Mens Marathon... (Page 2)

"As a point of interest...my wife asked me (since I'm a marathon finisher!) "what would those guys put in their personal water bottles?" Obviously everyone is different in the mix(s) they use but does anyone know for sure what these world class athletes use other than gatorade or any of the multiple electro-lite replacement drinks on the market?"

I would be interested in this information as well.  The "drinks" they make themselves where in unmarked contaniers.  I want to drink a 2:05 minute marathon....

I just saw the results for all the men marathoners- I didn't realize how many runners DNF'ed since NBC didn't show all that. 

Rank	Country	Name	Time
G		WANSIRU Samuel Kamau	2:06:32   OR
S		GHARIB Jaouad	2:07:16
B		Kebede Tsegay	2:10:00
4		Merga Deriba	2:10:21
5		LEL Martin	2:10:24
6		ROTHLIN Viktor	2:10:35
7		ASFAW Gashaw	2:10:52
8		ASMEROM Yared	2:11:11
9		RITZENHEIN Dathan	2:11:59
10		HALL Ryan	2:12:33
11		FOKORONI Mike	2:13:17   PB
12		BALDINI Stefano	2:13:25
13		OGATA Tsuyoshi	2:13:26   SB
14		ANDREEV Grigoriy	2:13:33
15		PERTILE Ruggero	2:13:39
16		MARTINEZ Jose Manuel	2:14:00
17		KIRWA Francis	2:14:22
18		LEE Myongseung	2:14:37
19		HOLMEN Janne	2:14:44
20		GOUMRI Abderrahim	2:15:00
21		SOKOLOV Alexey	2:15:57
22		SELL Brian	2:16:07
23		ANDRIANI Ottaviano	2:16:10
24		ROBINSON Dan	2:16:14
25		DENG Haiyang	2:16:17
26		BOURAMDANE Abderrahime	2:17:42
27		MATVIYCHUK Vasyl	2:17:50
28		LEE Bongju	2:17:56
29		KULKOV Oleg	2:18:11
30		GOMES Paulo	2:18:15
31		MALINGA Alex	2:18:26
32		CORDERO Carlos	2:18:40
33		RI Kum Song	2:19:08
34		SZOST Henryk	2:19:43
35		GARCIA Jose Amado	2:20:15
36		KIFLE Yonas	2:20:23
37		SAEED Nasar Sakar	2:20:24
38		de SOUSA Jose	2:20:25
39		MAASE Kamiel	2:20:30
40		PAK Song Chol	2:21:16
41		MUSINSCHI Iaroslav	2:21:18
42		KIM Il Nam	2:21:51
43		CARDONA Juan Carlos	2:21:57
44		RAMAALA Hendrick	2:22:43
45		BASNET Arjun	2:23:09   PB
46		ORNELAS Helder	2:23:20
47		FRANCO Procopio	2:23:24
48		CRUZ Nelson	2:23:47
49		ECHEVERRIA Roberto	2:23:54
50		KIM Yiyong	2:23:57
51		LI Zhuhong	2:24:08
52		BAT-OCHIR Ser-Od	2:24:19
53		DLOMO Norman	2:24:28
54		SOWA Arkadiusz	2:24:48
55		Ramadhani Samson	2:25:03
56		BASHINGILI Ndabili	2:25:11
57		MUNYUTU Simon	2:25:50
58		BERNADO Antoni	2:26:29
59		WU Wen-Chien	2:26:55
60		TROOP Lee	2:27:17
61		LEON Constantino	2:28:04
62		STOJILJKOVIC Goran	2:28:14
63		AREVALO Alfredo	2:28:26
64		QADER Yousf Othman	2:28:40
65		TENORIO Franklin	2:29:05
66		BAUTISTA Francisco	2:29:28
67		KEJZAR Roman	2:29:37
68		NSHIMIRIMANA Joachim	2:29:55
69		AYELE Seteng	2:30:07
70		MAMASHAYEV Takhir	2:30:26
71		CEYLAN Abdil	2:31:43
72		RIOS Jose	2:32:35
73		HEM Bunting	2:33:32
74		TSCHOPP Marcel	2:35:06
75		LOSKUTOV Pavel	2:39:01
76		SATO Atsushi	2:41:08
		MESFN Tesfayohannes	DNF
		REY Julio	DNF
		FAGAN Martin	DNF
		RIYADH Al Mustapha	DNF
		EL ZAIDI Ali	DNF
		dos SANTOS Marilson	DNF
		KIBET Luke	DNF
		ZAKARIA Abdulhak	DNF
		FONSECA Luis	DNF
		KUZIN Olexandr	DNF
		de ALMEIDA Franck	DNF
		GORDEEV Andrei	DNF
		NTYAMBA Joao	DNF
		MOSUHLI Moses Moeketsi	DNF
		Bayo Getuli	DNF
		SHAMI Mubarak Hassan	DNF
		MAINE Simon Tsotang	DNF
		LEBOPO Clement Mabuthile	DNF
		SITKOVSKYY Oleksandr	DNF
		Musenduki Mohamed Ikoki	DNS
		OSAKI Satoshi	DNS
		SOARES Augusto	DNS

Hey, they all qualified for Boston!

I just finally watched this last night.  I admit to recording the Olympics then watching it at my leisure 1 or 2 (or, um 4) days afterwards so I can fastforward through all the parts I don't want to watch.

I have to agree with at least one poster above.  Our US guys may have "run smart" and couldn't have predicted that fast a race.  But after awhile, if those guys aren't dying...THIS IS THE OLYMPICS PEOPLE!  Beat them or DNF trying!  If they had pushed it to try to catch up the last half and then DNF'ed because they gave it their all...I'm okay with that.  But to just run your predicted splits the WHOLE race?  Note that I am NOT advocating trying to keep up with that pace from the beginning...give them a chance to fall off the pace. But it's the same thing we saw in the women's marathon...everyone let one chick get away thinking, "she's going to fade".  And then she didn't.

There's a time to race your own race and there is a time to race the race you're in....

Oh, and the piece on de Lima was NUTS.  I can't believe NBC let that A-hole who attacked him speak his message on their coverage!  It's like...letting him WIN.