The smaller core athlete tends to performs better in the heat than thicker trunked athletes - easier to disapate core heat.
Dc chillin wrote:
Would just like the challenge notion of tough conditions. Obviously no humidity is preferable to humidity and 50 degrees would be preferable to 70 degrees, but in reality 70 and humid is nothing. I live in dc and from April to October it's 80-90+ with 95-100 percent humidity every single day. Not the best running weather and u sweat alot but people still can throw down good race times without weather as an excuse. Not taking anything away from Hasay I was very impressed. On the men's side is was just a bad race forget a little bit of humidity.
The key point you are missing though is that the other elite runners tended to run a bit slower than expected, much like how we might expect the weather to impact the race. When everyone else is slower than expected and Hasay is faster than expected then I think the weather adjustment is the obvious way to evaluate her run.
Dc chillin wrote:
Would just like the challenge notion of tough conditions. Obviously no humidity is preferable to humidity and 50 degrees would be preferable to 70 degrees, but in reality 70 and humid is nothing. I live in dc and from April to October it's 80-90+ with 95-100 percent humidity every single day. Not the best running weather and u sweat alot but people still can throw down good race times without weather as an excuse. Not taking anything away from Hasay I was very impressed. On the men's side is was just a bad race forget a little bit of humidity.
OK.
Dc chillin wrote:
Would just like the challenge notion of tough conditions. Obviously no humidity is preferable to humidity and 50 degrees would be preferable to 70 degrees, but in reality 70 and humid is nothing. I live in dc and from April to October it's 80-90+ with 95-100 percent humidity every single day. Not the best running weather and u sweat alot but people still can throw down good race times without weather as an excuse. Not taking anything away from Hasay I was very impressed. On the men's side is was just a bad race forget a little bit of humidity.
Calling bull on this. First of all, when the temperature is lowest (in the morning) the humidity is highest generally. And when the temperature is highest (in the afternoon) the humidity is lower usually, unless you have rain. You say the humidity is 95 to 100% every day. But looking at June, the average humidity in the morning in DC is 80 while the average humidity in the afternoon is 52. You can't just throw out numbers willy nilly like that.
Dc chillin wrote:
Would just like the challenge notion of tough conditions. Obviously no humidity is preferable to humidity and 50 degrees would be preferable to 70 degrees, but in reality 70 and humid is nothing. I live in dc and from April to October it's 80-90+ with 95-100 percent humidity every single day. Not the best running weather and u sweat alot but people still can throw down good race times without weather as an excuse. Not taking anything away from Hasay I was very impressed. On the men's side is was just a bad race forget a little bit of humidity.
While we wait for your list of world records set above 70F, here is an article about heat training:
Dc chillin wrote:
Would just like the challenge notion of tough conditions. Obviously no humidity is preferable to humidity and 50 degrees would be preferable to 70 degrees, but in reality 70 and humid is nothing. I live in dc and from April to October it's 80-90+ with 95-100 percent humidity every single day. Not the best running weather and u sweat alot but people still can throw down good race times without weather as an excuse. Not taking anything away from Hasay I was very impressed. On the men's side is was just a bad race forget a little bit of humidity.
Don't forget about Centro's ' race debacles' too. We're using 'race debacles' as a code word for 'Olympic medals', right???
rjm33 wrote:
After the recent NOP race debacles of Galen and Sir Mo … it turns out that Ms. Jordan Hasay has saved the NOP all by herself with this one race.
Or these boards seem to weigh in heavily on anything connected to the NOP....
GoDucks!!!!!!!! wrote:
Apparently, many people give a $hit about the half-marathon, as evidenced by these boards.
Great race for Hasay - and hope she has a great run at Boston.
Thanks for the analysis. I'm on board with sub 2:25 for Jordan "Pony Tail GODDESS" Hasay.
Or not wrote:
Although again with the half not getting the recognition it makes one wonder how many times an athlete is actually training specifically for that distance and that race as I'd guess hardly ever. Linden isn't even close but her marathon best beats Goucher by over 2 minutes (Goucher's = 2:24:52)