Mo's gotta be clean

serious bro wrote:

which reminds me, any word on olympic champion tauofik makhloufi?? the man at one point was talking about winning the 1500/800 following his olympic gold. talk about newfound confidence... certainly drugs without a doubt--almost comical to argue otherwise

People have made good arguments that he could be clean including coach Canova.

Someone from Jama Aden's group posted recently that he was back at home, not training. Who knows if/when he will come back.

It just doesn't add up. Why disappear when you're at the height of your earning potential?

how many 'silent' punishments does WADA/USADA hand out?

Same kinda thing happened with flojo, retired at height of earning potential after olympics. and there has been speculation for years that her premature death was the result of ped abuse

Athletics lover wrote:

It is simple ,, makhloufi change coach and joined great group ,, the guy ran 3.32s in 2010...

After London ,, it was too much Media and ppl around him which distract his training plus he been diagnosed with hepatitis A...

Makhloufi was clean in London , he really worked hard in that year.. But unfortunately once he became Olympic champion the influence was really damaging his sport careers .. Distraction..

Actually looking back on those threads he is back in Kenya training again. And supposedly did a couple workouts with Mo Farah.

Thats not Makloufi who was training with mo in kenya

that is french 1500/5000 runner Bob Tahri

Thats not Makloufi who was training with mo in kenya

that is french 1500/5000 runner Bob Tahri

tony the tiger wrote:

Thats not Makloufi who was training with mo in kenya

that is french 1500/5000 runner Bob Tahri

A Norwegian newspaper is doing a series on running in Kenya and Iten. The journalist (who is also a runner) is staying in Iten right now posting a new story every day. He said that Makloufi is in Iten training right now, or at least he was just few days ago..He had seen him on the track.

is there a link to this newspaper?

Fatty R. Belt Buckle wrote:

Just as Lance Armstrong was supposedly clean and everyone knows that everyone in cycling dopes. Yet supposedly the one clean guy is somehow beating the very best in the world who are dirty

that's what a lot of people on letsrun would have you believe...the clean guys were winning when there was no epo test

track has at least 5 lance armstrong equivalents who've never been busted

There are 8 active threads about Mo on these boards. Why are people so obsessed about an also ran?

reader of the forums wrote:

uh oh you slipped up wrote:

SMJO = NotAustin18?

nope

Nope? How do you know?

old norge

can you give us the link plz?

tony the tiger wrote:

Thats not Makloufi who was training with mo in kenya

that is french 1500/5000 runner Bob Tahri

There was a rumor of a workout with BOTH of them. Yes, I remember seeing a picture with only Tahri in it.

uh oh you slipped up wrote:

reader of the forums wrote:

nope

Nope? How do you know?

Several reasons.

1) I have read the forums long enough to know that these are two very distinct people. Austin is an 18 year old living in oregon. SMJO is I believe a canadian? Or non-american at the very least. He is also a helluva lot older than 18.

2) SMJO was just responding to something someone wrote even though it wasn't directed at him. I thought that was pretty obvious. But I guess if you are not a longtime reader of the forums like myself you would not know that these are two very different people.

tony the tiger wrote:

old norge

can you give us the link plz?

This may be what he's referring to:

reader of the forums wrote:

Several reasons.

1) I have read the forums long enough to know that these are two very distinct people. Austin is an 18 year old living in oregon. SMJO is I believe a canadian? Or non-american at the very least. He is also a helluva lot older than 18.

2) SMJO was just responding to something someone wrote even though it wasn't directed at him. I thought that was pretty obvious. But I guess if you are not a longtime reader of the forums like myself you would not know that these are two very different people.

How long have you known that Austin is 18?

harloper,

thank you !!

HardLoper wrote:

tony the tiger wrote:

old norge

can you give us the link plz?

This may be what he's referring to:

http://www.nrk.no/sport/post-kort_-sindre-buraas-1.11664619

Yes, that was the one. I remembered slightly wrong. It doesn't say he met MakDaddy at the track, but at the training camp. Anyways...

uh oh you slipped up wrote:

reader of the forums wrote:

Several reasons.

1) I have read the forums long enough to know that these are two very distinct people. Austin is an 18 year old living in oregon. SMJO is I believe a canadian? Or non-american at the very least. He is also a helluva lot older than 18.

2) SMJO was just responding to something someone wrote even though it wasn't directed at him. I thought that was pretty obvious. But I guess if you are not a longtime reader of the forums like myself you would not know that these are two very different people.

How long have you known that Austin is 18?

Weird that you guys actually distinguish me apart from others. Unless its one of the brojos, Canova, Malmo, or that HRE guy, I don't pay attention to anyone's username.

Anyways, I'm 19 now. Quick update if you care I tried high mileage again, 870 miles in 8 weeks(lowest week of 100 in that span). Tried adding speed and did some of the worst workouts of my life. I could run forever but was slow as heck. I got mad, took 2 weeks completely off.

Now I'm focusing on quality. My best times have come on 60 mpw with 1 run a day 6 days a week. So I'm back to that. After 2 5-8 consecutive week stints at 100+ miles, 60 mpw seems very low now. So, now I can push the pace very good(on the 100+ mile weeks my runs were all at 730-740 pace). Last week for instance, I hit 56 miles for the week at a 6:53 average pace for the week. On Saturday I had the best long run of my life, felt effortless but managed 12 miles 6:46 pace with 6:30 last mile(my half marathon PR is 1:26:13 so I'm optimistic about my fitness right now). My weeks since the 2 weeks off went 18-35-44-56, and now I'm on my 60 mile weeks base building routine that preceded all my best races and best seasons.

That's just an update if you care, which you probably don't. Anyone else wanna talk about their training?

What events are you training for Austin?