marathon world record broken
Once again, the Berlin marathon provides us with a World record. Patrick Makau just finished in 2:03:38, breaking Haile Gebrsellassie’s previous record. And leaving Gebrsellassie quite behind (he eventually dropped away). Maybe the beautiful finish at the Brandenburg Gate helps in setting those records! Paula Radcliffe finished third in 2:23:46, far from her World record. And four minutes behind Florence Kiplagat. However, I think the major thing is that she finished and got qualified for the 2012 Olympics. Now, it is time for splits in Central Park!
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February 19, 2013 at 10:14 pm
[…] d’une seconde par rapport au précédant record). On devrait être content (en tous les cas Xi’an semble l’être). Sauf qu’à l’hiver 2012, je vais donner un cours sur copules et […]
September 30, 2011 at 12:14 am
[…] a race! This time it was not the NYC half-marathon (and I did not see Paula Radcliffe as she was in Berlin) but an 18 miles race in preparation for the NYC marathon. I had completed my fartlek training of […]
September 28, 2011 at 3:03 am
Actually, if you look at the series of winners’time at several marathons, over 20 years, you can observe a strange pattern. I did not know that there was such a non-stationnarity…
September 28, 2011 at 8:19 am
This is not very strange, the downward trend is there. I wrote a related post on the ultimate marathon time two years ago, with a nice comment from Joseph Hilbe, former track champion and coach as well as sport statistician.