A DNF In the marathon makes sense once the goal becomes lost. Since it takes weeks of recovery for every mile raced a marathoner is justified to pull the plug early and aim for the next event. The only athletes DNFing track distances are the pacesetters.
I don’t understand dnfing anything under a half marathon. It really isn’t that serious. Just finish unless you’re badly injured in which case you shouldn’t have raced to begin with.
I DNF'd a number of marathons when it became obvious that I was having a bad day and would not be able to run close to my goal time, although I had no obvious injury. My bad marathons always went bad pretty early, and all of my dropouts occurred between 10 and 17 miles. If I could get to 18 in decent shape I could always finish pretty well. Once I had finished several marathons, I just didn't see the point in beating myself up to finish another one with a crappy time.
The only time I ever dropped out of a race shorter than a marathon was when I pulled a hamstring 1 mile into a 5-mile turkey trot. Just limping back to my car was tough enough.
A DNF In the marathon makes sense once the goal becomes lost. Since it takes weeks of recovery for every mile raced a marathoner is justified to pull the plug early and aim for the next event. The only athletes DNFing track distances are the pacesetters.
It takes over a year to recover from a marathon? (Weeks - plural, at least two - times 26.2 miles equals 52.4 weeks.)
OP toughs it out through a slight stich, yay OP. Ever see a 400m sprinter tear a hammy going around the curve? They go down hard and it's not a choice.
Runners are big freaking babies I tell you what. Meanwhile Kurt Angle won a gold medal with a broken freaking neck. Runners ankle slightly hurts and they cry to the heavens.
A DNF In the marathon makes sense once the goal becomes lost. Since it takes weeks of recovery for every mile raced a marathoner is justified to pull the plug early and aim for the next event. The only athletes DNFing track distances are the pacesetters.
In 2016 Olympic Trial, Lagat DNFed 10k on a very hot and humid day, and came back to win 5k. Hassan Mead and Eric Jenkins also DNFed in 10k and finished 2nd and 4th in 5k.
A DNF In the marathon makes sense once the goal becomes lost. Since it takes weeks of recovery for every mile raced a marathoner is justified to pull the plug early and aim for the next event. The only athletes DNFing track distances are the pacesetters.
In 2016 Olympic Trial, Lagat DNFed 10k on a very hot and humid day, and came back to win 5k. Hassan Mead and Eric Jenkins also DNFed in 10k and finished 2nd and 4th in 5k.
How you can’t finish a 10k is mind boggling. Kurt Angle won a gold medal with a broken freaking neck and runners cry about humidity in a 10k?