edumacator wrote:
If anything, they might go out too fast to have a good shot at a world record. "Tactical" can mean different things in different situations. In Wanjiru's case, tactical means going out at 2hr pace for the first 10k, then throwing in a 4:20 mile at mile 18-19. But that still doesn't mean the record is out of reach. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.
Wanjiru is a superd tactician, as he demonstrated in Bejing and in London last year.
However the weather will not cooperate, it's going to be warm and slightly humid in London on Sunday. Also, London is not the fastest course in the World, it's very twisty and has a huge nuber of different surfaces, some fast some slow with a hundred changes of rhythm.