rojo wrote:
Scorpion_runner wrote:
freaking windle could have won that race! He allowed himself to get boxed in and had to
work like hell to get Silver. Had he positioned himself correctly he would have had
enough to be beat Adam.
These americans lacking indoor racing tactics.....
NO HE COULD NOT. THAT WAS A BRILLIANT TACTICAL RACE BY WINDLE.
I want to put this put up there as a perfect way to race. Are you kidding? Win? No way.
I was just about to come on here and say, "Can we please stop talking about guys losing beacause they get boxed in. He was boxed in last or next to last coming off the final turn of an indoor race and till had plenty of time to move up and get 2nd.
It was brilliant tactics. You have 1 move in an 800. HE didn't panic. He saved so much distance and more importantly by being totally content to run on the inside of the first turn of teh bell lap. Then he just ran effortless down teh backstretch, stayed on the rail on teh final turn. If he goes wide, at best he gets the bronze. But he also wasn't afriad to put his arm out to keep the fellow last place guy from coming in on him.
It really was perfect tactics from Windle. No way can he touch kszcot. In terms of fitness, he was at best the 3rd place guy in this field. But he's got the silver by being patient.
It wasn't a perfect race, because he had to come out of that box, and go around a little bit. He could have gotten tripped up, and then he had to really push to take the silver at the line. He made it harder than what it should have been.
Im glad he gotn the silver. He clearly had a good surge down the stretch where if he had more clearance on the back stretch, he could he come down on adam
No he didn't panic, but his race was far from being a great tactical race.