Let’s be honest wrote:
Let’s be honest wrote:
Like the optimism but the marathon is an odd monster. If Ritz tries to run like 20 something Ritz than he most likely will blow up. He says his goal is 4:55 pace. That’s too fast imo. He should be more around 5-5:05 for at least the first half. Then spend the second half running as many East Africans as he can down. If he goes out with 2:04-06 guys it’s going to end in disaster!
Yuki and desi won because of fluke weather conditions. I was there and it was not normal. Meb was a different class of marathoner than Ritz and Meb was an amazing tactical racer. I hope Ritz does win but it’s not gonna happen if he’s leading the first half of the race.
Called this unfortunately. He went out in 1:04:41 the first half and then the wheels fell off. Not super fast but over his head for where he’s at. Hopefully the Hanson’s develop a better pace strategy for him or his career is over.
Mileage wins again. He's too aneroxic to put in any serious mileage. Till he fixes his eating problem and stop hammering every run. He's not going solve his problem with the marathon.