All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
“ So she has the AR in the half. Few care.”
Lots of people care.
Sara Hall is 38 and just ran an American record. You are probably right, it's all downhill from there.
I suspect she’ll accept her declining status with some huge paydays to run a couple more marathon majors. Man, that must suck.
I know that you are being provocative but your statements are essentially true. The marathon is an Okympic event while the 1/2 is not. It is like breaking the American record in the 2 mile and the an hour later somebody else breaks the 5k record.
In the age of supershoes it was only a matter of time for both records to fall. Something tells me that Keira may not hold this record for too long.
It's still possible that Sara will go after the AR in the full but with her running Boston and then Eugene that would have to come in the fall. I could see her running Chicago again and hopefully the weather is better this year?
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
I know you're probably trolling, but I'll bite. Ask yourself this - if you're 38 and just set the American record in the half marathon, how would you feel? I think 99.9% of us would feel jubilation.
conversion calculator wrote:
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
I know you're probably trolling, but I'll bite. Ask yourself this - if you're 38 and just set the American record in the half marathon, how would you feel? I think 99.9% of us would feel jubilation.
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what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
You’re saying she should retire? The rug of being the N.FL.’s best QB has been pulled out from under Brady so he he should retire as well as every other QB besides Mahomes.
Stating the obvious 2022 wrote:
Sara Hall is 38 and just ran an American record. You are probably right, it's all downhill from there.
And Keira D'Amato is 37 turning 38 next fall. They'll both be past their 39th birthdays when the next trials come around. Their time is now, maybe not beyond this next year or two. It's already amazing they're doing what they're doing now, will be even tougher in the year 2024. Any more record attempts have to be done in the next 12 months.
It's true: she ran an AR, but in a race where the conditions were so perfect and the course so easy, a semi-pro basically masters runner set the AR for the marathon. If any of the top tier runners had been in this race, Hall might have finished 5th, and the marathon AR is going to start getting further and further way now.
This AR is like the Raptors' NBA championship - it took a lot of other people not participating for it to happen.
If Gidey ran Houston this year she probably would have broken the men’s AR!!
I was posing a real question. She’s been talking about the AR record in the marathon for several years now. I think the running community was following her attempts. Then suddenly there’s a new record but from a relative ‘no name’ unless you really follow our sport.
You think Sara and Ryan didn’t have the thought ‘what if I ran for marathon today? Could I have dropped a 2:17 or 2:18?’
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
38 was a good year for me. I'm 49 now, about to be 50 next month. Looking back I can say my late 30s were very much a physical peak in some sense. I hope both of these ladies manage to extend that out a bit. Very impressive either way.
"All of her talk..."
Setting up a slime job...
It's goal-setting when yr pals do it, bragging when a confident woman does it?
Brava, Sarah! Brava, new woman!
Left some space for others to grow in...
What’s wrong with you? Why would you start a thread with that title right after she’s established an American record? Perhaps you just dislike her no matter what she does.
Wise Old Man wrote:
If Gidey ran Houston this year she probably would have broken the men’s AR!!
No way, it’s nearly a 3-min difference that’s not patchable in our lifetimes. Gidey as well as Yehualaw were pretty confident based on their training that they could comfortably break sub-64 and Gidey was more optimistic of the two predicting (realistically in hindsight) that women could go down to 62-and-half before that blowout half marathon.
Men’s AR is 59’41”.
Wise Old Man wrote:
If Gidey ran Houston this year she probably would have broken the men’s AR!!
This is exactly why people outside of running don't really respect it.
When Bob Horner had a 4 HR game, nobody said that he wasn't going to pass Hank Aaron.
When Kobe Bryant had an 81 point game, nobody said he wasn't Jordan.
When Flipper Anderson set the record for most receiving yards in a game, nobody said he wasn't as good as Lynn Swann.
But here goes Sara Hall establishing a new AR, and all you do is trash it by saying that she would not won if Letesenbet Gidey was there.
The worst part is that you likely can't beat Hall and Gidey even as you're a male,yet you feel entitled to cheapen Hall because of your twisted biases.
Sara’s AR will be short lived, once Kelati jumps into a half.
conversion calculator wrote:
what used to be decent wrote:
All of her talk about going for the marathon AR? Now the rug of her being America’s best female marathoner has been pulled out from under her.
So she has the AR in the half. Few care.
She now just a consolation prize winner at the traveling carnival.
I know you're probably trolling, but I'll bite. Ask yourself this - if you're 38 and just set the American record in the half marathon, how would you feel? I think 99.9% of us would feel jubilation.
Jubilation...and some increased confidence that you might have a crack at the AR in the marathon as well. Its all coming up roses to me.