My suggestion is wthe USA sets up a track meet with Bahrain or Qatar for athletes who just happen to move there and are world classs runners.
My suggestion is wthe USA sets up a track meet with Bahrain or Qatar for athletes who just happen to move there and are world classs runners.
Runningart2004 wrote:
ventolin wrote:4 guys ran quicker than him in that race
if this is the "mental faculty" of a "big boy" perhaps you shoud leaving the posting to your 5y ole nephew
Geezuz, grow up kids.
If he ran that TIME..TIME...T.I.M.E. (note how I did not say "race") two years earlier he would have been the WR holder. It just shows how much closer he was to the world's best than our current crop. He led the damn Olympic final for a bit only to fade to 6th. He was born and raised in flippin Ohio..OHIO.
I swear I think there are people (lots of them) who simply log on to try and argue with people.
BK's 5k record will stand for a very long time. Lagat won't get it (too old), Rupp won't get it (too slow). BK went and trained with those years ahead of him in terms of natural ability and he became a much faster runner because of it.
Not sure how accurate this is but here's some training of his from that time ('96):
http://www.dyestat.com/training/kennedy01.htmHere's a guy running a 3:40 1500 in prep for his 5k, ran an AR 7:31 3k as well. All he did was find people much faster than him and train with them.
Alan
If Centro had run his 3:36 fifty years ago it would have been a WR.
If Tabori and Landy ran their sub 4 miles a year or two earlier they would have had a WR.
But, they didn't. Part of the problem with running a WR is that sometimes you don't believe that you can get there until someone gets there first. I'm not arguing that BK wasn't a great runner, he really was, and he has the times to prove it. Just saying that you're argument about if only he had run his times two years earlier doesn't make sense. Maybe he wasn't in that kind of shape two years earlier, or didn't have it mentally two years earlier.
Oh, and Lagat is going to get the American Record, a 13:03 early in the season when it seems pretty apparent that he has not been doing as much speed work yet, when he peaks at WC I would not be surprised if he dipped as low as 12:55, possibly faster.
ventolin = dumbest person on letsrun. and that is really saying a lot. i think spotting him an iq of 20 is being very generous.
coming from an "aw fan" that's a compliment
they normally go about e^2 in i q stakes...