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London Marathon Elite Fields

  • 22-04-2010 06:26PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭


    Despite the volcanic ash scenario, Dave Bedford has managed to get all his elite athletes over to London for 2 of the best mens and womens marathon fields ever assembled.

    Is Wanjiru beatable and will Tadese get the distance this time?

    Is Mikitenko back to her best or will Shobukhova become the next womens star over 26.2?

    Should be 2 great races anyway. Fileds below (Martin Lel a scratch again unfortunately).

    http://www.virginlondonmarathon.com/news-and-media/news-and-media/champions-return-defend/


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    I saw something the other day that they had chartered a private jet to go out and fetch Wanjiru and bring him to Madrid where they were going to stick him on a bus, and they went around Africa picking up whoever else they needed to pick up as well. I guess they didn't put them on the bus in the end though, or at least got it to stop at the next airport it passed once the airspace re-opened and put them back on the plane again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    robinph wrote: »
    I saw something the other day that they had chartered a private jet to go out and fetch Wanjiru and bring him to Madrid where they were going to stick him on a bus, and they went around Africa picking up whoever else they needed to pick up as well. I guess they didn't put them on the bus in the end though, or at least got it to stop at the next airport it passed once the airspace re-opened and put them back on the plane again.


    Dave Bedford said that they dipped into the contingency fund and spent 150k sterling getting everyone there.

    That's some contingency fund!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭dermCu


    Dont forget that Tadese broke the WR for the half marathon a few weeks ago. Has he peaked too early? Even if he hasn't I suspect that Wanjiru just has a bit too much marathon know how to hold him off.
    Kibet might be the guy to split them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭colblimp


    Dave Bedford said that they dipped into the contingency fund and spent 150k sterling getting everyone there.

    That's some contingency fund!

    I'm presuming you didn't watch the programme about the VLM extorting money from charities, then? That's where the 'contingency fund' originates!:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭rovers_runner


    colblimp wrote: »
    I'm presuming you didn't watch the programme about the VLM extorting money from charities, then? That's where the 'contingency fund' originates!:rolleyes:

    The money the make is crazy, charging charities £5000 for 4 running places and a small box of advertising in a magazine and a website banner.

    Where does the money go? Who gets paid(or pays themselves) £240,000 for organising a running event.

    It's time that this event should be taken back by the people. Charities and participants should refuse to by these "bond" places.
    Why not have everyone run for £60 (instead of £30 to cover costs) and then choose a cause they can donate to personally ensuring the charity gets 100% of what they raise.


    Was interested last year in the rumours doing the rounds about a second marathon in London only for it to be shot down by someone on the London Marathon events Ltd board......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Peckham


    I think I paid £32 for my entry....although I agree, something seems very odd about the charity nature of London marathon.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    The scandal about the charity places that program was trying to create was nowhere near what the headlines of the program might suggest. There are very few places going for the thousands to the charities and only about a third even go to the golden bond places. Most are in the ballot for anyone to apply for, just three or four times as many people apply for them.

    The only bad thing I actually got from the program was that the bonded places never change which charities they go to so unless a charity was in at the start years ago they can never get a place now without paying for one of the very few expensive advertised places.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭ManFromAtlantis


    while not in the elite section I'll be keeping an eye on steve way? (bournemouth ac) england. he only took up running in his 30's was 16 stone - lost about 5 stone and now is aiming to break 2 : 18. !!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Clum


    My guess is Kibet or Kebede to win. They can push each other to 2.04.xx if the pacers get it right at the start.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    With Lel not running I think Wanjiru will run away with this one (awful pun in there).

    Kibet has disappointed in every race since Rotterdam last year. It looks to me as if that had been a once-off.

    Last year I'd have fancied Tadese, but when he blew up last year it put a question mark on his marathon ability.

    Then again, marathons are notoriously unpredictable.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭MrCreosote


    Wanjiru to win! If the weather's good within 30s of the WR (faster or slower).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭T runner


    Clum wrote: »
    My guess is Kibet or Kebede to win. They can push each other to 2.04.xx if the pacers get it right at the start.

    I think the organisers made an error with the pacing last year. They had a gang of photographers in the van with the pacing clock and only a small clock. It was clear that the pacers had a problem seeing the clock. The sun may ahve also been a factor. (clcok needed a shade) Every time they accelerated to get a closer look the bloody van accelerated! I remember the pacers signaling several times.

    The commentators blamed the pacers--saying everything but what they meant ofcourse (that they were African idiots who couldnt read a clock).
    It pissed me off no end. Hopefully the organisers will abondon the few quid extra profit by leave the photographers out of the pacing van and install a readable chronometer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭mithril


    robinph wrote: »
    The scandal about the charity places that program was trying to create was nowhere near what the headlines of the program might suggest. There are very few places going for the thousands to the charities and only about a third even go to the golden bond places. Most are in the ballot for anyone to apply for, just three or four times as many people apply for them.

    The only bad thing I actually got from the program was that the bonded places never change which charities they go to so unless a charity was in at the start years ago they can never get a place now without paying for one of the very few expensive advertised places.
    I agree. I thought it was a pretty poor program.

    They did not have access to the accounts of the London marathon and did not have the material for the expose they were promising.
    They then got diverted into other peripheral issues to fill the hour slot.

    As long as the money for charity places ultimately is spent on charity then I have no problem with what they are charging for them.

    There were no examples in the program of spending by the marathon foundation on areas that seemed inappropriate to their mission statement.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,895 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    How much is it to enter the race itself?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Sunday 25th April:
    BBC 2 - 08:30am - 10:00am - London Marathon 2010, Part 1
    BBC 1 - 10:00am - 2:00pm - London Marathon 2010, Part 2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭christeb


    Sunday 25th April:
    BBC 2 - 08:30am - 10:00am - London Marathon 2010, Part 1
    BBC 1 - 10:00am - 2:00pm - London Marathon 2010, Part 2

    Excellent, we'll all be catching this right after our Sunday AM LSRs - looking forward to it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Sunday Morning
    06:40: MotoGP
    07:45: Match of the Day
    08:30: London Marathon

    Think I'll be doing my LSR on Saturday!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,895 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Is MOTOGP going ahead?

    Thought it was called off due to the Volcano and air flight restrictions??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Is MOTOGP going ahead?
    Thought it was called off due to the Volcano and air flight restrictions??
    You're right. That's an extra lie-in of an hour or two. They've moved it to 3rd October.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    In Lel's absence I'm calling Wanjiru to win the mens.

    Liliya Shobukhova to win the womens.

    Hopefully my double @ 3/1 and 12/1 will pay off!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭shels4ever


    You're right. That's an extra lie-in of an hour or two. They've moved it to 3rd October.

    lazy :)
    Should be a run window :)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    ...and Pekham is off, ony 42 seconds after the gun went off he must have got right up the front.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    robinph wrote: »
    ...and Pekham is off, ony 42 seconds after the gun went off he must have got right up the front.

    How can you follow runners? Can't find anything on the site.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    There is a Facebook app if you have their race numbers:

    http://apps.facebook.com/marathon-tracker/index.html


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    It doesn't give proper split times by the looks of it, but think peckham is through 5km in about 21 mins


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    A couple of people dropping out of the womens by the looks of it, they didn't go off as fast as the mens pacers last year but I guess they shouldn't have all asked fo the same speed to half way. Yamamuchi a bit off the lead but still ahead of a pb time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭Sosa


    The tracker is useless...i make it 21:16 for peckhams first 5k.
    It has not updated since


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    He's through 10km alright, but it's clearly written by someone who doesn't know anything about split times and which umbers you actually want to know. I can't do the sums in my head but:

    Start: 9:45:42
    5km: 10:06:58
    10km 10:28:17

    Quite who wants to know the hour of the day that you passed each point I'm not sure, but anyway.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Through 10k in about 43 minutes then...if it's been done right. The traker on the official adidas website says he hasn't started yet


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    The tracker is awful (seems aimed more at spectators than internet voyeurs!), but at 14.1km/hr average pace, he would be bang on the money for sub 3 (or another 3:00:00!). C'mon Peckam!

    Anyone know DermCu's number?


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