Boston strikes back: The Boston 2012 meltdown

@sporttech_Es @jeukendrup @sweatscience ah,I see asker beat me to it! My thoughts on the race here: very brutal day...

Boston strikes back, as Kenya claim a double on a brutal day Wesley Korir and Sharon Cherop have won the 2012 Boston Marathon for Kenya. Surprise names, perhaps (particularly Korir), but you might, at first glance, call it "just another Kenyan victory". It was anything but. Today was a reminder of the difficulty of the marathon, because Mother Nature, so kind to Boston one year ago, decided to strike back and show the other extreme of marathon running. The winning times - 2:12:40 for Korir and 2:31:50 for Cherop, are a staggering 9:38 and 9:14 slower than last year's winning times respectively. That's almost 19 minutes, collectively, and we were today reminded that even the great runners are "mortals" in the face of tough conditions. The timing from Boston tells of three races, and it's too tempting not to compare. There was Geoffrey Mutai of 2011 - the astonishing 2:03:02...

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