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People should organise a running contest to honor him and call it “The Turing Compete”.

They could send it on the road, and call it the touring Turing Compete ….

There was a CMU CS intramural basketball team in the '80s called "The Turing Machine".

I don't know what Turing's view of cricket was, but you could imagine holding a Turing Test cricket event in his honor.

"His time was 2 hours 46.03 minutes which by modern marathon times does not look so great "

yes it does!

This is in the context of Olympic qualification. Today I believe you need to run under 2 hours 11.5 minutes to qualify.

Yep!

That's a top 50 on Madrid Marathon and a Top 500 (out of 45000 finishers) for the New York Marathon.

I'd say that's pretty nice! I mean, not Olympic (or maybe yes, depending on the country), but pretty solid.

You're right. An awful lot of good recreational runners would be delighted by that time.

Also related, this reminiscence by Alan Garner, the author. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/alan-turing-my...

My favorite story is the game that Turing invented with one of his chess-and-running buddies (Champernowne?) where one would have to jog around the house after each chess move.

Turing as a Runner (1999)