Thinks Paula Radcliffe's record will go soon.
Thinks Paula Radcliffe's record will go soon.
Bump
She's 38 (44-46 in LR years). 40 is the new 30.
Marathon record? Hard to say. I know we'll see many more women racing sub-2:17:30 for Marathon and many more women racing sub-65:30 for half Marathon.
Should I race faster? wrote:
Marathon record? Hard to say. I know we'll see many more women racing sub-2:17:30 for Marathon and many more women racing sub-65:30 for half Marathon.
Mary will probably have 2 more years are trying to break it, and if she does not succeed, then Dibaba will. One of those 2 will break it.
The half marathon girls like Joyciline Jepkosgei and Peres Jepchirchir May be the ones to do it if Mary and Dibaba don’t. Also Brigid Kosgei is only 23.
El Keniano wrote:
The half marathon girls like Joyciline Jepkosgei and Peres Jepchirchir May be the ones to do it if Mary and Dibaba don’t. Also Brigid Kosgei is only 23.
Naw. Those girls are half marathon specialists. They are not very good at 10k on the track, and don't have the stamina for the marathon.
See Tedese.
Scorpion_runner wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
The half marathon girls like Joyciline Jepkosgei and Peres Jepchirchir May be the ones to do it if Mary and Dibaba don’t. Also Brigid Kosgei is only 23.
Naw. Those girls are half marathon specialists. They are not very good at 10k on the track, and don't have the stamina for the marathon.
See Tedese.
except Tedese ran 26:37. hardly "not very good at 10k"
reed wrote:
Scorpion_runner wrote:
Naw. Those girls are half marathon specialists. They are not very good at 10k on the track, and don't have the stamina for the marathon.
See Tedese.
except Tedese ran 26:37. hardly "not very good at 10k"
typical lets run, not properly reading. I didn't say Tedese wasn't good at the 10000m. I just said to see Tedese, so you made something up.
I was referring to Tedese being a half marathon specialist only, which any logical person would have understood, because tedese sucks at the marathon.
I'm surprised it's taken as long as it has for the women to run faster than longtime No. 2 Ndereba. The way Keitany ran so fast in the first half of London 2017, she surely had the potential to run faster. Similarly, in the same race, the dry heaves also took some time away from Dibaba. Yet with very imperfect races, they became #2 and #3 to go sub-2:18. I'm sure if the women try it, someone can already go sub-2:17. Going sub-2:16 to challenge the world record will be tougher, due to lack of a pool of suitable pacers and a lack of critical mass of women who could potentially do it, entering the same race, unless it's a mixed race organized with male pacemakers. But nearly all women's marathon races are slow and tactical, with races featuring a blistering start like London 2017 and Boston 2014 by far the rare exception.
El Keniano wrote:
Thinks Paula Radcliffe's record will go soon.
Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Ryan Eiler, 3rd American man at Boston, almost out of nowhere
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
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