Les wrote:
As the top American marathoners they will make far more running U.S. marathons than abroad. Internationally, they are not players and would have gotten very little in appearance fees to run Valencia. There's a reason that outside of Olympics, Galen Rupp has only run U.S. marathons. As top American, Chicago would pay him a lot to run. Top American means nothing outside the U.S.
Rupp’s 2:06 PR was in Prague.
Lurker42 wrote:
They came into Paris with the wrong plan. They thought 2:08 would win. They expected to run down a bunch of guys after the hill. Once they had no one to chase there was no point to trashing their legs to squeeze it out an extra few seconds against the clock. So they jogged it in.
Eyestone is awesome but I don't think his tactics are thest best marathon ones against the fields they run when they are against the world's best. Waiting for guys who are micro dosing epo and all the rest to fall apart is probably not going to work anymore. Eyestone is basically winning the races like it's XC scoring. He's got the best score of his two racers crossing the line, but they aren't racing for team points but the podium.
Against the fields they are running they probably need to make a move earlier. Half way in drop a fast mile and settle in, then drop another fast one just as the pack starts pulling them back in and see if they can keep the pack away?
Leave it to LetsRun posters to give a completely inaccurate race recap to make an American seem more capable. At no point did Mantz and Young lay off the pace hoping people would die and come back. The race started super slow which allowed Mantz to be in nearly in perfect for as long as abilities allowed him to be.
- Conner was 1s off the lead half marathon. Leader's pace was 2:09:42. Conner 2:09:44.
- Conner was 2s off the lead at 25k. Leader's pace was 2:08:42. Conner: 2:08:45.
- Conner was 30s off the lead at 30k. Leader's pace was 2:08:16. Conner: 2:08:55.
- Conner was 60s off the lead at 35k. Leader's pace was 2:06:51. Conner 2:08:03.
- Conner was 92 off the lead at 40k. Leader's pace was 2:06:36. Conner 2:08:13.
Mantz 106s behind at the end finish.
Running specific flamebait, used your actual registered account, and you got a lot of the non-troll LR nerds to fire back at you. I'm impressed.