".....I don't run anywhere...unless it's food or the joint's on fire"
Posted on 05/05/2017 7:02:45 PM PDT by Az Joe
Current record is 2:02:57
https://www.facebook.com/nike/
That will be something to see-—thanks for the info.
I have been going to the Boston since the 40s (few runners in those days)-—and a daughter,son,and granddaughter have run and qualified.
(My running career consisted of running to catch a bus in 1955.):-)
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They can’t shave 3 min off the record, no way!
".....I don't run anywhere...unless it's food or the joint's on fire"
Flying Pig Marathon tomorrow here in Cincy...24,000 runners last year.
They’ve been gearin up for months. Special shoes made, special training, special diet, track is an auto racing track...I think it’s 18 laps or something like that.
Shavin 3 minutes off would be tough.
Wow, that is something, I read Joe Falls’ book on the Boston Marathon and that came out in 1976, so quite some time even then. It certainly has a colorful history. A great sports event. There are surely, a number of books chronicling the Boston Marathon.
4:34-per-mile pace!!!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nike-runners-aim-to-break-two-hour-marathon-mark-1493919912
Nike’s new shoe has raised questions about whether it provides an unfair advantage...touting a 4% efficiency boost over the company’s previous-fastest sneaker.
GO FOR IT!
That is approximately 13 miles per hour average!
I can barely do that on my bike. That means if there are hill climbs (slower), they’d have to run faster on flats and down hill.
That is fast!
I can see why there is a limit — the human anatomy limits speed.
Yes, sprinters can run that fast and faster. But sustained? — no.
Imagine barfing at 13 miles an hour.
Why three? Do they plan to somehow slipstream behind the leader and rotate the duty?
They’ve shaved just over 3 minutes off the record in the last 18 1/2 years.
Current record was set in 2014.
They’ve shaved just over 3 minutes off the record in the last 17 1/2 years. (9/1998)
Current record was set in 2014.
It was fun——but by the 80s there were so many runners it wasn’t fun anymore———people could even run without a number——after the bombing I guess you need a number to run,but there are still thousands————and once the winners were always Africans the excitement kind of went out of it anyway.
The emergency crews are everyplace though,a young friend collapsed with hyperthermia about 20 miles in-——and they were INSTANTLY there and knew how to handle it.
Astonishing.
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One of the three runners, Eliud Kipchoge has a PR of 2:03:05.
And now he has the magic shoes, and pots of gold if he can do it.
An inch can be a mile.
Not sure why they picked them besides the fact they are all at the top of their game in marathons right now. They will have sets of pace runners with them apparently.
My son ran the Boston marathon for the past four years. I just got off the phone with him. He’s been tracking this since December. Said they started off with 40 qualifiers, and now whittled it down to three. He said the course has been lined with ice to keep them cool and block the wind. He’ll be streaming it live.
They said nobody could break the sub-4-minute mile until Dr Roger Bannister did it. Now high school milers do it every year.
TC
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