Anyone who has run a marathon knows the importance of their shoes fitting properly and an enforced swap shortly before Sunday’s Rotterdam event clearly cost Stephen Scullion. Possibly the setting of a new Irish marathon record.
After pacing himself impressively up the 35km mark, passing halfway in 1:04.42 and by then certainly on course for a sub-2:10 clocking at least, Scullion had to stop and walk for a short period, his feet “numb” given he was running in a pair of shoes too small.
He still managed to finish in 2:14:32, unfortunately just two seconds short of the qualifying time for the European Championships in Munich in August.
Conditions …
- April 11, 2022
