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Poster: HS Coach2
Subject: RE: If Boise is not affected by altitude, why all the slow dist. times?
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Batty ran way off the back and had a huge kick; he just miscalculated. Yes, it was poor tactics. The altitude would have effected him in the last 600 of the race, not the first 600. The fact that he had enough left to pass so many people even though he was forced into the outside to pass proves he had too much left. According to you, Arkansas altitude must be really terrible. In 2010, no one including Olympian Andrew Wheating broke 4 on the anchor. That must be the secret to Arkansas success for so many years, the altitude training. And this "armchair opinion" comes from a guy who has raced in Boise.


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So Miles Batty, a 3:54 for *full* mile, gets the stick in 7th, and "runs tactical" to barely break 3:58 for 1600 #^%* meters in a losing effort? Yeah right. Almost every year guys are running 3:55-ish to close their DMRs, and I recall Bayer running 3:53, and this year, in the deepest field of milers ever, guys are struggling with 3:58-4:00. I believe the reactions of the athletes' bodies vs. the armchair opinions of "tactical, tactical tactical" excuse-makers. Altitude is having an effect out there.

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