But if he had heard that the runner had run a mile in three minutes flat, 45 seconds faster than everyone else, he'd refuse to believe it.
Portugal's Jessica Augusto was a distant second in 53min 15secs, while Great North Run runner-up Magdalane Mukunzi of Kenya was five secs further back in third place.
"You call yourself a middle-distance runner when you've run a mile in under four minutes, " Moorcroft, now chief executive of UK Athletics, told BBC Sport.
It is designed for high performance, with a high-visibility backlit LCD display providing the runner with critical in-run metrics of time, average and instantaneous pace and distance.
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If you take a specialist running chain like Run and Become or Runner's Need you can see this process in action.
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Harken says every runner, especially beginners, should have their run analyzed.
The Mets' slumping slugger was called for obstructing a runner rounding first base in a three-run first inning and went hitless in three at-bats for New York during a 4-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.
When hitter Al Bridwell slapped a line drive into center field, the runner on third trotted in with the apparent winning run, and the happy crowd poured onto the field.
Mr Pistorius, 26, is known as the "blade runner", and was the first double amputee to run in the Olympics.
"I'm very excited to be in the final, " said Bartoli, runner-up at Wimbledon in 2007, after ending a run of seven successive defeats in the last four of WTA events.
After yielding a third-inning home run to Jones, Scherzer didn't allow another runner to reach and was poised to become the first Detroit pitcher to start a season 8-0 since Jeremy Bonderman in 2007.
The Giants, needing just a run to win, had the bases loaded, with Merkle the runner on first.
To save energy, Jonathan didn't run in the 4x400m relay semi-final but was the last runner in the final on Sunday, in which the Belgian team won bronze.
With House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) declining to run for a leadership post in the minority, the front-runner for Republican leader is the current majority leader, John Boehner of Ohio.
Paterson's runner Tim Kjenstad, a 51-year-old California firefighter, has run Badwater before, but this year, sacked by severe dehydration and bodily functions that don't need to be mentioned, he had to DNF (the dreaded initials for Did Not Finish) at mile 44.
To understand the consequences of the Great Recession, consider this analogy: The U.S. economy is like a marathon runner who runs too hard and pulls a hamstring, but finds himself with another race to run.
For the first time in Haiti's two decades of patchy democracy, there is no clear front-runner for president among the 19 candidates, and the contest is likely to go to a run-off, due on January 16th.
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Galen Rupp, the top American male distance runner, has convinced himself he has an outside shot at a medal, but 12 Kenyans have run faster times in the 10, 000 this year.
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Amateur runner Dean Irvine, recently completed a half-marathon and says before he started running he went to a specialty running store where the staff watch you run up and down the street outside so they recommend shoes that are correct for the runner's gait.
They still run together but the 41-year-old Mr. Blais has become the more obsessed runner and races distances beyond 10K, including the New York City Marathon.
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Upon seeing a guest returning from a run, a doorman outside radios in so that just as he crosses the threshold, the runner is greeted with a bottle of water and a hand towel.
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