Back when Hall ran 2:04:58 at Boston, many dissed his race because he finished 1:56 behind Mutai that day. And yet BK finished even further back than that, when both races were won in 2:03:0x.
C'mon man. You are aware that Hall's race had a ridiculous tailwind right??? So those "performances" are highly questionable. The fact that he never came close running near that time afterwards is enough to make me think he wasn't a real 2:04-2:05 M guy. You can't compare those two races. Now you can compare Hall's 2008 London marathon race in which he ran in 2:06:17 (his true marathon pb) to this race.
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