Flanagan, Hasay, Huddle, and Linden ALL set to race Boston 2018!

odds are, on race day, one of the four will be hurt...if not more? It always happens.

Does the strong American field mean a weak international field? Smart marketing by Boston to load up the Americans and water down the Africans. I suppose the best in the world usually run London anyway.

I’d love to see Laura Thweatt jump into the mix too. She could be a real threatt

LyingKenyans wrote:

odds are, on race day, one of the four will be hurt...if not more? It always happens.

+1

they will train too hard because of the American cometition

How can this be the best field without the Tokyo 2020 Marathon champ, Gwen Jorgensen?

NOP Skeptic wrote:

dsfsfsdfs wrote:

Is this the greatest American marathon matchup in the last 15+ years?

Is it? That was one of the original questions of the thread.

Actually earlier this year, I posted about a dream race for Boston 2018 in which we basically had everyone described here - Flanagan, Hasay, Huddle, and Linden with the addition of Cragg and Sisson making her debut a year early.

The future is bright, and I haven't seen an American women field this good in years.

Also, is it too early to think of what Emily Infeld could do in a marathon? Alright, I'll stop.

How can this be the best field without the Tokyo 2020 Marathon champ, Gwen Jorgensen?

Funny how there is no Jordan Hasay in the picture.

I think you all are underestimating Huddle, considering she is the fastest female distance runner in American history.

But I’ll take Allie Kieffer for the win.

Lords of Cinder wrote:

Hasay, Hall, Linden, Flanagan

There's a lot of love on here for Hasay and I get that she's talented but can someone explain the reasoning behind considering her the USA's best female marathoner? After all, Huddle has significantly better track credentials and Flanagan, Linden and Cragg have accomplished more in the marathon.

Having track credentials doesn't carry any weight when it comes to a marathon. Flanagan, Linden and Cragg are old and on their way out. BTW Jordan has the second fastest marathon time in US history, only behind Deena Kaster. The fastest time on US soils since Deena has the fastest time running the Berlin marathon.

runn wrote:

Let's take it further and set up some Top American road races at other distances- 10k-half marathon- like in the old days.

There were no half marathons in the old days :-) But it would be great to see some fast American fields again.

jaredh22 wrote:

Flanagan, Linden and Cragg are old and on their way out.

Shalane who just won a major this fall.

jaredh22 wrote:

BTW Jordan has the second fastest marathon time in US history, only behind Deena Kaster. The fastest time on US soils since Deena has the fastest time running the Berlin marathon.

Hasay and Flanagan's PRs are only 17 seconds apart. That's nothing in a marathon.

Flanagan's time of 2:21:14 occurred on 09/28/14, or 3 years and 7 months ago. Hasay's all time second place of 2:20:57 occurred 2 months ago.

Oh Please wrote:

Linden: Never really in it, never really blows up. 4th place in 227

This might come off sounding worse than I intend it, but it's not meant to be a shot at Desi. I think you describe it perfectly, and at some point you have to wonder if she really needs to put herself in it and truly race to win as opposed to running a beautifully split race. Recently she's seemed sort of burnt out and frustrated, and asking why she was still doing it. If the goal is to win a major or a WC/Olympic medal, I just have to wonder if she shakes up her strategy a bit.

Again, not meant to really be a shot at Desi as her ability to run her own smart racing is impressive and has yielded big results. Just a thought.

Who gives a rat's a$$, all the world class runners mix it up in London, Boston is JV.

Hohojolly wrote:

Flanagan's time of 2:21:14 occurred on 09/28/14, or 3 years and 7 months ago. Hasay's all time second place of 2:20:57 occurred 2 months ago.

Shalane was in sub-2:20 shape in NYC. Of course, Hasay was in sub-2:20 shape in Chicago as well.

Hohojolly wrote:

Flanagan's time of 2:21:14 occurred on 09/28/14, or 3 years and 7 months ago. Hasay's all time second place of 2:20:57 occurred 2 months ago.

Yes, and Flanagan's NYC WIN taking down a woman who ran 2:17 8 months ago, occurred a couple weeks ago

What's your point?

3hr-marathoner wrote:

Hasay and Flanagan's PRs are only 17 seconds apart. That's nothing in a marathon.

Tell that to Wilson Kipsang and Emmanuel Mutai.

3hr-marathoner wrote:

jaredh22 wrote:

Flanagan, Linden and Cragg are old and on their way out.

Shalane who just won a major this fall.

jaredh22 wrote:

BTW Jordan has the second fastest marathon time in US history, only behind Deena Kaster. The fastest time on US soils since Deena has the fastest time running the Berlin marathon.

Hasay and Flanagan's PRs are only 17 seconds apart. That's nothing in a marathon.

True, Flanagan, Linden and Cragg are old.

Flanagan ran her PR in Berlin, the fastest course out there. Plus she had personal pacers. With all this she still could not break the American record, which she was bragging that she would do.

Jordan ran fast in Chicago. Jordan has the edge.

Jerry Shoemaker wrote:

3hr-marathoner wrote:

Shalane who just won a major this fall.

Hasay and Flanagan's PRs are only 17 seconds apart. That's nothing in a marathon.

True, Flanagan, Linden and Cragg are old.

Flanagan ran her PR in Berlin, the fastest course out there. Plus she had personal pacers. With all this she still could not break the American record, which she was bragging that she would do.

Jordan ran fast in Chicago. Jordan has the edge.

Jordan will need to run fast at Boston, because she knows that Flanagan owns her over 10k. Probably her plan should be to start pushing hard by 25k and do as much damage as she can over the Newton hills.