Scro wrote:
B sample actually gets it. These other amateurs that are commenting - my guess is you have never won a major championship so you truly have no clue.
I've beat plenty of guys who've had much faster kicks than me, and I ran hard all the way for that reason.
It is stupid to think that if you're one of the 11 out of 12 guys who doesn't have the fastest kick, that your best chance to win is by sitting on him. When I see a field doing sit and kick, I think well there are 11 stupid people and one guy with a kick.
To the contrary, given similar levels of ability, that one guy probably does NOT have the best ability to run hard all the way, and in fact, he dreads it. I have led races against guys with much faster kicks than me, and beat them by inches because I ran them out before we got to the finish, and others just ran away from them period. Why wait? The race is over the ENTIRE DISTANCE. If you wait till the end, unless you're that one guy, it's too late.
Besides that, there is much greater joy in running your best, which is winning regardless of what place you get, and to my mind jogging, kicking and winning, is losing.