HOW TO BEAT BEKELE......

Gerry advocates taking off when no expects you to ... not too shocking I guess.

What is the point of running 65s when race pace is 62s? Your low 13s is way too high (25 seconds is a ton of time in a 5k). Get down to sub 12:50 and then worry about tatics

bedbug wrote:

Gerry advocates taking off when no expects you to ... not too shocking I guess.

Should have read "when no one expects you to ..."

Damn proofreading.

Earth to Gerry- friend, you been circlin' too long at high altitudes. Your thinkin' ain't right. Sadly, this condition is irreversible. Bekele wins because he's The Man. We don't appreciate it fully yet but the careers of the 2 greatest distance runners ever are overlapping in Geb & Bekele. The King was beaten in the 10000; long live the King!

They haven't succeeded in vacuum. They've taken on the best and many times over won and on occasion, in WR time.

Man! Does anyone have that video interview of Gerry from a couple of years back? That motherf***er looked insane. Haha. Holy shit. I wish I still had that video.

The body language and response of him claiming and then later being called out for his 25 miles at sub 2 hour pace was classic. The guy is mentally unstable and obviously a liar.

I seriously doubt he ever did any 250-300 mile weeks. If you can lie about a sub 2 hour marathon with a straight face, then you probably were lying about the mileage. Did anyone even witness it?

Bingo

http://www.masterstrack.com/movies/gerry24.mov

666 wrote:

Man! Does anyone have that video interview of Gerry from a couple of years back? That motherf***er looked insane. Haha. Holy shit. I wish I still had that video.

The body language and response of him claiming and then later being called out for his 25 miles at sub 2 hour pace was classic. The guy is mentally unstable and obviously a liar.

I seriously doubt he ever did any 250-300 mile weeks. If you can lie about a sub 2 hour marathon with a straight face, then you probably were lying about the mileage. Did anyone even witness it?

you suck at life. how can you insult someone like that? someone that's never done anything to you. especially someone who is trying to give you advice who IS A PROFESSIONAL and has FIRST HAND SUCCESS and EXPERIENCE. you are what is wrong with this message board.

I like my life. Really do.

Anyway, yes, he was a professional and had success with running but that doesn't prevent him from giving delusional advice. I could have kept my mouth shut but I didn't. Instead I called him out for what he is. It's not pretty, but hey, him abandoning his family wasn't pretty either.

Billy Mills is a good example of why this strategy won't work. Sit-and-kick is almost always how upsets happen, not insane surges.

666 wrote:

I like my life. Really do.

Anyway, yes, he was a professional and had success with running but that doesn't prevent him from giving delusional advice. I could have kept my mouth shut but I didn't. Instead I called him out for what he is. It's not pretty, but hey, him abandoning his family wasn't pretty either.

you just don't stop. how can you even feel good about yourself talking about the man's personal life like that. spreading bad information around when you don't know the situation.

and it's not delusional advice. he has used and executed his own advice and had much success.

Moderators,

please delete my recent posts and the recent posts by 666

No need.

That's what 666 (aka the anti-christ) wants you to do.

Just sprinkle some holy water on him and he'll go away.

I'm surprised he's so active today on the board, I thought he was busy at the convention in Denver.

Whatever he did in his personal life doesn't invalidate his theory on how to beat Bekele. And he's right. Bekele is flat out better than everyone. If you let him control the race, he'll win pretty much everytime. If you (you being a 12:50-13:10 guy) take control of the race and make Bekele run YOUR strategy and your odds go up slightly. A 12:50-13:10 guy isn't gonna beat him running hard from the gun, or in a moderately paced kicker's race like the Beijing 5k. Do something different, like a big midrace surge or start dropping 57's 6 laps out and get him to go with you. Run it like a fartlek with erratic pace changes with no pattern to it. Train yourself to be able to handle running a 13:10 like that and hope the pace changes and surges throw Bekele off and burn his kick. Do something like that and make him run your race, and your odds are better than if you just tag along to his race and hope he has a bad day.

That strategy is retarded. Bekele is both stronger and faster; what you and he suggest is to take it from the front and let a stronger and faster runner draft off of you. No matter how hard you sprint those surges, you will be burning yourself out a whole lot more than Bekele.

The only race rational strategy involved a silver or bronze goal. I know it sounds defeatist but that's what Bekele has made possible.

If Bekele is so good then why is in only just barely faster then Geb? Would Geb be this dominant in his prime against Kipchoge ect?

I am a little confused isn't this Bekele's first global championship in the 5k. It would seem to me that he has been beaten before.

You must learn how to kick... how to execute a proper Taekwando kick square to Bekele's head some time that morning before he gets to the stadium... Just make sure you don't unleash one against any of the officials, and you should be golden.

666 wrote:

Bingo

http://www.masterstrack.com/movies/gerry24.mov

What a d*ck f*ck !

Wow.

Never saw that video before.

Wow.

You'd think someone being on sub 2-hour pace for all but the last 100 yards of a marathon would be well documented. Seems to me that dehydrating yourself for 3 days prior to the race wouldn't get you very far from the starting line at 4:36 mile pace - let alone within inches of the greatest distance performance in the history of the universe.

Again, wow!

Oh yeah, about beating this Bekele guy. How in the world are you going to beat a guy that is faster and stronger than you by making a wild move in the middle of the race? The move will only serve two purposes - 1) to weaken yourself for the remainder of the race and 2) anger the beast within Bekele's belly at your show of disrespect.

The 65-55-65 plan is not a great one either. Bekele at this time is probably 3 seconds ahead of you (running at 62 second pace) and after your "big move" you will be 1 second ahead of him and he will be licking his chops before tearing the heart from your chest when he drops a 60 on you to start his final mile of 3:57. He'll blow by you so fast you'll look like a pig roasting on a spit.

The only way to beat him is to be able to equal or better the best time he is capable of running. He had the potential to run 20 seconds faster than he did in the 5k - 20 SECONDS. He has run 12:57 for the second half in a 10k!