Guys -
I'm getting a bit tired of your weekly recaps, articles, etc. where you:
1) Pat yourselves on the back when a runner follows through on having a breakout race/year/season/etc. based on a breakthrough race performance, or...
2) Pat yourselves on the back for a runner having a poor race performance when you 'predicted' they would.
Case in point - this week in your weekly recap you "thought to yourself" that Gotcher was going to have a better chance of not running a PR than he would of PRing. Really, did you put this in print on letsrun.com?
Even if you did, which I didn't see, why do you always feel the need to give yourselves credit for these types of things? I've never seen you say "well, we got that wrong" when you 'predicted' the outcome for a runner and it did NOT come true?
It's not hard to 'predict' that a 3:30/12:50/26:50/59:00/2:05 East African is going to be good. Similarly, it's not hard to 'predict' that a 28:07 guy might never run faster than 2:10. The numbers don't lie. Instead, let's just celebrate guys like Brett for what he did and/or what he's trying to do and leave it at that...
...or at least point out when you are wrong in addition to when you are 'right'.