Liam Adams led at the halfway mark in just over 64 minutes and he was en route for a 209. Adams, was a decent runner on the track around 2012 and 2013 with best times of 344, 754, 1331 and 2812. Also 62.50 for the half Marathon and 2:10:48 for the full marathon. 1:17:01/25km. Impressed by the Indian athlete following the second group leaders. Yes best times of 63 minutes and 216.
Interesting. The winner is only a little faster than Abebe Bikila in Tokyo '64. The 5th place getter is in the region of the women's wr. Something was clearly missing from the race? Could it have been EPO?
Kiplangat is a mountain runners and the second half of the course was hilly, def helped him.
Epic disaster for Kenya, apparently they didn't even register their actual runners and what they had were last minute replacements!.
The course will favour mountain runners.
As an aside, I don't know WTF they don't put this course through Edgbaston proper. They take it down the Bristol road through Strichley and Selly Oak. They could take it through leafy Edgbaston - quiet roads, no shops, just houses/mansions. The houses there are the most expensive in the city, often tens of millions of pounds. It is a beautiful area, and there are no amenities, so all of it is purely residential. I think the course would be MUCH better if they took it through Edgbaston itself rather than Selly Oak and Stirchley.
I bet I could design a better course - flatter, less turns, and through nicer areas with lots of trees and beautiful scenery.
Having said that, the crowds were amazing and maybe they wouldn't be through that part of Edgbaston. A lot of people live down the Bristol road and maybe they factored that in.
People struggle to walk up that hill to Colmore Row so I'm not sure taking it up there at the end is too wise, but I understand why they want it to end in the city centre. I would end it at the University of Birmingham!
Liam works 40 hrs per week as an electrician, ran a very solid Olympic race too.
7th place to Bendigo biy Andy Buchanan in his 2d marathon. Andy was just a good local runner as a young bloke but has worked his arse off to keep progressing.
Interesting. The winner is only a little faster than Abebe Bikila in Tokyo '64. The 5th place getter is in the region of the women's wr. Something was clearly missing from the race? Could it have been EPO?
1. The race was hilly as fark.
2. The East Africans (apart from Tanzania) weren't sending their best.
3. There were lots of pace changes early in the race.
Have you never watched a championship marathon? The time, removed from all other variables, doesn't really tell you a lot about the individual performances.
All Australia's competing marathoners are full-time workers which is really inspiring. Adams particularly performs in race after race. A great, long career.
Interesting. The winner is only a little faster than Abebe Bikila in Tokyo '64. The 5th place getter is in the region of the women's wr. Something was clearly missing from the race? Could it have been EPO?
1. The race was hilly as fark.
2. The East Africans (apart from Tanzania) weren't sending their best.
3. There were lots of pace changes early in the race.
Have you never watched a championship marathon? The time, removed from all other variables, doesn't really tell you a lot about the individual performances.
First hilly race in nearly 60 years. Slowest championship race in decades. East Africans are interchangeable. Pace changes are virtually unknown in marathon running.
Liam Adams ran a great race and in the end was only 7 seconds off a medal. I noted the non - stacked shoes he was wearing. With Nike carbon plates, would that made the difference between a medal and not?
Liam Adams ran a great race and in the end was only 7 seconds off a medal. I noted the non - stacked shoes he was wearing. With Nike carbon plates, would that made the difference between a medal and not?
Liam Adams reminds me of the top runners in Britain in the 70s and 80s who were all full-time workers and performed very well on the road and the track and cross country. People like Bernie Ford (tax man), Tony Simmons (College lecturer), Mike McLeod (mechanic), Dave Black, Nick Rose, Brendan Foster (teacher), Bedford (teacher), Geoff Smith (fireman), Richard Nerurkar (linguist/German and Russian - later Ammahric and Swahili), Dave Clarke (teacher), Steve Binns, Julian Goater, and others I may have forgotten. Every single name above was a sub 28 minute 10,000 m runner with times to match in the 5000 m in the region of 1315 to 1326 for all of these guys.
Liam works 40 hrs per week as an electrician, ran a very solid Olympic race too.
7th place to Bendigo biy Andy Buchanan in his 2d marathon. Andy was just a good local runner as a young bloke but has worked his arse off to keep progressing.
Two great blokes who have put in the hard yards.
He may work full-time when he’s in Australia during the course of the regular year but it seems he was in Saint Moritz Switzerland for many weeks preparing for this race so it may not be completely full-time as an electrician. This does not diminish his marvelous accomplishment but let’s set the record straight that he does have more time off and resources than the average electrician probably.