Women’s leaders down to 7 at 15k, dropped Mimi belete among others
Women’s leaders down to 7 at 15k, dropped Mimi belete among others
Pretty ridiculous that the lead women have to run in these giant packs of men at a World Marathon Major. At least the letters are red on their bib to help them stand out a bit on the camera.
ZidaneValor wrote:
rojo wrote:180 degree turn just before halfway.
There was a lot of stutter stepping and at least one slip at the turn. Some guys were cruising around it though.
Continues to blow my mind that runners don't take those 180 turns wide rather than stutter step right against the barrier.
So just after haflway and al three japanese men get dropped. Lead pack is now 2 pacers and 3 Africans.
Then Sato.
Then a gap to Nakamura and Osako.
46 men minus 4 or 5 pacers are under 2:10 pace at the half
Noooo osako getting dropped?!?
69:44 at the half for a group of 7 women!
Dicksom Chumba, Karoki and Birhanu Legese are the three Africans in the lead pack.
Two debutants, Mao Ichiyama and Joan Chelimo Melly are together in 70:29, 45 seconds behind the lead pack of 7
juddy96 wrote:
46 men minus 4 or 5 pacers are under 2:10 pace at the half
Has any marathon ever had top 28-30 under 2.10?
Not sure, last years Tokyo had 14 men sub 2:10 (and one man 2:10 bang on)
What is going on on the Olympic channel? They are 8 minutes back?
Karoki/Chumba/Legese at 73:29 at 25k, Sato/Kariuki/Tura at 73:50
This is going to get ugly for all those guys that went out with the lead pack.
rojo wrote:
What is going on on the Olympic channel? They are 8 minutes back?
I got 7:09 right now, but yeah. They were 3:53 back, then down to 3:39, then I looked away and they were 5:51 back after a commerical.
Every time they hit a commercial break they fall further and further behind for some reason. It's like they want to show the whole race, but they have to go to commercial breaks.
OK it's now 6 C - 42.8 F.
69.7% humidity.
rojo wrote:
OK it's now 6 C - 42.8 F.
69.7% humidity.
Can you give us the splits? Where were they at half?
This guy Yuki Sato has run 7 marathons according to Tilastopaja (but it lists Tokyo twice in 2015, one on the 21st in 2:52 and one the next day in 2:14).
Still, last year he finally broke 2:10 for the first time. Did it twice.
He ran 2:08:58 in Tokyo and then 2:09:18 in Berlin.
Here are his career marathons
2013
Outdoor
2:16:31 30 Tokyo 24 Feb
2015
Outdoor
2:52:20 36 Tokyo 21 Feb
2:14:15 20 Tokyo 22 Feb
2:12:32 14 BMW Berlin 27 Sep
2016
Outdoor
2:12:14 11 Virgin Money London 24 Apr
2017
Outdoor
DNF Tokyo 26 Feb
2018
Outdoor
2:08:58 10 Tokyo 25 Feb
2:09:18 6 BMW Berlin 16 Sep
Osako looks as blown up as I usually do after three miles. And he's still got an hour to go.
Somebody tell the announcer that 1:09:45 is not 2:18:30 pace it is 2:19:30 pace.
Come on, math is not at hard.