Mary Keitany to use MALE pacemakers at London Marathon! Down goes WR?!

Tirunesh will beat her and run 2:15 high.

I hate the pacers. Mary can run 2:25-2:27 in a real race as she's shown each of the last two falls. Time trials are far less interesting.

HHH Runner wrote:

Fantastic news if you ask me, although sadly I'll miss out on the bitter commentary from Paula on the BBC as I'll be out on course cheering my club mates on.

Or her barely disguised glee if Mary misses it?

More likely... wrote:

HHH Runner wrote:

Fantastic news if you ask me, although sadly I'll miss out on the bitter commentary from Paula on the BBC as I'll be out on course cheering my club mates on.

Or her barely disguised glee if Mary misses it?

The smugness will be insufferable if she misses it.

Weldon pacing this one as well?

cut out the cra*p herne hill and show pr some respect

Runneer33 wrote:

Tirunesh will beat her and run 2:15 high.

This sounds possible. Idt either will break the world record, but I’ll go Dibaba ftw.

My prediction is that she won't break it. She's probably capable of breaking it, but it's an outstanding record and I think she'll fall short. I'm guessing 2:17:xx.

HHH Runner wrote:

Fantastic news if you ask me, although sadly I'll miss out on the bitter commentary from Paula on the BBC as I'll be out on course cheering my club mates on.

I think it's great that she's attempting to hold both 'mixed race' and 'women's only' WR's. And that's a Brit.

With proper pacing, even splits, what do we think she'll run? 2:14:45?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/42818388

THE WEATHER IS THE KEY, YES...IT REALLY IS.

pacers.. wrote:

I hate the pacers . . . . Time trials are far less interesting.

I agree.

By the way, isn't IAAF going to wipe Paula's male-assisted record off the books anyway? (I think that IAAF is wrong to erase all records before whatever date has been chosen, but this particular record was, in my view, arranged for and set under questionable circumstances and justified by a certain amount of revisionist history, so I see a certain symmetry in IAAF's decision to rewrite Paula's record out of existence, regardless of whether Keitany or any other woman runs a faster time with male pacers.)

Whatever happens, this record - as well as Radcliffe's - are doped to the dorsals. Totally fraudulent.

Clean world record is Mizuki Noguchi's 2:19:12.

Phantasy Star wrote:

Whatever happens, this record - as well as Radcliffe's - are doped to the dorsals. Totally fraudulent.

Clean world record is Mizuki Noguchi's 2:19:12.

Mizuki = doped

Good luck!!!

Dopey dopey dope dope wrote:

Phantasy Star wrote:

Whatever happens, this record - as well as Radcliffe's - are doped to the dorsals. Totally fraudulent.

Clean world record is Mizuki Noguchi's 2:19:12.

Mizuki = doped

Did somebody say Fancy Bears?

I like it! Nothing wrong with chicks and dudes running together.

Runneer33 wrote:

Tirunesh will beat her and run 2:15 high.

No chance in hell. Her cadence is not as fast. Mary smoked her last year in the Rak half marathon and in london. I'm a huge Dibaba fan, but mary goes out early and hard, and that is just too much for Dibaba at this point.

At that rak half marathon last year, Dibaba got dropped at the 8th mile. The pace was just too deadly for her. Maybe later on down the road when mary is gone Dibaba will be able to get faster, but mary's low center of gravity and high cadence is just too insane.

Only person that can beat mary is mary, and of course father time. I have yet to see dibaba get anywhere near mary in time.

I will say this, though. this will probably be mary's last year of dominance. She just turned 36, but I don't think the wheels will turn the same at 37. I mean Edna is still going strong at 37,but it's not a dominant strong .

She's going to break it. Her, Helen Obiri, Faith Kipyegon and Vivian have a mentality that is harder than steel. Determined, dedicated, fast, powerful, and relentless in effort.

She will attack early as usually to get rid of the other elite runners, and then settle in her goal paces to break the record.

This is her last shot, because she never runs berlin. New York pays her more than any other runner to run their marathon.

HHH Runner wrote:

Weldon pacing this one as well?

Legit LOL!!!

Scorpion_runner wrote:

She's going to break it. Her, Helen Obiri, Faith Kipyegon and Vivian have a mentality that is harder than steel. Determined, dedicated, fast, powerful, and relentless in effort.

She will attack early as usually to get rid of the other elite runners, and then settle in her goal paces to break the record.

This is her last shot, because she never runs berlin. New York pays her more than any other runner to run their marathon.

Don't forget Almaz Ayana in your list.

Anyways, I think Mary K. could have broken the record a couple times already if she had male pacemakers in the past. Very few women can keep that kind of pace for even a half marathon.

Ayana is not strong enough ot me, which is why she was not able to pull of the double like Vivian and Tirunesh. She is a one trick pony to me, and her trick works at 10000m, but at 5000m obiri destroyed her twice and vivian destroyed her.

I don't think Ayana has the ability to close the show. She can go out fast, but her lack of overall speed, and her ability to maintain are still huge question marks to me.

And she aint seeing any of the insanely fast female half marathon runners. Pres, Jocelyn, Caroline would make her bleed out of her mind at half marathon.

We shall see.