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Poster: DontFeedTheTroll
Subject: RE: WHAT WILL SAMMY WANJIRU DEBUT AT IN THE MARATHON THIS WEEKEND?
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GRRunner wrote:

Quote from Haile Gebrselassie: "...I think this is a time to think about what the Marathon athlete is doing. The Marathon is not just an easy effort. When you run the Marathon you run against the distance. I’ve been running the last 20 years. Running 5000, 10,000. When I planned to break the record on the track, I did it after just a few times. But the Marathon took many years"

The marathon is such a different beast than the half. I think the records safe, but he should still go 2:06:xx.


He says that "the Marathon took many years". That's true, but it also took "just a few times". The only reason it took many years is that you can't run 6-7 marathons a year (this goes along with my theory that the marathon world record could actually be much, much lower. What would the 100m record be if athletes could only run 20 races in their career? Not where it is now, that's for sure).

Wanjiru won't break the record this time out. I wouldn't be too surprised if the marathon rears up and gives him one of its patented smack downs. I predict 2:08:15 and he'll be a little shell shocked at the end of it.
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