THIS…. At 41 and on a “meh” day…. Bekele still beats Young by over a min and half.
Bekele is not an idiot. He showed up to this race and didn’t go all out and to collect appearance fees. At 41 he knows he’s limited on how many times he can push the limit, today wasn’t one of them. And still ran a very respectable time… and ill to boot.
bekele will go thru the half at London a minute faster than what he raced today.
i say he looks rather seasoned in that interview. But he is the Best ever. And NO one will ever surpass him bc today’s runners won’t be willing to race WXC like he always was and double in 5/10. And his longevity in the sport says a lot about him.
that's the problem with aging though, the inconsistency. it's not that he can't put up a good performance in London, but the chances that he runs a sub-par race or DNFs has increased (especially given the performance today IMO). plus he's already shown himself to be a relatively inconsistent marathoner lately (though of course still capable of great things, cc: Valencia)
as a master's runner, he's probably already having to work harder than before to get the same results but it's a catch-22 bc the body loses the capacity to hit that top level of training consistently so often results from tune-up races like yesterday decrease even further (in his prime he would be able to get the same result with less training)...
hoping for the best in the U.K. in April
incosistency makes the selectors for national teams nervous (see the debate about whether Kipchoge himself will be selected for this summer, of course maybe Ethiopia will try something different since Tokyo's team all raced super close to the actual Olympics to make the team on short notice iirc and then all 3 proceeded to DNF)
I heard that they had the trials (think it was 30-35 km) before Tokyo and that it was announced kind of out of the blue. They also had restrictions on entering Tokyo which meant that they showed up tired etc. before the actual Olympic race...
Agreed. I am sure he will finish higher in London than he did in NYC.
(In light of Valencia (2:04 marathon), it is clear that NYC was a bit of a blip. No one goes down that much in two or three months.
We've seen KB fight back many times when people thought his time was over (Great North Run, Berlin x2, London and more). I hope he does so again in London this year.
Also, he once came second in London to Daniel Wanjiru, who has since been found to have doped. I so hope he wins this year cos he deserves at least one London Marathon victory
He had stomach issues, so did well to be able to run only a few minutes off his marathon pace. If someone in 3 hour shape had a bad stomach they would be lucky to be able to run a 93 minute half mary. He would of easily won otherwise. Hills wouldn't be an issue for him. I'm sure he will run another WR in London. He has a full month and can do a lot in that time. Nobody cares about New York. It is a dumb race anyway.
I think he had the flu during his Valencia training where he blew the doors off the WR. If he ran a half mary during the training for that race you would of been saying that he would do badly in Valencia
Bekele still has a lot more to do. He is already the greatest distance runner. Now he can become the greatest Masters runner.
The Masters 45 record is held by Mark Kiptoo at 2:09. Bekele can attack that next.
There are Masters Records for 50, 55, 60 all the way to 100.
Man, that's gonna be awesome to see Kenenisa run a 42 minute 5k for a new 100+ age group record some day!
In all seriousness, not sure if he retires before 45 as it seems going for masters records has never been his mentality. Would be cool though to see him stick around a bit longer and try and assault some of those when he gets there
Geriatric Bekele still clobbered our olympic marathoner.
Dude that is so disrespectful. I am almost 59 and my prime years were 22 to 27. Probably the same for Bekele but in his prime he was easily the best in the world. Father time catches up with all of us. Show a little respect and stop the name calling this isn't junior high
Yes, I do feel for my baby Kenenisa Bekele because of course he was as clean as angels get!!! The same for Haile Geb and Paul Tergat and Hicham EL G, all clean angels!!!!!!!!
I know an angel when I don't even need to see one, that's the level of susceptibility of my intelligence/spirituality or otherwise whatever you wanna call it!!!!!!!!
Do you folks of LRC understand????
I always knew Bekele at his older age is always gonna find NYC objectionable to run in due to its CRAZY loads of 5G/4G+ in the air DUH!!!!!!! Was I suppose to think against sound reasoning and logic that Bekele runs 61 at least to equal the 1st half of his Valencia 2023 marathon split in NYC's so totally polluted RF environment???
I can't be that stupid right????
On the other hand Spain and Italy has one of the MOST STRINGENT AND CAUTIOUS RF approach in the world apart from China+Russia+North Korea, the 3 eastern superpowers, while America has one of the most liberal because the American government doesn't give a sh*t about American lives!!!!!!!!!! North Korea is self-explanatory, they still don't have 4G/4G+ installed yet or only just begun LOL!!!! North Korea should be ordinarily distance running haven!!!!
Spain and Italy, although having 5G, have very powerful environmental group lobbies against the placement of RF antennas in and around cities and suburban spaces, so Valencia Spain has obviously more conducive (slightly lower exposure) environment for fast distance running performances, the same for Germany (Berlin Marathon) where part of their government also have very mindful behavior about how they use and place their RF antennas!!!
I know best because I work in the European telecoms industry DUHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would say that Bekele's performance in NYC was expected under powerful irradiation in NYC but he MAY have better fortunes in London Marathon although London is just as bad irradiation as NYC in actual actuality. So I'm gonna have to be very honest and say that it's really over for Bekele the true GOAT. He might have a better chance in Rotterdam because Netherlands is another very RF mindful government/country than America!!!! European countries, except UK (which is the worst approach/governance/morality out of all the European countries) are generally a tad more dutiful in the area of human RF exposure than America and Canada, sad to say!!!!!!
France as well, so Bekele if selected could perform better in Paris olympic marathon due to much more conservative RF installation around the city!!!
But I avoid America and UK (England especially) at all costs. I absolutely hate on these 2 countries primarily due to their callous approach to RF safety and health!!!!!! There is a reason why UK is the politically and economically and socially and psychologically worst performing European country in the entire European bloc.
I love the rest of the European countries, my favorite being Sweden and Holland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sweden and Holland is the best performing RF mindful country in the world!!!!!!!
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Agreed. I am sure he will finish higher in London than he did in NYC.
(In light of Valencia (2:04 marathon), it is clear that NYC was a bit of a blip. No one goes down that much in two or three months.
We've seen KB fight back many times when people thought his time was over (Great North Run, Berlin x2, London and more). I hope he does so again in London this year.
Also, he once came second in London to Daniel Wanjiru, who has since been found to have doped. I so hope he wins this year cos he deserves at least one London Marathon victory
Remember, every fight back is DIFFERENT IN SPACE and TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Valencia 2023 was a different level and extent of fight back in space and time than Berlin 2016 or 2019!!!!!!!!!
While the Great North Run fight back was also another different type of fight back under different context and circumstances as rekrunner loves to say!!!!!!!!!
Well, I'm also extremely good at differentiating SPACE, and TIME, which in essence is CONTEXT and CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!!!!!!!
While I'm a Haile Geb and Bekele fan, I'm quite sure the Bekele at 2023 Valencia is no longer the one we saw at Berlin 2019 or 2016, just look at his unsightly biomechanics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The TOTAL BIOMECHANICAL PICTURE IN SPACE AND TIME is the first and last hint of the susceptibility of any distance runner in space and time!!!! It speaks volumes of the athlete's relative form, shape, age, development, deterioration in space and time and Bekele's shockingly depraved arm swing in NYC 2024 and actually since 2020 onwards, even worse than Nuguse, relative to his former brilliant years tells me there is great biological distress and imbalance in his all his cells and mitochondria and electron transport chain due to the vaccination for COVID and of course EMFs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you have seen the Bekele of 2008 Beijing Olympics or 2002 Belfast XC or 2005 St Etienne XC you would know why I say that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bekele ran B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L-L-Y with exquisite arm swing that moved in perfect periodicity and frequency with his neck, shoulders and of course hips and legs, effortless or superconducting no less!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you understand what it means by SUPERCONDUCTING???? Pls google it!!!!!!!! It's PURE ECSTASY AND EXUBERANCE OF A RUNNING TECHNIQUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It makes you happy eternally and puts you in a state of heavenly bliss!!! I'm used to and habituated to the Bekele biomechanics of old at its finest, not the 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 ones which kept getting worse with the current NYC one being the bottom and most inebriated running technique!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His arms and legs and shoulders ARE ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE running like an escaped canary or untamed wild horse in great biological distress and burden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bekele is no longer running at ONE-NESS with internal yin/yang equilibrium we saw at 2019 and 2016 Berlin, there is no biological peace within him based on his sh*tty biomechanics!!!!
It's screaming RETIRE RETIRE, RETIRE ME, RETIRE ME!!!!! Yes, I can't wait for Bekele to just stop running altogether if not only can he no longer run fast and perform but does so in nauseating running biomechanics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm saying all these as Bekele's number 1 fan!!! The balance in his body has shifted for the worse which is why he is carrying and swinging his arms so uncharacteristically low and with unsightly symmetry in space and time or no stable periodicity/frequency!!!!!
????? Clearly I'm stunned...........distance running is all about BEAUTY, BEAUTIFUL FORM, YIN-YANG EQUILIBRIUM AND PEACE, TRANQUILITY AND SUPERCONDUCTING ENERGY, not the one Bekele is demonstrating with his biomechanics in NYC 2024.
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There are only a handful of countries where Bekele wouldn't be an Olympian. He can continue to run as a pro into his 40s if he wants, but the apex of his career is in his past. His future consists of potentially being the best master's runner ever.
THIS…. At 41 and on a “meh” day…. Bekele still beats Young by over a min and half.
Bekele is not an idiot. He showed up to this race and didn’t go all out and to collect appearance fees. At 41 he knows he’s limited on how many times he can push the limit, today wasn’t one of them. And still ran a very respectable time… and ill to boot.
bekele will go thru the half at London a minute faster than what he raced today.
i say he looks rather seasoned in that interview. But he is the Best ever. And NO one will ever surpass him bc today’s runners won’t be willing to race WXC like he always was and double in 5/10. And his longevity in the sport says a lot about him.
Incorrect, if Bekele was just out there on a Sunday morning stroll, he wouldn't be dropped by 3km LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He would still win by a huge margin, or win anyway in whatever fashion!!!! You don't know enough man...........
Wanna see Bekele really truly strolling and just messing around just to cash in on a pay-day???? Look no further than Great North Run 2013 where he cheekily played hide and seek with Mo Farah and Haile Geb by intentionally dropping behind by 30-40 meters mid-race, which is a lot of distance to be confident of retrieving and clawing back later, to let them both think he has been dropped and out of the race, and then later effortlessly rejoined them both like he was walking on water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And then, remember also how he tried to create a successful gap on Mo Farah on the final downhill to the coastal stretch in the final mile??????? While Mo Farah displayed biomechanical distress and was struggling to keep up with Bekele, all Bekele did was opened up his stride and pump his beautiful and exquisite arms to move further away from Mo Farah and maintained it while Mo's biomechanics were breaking down and was overstriding!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bekele was all yin-yang equilibrium in the final mile and was only really pushed in the last 200m when Mo needed to exceed his limit just to get within a step but ultimately couldn't overtake Bekele who still finished breathing quite easily because he has more superior and more superconducting biomechanics with less energy expense than Mo Farah's artificially doped up one!!!
Remember how Mo struggled to catch his breath while bended at his knees and could barely manage a greeting with Bekele the second after the race while Bekele regain his tranquility WITH ONLY 1 BREATH and was immediately smiling and walking around relaxed for the camera and waiting for Haile Geb to arrive!!!!! Mo continued to be bended at his knees and looking like he had been hit by a truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the Bekele of OLD----A SUPERCONDUCTOR where the faster the speed/velocity the lesser and lesser the energy expense because the lesser and lesser RESISTANCE/IMPEDANCE, which is the reverse of conventional laws of physics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY NATURAL SUPERCONDUCTORS, UNTAINTED BY ARTIFICIAL DRUGS OR EMFs can achieve such a state of enlightenment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a state of enlightenment!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There are only a handful of countries where Bekele wouldn't be an Olympian. He can continue to run as a pro into his 40s if he wants, but the apex of his career is in his past. His future consists of potentially being the best master's runner ever.
NO, it doesn't work this way. The world is too used or too habituated on the manner of his effortless victories and of course superconducting impedance-less biomechanics and running technique like walking on water and he needs to be aware of that like Hicham EL G was who retired for this precise reason to not taint the image or legacy he has created in the minds and hearts of people worldwide!!!!
There is no such thing as master's runner like that!!!!! Your time is up, you need to leave ASAP!!!!!! EL G is still pretty fast for his age today, running 4min/k aerobic runs still and could be a master's champion as well but it doesn't interest him because he knows he needs to protect his legacy and prestige. He is an abnormal human being with abnormal skills and gifts and cannot just behave the same way as the rest of the normal beings on earth and run way into his masters years!!!
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Agreed. I am sure he will finish higher in London than he did in NYC.
(In light of Valencia (2:04 marathon), it is clear that NYC was a bit of a blip. No one goes down that much in two or three months.
We've seen KB fight back many times when people thought his time was over (Great North Run, Berlin x2, London and more). I hope he does so again in London this year.
Also, he once came second in London to Daniel Wanjiru, who has since been found to have doped. I so hope he wins this year cos he deserves at least one London Marathon victory
You just need to understand the laws of physics are reversed or extreme spectrum for Bekele. The faster he runs the more susceptible his 'strolling' or 'Sunday morning stroll'!!!!!
For Bekele, the idea of a Sunday morning stroll is virtually a magical or WR performance or otherwise, not one in which he had been dropped early on at 3km!!!!! If that's the case that would be a Sunday morning toil for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bekele at his best does not toil, he is ONE-NESS WITH HIS ENVIRONMENT----SUPERCONDUCTING----EFFORTLESS WITH CLOSE TO ZERO ENERGY EXPENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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