but beats the africans
but beats the africans
a newspaper article says that the ritz was the big surprise in the race as he was leading/breaking the pack most of the time, Lebid and Baldini outkicked him in the end.
Winning time:28:23
Is that good?
yes that's very good as i believe the course record was somewhere right around this years winning time.. if ritz was even close to lebid/baldini he did extremely well
great job ritz.. way to show guts and lead the pack!
Wow what a performance!
Lebid the best non-african CC-runner and Baldini best marathoner in the world.....and Dathan...
I predict sub-13.10 and sub-27.20 next year!
If that's true amazing run
I call BS, isn't the race tomorrow??
they also call him a "nobody".
Can anybody translate that
actually it says that Lebid broke away in the end from Ritzenhein and Baldini who had to fight for 2nd place.
At 2k it was 9 guys, at 3.5k 7 guys and at 6k Ritzenhein who made the pace formed the group with Lebid, Baldini and Gharib who dropped back quickly.
"Lebid was unbeatable in the finish-sprint as usual, he broke away from..."
So this was the first race Ritz could cash some money! :)
Brad Hudson's programme seems to work pretty well...
The broke the course record which i heard was very hard.
>which i heard was very hard.<
Where did you hear that?
It would be fun if Ritz could run the CC in Birmingham against Bekele, Shaheen, Mottram, Lebid and others. Better to run CC in Europe than in US, more cash and better preparation for Worlds. The courses are much more difficult, no flat golf courses.
Sorry I mean Edinburgh January 15
Any pictures of him racing Baldini?
pretty poor translation, but here's what Google returns....
"Boclassic: Adere and Lebid are not to be struck
Sergiy Lebid was also with the 30. Expenditure of the Silvesterlaufs in Bozen the measure of all things. As it nearly already became meanwhile with the Boclassic the tradition, the Ukrainer triumphed after an irresistible Sprint on the last meters of the 10.000-Rennens. For Lebid it was the fifth victory in Bozen after 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2003.
The surprise of fast running was the US American Dathan crack home. The 22-Jaehrige had begun running on Friday as Nobody in Bozen and made in the second half of the run. After a group of nine runners was after the first 2000 meters because of the point, only more seven runners could keep up after 3500 meters. After 6000 meters it was then US Boy crack home, which made speed and itself with Marathon Olympiasieger Stefano Baldini, Sergiy Lebid and the Maroccan Jaouad Gharib set off. But also the African had not soon any longer been up to to the speed and dropped back.
Thus the way was free for the Spitzentrio crack home, Lebid and Baldini, which had to constitute the victory under itself. And like already in the past years also this time Sergiy Lebid in the conclusion print was not to be struck. The Ukrainer set off from crack home and Baldini, which had to be content with the fight for place two, and triumphed in 28,23.0 minutes. Second became Stefano Baldini, Dathan crack home occupied scarcely behind it third rank.
With the women the Boclassic Siegerin is called 2004, Berhane Adere. The Aethiopierin triumphed over 5000 meters in a time of 16,14.6 minutes. Also the places two and three went on runner inside out of Ethiopia. Edith Masai became second, Denboba Merima occupied third rank. Pleasing from Suedtiroler view is the excellent fifth place of Renate Rungger.
After the field of the 18 had closed completed runner inside the first two rounds, a quadripartite group began the third round with the three Aethiopierinnen and the Suedtirolerin Silvia Weissteiner. The African however soon already left the competition behind itself.
Only the Polin Justina Bak ran along briefly with the Spitzentrio, could not hold then however the speed any longer. In the last round finally Berhane Adere continued to intensify the speed and left clear thereby their two land women Masai and Denboba behind itself. Berhane triumphed finally safely and got themselves thereby already their fourth victory with the Silvesterlauf in Bozen."
Dathan Crackhome, what a name
Great job to Ritz! We appreciate you going to Europe and mixing it up. More Americans should race in europe.
Sooooo.....Ritzenhein translates to "Crack House"? That's F'ing hilarious! I suggest we all refer to him as Crack House from now on, what a sweet nickname.