Best range of any distance runner ever

This one is easy Mark Caroll

11.17 100m into a head wind with stellar times at all distances all the way up to a 2h10min 54 marathon over the super tough New York Marathon course.

http://www.all-athletics.com/node/45217

whako stato wrote:

This one is easy Mark Caroll

11.17 100m into a head wind with stellar times at all distances all the way up to a 2h10min 54 marathon over the super tough New York Marathon course.

http://www.all-athletics.com/node/45217

This has already been discussed and a winner already crowned.

Fernando Mamede (Portugal).

Anchor on Olympic 1600 relay AND WR at 10,000 meters, plus medallist at World X-C champs. End of thread.

This is easy. Two runners are far better than the rest.

Grete Waitz

Ingrid Kristiansen

Halviking wrote:

This is easy. Two runners are far better than the rest.

Grete Waitz

Ingrid Kristiansen

Oh, and which Olympic 1600 relay team was Grete on?

messi wrote:

whako stato wrote:

This one is easy Mark Caroll

11.17 100m into a head wind with stellar times at all distances all the way up to a 2h10min 54 marathon over the super tough New York Marathon course.

http://www.all-athletics.com/node/45217

This has already been discussed and a winner already crowned.

Fernando Mamede (Portugal).

Anchor on Olympic 1600 relay AND WR at 10,000 meters, plus medallist at World X-C champs. End of thread.

Good find but Carroll ran his 100m and 200m times AFTER he ran his 2h 10 marathon.

I condiser myself a middle distance runner. By bests range from 115 seconds in the 800m to 11,280 seconds for the marathon.

Alastair Brownlee. Two time Olympic Gold medalist in the Triathlon. 28:32 10k on the track at Mt Sacs. Not as good as Geb or Bekele but deserves some respect if you ask me.

Any other modern runners? I'm thinking Bekele and Mo can go on this list. Makhloufi has awesome middle distance talent as well. I wonder how he'd do in a 3k with that closing speed?

Its gotta be Kipchoge or Geb.

the GROAT is undeniably Haile, just take a quick glance at his wikipedia page. This question has been asked on letsrun before.

"Max King

Olympic trials 3,000m steeplechase.

World 100k champion.

No runner mentioned is even close to a range of 97,000 meters!!!"

8:30 steeple is hardly noteworthy.

100k is walking pace, not even worthy of this conversation.

Some of Max Kings PRs: 4:07 mile, 13:56 5k, 31:03 10 k

Again, hardly noteworthy, except maybe in Outside Magazine!

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superkali wrote:

all simple math.... wrote:

Max King

Olympic trials 3,000m steeplechase.

World 100k champion.

No runner mentioned is even close to a range of 97,000 meters!!!

Definitely Max King:

Mountain Running World Champion 2011, Steeplechase 6th (8:30) in the 2012 Olympic Trials, 100 km Road World Champion 2014, and World Champion in some short OCR stuff

https://spikes.iaaf.org/post/max-king-keeps-on-running

Stop with this Max King hype. Dude doesn't have a single noteworthy time at any event. 8:30 steeple for 6th at 2012 trials??! WOW. Emma's alomost faster than that. 31:xx 10k??? That's like 200th place at top events! 100k road champion?? Does 6:14 pace still count as running?---I think I saw that on an episode of Walking Dead.

The real answer: Haile Gebrselassie!

My vote is for Aouita.

Range Rater

10.0 - Bekele (3:32 to 2:03:03)

9.9 - Farah (3:28 to 59:23 half M)

9.9 - Geb (3:31 to 2:03:59)

9.8 - Kipchoge ( 12:46 to 2:03:05)

9.7 - El G ( 3:26.00 and 12:48)

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9.0 Clayton Murphy (1:42 and slow 10k)

Similar to Bernard Lagat is Mo Farah, everything from 800 to half marathon

Taking a deep breath wrote:

ukathleticcoach wrote:

Rod Dixon. Only runner to win Olympic middle distance medal & win a big city marathon.

Dixon has to be no.1 given his times at that point in history. Maybe Aouita at 2, Geb/Bekele come next.

Dick Quax was unlucky with the 1980 boycott on the same day in Oregon (???) He ran faster than Cierpinski. So he got second to Keino in 1970 and ran 2:10 for the marathon back in the olden days.

Kipchoge has a good range from 3k to the Marathon.

Quax was a great, maybe an all-time great or close (WR and medal in '76), but he ran 2:10:47 on the same day that Bob Hodge ran 2:10:59. All due respect to Bob Hodge and Theodorus Jacobus Leonardus Quax, great GREAT runners both, but that would not have beaten Cierpinski at a Soviet Bloc Olympics.

He may have been capable of medalling, but if not for the boycott, many others would have been in that boat as well.

Trackbot groat

From Casablanca With Love wrote:

My vote is for Aouita.

He gets a dqual for being a drug pusher

CO Fattie wrote:

"Max King

Olympic trials 3,000m steeplechase.

World 100k champion.

No runner mentioned is even close to a range of 97,000 meters!!!"

8:30 steeple is hardly noteworthy.

100k is walking pace, not even worthy of this conversation.

He was world champion with that walking pace (6:14 min/mi or 3:53 min/km). You couldn't even run 100k a minute a mile slower than that. I challenge you to run a 100k at 7:14 min/mi (4:30 min/km) and post a link to the results here. That's 7.5h for 100k. You won't do it because you can't even walk a minute per mile slower than Max King.