Berlin Marathon Live Thread

Run007xxx wrote:

WR or no WR... Berkele is GOAT

Agree but still Wilson Kipsang remains the greatest marathon with the 7th sub 2:05 time of his career and a PB against the dismissal of many skeptics who argued he was done after finishing second to Kipchoge last year. With today's, Kipsang adds another feather as the only man with three sub 2:04 performances. Bekele has to beat all those to come close to Kipsang.

Nick has been done for a long time. He is one of those guys that is no longer a factor at any race he enters.

They did a replay of Bekele after the finish line and he looked PISSED - disgusted almost. That being said, I'm not sure he knows that his official time is 2:03:03 yet as he said in the interview that he was disappointed that he missed it by a second or two.

LM wrote:

Would have been something special.

As an aside, man could you imagine kicking like a mofo seeing that clock, crossing in clock 2:02:55 and then it turns out it was 2:03:01. AGHHHH!

I think there were 3 WRs :

25k, 30k and Ethiopian WR

that guy from Germany wrote:

Best clean finisher: Yuki Kawauchi 2:11:03

Best American: Malcolm Richards 2:15:10

Fixed

Amazing performance by Bekele today, but I still think Kipchoge has the edge over the marathon. The problem with Bekele is that his body is too vulnerable to put in consistent training over a long period of time.

I don't think anybody's arguing Bekele is marathon GOAT, but there is a better case than ever that he is 'distance' GOAT.

NobodySclean wrote:

I think there were 3 WRs :

25k, 30k and Ethiopian WR

What's an Ethiopian WR? The ER?

NobodySclean wrote:

I think there were 3 WRs :

25k, 30k and Ethiopian WR

Ethiopian 25k NR is 1:11:37 by Gebrselassie in Alphen aan den Rijn 2006. Bekele "only" split 1:12:47 today.

But Bekele's 30k split of 1:27:30 beats Gebrselassies 1:27:49 in Berlin 2009.

I wonder what he still can do for 10k?

Ruti Aga for 3rd woman. Sits down & pulls off her shoe. Hole in big toe & bloodied sock. The marathon sucks. I have a 5K race in 3 hours, I better race balls to the walls after watching this.

Mo refuses to answer the door - DEVASTATED

Pink chick 5th in 2:28:34 - not that anyone cares ...

34:49 Hobby Jogger wrote:

I don't think anybody's arguing Bekele is marathon GOAT, but there is a better case than ever that he is 'distance' GOAT.

Yeah I agree with this. And his 5k/10k WRs are what....11 years old now? Fact that he almost ran a Marathon WR at this stage is incredible, especially given his issues over the last few years.

34:49 Hobby Jogger wrote:

I don't think anybody's arguing Bekele is marathon GOAT, but there is a better case than ever that he is 'distance' GOAT.

When he runs a sub 3:30 and sub 1:45 then you can call him better than Choge.

kanny wrote:

They did a replay of Bekele after the finish line and he looked PISSED - disgusted almost. That being said, I'm not sure he knows that his official time is 2:03:03 yet as he said in the interview that he was disappointed that he missed it by a second or two.

LM wrote:

Would have been something special.

As an aside, man could you imagine kicking like a mofo seeing that clock, crossing in clock 2:02:55 and then it turns out it was 2:03:01. AGHHHH!

Missed that but he can't complain about the time, how much forcing the pace did he do? He was slipstreaming Kipsang quite late on. I did wonder around 40k whether Kipsang was slowing down to avoid handing the WR to Bekele.

Nah dude wrote:

Dumoulin wrote:

That sucks for him. What do you guys think: Kipchoge vs Bekele in marathon?

Kipchoge

Yes, Kipchoge but expect Muhammed Ali Vs Joe Frazer boxing between the two by 40K lol! Kipchoge, unlike Kipsang, doesn't entertaining anyone trailing his heels. We saw that in London when he asked Stanley Biwott to run alongside him and also in Rio when he warned Feyisa Lelisa to stop stupidity. Bekele better get that right before racing Kipchoge in London next year!

The Scot wrote:

Missed that but he can't complain about the time, how much forcing the pace did he do? He was slipstreaming Kipsang quite late on. I did wonder around 40k whether Kipsang was slowing down to avoid handing the WR to Bekele.

Ethiopians are well known for drafting

Just saying