The Waterboy wrote:
NitrousMike wrote:Do you have a link to where Ritz reported he couldn't handle racing on the roads in a normal racing flat?
From article on Universal Sports:
http://www.universalsports.com/news/article/newsid=492891.html"I guess I'm not as fit as I thought I was," Ritzenhein explained while he stretched his aching calves. He continued: "By the time I hit eight miles I was completely in the tank, and just kind of struggled to come in. My calves: I think I wore too minimal a shoe."
From his blog:
http://dathanritzenhein.competitor.com/2010/09/19/great-north-run-ouch/"Another big problem that compounded it for me was I wore the wrong racing shoes. I love the Streak XC and that is what I wore last year at the World Half but they are really a 5K-10K shoe and my calfs were barely working in the last 5K of the race...For the marathon I am going to step up to the Streak 3 which is a little beefier."
Good information. However, no where does he blame his training methods, only the shoes he wore during the race.