*conclusion
a very stable genius wrote:
wejo, as long as you have no guilty feelings and are proud of enabling the most blatant doping cheater in the history of all sports, then we shouldn't have a problem with it. You live with your personal evilness and we'll stand by and watch. Of course it is unfair to all the other runners, but nobody here cares anymore about being a good person.
What an A-Bag of a comment.
LOL.
Was responding specifically to a poster who asked who these guys were, and why they would waste a marathon effort on this.
Keep up.
wejo wrote:
I guess this is legal as they are making no attempt to hide it but Sara Hall has had private male pacers the entire way in Chicago.
What do you all think of this? The lead women had no pacers since I'm not sure when, halfway? Emma Bates didn't have a pacer for sure at the end.
This one hits close to home as when I "escorted" Paula to her first world record, the emphasis then was to try and make it a fair competition. I wasn't Paula's "escort", I was the leaders escort. At one point I told Brian Sell, the #2 pacer to drop back and run with Catherine Ndereba as once it got windy I felt that was more fair.
So what do you all think? Not a big deal? Unfair?
I think I'd be better if they told one man - run with the female leaders, told another to run with 2nd group. And keep it that way independent of who the athletes are.
I'm here for the Brian Sell name drop!
Did you see any of the race? Hall was barely with any other ladies during the race. She caught one maybe around 10mi and she didn’t last long with the entourage
Wrong. It is such a thing at the professional level.
gas station fro yo wrote:
T.J. Applebee wrote:
Damn - that's a targeted tweet by Droddy's fiancé.
Both Kertesz and Droddy are bottom feeders unhappy with there own lives . Did Sara Hall do something awful to them?
Hold up https://twitter.com/JohnWTOL/status/1385749794283560960
mattfoley wrote:
Running with 3 dudes pacing you, and only you, is not trying your best, Sara.
BOHICA wrote:
This chick isn't happy unless she's in the peanut gallery crapping on someone out there trying their best and doing nothing overt to anyone else.
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Nice. This, too:
https://twitter.com/IBuiltTheArk/status/1447590940512645124
If you're not getting attention for winning significant races or setting national or world records, running fast simply isn't enough. The bitterman routine on socials isn't helping at all, either.
I make great paper airplanes. I am great at gardening. I am a great cook. Nobody sponsors me for being great at my hobbies either.
If women want equality, they should only be allowed women pacers. It's ridiculous that they use male pacers. If the depth isn't there for pacers, then oh well.
How much work has Kara Goucher had done on her face???
Gentleman Savage wrote:
Nice. This, too:
https://twitter.com/IBuiltTheArk/status/1447590940512645124If you're not getting attention for winning significant races or setting national or world records, running fast simply isn't enough. The bitterman routine on socials isn't helping at all, either.
The harsh truth of the media/communications/InstaTwitFace world...!
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I didn’t like it. She looked like she was really struggling at the end, even for a marathon. I can’t think of anyone in recent memory I’ve seen in a marathon look so near to collapse, as a matter of fact. If she didn’t have the pacers, she’s a DNF, so I don’t like it.
DC Medic wrote:
Real Racing wrote:
I absoultely agree.
But wait - you can’t have it both ways. If you want to bring back a new sit and kick era, get rid of the pacers. Some elites really don’t need pacers (Kipchoge), and track races would be boring without pacers out there pushing. When elites don’t follow the agreed to pace, then the elites have to explain why.
Boring races, like all those boring olympic finals we've had to ensure over the years? The Sydney 10,000 lives long in the memory for its sheer unmemorable dullness.
Pacing is obviously going to stay but I don't really see the point of pacing a DL 5000m at 13mins or whatever. Restrict it to genuine record or qualifying attempts and the rest of the time let us get on with it!
