Doe posted...
What I mean is, if the race has a record, it's weird to me for someone who can break it to run it but as someone keeping pace for a person who hired them to help them break the record instead. Unless I'm misunderstanding and the hired guys didn't run the full race, but the article makes it sound like they did.
Yeah the only other thing I could think of is if they didn't qualify for some reason? E.g. it would make sense to have a pacemaker under 40 if it was a 40+ race even if that 40 year old could crush the older people.
But still seems real weird.