It'll likely be close as well as Kara ran the Chicago half.
It'll likely be close as well as Kara ran the Chicago half.
She will beat his time by at least 5 minutes maybe as much as 10 minutes! Good luch Kara, now go get your medal!
kara sure can't do any worse than Nate. Hell we should have just sent Chuck Engle (the marathon junkie dude) The whole US men's marathon team are an complete embarrassment.
probably a lot of girls will tomorrow, but why dont you stop bashing this guy, he had a lousy race, he trains hard from what i hear, maybe his body is breaking down from years of 160 mile weeks, maybe a bill rodgers or japanese can handle that, but he may just be too big to get in the sub 2:10 category (and yes i know there are exceptions rob decastella, derek clayton). i tell you what he has run a better time than all those that bash him, the fast runners usually have more class than to bash.
The posters bashing him may not be able to run his times, but they also aren't representing their country in the WCs. Come to think of it, I bet there are numerous posters on LetsRun that can run a sub 2:34 marathon. Especially under those conditions and on that route. What is bad is that time won't even podium the womens race!
sure maybe a lot of letsrunners can best his 2:32 from today
but how many can best his 2:15?
He never set out to run 2:32. Despite a sub-optimal buildup he gave it a go, splitting the half in 1:09:40 and through 30K in 1:41:29. Doing it the hard way is an understatement - from 35K to 40K he was 22 minutes and his last 2K was around 10 minutes.
Good on him - an ugly day is an ugly day. He doesn't deserve to be shit on by people who've never sacked up enough to give everything up to follow a dream, nor run close to what he's done. Nobody who has would dream of slagging him.
Great point, congrats to Nate for following a stupid race plan. Run himself into the ground? He gave it a go!
Nate is not physically capable of running a 2:10 marathaon, no matter how he trains, couldn't do it with drugs either, he just isn't that talented.
Not knocking him, he has gotten as much out of his body as he could, he can walk away knowing that he did his best and left nothing behind.