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標題: 一年一度世界跑檀盛事 ~ 第112界波士頓馬拉松 [打印本頁]

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-20 13:57
標題: 一年一度世界跑檀盛事 ~ 第112界波士頓馬拉松
Would Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya be able to get his 4th crown (2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008??)?
Would he be able to beat the all time Boston marathon course record (2:07:14) set by him back in 2006?
What about Lance Armstrong (7-time Tour de France Champion) running his first Boston?

Monday 21st April, 2008
Mobility Impaired Division start time: 9:00 a.m.
Wheelchair Division start time: 9:25 a.m.
Elite Women’s start time: 9:35 a.m.
Elite Men’s and Wave 1 start time: 10:00 a.m.
Wave 2 start time: 10:30 a.m.
Note: all time in Eastern Time Zone (Boston Time)

I don’t know about you.
But I will glue my a$$ to the chair from 10am to noon that day.
You can also watch it on webcast for free from 9:30am to 12:30am (Boston Time) which is Hong Kong time Monday night 9:30pm to 12:30am.

I have 3 friends running Boston this year. I checked the entrants list, there are 4 Hong Kong runners qualified for this year’s event.

www.wcsn.com

[ 本帖最後由 lvrunner 於 2008-4-20 04:21 編輯 ]

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-20 20:13
期待這場盛事。此乃是跑手們夢寐以求的馬拉松。
希望各參加者都可以創佳績。
我相信岩士唐可以做到2:40

(他的PB是2:46)

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-20 22:57
I think Armstrong can do it too. I wonder who is pacing him this time? Joan Samuelson paced with him at NYC last year. I wonder if they allow that at Boston?

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 21:50
Elite women have started, 7.7C at Hopkinton, absolutely perfect marathon running weather!!! Elite men and wave 1 begin in 2 minutes.

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 21:58
Armstrong said he won't be running faster than a 2:46 pace. He will be averaging a 6.50 mile pace. He only put in a 14 miler long run to prepare for this BM.

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作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 22:28
Wave 2 just started!! Good luck to my friends and everyone!!!

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-21 22:48

令人矚目的盛事正式開始~
good luck to all of the participants ~

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 22:53
Hi Michael!

Are you watching? I am watching on TV here!! All the elite men are running course record pace now!!! I wonder who else is watching.

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 22:56
Wow! 1:03 half way!!!!

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-21 23:04
I watch it a while then ~
actually I am reading my history sources for essay and presentation..
but don't have motivation to work right now (it is 1:12am here.... but I don't want to sleep)
so it can be a good excuse for me

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 23:20
The men are doing a sub 2:06 pace!!! They are all flying!!!!!!! Wonder how they will do when climb up the notorious Heartbreak Hill.

Robert C is gaining speed and finally pulling away from the pack. Hope his heart won't get broken later.

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作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 23:31
Robert C is running a 4:37 mile pace now!!! I can't believe it!!!

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-21 23:32
watching now ~
the leading man is going to uphill now ~ and he is still flying ~
while two leading women catch up with each other tightly ~
the atomosphere is really good there

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-21 23:33

原帖由 lvrunner 於 2008-4-21 23:31 發表

 登錄/註冊後可看大圖

Robert C is running a 4:37 mile pace now!!! I can't believe it!!!

Robert C = leading man ?

(get it now ~ if he can keep it til the end... it will be an amazing time... he has already left the pack .....

[ 本帖最後由 michaelyw 於 2008-4-21 23:42 編輯 ]

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 23:42
Yes, Robert Cheruiyot bib #1, the Keyan that won 03, 06 and 07. He might set another BM record again. I wonder how Armstrong is doing? I forgot to track him on my cellphone. The two women looking very storng, less than 2 miles for them.

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-21 23:44
ohoh~~
1:51 for men and 2:15 for women now ...
I am interested to know how Armstrong performing now ...
but I think I will sleep after seeing leading man and woman finished the line

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 23:50
Something rather interesting about the leading white woman. She won last year's Honolulu marathon and I got an autograph from her and took a few pictures with her in Honolulu. If she wins, I better frame the picture.

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-21 23:56
oh ~ finally the black one win with her strong finish, though the Honolulu champion tried her best to catch her~

now see whether Robert C would make an amazing time~

he has slowed down a little bit now ~

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作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-21 23:57
Too bad the Russian woman did't win. But it was an exciting finish!!!

作者: 力 時間: 2008-4-22 00:01
Robert C 2hr07min won again

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-22 00:01
Robert C slowed down a little at the last mile, I wonder why? But he gets his 4th crown. Congrats to him. The same guy that fell at the finish line at the 2006 Chicago marathon. Unbelievable!!

Michael ~ the woman champion is only 22 years old!! Very inspirational!!

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作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-22 00:01
Robert finished with 2:07:4X~ I think he is afraid of breaking his heart

anyway it is time for me to sleep ~

ivrunner ching~ please help me to notice Armstrong

Good night

[ 本帖最後由 michaelyw 於 2008-4-22 00:02 編輯 ]

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-22 00:39
Webcast finished broadcasting the marathon but it is still showing on TV. The camera is following Armstrong until he passes the finish line. He won't be breaking any PB this time, he is aiming for a sub 3 intead and is surrounded by a bunch of pacers. He looks big and very muscular especially those biceps. I think he weights 195lb. But he is truly amazing and very inspirational after a fight back from testicular and brain cancer.

[ 本帖最後由 lvrunner 於 2008-4-21 09:41 編輯 ]

作者: lvrunner 時間: 2008-4-22 00:52
Michael ~

Lance Armstrong finished in 2:50:58. I can tell by his face he was hurting, he said it was hard, way harder than NYC last year!!! He said he was suffering the last 4 miles. He said he is doing New York City again this coming November.

For the two women, see their splits, almost identical to each other and pace too. Only difference was the two seconds, which cost her $75,000US!!!!!

My friends came in 2:59:10, 3:38 and 3:40. Congrats to all of them.

[ 本帖最後由 lvrunner 於 2008-4-21 10:22 編輯 ]

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-22 08:29
標題: 回復 24# 的帖子
Anyway, that's good for Armstrong still can finish sub 3 in his first Boston

feel a bit sorry for the Russian woman who was keenly struggle with the final champion and didn't give up for the whole game. Just 2 sec cost $75000... wt a pity...
but anyway, congratuation to all of them.
also, good work for your 3 frds as well

作者: michaelyw 時間: 2008-4-22 08:38
標題: Cheruiyot cruises to fourth title in Boston
Cheruiyot cruises to fourth title in Boston,
Tune hangs on to win closest-ever women's race

http://web.wcsn.com/article/news.jsp?ymd=20080421&content_id=61977&vkey=wcsn_news&dpre=

Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 4:31:00
By Jim Hage / WCSN.com

BOSTON -- Robert Cheruiyot joined Bill Rodgers and Clarence DeMar in the ranks of Boston Marathon immortals with his third-straight win and fourth overall in two hours, seven minutes, 46 seconds on Monday.

Cheruiyot ran with the leaders before breaking away from a four-man pack on the Newton Hills 20 miles into the race with a 4:37 mile.

Cheruiyot was on pace to break his course record of 2:07:14 set in 2006, before slowing over the final few miles. But Cheruiyot was clearly pleased to win again: "Boston, I like. Boston, I love."

"This was the hardest [win]," Cheruiyot said. "I tried to push because I wanted a course record ... but it is very difficult to run alone. You need company."

Only DeMar, who won seven titles between 1911 and 1930, has more Boston wins than Cheruiyot. American Rodgers and Canadian Gerald Cote both won four times here. Kenyan men have now won 16 of the past 18 Boston Marathons.

Abderrahime Bouramdane of Morocco took second in 2:09:04, and his countryman, Khalid El Boumlili, was third in 2:10:35. Both men were burnishing their credentials in the hope of being named to their country's Olympic team. Boumlili ran here three years ago and did not finish.

In the women's race, Dire Tune and Alvetina Biktimirova left a group of four at 16 miles, then ran together until the final 400 meters on Boylston Street, where Tune used a punishing kick to win in 2:25:25. Russia's Biktimirova took second, just three seconds back, in the closest women's finish in Boston Marathon history.

For much of the way up and down the hills, Tune drafted directly behind Biktimirova. At 24 miles, Tune pulled even and briefly took the lead before it became clear that the Russian would not be intimidated into relinquishing the win. In the last mile, the two traded the lead twice more before Biktimirova succumbed.

Tune said through a translator that she wasn't sure she would win until she had safely crossed the finish line. Tune, 22, is the first Ethiopian women's champion at Boston since Olympic gold medalist Fatuma Roba won the last of her three consecutive titles here in 1999.

Last week, Biktimirova visited the Circle of Champions near the finish line, where past marathon winners are honored. She had hoped to have her name carved into that circle and appeared disappointed with her runner-up status.

"I wanted to win very badly," Biktimirova said through an interpreter. "I was trying to keep the race under control [by leading], but I didn't have enough speed at the end."

Rita Jeptoo, the 2006 Boston champion, finished third in 2:28:34, a creditable performance but not the dispositive effort she sought in her quest to make the Kenyan Olympic team. Jelena Prokopcuka, from Latvia, pushed the pace through the first half of the race and finished fourth in 2:28:12.

Defending champion Lydia Grigoryeva ran with the leaders through 25 kilometers but faded and finished ninth in 2:35:37.

Both Cheruiyot and Tune won $150,000; the runners-up earned $75,000.

Nicholas Arciniaga was the first American, 10th in 2:16:13.

"I was shooting for the top 15," said Arciniaga, who runs for Hansons Distance Project in Rochester Hills, Mich. "It worked out well for me."

Ashley Anklam was the top American woman, 15th overall in 2:48:43.

Seven-time Tour de France cycling champion Lance Armstrong finished in 2:50:58 "on a much harder course," he said, than his two much-publicized marathons in New York.

Running, he said, "is a hobby, it's what I do to keep fit. At the same time, that makes it hard because I don't train as hard as I did on the bike, I don't do this for a living. Every time, I say I'm going to train harder, but I never do."

Ernst Van Dyk of South Africa won his seventh title in the push rim wheelchair division in 1:26:49. Van Dyk won six straight from 2001 to 2006.

Wakako Tsuchida, from Japan, won her second-straight wheelchair race in 1:48:32. Two-time Boston champion Cheri Blauwet, from Menlo Park, Calif., finished third.

"It wasn't quite my day," Blauwet said. "But halfway through today's race, I was already thinking about tweaking my training in preparation for [the Paralympics in] Beijing in September."

The weather, which was so bad last year that the race was almost canceled, was not a problem Monday, with 61 degrees at the start in Hopkinton, bright skies and a slight breeze. More than 25,000 qualified, the second-largest field since the centennial race in 1996, when more than 36,000 official runners finished.

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Robert Cheruiyot notched his fourth victory Monday, following wins in 2003, 2006 and 2007.(Reuters)

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