Hey thanks for your defense (at least in the "logic department") on part of that! However you also wrote "Sage's PR in the marathon is about 70th to 80th fastest american male any given year." That is certainly not true. My PR (granted it was from way back in 2012 and i probably won't touch that time again) is 2:16:52. If we had an amazing year maybe, 40-50 American guys can run that time (But it would be the deepest year in American history I believe). Keep in mind I only ran 2:18:30 at the 2012 Olympic Trials (also deepest all-American race in history with 22-23 guys under 2:15) and was still top 45....fairly mid-pack, but still top 50. It was also the second fastest marathon of my life. For the 2016 Trials most guys did not hit the sub 2:19:00 standard (more guys hit sub 65:00)....how many Americans do you think actually run under 2:17:00 on any given year?! Heck, if you want to just got this "US Marathon Performances/Rankings" for this year alone I'm technically ranked 6th in the country still for 2018 so far with my slowish 2:19:50 at Houston:https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men/senior/2018?regionType=countries®ion=usa&drop=regular&fiftyPercentRule=regular&page=1&bestResultsOnly=false
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Doubtful wrote:
Don't see it happening...
He's getting slower, meanwhile a slew of Ex-D1 runners are hitting the scene who are fast and getting even faster. His window is over.
The qualifier is based on time, there isnt a limit to how many can achieve it, so the fact that other people is irrelevant. Sage's PR in the marathon is about 70th to 80th fastest american male any given year. I dont think anbody is pretending he has any chance of being competitive, so bringing up other runners' times seems irrelevant.