Great articles on Letrsun recently about Jim Walmsley. So let's start predicting his time at the OT marathon. My prediction
7th place in 2:12:00
In the past year, his qualifying half of 1:04 translates to 2:12:19. I think his absolute max ceiling is 2:08:20. That was his pace through 40k in this half marathon before he sped up 10 sec over the final 1.1k to hit the 1:04 standard. That would be incredible if he was able to maintain the pace before he sprinted in the half to the full marathon.
His PRs of
13:52 in 5k = 2:14:23
29:09 in 10k = 2:15:16
So I would have liked to see a bit faster of a 10k if he was really the slow twitch type why is his NCAA 10k worse than his 5k?