Well done, OP :-)
Well done, OP :-)
wow, Yuki. What a beast.
hahahahhaha ahahahhahahha YESS
The dude has a regular 9-5 job. He is legend. There is no other way about it. Legend.
My opinion is that Yuki's surges were done to prevent a slow pace playing into the abilities of those capable of sub 14:00 5 ks in the last half hour of the marathon.
He never let the race become a total jog-fest. Even though the times were slow, the effort was kept honest by him.
Wonderful performance. Guts.
PS: Also very fortunate that Kirui cratered.
John Utah wrote:
The dude has a regular 9-5 job. He is legend. There is no other way about it. Legend.
He’s our guy. The blue collar hero we deserve.
OK I'm making this the official thread as it proved to be correct. Here is the text of the post-race interview that Yuki had after the race with Scot Wahle on the international feed. This interview will go down in history as an all-time classic.
Reporter: "What an incredible comeback, how did you do it?"
Yuki: "I never gave up. I knew he was up there. I could see him and I just ran my own race. I ran the way that I run best and I ran him down."
Reporter: "In awful conditions too."
Yuki: "For me, these were the best conditions possible."
Kirui went way to hard when he went imo, opened up about 40 seconds in a mile burned himself
Jordan Hasay needs to take a lesson from Desi and Kawauchi. That's what being tough is all about, NOT dropping out because you think there is a possibility of being injured sometime in the future.
THAT attitude is why Americans suck at distance running.
Congrats to Yuki and Desi. Well deserved and well earned.
theJeff wrote:
Well done, OP :-)
It's called a guess.
rojo wrote:
OK I'm making this the official thread as it proved to be correct. Here is the text of the post-race interview that Yuki had after the race with Scot Wahle on the international feed. This interview will go down in history as an all-time classic.
Reporter: "What an incredible comeback, how did you do it?"
Yuki: "I never gave up. I knew he was up there. I could see him and I just ran my own race. I ran the way that I run best and I ran him down."
Reporter: "In awful conditions too."
Yuki: "For me, these were the best conditions possible."
Great insight into the mind of a champion.
Weather forecast: sh1tty
Yuki seeing weather forecast: YES!
rojo wrote:
OK I'm making this the official thread as it proved to be correct. Here is the text of the post-race interview that Yuki had after the race with Scot Wahle on the international feed. This interview will go down in history as an all-time classic.
Reporter: "What an incredible comeback, how did you do it?"
Yuki: "I never gave up. I knew he was up there. I could see him and I just ran my own race. I ran the way that I run best and I ran him down."
Reporter: "In awful conditions too."
Yuki: "For me, these were the best conditions possible."
I agree, I've never encountered this thing called bad race conditions.
LOLOOOOOL...ha ha wrote:
Luki Yuki wrote:
Pure guts. This is his race today.
Your prediction doesn't count, you're gutless without providing a name.
If he wins, you come back and say "I told you so", when you really don't know jack sh*t.
If he doesn't win, you disappear and never use that handle again.
Yes, you don't run on pure guts.
True.
Holy crap I picked Desi and Yuki to win in the prediction contest! Did anyone else?
I’M SO HAPPY
I haven’t felt this good about a race result since Solinsky’s 26:59.
Kawauchi is a hero, the quintessential Runner.
Tremcc wrote:
Holy crap I picked Desi and Yuki to win in the prediction contest! Did anyone else?
Good job. I put them in my top 3s and considered it because they were my most felt/instinctive choices especially with the weather forecast. My other picks were garbage though.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
He has my vote 100%.
Hold on.
Sprintgeezer is alive?!
YUKIIIIIIIIIIII wrote:
https://imgur.com/20vtx1q
That tweet did not age well.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes and an absence of grit.
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
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