KudzuRunner wrote:
What's noticeable about Llano is his dismal positive splits.
You picked up on that too? I thought I was the only one who noticed that 1:05:30/1:12:13 on a flat course was probably not optimal.
KudzuRunner wrote:
He thought he was in much better shape than he turned out to be.
His very long long runs plainly did NOT help
The fact that he blew up does not make either of these statements true. He may have been in 2:10 shape and just had a shitty day or mismanaged his fueling or something. When someone runs, say, a 1:01 half, it's possible to make certain inferences about his marathon fitness. But it doesn't wor the other way around -- when someone collapses, it says nothing about whether the training he did was effective. If you look at every runner who has ever run a crappy marathon, especially in his first attempt, and condemn whatever training he did on the basis of his running crappy, you would quickly conclude that there is NO kind of marathon training that produces positive results.
Frigging naive ding dongs in this place.