Assefa limps to 2:11:04, third-fastest marathon ever
Tigst Assefa was projected at 2:09:44 through 40K in Berlin, then her stride broke and she limped the last 2.2 kilometers home in 2:11:04, the third-fastest women's marathon in history.
Read the whole week in one goAssefa won Berlin on a torn Achilles
Races and results
Assefa limps the last 2K, runs 2:11:04 in Berlin
Tigst Assefa won the Berlin Marathon in 2:11:04, the third-fastest women's marathon ever, after running inside world record pace for 40K and limping the closing mile. Her 5K splits sat between 15:15 and 15:30, then the final 2.19km took 8:04, which is 18:23 5K pace. At 40K she was projected to finish in 2:09:44.
3rd fastest female marathon ever with a limp for the last 2k!
Guye Adola wins Berlin in 2:02:50, a PB nine years later
Guye Adola won the men's race in 2:02:50, a personal best almost a minute under the mark he set on his Berlin debut in 2017, completing an Ethiopian sweep. Five American men broke the 2:16:00 US Olympic Marathon Trials standard, led by Charlie Sweeney's 2:09:33, Chris Chavez counted.
Shoes and fuel
Cloudsurfer 3 lands at 318g, Vomero Plus beats Triumph 24
Doctors of Running measured the On Cloudsurfer 3 at 318g in a men's 10 with a 45mm heel and 37mm forefoot, $160, and calls it a solid daily trainer and not a speed day shoe.
the cushion shoe to go for here