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  • Another giver of +1

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 09/26/2017 4:30am EDT
    re: Sordy

    Sordy wrote:

    You don't actually believe that, do you? That Adola ran 160m more than Kipchoge in the last 5k?

    +1

    Adola didn't run 160m more than Kipchoge in the last 5k. As I was watching it appeared he was wide of the blue line on the straights and as someone said before, you only add a little distance by gradually moving across the road on a straight. Worst case, he may have run 30m more. He lost by more than that. Agree with the poster that said Adola should have surged more gradually when he first dropped Kipchoge.

  • D.Katz

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 09/26/2017 4:44am EDT
    re: Another giver of +1

    I have always believed that's it's very important to be a student of the "race route". Knowledge of a course with it's tangents and turns can make a big difference of when to make a move.

    For the 2012 London Olympic Games, I was on the lead vehicle when Kiprotich made a move just past the 34k mark. The course had several turns within about 400 meters + a incline. He opened up a lead that the others couldn't respond to even with 7k+ to go. It was brilliant.

  • French Dawg

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 09/26/2017 5:16am EDT
    re: redlined

    Even if adola would have broken the world record on Sunday, kipchoge would have beaten him by at least the same margin.

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    said88

    Member since 12/24/2006.

    1,478 posts. Last post 5 years ago.
    6 years ago 09/26/2017 5:55am EDT
    re: FruityLoper

    I watched the last 5km again. The idea that Adola has run 160 extra meters in this part is just astonishing. I'm sceptical now about my own estimate of less than 1 meter and tend more to little bit over 1 meter (but without any question less than 10 meters).

    Drifting 10 meters away on a 1km straight and then back (the 10 meters reached in the middle of the straight) adds 20cm to the distance. The course was not completely straight, but still, 160m is just absurd.

  • Uncle Beemer

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 09/26/2017 6:16am EDT
    re: Bad Wigins

    Bad Wigins wrote:

    HardLoper wrote:

    No he would not. It made negligible difference.

    It makes all the difference! He lost, didn't he?

    Always stay on the blue line.

    40,000 people lost the race. All because they did not follow the blue line?

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    Shoebacca

    Member since 06/20/2011.

    2,657 posts. Last post 4 years ago.
    6 years ago 09/26/2017 9:17am EDT
    re: Dope Train

    Dope Train wrote:

    I think Adola received a big psychological boost from gapping Kip and moving across so he couldn't draft.

    +1

  • Sordy

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 09/26/2017 9:22am EDT
    re: FruityLoper

    FruityLoper wrote:

    do you believe in math?

    Yes, as well as the misapplication of it.

  • gloria

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 09/27/2017 2:03am EDT
    re: redlined

    Seriously.

    Adidas should've held out a bigger carrot (CASH) incentive for Adola.

  • All He Does Is Win

    Anonymous Poster

    6 years ago 09/27/2017 2:55am EDT
    re: redlined

    He could have had it allllllllllll

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