Zlatan wrote:
white dudes wrote:given what we know about all caucasian males, that they won all olympic marathons up til baldini, and are no longer competitive, that is proof positive that caucasian males all doped, agreed?
I hope you're not implying that the Africans are clean
Given that the goal of competitive running is to run as fast as possible and that EPO makes runners faster at distances over 500m, is it agreed that all intelligent runners competing at longer distances are using it?
It seemed like they were doing a brisk jog for them through 19 miles or so because there were several sub elite runners matching them stride for stride then the leaders decided to put the hammer down and the real racing began.
Sartor Resartus wrote:
Hendrick Ramala did something in the 4:1x-high to 4:2x low neighborhood at NYC in 2005.
Yeah, that was the first thing that came to mind. Ramaala blasted a killer mile down First Avenue.
Hah! Found it. At the 1:06 point in the following video, a summary of the 2005 marathon, the announcer says that Ramaala ran a 4:22 mile.
KudzuRunner wrote:
Hah! Found it. At the 1:06 point in the following video, a summary of the 2005 marathon, the announcer says that Ramaala ran a 4:22 mile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lf0m5j2OhY
Hadn't seen that in a long time.
Great video :)
section 19 wrote:
Here is a link to the Strava data from one of the bike spotters. Disregard the first 4 miles because we synched our watches early in the day and then met the athletes when they came over the bridge. I was assigned to spot for Desisa- he fell off around 24. This was with a Garmin 910xt, and splits are obviously
approximate.
https://www.strava.com/activities/424746434/laps
Cool, thanks!
What were you spotter duties? Looked interesting!
We had to radio any developments to TV broadcast coordinator. I had little to do since my guy was with the leaders almost the whole way. The slow pace of the race made it uneventful for most of us until 20 miles. The ones who covered Alana Hadley and Meb had a lot of reporting to do.
So if I start a marathon and rip a 4:10 first mile and then just run 7:00 the rest of the way, then I will have the world's fastest mile ever run in a marathon.
rojo wrote:
We got an interesting email from a visitor today. He asked us if Kamworor's 4:24 was the fastest mile ever run in a marathon?
Was his 8:55 split for 21 and 22 the fastest 2 mile split ever in a marathon?
I can't recall the race but someone ran a 4:19 and a 4:21 once. Albeit it is very fast and doesn't happen often, but there have been several 4:24 splits. If you think about the average for a 2:03 marathon, you have suspect that a sub-4:30 is going to come on a downhill somewhere in the race.
How bout women's fastest mile in a marathon? Any go sub 10:00 for 2 miles or more?
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How bout women's fastest mile in a marathon? Any go sub 10:00 for 2 miles or more?
In a 2:15 marathon I would imagine there was 10 minute 2-mile somewhere.
TrackCoach wrote:
rojo wrote:We got an interesting email from a visitor today. He asked us if Kamworor's 4:24 was the fastest mile ever run in a marathon?
Was his 8:55 split for 21 and 22 the fastest 2 mile split ever in a marathon?
I can't recall the race but someone ran a 4:19 and a 4:21 once. Albeit it is very fast and doesn't happen often, but there have been several 4:24 splits. If you think about the average for a 2:03 marathon, you have suspect that a sub-4:30 is going to come on a downhill somewhere in the race.
I think some past analysis on Science of Sport talked about this - you'd be surprised how evenly those guys run when they hit the 2:03 times. They HAVE to be even to pull it off. So you'll see a lot of miles in the low 4:40s (of course, since that's what the pace averages out to), but probably none in the 4:20s, unless it's right at the end. I'd expect to see more extremely fast individual miles in the more tactical races.
mpizarro1 wrote:
I seem to recall it as 4:17, but that's just my memory of the TV broadcast.
Likewise, I'm sure it was a 4:17.
durf batsfood wrote:
mpizarro1 wrote:I seem to recall it as 4:17, but that's just my memory of the TV broadcast.
Likewise, I'm sure it was a 4:17.
I'm fairly certain I read in T&FN way back when that it was 4:17. I couldn't find anything on the internet about it though, although I'll admit that I didn't search that hard.