It's all just a ploy.
Why not run these things as a workout if you can get an appearance fee payday and possibly finish on the podium anyway? But in the media leading up to it you can't say it's just a workout. You need to be marketing the competitiveness of the event.
fghrunner wrote:
i dont need to rebut anything bc i am not arguing about anything. I didnt mention huddle because she only raced twice and hasay is racing 3 times (which is more). 3 seems like a lot to me. I am not criticizing anything and have just noticed that 3 is more than usual. 2 is maybe slightly more than usual too, but not as much more than usual as 3. 4 would be even more more than usual--but neither of them are racing 4 times so i didn't mention it
Molly: 2
Jordan: 2
Man, the idiots we get on here is atrocious!
See how stupid you looked jumping the gun, she’s not racing the world half now. So again, her and huddle on same level with races run. So thread is dead go jog your 25 min 5ks and have a nice day
Selective wrote:
See how stupid you looked jumping the gun, she’s not racing the world half now. So again, her and huddle on same level with races run. So thread is dead go jog your 25 min 5ks and have a nice day
Correct. Potential injury for Hasay aside, the real question we should be asking is whether or not this is good for their Boston chances. From what I heard in Houston, Hasay was downplaying the AR, pointing at Boston as the bigger goal. Meanwhile all we heard from Molly Huddle was that she was going to break the AR. Is Molly peaking too soon for these shorter races, potentially hurting her chances for a strong Boston showing? If Hasay pulling out of the World Half is not an injury (maybe they caught "wind" of the potentially horrible conditions expected???), I like Hasay's approach better. Boston is the big goal. Go into these shorter races with a "I hope to run well but we'll just see how I feel" mindset, rather than "I'm going to go after that AR and really race hard". My $$ is on Hasay in Boston.
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