +01:27 6:09
6 107 Jelena Prokopcuka LAT 37 0:18:26 +01:27 6:09
7 108 Risa Shigetomo JPN 26 0:18:26 +01:27 6:09
8 116 Amy Hastings RI/USA 29 0:18:27 +01:28 6:09
9 117 Diane Nukuri-Johnson BDI 28 0:18:27 +01:28 6:09
10 106 Christelle Daunay FRA 38 0:18:27 +01:28 6:09
11 115 Yolanda Caballero COL 31 0:18:27 +01:28 6:09
12 112 Sabrina Mockenhaupt GER 32 0:18:27 +01:28 6:09
13 101 Firehiwot Dado ETH 29 0:18:27 +01:28 6:09
14 110 Kim Smith NZL 31 0:18:27 +01:28 6:09
15 109 Tetyana Gamera-Shmyrko UKR 30 0:18:27 +01:28 6:09
16 124 Delilah Dicrescenzo NY/USA 30 0:18:27 +01:29 6:09
17 114 Lisa Stublic CRO 29 0:18:27 +01:29 6:09
18 120 Alisha Williams CO/USA 31 0:18:27 +01:29 6:09
19 103 Priscah Jeptoo KEN 29 0:18:28 +01:29 6:10
20 118 Janet Bawcom AZ/USA 35 0:18:28 +01:29 6:10
21 122 Aziza Aliyu ETH 28 0:18:28 +01:29 6:10
22 127 Katie DiCamillo RI/USA 26 0:18:28 +01:30 6:10
23 111 Ana Dulce Felix POR 31 0:18:28 +01:30 6:10
24 126 Mattie Suver CO/USA 26 0:18:29 +01:30 6:10
25 125 Claudia Pinna ITA 35 0:18:29 +01:31 6:10
26 102 Edna Kiplagat KEN 34 0:18:30 +01:31 6:10
27 128 Danna Kelly Herrick IA/USA 27 0:18:30 +01:32 6:10
28 135 Muliye Gurmu ETH 29 0:18:46 +01:47 6:16
29 144 Lisa Bentley CAN 44 0:18:50 +01:51 6:17
30 132 Alexandra Cadicamo NY/USA 25 0:18:54 +01:55 6:18
I though I'd post 3 miles instead of 5k.
Tommy2Nuttz wrote:
A handchair race, really? I'm assuming these are able bodied people, why would they need to include that in a marathon?
What?
rojo wrote:
Memo to Jeremy Schaap:
McFadden is amazing but I wouldn't call her a runner. She's a wheelchair racer.
Do others call wheelchair racers runners? Was that a mistake or the PC police winning yet another one?
Are you really this obtuse?
Women's race starts in less than an hour. We're about to leave the hotel and head to the media room. In case you've been sleeping, the big news is we've gone out on a limb and are predicting a pedestrian men's winning time:
We'll check out the wind before getting on the subway and post and update about before the race starts hopefully.
Should be a fun and exciting day. Live national TV coverage for first time in 20 years. Keep your fingers crossed for ESPN2 (warning, there will be lots of feature stories particularly early on first half which we are fine with, but just forgot to mention that in my initial piece).
Over 20 minutes in.
They have shown 52 seconds of running.
rojo wrote:
Memo to Jeremy Schaap:
McFadden is amazing but I wouldn't call her a runner. She's a wheelchair racer.
Do others call wheelchair racers runners? Was that a mistake or the PC police winning yet another one?
What's wrong with cyclist?
i was thinking the same thing….while the wheelchair competitors are athletes, calling them "runners" and trying to draw comparisons about someone winning all 4 majors in one year is just absurd.
no mention in these stories ever about how physically impossible it would be for a runner to win boston and london in the same year because the physical strain between running and wheeling do not even belong in the same universe.
first mile..... wrote:
Over 20 minutes in.
They have shown 52 seconds of running.
I've got no problem with that. What do you want to see, them running side by side with little happening. You have to set the story, give the viewers the background so they know what they are watching. Most ESPN viewers aren't on LetsRun.com 24/7.
GUYS! It's not about the race. Its about the story! Come on, you can't be serious that you are watching the live feed/espn2 to actually watch a race.
Yuki zipped up his Yuki suit. Watch out.
5 129 Julia Mallon CA/USA 34 0:18:26 +01:27 6:09
That's former high school phenom and Stanford star Julia Stamps.
Rojo - are the mile or 5K splits posted somewhere online as well? Tried to go to the website but couldn't find it quickly
I didn't know somewhere over the rainbow sounded exactly like the star spangled banner
Did anyone look at the splits? The chasing pack has let the two breakaways get a minute and a half in the first 3 miles!!! WHAT ARE THEY THINKING@@@@@@@@@@@@
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon