A bit of an analysis. Some time ago I had a look into Finland’s 2009 top 20 marathon results so far. Top 10 was up to 2:37h, top 20 up to 2:45h. It felt quite good to aim for something that gets one name into that list. Even dreamt of perhaps making it into the upper half. Definitely, this would make a good blog entry, story among friends, relatives, colleagues at work. Of course, absolute results tell more about the marathon level in Finland than my own stellar:ness, but who cares, who knows? Should it go onto the CV as well… ?
The strain of thought pretty much was this: The majority of marathons with faster Finnish runners are done: all spring races, World championships in Berlin, senior world championships in Lahti, Helsinki and Stockholm marathons. The Berlin marathon would attract some good but not many (in grey above). So the current top 20 list shouldn’t move around too much anymore. Ha! Far wrong! Read the rest of this entry »
