Comments on The Science of Sport: Chicago 2009 In-race splits

Good prediction. Providing the splits was a great ...

2009-10-11T20:59:50.694+02:00

Good prediction. Providing the splits was a great idea. As much as the americans are into stats, they always seem to be rather slobbish in providing, visualizing effective splits. Although of what I saw today, was better.

Once again it's seemes rather obvious, that the marathon limit for the time being is reached. You can argue about the temperature (and wind) as also seemed to be the case with the latest effort of Haile. But the overall pattern remains each time the same.

Set WR pace comparisons aside, the marathon today of Wanjiru suddenly appears a decent run marathon. The last six 5K segments only differ 23seconds.

But it's not enough anymore to run a decent marathon, having a fast start or rather a supreme second half, like Tergat had. Although he still got his WR of 2:04.55.

You have to be on the edge all of the time and even then..

Haile's 2008 run is still the WR, because it has the best of both worlds.

Thanks a lot for this effort!! Not having access t...

2009-10-11T15:42:54.312+02:00

Thanks a lot for this effort!!
Not having access to live pics, this gives me a lot of suspense seeing the figurs as the race unfolds

I still think he can make it (despite the cold) [if only he'd run more disciplined.....]

There is a live feed of the race at http://www.uni...

2009-10-11T14:38:13.159+02:00

There is a live feed of the race at http://www.universalsports.com/

It's working for me in the UK, so it's not just for US denizens.