Discussion: Hanny Allston 2:46:32 marathon debut

Way to go Hanny!

What does she mean by "I had managed to negative split the course by two minutes"?

That should mean that she ran the second half 2 minutes faster than the first half.

Check out her goals for 2007 and beyond - wicked ambitious... but doable, which is amazing.

When she comes to run Boston someone in New England should organize a meet and invite her to come to that too.

WOW!!!!

Awesome run. Annichen Kringstad's marathon debut was 30 secs slower, when she was 22. She did a 2:40:30 two years later, in between her '83 and '85 WOC wins. It's hard to get a comparison with Simone, because her first (and only I think) marathon was the Jungfrau in 2006, which has a climb of 1,829m. It starts in Interlaken and finishes at the Kleine Scheidegg (2,061m, just below the N face of the Eiger). Simone did 3:34:59 - the male winner (an Ethiopian) did 2:59:34. Simone has talked on her web site about repeating the Jungfrau this year. Does anyone know of other marathon times by women World Orienteering Champions?

you have to search for Katalin Olah ( 1991 & 1995 winner) from Hungary.. i think she posted some great time

I actually thought Hanny might have gone a bit faster than that, based on some of the times she's done recently at other distances (I'd thought low 2.40s), but the conditions weren't great, the course isn't a particularly fast one and the field was thin. I'd be pretty confident that a sub-2.40 is well within her range on the right day.

The men's class-Winner had 2:38:18 and he recently ran 2:24 h on a flat marathon (Gold Coast Marathon 2005).
That shows that Hanny could "easily" run a much faster time as long as the course is flat...