About a week ago, the BBC had a piece on the prospect of a two-hour marathon; the current record is 2:03:59 and the article saw a sub-two-hour marathon as something for another generation of runners.
We got a quarter of the way there yesterday, when Geoffrey Mutai put up a 2:03:02 at the Boston Marathon. That's not a "record" since the course isn't a loop and is a bit downhill, but that's still the fastest anyone has run a marathon. After that show, we might need to shave the ETA of a 1:59 and change marathon a decade or so.
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S&P sent a shot across Washington's bow, warning that the US' AAA rating isn't set in stone and could be downgraded if they don't get their fiscal act together. We'll need to rewrite a lot of financial textbooks if that happens, since we tend to use the 3-month T-bill rate as the proxy for the "risk-free rate."
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Rick Adelman got canned in Houston. The Pistons could do far worse. Kuester has already lasted longer that the 36 hours I jokingly mentioned as the over-and-under of how long after the last game he'd be canned.
While the men nay be only few years from 2 hours, the women still 2:22.
Posted by: alan | April 20, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Second was 2.03.06.
Posted by: alan | April 24, 2011 at 03:18 PM