You know it had to be asked: how would a healthy Ryan Hall done in today's Boston Marathon?

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11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:06pm EDT

Or any other top-tier marathoner - Ritz, Meb, maybe Abdi...

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:10pm EDT

re: crazy raisin

question is whether the africans would have let hall get away at say 64 pace for the 1/2 distance. Hard to say. The women's favorites let two people get away - and at least one of them was roughly Hall's speed.

no way to answer that - I would guess that they would have let Hall get away since he never seems to be there at the end of a marathon. So maybe Hall coulda done something today.

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:11pm EDT

re: crazy raisin

It doesn't matter cause they couldn't get to the starting line. Not unreasonable to believe they are all done.

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:12pm EDT

re: crazy raisin

if by healthy you mean them not dropping out...

Meb would have have been racing for the win. Prob would have finished ahead of Hartman, just behind the 3rd place guy. Hall, assuming he didn't drop out would have been way back in 7th - 10th, same with Abdi. I just can't see Abdi finishing any races though.

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:21pm EDT

re: postcollegiate runner

postcollegiate runner wrote:
if by healthy you mean them not dropping out...

I mean healthy as in they weren't struggling with injury and had no reason to drop out - similar to Hall's 2011 or 2010 form (not perfect but very good). So definitely not 7th-10th in 2:14 or whatever that was.

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:24pm EDT

re: crazy raisin

Predictable. Hall and Meb would have stayed in the pack until the Africans decide it's time to stop jogging

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:28pm EDT

re: mgm

mgm wrote:
Predictable. Hall and Meb would have stayed in the pack until the Africans decide it's time to stop jogging

like in 2011?

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:32pm EDT

re: someone had to do it

He would have won by 5 minutes.

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:33pm EDT

re: 2:04:58

he would have dropped out.

11 years ago 04/15/2013 12:38pm EDT

re: crazy raisin

I don't know but Yuki Kawauchi would have dominated

11 years ago 04/15/2013 1:02pm EDT

re: crazy raisin

He would have done the airplane while gliding in for a 5th place finish.

11 years ago 04/15/2013 1:13pm EDT

re: agip

The East African women didn't even recognize that portugese broad and they thought she was just another runner out there to blow up.

The East African men are very aware of Ryan Hall so if he is to even push 63:00 at the half, they are not going to let him go off.

11 years ago 04/15/2013 1:21pm EDT

re: crazy raisin

Clearly, he would have set off at his usual 2:04 pace in the beginning and blown everyone away.

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