Official 2019 Boston Marathon Live Discussion Thread

Perspectivz wrote:

Scorpion_runner wrote:

Jordan needs a speech coach. It’s so unnatural and Saturday night live’ish.

As soon as she starts talking, you want her to stop.

You ever been interviewed right after 26.2?

She always sounds like that. I love the girl, but it’s so unnatural compared to desi, shalalne, craggy and Molly.

ooper wrote:

That finish deserves a front page.

The only thing missing was Desisa throwing his hat off in anger down the stretch

Fantastic run by Fauble! Inspiring.

He is my now my second favorite marathoner after Rupp.

Socialmediaperson wrote:

zoomzoomzoom wrote:

who handed Sara Hall a piano this race?

maybe she is not back 100%

She posted advise yesterday about not holding anything back. Well, Boston doesn't work that way. She will learn...

She has gotten really cocky since her fast run in Tokyo. It s kind of turning me off.

That’s two crap marathon races in a row from her. She needs to scale back the mentality and get back to her composed ways.

:'( wrote:

Feel so bad for Desisa. Guy looked absolutely terrible but was running on all grit in that last stretch. He loves Boston and clearly wanted to get the win in front of a crowd that loves him back. A lot of times that raw emotion and truly "going to the well" seems lost in professional distance running, but Desisa brought that today. Seeing him absolutely crushed after the finish reminds me of my high schoolers. Just hope he doesn't beat himself up too much about it. Hats off to him for one of the best finishes in Boston history.

Cherono suffered just as much at the end. Some runners are just very good to mask the pain that's internally going on, whereas others are pretty obvious about it.

1 hour ago everyone here said "Kirui is the only one that looks good" - he looked the freshest back then, but was hurting very much inside and couldn't even hang on when the top 3 made their push. He got dropped like a fly, despite being great to mask his pain and looking relaxed.

:'( wrote:

Feel so bad for Desisa. Guy looked absolutely terrible but was running on all grit in that last stretch. He loves Boston and clearly wanted to get the win in front of a crowd that loves him back. A lot of times that raw emotion and truly "going to the well" seems lost in professional distance running, but Desisa brought that today. Seeing him absolutely crushed after the finish reminds me of my high schoolers. Just hope he doesn't beat himself up too much about it. Hats off to him for one of the best finishes in Boston history.

Desisa no doubt a great athlete and very consistent. He has won Boston 2 times and to come so close to winning a third crown can be very frustrating. I don't blame him for thinking he had it in the bag. Cherono normally winds things early but the fact that Desisa was still on his back that late in the race gave Desisa abelieve he would win. But then again Cherono is a 2:03 marathoner right now. Congrats to Cherono and hats off to Desisa.

Bottom line!

AmericNs showed up!

Men and women.

I’m out. Until London, you guys stay smooth.

deathinparadise wrote:

I'll bet a buck on Cherono !

Good call !

Fauble is a Hoka sponsored athlete. Ward is Saucony.

"Maybe this is an artifact of the shoes (assuming they were wearing the 4s), but in any case no one else in this country other than Rupp was doing anything with the cheater shoes, so huge props to them. "

Lost in the trails wrote:

Jordan ran a disiplined race, while Desi was wildly surging before getting dropped. Great comeback race for Jordan after being held out for months by stress fractures.

"Wildly surging" Admittedly the coverage was spotty, but I didn't see a shred of evidence that she was wilding.

How about more footage of the rest of the finishers and less focus on the commentators.

congratulations to scott fauble. 2:09 in boston is just excellent for a runner with a pb in the halfmarathon of 63 mins, according to his website. i like his training log, consistent about 90 miles, doubles all the way. nice.

great job, scott! wrote:

congratulations to scott fauble. 2:09 in boston is just excellent for a runner with a pb in the halfmarathon of 63 mins, according to his website. i like his training log, consistent about 90 miles, doubles all the way. nice.

Link to his training log?

How good could Desisa be if he actually takes care of swaying his shoulders? Seems like he waste a lot of energ that way, and doing that over 26.2 miles really add up.

Did Desisa intentionally try to get in front of Cherono at the end? If that wasn’t enough, it looks like he also threw out his arm to block Cherono? Seems a little unsportsmanlike conduct.

My friend said Ritz was going to be the top American and Fauble was going to run like a$$ LMAO

Scorpion_runner wrote:

Jordan needs a speech coach. It’s so unnatural and Saturday night live’ish.

As soon as she starts talking, you want her to stop.

Really??? Are you gay or something? (Not that there's anything wrong with that). How about her hair? No comment there? You pissed she cut 7 inches off? Are her teeth too white for you? Too big? Too small?

One One wrote:

Fauble is a Hoka sponsored athlete. Ward is Saucony.

"Maybe this is an artifact of the shoes (assuming they were wearing the 4s), but in any case no one else in this country other than Rupp was doing anything with the cheater shoes, so huge props to them. "

Wearing (any) shoes is cheating.

Shout out for Kate Landau. She was 13th overall and top 5 American. And she is either 41 or 42.

So what was the official wind conditions?Need confirmation before celebrating Fauble and Ward.