all out one hundred wrote:
No, the tactics employed during this race were dumb. Watching the race video, I see one lucky man and 15 stupid ones.
I don't understand where this notion of tactical=slow came from. There's a huge difference between a three lap jog with a sprint at the end and an honestly paced race.
Posters on this board (especially hmmmmmmmmmmm) seem to think that you either have a race where you jog (in a huge pack), or you're time trialing in a line. Believe it or not, there are other options.
they werent dumb for samoei...
obviously there are other options and those options produce the same results as this one...a winner, a 2nd placer, a 3rd placer, a 4th placer, and someone waaaay back in last, and no records
Ill agree that manzano, a 3:32 guy was dumb to let the race go this slowly and would have been better served by making a move early (maybe 600 to go or something)...but kivuva making an early move like that would have been just as dumb as manzano waiting around as long as he did
thats how every race is, sometimes the pace favors one type of runner, sometimes it favors another...let me guess, you go outkicked a lot when you were running?