Jim Walmsley is looking like a genius now, huh?

hinpoln wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

I wasn't bothered by anything he said prior to the race. It was all his fans that believed running ultras gave him the superhuman mental toughness and hill running ability, to take on Rupp. That didn't really bother me either, as it was fun to debate and to be proven correct.

On the contrary, I saw you as another of the guys getting easily triggered by the other so-called fan 'trolls'.

There ain't nothing that triggers me. If there was, I'd stay away from LR,

Jim is still a minute behind Paula.

Go back to running your 4 hour marathon. Maybe some education.

You can't look at the results of one marathon and claim someone is on track to be on the same level. Walmsley thought he was in shape for 2:10 on a good course I assume(he was not and it wasn't a good course). Ward had his best buildup ever and on the day he didn't have it. Does that mean that Walmsley can run faster than Ward has? Absolutely not. Ward was 6th in the Rio Olympics. Not even Ward believes he's the 6th best marathoner in that field. It's about running your best race on the day and the chips fall where they may, unless you're one of the favorites to win. The trolls on this board got owned hard. Walmsley did not even run faster than Rupp or even old man Abdi could have on the uphills and that's supposed to be his specialty. He was supposedly gonna put the hurt on them on those hills. What happened? He got gapped easily on the other sections of the course and the hills were an insignificant advantage. Not only that but he admitted he got beat up by having to run so fast uphill when he's used to having to slog on steeper hills. Any way you cut it that was a bad debut relative to the way he built himself up. He was minutes out of the top ten and more than a mile away from Rupp. He'd be at least a mile and a half away on a flat course.

Totally agree. Big Jim is the man.

Even through the towel in in his training before the trials to go back to focussing on trail events when he realised Coronavirus was going to wipe out the Olympics anyway.

There's honestly no better, smarter or humble athlete in the world right now than Big Jim.

Jim Walmsley Superfan wrote:

Smaller trail and ultra events are the only sport still going on. Jim is on track to become the dominant athlete of the season.

As an RD of these "smaller trail and ultra events" I can assure you that none of them are happening- I have two races coming up that fall inside the eight week window and both are being postponed to late summer/early fall.

Any RD that insists on his/her races happening right now is irresponsible.

Keeptalking wrote:

Go back to running your 4 hour marathon. Maybe some education.

I’m not an ultra runner.

doctorj wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Yeah, he looks like a guy that finished in 22nd place at the marathon trials.

Yes, the 19th loser. Got it!

Fixed

Boom! Cancelled. Oh well, at least this gives the ultra community the opportunity to stage underground races and get back to the roots of ultra running. You know, when people meet up and go for a really long hike without caring if people are watching.

Walmsley is done.

He will never recover mentally from his 22nd place at the trials.