haile gebrselassie running sub 26:30 at 30 years old wtf

You know how the LRC experts say every East African is an age cheat?

Geb was 61 when he last ran sub 26:30!

That was an awesome race! Geb was redlining for well over 600m. Impressive and that is Canova's prize pupil at the time, Kemboi, who went from 28'30 to 26'30 in one race!!

Old video but I like your handle.

If that's not enough pressure, he's also the answer to this site's "non spam" question.

kljG wrote:

That was an awesome race! Geb was redlining for well over 600m. Impressive and that is Canova's prize pupil at the time, Kemboi, who went from 28'30 to 26'30 in one race!!

WTF

That's got to be the most racist call/commentary in the last 600m of any race ever.

Gorillag wrote:

That's got to be the most racist call/commentary in the last 600m of any race ever.

-600/10

from Canova

I try to answer to your questions, also if you must think that are only opinions. I can be more precise about Kemboi and Bungei, that are athletes of my group (Kemboi is coached by myself, Bungei by Gianni Ghidini).

1) Nicholas surprised me too in improving so hard. I was his coach from the end of 2000. He already demonstrated to have very good possibilities, reaching 4th place in WCCCh-j in 2001, and was able running in 13:26 5k, but never gave me the idea to be so strong. Also this year, he had a bad winter season due to an injury, so I preferred to move him to longer races, thinking of a future like marathon runner. He ran in 62:16 his first HM in Portugal, then 60:31 in Lisbon. After a period of recovery, prepared the track season, going to Hengelo in 10000m where ran 28:19. Soon later, he reached me in Switzerland (Davos). I soon realized that he was not well prepared, so I spent 3 weeks in volume and basic training, without using speed works. He went to Sotteville in July for 5k, and ran 13:42 arriving 5th (5 people together during the last lap), then went to Algier running again in 13:42 (Moses Mosop won with 13:39) arriving 4th (5 people together during the last lap). This situation confirmed me that he was not fast in the final, so my idea to move him to Marathon was stronger.

The key happened during a work at the end of July, when I porposed 5 sets of 600/500/400/300/200m alternating speed (sets n. 1-3-5 in 1:30/1:20/58.0/46.0/27.0 with 1:30 recovery, sets n. 2-4 in 1:36/1:12/62.0/41.0/29.0), recovery 5 min between sets. The group was Nicholas, Kwalia, Mosop, David Kilel, Abel Cheruiyot and Nyamu, and the winners in Youth Ch. (Choge, Ronald Kipchumba, Samson Kiplangat and Justus Kiprono) only for 3 sets.

I permitted the last 200m free : Nicholas ran in 23.2.

So, I called him : "Nicholas, how is possible that, when you are 5 athletes in the last lap, you are n. 5 ? You are fast, why you are not able to sprint ?". He told me that was not good in sprinting. I spent 2 hours in speaking with him. After few days, he went to Heusden for pacing 5k till 3000m (7:52), then stayed inside the group and finished 3rd in 13:14.41. On 10th of August he went to S.Sebastian, competing for winning, and was n. 2 with 13:14.33 after beeing in front last lap, but finishing to push last furlong as he took a small distorsion on the border of the track. But at last he had understood. In Zurich he ran last lap in 55.2, almost winning against Kibowen in 13:01.14. So, I decided to train him very hard for two weeks, for preparing 10000 in Bruxelles with the goal of 26:45 that already seemed to hard.

Nicholas can be the new Gebre, more than Bekele, that has different attitude. Like Gebre, Nicholas can go to the Marathon in the future. Like Gebre, he's very light in his body and in his action. Like Gebre, in the future

he can run 1500m under 3:35.

Bekele is unbeatable in cross, having a muscle power bigger than other athletes. He has a very high level of Aerobic Power, but I don't think that can move to longest distances like Nicholas.

Was this really Renato or is somebody pulling my leg?

I have more from Renato on Nicholas Kemboi. He is fond of him.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

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Was this really Renato or is somebody pulling my leg?

Renato has many times posted about Kemboi's improvement.

oh please wrote:

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

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Was this really Renato or is somebody pulling my leg?

Renato has many times posted about Kemboi's improvement.

So he went from running 13:42 to running 26:30 in couple of weeks (the equivalent of 12:44 for 5000m) with a few speed sessions. Seems very interesting.

I would interested in Bungei though.

26:30 at the age of 19 and never gone better? His times in other distances are weak. Wierd.

I feel like this is one of those threads that will go dormant for almost a decade and then will be bumped by some random person.

Womack wrote:

26:30 at the age of 19 and never gone better? His times in other distances are weak. Wierd.

Yeah I wonder if I do some 600-200s, perhaps my string of lousy performances will come to an end.

You need to do more push-ups. That's what champions do.

It's a shame gebreselassie didn't do more of these races for 5 and 10k when he was 30 or younger. I'm some stinky hobby jogger so I wouldn't know sh!t about this but I felt he could've bettered 12:39/26:22;

And thanks man I like your name too, I think I see what you did there

kikKomen Soi sauce wrote:

You need to do more push-ups. That's what champions do.

Funny, I started doing planking etc for 30 minutes each morning about a year ago so I could race again, I lost a 6kg (13 lbs) in a year but planking makes everything slim except your shoulders. Now my arms won't move fast enough to keep up with the young guys.