Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Boston is not a marathon

If strict IAAF criteria were applied, Boston would not be a marathon

A BOSTON ROAD RACE

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Pat

Last Monday’s so-called Boston Marathon has made a mockery of long distance running. The world’s best practitioner of the art, Haile Gebrselassie ran 2.03.59 in 2008, on an admittedly fast, but fully authenticated marathon course, in Berlin; and now sees two Kenyans, Geoffrey Mutai and Moses Mosop run almost a minute faster on the Boston course.

That Mutai and Mosop are fine distance runners, no one can doubt. What should be in doubt is whether the road race from Hopkinton to downtown Boston, held on Patriots’ Day every year should be called a marathon.

Read on here.

No comments:

Post a Comment