And on a record eligible course.
And on a record eligible course.
Freaking awesome. Look at their HM split -- all in a pack at 2:10:50 pace. Great discipline.
Look up NYC ‘82
American men were once men.
Not even close wrote:
Look up NYC ‘82
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That's not true.
Not even close wrote:
Look up NYC ‘82
American men were once men.
I believe you are wrong about NYC 1982.
You did cause me to look up Boston 1983 (which I knew was deep) and saw that 9 American men and one Canadian broke 2:12 -- was that a tailwind year?
Two other points. Why wasn't there a camera available for this pack or, at a minimum, why couldn't they have cut to the finish line cameras for two minutes or so which would have shown Farah's finish followed by the Americans? This would have still given time to cut back to Kosgei.
Ackley wrote:
Not even close wrote:
Look up NYC ‘82
American men were once men.
I believe you are wrong about NYC 1982.
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I know he was wrong. You don't get extra credit for running into a strong headwind.
Yes, 1983 Boston had a tailwind. 1983 NYC had a decent tailwind as well. Extremely deep 50 places.
Only 9 runners had run under 2:12 for the entire 2016 OT qualifying window. Great depth today with lots of guys running under the OT standard too.
Looking at the trials qualifiers list, after today there will be a total of 16 men under 2:12 and 43 men under 2:14. This is compared to the final 2016 qualifiers list which had 10 under 2:12 and 22 under 2:14. I'm really looking forward to Atlanta.
*correction*
9 under 2:12 for 2016. Counting is hard. Though if you include Rupp it is 10.
Boston 1983