Tim Cheruiyot Skipping Bislett Games Dream Mile To Plant Potatoes

I know where Ongata Rongai and the RAC is, I wrote "Singorwet is remote from Nairobi and Rongai Athletics Club", read the post.

Now why would he be going 250km from Ongata Rongai on lousy roads to spend three days planting potatoes, can you pick-up the implication of that?

I tried to steer this thread to its better element of discussing the marvels of potatoes, but it devolved into a bitter argument between two or three people of no use to anyone but them.

The two English people in the argument are probably especially bitter about their failure to properly cultivate potatoes in their colony of Ireland, leading to famine, mass emigration and unrest that eventually drove the English out. That is why they are trying to avoid discussing potatoes, particularly when it is being planted in yet another former colony. The potato could well be seen as a symbol of liberty from Britain.

"In light with the rampant doping cases in Kenya, Athletics Kenya in conjunction with the Ministry of Sports, Culture and the Arts and the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK), hereby invites the first group of elite athletes listed below to benefit from the Kenya Doctors Network Programme (KDN) to a meeting to discuss the plan and Anti-doping matters so as to eradicate the doping menace in our Country"

So this was written by Athletics Kenya and not some culturally insensitive, biased, narrow minded westerner?

Bad Wigins wrote:

I tried to steer this thread to its better element of discussing the marvels of potatoes, but it devolved into a bitter argument between two or three people of no use to anyone but them.

The two English people in the argument are probably especially bitter about their failure to properly cultivate potatoes in their colony of Ireland, leading to famine, mass emigration and unrest that eventually drove the English out. That is why they are trying to avoid discussing potatoes, particularly when it is being planted in yet another former colony. The potato could well be seen as a symbol of liberty from Britain.

Agree with most of what you wrote except "of no use to anyone but them", it is of use, without regurgitating all that's been previously said, it highlights how ridiculously easy it is to get away with doping in Kenya.

Oh yeah, also resent the assumption we're English, that was really hitting below the belt.

Dream on. wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

There are several towns and places in Kenya called 'Rongai'. It's sort of like 'Springfield' or 'Greenville' in the United States. The one you're referring to is indeed 250 kms away deep in the Rift Valley. The RAC is located in a town that's actually called 'Ongata Rongai', just 17 kms south of Karen, one of Nairobi's wealthiest suburbs. It is not remote.

I know where Ongata Rongai and the RAC is, I wrote "Singorwet is remote from Nairobi and Rongai Athletics Club", read the post.

Now why would he be going 250km from Ongata Rongai on lousy roads to spend three days planting potatoes, can you pick-up the implication of that?

Why? Because it's home, where his family live and where he owns land? How does anyone make visiting home look suspicious? Another thing Westerners don't seem to understand is Kenyans' attachment to their tribal ancestral land. If , for example, Tim had been born and raised in the Nairobi, home would still be Singorwet. Rural and small town Americans, on the other hand, can't wait to escape and leave those lives and places forever.

Dream on. wrote:

Now why would he be going 250km from Ongata Rongai on lousy roads to spend three days planting potatoes, can you pick-up the implication of that?

I think he does but he's pretending not to, either that or he's just thick.

Thick as a brick? wrote:

Dream on. wrote:

Now why would he be going 250km from Ongata Rongai on lousy roads to spend three days planting potatoes, can you pick-up the implication of that?

I think he does but he's pretending not to, either that or he's just thick.

Again, HOME! Hello?!?!?

Coevett wrote:

http://www.athleticskenya.or.ke/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SEMINAR-FOR-ELITE-ATHLETE.pdf

Is this a seminar invite list or another Fancy Bears "likely doping" hack ranked by seniority? ? Notice the date December 2014? Things have obviously improved since then. ?

I know no country that has had success via rampant doping that actually wants the success to end.

Bad Wigins wrote:

I tried to steer this thread to its better element of discussing the marvels of potatoes, but it devolved into a bitter argument between two or three people of no use to anyone but them.

The two English people in the argument are probably especially bitter about their failure to properly cultivate potatoes in their colony of Ireland, leading to famine, mass emigration and unrest that eventually drove the English out. That is why they are trying to avoid discussing potatoes, particularly when it is being planted in yet another former colony. The potato could well be seen as a symbol of liberty from Britain.

The English still kept a satellite in the north. Most Irish moved to other places the crown controlled anyhow.

BTW how's the NY nanny state working out for you?

El Keniano wrote:

Thick as a brick? wrote:

I think he does but he's pretending not to, either that or he's just thick.

Again, HOME! Hello?!?!?

Testers: Mrs Cheruiyot we've just driven 250km from Nairobi to get a sample from Timothy could you kindly tell us where we can find him?

Mrs C: He's not here.

Testers: But his tweet said he'd be here planting potatoes.

Mrs C: Yes, he's done that and now he's gone to visit his sick uncle in Kisumu, but he did leave some tea money in case you called, or you can wait, he'll be back tomorrow.

Potato buoiy wrote:

Look, all the “metricists” and bring back the mile people, you’re missing the point.

He skipped the Bislett Games to go home and plant potatoes. That’s fucking hilarious.

You know, I can appreciate this. But this is LetsRun where everything has to be about doping, age-cheating or race.

Who knew a Kenyan runner doing everyday activities that make him happy would get people so riled? You can all relax now, he's back to training.

https://twitter.com/tim_cheruiyot/status/1006208158342307840

El Keniano wrote:

Dream on. wrote:

I know where Ongata Rongai and the RAC is, I wrote "Singorwet is remote from Nairobi and Rongai Athletics Club", read the post.

Now why would he be going 250km from Ongata Rongai on lousy roads to spend three days planting potatoes, can you pick-up the implication of that?

Why? Because it's home, where his family live and where he owns land? How does anyone make visiting home look suspicious? Another thing Westerners don't seem to understand is Kenyans' attachment to their tribal ancestral land. If , for example, Tim had been born and raised in the Nairobi, home would still be Singorwet. Rural and small town Americans, on the other hand, can't wait to escape and leave those lives and places forever.

I think you'd be surprised at how many of us raised rurally here in America go off to college and then return to that farm life. Coincidentally, I grew up on a potato farm in Idaho. I now raise cattle.

El Keniano wrote:

Who knew a Kenyan runner doing everyday activities that make him happy would get people so riled? You can all relax now, he's back to training.

https://twitter.com/tim_cheruiyot/status/1006208158342307840

"get people so riled?"

Haha, hardly.

"You can all relax now, he's back to training."

Must of paid the right amount of tea money, and fuel money, 500km round trip is a long way.

Coach, I'll be away for a couple of days planting potatoes (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

Say no more my son, don't forget your tea and fuel money though.

I had honestly hoped that sharing the private lives of these athletes would help erode stereotypes of the 'faceless' Kenyan runner. But this is LetsRun that thrives on conspiracy and seeing Africans as an 'other' who've taken the sport away from its traditional Anglo-Saxon owners. When Kip Keino beat Jim Ryun at the Olympics in '68, there was a lot of ink wasted on why it had happened and it turned the world to the benefits of altitude training in a bid to emulate the boys from the Rift Valley. I highly reccomend googling some of those write-ups, they make for hilarious reading today. I expect this thread to be comedy gold in a few years.

Here's the Mexico City '68 1500m final where people tried to claim Kip Keino had help and should've been DQed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_9AAy7yZTc

Thats how he has developed the forward lean!

And here's the great ESPN documentary about Kip and Jim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myyIw4neVik