I think after he realized the pacers messed him up... he just wanted to focus on tactics, which he did quite well. Did you see how he shot like a rocket when anyone would make a move. Awesome.
BEKELE IS BACK BABY
I think after he realized the pacers messed him up... he just wanted to focus on tactics, which he did quite well. Did you see how he shot like a rocket when anyone would make a move. Awesome.
BEKELE IS BACK BABY
bruh please, do you even lift? this was a workout for the Master
Really would have loved to have seen a fast race, or Kenny making some super move to get an idea of exactly where his fitness is at (or at least a full dig on the last lap). He cruised through this, and is clearly fit...but I don't feel like I have anything to work off of in terms of where he is vs Farah.
I bet that's what he wants. No point in showing everyone else what you're capable of if you don't have to.
Merga got screwed by the lapped runners. He wanted to go inside but he looked up and knew there was no path. That said, I'm sure Bekele intentionally moved outside, knowing there was no path to the inside.
douglas burke wrote:
- wrote:Not very impressive, Mo woulda won that.
or rupp as well
Why so certain that they would have won that?
Looked like a very good, easily controlled victory for him. Terrific season opener and it looked like he had way more in him if needed but held back doing just enough to win. 26.xx for his last 200 most of which was prob in the last 80m. Great race, very encouraging for his return and clash with Mo in Moscow. We may well be seeing the Bekele circa 2003-2009 eventually returning late this summer, gonna be exciting!
Bekele was under control, looking back frequently and ran only as fast as he needed to, which was very fast only in the last 100m (they had to go wide to get around lapped runners in the final straight, and that made it hard for merga to get around bekele). bekele looks strong and maybe overweight? I'd have to compare to older images of him. They were saying that Jos Hermens claimed Bekele can go from not running to breaking 27 in six weeks. It seemed kind of like that in 2011 when he dropped out of world and then within weeks ran 26:40ish.
jokes wrote:
Really would have loved to have seen a fast race, or Kenny making some super move to get an idea of exactly where his fitness is at (or at least a full dig on the last lap). He cruised through this, and is clearly fit...but I don't feel like I have anything to work off of in terms of where he is vs Farah.
I bet that's what he wants. No point in showing everyone else what you're capable of if you don't have to.
Very possible. It is, admittedly, more suspenseful that way.
Yeah, Bekele looked a little heavy.
Was kind of hoping for... less African domination. Mohammed Ahmed, Juan Luis Barrios, Daniele Meucci, and Abdi Nageeye (the Dutch guy) took the last four spots, all 27:50+.
AHMED Mohammed
CAN
27:50.70
14
BARRIOS Juan Luis
MEX
27:57.69
15
MEUCCI Daniele
ITA
28:17.50
16
NAGEEYE Abdi
Not impressed with Bekele. If he would have ran anything close to the pace he asked for it would have been easy to say he's back and ready to challenge Mo in Moscow. I think his fastest years are well behind him.
Bekele looked much leaner and stronger tonight than a year ago.
Bekele's form and fitness looks way better than at the OG or even Brussels. He did more control than kick the last lap (will need a 52/53 for Moscow). And got the main thing: the win. My question is how do they choose pacemakers ? Kidane or Korir to split 13:18 ? would be almost PB for Lenny...
Compared to this image of Bekele:
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/bekele
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He did look heavy tonight.
Now, obviously he WON and ran very fast. So the 'heavy'ness' i'm describing was very subtle. What that tells me is it's a GOOD thing...he might drop 5-8 lbs as the season progresses and get "free gains"
That really looked easy the whole way. He ran just hard enough to win the last lap. Bekele is back and scary.
But can he still run 54 at the end of a 27:20 10,000 these days?
Looks like he made a statement tonight. Cakewalk and never was stressing.
break it up wrote:
But can he still run 54 at the end of a 27:20 10,000 these days?
Isn't that what he just did tonight?
break it up wrote:
That really looked easy the whole way. He ran just hard enough to win the last lap. Bekele is back and scary.
But can he still run 54 at the end of a 27:20 10,000 these days?
Looks like he made a statement tonight. Cakewalk and never was stressing.
Probably needs more like 52.x. Certainly that is one of the questions that remains unanswered.
It's possible if he was truly back in shape he could gun for something similar to what he did in Beijing 5000m, where he really goes hard from far out. That will probably depends on how he feels about his kick though...but it's evident that Galen and Mo can close a 27 low-mid race in 52.x if it's a good day, so if he leaves it to last lap...he better know he still has that gear.
Come on mayne wrote:
Not impressed with Bekele. If he would have ran anything close to the pace he asked for it would have been easy to say he's back and ready to challenge Mo in Moscow. I think his fastest years are well behind him.
Not impressed? He just very easily beat all of the top 10k guys in the world (minus jelian?, Rupp , and Farah).
jwj wrote:
break it up wrote:But can he still run 54 at the end of a 27:20 10,000 these days?
Isn't that what he just did tonight?
56.xx
Though it wasn't allin, so pretty likely he can do 54, though there is definitely some difference between that and 52.
why did dunbar DNF in the 1500? was he the rabbit?