every one was there, except Bekele and Defar...I had something like 5 minutes, otherwise I will miss my flight..so I chatted a bit with the marathon runners, and managed to take my picture taken with them...well that kind of made up for my disappointment during the WC..and they were really nice and humble to talk with..as they said in the marathons they couldn't handle the heat during the race. Deriba was a bit pissed off the Kenyans got the better of us, three times in one WC. I asked him if he is running another marathon this year, he said maybe NYC, cause the appearance fee is quite good, and Dire Tune said the same....
Here are a couple of pics of me with them..
(with Aselefech Merga (bronze winner WC 2009) and Dire Tune (not so lucky in Berlin, but winner of Boston 2008 and runner up in 2009)
(Deriba Merga, winner of Boston 2009, burned out in the WC around the 40K mark...)