kenenisa bekele - lets get it right guys stop hating

He is not motivated anymore.

Bekele is probably laughing at most people here. I'm very literally sure he will be able to smash the world record. He should negative split. Kipchoge sacrifices any chance of world records because he knows that by going out to fast, it will be a positive split race which suites him better. I can see Bekele doing it the way Kimetto did by being conservative over the first half, and doing a really strong second half. Bekele could do a 61:30 and 61 to run 2:02:30, but aswell, he shouldn't go faster than 14:30 for any 5k split in the first half.

Banana Bread wrote:

Bekele is probably laughing at most people here. I'm very literally sure he will be able to smash the world record. He should negative split. Kipchoge sacrifices any chance of world records because he knows that by going out to fast, it will be a positive split race which suites him better. I can see Bekele doing it the way Kimetto did by being conservative over the first half, and doing a really strong second half. Bekele could do a 61:30 and 61 to run 2:02:30, but aswell, he shouldn't go faster than 14:30 for any 5k split in the first half.

His 2:03:03 was run with a positive split.

I know but he would run even better if it wasn't. He would have run 2:02:30 that day. Probably could have evan managed 2:02:00 the way he finished that race so fast, if he paced it perfectly evanly.

Kenny B's time is past. He's the GOAT in many ways in XC and track, but his best days are WAY in the past, and possibly in a time where doping was easier to do.

Banana Bread

you are obviously a fan of Kenenisa Bekele, since you post about almost nothing else. but are you also an expert on him?

I have just been looking at the results of the 1980 Olympic 800m, and there is a guy in there called Nigusse Bekele who ran for Ethiopia. he ran 1:51.1 in the 1st round and was eliminated. he also ran in the 1st round of the 1500m, running 3:45.8 and made no further progress in that event. the only other thing I know about him is his date of birth, 9 Nov 1959.

from this small amount of information, those wise folk at Wikipedia have created a page for him, but neither this nor Kenenisa Bekele's Wikipedia page make any mention of or hint at any connection between them. Kenenisa Bekele's Wikipedia page makes no mention of parents at all, just that he was born in 1982 in Bekoji, Arsi Zone, when Nigusse Bekele was 23-years-old. are you, o wise one, aware of any connection between them?

cheers.

Banana Bread wrote:

Bekele is probably laughing at most people here.

Especially at you.

Face it Banana bread, Bekele is on the decline. We know it and deep down you know it too.

I've never heard of Nigusse Bekele. I don't know if they are related. It would be cool to know about Bekele's family, so we could tell where he got his greatness from. As you can imagine, I'm a big fan of Bekele.

Ironically, we have a girl called Tadelech Bekele, who was 3rd in London(nobody seems to talk about her here). I wonder is she related to Bekele too. I hope to meet all of Bekele's family someday. It would be a dream to be a part of it.

If Kenenisa was the son of a Nigusse Bekele, he would be called Kenenisa Nigusse.

I hope to meet all of Bekele's family someday. It would be a dream to be a part of it.

you could always just change your name.

some years ago there was a guy who changed his name to Sydney Harbour Bridge, I'm sure you could change your name to Banana Bread Bekele. that would look pretty cool on your passport I think. it might get you stopped at customs on a pretty regular basis but it might be worth if for the lols if you don't travel very often.

cheers.

It would be ironic to have a name like that. I would be honored to have Bekele's name, but evan more honored to have some of his genes inside me. I do travel a lot for business conferences. I also wouldn't want people to laugh at me and think I'm strange. I get teased enough here.

As a big fan of Bekele myself, I have watched hours of video of him running while closely examining and analyzing his technique. Through this I have noticed that he has a unique style. It is very subtle but he is the only person I have ever seen run with that exact technique. What he does is slightly over stride hitting the ground with a straight leg and the outside of his foot. He then vaults off of his leg causing him to have a bouncy stride. And then he also has the obvious part of his technique which is his high foot recovery with him kicking his but on every stride. My theory is that the bounce at the start of his stride may aid him in putting more of the force from later part of his stride in to pushing forward instead of upwards. I also think that it may be more neurologicaly efficient because he can tighten his quads before his feet even touch the ground. I think this may be one of the reasons that he can maintain crazy speeds for such a long time. I think that this technique is unique to him because it requires very specific phisiology and a very high fitness level.

You can see what I’m talking about here.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/haile-gebrselassie-kenenisa-bekele-and-sileshi-sihine-of-ethiopia-picture-id72464723

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/54/b9/b254b9d35a433799b030bd4dcc22ef77--ethiopia-track.jpg

I would be interested to know what you guys think (especially banana bread, as the bekele expert.

Big Bekele fan here, but the picture is slightly deceptive as Geb and Sihine are further along in their strides than he is (he's just landing). I've always thought Bekele naturally runs like a sprinter, compact and powerful. His form never really changed when he launched into his kick. High leg kick, light on his toes, feet outward 45-degrees for push off, leaning forward. Put a lot of torque on his achilles/calf which over time came back to bite him.

Geb had an awesome stride but always wore socks which made his legs look so much less athletic.

show your ankle guys, no socks.

toughen the feet and get the blisters to become callouses

Banana Bread wrote:

Bekele is probably laughing at most people here..

Bekele is from a 3rd world country that doesn't have computers or internet. I would bet my life on the fact that he doesn't even know how to turn a computer on. He's probably never even seen a computer before.

His form and technique are absolutely NOT like a sprinter. Sprinters strike the ground almost completely under the center of mass, and at initial contact with the ground their knees are at the same line.

I didn’t find stills of elite sprinters but if you look at slow motion clips, all of the land like in the pic above- under center of mass, almost no bend at knee, and both knees are at the same line.

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Sprinters technique- Not like bekele

Interesting article here on what Michael Johnson saw in Bekele and what Salazar wanted to replicate. Salazar called Michael Johnson early in his coaching to determine why Bekele looked so different from the other Africans was at a 5k race in Rome. "The Kenyans all ran with long strides, swinging their legs all the way backwards, while Bekele was running differently, almost like a sprinter,” says Salazar. Johnson answered: "it was sprint biomechanics 101".... Salazar: "I credit Michael Johnson for that idea about running like sprinters. I think that distance runners should look more like sprinters than not look like them."