double dipping wrote:
ecoAnPac wrote:
I didn't say she would do well. I was implying it was a cash grab like the person who used to run for hansons
Do you mean the “faux” Boston Champ that has chosen to focus on both Boston and NY?
Lol what? Faux? Unless you’re doping, there’s nothing ‘faux’ about crossing a finish line first.
Boy, sit down.
Dwightarm wrote:
double dipping wrote:
Do you mean the “faux” Boston Champ that has chosen to focus on both Boston and NY?
Lol what? Faux? Unless you’re doping, there’s nothing ‘faux’ about crossing a finish line first.
Boy, sit down.
Sit down yourself.
TLDR - des’ marathon time hasn’t improved in a decade and her best performances are due to other people quitting.
Races are designed to test runner’s ability to cover a given distance competitively. That competition usually has little to do with running in a shower. Just because you’re the best on the day doesn’t mean you deserve the title, it means you are the sum of luck, training, and other runners’ strategic decisions throughout the course of the race. Des is good, not great. She is resilient, not fast. Her tendency of only placing well on “hard days” should represent that. Her track record at Boston (and other races in general) is based almost entirely on other runners’ reaction to weather. Sure, consistency is a talent and not quitting is one of the more valuable talents in distance running. David Goggins isn’t an Olympian, and when Des got the chance - a DNF and 7th (in Rio, due to - you guessed it, bad weather and several high profile DNFs) - not even to mention the amount of weather and course-based luck (looking at you Atlanta) that she’s benefited from at the trials.
She’s as much a Boston champ as an age-grouper or someone talking about Clydesdale classes: weather is too much of a factor in her largest performances to consider the majority of them legitimately good racing and running. Pre was tough and did a lot of great things domestically / in time trials.