TESFAY 2:10:51 IN BARCELONA

call me old fashioned, the worst thing that can happen to a woman is to closely resemble a man.

though totally approving of natural Rhonda Rousley types .... fun fun fun

this 210 is complete and utter garbage.

in her early 20s ran 42x mid in the 1500.

mid 20s her 5 k was mid 15 min to above 16 min.

to set a world record, you demonstrate elite talent early and certainly are a world beater in peak athletic years.

this is the blatant ped profile

coupled the other red flags, such as anabolic markers, and dodgy braintrust ...

what im looking for is not drug free sport, just toss at least these doped to the gills blatant cheats.

and my sympathy to those in africa that are surrounded by cheats, and have to comply if they want a paycheck.

my sympathy to the robertson twin that had to make the hard decision, to compete on a level playing field, having gone admirably all in on their sport.

and it blew up like an a bomb in their face.

the world lives to destroy people like robertson, and meanwhile celebrate obvious cheats.

anyway, be nice to toss totally doped journeymen stealing and destroying the sport. then again, we are talking sport, which is an abberation, to be paid for childs play.

back in the day, it made more sense as a soldier gladiator training thing, which produced very important contributers to society.

So the career achievements you describe are more likely with an East African than an American?

no, houligan hoey katir all have similar type out of nowhere, flojo was the queen

This is an unfortunate but predictable side-effect of a site that encourages baseless doping speculation.

Since Paula Radcliffe ran a couple 2:17:xx's, then a 2:15:25 with 2 male pacemakers so long ago, and now with the benefit of supershoes, I've long thought women would eventually be running several minutes faster. I also thought it would take more time as most races are tactical and lack the critical mass to bring a group of women to 30K near WR pace, unless a woman uses male pacemakers.

He nailed my by responding to "colorunner"? That's predictably dishonest, but still well within your standard.

Some people want to believe I'm the obtuse one, but I haven't figured how to break the bad news to them without making them feel insecure.

Please explain how the drugs only work for Africans?

I love watching Agnes Ngetich compete and am a big fan of her aggression and front running on the roads and in xc (and the track too, really), BUT - didn't she just run herself into the ground in nyc ? Makes me think it's ok to be patient and wait for her marathon debut!

Plus, isn't it kind of bizarre that Gidey's 62:52 hasn't gotten a thrashing ? I feel some women may as well take the record closer to 62:00 before moving up. Who knows, we are only one revelatory Kiplimo-esque HM talent on the women's side before the record is like 61:30 and opens the door to 2:08 clockings.

yea she was clean for that

Also interesting is the number of Spanish road races where records, standards, PBs are set by large numbers of people. The 10K, half and marathon in Valencia, Barcelona Marathon, Seville, all ridiculously fast. What is with that? Is Spain in a better place on the planet? Are the courses short and no B or A certified measurer supervises cone placements? Re-measures? I am assuming not and it is just money, optimum courses, weather etc.....

Jonathan Gault has a story out on the run https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/03/who-is-fotyen-tesfay-and-how-did-she-run-the-second-fastest-womens-marathon-ever-21051-in-her-debut/

Well, 4-5 minutes for bouncy shoes and the rest you can guess. Every one will yell, scream, and jump up and down that I bought up cheat shoes but we never saw times even remotely close to this 11 years ago. Guess what WAS floating around 11 years ago?

Ethiopians aren’t being caught for some reason at the same rate as Kenyans despite very similar performances and running culture (escape poverty life changing etc etc all the excuses used for Kenya). At least with Kenya they are catching them, Ethiopia is cowboy country on anti doping.

Tesfay went through half in 1:05:03. She's an absolute monster.

How says they do? And why are all these posts getting deleted, but Rekrunner's personal insults remain?