> heavy rain, Yuki frontruns entire first 35k with almost suicidal ~14:45 first 5k and ~29:45 first 10k
> gets caught by group, but hangs in
> still stays with the front when it gets serious, one of four to break away
> battles Suguru Osako, Japan's best marathon runner in the last few years, for final (provisional) Paris spot
> narrowly looses out, but still finishes in front of dozens of corporate runners with better PBs and much better speed
Yuki is the best
Nice to see a clean marathon race of excellence occurring. International elite events are a circus anymore.
The Citizen Runner!
He may not have come top 3, but imo he’s the best! 💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍
Sprintgeezer wrote:
The Citizen Runner!
He may not have come top 3, but imo he’s the best! 💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍
+1 Yuki a legend
“> heavy rain, Yuki frontruns entire first 35k with almost suicidal ~14:45 first 5k and ~29:45 first 10k”
💪 🏃♂️
We need more runners like him.
he could maybe run a faster marathon if for once he stopped racing and training so hard. He'll never get past that plateau otherwise.
Without bad weather he wouldn't likely have done as well.
So happy that he didn't make it!
the citizen runner!!!
does anyone have a link to the replay of the entire race? cant find anything on youtube yet
Yuki is probably doping. Let us be real here. The fanboy worship is amusing to some of us.
Yuuuki wrote:
Yuki is probably doping. Let us be real here. The fanboy worship is amusing to some of us.
Yes. And yes.
he has like 100+ marathons 2:16 or faster, it's bonkers
honestly I don't think he is olympic-class with "only" 2:07 PR but still absolutely amazing runner
brahh wrote:
the citizen runner!!!
Not anymore. He quit his government job in 2019 and turned pro.
He was interested in showing his guts. Everyone else was interested in finishing in the top two.
Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:
He was interested in showing his guts. Everyone else was interested in finishing in the top two.
Well, and he still did better than 58 of his competitors, many of whom had faster PBs, so his strategy clearly wasn't the worst. He archieved a much better result than he should have had on paper, in fact this has to be his best showing (by far) against one of those huge domestic fields since pre super shoe times (even when he ran 2:07 earlier this year and in 2021 he was handily beaten by ~10+ of his countrymen).
Also it's pretty clear what he intended by going out fast in bad conditions (just like he did in Boston 2018): To make it very uncomfortable for everyone else, as, unlike him, most probably don't like running fast in such weather. And this approach obviously was working, since most of his competitors ended up running significantly larger positive splits compared to Yuki himself.
Yuki is somebody I can attest runs clean. Nobody looks so facially torturous in a marathon only to be taking drugs to run it. Just doesn't fit with each other this way.
So so brave.
Yuki is the best wrote:
> heavy rain, Yuki frontruns entire first 35k with almost suicidal ~14:45 first 5k and ~29:45 first 10k
> gets caught by group, but hangs in
> still stays with the front when it gets serious, one of four to break away
> battles Suguru Osako, Japan's best marathon runner in the last few years, for final (provisional) Paris spot
> narrowly looses out, but still finishes in front of dozens of corporate runners with better PBs and much better speedYuki is the best
Yeah so brave that he ran a stupid race
so so brave
13 minute recap video of the men including a very obvious Yuki
Could he have made the top 3 with a less aggressive race?