Main Topic: Mistakes and Triumphs in Racing

Triumphs

Triumph suggests overcoming… 

• Zach’s ELA teacher coming through…
• There are three opponents:
  • Vs. man
  • Vs. self
  • Vs. nature
  • (there is of course a fourth… we do not wrestle against flesh and blood…)

As runners, we battle with all three of those

Quick summary:

• Man vs. man: contesting an event, bettering an opponent
  • Race strategy stuff… 
  • Go early vs. wait it out
  • Take charge vs. respond and react
  • Create a plan vs. wait and see
• Man vs. self: overcoming doubt, fear, individual shortcomings and flaws
  • Know your strengths and weaknesses
  • Understand your potential and trust training
• Man vs. nature: could be described as the forces outside ourselves that are not other people
  • Physiology
  • Conditions and environment

From the World Champs

Women’s 10,000m

• In her debut, 21-year-old Ririka Hironaka of Japan pushed out to an early lead by the second lap, a lead that she held until about the halfway point of the race. She ended up 12th place.
  • Mistake: Going out too fast and burning yourself for the end stages.
• It came down to a sprint to the finish.
• Letesenbet Gidey (ETH)  leaned to claim the win over Helen Obiri running 30:09.94.
  • Triumph: Ran through the line.
• Gidey beat Obiri by only 8 hundredths.
• This is Gidey’s first global title. She was silver at the Tokyo Games to Sifan Hassan (Netherlands).
• Gidey ran a 60 sec last lap!
• Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi (Kenya) was 3rd only 13 hundredths of a second after Gidey as well.
• Sifan Hassan had a great last 200m, but was unable to claim a podium, and she placed 4th.
  • Mistake: Trusting you’ve got the best kick and waiting too long. 
• Karissa Schweizer was 9th in a personal best time of 30:18.05 (5 seconds off US record)
• Alicia Monson was 13th.
• Natosha Rogers ran a personal best in 31:10.57 for 15th.
• All told, 11 women in the 19-athlete field achieved a personal best during the 10,000m race

Men’s Marathon

• • Power move by Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia) with 12k to go (13:55 5k from 33-38k, Letsrun)
  • 1st in 2:05:36

• Mosinet Geremew (Ethiopia) in second

• Bashir Abdi in third, his second bronze in a row (Olympics last year)

• • All three under previous championship record (2009)

• Cam Levins new Canadian marathon record for 4th (2:07:10)

• Also a national record for Isaac Mpofu of Zimbabwe, 10th in 2:07:56
• Ethiopia 1, 2, 6 after no finishers at all in Olympics
• Caution/mistake: Running too close to others. (particularly at a water stations)

Men’s 10,000m

(Source)

• Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) took it by storm in a blazing final kick with countryman Jacob Kiplimo in 3rd

• Most impressive result here to me was 2nd place Stanley Waithaka Mburu (Kenya) because he was tripped and fell to the track early in the race 
• USA’s Grant Fisher was 4th by about 2 tenths of a second (best finish by an American in world champs 10,000m)
• Mburu: triumph over self… 

Some non-finals…

Women’s 1500m

• • Favorites looking good: Faith Kipyegon (Kenya), Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia), Laura Muir (Great Britain)

• Elle St. Pierre (USA) poor race position 

• MISTAKE: staying alert; bad position

• Could you tell who the strongest runners were, did it often look like they were calm. You worry for those you, well, look worried!
  • Mistake: ​​One of the biggest mistakes that I have done in my racing is becoming worked up and tense. My body physically reacts to the stress. STAY CALM.
  • (Lindsay Flanagan says she has to focus on relaxing her shoulders and arms too)

Women’s Steeple Prelim

• Lea Meyer (Germany) fallEmbed from Getty Images
  • MISTAKE: staying alert
• Images: 
• Americans not looking good (all made it to final, but none on primary qualification: Emma Coburn, Courtney Frerichs, and Courtney Wayment)

Men’s Steeple prelim

• Evan Jager and Hilary Bor advanced

• By time you listen to this podcast, this event will likely have aired!

Men’s 1500m semi

• MISTAKE: not focused/alert… tons of jostling