Olympic Marathon trials....Props to 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th.

Martin is training while in medical school.

Jonas was nothing in college. But from what I’ve read has simply trained hard and continues to improve.

The other two, no idea. But kudos to these four for sure.

Colin Bennie ran at Syracuse with Marty Hehir and he now runs for Reebok Boston. CJ Albertson was a 13:50 guy at ASU

would like to know when they race again, would like to follow their process.

This was Colin Bennie's first marathon. He qualified with something like a 62:40 half marathon 13+ months ago last year at Houston, in his first half marathon.

I think he was supposed to run New York marathon this fall but had an injury?

Very good run this past weekend for his first marathon. I think he's only about 24 years old, so he could definitely be a sub 2:10 guy in the next few years.

In college he had respectable times, but was never a top title contending guy. Something like 13:50 range for 5k and 28:40 range for 10k in college. A 28:40 guy two decades ago would have been a much bigger deal, but this decade they're becoming very common. I think we're about to have an 'explosion' of marathon talent in the U.S. Maybe not any 2:04/2:05 guys to compete with the top in the world, but I think we could have a lot of 2:07-2:09 guys. We've only had about 20 sub 2:10 guys in the history of the U.S.

thanks, btw....as I was following the leaders on the web, these guys didn't even have photos. You would think everyone would have a complete profile.

Indeed. Hats off especially to Clayton Albertson. He did an insane workout a couple of weeks ago (27 miles at some kind of high intensity pace 5:08 or something, can't remember) that I was among who though he was gonna have a meltdown in Atlanta. Guy is definitely strong.

CJ Albertson also set the indoor marathon world record last April in 2:17:59. That's my definition of insane. The guy is both mentally tough and fast, and he's improving quickly.

CJ Albertson is fun to follow. He is a beast among animals. I cannot fathom how he does what he does.

USA has an entire country full of sub-14 guys! ?

Top ten with 10000m PBs

1, Rupp 26:44

2. Riley 27:58

3. Abdi 27:16

4. Korir 27:20

5. Maiyo 28:49

6. Hehir 28:08

7. Albertson 29:37

8.Hampton 29:53

9.Bennie 28:37

10.McDonald 29:38

Class at the top as one would expect.

Three guys with 29:30+PBs making the top ten is both a credit to them and an indicator that there's a lot of potential talent not getting to the start line.

After Syracuse, Hehir ran for NAZ Elite for one year and then went to med school.

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a25134988/martin-hehir-runs-through-med-school/

some nice replies.

From the shadows wrote:

CJ Albertson is fun to follow. He is a beast among animals. I cannot fathom how he does what he does.

Agree. He's definitely one of the more interesting elites to follow on Strava.

Maybe a bigger forgotten story is what happened in Tokyo this weekend.

19, yes 19 Japanese runners went under 2:10, similar weather as Atlanta but flat fast course.

Just when you think maybe Americans are making headway, the rest of the world is running faster.

Parasite wrote:

Maybe a bigger forgotten story is what happened in Tokyo this weekend.

19, yes 19 Japanese runners went under 2:10, similar weather as Atlanta but flat fast course.

Just when you think maybe Americans are making headway, the rest of the world is running faster.

Japan's top guy at the last Olympics was 16th. Spare me the praise.

Comparable weather, I doubt that. It was 20mph winds in Atlanta. And the course had 1300 foot elevation gain and 6 U-Turns, and lots of other 90 degree turns. The conditions in Atlanta were worth a solid three minutes for those guys up front, so I think we would've had a solid 10 under 2:10 on a Tokyo type course. And actually more. I just looked at Tokyo Marathon elevation chart, it's a net 120 foot downhill, so that's actually more fast than a flat course. Atlanta was a net 10 foot up hill. And to Japan Tokyo is a huge deal especially the year of the Tokyo Olympics, so I imagine mostly all of their top guys were in that race. I don' think we're too far off from them right now.

Colin Bennie looking good wrote:

Comparable weather, I doubt that. It was 20mph winds in Atlanta. And the course had 1300 foot elevation gain and 6 U-Turns, and lots of other 90 degree turns. The conditions in Atlanta were worth a solid three minutes for those guys up front, so I think we would've had a solid 10 under 2:10 on a Tokyo type course. And actually more. I just looked at Tokyo Marathon elevation chart, it's a net 120 foot downhill, so that's actually more fast than a flat course. Atlanta was a net 10 foot up hill. And to Japan Tokyo is a huge deal especially the year of the Tokyo Olympics, so I imagine mostly all of their top guys were in that race. I don' think we're too far off from them right now.

Remind me the last time we've had 10 Americans go under 2:10 in the same race.

zoomx83 wrote:

Colin Bennie looking good wrote:

Comparable weather, I doubt that. It was 20mph winds in Atlanta. And the course had 1300 foot elevation gain and 6 U-Turns, and lots of other 90 degree turns. The conditions in Atlanta were worth a solid three minutes for those guys up front, so I think we would've had a solid 10 under 2:10 on a Tokyo type course. And actually more. I just looked at Tokyo Marathon elevation chart, it's a net 120 foot downhill, so that's actually more fast than a flat course. Atlanta was a net 10 foot up hill. And to Japan Tokyo is a huge deal especially the year of the Tokyo Olympics, so I imagine mostly all of their top guys were in that race. I don' think we're too far off from them right now.

Remind me the last time we've had 10 Americans go under 2:10 in the same race.

Never, when was the last time we had four? We had one guy under 2:10 and three just 6 or fewer seconds from 2:10 flat on an incredibly challenging course. If this race was anywhere else we would've had minimum four guys under 2:10, probably more like 10... So the state of American marathon running has gotten way better, especially from just a few years ago when we were freaking out about having three guys under 2:11:30.