Desi Linden doing the Trials AND Boston!!

*Whoosh *

Degefa to win v Edna Kiplagat and Caroline Rotich from the early names. I wonder if Worknesh will run Dubai like last year?

good choice wrote:

I like this. It shows she is still in it. I think she can run a good time. Remember Rupp ran 2:06:07 in Prague just 4 weeks after running the first 20 of Boston.

The last 10k of a thon is where the glycogen depletion causes long term muscle damage. If he had finished Boston he would of not run Prague.

I hope Linden the best. She probably realizes at her older age there’s only so many more chances to get an appearance fee at Boston.

Will it hurt her shot an Olympic medal? Likely, but she might not think she has a good shot anyway. Or the money at Boston is worth more than an Olympic medal.

In any case it’s just running so do what ya want to do.

2020 very well might be the last year of Linden's elite career. Let her try it all.

I see she is coaching now. She is making a money grab while she can. No shame in that.

When they put this trophy down, Yuki told her 1 marathon a month is the way to go.

CollegeRunner1234 wrote:

Gee whiz, you all sure got me! I have a boring username on a running forum, while Des Linden is just a boring all-around person. I am not jealous, but yes, it would nice to have her running prowess obviously; her personality, on the other hand, I surely am not jealous of.

It's indicative of your creativity, which is closely tied to a boring personality. If you don't realize the hypocrisy then you may be unintelligent in addition to boring.

CollegeRunner1234 wrote:

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I literally fell asleep halfway through your boring post. Don't you ever talk about anything else?

the end is near wrote:

I see she is coaching now. She is making a money grab while she can. No shame in that.

You have nailed it.

She is smart enough to know that she has zero skills toward earning a living outside of this sport. Ask Ben True how profitable the coffee business was. She is in the process of being revealed.

2:26 marathoner that was helped by weather conditions twice at Boston. 2:22 with monster tailwind and a 2:40 Boston survival day.

Bingo Baby wrote:

the end is near wrote:

I see she is coaching now. She is making a money grab while she can. No shame in that.

You have nailed it.

She is smart enough to know that she has zero skills toward earning a living outside of this sport. Ask Ben True how profitable the coffee business was. She is in the process of being revealed.

2:26 marathoner that was helped by weather conditions twice at Boston. 2:22 with monster tailwind and a 2:40 Boston survival day.

You seem a little bitter and jealous today. Have a soothing cup of Linden x Two coffee.

Glad to hear it. I think this model of pro marathoners doing two races per year and vanishing for the rest of the year is pretty lame, and not good for the sport. kipchoge does a marathon, then you don't hear from him for six months until the next one.. hard to keep people who aren't hardcore about the sport, interested.

Ridiculous to think that the "twitter age" has lowered the bar for 'clever.' How could a global platform where people are in constant competition with each other to get likes lower the bar? Your argument is flawed and shows a poor understanding of the internet.

this is boring. You guys are gullible.

Des Linden is smart enough to understand the profession she is in. She is a boring personality but knows the framework of the system and is going line by line in the pre-race script right now with no consequences if she changes her mind and doesn't follow through.

Do well in a major marathon is the most important (nd noteworthy) step. Then:

-get invited back to race with guaranteed payday

-hype yourself and your plans up, and

-have the infinite options of saying you're:

(1) tired

(2) injured

(3) going to focus on the Olympics (if she makes it)

(4) announcing retirement

(5) going to drink whiskey

etc etc

The fact that everyone is eating this up is sad.

it's like the Kenyan runners saying they're going to work together to try and defeat a runner like Bekele or Farah in the Olympic final. Exciting to talk about but doesn't happen.

LIke Dathan Ritzenhein is ready for something special. On and on.....

Yawn. Americans are running sub-2:22 these days and Desi Linden isn't one of them.

Rojo - Set up an interview with Walmsley and Linden in the same room so they can even each other's personalities out.

The thread is about Linden but the real story is about the 6 or 7 former champs who could fight out both the women’s and men’s titles. Cherono and desisa will need to be near their best to keep Geoffrey Kirui at bay. Degefa seems a lay down misere but Rotich and Edna Kiplagat will keep her mind on the job. I just can’t wait for other names to fill in the gaps. I did sixty profiles over two months this year starting on 14 feb.

KettlePot is such a creative and interesting username. You must be so much more creative and interesting than me. If you don’t see how silly this sounds, I have nothing more to say to you. Moron.

CollegeRunner1234 wrote:

KettlePot is such a creative and interesting username. You must be so much more creative and interesting than me. If you don’t see how silly this sounds, I have nothing more to say to you. Moron.

(S)he's got you nailed. No one will believe you are interesting because you chose a frivolous name for an anonymous post. You probably barely got into college, which is why you are bragging about it. So, unintelligent, too. KettlePot is probably a leading scholar of creative research to have the sense to use such a poetic and modest name.