Standards are dropping like hell in elite male long distance running. It’s very simple all the trained eye has to do is look with finesse the biomechanical integrity and mass-energy momentum of the runners nagivating the alligator logs and bumps. Compare it to 2005 St Etienne where the likes of Zersenay, Bekele, Kipchoge and the rest of the cohort of runners navigated the same types of obstacles. The level of biomechanical maintenance over said obstacles and conservation of mass-energy forward momentum which is short for bio-physiological strength of health and energy is at least 100 rungs better than the current crop of 2026 fallen smartphone directed energy attacked runners. In particular Ebenyo needs to be censured for running like timid squirrel what with that faltering head-spinal axis that manifested as a series of incoherent synchronization between head, torso, arm carriage, foot placement and energy production. Yes, I’m saying he ran like grandpa’s old and faltering typewriter machine, rickety and creaking at the peripherals. We didn’t see such ungracefulness in the athletes of old and my research has pointed me in the direction of directed energy weapons utilizing worldwide American owned, controlled and bought out cellular towers, the AC power grid, tech wearables etc. This was probably the flattest, fastest and easiest XC course in history we saw, nothing like Aarhaus 2019, Australia 2022, or Jordan 2010. Temps were always around the 70s for most championships, it’s designed that way, nobody likes frostbitten XC environments but yet our athletes cannot measure up to the standards of spectacle expected of them. With the claimed technological advancements in sporting tools, we have a right to expect 27:30-28:00 minimum performance time for the top 20 athletes in 2026 but it seems with the exception of Kiplimo, guys we thought were good like Aregawi and Ebenyo are running slower than or similar to NCAA men’s top 3 performances on courses that are even harder like at OK’s cowboy crazy uphill and downhill race routes? These are African pros and they are running like douchebags? I believe this has been said in the past and I’m not the only 1 reminding all of you fanboys how deluded you are over the current state of directed energy influenced smartphone and digital-based running sport. Jakob was the omen last year, the sign from the covert operators of weaponized cellular towers and tech wearables, he faltered big time, lost his raison deter, injured WAY TOO OFTEN like a man in his 80s, SO SLOW TO RECOVER like a grandma on her deathbed, and slow enough still to fail to turn up at Euro XC. The writing was on the walls to everyone who has been asleep at the wheel of LRC. Our sport is being threatened and attacked by WEF agenda to beam every citizen on the planet with neuroweapons from cellular phone towers and all other wireless grids available. Kiplimo seems to have still escaped the effects of these weapons maybe because he has yet to own a smartphone ever. He looks really like someone who has still never touched a computer or a smartphone or any smart-digital electronic device in his life. And even if he has one, he outsources its use to a friend who probably makes calls on his behalf and gets attacked also on his behalf. It’s quite obvious from the way Kiplimo ran, that biomechanical wave output, so very sinusoidally smooth and unaffected by electromagnetic outside attacks from cellular towers. But the same cannot be said of Kejelcha, Aregawi, Barega and Cheptegei, our so called ‘most pro’ athletes. I would like to urge Sebastian Coe to investigate declining elite athlete performances and investigate the level of American tech and American government links to our sport.Nike in particular is co-owned and invested in by American Big Tech and its subsidiaries like DARPA and CIA. If WA has a partnership with these companies it’s a recipe for more directed energy attacks on our athletes and more repression of their sacred bio-physio sanctuary that produces and manufactures truly world class athletic abilities that we have stopped seeing in Africans in numbers for a very long time now, at least 10 years.
SHK biggest loser for sure. American women overall just horrendous. So embarrassing for a meet at home, and Australia won so no need to talk about Africans
I think people talk about Eastern Africans because they are very deep with great runners and they win many races all over the world.
Jane Hedengren (for not sticking with XC season through Dec/Jan)
Right so Jane is on your losers list for having the sense to take a break instead of training through and getting hurt like Rocky Hanson. Good thing that Diljeet Taylor is her coach and not you.
I wanted lunch, and it was reasonable to expect that I could get something at the meet without having to wait over an hour for it.
I wasn't the only community race participant in that situation. Many people in the line were in running gear. In fact, the people right before me in line were running the 2K, which was scheduled to start almost an hour earlier than my race. While waiting in that horrendous line, they were trying to decide if it was better to just run the race famished or keep waiting in line and not have enough time to digest their food before the race because the line was taking so long.
Thank you for agreeing that six food trucks would have been better than two.
“Famished.” Please stop with the histrionics.
This was, first, your fault. It was within your control. You could’ve brought food from home to ensure you’d have a “light lunch,” but you didn’t. You could’ve brought a banana, a plain bagel and one of those single serving cups of peanut butter from your hotel’s breakfast, but you didn’t do that either. If your performance in the race mattered to you, you would’ve done one of those things instead of leaving it to chance. If your performance wasn’t important to you, then it doesn’t matter if you were hungry or not for the race. You made a mistake; own it and learn from it.
It's a great shame we Brits did not put out our very best 4 x 2 K team. You would think that a team which had the likes of Josh Kerr/Jake Whiteman/Laura Muir/Georgia Hunter Bell/Alex Bell/Jemma Reekie could challenge anyone.
As a grumpy English XC veteran, I thought the event was brilliant. Brutal but fast course, expertly marshalled, great support and I even rather liked the drone filming as it did a good job of communicating the athletes’ speed.
It's a great shame we Brits did not put out our very best 4 x 2 K team. You would think that a team which had the likes of Josh Kerr/Jake Whiteman/Laura Muir/Georgia Hunter Bell/Alex Bell/Jemma Reekie could challenge anyone.
Looked like a really big missed opportunity.
Unfortunately most of our so called elite mid and long distance runners are just not interested in cross country. A great shame imho.
Having watched on Peacock I obviously don't know what the live event was like. On TV it would have been nice if they'd actually had a camera truck on the ground. But good use of drones.
Someone was dissing Jacob Kiplimo. Don't. Who in the world who wasn't there could have beaten him? Ingebrigtsen? Almgren? They had the chance to come, and didn't. Gressier, not only World 10K champion and cross-country expert, was 15th. And props to him for running.
I couldn't tell elevations well on TV but aside the fake hill and one other spot, the course seemed absurdly flat; my kids' high school courses have tougher hills.
I'm dismayed that most of Europe didn't come. And it's not new - not just because of Trump. Are they really just giving up on cross-country because they're not likely to finish on (or close to) the top? Where were Batocletti, Yasmin Can, or Sifan Hassan (I know she's mostly a marathoner now)? Hopefully the next time the meet is in the U.S. (not another 34 years) they'll have a hillier
Biggest Loser: The people that try to convince themselves Florida is a great place for XC. It should be chilly if not flat out cold, brutal hills, and tough conditions. I cannot get over how stupid the course was with the stupid “obstacles”
Right so Jane is on your losers list for having the sense to take a break instead of training through and getting hurt like Rocky Hanson. Good thing that Diljeet Taylor is her coach and not you.
Good thing Laurie Henes, not Diljeet Taylor, coaches Gapes and Hartman.
Right so Jane is on your losers list for having the sense to take a break instead of training through and getting hurt like Rocky Hanson. Good thing that Diljeet Taylor is her coach and not you.
Good thing Laurie Henes, not Diljeet Taylor, coaches Gapes and Hartman.
Good thing she HAS Diljeet Taylor as her coach. She may make it as a successful pro someday.
First 10 years coaching:
Taylor - 10 NCAA Appearances (1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 14th), 1 NCAA individual champion, 7 top-10 individual finishers, and 2 US Olympians (Wayment, Morgan)
As a grumpy English XC veteran, I thought the event was brilliant. Brutal but fast course, expertly marshalled, great support and I even rather liked the drone filming as it did a good job of communicating the athletes’ speed.
Yes parking was an issue but everyone i spoke to at the event enjoyed it.
Why do insist on starting threads like this wejo? This is poison. I know you two want to believe that the lrc message board is what runners talk about on their daily runs, but never in my life have any of the teams I've been associated with did anyone talk about sheet like this. High school? NOPE. College? NOPE. Or as a Professional? NOPE. What causes you to think that way?
Poison?
you never went on a run and talked about sporting events or even track races and who did well, who did poorly?
that’s what sports fans do. Perhaps you don’t like the word “loser”? It’s a figure of speech. Someone have a better idea on how to phrase this?