Bill Rodgers is not 5'10". I know him well, have stood next to him many times. He's 5'8" and his normal racing weight was 130-135!
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Shalane says her legs are too long to win Boston
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easy weeks wrote:
outsiderunner wrote:
To be honest, when I saw the two of them coming to the line in that last 200m, I thought: Rotich is the winner. In that situation, as long as there is something left in the tank, the runner with the longer legs/stride has the upper hand.
Leg length has nothing to do with closing speed when two runners take it to the very end of a distance race. Geb vs. Tergat in the 10,000m in Sydney is a great example of significant height/leg length between two runners battling it out in the final seconds. It didn't hurt Geb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eZ-x4IEoXMI'm thinking there is no advantage either way, or else tall people would gravitate naturally towards distance running. You'd see more tall people "naturally" doing well. And it doesn't happen. Short people do well if they are thin - it's not from being short. I don't see pygmies winning marathons.
I believe the slightly better ability at turnover (shorter people) is cancelled out by taller people's slightly better ability at stride length. It all works out the same.
I agree.
Leg speed velocity is what counts.
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ms15 wrote:
Bill Rodgers is not 5'10". I know him well, have stood next to him many times. He's 5'8" and his normal racing weight was 130-135!
He used to be 5'9" 125
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lol lol lol lol wrote:
Simple Answer wrote:
Overtrained
Based on the RW interview, that seems like a simple, probable option--and/or a very poorly designed taper.
How does she taper to run a very fast 10,000? I doubt she allowed her body to recover prior to Boston as she she has for those....
Before her bronze medal run, she was sick for a week and did NOTHING. I hear this story often enough to believe that if you beat the hell out of yourself in training, you simply cannot do too little in the final week.
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Sorry, ms15, I was wrong.
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ms15 wrote:
Bill Rodgers is not 5'10". I know him well, have stood next to him many times. He's 5'8" and his normal racing weight was 130-135!
patti might have the I stood next to him many times advantage over you not to mention number of times the were each others house guest or miles run around Jamaica Pond together years known or times they sat in the back yard just watching her kids grow or just doing nothing in that quite contentment born of long friendship..
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Shorter is right: She overstrides.
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WiT says out yourself wrote:
patti might have the I stood next to him many times advantage over you.
I have "stood" next to my wife thousands of times and she's certain it's 10 inches.
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Shalane might be right that it would be harder on her to run that course than others, but I was thinking that her time from last year when she set the USA womens Boston record would have WON it by 2 min this year...! ?
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no
She has her Olympic Bronze medal and should call it a day
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Bronze spray on wrote:
lol lol lol lol wrote:
Based on the RW interview, that seems like a simple, probable option--and/or a very poorly designed taper.
How does she taper to run a very fast 10,000? I doubt she allowed her body to recover prior to Boston as she she has for those....
Before her bronze medal run, she was sick for a week and did NOTHING. I hear this story often enough to believe that if you beat the hell out of yourself in training, you simply cannot do too little in the final week.
There are plenty of similar stories. This guy, for example, was hit by a car about two weeks before the race below and had to significantly curtail his training:
https://youtu.be/G62nRIEbh-c00 -
Every week on Letrun there is an anti-Oregon thread......if not two. I guess when you are very good haters will abound.
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