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Poster: sadfsadds
Subject: RE: Geoffrey Mutai 2:03:02!!! in Boston Where Does it Rank?
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Your delusional if you don't think the tail wind helped on the downhill. Have you ever run downhill with a tail wind and then run downhill with a head wind or no wind?

Crimea River wrote:

One more thing:

A tailwind while running a decently steep downhill in a marathon is of little benefit. You are already limited by biomechanics, not wind resistance. It is on the flat and uphill sections that the benefit is available. It is apparent that the men were able to capitalize on that (largely due to Hall), whereas the women weren't (Smith had dropped and they were all probably dawdling, relatively speaking, looking at each other (Desi mentioned this), until Desi finally took over in the final (downhill) sections. By that time the tailwind was pretty useless, the course is steep enough.
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