JS, please quit posting under fake names. The entire goal of that guy was to run under 2:19. You said he even had a shot at 2:15 and would be one of USA's top 10 marathoners in a few years. He ended up running well over 2:30.
Anyone who followed that thread knew how it was going to turn around. All of the passengers saw the incoming train wreck but it didn't help because the conductor was both blind and deaf.