It was a tough day out there in London - nobody really ran fast.
Frank Lara showed he's a top American with his solid 2:13:29 effort. Watch out for the trials.
Congrats Frank Lara, top American today in a solid effort
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American Fan wrote:
It was a tough day out there in London - nobody really ran fast.
Frank Lara showed he's a top American with his solid 2:13:29 effort. Watch out for the trials.
Very interesting...
Kiptum's 2:01:25 is not fast? Since when and where? Maybe on US province?
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Ok, I guess I forgot about that one.
But the women were like 4 minutes off the WR. I think that implies it was slow out there.
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I should say, Susanna Sullivan also established herself as a top American Olympic Trials contender as well
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I like Lara but this is a subpar performance. He got beat by Mo who is all but done.
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FRANK THE TANK
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American Fan wrote:
Ok, I guess I forgot about that one.
But the women were like 4 minutes off the WR. I think that implies it was slow out there.
By that logic, being 12 minutes (and over TWO MILES!) behind the men's winner sucks since it clearly wasn't that tough a day.
Frank seems like a great guy but just stop with the ridiculous youth soccer league level kudos. Americans need to get much, much better.
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Moderate fade towards the last 7k. Might have run 2:12 low if he held on.
Solid blue collar time; mediocre for a paid pro.
The bummer is that there aren’t THAT many Americans faster than him. An injury or two and a few guys with off days at the trials, he can actually be hovering near the top 3. Would he make an impact being on an Olympic/world team? Definitely no, but that is where American marathoning is at right now.
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American Fan wrote:
It was a tough day out there in London - nobody really ran fast.
Frank Lara showed he's a top American with his solid 2:13:29 effort. Watch out for the trials.
Is this trolling?
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American Fan wrote:
I should say, Susanna Sullivan also established herself as a top American Olympic Trials contender as well
This is the idiotic statement of the day. She'll never run faster.
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American Fan wrote:
It was a tough day out there in London - nobody really ran fast.
Frank Lara showed he's a top American with his solid 2:13:29 effort. Watch out for the trials.
"Nobody really ran fast"??
Are you high?
The second fastest marathon ever is fast.
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Will an American ever break 2:08 again? For all the fast times we see in the middle and long distances on the track, there is a corresponding dearth of fast marathon times from anyone not named Galen Rupp. Even with massive improvements to shoes, guys are still slower than the top Americans were in the 70s despite the top guys on the track being MUCH faster.
This isn’t a knock against Lara, either. He is a solid athlete but probably not the savior of American marathoning.
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Finance Bro wrote:
Will an American ever break 2:08 again? For all the fast times we see in the middle and long distances on the track, there is a corresponding dearth of fast marathon times from anyone not named Galen Rupp. Even with massive improvements to shoes, guys are still slower than the top Americans were in the 70s despite the top guys on the track being MUCH faster.
This isn’t a knock against Lara, either. He is a solid athlete but probably not the savior of American marathoning.
I think Mantz can do it....although his best event may be the 1/2 marathon
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Looking at the stats wrote:
Moderate fade towards the last 7k. Might have run 2:12 low if he held on.
Solid blue collar time; mediocre for a paid pro.
The bummer is that there aren’t THAT many Americans faster than him. An injury or two and a few guys with off days at the trials, he can actually be hovering near the top 3. Would he make an impact being on an Olympic/world team? Definitely no, but that is where American marathoning is at right now.
Might have run 2:11 high if he picked it up.
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American Fan wrote:
It was a tough day out there in London - nobody really ran fast.
Frank Lara showed he's a top American with his solid 2:13:29 effort. Watch out for the trials.
Are you high mate?
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Finance Bro wrote:
Will an American ever break 2:08 again? For all the fast times we see in the middle and long distances on the track, there is a corresponding dearth of fast marathon times from anyone not named Galen Rupp. Even with massive improvements to shoes, guys are still slower than the top Americans were in the 70s despite the top guys on the track being MUCH faster.
This isn’t a knock against Lara, either. He is a solid athlete but probably not the savior of American marathoning.
Lara's performance isn't worth its own thread, this thread is clearly a troll trying to get LRCMB to treat Lara, if not the entire current crop of US male marathoners, as a human pinata to hammer away at in frustration. Kudos to respondents who didn't take the bait and instead clowned the obvious troll. Who knows the real issue Lara is having with the marathon, that group likes to hype itself but races infrequently and erratically.
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American Fan wrote:
It was a tough day out there in London - nobody really ran fast.
Frank Lara showed he's a top American with his solid 2:13:29 effort. Watch out for the trials.
Really we are celebrating a 2:13? That is a sad statement on US mens marathoning when we praise a time like this.
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Finance Bro wrote:
Will an American ever break 2:08 again? For all the fast times we see in the middle and long distances on the track, there is a corresponding dearth of fast marathon times from anyone not named Galen Rupp. Even with massive improvements to shoes, guys are still slower than the top Americans were in the 70s despite the top guys on the track being MUCH faster.
This isn’t a knock against Lara, either. He is a solid athlete but probably not the savior of American marathoning.
Yes.................IF Galen can put together a healthy training cycle. If not, it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. MAYBE if Mantz catches PERFECT weather in Chicago, but after Boston who knows. I just don't see Mantz getting too much faster than his current PR (2:08).
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