Comments on: Mona’s Training Diaries- Patience Pays https://runnerstribe.com/features/monas-training-diaries-patience-pays/ Worldwide Running Media Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:39:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Brettd https://runnerstribe.com/features/monas-training-diaries-patience-pays/#comment-35897 Thu, 01 Jul 2021 03:18:43 +0000 https://www.runnerstribe.com/?p=49459#comment-35897 In reply to Trev Scott.

Trev, Monners was 11th in about 2.19 in 1991, not 48th. That was at Barcelona. He struggled in the heat often, but ran brilliantly when he gutted it out for bronze in 1997. He just couldn’t go with the Spaniards (world champ Fiz & eventual winner Anton). He eventually reeled in Goffi & got 3rd.

]]> By: Trev Scott https://runnerstribe.com/features/monas-training-diaries-patience-pays/#comment-34435 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:33:06 +0000 https://www.runnerstribe.com/?p=49459#comment-34435 Monners was at his peak for the 1991 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. In fact I believe he was favourite and entitled to be. I watched the Marathon ‘live’ and was shocked when Monners dropped out, eventually finishing about 48th in a race that produced slow times throughout the field. The severe heat was the issue.
Severe heat was also a factor in the 1964 Olympics for which the Marathon was run at night. Significantly the heat wasn’t a factor in the 10 000m for which Ron Clark finished a close third in 28 mins.
Let’s hope our Marathoners – male & female – are ready for ‘the heat’ in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics

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