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World Marathon Record (Berlin)
washiku
#21 Posted : Monday, September 29, 2014 10:19:21 AM
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kysse wrote:
congrats kimito

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#22 Posted : Monday, September 29, 2014 10:39:56 AM
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masukuma wrote:
I watched them do the 21km in 1hr 1min and some 30+ seconds and said... this is madness! we will definitely have something special today!

At a point they were 8 seconds behind the world record and the misungu commentators almost wrote them off but by 30km mark .... they were on fire. Though i felt he was not pushed hard enough from 38kms .... he didnot have compe ...... he would have done sub 50 seconds.

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#23 Posted : Monday, September 29, 2014 10:53:40 AM
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Do you know that he is the same dude who dropped out of Boston marathon this year due to hamstring injury? This thing is all in the mind. He is now on top of the list for $500,000 prize.
madollar
#24 Posted : Monday, September 29, 2014 11:56:17 AM
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bkismat wrote:
Congrats, the next big target is now 2 hours flat. How long will this take? 2,5, 10.... years?

When haile ran 2 03 a few years back it was termed as the finest piece of marathon running ever seen now that time is ranked 8th A 2 02 at that time seemed impossible even to the race organisers with all the talk about "perfect conditions". Waiting to see what time bekele will post in chicago am sure next year he will be in berlin then we may find out how long before we start seeing 2 01s
Wakanyugi
#25 Posted : Monday, September 29, 2014 2:09:53 PM
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Gordon Gekko wrote:
@Kusadikika, it is myth that has mutated to fact that the world records can only be broken in three courses: Berlin, Chicago and Boston. Boston will never be ratified because there's an 'illegal' gradient. Chicago will almost always not be ratified because of wind, it has to be a very nice day with wind just bordering on illegal. Berlin has the perfect course, lovely weather and the psychological 'thing' that makes athletes believe it can be done (marathon is 60% mental 30% physical and 10% luck))


Boston is not a record breaking course for another reason. The weather in April in new England is often terrible. Mutai and Mosops 2011 performance was a clear outlier. The other fast courses are Rotterdam and Frankfurt but they tend not attract the top cream.

I am not aware that wind is a factor in ratifying Marathon records.

Great performance by Kimetto!
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Wakanyugi
#26 Posted : Monday, September 29, 2014 2:16:21 PM
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Angelica _ann wrote:
masukuma wrote:
I watched them do the 21km in 1hr 1min and some 30+ seconds and said... this is madness! we will definitely have something special today!

At a point they were 8 seconds behind the world record and the misungu commentators almost wrote them off but by 30km mark .... they were on fire. Though i felt he was not pushed hard enough from 38kms .... he didnot have compe ...... he would have done sub 50 seconds.

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It was a pacing error and the rabbits corrected it right away (I remember something similar happened to Haille during a record attempt).

The really amazing thing is Kimmeto doing a negative split at those speeds and still having the energy to kick at the end. Simply amazing.
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#27 Posted : Monday, September 29, 2014 2:21:49 PM
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Mutai's performamnce got to be the most unappreciated performance in road racing, but hopefully he will be consoled by the fact that he broke the 30km world record yesterday which was previously held by Patrick Makau.
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Gordon Gekko
#28 Posted : Monday, September 29, 2014 5:12:01 PM
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Wakanyugi wrote:
Gordon Gekko wrote:
@Kusadikika, it is myth that has mutated to fact that the world records can only be broken in three courses: Berlin, Chicago and Boston. Boston will never be ratified because there's an 'illegal' gradient. Chicago will almost always not be ratified because of wind, it has to be a very nice day with wind just bordering on illegal. Berlin has the perfect course, lovely weather and the psychological 'thing' that makes athletes believe it can be done (marathon is 60% mental 30% physical and 10% luck))


Boston is not a record breaking course for another reason. The weather in April in new England is often terrible. Mutai and Mosops 2011 performance was a clear outlier. The other fast courses are Rotterdam and Frankfurt but they tend not attract the top cream.

I am not aware that wind is a factor in ratifying Marathon records.

Great performance by Kimetto!


Are you aware Geoffrey Mutai did 2:3:02 in Boston in 2011, then a world record which was not ratified?

http://www.nytimes.com/2...ts/19marathon.html?_r=0

Relevant c&p "Times in races on such courses, even difficult rolling ones like Boston’s, can be significantly affected by a tail wind, which was the case Monday, when the wind was blowing 15 to 20 miles per hour."
mpobiz
#29 Posted : Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:28:38 AM
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Rankaz13 wrote:
Matoe wrote:
Kenyan athlete Dennis Kimetto has broken the world marathon record with a time of 2h 2min and 57sec. Shaving off 31 seconds off Wilson Kipsang record of 2013



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#30 Posted : Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:55:19 AM
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mpobiz wrote:
Rankaz13 wrote:
Matoe wrote:
Kenyan athlete Dennis Kimetto has broken the world marathon record with a time of 2h 2min and 57sec. Shaving off 31 seconds off Wilson Kipsang record of 2013



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