ventolin wrote:
i like to see "proper" runners who run race hard from the front & win or lose, they've given everything & it is edifying to watch
I'd really like to know who these runners are, other than Augustine Choge. I'm not convinced he's as much of a front-runner as you claim anyway, but fine, count him as one. Who are the other "proper" runners, ventolin?
why don't you take your name calling back to the t&fn message boards
i am sure they would not put up with you there
When Yenew ran 13'16'' in his first 5k race in Europe it was just to break the meet record to make some extra $$$
You'll probably see him soon as a great runner, he will not need Choge's help and will kick lot of guys :)
BTW he's not racing in germany tonight, training for XC worlds
Matic - did he choose to focus on WXC by choice, or did the Ethiopian federation make the decision for him, as was implied elsewhere?
Well we never know 100% for sure but it appears that the federation wanted him to prepare XC. If he agreed i think he knows that he could do good things :)
Well we never know 100% for sure but it appears that the federation wanted him to prepare XC. If he agreed i think he knows that he could do good things :)
Choge just got nipped at the line over 1500m in Dusseldorf. Ran directly behind two pacemakers for 1200m and led for a good 299m, but it's the finish that counts, I'm afraid.
he's right that Kenyan runners are very, very often the frontrunners, unless it's Bekele. Look for instance at the 2008 Beijing 1500m where Kiprop and other Kenyans and ex-Kenyans lead much of the way or the 5000m where it looks like from the fuzzy video that it's Bekele or Kenyans until El G takes it in the last 100m. But what do you think of Ngeny in El G's mile wr of 3:43.1? It's a set up to 1100m, El G takes the lead, and Ngeny sits on him the whole race (actually closer to El G than the latter is to the pacemaker a good deal of the time) and nearly catches him in the last 100m (it may be that El G didn't realize he was there, since Ngeny was back and to his right as he was catching up). Did you criticize Ngeny at the time for doing none of the work?
jjjj, you can't really be proposing Asbel Kiprop as an example of a front-runner who sets an honest pace. He's a 3:28 talent who obviously does not care about his PB, which is currently slower than Ryan Gregson's.