LRC Note: Hello everyone. Jonathan Gault reached out to Letesnbet's management team to ask them about her grabbing her shorts. They responded that it's "a little bit (of) a habit of Letesenbet at times, that she will learn to control the more experienced she gets."
Now that I'm reading all about this, it reminds me that when I was in HS, I did something bizarre myself. If my left foot nicked my right calf while racing, I'd feel the urge to reverse it with the other foot. I never remember talking to weldon about it the coach but i'd go back and forth all race long balancing it out.
This is similar to when 800m runner Emmanuel Korir does his head bob in the home stretch. Runners sometimes try to subtly communicate that they're lucid enough to make extra, distracting movements.
Ultimately I find it to be a type of sandbagging. Hard to explain exactly why
I don't know but I had the same thought. She gave a thumbs up amd was waving and smiling like she was jogging. She started adjusting her clothing and chains like runners do when they are beginning a run. It seemed very odd.
It's similar to a cyclist who is about to win they zipper up their jersey and fix their glasses for the camera and sponsor's they are to come across very promotional. This was no different. She also could've underestimated Obiri's kick and legit thought she was going to outkick her, so she was getting buttoned up
Here's an easy-to-watch clip of everyone doing their thing at 30km on an incline. It's kind of funny now that I notice it. Hellen's form is wild. Letesenbet's is beautiful and calm as she touches both her bib and her nose. Kellyn has very good form, second only to Lets.
And I don't think she was trying to kiss her necklace at the end for spiritual affirmation. I think she's such a serene runner she's not used to it bouncing around so she was trying to tuck it in her singlet. But there are hills at the end in Central Park and a wild-swinging Obiri to shadow and chase.
Now that I'm reading all about this, it reminds me that when I was in HS, I did something bizarre myself. If my left foot nicked my right calf while racing, I'd feel the urge to reverse it with the other foot. I never remember talking to weldon about it the coach but i'd go back and forth all race long balancing it out.
Anyone else do something like that?
I've done this. I'm kind of OCD about symmetry. Maybe that's why I had twins!
Hellen Obiri is an amazing runner but any fool can see that she is not efficient enough/ built to be a marathoner and the fact that she won this marathon in 2:27 in good conditions is a huge disappointment to anyone who values competition and athletics.
It's OCD. I have it too. All RF engineers like me are extremely OCD when it comes to RF and EMF. We literally eat, drink, sleep and dream about RF all day. Second after second my thoughts are downloaded and uploaded with thoughts of RF. I don't go to the supermarket or the gym without asking where are the RF masts or towers. Neither do I go to work without enquiring how, what, where, why these RF towers are operating. OCD is a very good thing, it's not a mental illness. If you want to be very good in your trade, OCD is a natural progression.
No I'm an RF geek and King. I balance out RF all day long but I get what you mean? I'm very OCD about all things RF and EMF. I literally enquire about whether anything and everything emits RF and EMF and feel the urge to study and scrutinize them right down to every single frequency and intensity in space-time. However I find Gidey's OCD in the last mile very outrageous and imbalanced. I find such a lack of excellence in the way she disadvantaged herself and her capabilities to win the race by delegating her momentum to adjust her shorts, shirt and necklace almost 10 times in the last mile? An OCD that promotes excellence and accomplishment in a profession is something good to have even at the expense of social alienation but Gidey's OCD has destroyed her professional career this way.
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Now that I'm reading all about this, it reminds me that when I was in HS, I did something bizarre myself. If my left foot nicked my right calf while racing, I'd feel the urge to reverse it with the other foot. I never remember talking to weldon about it the coach but i'd go back and forth all race long balancing it out.
Anyone else do something like that?
I've done this. I'm kind of OCD about symmetry. Maybe that's why I had twins!
Yes me too! I specialize in electromagnetic waves if you didn't already know so I'm the No.1 obsesser of symmetry, shape, distance, speed, position, location, temperature, angle, order of occurrence, numbers, you name it everything. Your OCD is nothing compared to mine FYI. Mine is, not boasting, in the realm of genius level or something like that. I feel the urge to know and comprehend the order and pattern of all things, it's like my brain is insatiable to understand the divine universe and the meaning of life.
When I say I need to do A before I do B, it has to be that way no argument from anyone. I dictate and call the shots! I make and set the rules. I simply cannot have B done before A because I need to behave like an RF geek and King should and would! Order is my greatest pleasure on this earth.
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Jaouad Gharib was a big fidgeter when he ran marathons. He was constantly pulling on his singlet and shorts and looking around. He would also drop off the lead pace and catch up over and over in a race.