They just said Teshome Mekonen (60:27 pb) has a place in NYC with his wife and splits his time there? Can someone explain that to me?
They just said Teshome Mekonen (60:27 pb) has a place in NYC with his wife and splits his time there? Can someone explain that to me?
Has anyone found a tracking page that works? other than the APP which isn't what I want.. So annoying they are making me download it.
I think they said the women just ran 5:40-5:54 for 1st two miles. 2nd mile on new course is uphill.
https://liveresults.nyrr.orgrojo wrote:
Has anyone found a tracking page that works? other than the APP which isn't what I want..
I think they said the women just ran 5:40-5:54 for 1st two miles. 2nd mile on new course is uphill.
rojo wrote:
They just said Teshome Mekonen (60:27 pb) has a place in NYC with his wife and splits his time there? Can someone explain that to me?
He is listed in several 2017 NYRR local races as a New Yorker. He won the Ted Corbitt 15K in Central Park in December (no prize money) so he must indeed be local
Didn't realize Stinson was in the field.
MakwalaFan wrote:
Worth nothing that Chebet ran that 59:15 way back in 2009, then a 60:31 in 2010. His best half since then was 61:35 two years ago in NYC. His best marathons were back in 2010-2013 (2:06, then 2:05 three straight years) ... seems past his prime now.
My pick would be Mekonen. I saw lots of complaining last week about Rupp not running against the "stronger field" in NYC, but this field doesn't look so strong to me. More depth here, as far as having 61xx guys and Roma-Ostia only had 6 elites total, but 4 were at least sub or low-60 guys.
Maybe I'm just spoiled by the halfs in Europe with like 10 sub-60 guys (and usually a few barely over 59) in the field, even though most are usually Kenyan or Ethiopian runners that I've barely heard of.
World half is next week.
The NYRR likes to manage its fields and not bring in a bunch of sub 60 guys from Kenya. Generally they go for US based runners first and then spread out the field with a few from each country. But it is interesting their one "Kenyan ringer" is past his prime.
There is $20,000 for first in this thing. Would be interesting to see how few sub 60 guys are in this race vs any other race without this much prize money.
This coverage makes NBC seem confident.
Stronger field? As weldon pointed out, this men's field is weak from an international perspective. I bet Rupp wanted a sure thing in Rome. Plus an extra week. In NYC, the weather is unpredictable and he doesn't really like cold weather due to his asthma. If he's up this early, he probably sees those guys running with hats and gloves on and is glad he's not there.
PS. Who is this main commentator? He's way better than your average play by play guy who doesn't regularly do marathons.
Women 28:35ish at 5 miles...
Women's field with Betsy Saina and Vivian Cheruiyot has some pretty big names even if looking at it Saina's half PR isn't that fast.
And I just got a DM from the NYRR media room with a link to a leaderboard for media. Thank you!!! I guess they are on this forum!!
It looks like there also is a link for the masses here:
https://liveresults.nyrr.org/e/NYH2018#/leaderboard/top-men-halfmarathon/5K
Salazar has Hasay running the World Half Champs next week, so I'm not that having an "extra week" is one of the reasons why Galen ran in Rome. I mean, last year he raced Prague which was only 2 weeks before Boston I believe. I think they picked Rome for Galen because the course was comparable to Boston and Rupp was long overdue for a fast half time.
ESPN3 stream is still live during commercials:
http://www.espn.com/watch/player?id=3271833
Usually doesn't show race but can hear commentators talking
Need more coverage of the hobbyjogger masses starting.
In all seriousness, is anyone logging on to WatchESPN at 7:30am to watch the masses? I have to imagine the audience skews toward elite interest.
They are tweeting out some mile splits at @nyrrnews
Women
Mile 1 5:40
Mile 2 5:54
Mile 3
5k 15:31
Mile 4
Mile 5 5:30
Mile 6 5:55
10k 35:30
Men
Mile 1 4:43
Mile 2 5:01
Mile 3 ??
5k - 15:31
Mile 4 5:05
Mile 5 4:50
Mile 6
10k 30:19
So the temps right now are 29 degress which i s cold and the wind is out of the north at 10 mph. Since the course goes from South to North - that's really going to slow it down. Yet no one has mentioned that on the broadcast?? Hmm.
Weird they started these only 12 minutes apart.
Means they'll finish within roughly 5 minutes of one another. But I guess that would be the same if they just had a mass start.
Rojo, ABC team just meantioned the weather about ten mins ago
wejo wrote:
Weird they started these only 12 minutes apart.
Means they'll finish within roughly 5 minutes of one another. But I guess that would be the same if they just had a mass start.
I'm still waiting for a race director telling me why they do this. It's absurd. Imagine if you were watching on basketball game wit another finishing right after it? No. Do what teh NCAA does stagger it so one finishes when the other is about halfway.
Women
Mile 1 5:40
Mile 2 5:54
Mile 3
5k 18:10
Mile 4
Mile 5 5:30
Mile 6 5:55
10k 35:30
Mile 7 5:56
Mile 8 5:21
Men
Mile 1 4:43
Mile 2 5:01
Mile 3 ??
5k - 15:31
Mile 4 5:05
Mile 5 4:50
Mile 6 4:35
10k 30:19
Mile 7 5:27
Mile 8 4:52
Loved this tweet.
https://twitter.com/nyrr/status/975344002869362688