HardLoper wrote:
It's about time wrote:It's about a 7 1/2 hour flight from NYC to London. It's about 6 1/2 from NYC to SF. OTOH, it's about an 11 flight for Centro to London from the west coast.
1. He was already in Sacramento before he raced in SF
2. There would not be enough time to fly to Lausanne and overcome jet lag
3. Faster competitors doesn't mean you run faster. DL races are huge and there can be too many guys running 3:34 pace to fight with for positioning
Definitely the right choice.
Jet lag didn't seem to bother Lipsey. Almost two weeks is plenty of time to overcome jet lag if he would have gone directly from Sacramento.
Running with a bunch of fast guys fighting for positioning is pretty much what London will be like. He failed to make the final at Rio because he got boxed in the stretch - which led to his DQ. How will he learn to race in those situations by avoiding them? And most people run their fastest times running against fast competition.