brien evans wrote:
If I were in his position I wouldn't have backed off and took it all the way to the finish line. That was probably his only shot at greatness and he gave it away by being mentally weak. Sad.
If I were in his position I would have actively sped up. Might as well set a World Best Time in addition to winning the Boston Marathon.
Makes Paper wrote:
How can professional runners be so unaware of what's going on in their race? That's really impressive, and not in a good way.
It’s a bit like counting track laps in your head, easy in principle but near impossible in practice. Even assuming they remembered him moving to the front early on, they don’t know if he’s still way out ahead or DNF’d, and won’t risk speeding up mucking up their pace plan just to find out. It’s a lot easier keeping track of just those in your pedigree and they all know each other. CJ was not a threat worth tracking as far as they were concerned.
When you’ve done your prep work, you can be fairly confident that anyone who lone-slogs the lead will be caught by the peloton unless that leader truly has much superior strength (and if so, they do deserve to steal the win). That confidence worked as expected.
brien evans wrote:
If I were in his position I wouldn't have backed off and took it all the way to the finish line. That was probably his only shot at greatness and he gave it away by being mentally weak. Sad.
Gimme a break, dude! Who's the mentally weak one here?
If I were in Albertson's position at the point when you say he "backed off", I would have sprinted each additional 100 meters in 11.34 seconds all the way to the finish line in my only shot at greatness. I wouldn't have "given it away". No, I take that back. I would have run a Kipchoge pace from the start. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Um...MAYBE ALBERTSON COULDN'T WIN after going out to such a big lead!! Maybe he felt so lousy that he couldn't sustain the pace at the time he "backed off", but he fought on and finished top ten. Did you even consider that? Give him credit for trying his best and SUCCEEDING.
Regarding second-placer Lemi Berhanu, if I were in his position, I wouldn't have let Benson Kipruto win. Regarding third-placer Jemal Yimer, if I were in his position, I wouldn't have let Kipruto and Berhanu beat me.
If I were Dick Beardsley, I wouldn't have let Alberto Salazar beat me back in the "Duel in the Sun" in 1982.
Ugh...these armchair quarterbacks like brien evans! Sad.
Sure you would, couch expert.
wejo wrote:
Showing Albertson's strategy was a great one, Jon Gault tells me that the men's winner Benson Kipruto said he had no idea CJ Albertson was in front until they caught him.
How stupid is this comment?
Hey, if he'd been able to run 5 minutes faster, none of the pack would have ever realized he'd won until the presentation.
The chase pack might have thought he dropped out.
I was at 6.5, and the lead was so big at that point, the chase pack could not even see CJ. They had to have known someone was up there, as all of the press at that point was with CJ, and the chase pack was by themselves.
Ask the Dutch Cyclists wrote:
I don't know, but imagine Annemiek van Vleuten might have a few thoughts on the matter.
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wejo wrote:
Showing Albertson's strategy was a great one, Jon Gault tells me that the men's winner Benson Kipruto said he had no idea CJ Albertson was in front until they caught him.
The quote I saw was that Kipruto didn't know Albertson was 2 minutes ahead. Maybe Gault took that to mean Kipruto didn't know anyone was ahead of the pack. I take it to mean he knew someone was up there he just didn't know the lead grew to 2 minutes.
Can someone post a link to the actual quote?
NativeSon wrote:
zxcvxcvz wrote:
How hard is it to see that someone's gone ahead and not come back to the pack?
IT is possible.
Catherine Nyambura said she had no idea that Domescu ( Ithink that is her name) the Romanian was ahead in the Olympics until very late in the game.
The man took off at the gun and perhaps he never saw him . I'd imagine that the pack was talking about him in both Amharic and Kiswahili but who knows? We'll never know.
Wouldn't you notice that the lead vehicle is nowhere near you? I can understand not having counted how many people are ahead and have come back, but seeing a giant truck with the time count missing should be a clue.