Kenenisa Bekele: how soon will he totally annihilate the dstance WR's part 2?

Look who has resorted to calling names in order to make his point seems valid. In all honesty neither of us know for a fact what Kenensia Bekele will do in the future and neither does Kenenisa. Every year someone comes along and redefines what we think is possible in athletics. Noone thought that 36-37 yr old could win the Olympics marathon but she did as well as a 34-35 yr old on the men's side grabbed a silver medal. The marathon was their speciality yet the improved or competed at the same level they did when they was in their early years of running/prime. So there is no need of talking about moving up in distance and improving.

Several athletes have shown that they can improve late in their 30's at their speciality, so for you to discount that a severee oversight!

I should not have called you names. However, you are completely and utterly wrong. Kenenisa's 5000 meter best is nearly 6 years ago. His 10000 meter best is nearly 5 years ago. Facts are stubborn things.

yes as i said kenenisa will not participate in lievin b/c of calf injury. for kenenisa it is time to shift to marthon. for ethiopia we need another ten year to find such fine guy.

mesfin wrote:

yes as i said kenenisa will not participate in lievin b/c of calf injury. for kenenisa it is time to shift to marthon. for ethiopia we need another ten year to find such fine guy.

It won't take 10 yrs my friend, as this is my pick for the next Ethio great. See link attached:

these days no body will come to closer to kenenisa.

kenyan will rule the 10k

I have read in sevaral places that runners can only improve for a span of about 10 years. Then their performances reach a plateau and they can't get any faster no matter how hard they train. Supposedly this is true for all age groups. Bekele has been around for about 10 years now. Would this rule of thumb apply to him? But in his case he has reached such a high level of performance that even with a regression of a few seconds he can still beat everybody out there. He could of course, go kick butt on the roads still.

42:17 15k at age 17 is not too shabby! That's a better pace than the American hs record for 10k. maybe Ayele Abshero will be next.

chet wrote:

I should not have called you names. However, you are completely and utterly wrong. Kenenisa's 5000 meter best is nearly 6 years ago. His 10000 meter best is nearly 5 years ago. Facts are stubborn things.

He hasn't had a great 5k attempt in a LONG time. He came close to his 10k at Eugene in a meet where he did a ton of the work with no one even close. The fact he can still keep improving his championship records and crushing everyone should stand as a good sign. When he starts losing on the track, that's when he is done.

Kenenisa Bekele hasn't focused on breaking his 5000m WR as the last few times its been a GP event that's been his focus- winning a share of the $1,000,000. Now the last time he attempted a 10000m WR he came incredibly close in a solo attempt in Eugene. So to say his best years are behind him when his focus hasn't been world records is jumping the gun.

Kenenisa easily have another 4-5 years of improving from 2000m-10000m if he stays healthy and his main focus is WR's instead of GP jackpots.

VIPAM wrote:

Kenenisa Bekele hasn't focused on breaking his 5000m WR as the last few times its been a GP event that's been his focus- winning a share of the $1,000,000. Now the last time he attempted a 10000m WR he came incredibly close in a solo attempt in Eugene. So to say his best years are behind him when his focus hasn't been world records is jumping the gun.

Kenenisa easily have another 4-5 years of improving from 2000m-10000m if he stays healthy and his main focus is WR's instead of GP jackpots.

Yeah, Kenenisa has spent the previous 5 years trying like hell to avoid breaking world records...get real...Incredibly close? Are you joking? 8.44 seconds slower than the world record is incredibly close? A solo attempt? You forget that, along with his rabbits, that is how it is done...welcome to reality VIPAM.

chet

You need to wake up and join the real world. No Kenny B hasn't really taken any world record attempts at the 5000m and less than 9 seconds in a 10000m is close to world record (less than a sec per 1km). It's gotten really old seeing posters bash our more popular regulars with stupidity. That's probably why most of them have stopped posting from silly posters taken shots at them constantly even when the silly posters are wrong.

Name one place in the last 3-4 years Kenny B has tired a WR in the 5000m and name another place besides Eugene where here attempt the 10000mWR? You can't so please stop with the bashing and make a name for yourself some other way.

Chet is the biggest bekele hater on these boards. I don't know why. It's him and ventolin^2. I bet they're the same person. Post your real name you f***ing coward.

infamous wrote:

Chet is the biggest bekele hater on these boards. I don't know why. It's him and ventolin^2. I bet they're the same person. Post your real name you f***ing coward.

Hello "infamous." I am sure that is your real name...I don't hate Bekele. I am just smarter than the rest of you. As for "Getting Old," you are getting senile. What a moron...

Chet why do you have to resort to name calling in almost every post where someone disagree with you? You were wrong and alot others when the thread introducing Kenenisa Bekele came out saying he was the next big thing in distance races. So please stop with the name calling and down-grading Kenenisa Bekele because you haven't been right about Kenenisa yet!

I wasn't even participating on Lets Run when this thread about Kenenisa being the next big thing came out...What are you talking about? How long has Lets Run existed? Bekele has been the greatest distance runner in the world for a long time...I have never downgraded him. He arguably the greatest distance runner ever. Are you stupid? Kenenisa the next big thing: when would this have been prophetic? 2002? Are you really that stupid?

chet= ignorant so please ignore from this point forward

KB is great. The real question is how long will it be before Vipam stops sucking KB's cock?

chet wrote:

I should not have called you names. However, you are completely and utterly wrong. Kenenisa's 5000 meter best is nearly 6 years ago. His 10000 meter best is nearly 5 years ago. Facts are stubborn things.

All true. Maybe Hermens has finally found a new, eh, protocol to aid Kenny in returning to his PR form of years ago.

piedmontcat wrote:

It won't take 10 yrs my friend, as this is my pick for the next Ethio great. See link attached:

http://www.iaaf.org/WXC09/news/newsid=49990.html

Thanks for the link! Laughing out loud at the "18 yr old junior". Hoo-hah! That guy is almost as old as KB is now! Hilarious!