homunculus wrote:
rjm33 wrote:He used the word "lazy" with the name Kenenisa Bekele in the same sentence.
Ridiculo
I'm going to guess he knows Bekele better than you do. Bekele himself has said he doesn't like marathon training and finds it boring. That's what Canova was talking about.
http://running.competitor.com/2015/01/news/kenenisa-bekele-bringing-new-weapon-dubai-experience_121466#MtbREkRFyVI9GI2G.99"Kenenisa didn’t do enough long runs, in my opinion,†Hermens said. “He did only one 40K, not enough if you come from the track. The problem is he still has speed in mind. What he should do is run three hours, but easy—you know, just fat-burning. He found it boring and difficult. [He should] just go in the countryside, run two hours easy, then one hour fast.â€
Bekele concurred with Hermens’ assessment. “Yes, the marathon requires long runs and long hours,†he said. “I was finding it boring at times, and I don’t think I did enough. There are times you need to do runs of over 2 ½ hours. That I didn’t do.â€
That article is from 2015. It sounds all positive and great.
He dropped out of that 2015 Dubai race at 30K with a DNF.
Here is what Kenenisa Bekele has to say about his training in 2017:
That was two minutes faster than had previously achieved, and is an Ethiopian record, but better still, is the second fastest in history. And it has given Bekele such impetus that he is even thinking of returning to international championship competition, informing the Ethiopian federation that he is available for the IAAF World Championships in London this coming summer. But first, Dubai in ten days’ time, when there is further business to be attended to – given that he ran there in the 2015 race, and had to drop out after 30k with an injury (see photo).
“It was fantastic for me to get a personal best, but I’m still disappointed to have missed out on the world record,†Bekele said about Berlin in a statement for the Dubai organisers. “But I could see that I still had to make a couple of changes in my trainingâ€.
Kenenisa just said that he has made a couple of changes in his training for this race in Dubai since Berlin.
Nobody here knows about the recent changes to the training of Kenenisa Bekele.
Does Renato know what the recent changes are in the training of Kenenisa Bekele?
He did not tell us about any changes.
Why didn't Renato tell us about the recent changes to the training of Kenenisa Bekele?
http://www.globerunner.org/01/heaven-sent/