Man all I gotta say is that you got nerve criticizing a runner who is still in COLLEGE who has run 28:18. I don't care how he does it he is an absolute stud and how you can't see that is beyond me.
Man all I gotta say is that you got nerve criticizing a runner who is still in COLLEGE who has run 28:18. I don't care how he does it he is an absolute stud and how you can't see that is beyond me.
Sandbagger wrote:
2. grows a sac and hammers from the start to finish, instead of sitting behind front runners like at the Mt. SAC Relays last spring and sitting behind Shay at NCAA's.
No Sac? Gimme a break! This guy has more balls than 99.9999999999% of college runners out there. He is clearly one of the best in the country. I think he ran an awesome race at Mt. Sac. If you recall he was running against some Mexican National Team guys and he went with them from the start on lap one! I didnt see anyone else go with McArdle early in the race when he went after the leader, and this 10k was packed with good runners. I recall reading that he wasnt sure before the race if he should go or if he could hang with that mexican guy, but when the race started he said "f*** it" (he actually probably didnt say that, but you get the point) and went with the guy. McArdle is the last guy who needs a sac check, especially in that race...
how f***in' stupid can some of you people be. Yeah, its one thing to sac it up for a period of time in a race, but to actually do most of the work, now that takes a lot more. Name a major race where McArdle lead from the gun or even early on in a race and tried to break the other runners. Now thats what I'm talking about when I say "growing a sac." And by the way, its just a common running expression to get the point across. Nothing "macho" about it. So don't even start that shit to get away from the subject.
I'm not saying the guy isn't tough. I now he trains hard. But he has to stop being intimidated by other runners and put it to them from the get go.
And just because he held on in that Mt. SAC 10k with the leaders, doesn't mean he "saced it up." If that was the case he would have done his fair share of the lead, or at least made an attempt.
Its amazing how you can take simple expression and break them down into politically correct bullshit.
Yeah, that's what I meant...when a girl runs a gutsy race, she automatically grows a sac. You dumb f***. If you can't get the point I'm trying to get across then you are the ignorant one. Why don't you look at the big picture instead of over analyzing my cliches. If it makes you feel better, you can substitue "sac" with "guts," "heart," whatever the hell you want. And you can subsitute "puss" with "panzy," "gutless," "weak" (mentally and physically), whatever floats your boat. Wait, maybe I shouldn't use guts because if I say a certain racing strategy was "gutless," then you might take it literally and suggest that whay I'm saying is that those who don't do any of the work in a race do not have any internal substances that make up the innards of a human being.
I love how many have brought up the one time Tom may have exibited toughness on the track at the Terrier Classic. One race doesn't prove shit. I'm looking for consitancy. And from what I've seen, he's been more consistant at hanging back and never leading/surging/or kicking.
Come on...dispute this...the best way to beat McArdle is to run right with him and out kick him in the end. In most races he's been in, anyone with him, or any pack he is in in the last 400m, out kicks him down the home stretch. He puts himself into position to place well, but never to win.
yes, they would've caught boaz in that goddamn steambath down there (a climate i'm sure mcardle is very familiar with in new england)...
you really are a f***ing idiot, aren't you??? the only point you seem to be able to make is that he's got no kick, which EVERYBODY already knows (including tom himself)... the races in which he has not taken the lead and tried to push it were the races where he just wasn't fit/fast/good enough to do so...