(28-02-2012, 11:19 PM)Bierzo Baggie Wrote: ...
45 years later and there certainly wouldn’t be any Brits capable of beating Clayton’s time. Sorry I’ve only looked at the UK men, but there probably wouldn’t be any Aussies either. And Spanish marathon running seemed to peak in the 1990s.
I find these statistics pretty amazing. At the end of the 80s you’d have said that the next generation would be running the same times as the Kenyans are running now. 2 05 at least. What happened?
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Similar story (though fewer of them) here in Oz.
We had DeCastella and Monaghetti running 2:08s around 89/90 (Brad Camp ran 2:10 about then as well) and Pat Carroll clocked a 2:10 a few years later, but the current crop of Aussie champs (other than the occasional African import) are these days running 2:15s.
And on a global scale, it's very interesting that the fastest ever marathon time by a non-African is Da Costa's 2:06:05 back in 1998. These days that ranks as only the 65th fastest ever time!
What indeed, has happened?
February 2012 - Base Camp
