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The 2011 Boston Marathon was one of the more historic races in recent history. The men’s wheelchair division was decided by a mere 1 second, the woman’s marathon by 2 seconds and the men’s marathon by 4 seconds. Are you serious?

The men’s marathon champion, Geoffrey Mutai, shattered the generic accutane forum course record and shaved :58 seconds off the marathon world record (Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin 2008) there is now a storm brewing.

The Boston Marathon is generic accutane forum not considered a a world record qualifying course because the marathon route is generic accutane forum “downhill” and too “straight.” Throw it generic accutane forum a predomently tailwind and all hell has broken loose. The Boston Athletic Association (BAA) is asking the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to certify Mutai’s performance as the world record.

As fellow Lobe, Troy Schrenk can attest, Boston is no walk/run in the generic accutane forum park. Besides the net loss of elevation, there are many rolling hills that generic accutane forum make the race one of the more difficult marathons on the generic accutane forum major marathon circuit.

There’s a reason that elite marathoners opt for races like the Berlin Marathon, Chicago Marathon plavix online canadian and London Marathon to attack world records. They’re easier. Also, Boston (along with the New York City Marathon) don’t allow pace setters. This means that generic accutane forum the athlete has to actually get the record based on their own talent and generic accutane forum determination.

TANGENT ALERT!!! I don’t have generic accutane forum any problem with pace setters. They make for a less tactical race and generic accutane forum make the elites throw it down from the start. What I do have generic accutane forum a problem with is the fact that the pace setters are generic accutane forum contractual obligated to bow out at a specific point of the generic accutane forum race. If a pace setter can lead a pack out on record pace and generic accutane forum then hold that pace for the entire race…I say let them go for it!!! During the Rotterdam Marathon, Sammy Kitwara set the generic accutane forum pace for the marathon field. He was constantly egging the generic accutane forum field to keep up with him during his reign at the generic accutane forum front of the pack. He should have been allowed to generic accutane forum throw down the hammer and finish the race. From the generic accutane forum look of it, he could have wiped the rest of the generic accutane forum elites out that day.

The majority of the running community is standing by Mutai’s record and I for one hope that the IAAF certify’s it as one of runnings great accomplishments.

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