Honestly, your idea was so wildly out of touch, it's as if you set the stage for an epic disaster from the get-go. How you thought that this harebrained scheme would somehow pull through is beyond comprehension. It's clear as day, you're utterly clueless about reality. It was doomed from the start. Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
Honestly, your idea was so wildly out of touch, it's as if you set the stage for an epic disaster from the get-go. How you thought that this harebrained scheme would somehow pull through is beyond comprehension. It's clear as day, you're utterly clueless about reality. It was doomed from the start. Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
Is this post about "Breaking 4" or Grand Slam Track?
Honestly, your idea was so wildly out of touch, it's as if you set the stage for an epic disaster from the get-go. How you thought that this harebrained scheme would somehow pull through is beyond comprehension. It's clear as day, you're utterly clueless about reality. It was doomed from the start. Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
Just shows that records do not come from wishful thinking.
I guess 15 men jogging around you does not make up 7 seconds.
Honestly, your idea was so wildly out of touch, it's as if you set the stage for an epic disaster from the get-go. How you thought that this harebrained scheme would somehow pull through is beyond comprehension. It's clear as day, you're utterly clueless about reality. It was doomed from the start. Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
"picking up the piece of your monumental screwup"???
Tate McCauley had the perfect comment of this event. "This wasn't for the die hard tradck fan. It was a marketing campaign aimed at women."
And by that mark it was a BIG SUCCESS. I told several female friends about it and then asked one of them what they thought. They watched it live and aren't even a track fan. "I started to get emotional and tear up. I wasn't paying attention to the time on the screen but the announcers were so excited and she was right with the green lights so I thought she did it."
When I watched it, I had it on mute as I was doing my own show. Thank God I did or I would have ripped them. I mean it basically was false advertising on the broadcast. Was all intentional?
1) They never explained what the lights were and which one she needed to be on - we just got some weird explanation about green lights being extended to her WR time.
2) The splits on the screen were 400/800/1200 splits instead of the more logical 1/4th mile, 1/2 mile, 3/4th mile so everything appears faster. With a lap to go, Paul Swangard falsely said, "3:01.8 with alap to go" (no it was over 3:03 with a lap too go) and then DIljeet started screaming about how "she is with the green lights".
Then when they cut to the shot where you can see how the pacers are miles ahead of her, we were told how it was by design that the pacers were way ahead.
Then she finishes and she runs 4:06. 4:06 high which is quickly moved down.
Stickly aimed at influencer/social media types who live in a world of smoke and mirrors - want to buy a tiny heater which will warm your room in seconds using no power?
Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
WTF are you talking about? She ran and got a lot of people to watch and talk about it, seems like a decent event to me. Sure she didn't hit what was a pretty insane goal time but is that what defines event success?
Nobody at Nike is getting fired for this. In fact, there will be promotions. Nike is no longer a company concerned about wins on the track - literally and metaphorically. Shareholder value is now their priority and is the very reason why the company no longer has a soul or credibility to anyone.
This latest gimmick set women’s track backwards. Just watch. After all the spin and all the Nike female athletes are contractually forced to praise the effort on their social channels, they will start to reflect as the smoke clears and realize that a generational talent with every gadget and supplement and pacing scheme - well, was still not even close to sub 4. It was all just to sell shoes on the back of women.
Why can't the current women’s world record in the mile of 4:08 just be amazing on its own? Why can't Nike just celebrate Faith for the athlete she is rather than putting her into a rocket ship to the moon only for it to blow up 3/4 of the way there with the world watching?
Why? It’s not for “little girls everywhere” or to win back track. It’s to sell shoes and increase share holder value. I’m so sick of this company.
Honestly, your idea was so wildly out of touch, it's as if you set the stage for an epic disaster from the get-go. How you thought that this harebrained scheme would somehow pull through is beyond comprehension. It's clear as day, you're utterly clueless about reality. It was doomed from the start. Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
Use ur head. The idea wasn’t to go sub 4, it was to draw attention to a huge name Nike athlete and cement themselves as having the superior super shoes. No one *actually* expected her to do accomplish it, but they did expect a ton of marketing buzz.
What a horrendous corporate boondoggle. It almost seemed similar to one of those Bezos space launches. A vague cult-like atmosphere complete with fawning, ignorant commentators. Nothing like having a sprinter talk about distance and actually predicting she was going to “do it”. How can you spend a lifetime in a parallel sport and know absolutely nothing about running? Saccharine, vacuous commentary coupled with corporate hype equals the time of high school boy’s meets in second tier states.
Honestly, your idea was so wildly out of touch, it's as if you set the stage for an epic disaster from the get-go. How you thought that this harebrained scheme would somehow pull through is beyond comprehension. It's clear as day, you're utterly clueless about reality. It was doomed from the start. Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
I've been complaining about "shorter event success" ad nauseum on this site only to be downvoted but I'll be downvoted again. Listen - regardless of technology, if you can't run 1:50 in the 800, you can't run 3:59 in the mile. Sorry. If there is ANY event or race that supports this, it's this one! When will people learn?
Honestly, your idea was so wildly out of touch, it's as if you set the stage for an epic disaster from the get-go. How you thought that this harebrained scheme would somehow pull through is beyond comprehension. It's clear as day, you're utterly clueless about reality. It was doomed from the start. Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
Use ur head. The idea wasn’t to go sub 4, it was to draw attention to a huge name Nike athlete and cement themselves as having the superior super shoes. No one *actually* expected her to do accomplish it, but they did expect a ton of marketing buzz.
The name is the event was “Breaking 4”
Nike screwed this up, literally everyone I know thought it was a sad attempt for Nike to get attention.
Honestly, your idea was so wildly out of touch, it's as if you set the stage for an epic disaster from the get-go. How you thought that this harebrained scheme would somehow pull through is beyond comprehension. It's clear as day, you're utterly clueless about reality. It was doomed from the start. Now we're left picking up the pieces of your monumental screwup.
Nike Running is rock bottom without Cap. Good lord they are making some bad decisions