I like Cole and get thats he's only young but really don't see what he had to gain doing Valencia. He knew he had not done enough training and a PB was not on the cards so why risk injury and having to take extra time out of training to recover does not make sense to me. He certainly has potential though and hopefully will see some knew PB's soon.
My tongue in cheek joke was based on “shoetubers” calling the NB shoes on the slow side compared to the other super shoes. Just find it amusing for folks on the internet to say a shoe isn’t fast enough whilst running 7 minute pace in the marathon
I still suspect Yee would have beaten Blummenfeld for Tokyo Olympic gold if he wasn't outmatched on the shoe front in 2021, but I've seen enough NB performances in the last 18 months to believe the gap is much smaller than it was. It's still not a brand chosen by many top runners who aren't bound by sponsorship, don't see them make top 5 in big races very often, but they are at least on the map again these days.
Still possible that Yee might have run 2:05 high in Puma Fast R3 today, we'll never know.
Definitely agree. Might make a difference at that level but definitely not for the BITR guys for them to call it “middle tier” when they’re pacing 4 hour groups unofficially and running 20 miles a week
Yes. British people seem to be obsessed with the temperature. Maybe creating more of a mental block than a physical one. If you can only run well in "perfect" conditions. You gotta get tougher.
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Also. As a lapsed Sports Scientist. I can tell you that saunas, heating blankets and jogging in lots of clothes. Is all fake. The only way to improve is to embrace the heat. Travel to it. Train in it. Race in it. Love it. Make it a strength.
A massive blow up for Kofuzi, the king of the travel junket who made a big show of not going to TRE again last year because he needed to travel less and be with his family more...then he traveled every other month, sometimes more and spent the week of TRE in...Spain, to run Valencia! And he runs 3:11, 15 minutes off his PR from two years ago. People do decline with age but not that sharply. Makes me wonder if he doped to run his 2:54.
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A massive blow up for Kofuzi, the king of the travel junket who made a big show of not going to TRE again last year because he needed to travel less and be with his family more...then he traveled every other month, sometimes more and spent the week of TRE in...Spain, to run Valencia! And he runs 3:11, 15 minutes off his PR from two years ago. People do decline with age but not that sharply. Makes me wonder if he doped to run his 2:54.
he couldn't pass up the financial opportunity so he went again this year with one brand. then jetted to the fastest course in the world to run well off what he was realistically hoping for (~3:05 based on his latest training video which was mind-numbingly long).
2:56 high is his PR from Tokyo and he doesn't believe he's going to beat that. Maybe if he rehired a coach and stopped giving himself 6x 6mins as a marathon indicator workout he could get back into better form...
A massive blow up for Kofuzi, the king of the travel junket who made a big show of not going to TRE again last year because he needed to travel less and be with his family more...then he traveled every other month, sometimes more and spent the week of TRE in...Spain, to run Valencia! And he runs 3:11, 15 minutes off his PR from two years ago. People do decline with age but not that sharply. Makes me wonder if he doped to run his 2:54.
Why so much hate? 3:11 is a very good time. Are you just jealous?
Also. As a lapsed Sports Scientist. I can tell you that saunas, heating blankets and jogging in lots of clothes. Is all fake. The only way to improve is to embrace the heat. Travel to it. Train in it. Race in it. Love it. Make it a strength.
But then again it still is entirely individual. Take Emma Pallant-Browne, moved to South Africa, does every heat training possible, still ends up in an ambulance if its anything more than mild despite racing conservatively compared to her peers. And once you've had a heat injury you're more likely to get another.
You know it’s the correct race pace in a marathon when you’re red-lining at 5k. No need to adjust. Just put your head down and grit your teeth and hope the wheels don’t fall off.
Anyone seen Bester's claiming a near death gas explosion in his pre-race AirBnB that has given him a new "whole outlook on life". I don't want to downplay things; however, the pictures he shared did not look like the apocalyptic scenes he was describing.
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Yes. British people seem to be obsessed with the temperature. Maybe creating more of a mental block than a physical one. If you can only run well in "perfect" conditions. You gotta get tougher.
Anyone seen Bester's claiming a near death gas explosion in his pre-race AirBnB that has given him a new "whole outlook on life". I don't want to downplay things; however, the pictures he shared did not look like the apocalyptic scenes he was describing.
Stop it man, did you not see his singed hair, ruined the look completely. It was hot in that kitchen never mind the marathon. Boomshakawanka.
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