It’s pretty clear this dude is trolling at this point. No less pathetic but definitely trolling.
It’s pretty clear this dude is trolling at this point. No less pathetic but definitely trolling.
desi get faster wrote:
So did desi improve her PR in super shoes?
I don’t think so... she should have destroyed her pr’ if they worked.
Also why can no one run as fast as Ryan Hall or Steve Jones?
I’m not saying they don’t feel great, but honestly there should be at least American 15 guys under 2:10 in Chicago or any normal marathon course if they worked. Why didn’t 10 American guys break 2:10 at Boston if it’s so easy... or CMI?
Please Watch Steve jones and Joan Benoit again....
https://youtu.be/1HZ7u5aU0PY
Eh, top Americans have been running faster marathons with the super shoes. Maybe not much improvement at the very top of the pile, but the step below, like a lot of the people that ran at the marathon in Arizona back in December, have shown clear benefits. Additionally, if you look at the times for marathons commonly used to get OTQs, there have been a lot of improvement. Although I am not sure if the depth has got back to where it was in the 1980s.
But that is an entirely different conversation than the point I was trying to make about what I have observed at local road races. It has been covered in various other threads before. Basically, there is little motivation for skilled post-collegiates to go after fast times at road races. Lots of dinky fundraiser road races but very few well run competitive races, marathons being more expensive than ever, difficulty in finding training partners, additional distractions of modern life, the decline of running as a competitive hobby, etc, etc. The Golden Age is over and it's not coming back.
Raggedman wrote:
This Yorkshireman sub-thread is the best thing since the Colt Goucher story installment thread.
+1