(05-14-2014, 06:58 AM)FarmBoy link Wrote:Perhaps most stunning was beating his personal best by 40+ seconds in that kind of environment. He must have just had an out of body experience to have done that in that circumstance.
It looked like they were running on a chewed up cinder track in the rain. In high school, I ran on a cinder track. A sinder track is slower than most of today's tracks. When wet and chewed up, it can make your feet feel like you have lead weights on. Not sure how he still had the energy to sustain what looked to me like a rather long all out charge at the end. His charge started long before the point where you see him leave the others in the dust. That was just the point where the others' charges collapsed.
Was that maneuver by the Tunisian legal back then?
Under more ideal conditions, large improvements in personal best are not unheard of. Two weekends ago, Aisling Cuffe improved her personal best in the 5K by 42 seconds. Just felt to compelled to throw in a reference to Stanford sports.
