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LAS14

(13,783 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 01:28 PM Apr 2018

Do you think the weather might have influenced the American Boston Marathon...

... wins? Given that the favorites were mostly from Africa, and someone mentioned that the weather wasn't a problem for some people who trained in Minnesota, etc., I just wondered if Africans were more negatively impacted than people more used to this stuff. Any info? Ideas?

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Do you think the weather might have influenced the American Boston Marathon... (Original Post) LAS14 Apr 2018 OP

Very possible jmowreader Apr 2018 #1

Of course GeorgeGist Apr 2018 #2

No more so than runners who don't train in warmer/hotter climates are affected Fla Dem Apr 2018 #3

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)

1. Very possible

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 01:36 PM

Apr 2018

Kenya’s Rift Valley is a great place to train long distance runners because of the altitude. (It’s over 7000 feet MSL.) It’s not a good place to practice cold-weather running.

GeorgeGist

(25,321 posts)

2. Of course

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Tue Apr 17, 2018, 01:46 PM

Apr 2018

Fla Dem

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3. No more so than runners who don't train in warmer/hotter climates are affected

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:50 PM

Apr 2018

when the races are in warm/hot weather. Luck of the draw. If you want to compete world wide, you need to be able to adapt to whatever the local climate may throw at you. I would hate to think we are dismissing the American women's success because the weather was crappy. They had to run in that weather as well.

Men’s Open Division
1 Yuki Kawauchi 2:15:58 JPN
2 Geoffrey Kirui 2:18:23 KEN
3 Shadrack Biwott 2:18:35 USA (California)
4 Tyler Pennel 2:18:57 USA (North Carolina)
5 Andrew Bumbalough 2:19:52 USA (Oregon)
6 Scott Smith 2:21:47 USA (Arizona)
7 Abdi Nageeye 2:23:16 NED
8 Elkanah Kibet 2:23:37 USA (Colorado)
9 Reid Coolsaet 2:25:02 CAN
10 Daniel Vassallo 2:27:50 USA (Massachusetts)
DNF Galen Rupp USA (Oregon)

Women’s Open Division
1 Desiree Linden 2:39:54 USA (Michigan)
2 Sarah Sellers 2:44:04 USA (Arizona)
3 Krista Duchene 2:44:20 CAN
4 Rachel Hyland 2:44:29 USA (Massachusetts)
5 Jessica Chichester 2:45:23 USA (New York)
6 Nicole Dimercurio 2:45:52 USA (North Carolina)
7 Shalane Flanagan 2:46:31 USA (Oregon)
8 Kimi Reed 2:46:47 USA (Missouri)
9 Edna Kiplagat 2:47:14 KEN
10 Hiroko Yoshitomi 2:48:29 JPN
16 Molly Huddle 2:50:28 USA (Rhode Island)

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