Dubai Marathon thread: race in progress

txRunnergirl you ROCK!

Ryan Hall will break 2:03 one day. Mark my word.

David Monti rocks. He first posted the time on the T&FN message board.

Half Fool wrote:

txRunnergirl you ROCK!

Good run from Martin Fagan in Dubai 2.14.06 Olympic qualifying time

HR thanks for joining in, you're not old you will not be 36 till next month .There is still a lot of youth left in you.

Hendrik Ramaala wrote:

Lets all pray for Geb to get this 2:02 - I believe he can do it.... cheers H.R. (yes its me - see you all in London 2008 -- have a great year to everyone)

Did it occur to anybody else that the Dubai marathon organizers instructed the pacers to screw Geb up? So they could get the publicity of the WR attempt but keep the million dollar bonus in their pockets?

Just a thought.

I had wondered if they had something to do with Kennedy's assassination or faking an Apollo moon landing or smuggling the blood heir of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to Gaul, but I never thought about them screwing around with the pacers. Interesting.

Post-race interviews with Geb? Links, please. Anyone?

midlife crisis wrote:

Did it occur to anybody else that the Dubai marathon organizers instructed the pacers to screw Geb up? So they could get the publicity of the WR attempt but keep the million dollar bonus in their pockets?

Just a thought.

It would be well worth a million to them to have the marathon WR in Dubai.

Cheers to our girl Bizuyeeee on her first marathon. good luck

hmmmm... wrote:

I had wondered if they had something to do with Kennedy's assassination or faking an Apollo moon landing or smuggling the blood heir of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to Gaul, but I never thought about them screwing around with the pacers. Interesting.

Well, maybe there is something to it. Here's something interesting from Reuters:

"...He had been chasing a $1 million (511,000 pound) prize on offer for breaking his own world record but fell 27 seconds short of the mark he set in Berlin last September.

"One pacemaker at the beginning of the race didn't do the right job," he said. "I told him several times just to slow down and he didn't do that. He didn't listen to me," said Gebrselassie.

"I said to him four or five times 'what's going on, man? Cool it' And that was the mistake...really I can say I'm lucky just to finish the race. In such a kind of race, when it's too fast at the beginning there is a possibility just to drop out."

Hall, Ritz, and Sell have not chance at a gold medal this summer. LOSERS!!!

i am really happy and proud of my favorite runner bezunesh, looks like little china is going to china.

[quote]Dr.S wrote:

Well, exciting start, nice performance. Few people in the world could run

[quote]Dr.S wrote:

Well, exciting start, nice performance. Few people in the world could run

Sorry, someone on page 3 said imagine our reaction if someone like Hall ran a 2:04:57.....

It's amazing to think what the WR would have been had the pacers done a better job in the beginning.

[quote]Dr.S wrote:

Well, exciting start, nice performance. Few people in the world could run