Des Linden speaks out - shoes, Rio 2016, Tokyo2020, Shalane Flanagan & more “It’s an Arms Race and It Should Be a Footrace”

Really like Des, but to me, she comes off bad again when talking about Shalane.

Maybe she should be talking Brooks for not keeping up with shoe technology and not say anything about Shalane? She seems to like implying she is a victim, but not really saying it

bvcx wrote:

Really like Des, but to me, she comes off bad again when talking about Shalane.

Maybe she should be talking Brooks for not keeping up with shoe technology and not say anything about Shalane? She seems to like implying she is a victim, but not really saying it

Wow! You managed to find an interpretation that is the exact opposite of what she actually said. Biased much?

If was sponsored by Nike then she’s just be racing (faster) and not dulling us with her boring news. She’s dull.

We could say vaporflys don’t perform well in rainy condition and that’s the reason why she won Boston? Lol

Still wanted to know what she wore that day though. All blacked out brooks shoes?

Bound by strictures, not structures.

Mary Keitany is with adidas, right? It'll be interesting to see if someone wearing Vaporflys will beat her or the course record.

Oooo so the shoes don't have to be available to the public, just the technology that makes up the shoe has to be...

LetsRun.com wrote:

Des is at a point in the sport where she can say what she wants and she had a lot to say.

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/10/des-linden-on-the-olympics-her-running-future-the-great-shoe-debate-its-an-arms-race-and-it-should-be-a-footrace/

Video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NylIoEUaLno

Sounds to me like she said "If you can't beat em, join em. Then she went full Galen and didn't want to talk about it, oter than to say "the technology" is widely available? Is that what the IAAF rule says? Sketchy AF if you ask me.

At least her shot at Shalane and Amy is honest.

She has always hated Shalane and she stopped the Hansons from bringing Amy to the team in 2012.

She has been lying to the public about them all being buddy buddy. Nice for her to show her true colors.

Retirement soon?

Des is like many before her that need to be relevant when their performances start to slip.

Kara Goucher, Nick Symmonds, and Des Linden in recent times all have made the same decisions at the end of their careers. Yell and scream about Nike (the evil empire) or any other hot button issue.

Brooks has been through this already with Nick and that didn’t end well. Here you go again.

Des will yell about shoes while she was wearing the same thing for her biggest win.

Des will yell about drugs at the Olympics but run a WMM against the same athletes.

Like Nick and Kara she is struggling to stay relevant.

Sounds like somebody who got beat by Desi is posting under a variety of pseudonyms.

Never a fan of hers ever since she stole an Olympic place in London. What an embarrassment by her.

bvcx wrote:

Really like Des, but to me, she comes off bad again when talking about Shalane.

Maybe she should be talking Brooks for not keeping up with shoe technology and not say anything about Shalane? She seems to like implying she is a victim, but not really saying it

Shalane & Amy had an unfair advantage. Thanks Des for speaking up!

Desi can run in the Next% if she wants to.

Linden lists her PR as 2:22 from Boston but doesn't add that she had a 25 mph tailwind. Classy.

As for the shoes...

Brooks developed and sold EVA midsole shoes before any one else in the 1970's, while others were still running in rubberized waffles and canvas uppers.

Now the shoe is on the other foot literally. Sorry Des, you signed with a company that can't compete. Don't blame Shalane or your ex-teamate Hastings, Nike, it makes you sound like a victim. They are better than you. Retire, drink some bourbon, and think about stealing all that Olympic spot from Hastings.

2:25:55

That is Des Linden’s fastest time in the marathon. Anything quicker has been on aided courses.

This eats at her and she now realizes that her legacy is disappearing. This is causing her to lash out against anything and everything that threatens her legacy.

Her lifetime best is behind what Emma Bates ran this year at Chicago. It’s 4 minutes behind Amy Cragg and 5 minutes behind both Shalane Flanagan and Jordan Hasay. Not legacy material.

They all raced on faster courses she screams. Des has raced at Berlin and Chicago as well.

They use carbon plated shoes she yells. So does Des and has in her last 3 marathons including her Boston win.

Des has not broken 2;27 in the marathon in over 3 years. She is struggling for relevancy.

Of course she won’t run the Trials. She will not be relevant.

Her legacy will simply be the answer to a trivia question. Who won a WMM with the slowest time EVER? Who has the slowest winning time at Boston since they started giving prize money 35 yers ago?

Desi's legacy is the only Mexican-American to win the Boston Marathon, as Alberto Salazar is a Cuban-American.

Her 2:22 is legit. As legit as any 4% shoe performance out there. I used to race in Brooks T4/T5/T6 racers, and looking at them now, they look like ancient technology from a past civilization.

The Boston win in the wicked nasty weather is what saved her...putting her back in the spot light. Before that day she was drifting away. Look up everything before Boston 2018, she was almost gone.

Whiner that likes wine wrote:

At least her shot at Shalane and Amy is honest.

She has always hated Shalane and she stopped the Hansons from bringing Amy to the team in 2012.

She has been lying to the public about them all being buddy buddy. Nice for her to show her true colors.

stopped the Hansons from bringing Amy to the team in 2012? source?