Talk:Marathon world record progression

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Wiki Education assignment: Technical and Professional Writing

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2024 and 7 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): MountainsCalling (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Eaturvegeez (talk) 19:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction of New Edits

Hi all, I am working on this page and plan to edit for organization and consistency. MountainsCalling (talk) 17:58, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Removed chronological (implied in progression), called for citations, made punctuation edits, made “Women Only” category a new paragraph, deleted portions based on WP: Relevance and WP: Notability, reorganized paragraphs, adjusted pictures, removed weasel word based on WP: Manual of Style/Clarity, inserted Oxford comma as a stylistic choice, removed the first version’s opening sentence to avoid redundancy MountainsCalling (talk) 03:44, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Super shoes

I think there should be at least a mention about super shoes. Maybe a paragraph. Records have been shattered since the introduction of shoes like Vaporfly. Even the Radcliffe record. Beekeela (talk) 14:48, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Progression?

Sure, modern athletes and athletics - the technology and the training - are superior to those of yesteryear. The problem I have with this is it completely ignores the other, significant, variables. That is, just because a record is broken does NOT mean that the new record holder would have been as fast in different conditions. Weather, altitude, trail (track?) condition and seemingly small differences in level all have important effects on the winning times. Why isn't that mentioned here? In the case of indoor tracks, the variables are much better controlled, but even there atmospheric conditions - temperature and humidity, assuming no air movement (which from what I've seen is incorrect), are important in long distance running performance. Not to mention track conditions - traction, rebound, etc. Outdoors on normal streets, the variables are even more important. How important? IDK! And that's another point - shouldn't this article mention the research results quantifying the various variables impact on performance?98.19.179.27 (talk) 14:54, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]