Seth DeMoor running 40 miles of loops around a Trader Joe's/Chipolte Parking lot has to be the answer because that had to serve some purpose. It's unknown whether his nutrition strategy for his solo ultra included a burrito, or if he picked that parking lot because of its proximity to burritos after talking to Shelby Houlihan.
Biggest choke/ disappointment in 2022?
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ducked competition wrote:
By far my biggest disappointment of the year: stars (particularly American ones) ducking competition.
Coleman and Holloway using their wildcard entries to dodge some fascinating races at US Champs. Mu shutting it down post Eugene, McLaughlin pulling out of races last moment/dipping Monaco to run in Hungary then shutting it down.
Rai Benjamin shutting it down after Eugene. Man has done 5 Diamond League 400m hurdles in the last 5 years. I get the DL can be hard to fit with an American schedule but of those 5, 2 were in Doha and one was in Shanghai - the two most inconvenient Diamond Leagues to hit (and ones that offer the biggest appearance fees).
McLaughlin, Mu, Benjamin, - they're all fascinating and talented athletes who I'd love to see more.
I'd add as a specific disappointment- men's 110m hurdles final. All year I wanted Holloway v Parchment v Cunningham v Allen. To lose both Parchment and Allen sucked.
You think the $10k in prize money plus some appearance fee might be worth jt for Benjamin. I don’t assume he’s rolling in the dough .
Devon Allen dq still needs an explanation from World athletics
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malmo wrote:
Threads like this are why LRC is frowned on by the running community. C'mon. You can do better wejo. MUCH better.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word choke because it can be more complicated than that .
I don’t think that many people have an issue with this thread (but you are a moderator so maybe I’m way off base) and I think it shows how far from mainstream running is. The biggest disappointments of the year is done in pretty much every sport.
Personally I’m a big fan of Sha’Carri and Timothy Cheruiyot and that makes their performances even more disappointing to me.
You say this type of thread is why LetsRun is frowned upon in running community and I could say it’s why people in the running community love LetsRun. We let fans be fans . We point out when runners disappoint or underperform. Just like the sports media in other major sports.
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wejo wrote:
You think the $10k in prize money plus some appearance fee might be worth jt for Benjamin. I don’t assume he’s rolling in the dough .
Devon Allen dq still needs an explanation from World athletics
Benjamin said he had been dealing with tendonitis in his hamstring during the season. That’s probably why he shut it down.
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wejo wrote:
malmo wrote:
Threads like this are why LRC is frowned on by the running community. C'mon. You can do better wejo. MUCH better.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word choke because it can be more complicated than that .
I don’t think that many people have an issue with this thread (but you are a moderator so maybe I’m way off base) and I think it shows how far from mainstream running is. The biggest disappointments of the year is done in pretty much every sport.
Personally I’m a big fan of Sha’Carri and Timothy Cheruiyot and that makes their performances even more disappointing to me.
You say this type of thread is why LetsRun is frowned upon in running community and I could say it’s why people in the running community love LetsRun. We let fans be fans . We point out when runners disappoint or underperform. Just like the sports media in other major sports.
People need to get thicker skin. Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith from ESPN are way harsher on athletes in other sports.
Sugar coating everything doesn't do any good. It's good to have discussion.
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ESPN plus wrote:
wejo wrote:
Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word choke because it can be more complicated than that .
I don’t think that many people have an issue with this thread (but you are a moderator so maybe I’m way off base) and I think it shows how far from mainstream running is. The biggest disappointments of the year is done in pretty much every sport.
Personally I’m a big fan of Sha’Carri and Timothy Cheruiyot and that makes their performances even more disappointing to me.
You say this type of thread is why LetsRun is frowned upon in running community and I could say it’s why people in the running community love LetsRun. We let fans be fans . We point out when runners disappoint or underperform. Just like the sports media in other major sports.
People need to get thicker skin. Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith from ESPN are way harsher on athletes in other sports.
Sugar coating everything doesn't do any good. It's good to have discussion.
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biggest choke: that grimy toothed brit Gault in any of his so called "interviews"
biggest disappointment: always the brosjo, they may as well be named the "daily disappointments"
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The 2022 Super Bowl ads by FTX and Coinbase telling everyone to either be brave and buy crypto shtcoins or else they’ll be missing out
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The camera guy in the steeple race at the World Championships.
There cannot be a reasonable explanation for why anything like that could possibly happen.
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ESPN plus wrote:
wejo wrote:
Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word choke because it can be more complicated than that .
I don’t think that many people have an issue with this thread (but you are a moderator so maybe I’m way off base) and I think it shows how far from mainstream running is. The biggest disappointments of the year is done in pretty much every sport.
Personally I’m a big fan of Sha’Carri and Timothy Cheruiyot and that makes their performances even more disappointing to me.
You say this type of thread is why LetsRun is frowned upon in running community and I could say it’s why people in the running community love LetsRun. We let fans be fans . We point out when runners disappoint or underperform. Just like the sports media in other major sports.
People need to get thicker skin. Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith from ESPN are way harsher on athletes in other sports.
Sugar coating everything doesn't do any good. It's good to have discussion.
"Choke" is clearly a derogatory term and it implies something negative about an athlete's character. It's one thing to talk about the disappointment of Allen's DQ but I don't see how it enhances the sport to call out athletes for their personal failings.
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Hoere wrote:
2:18 at the casino and back on the grid wrote:
I'm sorry if Brazier disappointed anyone. I guess a heal injury that requires surgery can do this.
If you were smarter you would know that injuries are disappointing. Hocker was injured, so was Teare and Centro. Maybe educate yourself on what the word disappointing means.
The best statement of the year!
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Lex and Leo had a pretty disappointing Nxn. Hobbs Kessler didn’t have a good year. Teare and Hocker had a disappointing year after being on fire the year before.
I don’t like the term choke as that implies the only problem was mental. That is rarely the primary issue in top level running.
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Tyra Gittens, went from being one of the more promising heptathletes, long and high jumpers on the world stage in 2021… to being completely irrelevant! Is she even doing track anymore or just an Instagram uninfluencer
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That Eugene WC in July was the hugest rejection in 100 years of track and field. The US can never recover it's reputation.
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ESPN plus wrote:
People need to get thicker skin. Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith from ESPN are way harsher on athletes in other sports.
Sugar coating everything doesn't do any good. It's good to have discussion.
Bayless and Smith are dikheads. You're hitching your wagon to the wrong horse.
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malmo you are being a snowflake.
it's not the job of journalists to make friends with athletes, it's to cover the sport accurately. Do you want Rojo and Wejo to kiss BTC's rear ends throughout Shelby's doping scandal, or do you want them to report the FACTS which will inevitably piss off BTC?
Newsflash - athletes in other sports hate the journalists that cover them as well. That's why the pro leagues MANDATE that they speak to journalists. Marshawn Lynch and others will take fines just to avoid talking to them.
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Tuohy embarrassing herself at US Champ 5000.
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Grant Fisher in the 10k final. He had a good kick, but didn't place himself in medal-position early enough to get top 3. I think his 26:33 shows he is fit enough to be a medal, but perhaps didn't have the confidence to cover the moves made in the last 800.
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