66:58 is beyond amazing. I said last year after her defeat in London when Mary is fit and runs any marathon first half slower then 1:10 she wont be beat. She is to marathon what Almaz Ayana is to 10000m simply unbeatable when fit and run smart, no woman can match their closes. How many men in the top 20 did Mary 2nd half close faster than?
Almaz Ayana vs Mary keitany in the half marathon: who wins?
VIPAM wrote:
66:58 is beyond amazing. I said last year after her defeat in London when Mary is fit and runs any marathon first half slower then 1:10 she wont be beat. She is to marathon what Almaz Ayana is to 10000m simply unbeatable when fit and run smart, no woman can match their closes. How many men in the top 20 did Mary 2nd half close faster than?
How many of them went out as slow as she did?
Lydiard Cerutty wrote:
Almaz Ayana vs Mary keitany in the half marathon: who wins?
That’s easy! Alma’s Ayana is a 67 min half marathoner. She wouldn’t be able to hang with Mary on a tempo run. Mary would obliterate her.
The better comparison would be Sifan Hassan, who was on pace to break the half marathon record. If Sifan is there with a mile to go, then she would take it.... but still Mary all day, chick Pr’d her half marathon time this year, and is the former World Record holder.
Ayana raced her debut marathon just to win and it went out much slower then Sifan who was comoeting against women after the WR. Ayana healthy and fit could run 1:04:45 if pacers took it out at WR pace, on a flat course, and good weather.
VIPAM wrote:
Ayana raced her debut HALF marathon just to win and it went out much slower then Sifan who was comoeting against women after the WR. Ayana healthy and fit could run 1:04:45 if pacers took it out at WR pace, on a flat course, and good weather.
A 67 second half marathon is faster than Parker Stinson has done ever!
Drainthefecesswamp wrote:
A 67 second half marathon is faster than Parker Stinson has done ever!
I would pay immeasurable amounts of money to see a 67 second half marathon
VIPAM wrote:
Ayana raced her debut marathon just to win and it went out much slower then Sifan who was comoeting against women after the WR. Ayana healthy and fit could run 1:04:45 if pacers took it out at WR pace, on a flat course, and good weather.
LOLOLOL
you probably said that with a straight face.
God lord. there is one thing to like an athlete, but to just make up stuff, come on man.
That girl would get smoked, not only by Mary, but by the insane half marathon women like Pres Jepchirchir and Jepkosgi ( WR holder)
I think you are infatuated with her to an insane level.
Wake me up when she runs in the 1:05s ..lol.
10000m is probably her best distance.
All I know is SIFAN IS A 1:05 HALF MARATHONER.
Samething posters like you said when Wang Junxia was the only sub 30 minute 10ker. I said Elvan A and Tirunesh would run a sub 30 min 10000m (when she ever had competed in one), poster said its too long, she have to much 1500m/5000m speed. Guess what a couple years later they were the very next two to crack the barrier.
VIPAM wrote:
VIPAM wrote:
Ayana raced her debut HALF marathon just to win and it went out much slower then Sifan who was comoeting against women after the WR. Ayana healthy and fit could run 1:04:45 if pacers took it out at WR pace, on a flat course, and good weather.
No need to engage in Ayana discussions with Scorpion. He seems to have a pathological Ayana hate, and if you mention her in a thread he will be there in a matter of minutes to write some ultra-biased drivel.
I knew from the moment I saw you mention Ayana, that he would be a few posts down in the thread..
Thanks now I know about him
How many of them went out as slow as she did?[/quote]
Thats not important name race in which a women have closed faster then 60% of the top 20 men? Mary closed faster 12 of the men in the top 20 and only 2nd fastest American ran a faster second half, so yeah ran faster than top American Jared Ward for 2nd half marathon and two guys in the top 10!!!!
Mary completed one of the greatesr marathon performances ever!
14.
1 - number of American men that ran the second half of the 2018 New York City Marathon faster than women's winner Mary Keitany. After a 66:04 first half, Scott Fauble came home in 66:24 to grab 7th.
6 - number of men that ran the second half of the 2018 New York City Marathon faster than women's winner Mary Keitany (the top 5 finishers plus Fauble).
FrenchDawg wrote:
Drainthefecesswamp wrote:
A 67 second half marathon is faster than Parker Stinson has done ever!
I would pay immeasurable amounts of money to see a 67 second half marathon
Head to Cape Canaveral for the next launch
Thanks Rojo I must of miscalculated two. Have you or any since a stat like that where 70% ELITE world class men run an entire 2nd half of a race slower then a female in anything from 800m to a maeathon EVER? Not even in Predestrain championship tactial races or suicidal 1st half have I MYSELF seen a woman accomplish a faster half then 70% of the elite men.
Wondering if anyome know of one?
Like Rojo, I ran the numbers. Pretty crazy stuff. Shalane also closed faster than Lagat.
Even more impressive, she was running solo while many of the guys were running in groups or chasing someone
Also impressive, Tim Ritchie even split his race.
Just forget about it... wrote:
VIPAM wrote:
No need to engage in Ayana discussions with Scorpion. He seems to have a pathological Ayana hate, and if you mention her in a thread he will be there in a matter of minutes to write some ultra-biased drivel.
I knew from the moment I saw you mention Ayana, that he would be a few posts down in the thread..
Ha, ha - me too!
However, despite being a huge fan of Ayanas running style and race execution I’ll hedge my bets regarding her half marathon potential until she’s back on the running scene.
As I write this she is back in Switzerland getting a post operative follow up and progression report from her knee surgery. I’m guessing her entire running future is dependent on her recovery and any biomechanical alterations she will make to offset further injury.
But I have little doubt she can run at least two minutes faster than her first outing in Delhi.