As long as Dennis Kimetto holds the World Record, he is going to continue to EAT.

Indeed, to the victor goes the spoils

Same thing happened with Paul Tanui. He never ran well after the WR, but kept getting invited to race after race because of his WR, until of course, it was broken. However, if he had an Olympic Gold medal...

1) I think you mean Paul Tergat. Paul Tanui keeps getting invited to races because he performs brilliantly every single time. If and when he turns to marathons he may be the next serial winner after Kipchoge.

2) If he had an olympic gold medal there would be no interest at all in his current competitions. He would be anchored forever to the past.

I'll stop eating when I'm dead. Then, I am the eatee. Cosmos is a beaut.

belial wrote:

I'll stop eating when I'm dead. Then, I am the eatee. Cosmos is a beaut.

Typical white boy comment

Les wrote:

Same thing happened with Paul Tanui. He never ran well after the WR, but kept getting invited to race after race because of his WR, until of course, it was broken. However, if he had an Olympic Gold medal...

Um no, Tergat had several good races after his WR. He won New York in 2005, finished 3rd in 2006 and 4th in 2008. Kimetto had one good race after his WR, 3rd in London 2015, but had done absolutely nothing since.

No one would ever invite the second fastest marathon runner in the world to a race. You're right dude. Kimetto's only chance for a healthy retirement is for no one to break the wr so he can keep showing up for races and jogging a bit.

Scorpion_runner wrote:

....and then fade off to a Van that is waiting for him on the

side of the road. That act will repeat itself in some Marathon at the beginning of next year. More than likely it will be Tokyo.

He is a human trophy, and traveling from place to place to show himself off as the WR.

He is the only runner who can get away with that, because he is the WR holder. However, once someone breaks it, and that is a big IF, the eating will stop.

Kinda like Hillary, the Dems and when (if) they ever get a new figurehead! ;-)

Kvothe wrote:

No one would ever invite the second fastest marathon runner in the world to a race. You're right dude. Kimetto's only chance for a healthy retirement is for no one to break the wr so he can keep showing up for races and jogging a bit.

There is a difference in being the second fastest runner while still being competitive, versus being the second fastest runner and completely unable to even make it past halfway in a race.

Wilson Kipsang and Kenenisa Bekele would be the former, while Kimetto is the latter (throw in Patrick Macau too). Bekele even with his DNF has his legacy that will keep him getting invited. Probably the same with Kipsang.

I think you mean Haile Gebresellasie.

It was cover-worthy news in Runners World when former "world record holder" Derek Clayton met new "world record holder" Alberto Salazar when Salazar was returning from his 2:08.13 in NYC 1981.

To Salazar, Runners World, ABC Sports, and the Associated Press and UPI, Salazar had just beaten the longstanding WR from 1969.

Though that record was likely false.

And it had been broken four or five times already.

And if NYC was as short as some claim, the record was already a high 2:07. (I put my money on Rodgers.)

Did you watch his last race in Vienna? I saw a few minutes and Kimetto is certainly not at his peak, but on the first half, he does not look like he cannot break 2:10 anymore. He is obviously still training, so, to me, maybe he can still have a few correct races like Makau has had in the last years.

I wonder if he can break 2:10 one last time in his career. Kind of like Centro breaking the AR in the 1500. Not very likely at this point, but still hopeful.

PrZ wrote:

I wonder if he can break 2:10 one last time in his career. Kind of like Centro breaking the AR in the 1500. Not very likely at this point, but still hopeful.

But at this point I’d hope that he could actually finish a race.

Four pretty outstanding years for a marathoner with the world record is not a bad career, and I think that he may not have tried to win the first of these to help his training partner win WMM:

2016 2:11:44 London 24 APR

2015 2:05:50 London 26 APR

2014 2:02:57 Berlin 28 SEP

2013 2:03:45 Chicago, IL 13 OCT

2012 2:04:16 Berlin 30 SEP

Right, Tergat. Thanks for the correction.

snow blow wrote:

Les wrote:

Same thing happened with Paul Tanui. He never ran well after the WR, but kept getting invited to race after race because of his WR, until of course, it was broken. However, if he had an Olympic Gold medal...

Um no, Tergat had several good races after his WR. He won New York in 2005, finished 3rd in 2006 and 4th in 2008. Kimetto had one good race after his WR, 3rd in London 2015, but had done absolutely nothing since.

Winning a second-tier marathon like New York in a slow time is not comparable to setting the WR and winning Berlin. He also ran 2:14 in his first marathon after setting the WR and ran two more marathons over 2:10. His best result post-WR in a top-tier marathon was his sixth place in London in 2:08, which is disappointing for the WR holder.

Am I the only one who is still trying to figure out what EAT means?

Certainly Not Skuj wrote:

Am I the only one who is still trying to figure out what EAT means?

Probably. Means have money to afford food or anything else, i.e. getting appearance fees from racing at marathons.