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Re: Madness
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Then why not just call it two separate races? Because that's what you're saying it is. One race for the elites and another for everyone else.
But if it is to be considered one race and you slow up because you're beating the small elite field and assume no one else can touch you, you deserve to lose if someone else runs a better race.
This woman ran her best race ever. The question is, would you rather allow everyone within 15 minutes of the slowest elite race time be automatically put in the elite corral, just in case? It's a race. Whoever runs it faster wins. If you ignore the possibility that a sub-standard time will be beaten by a non-elite runner, you should lose. Why should you be rewarded for easing up and taking that risk?
TM
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She also beat her best time ever by 12 minutes. From the article, she seemed like she had no clue that she'd end up running that fast. And if her preconceived notion of elite was 2:40 ish, and she tended to run around 3:10 in the past, it makes perfect sense that she wouldn't sign up for the elite status.
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