run your best practice time during the race

You can win without finishing it.

as in everything, you can do everything right yet still lose

You just have to be ahead of everyone else at that current stage, when it ends.

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but the best you can do is your fastest time. if you never met a certain time in practice runs, you aren't going to sudden race faster during the race

and?

it;s still a competition against others

this is different than in say a sport like hockey where what is required to win is a function of how you MATCH with the other team

strengths vs weaknesses means that you fair better against one competitor than another

but in a marathon, it's you vs the course

you don't worry about everyone else

it's you versus the performance of others on that course

you just do YOUR fastest

but you aren't comparing yourself moment by moment

and then the person that does the objective fastest wins

you are simply executing as if you were in your best practice

it's STILL against the best of others

but when it is based on the other guy, your practice won't do

even if it IS your best

there is just less direct interfacing between u and the other competitors

> grabs popcorn

Too late tyche

I'm done

the only thing i am trying to say is that it is different

he's impossible to talk to

it's the same argument : is cheerleading a sport?

ofc it is different

and that doesn;t make it NOT a competition

is olympic skating a sport?

brainlaet

not really

LOL

I'm out

>popcorn intensifies

this place is making me drop IQ points so fast

I swear

there is a distinct difference between 'sport' and 'compettion'

they arent always the same

I hear that Joe Epstein committed suicide with two shots in the back of the head

MA is too stupid to talk to, just give up