Please correct your weather mistake quoted below. Hint: dew point is a temperature, not a percentage.
Montesquieu wrote:
It was 72/70 by the end of the race--61% dew point. Not great.
Please correct your weather mistake quoted below. Hint: dew point is a temperature, not a percentage.
Montesquieu wrote:
It was 72/70 by the end of the race--61% dew point. Not great.
So, who is this Ward dude?
Who is his coach and sponsor?
Hayduke wrote:
Huddle won by about a minute...... you think she still ran through the line?
POD voter. wrote:
POD, but it's early still.
Really? We recognize self-righteous trolls with the POD award?
Age cheat. That's what we're still sticking with, right?
adsfasdfasdfasd wrote:
70 degrees and you are all saying that's "hot"?
Not when people on this board wrote that 78 with high humidity is refreshing after the WC 10k.
Nmlllmkkkn wrote:
So, who is this Ward dude?
Ward gained some notoriety a couple of years ago because he lost a season's worth of eligibility for participating in a fun run.
Link:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/11/byu-ncaa-jared-ward-eligibility-fun-run-costumesHe was old for an NCAA runner, but not an age cheat. As a BYU student, he did his mandatory mission trip and graduated at age 26 or something.
The year that he couldn't compete for the team, he ran the Chicago Marathon instead and managed 2:16 or somewhere thereabouts. So far, he has had a successful career on the roads. He won the USA Marathon championships back in March.
Craig Lutz Fan wrote:
Who is his coach and sponsor?
Coach - Ed Eyestone
Sponsor - Saucony
Montesquieu wrote:
It was 72/70 by the end of the race--61% dew point. Not great.
Dew Points are not expressed as a percentage.
70 degrees is not hot.
J. Sinclair wrote:
Ed Eyestone is a heck of a coach and mentor. He knows what it takes.
Jon Sinclair was a heck of a runner.
http://www.anaerobic.net/jonAckley wrote:
Not when people on this board wrote that 78 with high humidity is refreshing after the WC 10k.
No one said it was refreshing. We said it wasn't bad nor extreme. There was a cool breeze and it was at night. 78 at night can be quite comfortable and is certainly not noteworthy. The sunlight is what makes temperatures feel very hot.
malmo wrote:
Montesquieu wrote:It was 72/70 by the end of the race--61% dew point. Not great.
Dew Points are not expressed as a percentage.
70 degrees is not hot.
I don't believe he said it was hot. Said it was "not great"
My apologies for speaking of % instead of temp. Everyone satisfied I hope. The point was simple: 72 degrees, 70% humidity, and a DP of 61 good conditions for a 20K do not make. Anyone disagree?
Montesquieu wrote:
My apologies for speaking of % instead of temp. Everyone satisfied I hope. The point was simple: 72 degrees, 70% humidity, and a DP of 61 good conditions for a 20K do not make. Anyone disagree?
Disagree. That fine for running a 20k. Have you ever competed before?
what happened to Teg besides DNF?
teghardfan wrote:
what happened to Teg besides DNF?
He did not cross the finish line.
This year I celebrated my fiftieth year of running, and I've always competed fairly, so I may know something about running in various kinds of weather. Honestly, though, why be such an ass about it? You want to disagree, fine. But why feel compelled snarkily to add the "Have you competed before?" Have you ever learned anything about well-mannered exchanges before?" http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1177558Apparently not.
malmo wrote:
Montesquieu wrote:My apologies for speaking of % instead of temp. Everyone satisfied I hope. The point was simple: 72 degrees, 70% humidity, and a DP of 61 good conditions for a 20K do not make. Anyone disagree?
Disagree. That fine for running a 20k. Have you ever competed before?
Thin skin much? I asked you a simple question "have you ever competed before" because it was obvious to me you lacked much experience since you think that 70 degrees is hot for a 20k.
malmo wrote:
Thin skin much? I asked you a simple question "have you ever competed before" because it was obvious to me you lacked much experience since you think that 70 degrees is hot for a 20k.
"Hot" is subjective. He feels 70 degrees is hot for a 20k. Just because you ran more miles or faster times than others does not mean that your definition of "hot" is right and others are wrong.
Since I was there and spoke with the elites I can assure you they all said it was worse last year, but it was far from ideal. They were pouring water on themselves every chance they could get and taking in fluids at all water stations. Conditions prohibited faster times and certainly changed tactics for some of the athletes because taking risks early in the heat could end in massive failure. Not sure why anybody would consider these conditions as good for a HM or chastise someone for saying it was less than ideal. Every elite athlete out there would characterize yesterday as less than ideal.
It was a race at the end of the day and not a time trial, so the times were irrelevant. However if you drop the temps by 20 degrees, everybody is going to run about a minute faster and wouldn't be taking in fluids to stay cool and hydrated.