Official 2018 TCS Amsterdam Marathon Discussion Thread

give it a rest wrote:

Just like he had 12:40/26:30 in him on the track, right? What's with all the Farah fanboys constantly exaggerating his abilities?

Not a Mo fan personally but if you watch the London WCS 10,000m he pissed around until 250m to go and did 26:49. So clearly he could go significantly faster than that.

There have been two fast 5k races in the last decade. Farah competed in neither of them, yet had the gall to claim he would have won the Diamond League meet in Paris in 2012. He's a joke.

El Keniano wrote:

Now Bekele stops jogging and is walking on the pavement. Another DNF. Painful to watch.

You enjoyed it. Admit it :)

keep dreaming wrote:

There have been two fast 5k races in the last decade. Farah competed in neither of them, yet had the gall to claim he would have won the Diamond League meet in Paris in 2012. He's a joke.

Yeah, double-double is a joke. I wish to be a joke as well.

Excellent race by Cherono. Towards the end I started wondering if we weren't going to see a 2:03:xx. Very sad to see Bekele DNF once again.

retwe wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Now Bekele stops jogging and is walking on the pavement. Another DNF. Painful to watch.

You enjoyed it. Admit it :)

Why would you think that? I have nothing but immense respect for Kenenisa Bekele. Banana Bread, on the other hand ...

Just saw Bekele and the camera man that was following him sitting down outside at a pastry shop. Bekele has 3 donuts in front of him and what looks like a frappuccino with whipped cream and sprinkles.

Vaporfly Asterisk wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

According to the Brits, Farah is the second best in the world of that performance in Chicago and Eliud should be shaking in his vaporflys.

Well yes, of course, it really should go without saying that he's shaking in his Vaporflys since he's literally balancing on springs...

But still - everyone's running sub 2:06 now, everyone's just getting better at Marathon running , so it's all great!!

Everyone's running under 2:05 you mean, right? Three guys just shattered the Amsterdam CR with 2:04s.

El Keniano wrote:

According to the Brits, Farah is the second best in the world of that performance in Chicago and Eliud should be shaking in his vaporflys.

I'm not exaggerating when I say Kipchoge is probably capable of breaking 2:05 at any time. Give him a course, enough prize money and decent weather and he'd breeze right through it. I've been hoping he would run a 50k to break 2:30 and finally put the silly marathon distance to rest.

Farah's pretty good, give him his due, but he's 3 races in and not close to the top. Some marathoners get there after lots of tries, but only if they start young. He will Bekele out within a year.

H'mm donuts!

b bread wrote:

Banana Bread goes home DEVASTATED!

Banana Bread is toast.

retwe wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Now Bekele stops jogging and is walking on the pavement. Another DNF. Painful to watch.

You enjoyed it. Admit it :)

Not El K, but I for once quite enjoyed it. :D

Don't understand why people keep saying he's the GOAT.

He's great on the track, but his road records are significantly off, compared to Mo's smooth transition.

Apart from that, he also doesn't have a double-double, which means he's not as consistent as Mo.

I am not even a fan of Mo, but I would put him higher than Bekele.

After smoking a joint in the coffeeshop next door.

0/10, no one is falling for this sh*t.

[quote]Bad Wigins wrote:

[quote]El Keniano wrote:

Farah's pretty good, give him his due, but he's 3 races in and not close to the top. /quote]

What? With an easy WMM win and he is not close to the top? And forget his 2:08, which clearly wasn't a serious attempt.

Sledge_hammer wrote:

retwe wrote:

You enjoyed it. Admit it :)

Not El K, but I for once quite enjoyed it. :D

Don't understand why people keep saying he's the GOAT.

He's great on the track, but his road records are significantly off, compared to Mo's smooth transition.

Apart from that, he also doesn't have a double-double, which means he's not as consistent as Mo.

I am not even a fan of Mo, but I would put him higher than Bekele.

Bekele won a ton of world XC championships back when it was the most competitive race on the planet.

better luck next time pal wrote:

0/10, no one is falling for this sh*t.

This is the best you've got?

well,, wrote:

Sledge_hammer wrote:

Not El K, but I for once quite enjoyed it. :D

Don't understand why people keep saying he's the GOAT.

He's great on the track, but his road records are significantly off, compared to Mo's smooth transition.

Apart from that, he also doesn't have a double-double, which means he's not as consistent as Mo.

I am not even a fan of Mo, but I would put him higher than Bekele.

Bekele won a ton of world XC championships back when it was the most competitive race on the planet.

Yeah, I'll give him that credit. But that doesn't make him the GOAT. Paul Terget also won a ton of them, but I don't think anyone will call him a better runner than, say, Gebreselassie.

Sledge_hammer wrote:

Not El K, but I for once quite enjoyed it. :D

Don't understand why people keep saying he's the GOAT.

He's great on the track, but his road records are significantly off, compared to Mo's smooth transition.

Apart from that, he also doesn't have a double-double, which means he's not as consistent as Mo.

I am not even a fan of Mo, but I would put him higher than Bekele.

Mo ran 2:08, 2:06, 2:05 in his first three marathons. Bekele did 2:05, 2:05, DNF, 2:06, 2:03. I think Mo is much better than some are putting him here (I mean I'm sure he would have won Paris 2012 for example), but to compare him with Kenenisa is a joke. If you count everything together it's not even close and it still won't be close if Bekele finishes his career today and Mo wins a medal at Tokyo 2020 marathon.