B_Doughtie wrote:
Again Iām not sure why JB is being brought up. Your making comparisons of an athlete with 5 years worth of LC events vs someone w 2 LC starts?
Why did this get brought up to begin with? What point is being made in regards to my specific comments about AB?
both brownlees are of rather similar talent and have done very similar training. so why would you not look at the 2, to look at to similar people while not identical does not hurt i would suggest .
physiological reasons could play into it , johnny has done 3 middle distance races,first in 2020 , and has blown up in all 3 on the run and i think and most people would call him a bit more level headed or less arrogant . i can not think of an great itu athelte that struggled so much to transfer to middle distance in his 3 first attempts and its not just 3 races in a short space , its one in 2020 one 2011 one in 2022.
so both did not really transfer their itu run level into 70.3 .
it can be mental it can physiological, and also it could be that they have worn out their body and mind so much from all the training they have done.
since someone pointed out johnnies cozumel that would fall into the physiological category and the mental category as well , and i guess Alistair had a similar issue once or twice before where he pushed himself over the limit.
in short hard to call it what the issue really is from an outsider point of view.
at the same time the talent is there and you just never rule them out either. which makes every race with them rather interesting.