ex-runner wrote:
Wow, aside from the personal insults and you obviously posting under two unregistered handles to back your own argument, you haven't really made any point whatsoever.
If he intended to run a 600m time trial then I have a few questions:
1. Why did he run so slow (1:18)?
2. Why did he finish the race?
3. Why didn't he enter a 600m rather than an 800m?
Why didn't he go out in 48 or 49 if there are no negatives to going out as hard as possible? 800m races outdoors have opened that fast in the past.
1. I am only using one handle. Believing that multiple people couldn't possibly disagree with you is a sign you may be delusional. Think about it.
2. "Why did he run so slow (1:18)?"
Because, for the Nth time, he wasn't trying to run the perfect 800 or the perfect 600. He was running on the schedule that is relevant to him: pointed toward 1:44 indoors, which basically requires a 50-point opening.
2. "Why did he finish the race?"
Because he has guts. Because there is value to finishing no matter what, rather than building a mindset that includes DNF as an option. Because he gets paid to finish. Because he is an NB athlete at an NB meet and has pride that doesn't allow him to just walk off. Anybody could come up with 100 reasonable answers to this.
3. "Why didn't he enter a 600m rather than an 800m?"
Sorry, I didn't see a 600 on the NBIGP schedule, did you? I bet he wishes there was!
4. "Why didn't he go out in 48 or 49 if there are no negatives to going out as hard as possible?"
Are you dense? A 48 would have no relevance to his race situation, either. By that idiot logic he could sprint a 45 and see what happens. Which obviously he didn't and wouldn't do. He ran 400 at almost exactly pace for his PR 800 effort.
Would he have preferred to rig at 700 rather than 550, or not to rig at all? OBVIOUSLY. But the goal wasn't simply to not rig in the best time with zero risk of rig. It was clearly to get after a legit race pace.