Geoffrey Mutai, blazing a record New York Marathon.

The New York Marathon is a weird hybrid event.  You’ve got people who are there because they’re professional distance runners vying for the $200,000 top prize, and you’ve also got fools who show up and run in outlandish costumes.  This year, the professionals were the main attraction.  In the lack of human interest stories like trapped Chilean miner Edison Pena (who trained for his marathon while trapped below the surface of the earth in a mine collapse), it was up for the professionals to create drama.  Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya ran the 26.2-mile New York Marathon in a course record 2 hours 5 minutes, beating the old record by 2:37.

Mutai is a remarkable runner, in that he blazed the record pace without the help of any co-runners or pace=setters or anything.  He just ran it, and ran it fast.  He also holds the credit for running the fastest marathon in history, as he ran a marathon in 2:03:02 in Boston in April; it does not count as a world record because the course was a net downhill run.  The official world record for the marathon, 2:03:38, was set in Berlin by Kenyan Patrick Makau.

Ethiopians claimed a 1-2 finish in the Women’s New York Marathon, with Firehiwot Dado besting Buzunesh Deba in a race that also flirted with setting a record.  The top American finishers were Meb Keflezighi, who finished sixth for the men, and Molly Pritz, who finished 12th in her marathon debut.

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