Talk:Marathon

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new woman record in 2022

https://nos.nl/artikel/2424610-brinkman-spot-met-wetten-van-topsport-en-loopt-nationaal-record-in-rotterdam Nienke Brinkman "Prompt klokte ze 2.22.51, waarmee ze het negentien jaar oude Nederlandse record van Lornah Kiplagat uit de boeken schreef." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.149.83.125 (talk) 02:45, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Ambient temperature double-check?

> runners recorded their fastest times when the temperature was around 6 °C (43 °F)

That value, just six centigrades above freezing sounds strange, because such kind of weather (late autumn / early winter) usually implies high humidity, like fog or rain as well - a combination that places heavy toll on joints, esp. the knees and thus detrimental to running. Even road cycling races (where athlete's body weight doesn't burden the knees) tend to cease by mid-autumn and restart in late February at the earliest (from European perspective). 94.21.121.96 (talk) 15:19, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Since 1981,the Marathon world record progression list shows all the records have been either spring or autumn, so your comment doesn't seem to match the data.

And I'm dubious that humidity is high when temperature is around 6°C. Surely this is going to be very location dependent. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 22:45, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Paragraph break

I've added a paragraph break for clarity, which editor Track1News talk has been reverting for unknown reasons.

This seems trivial, but the main desideratum of an encyclopedia is that it should be readable. Excessively long paragraphs are hard to read. A paragraph that wanders from one topic to a different one is hard to follow.

I'm baffled as to Track1News talk's zeal for eliminating paragraph breaks. The explanation "we didn't have a paragraph break here before so we don't need one now" has no basis in Wikipedia policy.

Geoffrey.landis (talk) 15:07, 25 January 2023 (UTC)