Cam Levins SMASHES 43 year-old Canadian record with a 2:09:25 !!!

Eric Houle at SUU coached Levins to a better marathon than Salazar could.

Gary Lough coached Levins to a better marathon than Salazar could.

I am noticing a pattern.

This thread has Cam's time, which is what I wanted anyway.

Fixed it wrote:

The "Cam Levins is the next Toshihiko Seko" thread was started 10 freaking months ago and is obviously not about the Canadian record falling. Duh.

[/quote]

What is that other idiot saying about "two threads"?

This is the only thread and the king thread! Maybe that guy is a disgruntled Nike exec?

Go Levins!

Pacing of Levins:

15:32 (3:06/km)

30:43 (3:02/km - 15:11)

45:54 (3:02/km - 15:11)

64:31 (3:03/km pace, ~15:14)

76:41 (3:07/km pace, ~15:33 to total 30:47 between 15 and 25)

1:32:19 (3:07/km pace - 15:38)

1:47:18 (3:00/km -14:59)

2:02:32 (3:03/km - 15:15)

2:09:23 (3:06/km)

Very even throughout this morning

And Hardloper shows once again he knows nothing about running.

Just go home devastated, Ed, will you?

another bad decision by NIKE wrote:

This morning, in the biggest marathon in Canada, in the biggest city and media capital of the country, Levins beat the 2:10:09 record, which has stood since 1975.

He will be the front page of every sports section tomorrow morning, and every sports show for the text two days.

In HOKA hat, HOKA shirt, HOKA armbands, HOKA half-tights, and HOKA shoes.

Disloyal Nike loses another one.

Also, he seems to have done better with his new coach (himself?) than under Salazar, who did nothing but get him injured.

Canadian media are lazy . I'm in the media. We are using stock photos with him in National team kit , ( Nike ) .

the secret is for the athlete to leave wrote:

Eric Houle at SUU coached Levins to a better marathon than Salazar could.

Gary Lough coached Levins to a better marathon than Salazar could.

I am noticing a pattern.

you mean gary lough coached farah

another bad decision by NIKE wrote:

...

Also, he seems to have done better with his new coach (himself?) than under Salazar, who did nothing but get him injured.

While watching the stream, they were saying he has gone back to training with his old coach as that had worked for years before he made a switch right after college. Levins was still improving right before he initially went to Salazar's group, why not go back to the coach that actually got him to the world stage? Can anyone else verify if he has gone back to his old coach?

He is back training under Coach Houle. He did a several week altitude block in Cedar just before the marathon. A couple of his recent runs are posted on Stava.

Big loss for Nike is HOKA's big gain.

Levins ran faster in his debut than Rupp ran in his first 3 marathons. Ouch!

onthelongrun wrote:

Pacing of Levins:

15:32 (3:06/km)

30:43 (3:02/km - 15:11)

45:54 (3:02/km - 15:11)

64:31 (3:03/km pace, ~15:14)

76:41 (3:07/km pace, ~15:33 to total 30:47 between 15 and 25)

1:32:19 (3:07/km pace - 15:38)

1:47:18 (3:00/km -14:59)

2:02:32 (3:03/km - 15:15)

2:09:23 (3:06/km)

Very even throughout this morning

Someone fax this to Parker Stinson to let him know how you are supposed to pace yourself in a marathon.

Levins got robbed. Canadians are cheap. Shitara got 900,000k for breaking a record from 2002. Cam breaks a record from 1975 and gets a lousy 32,000 USD.

cheapskate Canadians wrote:

Levins got robbed. Canadians are cheap. Shitara got 900,000k for breaking a record from 2002. Cam breaks a record from 1975 and gets a lousy 32,000 USD.

The marathon is a much bigger deal in Japan, especially two years before the Olympics.

Also, if the payoff was 900K the record would likely have been harder than 2:10

What did Coolsaet run? Did he go home "devasted"?

YMMV wrote:

cheapskate Canadians wrote:

Levins got robbed. Canadians are cheap. Shitara got 900,000k for breaking a record from 2002. Cam breaks a record from 1975 and gets a lousy 32,000 USD.

The marathon is a much bigger deal in Japan, especially two years before the Olympics.

Also, if the payoff was 900K the record would likely have been harder than 2:10

What did Coolsaet run? Did he go home "devasted"?

2:17. I would say that he's slamming down a devastation burger right about now.

alsal wrote:

the secret is for the athlete to leave wrote:

Eric Houle at SUU coached Levins to a better marathon than Salazar could.

Gary Lough coached Levins to a better marathon than Salazar could.

I am noticing a pattern.

you mean gary lough coached farah

Correct.

Eric Houle at SUU coached Levins to a better marathon than Salazar could.

Gary Lough coached Farah to a better marathon than Salazar could.

Wait, really? The record was only Drayton’s 2:10 low? I thought it was better. 2:09:xx is obviously good, but, I mean...he was 4th today behind a trio of nobodies. Great comeback for Cam Levins, but not a world class performance.

Ezekiel bread wrote:

onthelongrun wrote:

Pacing of Levins:

15:32 (3:06/km)

30:43 (3:02/km - 15:11)

45:54 (3:02/km - 15:11)

64:31 (3:03/km pace, ~15:14)

76:41 (3:07/km pace, ~15:33 to total 30:47 between 15 and 25)

1:32:19 (3:07/km pace - 15:38)

1:47:18 (3:00/km -14:59)

2:02:32 (3:03/km - 15:15)

2:09:23 (3:06/km)

Very even throughout this morning

Someone fax this to Parker Stinson to let him know how you are supposed to pace yourself in a marathon.

Haha. The funny thing is there was a 2:06 group and Levins was smart to know he needed his own 2:08-2:09 pacing, just a minute slower to the half but a huge difference in the marathon.

Meanwhile Stinson is running 2:05 pace for the first half and finishing at 2:12+ because "I don't do negative splits" or whatever. LOL.

Canadoh wrote:

Wait, really? The record was only Drayton’s 2:10 low? I thought it was better. 2:09:xx is obviously good, but, I mean...he was 4th today behind a trio of nobodies. Great comeback for Cam Levins, but not a world class performance.

Yet somehow no American other than Rupp can break 2:12 right now.

It isn't a talent thing, because it is not just Africans doing it. You have Rupp, Levins, Moen, Robertson twins, several Japanese all well under 2:10. Frustrating for American fans.

is Stinson sponsored by Nike? wrote:

Ezekiel bread wrote:

Someone fax this to Parker Stinson to let him know how you are supposed to pace yourself in a marathon.

Haha. The funny thing is there was a 2:06 group and Levins was smart to know he needed his own 2:08-2:09 pacing, just a minute slower to the half but a huge difference in the marathon.

Meanwhile Stinson is running 2:05 pace for the first half and finishing at 2:12+ because "I don't do negative splits" or whatever. LOL.

Is 1:05:12 2:06 pace? Look at his splits brother. He went out in the first 5k pretty quick but his first half was pretty reasonable. In contrast though Cam's first 5k was his second slowest of the race and he only split one really fast 5k.