Skeptical gfghjj wrote:
Sounds like revisionist history to me. Write the story now that the ending is here...
Well, maybe the conclusion.
But it is a fact he run Marshfield, he run a hilly marathon negative splitting, and another one pushing hard from start, and that hard downhill stage at hakone, and run the second half of Boston three days in a row while tapering, and totally dictated the pace of the race early on, which might have been much slower if not.
So yes, obviously, if he doesn't win, all of the previous loses its relevance, but the fact is he did it, he won, and it sounds like it didn't happen by chance, but as a result of a well executed plan.
And of course, gritty determination, endurance and strength. No one would have won with his plan but him .