Watching the NYC Marathon (Read 100 times)

Is anyone else sick and tired of the NYC Marathon coverage? Imagine watching the Super Bowl or World Series and having to break away to hear about the home town of the players.  Now this year we are having to listen to the report of the breathing and heart rates of 10 runners.  We get to see the painting of the lines on the road.  Also, why don't the get some hosts who really know running.

KillerB

Is anyone else sick and tired of the NYC Marathon coverage? Imagine watching the Super Bowl or World Series and having to break away to hear about the home town of the players.  Now this year we are having to listen to the report of the breathing and heart rates of 10 runners.  We get to see the painting of the lines on the road.  Also, why don't the get some hosts who really know running.

 

KillerB

You're just bitter because you didn't have Gebrselassie on your NYCM Fantasy team.

I like the back stories and the following of athletes vitals.

What I don't like is that there wasn't much update on the athletes stats per mile, i.e. pace at every mile and how it relates to finish times; also think there's something wrong with the mileage position updates. For example, Mary Keitany seemed to be on pace to beat the course record, based on her time at the 25-mile point, but she came well below. BTW, I taped the marathon, so I'm going to have to go back and verify this, but nonetheless I wish there were better updates for athlete positioning.

And, I also wish they would show the athletes in the rear, not just the winner, too much time showing the leader. I never heard anything about Gwen Jorgensen, much less show video. BTW, she came in at 2:41:01...pretty good for a non marathoner in her debut.

And Huddle, of course, was outstanding, but once she lost the lead group, we didn't hear or see how she was doing.

And, I also wish they would show the athletes in the rear, not just the winner, too much time showing the leader. I never heard anything about Gwen Jorgensen, much less show video. BTW, she came in at 2:41:01...pretty good for a non marathoner in her debut.

 

And Huddle, of course, was outstanding, but once she lost the lead group, we didn't hear or see how she was doing.

One of my pet peeves while the announcer was introducing the elite women was that Jorgensen, in my unscientific estimation, got more applause from the crowd than Huddle did.  Don't get me wrong - I'm not trying to be a hater and I have complete respect for what she did. 2:41 at NYCM on what her training reportedly has been is crazy.  And maybe I was too far away from the start to get an accurate read.  However, it seemed that way to me.  If this were a triathlon, I get it.  But given that this was a road race and Molly is one of the best American female road racers right now, I didn't get it.  I don't know.  Maybe it's harder to understand what Molly is accomplishing.

I like the back stories and the following of athletes vitals.

 

What I don't like is that there wasn't much update on the athletes stats per mile, i.e. pace at every mile and how it relates to finish times; also think there's something wrong with the mileage position updates. For example, Mary Keitany seemed to be on pace to beat the course record, based on her time at the 25-mile point, but she came well below. BTW, I taped the marathon, so I'm going to have to go back and verify this, but nonetheless I wish there were better updates for athlete positioning.

 

And, I also wish they would show the athletes in the rear, not just the winner, too much time showing the leader. I never heard anything about Gwen Jorgensen, much less show video. BTW, she came in at 2:41:01...pretty good for a non marathoner in her debut.

 

And Huddle, of course, was outstanding, but once she lost the lead group, we didn't hear or see how she was doing.

I just watched it again and they had Mary Keitany at the 25-mile point with 2hrs 13 minutes elapsed, if that were the case, she would have obliterated the course record. To their credit, one of the announcers did say that she had about two miles to go at the 2:14 point (I missed that one while watching on race day), and since they kept the 25 mile status posted through out the rest of the race I was wondering why people were not excited about seeing a new course record set.

 

I bet Jorgensen got more applause, Olympic gold medalist for the USA is pretty hard to misunderstand and sounds like a much bigger deal to most people than American record holder.

The-us (as in "this" with an accent)

While they were following the leaders there was a lot of drama in the battle for 3rd in the men's race and both 2nd and 3rd in the women's race. Huddle and Kipyego were about a minute and :45 seconds respectively behind Chepkirui with 5 to go and both caught her. Huddle was trailing Kipyego by about 20 seconds during the chase, then closed the gap to 8 seconds at mile 26 before Kipyego realized she was closing fast and put on a spurt to pull away. None of this was mentioned until the final 400m of the race.