2018 Chicago Marathon Tracking, Splits and Results
October 06, 2018
curtesy wrote:
Rlo97 wrote:
What were you expecting them to do? Wave and say hi to a random stranger?
Yes. Its called common curtesy.
cur·te·sy
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noun LAW historical
a tenure by which a husband, after his wife's death, held certain kinds of property that she had inherited.
curt
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adjective
rudely brief.
Actually, that second one holds up.
Jimmy21 wrote:
Ill predict 2:31
Random..... gwen, infeld and Flanagan passed me on my run, yesteday. Infeld seemed very friendly. Gwen and shalane completely ignored me.
Newsflash: No one owes you a response.
LetsRun.com wrote:
Jorgensen ran 2:41:01 in her debut in New York in 2016, but she ran that off of two months of limited training following her Olympic triathlon gold medal. She says Chicago is her "first real marathon."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/08/american-field-announced-2018-chicago-marathon-gwen-jorgensen-leads-additions/Thoughts? What time will she run?
My prediction is in the 2:25 - 2:26 range. Assuming she does not get injured, I think she will drop further down from there, with each race. She was a rare talent in the Triathlon, no reason to believe she can't translate this to the marathon. She's tall, skinny and fit. And she's already a gold medalist, which counts for something. She may however may not have the time to accomplish this goal by the 2020 trials. Time's a running out........... too bad the Games aren't in 2021 or 2022. But thats life. It will be interesting to watch her progression.
Answering wrote:
DNS or DNF
Agree
OLD SMTC SOB wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:
Jorgensen ran 2:41:01 in her debut in New York in 2016, but she ran that off of two months of limited training following her Olympic triathlon gold medal. She says Chicago is her "first real marathon."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/08/american-field-announced-2018-chicago-marathon-gwen-jorgensen-leads-additions/Thoughts? What time will she run?
My prediction is in the 2:25 - 2:26 range. Assuming she does not get injured, I think she will drop further down from there, with each race. She was a rare talent in the Triathlon, no reason to believe she can't translate this to the marathon. She's tall, skinny and fit. And she's already a gold medalist, which counts for something. She may however may not have the time to accomplish this goal by the 2020 trials. Time's a running out........... too bad the Games aren't in 2021 or 2022. But thats life. It will be interesting to watch her progression.
She has lots of miles on her body with tri-training. Swimming and biking saved the legs a little but the over all wear and tear. She is not young.
Sub 2: 30 for sure. She will not run low 2:20's. If the race is slower she will have a shot at any marathon top placing because she does know how to race at the highest level.
I like the way you think! I'm with you 100%.
running commenter wrote:
I post a ton on Gwen Jorgensen threads and I don't even really know why. I have this need to defend her. She's probably going to run 2:28. She'll get annihilated on the boards, but it would be a huge improvement from her previous PR. You guys act like it's easy for her to hike her miles up from like 45-90 without any sort of hiccups or even tired legs. While she comes from an endurance background, running features a certain pounding on the legs unlike any other sport. She's human like the rest of us. In fact, to this date I don't think she's run much over 85-90 miles a week. Obviously I'm not there every day but that is what I've most recently heard. She wants to get up to handle what Shalane can handle eventually and she'll need to to compete with the world's best. She has two years to adjust to the training. This stuff doesn't happen overnight.
Oh and she was better at the 5k stuff previously because she was fresher then and doing much less mileage. It's pretty typical for this to happen.
2:30 on an 85 degree day. Realizes she won't win an Olympic Medal in the marathon, or even make the US team.
She is smart and well-coached. Additionally, she will have a good estimate of what she can run based upon workouts and training partners. Assuming decent weather and good pacing, I'd say 2:27-2:28. I'm sure they aren't foolish enough to get pulled out on low 2:20 pace. Though I could see starting at 2:25 pace and fading a little to 2:29-2:30.
My time prediction is 2:24:59 & I think she will be 1st American Woman. The 7:30 Wave 1 Start will help with the temps. Last year it was 54 degrees at the start and 63 degrees around 10. Although if it's sunny 21m to 24m is pretty miserable with no big buildings to protect you at that point.
2:41? This qualifies as exciting news? She ran it off of 2 month training? Like she wasn't in good shape from all the triathlon training? She'll be kicking ass and taking names when she comes in at 2:32. What a joke!
Dano wrote:
2:41? This qualifies as exciting news? She ran it off of 2 month training? Like she wasn't in good shape from all the triathlon training? She'll be kicking ass and taking names when she comes in at 2:32. What a joke!
Am I going to find you making intentionally inflammatory comments at the end of every thread today, kiddo?