well i did a race on the weekend and i got smoked by this girl on the run. i was like where the heck did she come from. turns out she ended up spliting 1.18 for the run!!! thats gotta be one of the fastest splits worldwide for the run in 1/2 ironman for a girl aint it? the course had hills too! too fairly biggish ones!
probably not nearly as fast as the M80+ guy who smoked a local 5k in 12:16 :)
(there were 4 people under 13:00 to give you an idea, lol, also another M80+ took 2nd in the 10k with a 40:35)
(let’s just say that the ‘race marshals’ were fairly lackluster in terms of directing people properly and making sure that everybody ran the whole thing instead of taking ‘shortcuts’)
This is all tongue in cheek, I don’t mean to imply that she didn’t run 1:18 for real as I personally know quite a few gals that run that fast (albeit maybe not after a 1/2IM bike leg).
actually i think this same girl broke 3 hours for marathon in nz ironman. thing is tho, she dont look like a runner, shes kinda chubby!
I am pretty sure that Lisa Bentley ran 1:19 at Half Ironman Utah last year and outsplit many pro men. She also just ran 3:01 at Ironman Oz and also outsplit many pro men (again !).
yeah but she’s not kinda chubby!
Props to Lisa Bentley…saw her in the process of running a 1:18 half at Dairyland last year. She had the 2nd fastest run split of the day (yep, overall!). Her feet barely seem to touch the ground - poetry in motion!
The girl in question is Jess Draskau-Petersson, and she’s still quite new to triathlon. Hopefully you’ll be hearing more about her in coming years.
See Apr 03 at http://www.triathletes-uk.org/
Half-Ironman UK 2002 run course was basically 6 miles up a hill and six miles back down again. Annie Emmerson ran 1:13:53, outsplitting the next fastest woman by nearly 8 minutes, and outsplitting all the men except for one!