Seteng - or Satain is really 49.
He was born in Ethiopia where there is a different
count of the year and when he immigrated to
Israel he gave his year of birth as 1955 when it
is really 1962.
I have sent repeated requests to the local
Athletics Association to change his official
year of birth - to no avail...
Still a great result for his age - earlier this year
in January he ran 2:18 in Tiberias with a
1:06 first half.
I'll be the asshole who asks it, can we see a birth certificate? Everyone bitches and moans about the Kenyans being older than they say, I'm bitching and moaning about this guy actually being younger than he says.
concord wrote:
You will not be running that fast at that age. Ed is freak of nature. A lot of 80 year-olds can barely walk around the block, let alone run 26+ miles at 7:50 pace.
Nor can a lot of 40 year-olds.
I don't think Ed is a freak. He's dedicated. He trains sensibly. I think his longevity is partly a result of not running competitively in his 20s and 30s. In 20 or 30 years time there'll be a dozen 80 year-olds running sub 8 minute pace.
ummm wrong wrote:
I'll be the asshole who asks it, can we see a birth certificate? Everyone bitches and moans about the Kenyans being older than they say, I'm bitching and moaning about this guy actually being younger than he says.
Ed was born in UK and emigrated to Canada as a young man.I am sure that his birth date is accurately recorded in UK files.Think before you write such rubbish.
OZman wrote:
Ed was born in UK and emigrated to Canada as a young man.I am sure that his birth date is accurately recorded in UK files.Think before you write such rubbish.
Where is the birth certificate? If people can bitch about Obamas we can bitch about his.
(I'm just joking with all of you, but I do it to point out many of your double standards)
congratulations Mr. Whitlock!
Congrats, Ed!
There are some video interviews on youtube --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NZ21IiY7KE&feature=related
Apparently, he felt a little under-prepared going into Rotterdam!
He sounds like the queen.
ummm wrong wrote:
Where is the birth certificate? If people can bitch about Obamas we can bitch about his.
I'm with you. That guy doesn't look a day over 50, with a three pack a day smoking habit.
None of this "he was born in another country and time" crap. The people demand proof! Let's see the original RFID-tagged birth certificate!
Sprint Geezer wrote:
ED F-ING WHITLOCK!
What's Ed's 5k time?
Does he run any other distances, like 5k or 10k?
Last Fall after the Syracuse 5K, I was fortunate to bump into Ed at the finish line and chat with him a bit. He just ran a 21:16 which is about a 97%!!!! Seemed kind of shy but very polite. Glad I said hi.....
Dave
What the ? wrote:
What kind of mileage does Ed run? What type of training does he do?
I read in A RW magazine liek a year ago that all he does is long runs. He doesn't warm up or cool down and jus truns like 3-4 hours a day(or 2-3 or soemthign i forget).
I just took away from it that he doesnt do any speedwork (aside from races i guess).
Also i think it said he likes to ru nthrough a graveyard or soemthing.
He is a legend. His training used to be (and I assume still is) daily runs of 20 miles around a 1km loop in a Toronto cemetary. He does the occasional race as speed work, but largely does long slow distance.
Well done Ed.
How in the heck has Ed avoided getting asthma or bronchitis, running 20 miles a day in the filth that is the air in Toronto?
To the earlier poster who suggested that Ed is not a freak, but that more like him will emerge in the future:
Ed IS a freak. If more like him emerge, they will also be freaks. Know many 80+-year-olds?
I thought he lived in Oakville.
Oakville, Toronto, whatever.
It is all part of the contiguous urban area that is Greater Toronto--and the air is equally bad everywhere, especially in summer.
From the 2011 March 14th Ontario Masters newsletter:
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He [Ed Whitlock] set (and still holds) the M75 World Record (set at Rotterdam in 2007) – running 3:04:54
The M80 WR is 3:39:18 – held by Robert Horman of Australia, set back in 1998. The CAN record is 4:19.
First though, Ed is heading to Kamloops to run the Canadian Masters Indoor Championships next weekend. He’s running the 1500m and the 3000m.
The 1500m WR is 6:19 Ed ran 5:53 at the OMA Indoor Championships a few weeks ago.
The 3000m WR is 13:30 Ed ran 12:23 – over a minute faster at the OMA Indoors
Ed plans to run some of the Masters track races in June – the Ontario Championships on June 5th and the Canadian Championships on June 18-19 at Varsity Stadium.
Some of the M80 WR’s that may be in his sights are;
1500m 5:59 He ran 5:53 Indoors
5000m 21:57 Ed ran 21:24 at last year’s Canadian Masters Championships
10,000m 44:29 Ed ran 44:46 at the same meet
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Looking up the results from the 2011 Canadian Masters Indoor Championships [http://www.ontariomastersathletics.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Results-Kamloops-20111.pdf] shows:
1500m 5:48.47 <== WorldRec CdnRec
3000m 12:00.88 <== WorldRec CdnRec
4x200m 2:39.45 <== CdnRec
4x400m 6:34.65 <== WorldRec CdnRec
42:49 at a road 10k yesterday:
http://www.chiptimeresults.com/resultsreader.php?y=2011&r=longboatL.htm