broken arrow wrote:
Very nice story, I am happy for this guy, great race. I think in the future Boston should let any runner with a time under 2:30 start with the elites, there will still be relatively few runners there and will allow runners who have run in the low to mid 220s a chance to make a jump to the next level.
It is even more impressive that he ran 2:18 without a group to run with the last 11 miles or so.
Alternate Reality wrote:
So, what would have happened if Steven's actual time was FASTER than Cherono's time, but, given that he started 2 minutes behind, crossed the line after Cherono?
vertical j wrote:
Alternate Reality wrote:
So, what would have happened if Steven's actual time was FASTER than Cherono's time, but, given that he started 2 minutes behind, crossed the line after Cherono?
95 % of you would have assumed he is on PEDs or pulled a Rosie Ruiz.
broken arrow wrote:
Very nice story, I am happy for this guy, great race. I think in the future Boston should let any runner with a time under 2:30 start with the elites, there will still be relatively few runners there and will allow runners who have run in the low to mid 220s a chance to make a jump to the next level.
It is even more impressive that he ran 2:18 without a group to run with the last 11 miles or so.
Creighton coach. wrote:
Honestly. He sounds like an entitled jerk.
Enjoy your 15 mins dude. No one will know who you are next year.
LateRunnerPhil wrote:
Creighton coach. wrote:
Honestly. He sounds like an entitled jerk.
Enjoy your 15 mins dude. No one will know who you are next year.
This. Mediocre in college (article says 39th or so as his best), now posts a solid (but not elite) time with Vaporfly's and thinks he is the big deal.
Also he is lucky that he works in Colorado Springs, one of the best training locations in the US. Super high mileage guy (all his runs are on Strava for the past 6 years or so), so he is probably pretty close to his genetic limits by now, I doubt he will even break 2:14.
p.n. wrote:
fewer
Cherono beat fewer than 70 men to win the Boston Marathon.
And you write for a living? Sheesh.
Creighton coach. wrote:
Honestly. He sounds like an entitled jerk.
Get over it wrote:
I don’t understand why he needs articles written about him or it written he was then “open” winner.. what about the first non-elite female?
LoneStarXC wrote:
You should also write an article about the winner of the women’s open race. Why did you just talk about the male winner?
Not An Expert wrote:
LoneStarXC wrote:
You should also write an article about the winner of the women’s open race. Why did you just talk about the male winner?
+1. That this article was written this year—the first time we had a men’s “open” winner who wasn’t in the elite start—and wasn’t written about the women’s open winner not only this year but also in numerous past years (last year’s monsoon notwithstanding) highlights exactly the sort of implicit bias that makes it necessary for the BAA to both have the women’s elite start separate from the men’s and also the men’s elite start be separate from the wave 1 corral 1 start. The women deserve the same attention as the men, but we all-too-frequently only notice when we’re not giving them deserved attention when a man is put in the same position (and sometimes not even then).
NotThatHardToUnderstand wrote:
The BAA made a bad decision so LetsRun reached out and interviewed someone negatively affected by that decision. You're welcome to ignore it if you don't care.
