Official Live NYC Half Thread - Coverage Starts 7 am Eastern. Race 7:30 Eastern

Women's pack to two. Go Molly.

Woman at mid 68 pace at 15k they are really picking it up, men now on sub 61 pace.

How far back is the men's chase pack? Are they making up ground at all?

Joyce C looks like she hasn't even started racing yet. The finish could be tough for Molly

Yeah unfortunately Joyce looks like she is gearing up to take off at some point…I hope I'm wrong. Still Molly has dropped everyone else which is pretty impressive

They are talking about course records not world records. Come on Douglas Burke your smarter than that.

douglas burke wrote:

anacondarunner wrote:

Unfortunately, I think Molly will pay for front-running on a windy day. On the other hand, Ritz, Meb, and Teg are all racing smartly. LOL at the announcers speculating whether a world record will be set.

The men are on high 61 pace (record is 58:23) and the women are on high 69 pace (record is 65:09) even if they don't know anything about running, they should know what the records are before talking about records and if they know what the records are simple math will tell them not today.

Excuse my ignorance but what happened to Wesley Korir? Earlier I saw him wearing a blue singlet with a bib that says "Wesley" but now he (or someone else?) is in a black singlet with a "Korir" bib?

If that's still him in the lead pack that would be pretty impressive given his recent performances.

1 mile to go for women. Huddle & Chepkirui. Joyce looks real good. Molly hanging in there! Joyce just running on her shoulder

habs wrote:

Excuse my ignorance but what happened to Wesley Korir? Earlier I saw him wearing a blue singlet with a bib that says "Wesley" but now he (or someone else?) is in a black singlet with a "Korir" bib?

If that's still him in the lead pack that would be pretty impressive given his recent performances.

that's not him, wesley is further back than the american pack.

in other news, it almost looks like Molly is starting to break Joyce. That would be sweet.

jamon wrote:

They are talking about course records not world records. Come on Douglas Burke your smarter than that.

douglas burke wrote:

The men are on high 61 pace (record is 58:23) and the women are on high 69 pace (record is 65:09) even if they don't know anything about running, they should know what the records are before talking about records and if they know what the records are simple math will tell them not today.

The poster I was responding to, said they were speculating about a world record.

habs wrote:

Excuse my ignorance but what happened to Wesley Korir? Earlier I saw him wearing a blue singlet with a bib that says "Wesley" but now he (or someone else?) is in a black singlet with a "Korir" bib?

If that's still him in the lead pack that would be pretty impressive given his recent performances.

Wesley fell back and was seen (in blue) behind the Meb/Ritz/Teg/Bumby pack.

The announcers keep mistakenly calling the "other" Korir that is running in the lead pack, Wesley.

Molly pulling away! 1/2 mile uphill. 500 meters to go! She's driving hard!! 1st American womens winner in NYC 1/2???

Molly's gonna win this

Molly's gonna win!

MOLLY!!! Nice!! Men's finish will be awesome. Same 4 men in it

1:08:33!! p.r. Sambu & Korir battling 1/2 mile to go

Wow I was wrong. Way to go Molly!

this is brutal. learn who you are watching.

What a finish!