Mark Floreani 2:36:07

I think if Mark trains, he can beat Ritz's 12:56!

Gahhhh!! Ran 2:38 for my marathon yesterday. Next time ill get ya haha.

What an amazing performance, Mark! Congrats. I underestimated you by a long shot.

I took 4 gues at 10k 20k 30k and 35k. Drank at every water spot, water and gatorade and poured water on my head 10 times.
I did not want to hit the wall bc of lack of calories.

Solid clip dude. Did you do any out of the ordinary refueling? In other words, did you just take the race drinks on the course or did you do anything different. Just curious. ~ PAUL

When are we going to see the "Mark, the day AFTER the marathon" interview? How ya feelin' Mark? Can you walk yet? No rest for the wicked man...keep these videos coming.

you guys need to do more videos of you guys i think its interesting, make like a documentary or some sh!t.

Mark are doing the day after marathon walk? Great Job!

So could you at least tell us if your going to run another one in the near future and if so when? You could drop a lot of time still.

No Ipod

The NYRR asked me to wear a GPS thing that they were testing. That is the thing that is on my arm. No Ipod for me. The crowd and the bands were really cool and all I needed.

I am wondering when we will get to see the "fingers to the sky" finish line photo. That might definately win the weekly photo contest.

whats that thing on marks arm? did he run with an ipod?

Congratulations! Great time!

Mark, Great time for the NYC marathon !

Very impressive Mark! Boston next?

way to go dude, that time is insane

Great job man! I'm sorry to have doubted you.

Y O U T H E B E S T ! ! ! ! ! nice time man! if you train hard next time, can we see a 2:20? Your truly my favorite runner man! Congrats on getting the job done, continue the success!

Mark, what do you have up on your upper right arm?

Mark, how come the gps said your total was 2:34:58 and Ryan logged it at 2:34:59, but the official is 2:36:07? It is pretty amazing that out of 37,500 marathoners, you came in as the 88th person to cross the finish line. When looking at the official site, I can see why alot of people enter just to finish. What a great way to start year number 3 on Flotrack. (Yes, Ryan, we are looking for some extra suprises out of you too!)

nice job dude....what's next?

So my 3:04 prediction was way off, sorry mark now that i know you're a beast you should so do some damage and see if you can get into the trials

Great time. Glad you fessed up about the training. I was about to call bs on that. Time to return to your roots and run Chicago instead of giving NY the props.

Mark,

Great job. I am impressed, though I see you admit to training more seriously than some of us were led to believe.
Of course, you were an excellent prep and Division I collegiate runner, so maybe at age 25 we shouldn't expect you to be a slouch.
I suspect you could easily get down to 2:20 or so. But, you might have to give up some other endeavors.
Regards,
Jon

The only thing that this site is dedicated to is creating a community around our sport. This is a perfect "day of rest" from politics, especially on the two year anniversary of Flotrack.....with Mark's marathon debut....

that's quite a time!!!!! congrats

i'm impressed!

You sandbagger! Congrats old man - that's what you'll look like walking down stairs this week:) Great job Mark.

I apologize for underestimating you Mark.

Congrats to a very good finish time. I believe the "six days" refers to Marks verbal agreement time to run the NY Marathon. His training time was obviously more than what he revealed to flotrack fans. Good performance.

I think a 8:4ish steeple all american can open up with a 2:36 with 6 weeks of training. Go look at his logs, and its not like he got fat over the past 2 years

Congrats man, great race! I had you down to crash and burn in 3:02. 2:36 is SOLID!

The 6 days of training is BS, you've lost alot of weight recently! If you really ran 2:36 on minimal training you should get back at it seriously and for for a OT qualifier next year.

niiiiice

did mark just shun an interview for his own site? did the race go to his head? he's leaving you behind ryan!!

Haha, he acts humble because all his friends are olympians, but 2:36 is legit....i bet you he trained his ass off though, you can't open a 2:36 out of a can....

Nice race mark!!

straight up boss

great job! that's a tough time to run on limited training ( or any training )..

That wasnt even hard for him. Wow. Awesome run man.

Guess it s true that marathoners really benefit from the cheering on the sidelines....Special thanks to Brian Mahoney for being in a critical place at the right time....You did it Mark!!! Thanks for the phone call.

London 2012? I think so! Congrats!

It looks like the marathon is your event if what you say about your training is true. If you trained consistently for a year you'd be under 2:20 no problem.

wow...

that is all I can even say
wow

Great job, Mark- you look fantastic and you had a magnificent run around NYC! How could anyone contemplate hating this effort? Great show!

Wow... Awesome result Mark, congratulations! How fast did you think you were going to run?

did ANYONE think he'd go that fast?

I saw all the haters n doubters n was hoping they'd eat their predictions Nice Race You may have created a monster

You've got three years to knock off 17+ minutes.

now train for a year and run the chicago marathon in 2:20

so logically, if i only need 6 days of training for 6 minute miles, then i only need 4 days of training to revolutionize the running world and run 4 minute miles for a marathon

wow, thats impressive

Mark I love you!

Ya my 2:56 prediction was way off. I thought you were going to go out 15 to 16 for the first 5k and then slow down untill you were running 7 minute miles for the rest of the race.

Wow nice job. I was way off, 2:47 was my prediction lol.

Hey, you were training back at the Trials! Next time don't run 27 in your buildup you d u m b a s s! A proper ten weeks and you can can do 2:20!
Seriously, very inspirational Mark. Congrats!

Can't believe so many people believed it when Mark joked about his lack of training! No way would he disrespect the marathon by training for only six days.
Big congrats to him. Knew he'd smoke it.

Amazing, guy has tremendous talent...gJob Mark-

Not hating. My guess was soley based on the fact that he said he only trained a few weeks or 6 days? I couldn't imagine going under 3 hours with that kind of base. But I am impressed. Congrats!

After this interview he got kind of testy with the media and went to the elite runners tent for a rubdown. Great pacing Mark. congrats

hes lost a bit of weight recently.. wow great time

respect.!!! The waffle king turns to marathon man!!!... 2.36 on NYC course is awesome!!!

Sweet deal bro.

great run mark. your tempo run group didn't do you justice. over 3 hours? where did that come from?

Kind of joking with the training. I did some decent training for a about 5-6 weeks now.

way to go mark!

Great job!
I feel like an idiot for predicting 2:48.

thats ridiculous considering how little training you did

Great race, man. With a couple months of training you could do 2:25. Kim Smith dropped out somewhere between 30 and 35k.

29th American. Nice Job Mark.

DUDE Mark 2:36 off no training is sweet. Dude you should actually train hard for one so maybe you could get close to 2:20

man!! mark you may have found your calling. imagine if you had put in an additional 6 more days of training!?! you may have challenged abdi. Nice.

dude...mark is a beast! 6 minutes miles for 6 days of training!
maybe he should of only done 5 days of training so he could run 5 minute mile pace... hahaha
dang im impressed

Sweet. Mark you are the man. Hopefully I'll catch up to you guys soon!

Congrats..way impressive time

wow man. congrats

i'm impressed. nice job, mark!