Two sports at once is very often the road to nowhere.Ask knibb.and all others who have tried this.Ok if you are not a medal contender, I guess.
Awesome time by Yee
Wonder if British athletics will try to pressure him to stay with the marathon. Hope he resists and returns to triathlon as planned. If he wins hold in LA , he will become the most accomplished triathlete ever
Not sure if Knibb is the best example here with her mixed team relay medal, but I agree in principle.
If Alex went to LA to race both triathlon and the marathon, giving Brit Tri a stroke in the process, all he’d get would be fond memories.
Not sure what the context of that reply was, but I definitely would like admin to change this thread title to get rid of the marathon bit and have this as a generic Alex Yee thread.
All the run shoetubers have been saying that the NB SC Elite is one of the slower supershoes around. It’s probably one of the heaviest compared to the other brands. The grest thing about it is that it comes in actual 2E sizes for wide-footed people like me who couldn’t otherwise use other brands.
Insane splits for sure. As per his Stava “Probably my best performance of my life”
Great run by Alex today, but to put it in perspective, he may have only slipped into the top 100 marathon times this year and and into the top 400th all time, his time is probably equal to about 2:10 with non super shoes.
He was wise to switch to triathlon from running.
Thats not stopped over excited ppl in social media comments sections convinced he’s going into the next Olympics on two fronts!
To be fair Pokey. He has only focused on the marathon for one year! It is quite reasonable to believe that if he really focused on the marathon, he could deliver a better time.
Also. That was the second fastest British time ever. Either his training partner or pacer, forgot which. Did come fourth in the Paris Olympics apparently
Triathlon is first right? He could win that and do a victory lap in the marathon. Likely UK wouldn’t have all 3 runners with a chance at a medal in the marathon anyway, so why not get a lot of press and excitement for your nation and sport this way?!
I’m sure if Alex ran in LA he’d have more press than Philip Sesemann, who just just beat in Valencia. It would be a PR boon for triathlon.
But me, being me, I’m just wondering how much Yee would fade in an Ironman. Runs a 2:20?
he got an IAAF score of 1192 the same score for the half would be 59.52 min . and 13.04 for 5 k.
Worth noting from the strava that after starting his watch 35 seconds after the start, he ran exactly 42.2km (measured by GPS, not wheel) in 2:06:01. True racing in that last mile!
Will his size means he’ll struggle with the ‘pure power’ demands of a Kona TT? (idc)
Insane more in the pure marathon running sense. It seems like he nailed a perfect negative split at that time. Not really extrapolating anything onto Kona. Would love to see him try it after LA though.
out if interest what was his last mile and k and the last 5 k ? I see from 35 to 40 k he run 14.49 (2.58 k pace)
how much swimming an cycling did he do since his last super league race ?
to add was the filed a bit weaker as the last 2 years iam pretty sure there was more sub 2.04 runners ? the 2 top female times were crazy fast.
He doesn’t put his swims on strava, his last bike is 24th November, he’s registered 10 bikes on strava through the whole of November.
In his part 4 video @6:50 he says he had done 175km running and about 10hrs of cycling that week, did not say how much swimming, but then shows him doing swim sets with a squad, and he also says @8:03, the last 3 months of swim, bike and run, thinking about Valencia, so must be keeping up all 3
Speed ramped up for the last kilometre: 41.2 to 42.2 took 2:45. Look at the strava for more. Beat the others in that group of five.
Not replying specifically to Zuckerzeit but is hilarious to go on letsrun.com (which is full of the most miserable people in the world) and see them try to discredit this performance.
Honestly, that’s one of the more sane threads in that cesspit.
