Karnazes vs. Armstrong
It will be Dean Karnazes' last marathon of a 50-day, 50-state, 50-marathon quest this Sunday at the ING New York City Marathon.
It will be Lance Armstrong's first career marathon with hundreds of thousands of people watching!
Will Karnazes go out and make sure that he doesn't get beat by Armstrong?
The six (6) races that Karnazes did not do with charity runners, such as Houston's own Keith Kelleher, went like this - in order:
3:50:52 - Lewis & Clark Marathon, St. Charles, Missouri
3:46:56 - Boulder (Colorado) Backroads Marathon
3:44:12 - Portland (Oregon) Marathon
3:20:04 - St. George (Utah) Marathon
3:28:19 - LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon
3:37:27 - Marine Corps Marathon
Everybody seems to think that Lance will hover around the 3-hour mark for his marathon debut.
And they may not be far off the pack as Armstrong will be paced by three (3) running legends:
10 miles -- Alberto Salazar, the last American winner of the New York City Marathon in 1982
10 miles -- Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first Olympic women's marathon champ in LA in 1984
6 miles -- Hicham El Guerrouj, the reigning Olympic 1,500- and 3,000-meter champion
The trio will reportedly try to keep Lance at a 7-minute per mile pace.
Care to chime in on this one?
And you have just over 24 hours to still get in on the "predict Lance's time in NYC" contest!
It will be Lance Armstrong's first career marathon with hundreds of thousands of people watching!
Will Karnazes go out and make sure that he doesn't get beat by Armstrong?
The six (6) races that Karnazes did not do with charity runners, such as Houston's own Keith Kelleher, went like this - in order:
3:50:52 - Lewis & Clark Marathon, St. Charles, Missouri
3:46:56 - Boulder (Colorado) Backroads Marathon
3:44:12 - Portland (Oregon) Marathon
3:20:04 - St. George (Utah) Marathon
3:28:19 - LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon
3:37:27 - Marine Corps Marathon
Everybody seems to think that Lance will hover around the 3-hour mark for his marathon debut.
And they may not be far off the pack as Armstrong will be paced by three (3) running legends:
10 miles -- Alberto Salazar, the last American winner of the New York City Marathon in 1982
10 miles -- Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first Olympic women's marathon champ in LA in 1984
6 miles -- Hicham El Guerrouj, the reigning Olympic 1,500- and 3,000-meter champion
The trio will reportedly try to keep Lance at a 7-minute per mile pace.
Care to chime in on this one?
And you have just over 24 hours to still get in on the "predict Lance's time in NYC" contest!
posted by WalkSports.com | 11:49 PM
5 Comments:
My prediction is 2:47:47. We shall see ...
I missed Karnazes in the Marine Corps Marathon, which I also ran (3:56:54). Beautiful day and beautiful course.
Congratulations!
MCM was my first marathon 2 years ago ... so I didn't "enjoy" the beautiful course as I was just worried about finishing.
Another cyclist who ran it last year ran it in under 3 hours. I would think that Lance doesn't want that guy to have beaten him on the race course when he got him on the bike.
Who knows.
I vote 2:54:00!
I just hope that NBC doesn't waste too much time on Lance. With the fields assembled on both the men's and women's side, it's going to be a terrific race--there are several people in each group who could legitimately win.
It'd be nice to peek in on his race from time to time, but extended coverage would be like ABC showing a B'ham Barons game in lieu of a MLB playoff game so that we could watch Jordan ground out to the pitcher.
OTOH, it will be nice to see Salazar, Joanie, and El Gerrouj out for an easy jog.
Laurent Jalabert was the cyclist. He ran 2:59 in Chicago this year, too.
I THINK I WON!!!
way to go, Lance!!!
I knew he would finish under 3!
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