rojo wrote:
But what's a great time for a debut?
Here is part of a chart I once made of all marathon debuts of runners with sub-27:00 track PRs from fast, legal courses only... didn't include a couple Boston/NYC ones because I was using it to calculate averages.
Name 10,000m Marathon Debut Ratio
Eliud Kipchoge 26:49 2:05:37 4.68
Mark Kiptoo 26:54 2:06:16 4.69
Haile Gebrselassie 26:22 2:06:35 4.80
Sammy Wanjiru 26:41 2:06:39 4.75
Richard Limo 26:50 2:06:45 4.72
Micah Kogo 26:35 2:06:56 4.77
Bernard Kipyego 26:59 2:07:01 4.71
Paul Koech 26:36 2:07:07 4.78
Martin Mathathi 26:59 2:07:16 4.72
Josphat Muchiri 26:57 2:07:36 4.73
Nicholas Kemboi 26:30 2:08:01 4.83
Paul Tergat 26:25 2:08:15 4.85
Albert Chepkurui 26:50 2:08:36 4.79
Abdullah Ahmad Hassan 26:38 2:08:36 4.83
Josphat Menjo 26:56 2:09:34 4.81
Moses Masai 26:50 2:11:00 4.88
Charles Kamathi 26:50 2:11:25 4.90
Zersenay Tadese 26:37 2:12:03 4.96
Salah Hissou 26:38 2:12:45 4.98
Kenneth Kipkemoi 26:52 2:17:41 5.12
Assefa Mezegebu 26:49 2:25:24 5.42