RORY MF LINKLETTER 2:07:02 ON BOSTON AND 6TH PLACE AND BEATS CLAYTON YOUNG

Not bad coming from a Beta country. Not deserving of MF though

Rory finished over 4 minutes back from Clayton in the Olympics, and over 2 minutes back in NYC last year. Maybe Clayton is just more consistent, or maybe the shoes shaved off 2+ minutes for Rory today.

I don't dislike Rory, I follow him on YT, but he's always had an endurance issue that has kept him from reaching his potential, because in a fast fast race he is faster than Clayton (he beat Clayton in almost every race in College except one).

I am really curious how much the new shoes helped him be able to sustain pace and not have his normal drop off at the end of this race. I was somewhat skeptical, sort of hedging bets about the new Puma shoes, but they might be legit, and maybe every shoe company will have their own version soon.

C-eh? N-eh? D-eh?

I didn’t like the way Rory stuck his tongue out while beating Clayton. Bad sportsmanship. And he didn’t even win the race. You got 6th bro. Settle down.

I'm sure the shoes helped, but part of his secret sauce is also that he is coached by Jon Green who has done a surprisingly great job with his marathoners (Seidel when she was competing, Linkletter, Bowden)!

I almost thought the same, but I will defer judgment for now since they were teammates at BYU and likely friends. I'd be stoked too if it was one of the first times I held off an old teammate (Clayton has been a tier ahead since college)!

Yeah...that's not it...

Rory has been coached by Jon Green for a while and never with these results. Even two months ago in Marugame he was not running this quickly.

What a dumb take. He was just having fun.

Sure, because improvement should always be linear in running, right? I would say Jon has done a fine job taking the reins since Hall coached him. I also never denied that shoes play a role, by the way, so calm down lol.

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Not bad coming from a Beta country. Not deserving of MF though"

Chuckle. The beta country that also holds the Official North American Marathon record despite having 1/10th the population, funding, etc.

Quite an improvement over his days with NAZ.

I'm sure current NORTH AMERICAN RECORD HOLDER AND CANADIAN Cam Levins was watching that strong finish with approval, eh.

From getting dropped off the back of the lead pack to hawking down Young and taking the cheeky finish, Rory was the day's big surprise.

He was barely keeping up in their joint workouts in the past year.

But in all seriousness, Mantz had the biggest balls of the day to run for the win so hard that it even cost him a podium. That chase pack had Korir dead to rights with 750 more meters. Korir gambled and it barely paid off.

Maybe because he was targeting Boston not Marugame?

Yes he MF does.

Is coached by Eyestone still?

You suckers are new to the sport. Nobody remembers Rory’s antics during college? Anyways him Conner and Clayton are all buddies, college teammates. Rory even trained with them recently.

Big performance for Rory. I used to dislike him in college severely.

Improvement in running is non-linear but you seem to basically be taking Rory's career in just a snapshot of this very moment. Rory has run 12 marathons, which is double what Clayton has run, and many smaller races in between. So he has a large body of work and we know roughly what his strengths and weaknesses are.

I want to be generous, but the best coach in marathoning is not a coach who has an athlete perpetually sidelined by injuries, and Phily Bowden. He is certainly not a "Secret Sauce." I've followed a lot of Rory's workouts, and they've been solid. In my prediction, I had him setting a PR in the 2:07:30-2:08:00 range, which he outperformed but no substantially. I don't doubt that if he has a better rapport with this current coach, maybe he's been working on other things in his fueling and nutrition that have helped him as well.

But if you ask what is the secret sauce, this shoe that scientists say gives 3.5% more running economy than the next best competitor, or a coach who has no other active elite athletes, like it's not that hard to figure out.

Did you watch his Marugame video or are you a bandwagon fan who also just found out about Rory?

Yes, build up races are not the end all be all. But Rory felt pretty bittersweet after Marugame, and he was pretty open about that. He flew across the world for that race, and was hoping for a big PB. He got a PB, a small one, but his PB didn't even best that of Clayton Young and Reed Fischer, both of whom historically are slower runners than him over distances shorter than the marathon.