Pretty incredible to see the boost that the Hyperion Elite 5 gave CJ. It finally has a full PEBA (DNA gold) midsole and reportedly has a pretty good bounce.
they need to start the wheelchair race like 60 minutes ahead of the elite fields. Every single broadcast the same thing happens where the top WC racers finish and then they interview them for the broadcast at the most interesting part of the race where the it is won or lost. We saw Korir make a break and then 10 minutes of WC and crowd coverage and we had no idea if anyone went with Korir, if he blew up, kept going, or what. If they start WC races way earlier, they can get those interviews over in the first half of the races when nothing interesting is happening
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
I do not like these accusations but indeed this seems just CRAZY. No one was even table to touch close to Paulas record a few years ago and now we are like Minutes ahead suddenly.
I mean the vast majority of them are taking sth. for sure. But here they must be onto a new thing.
I'm usually a celebrate good performances & condemn the second you know something is up but this feels truly unbelievable... 2:09, 10th overall. Nothing in her past that would suggest something like this. Going out in 1:04 & hanging on is crazy. Thought we were heading to a 2:13-2:15 blow up but she picked it up with a late 4:4x. Weather today was good but not great. ~60 degrees & low-50s dew point. Some wind. That would indicate a 2:08 type performance with slightly better conditions. I really find it hard to believe that's where the women's WR is at with perfect conditions. She had a pacer with her the whole way but that shouldn't be enough for something this good. Half WR is 1:02-high. That's worth 2:11s. Again, this is a big improvement on that & this isn't a 1:02 runner (I guess 1:04 now).
She's blown up before. Maybe that's the type of personality you need to run this. Kinda crazy.
Read a book about racing mentality recently, and the message about runners like that was: if you full send enough times, eventually one of them will stick.
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
I do not like these accusations but indeed this seems just CRAZY. No one was even table to touch close to Paulas record a few years ago and now we are like Minutes ahead suddenly.
I mean the vast majority of them are taking sth. for sure. But here they must be onto a new thing.
But, we know for a fact that there is an entirely new format of shoes in the past 2-3 years. And we know for a fact that those are way, way, way faster than anything before that. If Radcliffe had run that race with today's shoes, she'd have been minutes faster as well, undoubtedly.
Not saying there's no doping, of course, but the shoes are the one thing we know as an absolute certainty (and not a secret or conspiracy or anything) to be different than years ago.