Why so many drop-outs?
Why so many drop-outs?
If you guys noticed the guys were done after they dropped out. They had nothing left. Lagat went down. Mead went down then tried to jog the rest but was to disoriented and couldn't count right. The guys left it all our there.there is now point in someone staying within themselves if the only gets them a top 10. The guys pushed way past there red line in the 10k and suffered the consequences of not pacing them selves correctly, but in a championship race it's the right thing to do.
Kid from somewhere wrote:
If you guys noticed the guys were done after they dropped out. They had nothing left. Lagat went down. Mead went down then tried to jog the rest but was to disoriented and couldn't count right. The guys left it all our there.there is now point in someone staying within themselves if the only gets them a top 10. The guys pushed way past there red line in the 10k and suffered the consequences of not pacing them selves correctly, but in a championship race it's the right thing to do.
Yes, the men are quitters. The American men's red-line appears to be 29 minutes. Only 9 men could handle that soft time.
Most of those men were wisely dropping out to save for the 5k. The radical feminist agenda has captured rojo.
Shameful display by the 10K men.
HardLoper wrote:
Most of those men were wisely dropping out to save for the 5k. The radical feminist agenda has captured rojo.
The same guys that dropped out of the marathon to save for the 10k. After they drop out of the 5k, they should still have some energy left to win the local turkey trot this year.
Gobble gobble
Smart running by the men. If you find yourself out of the mix but still have other races to run, be it track qualifiers or road, you drop out. If you are out of it and your hamstring starts to twinge, or you are getting dizzy in the heat - drop out. It's a wise business decision for athletes at that level. In fact I see more good reasons to drop out than force yourself to finish. The only reason I could see finishing is a matter of self pride. You qualified, you didn't qualify in any other events, you don't have a sponsor hounding you/performance incentives and can expect to lose to Kenyans and Ethiopians in your next road race - but you at least want to make the list of trials finishers, even if it means dead last. When they ask you at the office on Monday how you did you at least want to be able to say "23rd" or "I finished", not "I dropped out". I get that too. The men and women ran in different conditions, with performances that aren't really comparable.
abc dnf wrote:
Smart running by the men.
Dumb move by the men. Will they dropout during the Olympics if they cannot medal?
I'm sure you have more experience than me. I've been running track for 10 year and the girls teams were always much less tough. Not saying that's always the case, I'm just saying it's not like it's clear cut one way or another.
va coach wrote:
Obviously people drop out of races for a variety of reasons, so it's hard to come to a lot of real conclusions. While it was very warm, the heat wasn't necessarily responsible for every DNF. Good example of this was the shoe problem.
But years of coaching have made something very clear to me. I might get beat up on LR for saying this, but I'm absolutely convinced it's true. Women are just tougher than men. They can/will put up with more suffering without throwing in the towel.
FAR less likely because there is a huge difference between being a trials finisher and an Olympic finisher.
Oly Dropouts = Men wrote:
abc dnf wrote:Smart running by the men.
Dumb move by the men. Will they dropout during the Olympics if they cannot medal?
Pics wrote:
I've been running track for 10 year and the girls teams were always much less tough.
That's because of male privilege, the glass ceiling, and sexist pigs like you.
This was mostly a question of saving yourself for the 5000m.
Male track runners have to be the biggest quitters of any type of runner. A greater % (26) dropped out of a 10k on the track with water stops every 400 meters than dropped out of a 100 mile race (20%) that was at times over 10° hotter and water stops every 3 to 6 miles.
Men track athletes (runners) are wusses, they quit at the first sign of pain or discomfort.
Since when is 82 degrees F hot?
10X the testosterone and you all fold like a cheap suit. Disgusting.
Tarahumara Girls wrote:
Men track athletes (runners) are wusses, they quit at the first sign of pain or discomfort.
Since when is 82 degrees F hot?
10X the testosterone and you all fold like a cheap suit. Disgusting.
Bingo!
Paula Radioactivecliffe has the highest pain tolerance of any human on the planet including male, female, both, and/or other sex.
Gerard Hartmann said it is true.
OK?