Has anyone every heard of someone running 4:30s in an olympic distance run split (age group)?
How about 34sec 100s in the swim?
I think the timing folks at Spudman were just guessing and filling in blanks when their chip system screwed up!
My girlfriend posted something similar to that once in a sprint race. But it took starting 6 minutes early or so in the wrong wave…
I suppose you could post 4:30s if you can’t count laps (assuming there were laps)
turns out this would be a world record 10k time!
Actually, the 10K world record (26:27 I believe) is closer to 4:10 (4:11 and change I think) per mile than 4:30. 4:30’s work out to about 28:30. Dam fast none the less (NCAA DIV 1 All-American caliber), but not earth shattering - maybe lower end international caliber. At the end of a triathlon though would be an entirely different story.
Sorry, just a ex-runner who enjoys numbers.
Thanks for the correction - I must admit, I just quickly googled the number and didn’t really check on the source to closely!
I am still betting that its a timing error for this particular group… (sour grapes I guess…) 
The 10k world record is acually 26:20…just to be a jerk…
Your right, 26:27 was Geb’s (or maybe even Tergat’s) last record. I wasn’t aware Bekele had lowered it by so much.
Thanks
To the original poster, there are alot of 10K “Worlds Bests” floating around out there for various types of road courses (point to point, loop, downhill, etc…). These aren’t really world records, but sometimes get written up by the media or race promotors as such. An actual world record has to be run on the track (with a curb, 3 stop watches, drug testing, etc…). Maybe this is where your number came from?