My first post post-surgery reported on the WC's in Qatar last year!
This one covers a bunch of stuff--the WR in Chicago's Marathon, the Berlin and NYC Marathons, a bit from the Collegiate Cross Country season, a tiny bit of T&F marks, plus some corrections & additions to my previous post!
So happy to be back!
2:14:04.
Take that in a moment.
Or try this--reduce Paula Radcliffe's "unbeatable" WR of 2:15:25 by a mere 81 seconds--or a bit over 3 seconds per mile!
Or this--Brigid Kosgei ran FOUR 10k's in about 31:55--without stopping!!
So she had male pacers most of the way!
Well, so did the venerable Paula!!
She gets the WR, the Kenyan National Record, and the Age 25 Record!
Berlin's race changed things in several parts of my Record Book!
Ken Bekele SMASHED the Age 37 Record with his amazing 2:01:41!!
He's 2nd A-T World.
Berhanu Legasse also smoked, his 2:02:45 making him 3rd A-T World, and giving him the Age 25 Record!
Two American Women ran well.
Sara Hall is now 6th A-T US due to her 2:22:16.
New American citizen Sally Kipyego ran 2:25:10, making her 11th A-T US!
Amsterdam's Marathon saw Len Korir run 2:07:58 in 11th place, making him 5th A-T US!
Degitu Azimeraw took the Women's race in 2:19:26, making her 16th A-T World!
In Frankfurt, Valary Alyabei (sp ?) ran 2:19:10, making her 12th A-T World!
The difficult NYC Marathon course doesn't usually produce really speedy times, but does have good competitions among some big names!
Geoff Kamworor won the Men's division with his 2:08:13, beating Albert Korir's 2:08:38.
Joy Jepkosgei defeated the venerable Mary Keitany by almost a full minute, 2:22:38 to 2:23:32!
The Valencia (Spain) Half-Marathon had some fast races.
Yomif Kejelcha won the Men's race in 59:05.
Senbere Teferi won the Women's race in 65:32.
She gets Ethiopia's National Record, and is 11th A-T World!
She beat Sifan Hassan, whose 65:53 took 2nd!
A 15k in the Netherlands produced "WR's"--except that the WAF doesn't recognize WR's for this road distance!!
(And being honest, this distance doesn't really excite me either!!)
Nonetheless, these ARE impressive times!
Stephen Kissa ran 41:49, beating Edwin Kiptoo's 41:51.
In the Women's race, Letesenbet Gidey shattered the previous best by well over a MINUTE with her startling 44:20.
Let's see what these times mean, official or not!
Kissa's time is approximately three 13:56 5000's, back to back.
Add one more, and you get 20K in 55:45!
Add about 3:02 for the final seven tenths of a mile, getting a Half time of about 58:47.
Not bad, but not a WR there either!
But the Women's time translates to a trio of 5k's of about 14:47 each!!
You read that right--THREE 5000's--non-stop--of 14:47!!
Or 20000 meters in 59:08.
Or a Half in about 62:28!!!
That's close to TWO MINUTES faster than the actual World Record in the 13.1 mile event!!
Absolutely stunning!!
OK, let's take it down a notch, moving to Cross Country, Collegiate style!
As my "fans" know, I don't "do" XC very much!
Just ain't my thing.
(Although I did enjoy the few XC races I ran long ago and far away!)
So let's see who won some of the major Conferences in 2019!
Peter Seufer and Elly Henes took the ACC's.
The Big 10 had Oliver Hoare and Alicia Monson winning the individual crowns.
The Big 12's were won by Edwin Kurgat and Callie Logue!
(A bit of personal trivia--I love the name Callie, as she's one of the main characters in the TV show "The Fosters", which I've binge watched a few times! LOL)
The Mountain West Women's race had the fastest time of the season, I believe--although times in XC aren't important!.
Weini Kelati took that race in 19:11.
PAC-12's winners were Joe Klecker (defeating Cooper Teare), and Fiona O'Keefe, whose 19:32 beat Ella Donaghu b y 2 seconds.
Finally, the SEC's winners were Vincent Kiprop and Katie Izzo.
Kiprop's 22:51 beat Gilbert Kigen's 22:55.
Izzo's 19:38 beat Taylor Werner's 19:42!
(Werner later reversed places with Izzo in another meet!)
Finally, in the "new" news department, Darlan Romani won the World Military Games Shot Put in China with a good 73-4.50.
Mariya Lasitskene took the Women's HJ there in 6-7!
Reading my previous post--and after a bit more research--I found some deletions and a few errors.
So here's the new info--
Dina Asher-Smith's double was 10.83 and 21.88, not 10.88!!
And T&FN's eTN lists both as British NR's!!
In that amazing Women's 1500, Winny Chebet's 3:58.20 is the best 7th Place mark!
I made a mistake with Jenny Simpson's place!
Her time of 3:58.42 is the best EIGHTH Place mark, not 9th!!
In 9th came R Arrafi's 3:59.93, which does NOT set a Place record!!
But in 10th was Ciara Mageaan (sp?), her time of 4:00.15 giving her the best 10th Place mark!
And in the Women's 4X400 Relay, the US's winning time was 3:18.92, NOT 3:16.92!
In my next post, I'll speak about some tragic subjects--
the death of the A-T Great Miler, Peter Snell
the shocking (yet, to me, NOT so shocking!!) revelations from Mary Cain
and the drug ban handed down to Salwa Naser!!
There may be other subjects I'll cover, as I intend to do a bit more research before beginning that post!
Meanwhile, enjoy this one, and the previous one!
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