Man I feel for Scott Fauble, DNF before 30k

That's exactly the point where the gremlins attack your legs. It's an energy problem that's difficult to solve. He was probably humming along like a well-oiled machine, then suddenly, OUCH!, what the hell was that?

He’s in 2:07 shape though…. All talk

He has been "in 2:07 shape numerous times."

Could be a blessing in disguise, he dropped out, so he could take another shot at a fast time in Valencia in December

In a way it's comforting to know that even pros can run a marathon at a hot pace like I did and blow up at 20 miles like I did.

He won’t race anything until the trials in February. Now he’s rooting for other Americans to run fast times.
He took a chance… tried for sub 2:08 and couldn’t make it happen. The DNF was the right move at that point.

Hopefully, in the Valencia marathon preview, and after we have talked about the serious contenders (the Africans), and then devote a couple of perfunctory lines about the Americans (the non-contenders), Scott F. won't be saying how he is in "2:07 or faster shape."

Too late. Why chase the time and then bomb the trials.

Anyone have his splits.

1:03:46 for the half. He went out too hot and couldn’t hold it.

Give him credit for going for it.

That said, it’s another case of Americans being the “B-Team” on the world stage.

He started blowing up somewhere between 25-30k. That split was about 23min.

Other splits, like 30k?

Disappointing for sure. But he was smart to take the DNF if he wasn’t feeling it today. Galen dropped out of 2018 Boston at the same point and came back two weeks later to run his PR in Prague.

I think he dropped before the 30K.

And not run the Trials? Puhleeze.

Every marathon he’s run well in, he’s run even or negative split. I expected to check the results today to see a 64:20 first half and another top 10. Going out hard isn’t his strength. He’ll learn from it.

Easy to jump on Fauble and say he went out too fast. What actually happened is he started throwing-up at 30k. Not the story everybody in this thread is telling.

Lots of people throw up after going out too fast.

In that thread I said "more like 3:07". My comment was deleted, but I was right.