Elite Athletics Thread

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Salty Dog
Salty Dog
Apr 2021
5:19pm, 5 Apr 2021
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brilliant! Cheers, got it now.
SPR
SPR
Apr 2021
10:05am, 7 Apr 2021
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No one mentioned the women's HM record being broken (29 secs) by Ruth Chepngetich on Sunday. Was there a collective shrug or people just missed it?
Bazoaxe
Bazoaxe
Apr 2021
10:09am, 7 Apr 2021
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Yes I saw that. I did wonder if the women’s hM hadn’t been a very competitive mark and so there is a mix of that plus the shoes being factors as we have seen that record being reset in recent years.
SPR
SPR
Apr 2021
10:26am, 7 Apr 2021
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SPR
This is the HM progression: en.wikipedia.org

I'm not convinced that the previous record was weak.
SailorSteve
SailorSteve
Apr 2021
10:45am, 7 Apr 2021
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Guilty of a bit of a shrug here. Looks an incredible time given the quality/times in the men’s race in the same conditions.

Btw I guess most folks will have heard/read enough about the recent Olympic marathon trials at Kew but I just listened to the Sunday Plodcast (“Bonus Episode”) recorded with Tom Bedford before the event. Some great insights and predictions. A nice listen if you fancy a bit of company on an easy run.
Oranj
Oranj
Apr 2021
11:37am, 7 Apr 2021
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It was fairly early in the Sunday morning, I caught the tail end of the coverage.

They went out hard and hung on. I guess the record was the result of a less conservative approach, as much as anything. Women's distance racing has become less of a time trial and is all the better for it.
SPR
SPR
Apr 2021
11:53am, 7 Apr 2021
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Looks to me like they ran pretty much even pace so exactly how you'd expect a record to be broken even in a TT, no hanging on.

Jepkosgei still holds the road 10km record from when she set her then HM record in 2017 so it wasn't less conservative than that run.
Bazoaxe
Bazoaxe
Apr 2021
12:02pm, 7 Apr 2021
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Yeah, I wasnt saying the previous record was weak, but the womens record has been reduced quite often in the recent past. Its also confused by womens only and raced with men records. Sundays time was a sizeable step. Was sundays a mixed race ?

Some of the WRs were further back in time than I recalled.
SPR
SPR
Apr 2021
5:58pm, 9 Apr 2021
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SPR
Poor from the selectors if what is stated here is correct: athleticsweekly.com
Bazoaxe
Bazoaxe
Apr 2021
6:50pm, 9 Apr 2021
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Bazoaxe
That does make the selection seem to be a bit odd

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