US Men's Marathoners are embrassing

All of the responses in this thread along the lines of "you can't do what they do so stfu" are so pathetic, by that logic Zack Wilson is a great NFL QB because he's better at what he does than anyone here. Men's distance running in this country is weak, there was nothing great yesterday, jag runners on the world stage did their best and that's all there is to it. There are a lot of things to be excited about as a fan of American distance running on the women's side, not just specific to Boston yesterday even though Bates had a breakthrough performance.

I'm not sure why anyone would be embarrassed about not being good at the marathon. It's like being embarrassed about not being good at d&d or quidditch. I'd probably be more embarrassed to be really good at those activities. The marathon isn't the 100m or shot put.

from my own experience i found boston a very tough course relative to flat courses and hilly course (springhill pittsburg). weather is a factor but legs can be dead in the uphills when you hit the fire station. then it is hang on time. my times were not great, 2:32 on flat courses, 2:40 in boston. i would not criticise a first time boston runner no matter his/her credentials.

They are just likely clean.

Maybe Fauble. Mantz ran an IDIOTIC race. If you think he ran a good race, it speaks volumes of your "knowledge" of this sport.

They don't award prize money (or any type of award) for running along Kipchoge for a good bit of a race (rabbits are paid to do that, Mantz was not a rabbit) . He blew up, plain an simply an idiotic tactic.

Most readers of let'srun do not like the truth.

*Every Big Six Marathon and every Olympics and World Championship, I am proven correct: U.S. is a 100m to 800m nation plus jumps and throws.

* Every Big Six Marathon and every Olympics and W.C. since 1988 demonstrates: a dollar spent on 3000mSC to Marathon athletes is a dollar not spent on 100m to 800m athletes. We in U.S. have a bad T&F r.o.i.

* Physiologists have proven: 800m success is more strongly correlated to 200m & 400m success than 1500m & 5000m success, but, U.S. continues to waste money on 5000m to Marathon development.

Man, ain't that the truth. But at least knock-kneed Manz took a gamble and ran towards the front. Maybe one day he hits it out of the park in a way that satisfied with sixth Fauble never will.

Belgium, a country of 11 million inhabitants, has Bashir Abdi (Somalia-born) running 2:03 and Koen Naert, a white guy, running 2:06. It's not like Belgium has a focus on long-distance running, yet my little country has better marathon runners than the US.

How is that possible ?

Classic LRC.

The Americans who ran Chicago in 2019 (10 under 2:12) & the Marathon Project in 2020 (13 under 2:12, 7 under 2:10) ran well when they got good conditions & a fast course. Even if you want to say those time barriers aren't fast/aren't competitive, some of the better marathoners in the US didn't run those races and don't get to run Berlin/London every year. Fauble ran great in a world class field to get 7th. We've had Americans place well in Boston/NYC. Those are not time trial courses. Boston was at least 2:00-3:00 slow yesterday. Recognize that & recalibrate what a fast time is on a decently tough course on a less than ideal weather day. The top-5 Americans would've been threatening 2:08 if they had all run Rotterdam instead of Boston. Mantz & Albertson went out @ sub-2:05:00 pace at an effort faster than that imo.

It's right that there isn't an American marathoner that's threatening a WMM podium but American marathoners don't suck. We're right there with pretty much any other country after Kenya/Ethiopia. Those guys are on another planet. And our track guys stay on the track for a long time instead of moving up in distance. We've also done reasonably well globally at the 1500-5k in the last decade.

"The rest of the world running 202 203 every weekend." No, really and truly, no. So that's your cred down the toilet

you're embarrassing for not knowing how to spell embarrassing. and you're definitely slow af

Fauble and Mantz are very good marathoners

Since they are better than you, what does that make you!

For his second marathon he ran a ballsy race. It is good in the sense that he got valuable expereince for what it is like to run with the top and hang. Gritting it out in the final few miles while fighting immense hurt is impressive. He did run a good race. Not good for result but good for his own training and mentality.

Fauble may have not won the race but he is definitely winning the fight afterwards:

https://twitter.com/scottfaubs/status/1648421955857698817/photo/1

It's as simple as that, don't overthink it.

If that's mediocre then imagine how bad you are LOL. It's crazy, would you ever see basketball fans talking this much trash about nba bench warmers because they're not Jordan or something? Go outside

Yeah, I don't think healthcare has anything to do with this. For one thing, you can buy basic coverage in the marketplace for affordable prices, and most young men won't need extensive coverage (no childbirth, good health). For another thing, American runners in the '70s and '80s ran similar times while working full time. I don't have the answer to why our current crop of US male marathoners are so mediocre, but I don't think "forced to work for healthcare" is the reason.

Calling NBA bench warmers mediocre is talking trash about them?