Mo was interviewed beforehand and said something pretty obvious.
He said he was training for 5k and 10k, and not doing the long runs needed for a marathon; so that if he did carry on, the people who had been doing marathon training would have found him out in the last few miles.
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
I started a thread earlier today saying that if Mo had stayed in the race today he could have won it. I think he could have, especially if he had hung back rather than following the leaders through 25k-30k in 14:30.
Why was this deleted? ?
yawn wrote:
Maybe because you are a regular know-it-all, one of hundreds with a silly hypothesis posting at the same time?
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
True.
No way he would have won that. In the end, the race turned out to be a real war of attrition, with even the marathon specialists struggling and fading. Mo Farah might have had a chance in a sprint finish in a slow race, but London 2013 was the opposite of that.
The real question to me is, given the hot weather (I ran in London, it was hot), why didn't they ask for a more realistic pace? This was clearly not the weather for a world record attempt.
If they want regular shots at a world record in London, they will have to make it an 8 o'clock start. Of course, that would mean much smaller crowds (London's real selling point), so I think they should just forget about records, unless it's unusually cold and a south easterly wind (London is one of the courses where wind can be beneficial).
Why did he drop out at such a random point? He stopped very quickly and almost cut up a couple of guys in doing so.
wasn't the interviewer right there waiting when he stepped off?
i figured maybe that was a pre-arranged stopping point
Nope because he has not trained for it and the others had.