Uganda's Victor Kiplangat, Australia's Jessica Stenson win Commonwealth Games marathons

🏃 One for the weekend warriors and tradies! 🔌⚡

🇦🇺 He was a heartbreaking seven seconds off a medal in the marathon … but Aussie athlete Liam Adams ran a season best 2:13:23 and says he's proud of his effort to finish fourth at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. 💚💛

"It's tough but I'll take that. I'm pretty proud of that run. Those guys are professionals, I'm amateur. I'm working 40 hour weeks, they're not. They're probably running 40 hour weeks … I'm a sparky," Adams said. 🔌⚡

"I've been doing soldering recently. It's pretty labouring on the body. I'm not doing double runs like those guys, I'm getting out there after work. Sometimes I just have to go have a nap and then I'm going for a run after work and still out at 10 o'clock at night, eating dinner late. It's a pretty shocking cycle that I've got."
"Hopefully all the weekend warriors, anyone working 9-5 who's battling with the work-running type of lifestyle, hopefully they can look at that and find some inspiration. If I can do it, then they can do it too."

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He was actually in vaporflys that he painted.

Thought for sure he painted over Asics

Adams, sometimes trains like a professional : He’s a great guy and he’s a great amateur but he’s not 100% amateur because if you look at his Instagram you can see that multiple times during the year he goes on 5 to 6 week training camps and so at different times of the year he trains like a full-time professional. I’m not trying to create a controversy but it’s a little bit disingenuous to compare yourself to a full-time electrician who never has time to go to places like Saint Moritz in Europe to train for 5 to 6 weeks. I’m not saying he’s dishonest, but I’m just stating that he is a privileged blue-collar worker compared to most.

Evidence of his status right here in this link.

Adams: I’m amazed that this guy appears not to have a shoe contract because we see him training in different shoe brands and racing in different ones once again. Unreal for guy at his level. Shoe purveyors, give this guy a contract!

You can follow the Indian athlete here who finished 12th in the marathon (2:19:00) at the Commonwealth games in Birmingham 2022, Nitendra Rawat Singh. His pbs include: 8:18, 30:32, 63:52, 2:16:00.

https://instagram.com/nitinrawat_olympian?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

His stretching routine is phenomenal and may be a lesson to runners who pay scant regard to this aspect of running. Of course, it’s debatable whether stretching really brings untold benefits to runners. When I visit Kenya I see very few Kenyan runners do a lot of stretching but when I go to Ethiopia stretching plays a huge part.

I can assure you he works a standard full time job. He just uses all his holiday leave/accrued over time to go on training camps.

What and get hair extensions?

But you must be into ignorance, because doping is something you don't want to see or know about - and yet it is all around you. In every sport.

it’s ignorant to suggest doping isnt involved, yet that’s exactly what you did by saying this race had no epo in it.

obviously the times were slow because no one was doping and not for the far more sensible reasons listed above.

kenya sent their 20th string athletes out there, but that doesn’t matter because east africans are “interchangeable.” never mind that korir is their 12th best since 2019, githae is 82nd, and sang had never run a marathon before this.

for comparison that’s like a US team consisting of jerrell mock, and god knows who else because we don’t have 82 athletes under 2:15 since 2019, not do we have 109 (sang’s rank in kenya) under 1:05 for the half.

Start of the real domination of distance running by Uganda. Kenya is a busted flush - they need to stick to rugby and tennis now.

Thanks for the heads up. Great run none the less.

i don’t agree with this, these were his words. reading it back it comes off like i think this

I also thought they weren't Vaporflys at first, but here's an image showing that they are.

Open image

Evidently painted over and well worn?

What a dope.

Yes, it is. Dope. In this case - it's relative absence.

The reasons advanced for those slower times may all apply. But what I would suggest is they may not explain it as the sole reason. The differential between most championship performances today and these times is such is that it suggests another factor may also be involved. It may have been the relative absence of peds. Just as we can't rule out doping for a fact we can't rule out that the athletes in these championships may have been more wary of doping control.

You sound ridiculous, with that very creative name of yours. Uganda certainly has good marathoners, but Kenya clearly has an advantage; it is a numbers' thing.

Yes, it's a numbers thing. 135 doping busts for Kenya and zero for Uganda!