Sunday, November 1, 2009

NYC Marathon Observations

The women started before the men.

Paula Radcliffe is tall and as known to many already, she has a gait that has alot of upper body movement.

Sometimes I really don't like NYC. Maybe because of the yankees, maybe because of the stress of driving through the city. But just watching Mayor Michael Bloomberg sharing the culture and the extremely diverse people of NYC really attracts me to the city.

I think it would be fun to run the NYC Marathon.

Not a real quick pace for the men's leaders. Ten miles in at 54:44 and Ryan Hall has taken his hat off.

Mile 11 55:10-Meb, Hall and many others.

Josh Moen is at the half way point at 1:06:46, putting him very close to the 2:14:30 that the Fantasy Games at Down the Backstretch predicted.

A bunch of relevant runners from around here. I ran against Matt Hooley and Josh Moen in college. Chris Lundstrom is a cross country coach around here-at Como Park Sr. High School.

Mile 17 and 18 were 4:33 and 4:37-significantly different from the 5:33 at mile 1 and 5:00 range in many of the first half dozen to dozen miles.

Mile 18-American's dropping out of the lead pack. Not what I wanted to see.

Paula Radcliffe at mile 22 still has a head bob. What a running style. Always seems gritty.

Meb is back up in the lead pack with 5-6 others.

Last mile the woman's winner went was the fastest. Wow.

Mile 24-4 American's in the top 10. Wow.

All I've got. Not going to polish this up. Great race to watch with Meb winning! First American win since what, 1982? Yeah, 27 years! Ryan Hall in 4th, Jorge Torres in 7th, Nick Arciniaga in 8th, Abdi Abdirahman in 9th, Jason Lehmkuhle in 10th.

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