Tuohy attends NC State you know.
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Tuohy attends NC State you know.
So "brilliant" is eager to learn? That would mean that most in the field were also "brilliant".
I guarantee if you polled all of the runners, only about 25% would know what you are talking about.
There are many winners and losers in the race besides the actual winner. Most posters Calimesa that Tuohy won due to being the superior runner regardless of tactics and tangents. Now youvare claiming that she won due to better tactics which insinuates that Valby is faster but ran a poor race. I think you're correct. Valby is the more talented runner but Tuohy races smarter. Valby will be similar to Gidey in paced races. I expect that she will have a much faster lifetime PR than Tuohy but Tuohy will beat her in sit and kick races.
Back in the day, when I used to race, I initially didn’t know about running tangents. But I did have common sense. That’s why I started training a treadmill, to practice my tangent running.
The girl barely runs and doesn’t know what a tangent is. She’s the hero I need right now.
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But they know how to run in a straight line or at least follow the shortest route.
You have chosen the wrong user name. I didn't say Valby lost because she adopted the wrong tactics. She was beaten by a better runner. But she didn't exactly show she was smart in how she raced - as the subject of this thread observes.
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and still she wont win a title
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What fascinates me is the combo of near perfect execution of an even pacing strategy that gives her the best chance of finishing as fast as her body permits and the much noted failures of tangent running and how-much-left knowledge. It's as if she has a visual perception learning disability, and is unable to visually imagine the course (it seems likely that every runner in the race spent a decent fraction of the preceding week running the race in their minds) either in advance or real time. As a former MIT math major who 'goes-stupid' during marathons to the point of having trouble with arithmetic, this feels more like an inborn inability, just because I always retained my ability to run tangents and know where I was on the course under high stress situations of winning a close race and barely qualifying for OTM. Of course it could be just another example of the wide variety of human traits. I'm thankful my stupidity was never recorded and studied publicly.
We all still remember how butt hurt you were when this happened earlier this year.