Yep Tadese is there, swinging from left to right !
Yep Tadese is there, swinging from left to right !
Okay, SHalane is back with the leaders. It's currently 10 in the lead group.
Desi dropped.
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Wind is now supposed to be strong where the women are (mile 15)
Men's wheelchair winner reports there was a striping headwind.
Rawson is "looking at leg turnover".
Desi being dropped?!
To be blunt American runners just suck. Perhaps the biggest marathon there is and the only person we can route for is a runner who is not really American, he is Aritrean. LOL. For real American finishers we will have some random dude running 2:12-ish and another 2:17-ish. No others below 2:20. How lame is that?
Ritz is solo off the lead pack, doesn't look that far from the front angle.
Women’s race splits
Mile 1: 5:38 (Nemec leads large pack)
Mile 2: 5:28 (11:06)
Mile 3: 5:19 (16:25) (Deba took the lead at 4k, drops three women, pack stringing out with Desi a few meters off the back)
5K: 16:57 (2:23:03 pace)
Mile 4: 5:23 (21:48) Linden in the lead. 11 women in the lead group
Mile 5: 5:46 (27:34) Deba leading, still group of 11
Mile 6: 5:38 (33:12)
10K: 34:23 (17:26 5K) 2:25:02 pace, Duliba leading pack of 12
Mile 7: 5:32 (38:44)
Mile 8: 5:38 (44:22) Linden to the front again
Mile 9: 5:40 (50:02)
15K: 51:48 (17:25)
Mile 10: 5:35 (55:37)
Mile 11: 5:36 (1:01:13)
Mile 12: 5:23 (1:06:36)
20K: 1:09:00 (17:12 5K) 2:25:29 pace. Linden still leading
Mile 13: 5:24 1:12:00
HM: 1:12:44. Caroline Kilel leading
Mile 14: 5:34 (1:17:34)
Mile 15: 5:37 (1:23:11)
25K: 1:26:08 (17:08 5K) 2:25:22 pace
Lead pack is 11. Cragg looking good. Linden has slowly worked her way back to the lead pack after grabbing her bottle during Mile 16.
Why do they still let Rawson commentate this? In some sports he'd be out-right fired, if not for racism then for general stupidity. Some say he's getting worse, but I remember watching Boston in the 90's and he was just as cringe-worthy. What an utter embarrassment.
Larry Rawson calls out the poor wheelchair guy going about 1 mph up the Newton Hills when the elite women pass lolz
Desi right back, waited until a flat to make up time
Cragg looks a lot better.
Ritz could be running the smartest race of the field. If this wind picks up, he's going to be catching people the last 5K.
Des is back...
Desi fought back.
She may actually win this.
Never count her out.
I think Desi was just being deliberate getting her water bottle and working her way back to the front.
The three American women are all in the lead pack again. Looked like Shalane and Desi had a little slow after a water station and were patient coming up a hill but they both reconnected.
5:12 for mile 13.
Tsegay was pushing the pace out front, but Ritz caught back up to the back of pack. So 12 in lead pack now.
Now Ritz out front leading.
Larry with the groundbreaking discovery that elite African marathoners tend to be light. Stop the presses, LOL.
Why is Ritz leading???