Crying Man wrote:
slopenguinrunner wrote:Kenyans have run like that mostly every Boston save for 2011. I have watched the race on TV or live stream all but one year since 1997. The one year I didn't watch it, I ran it. Most elite runners run it conservatively. Very few gun it from the get go and survive the pacing.
Boston's course is not like other major marathon courses. Different animal altogether. I am pretty sure that the Kenyans know that and they respect that.
Nope. As stated already there is a difference between letting someone take it out too hard and deliberately dropping off a pedestrian pace.
Seriously, check the mile splits for the "chase" pack during Meb's "surge". They deliberately ran absurdly slow. Not reasonably conservatively. Absurdly slowly.
does it matter at all to you that Meb's surge put him at a pace that would have won 70% of the last 20 Bostons?
does it matter at all to you that the guy making this very fast surge was a 39 year old guy no one was worried about so it was easy to let him go?
remember last year was won in 2:10 and the year before in 2:12. This crazy old man putting a mad surge was easy to let go.