And he ran it in really bad conditions. I only saw the race in the last 15 minutes but there were huge puddles on the roads.
puddles? it sounds brutal.
Enough to make your shoes heavier and make you lose 1 second. Enough for you to slow down on turns and lose 1 second. Yomif beat the world record by 1 second.
Apparently your last name needs to start with the letter K in order to set the 1/2 marathon WR. Who's next?
Isn't Kip- the equivalent of "son of so and so" in Kenyan culture?
Sort of like Mc- or -son/-sen in our culture? I think the Russians use -ov/-ova to denote "son of" or "daughter of." Same kind of thing, right?
But I have no idea about Ethiopian naming systems.
Edit: I looked it up to be sure...
In Kenya, the prefix "Kip" is commonly used among the Kalenjin people, an ethnic group primarily found in the Rift Valley region. "Kip" means "son of" or "child of" in the Kalenjin language. It is often used to denote lineage or ancestry.
For example, a name like "Kipchoge" would mean "son of Choge." This naming convention reflects the importance of family and heritage in Kalenjin culture. Other variations of this prefix include "Chep" for daughters or females, as in "Chepchumba," meaning "daughter of Chumba."
In Ethiopia, your last name/surname is the first name of your father. In other words, Yomif Kejelcha's fathers first name is Kejelcha.
Man are you affected by the achievements of a runner you don't like. You wake up thinking about his next WR and you go to bed with his next gold medal in your mind. Look for some help.
We have a bunch of guys can run 57:30 or even faster , so slowing 7"/km in the marathon now Is very very realistic and so 1:59:59 Is now around the corner
What do you think about Jakob’s 7:17.55? You act as if his most important race this year was the HM in Copenhagen.
For him it WAS his most important race this year. He posted probably well over 100 times making "fun" about his performance. It gave his life some new importance. What a life it must be...
I'm impressed that Kejelcha didn't have to walk at any stage of the race. Usually that's a requirement for someone who says they will be the greatest runner who ever existed.
Nobody will break 2 on a legit course in the next 10 years or maybe far longer than that, it could take a generation for it to happen
Doubt it. We are only 36 seconds (less than 1 s/km) away from that. And several people have ascribed a large part of Ruth's 5 minute improvement to the better shoes.
Or look at the history:
From 1993 - 2003: 2:06:50 - 2:04:55: improvement of 1:55
From 2003 - 2013: 2:04:55 - 2:03:23: improvement of 1:32
From 2013 - 2023: 2:03:23 - 2:00:35: improvement of 2:48
We'll see a legit sub-2 before 2034 for sure. Likely before the end of this decade.
looks like they're going 28 flat 10k all the way pace
unless testing ramps up
then you have a jamaica situation
where they actually brought in some form of testing
and then the table of having 5 guys in the top 10 in the world in the 200
went down to zero,
and bolt retired at this time
he was done anyway more or less, taking on too much weight with the "program"
still vote bolt as goat however of the enhanced
carl lewis gets the vote as the fastest of the " quasi - clean" where without the full meal deal program, he was nearly 10 flat, and with a starter program, was diving into 9,8x, no idea how fast he could have gotten with the full meal deal program, say under Charlie Francis.