"And heaven help you, just what is an "interesting location"? A bunch of gaudy towers built on a sand spit in the middle of the desert? A place where hatred spews for gays, jews, women, infidels? A place with wealth enough to share bucket loads with ISIL to spread their evil? Good Lord, is right. Where are your morals to "forgive" the IAAF talking heads for putting out sport through this outrage. "Provincialism", if that is what it is, can be forgiven. Greed and Evil cannot."
-very well stated.
sohn kee chung wrote:
I was against this idea originally too. I wanted worlds to be in Eugene. Since its not I started to think about the possibilities that come from this though. If the head has an effect on the runners we could have a really exciting race. These championship races are never really about time. The head will possibly take out some of the favorites and give chances to other guys that we wouldn't normally think as big players. I think about the Barcelona Olympics in 92 when it was really hot and a lot of people faded and it turned into an amazing battle between Korea and Japan. Not to mention all the historical implications of such a battle. Maybe I am biased because I am Korean but I think this gives other athletes a chance and it opens the possibility to an exciting race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSc_DX46GWQ
So you think it will be a good idea because you think it will take the best athletes out of contention? A better battle is watching Asian turds run 2:22 to win a marathon? Christ.
The IAAF is a joke. It's all about themselves.
Live in the deep south. 65 dew point is a cool day from april-sept. I've had many runs with dew points 70-75
Alan
sohn kee chung wrote:
I was against this idea originally too. I wanted worlds to be in Eugene. Since its not I started to think about the possibilities that come from this though. If the head has an effect on the runners we could have a really exciting race. These championship races are never really about time. The head will possibly take out some of the favorites and give chances to other guys that we wouldn't normally think as big players. I think about the Barcelona Olympics in 92 when it was really hot and a lot of people faded and it turned into an amazing battle between Korea and Japan. Not to mention all the historical implications of such a battle. Maybe I am biased because I am Korean but I think this gives other athletes a chance and it opens the possibility to an exciting race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSc_DX46GWQ
Yo what's your 5k PR? It's pretty rare to see another fellow asian runner on these boards
asharry wrote:
I have lived in Doha for 5 years and I have run in my fair share of heat while here. During the last week of September/first week of October it is still around 92-95 at the LOWEST time in the day! At that time of the year to get in a long run, I have to split 1 hour outside and 1 inside - I usually get up at 4:30 so I can be out the door at 5:00. When I check my phone at that time, the temperature is usually around 94 with 50-75% humidity which yields a "perceived temperature" of about 105...after doing an hour outside at a modest pace, I am exhausted and the second half of the run isn't easy. I feel sorry for the poor marathoners who will be asked to run here, I don't see how it will work. As somebody who is typically in 16:00 5k shape or so, I don't think I could crack 17:00 at that time of year, and I've had years to acclimate to the weather...it's going to be brutal.
This morning I was looking back to 2014 to see what people were saying about Doha when it was awarded Worlds in 2014. I saw this thread and wanted to bump it up as the post pretty much proved to be not true. Yes the marathons weren't fast but the 5000s and 10000s were great in Doha.
Here is what we wrote about Doha getting worlds in the WTW in 2014:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2014/11/dont-fooled-doha-hot-iaaf-passes-jordan-hasay-rule-coaches-overrated-south-south-central-sucked-hicham-says-kiprop-can-run-324/In fairness, the 5 and 10 were good because of crazy amounts of air conditioning being pumped into the stadium (which presumably the OP hadn't predicted).