juvie wrote:
Need more Euro, American, Canadian, Aussie, Japanese representation. Not necessarily to vie for the win, but to get faster PBs
Nice to see Diver in there
I agree. Slightly hijacking the point of the thread but I doubt if even 500 people in the UK will really have any interest in which of the elite 10 -12 runners , men and women, actually show up and how, athlete by athlete, they perform on the day.
I’m not saying it’s wrong or right but the race org clearly chooses to channel maybe 99% of the elite athlete budget to a tiny number of relatively anonymous runners from 2 nations rather than allocate maybe 10% to get a good and sizeable bunch of the best of the rest of the world – who will probably head to the likes of Valencia. London always says it's the worlds greatest marathon and maybe that doesn't need a bunch of guys going round in 'only' 2.08/09 and women at 2.25. (And I’ll pre-empt the point that it may be shameful race-based blinkers that keeps some from knowing the East African athlete minutiae. But that's how it is currently)