Crazy result. He was even fast through the half at 1:10. Can't seem to find any more results on this kid besides some pretty average high school times in Idaho. Anyone know more?
Crazy result. He was even fast through the half at 1:10. Can't seem to find any more results on this kid besides some pretty average high school times in Idaho. Anyone know more?
rgm wrote:
https://www.athlinks.com/event/5179/results/Event/636354/ResultsCrazy result. He was even fast through the half at 1:10. Can't seem to find any more results on this kid besides some pretty average high school times in Idaho. Anyone know more?
Was the course accurate? Apparently he ran 2:30/mile from 15-20.
moist wrote:
rgm wrote:
https://www.athlinks.com/event/5179/results/Event/636354/ResultsCrazy result. He was even fast through the half at 1:10. Can't seem to find any more results on this kid besides some pretty average high school times in Idaho. Anyone know more?
Was the course accurate? Apparently he ran 2:30/mile from 15-20.
Step aside Eliud lol
That's odd. He's clearly very fast - his splits through 15 miles were sensational and very even. He was leading the race by the half and yet...
...if you look at the course it would be very easy to step across at a number of points from 16.5 miles onwards and cut some mileage.
Presumably there was a bike with him? I'd love to believe there was a chip malfunction but he didn't have any slow splits later on that could "balance it out"
Apologies, I think those paces are cumulative which actually makes a chip malfunction more likely / believable.
Here's the winner.
http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2018/04/2018_new_jersey_marathon_recap_photos_results.html
A couple more observations:
- there does look to be a bike behind him that would presumably have seen any course cutting
- his shoes look completely busted and heavy for racing (I guess to complement the rest of the outfit)
- the course is legit, it's flat and can be fast but has a lot of turns and can be windy
From some quick googling:
Among Idaho's top high school cross-country runners a few years ago.
Excellent high school student (valedictorian, high standardized test scores).
Princeton University senior ('18), majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Runs for Princeton Running Club, with some 8k cross-country times around 26 minutes.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1npbCDQbusjFovszJhJ8o_FcXjLNv4R8O5TSDN4RIbXQ/edit#gid=10
I didn't notice any NCAA results, but I didn't look very hard.
Good to see a serious college student running well outside the NCAA system. Congratulations.
Bath salts?
looks like second place ran 4:53 pace from 15-20 too... course length? lead biker make a wrong turn?
whoops looks like they just put the timing mat at the wrong spot
it's on strava https://www.strava.com/activities/1539339717
"Leif Fredericks, of Garden City, Idaho, managed to finish his first ever 26 mile marathon with a time of 2:23:56".
Are you serious here with this quote. The writer of this article clearly knows nothing about running. A marathon is 26.2 miles. All marathons are 26.2 miles, an ultra marathon is over 26.2 miles and a half marathon is 13.1. Congrats on the runner but come on with this crap reporting. Writing "managed to finish his first ever 26 mile marathon" is first of all a lie because a marathon is 26.2 miles and it leads the reader to believe that there are marathons that are not 26 miles.
We need better representation of our sport.
And yes, before you ask. I am mad bro!
Where’s his bib? I say we get Derrik involved
x2. Female winner (who is 100% legit), shows cumulative pacing of 5:56-5:58 until the 20 mile marker when it drops to 5:10. Marker was in the wrong spot.
Which brings us back to 2:23 for a 22 year old debutante. What a great run. Surely he has to be thinking about an OTQ.
I am sure they placed the 20 mile mat at wrong place. This was with everyone that I followed. The course is accurate.
looks like he hit the wall but not catastrophically at 20. pretty impressive.
Go NIRCA
Mad Bro wrote:
"Leif Fredericks, of Garden City, Idaho, managed to finish his first ever 26 mile marathon with a time of 2:23:56".
Are you serious here with this quote. The writer of this article clearly knows nothing about running. A marathon is 26.2 miles. All marathons are 26.2 miles, an ultra marathon is over 26.2 miles and a half marathon is 13.1. Congrats on the runner but come on with this crap reporting. Writing "managed to finish his first ever 26 mile marathon" is first of all a lie because a marathon is 26.2 miles and it leads the reader to believe that there are marathons that are not 26 miles.
We need better representation of our sport.
And yes, before you ask. I am mad bro!
FYI pretty much every article written about every subject is just as bad if you actually have knowledge of the subject. Science articles are terrible and often don't even match up with the basic details of the abstract for the scientific study they are reporting on, health articles often completely contradict what established medical science says about physiology, fluff articles on local charity events often misspell names and report numbers incorrectly. Journalists are generally really bad at their jobs across the board.
Even if you took 10 front page articles from the NYT website (which is supposed to be one of the dream jobs for a journalist) I guarantee you that at least 6 of them would either have clear factual errors that could be found with a half hour or research on the subject OR be about something completely impossible to verify ("anonymous source familiar with the senators thinking say....") that will never actually pan out with evidence to match the story.
Oh my god, his heart rate was in the 180s almost the entire time. I can't sustain 180 for more than about 30 seconds.
... and seemingly number-less at the finish line. Bandit? Even if not he would have been yanked from the course in London.
Should this have been a disqualification? I'm sure we could all run 2:23 without the race number weighing us down.