Angelica _ann wrote:Liked the way he out 'ran' the 3 Ethiopians especially at around 1 hour 53 - 55 minutes, buggers just gave up. He will do under 2 hours 1 minute soon.
Any reason why Berlin has been the place to break the Marathon world record over the last 10 or so years?
The Berlin course is flat and has way fewer corners than the other major city marathons. Plus there is never any headwind to face in Berlin and the weather is almost always ideal being in September which is fall season, best weather for running a marathon. There is also speculation that since majority of Berlin course is asphalt, marathoners tend to run faster there as opposed to Boston, London and New York courses which are mostly concrete. Don’t know how true that theory is though but it might hold some water.
By the way, we don’t want 2:01, we want 1:59. We want something that will be transcendent.