In retirement, which career would you want to be bragging about?
In retirement, which career would you want to be bragging about?
Whose wife is hotter? Meb's?
Without a doubt Meb's career. You should also include his 2004 silver and former 10,000m American record holder.
Are you kidding, I'd take Meb's career over a WR with no major victories.
Are you serious wrote:
Are you kidding, I'd take Meb's career over a WR with no major victories.
^ this. times about twenty thousand. all day long, Meb's career tops every single american (marathoner), not just ryan hall's, it's not even close.
Olympic silver medal + two majors + former AR trumps current AR
No brainer.
maharaja wrote:
Olympic silver medal + two majors + former AR trumps current AR
washed up never was wrote:
Are you serious wrote:Are you kidding, I'd take Meb's career over a WR with no major victories.
^ this. times about twenty thousand. all day long, Meb's career tops every single american (marathoner), not just ryan hall's, it's not even close.
I wouldn't say "tops every single american (marathoner)", since Franky Shorter has 2 Olympic Medals and 4 Fukuoka titles. That would be more impressive than Meb's career as an American. But, I think Meb has one hell of a career, and will always be known as an American Marathon Icon.
Meb strong.
The crowds must have been going so crazy for meb today. That must have felt amazing to hear and feel thst support.
washed up never was wrote:
Meb's career tops every single american (marathoner), not just ryan hall's, it's not even close.
This made me laugh. So wrong. Meb is great, but he isn't the USA GOAT marathoner
whonamestheirkidgerman? wrote:
In retirement, which career would you want to be bragging about?
Are you kidding? How is this even a question? No offense to Hall, who has had a great career, but Meb's accomplishments (don't forget to add in his silver in the Olympics) are vastly superior.
OnePieceToe wrote:
washed up never was wrote:^ this. times about twenty thousand. all day long, Meb's career tops every single american (marathoner), not just ryan hall's, it's not even close.
I wouldn't say "tops every single american (marathoner)", since Franky Shorter has 2 Olympic Medals and 4 Fukuoka titles. That would be more impressive than Meb's career as an American. But, I think Meb has one hell of a career, and will always be known as an American Marathon Icon.
Icon? Wrong.
He is now EASILY the US GOAT marathoner. Nobody with his majors record (NYC and Boston) competed against ANYTHING like the competition he has taken down (Fukuoka 1971-1974 LOL), and that's no even mentioning Meb being second and fourth at the Olympics.
Spread all of that over a DECADE of being competitive at the true world elite level (OG silver 2004, NYC win 2009, Boston win 2014!) and Meb is all GOAT, baby!
Hopeful Runner wrote:
washed up never was wrote:Meb's career tops every single american (marathoner), not just ryan hall's, it's not even close.
This made me laugh. So wrong. Meb is great, but he isn't the USA GOAT marathoner
Made you laugh? You really see Shorter as that much better of a pick? Or do you see someone else on this list?
Now THAT is funny.
OnePieceToe wrote:
I wouldn't say "tops every single american (marathoner)", since Franky Shorter has 2 Olympic Medals and 4 Fukuoka titles.
No offense to Frank Shorter but the competition in the marathon in the 1970s pales in comparison to the athletes competing today.
Thank you. read some tweets from phil hersch, i appreciate his desire to keep the eras separate but as you say, there is no comparison. the 70's, and even the 80's, aren't even close. and good point to note that he's been competitive for a decade (or more!), which nobody does anymore. besides Haile, name one athlete who has consistently put up top level results over a 10yr span? I don't think there are any at the marathon level. I admit that many east africans quit after they have a couple mil but the point stands, Meb=GOAT
whonamestheirkidgerman? wrote:
In retirement, which career would you want to be bragging about?
I would rather be a wealthy normal person.
MEBRAHTOM'S....I think that's how you spell it. I love the dude so much I did a research paper on him when I was in the eighth grade.
I'd rather have faster PRs than random marathon victories
qwe wrote:
MEBRAHTOM'S....I think that's how you spell it. I love the dude so much I did a research paper on him when I was in the eighth grade.
Must have been a great paper.
washed up never was wrote:
besides Haile, name one athlete who has consistently put up top level results over a 10yr span? I don't think there are any at the marathon level.
Interesting question. The first two who came to my mind were Rob de Castella and Steve Moneghetti. (I'm not Australian.)
I don't agree with the disparagement of those who competed in the 1970s and 1980s. In fact, Meb's career emphasizes how tricky it is to compare runners in different competitive settings. If Meb had run the same times twenty to twenty-five years earlier, under the same conditions and with the same results (e.g., NYC and Boston wins, second and fourth in Olympic marathons), his performances would have been very much in line with the performances of other top marathoners of that era, and a large percentage of the posters on letsrun would now be insisting that he was nowhere near the level of the top marathoners of today, because they would be comparing his performances in so-called "championship-style" marathons with much faster performances in paced time trials on tabletop-flat courses.
I loved watching Meb's performance today. This was real racing, unscripted and exciting, and so unlike the carefully arranged laboratory experiments that constitute most big-city marathons these days.