Deena Kastor Calls Out Bates and D’Amato

Really? D'Amato had some sort of foot injury and she dropped rather than potentially do serious damage. I feel bad for her after build-up with Eyestone, but injuries happen...

And this is why the Kastor's support BITR.

Listen to the podcast. Deena acknowledges that. Her point is Keira knew that before the race but was still saying she was in PR shape which she obviously wasn’t.

What's the logic in knowing you're injured and then talking about the AR? Not many people set ARs with a foot injury...

The logic in talking big may be something like "My appearance fee is predicated in large part on promotiing the race / generating interest. Other than stats-drunk LetsRun nerds,
all anyone in interested in is records. Therefore, to get paid big, I need to talk big."

Big words, big money.

Friendo, it's really ONLY stats-drunk LRC nerds who are interested in records. It helps to promote the race and athlete and thus sponsors for a news cycle when it happens, but less than 5% of Chicago finishers this year could tell you who currently holds the women's marathon AR.

Other than the foot injury she was in condition for a PR. That is what she meant to say.

Honestly we should've seen it coming. It's Boy Cries Wolf, over and over again. Let's see more action and less talk. This goes for not only Bates and Keira.. but also the men. Panning and Brian Shrader also led us to believe they were in much better shape than they showed on Sunday.

Very fun to make up stats! A very LR move.

Lol touché, but I wasn't offering it as any proof.

She's right, the USA women got HUMILIATED. They talked a big game and ran bad or dropped out.

The top American was 12 minutes behind the winner. That's 27 seconds per mile slower.

Each 5k, the Americans are losing nearly 90 seconds to the winner.

Talk less, train more.

D'Amato hasn't progress since setting the American record in 2022 and getting tested more regularly. Weird.

Emma Bates is just a psycho that doesn't realize she's only a 2:22 marathoner and not a 2:17 marathoner. She ran 2:24, which should be just fine if she hadn't tried to convince everybody she was better than she is.

Bates said she was in 2:18/2:19 shape. She also said she wouldn't go with a pacer at 69:00 opening half because her half PR is 69:44. Why didn't anyone ask her to reconcile these statements?

She's not wrong. Karma has a fairly strict "talk s***t, get hit" policy when it comes to preliminary grandstanding.

Don't talk trash before a marathon about how well you plan to do, no matter who you are. Respect the distance.

It was funny though that she said the Kenyans didn't puff themselves up (what a shame!) and the Americans did (what a shame!).