PSA: This friday Haile is going to try to break his own marathon record

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http://www.dubaimarathon.org/

and then on sunday I’m going to try to finish my first

STAY TUNED
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I would consider it a great achievement to run 1200 meters at his marathon pace, maybe even a 2:20 800m. There’s no mention of a rabbit in the article, but how many people can lead him through a 61:30 half marathon anyway? I assume he’s comfortably at 80-85% max heart rate just clipping off 4:40 miles. Amazing.

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are you running the marathon this sunday in AZ??

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are you running the marathon this sunday in AZ??

Nope, Houston
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Its incredible. I can do 400 at his pace

Haven’t tried 800 yet. I think 800 would be my limit though.

I would consider it a great achievement to run 1200 meters at his marathon pace, maybe even a 2:20 800m. There’s no mention of a rabbit in the article, but how many people can lead him through a 61:30 half marathon anyway? I assume he’s comfortably at 80-85% max heart rate just clipping off 4:40 miles. Amazing.

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800m is more realistic for me too, although I beleive I can bench press more than he can.

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I could have benched more than him a few months ago.

But I stopped doing anything with my upper body in the month preceding the marathon, in hopes of saving 5lbs of weight, lol

800m is more realistic for me too, although I beleive I can bench press more than he can.

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go here:

http://iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=O/age=N/season=2008/sex=M/all=n/legal=A/disc=HMAR/detail.html

a lot of guys that can run under 61:30.

Geb has run a 3:52 mile so yeah…4:40 pace is pretty comfortable for him. an amazing athlete…i hope he does it.

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Does anyone know if the dubai marathon will be televisied, or on the internet somehow?

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Best of luck Jack.

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Good luck with your marathon. When he set his last WR there was thread on ST about his pace. Just about evryone (I exaggerate a bit) on ST could run a mile or two at his pace :wink:

Styrrell

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Ha! I might be able to run a half mile in the time it takes him to run a mile.

To the OP: Good luck this weekend!

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I wouldn’t trust that list. I know firsthand that Lance ran a 57:12 half marathon.

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According to Universal Sports, they’re going to be covering it (not sure to what extent).

I had a laugh when I saw this thread as I remember last yr a buddy of mine was sending me updates from Europe where he was following it LIVE & I was posting it here. We were having some fun following it through the middle of the night in '08:

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=1637307;search_string=dubai%20marathon;t=search_engine#1637307

Should be a good time again for us running geeks!