🚀 go-pugleaf

Tony Bell asks about womens track versus road bests.
In the 10K, track best is Kristiansens 30:13.??, set in Oslo
(cool summers evening), and the road best is by Liz McColgan at 30:38
set I think in Orlando. Obviously the advantages the track affords,
is that it is dead flat, and you potentially have 20,000 screaming
fans all the way around (must give some help).
The womens track world best for ten miles has just been set at
around 55mins by Lorraine Moller (NZ), the road best is substanially
quicker, but of course this is not exactly run very often on the track.

Another point, about the Tokyo half, in second place in the
fantastic time of 60:11, was none other than Todd Williams,
of whom so much has recently been written.

Mike Hoyland jlb@uk.ac.dl.cxa