MO FARAH IS RETURNING!! Going after the One Hour World Record!

Eat it, Rupp.

If there was EVER an event in your wheelhouse, it was the hour record. But now, you get to see Mo get all the attention, and the fawning of the Brit press, in this time of Coronavirus, where you might as well be invisible.

That said, Kenny should go for this the day before Mo.

Rupp never was a record man. He lacks ability.

Mo Farah is a doper and can only beat soft record. Never could mount an attempt against real eecords like 3000 or 5000m.

IPlayTrackFoundation wrote:

Mo Farah will return to the track for the first time since 2017 in a bid to break the men's one-hour world record at the meeting in Brussels on 4 September. The 37-year-old, winner of multiple world and Olympic titles, will aim to better Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie's 13-year-old record of 21,285 meters / 13.226 miles.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/amp/athletics/53156958https://www.facebook.com/1228761723824335/posts/3530740933626391/?d=n

He will not get it.

He is quite significantly inferior to Gebrselassie at every single distance 3000m and up.

Hopefully he's smart enough to get paced by the moving lights thing they used in Norway.

What a dick. Is he doing this because Geb kicked him out of his hotel for being a twat (I believe that's the proper British term)

Kenny B - You know what to do on Sept 3rd

Kipchoge could do that two times without stopping. Thanks

AlphaFlys, Next%s, or Spikes???

Lion belt wrote:

Rupp never was a record man. He lacks ability.

Mo Farah is a doper and can only beat soft record. Never could mount an attempt against real eecords like 3000 or 5000m.

Rupp's 26:44 is worth sub 12:50, and he could have easily taken the 13.1 record if he wanted. his ability is unquestionable. get lost!

Rupp lapdog as usual wrote:

Eat it, Rupp.

I wouldn't be surprised Rupp going for the US half record this fall/winter.

Does anyone really care if Farah gets this? The one hour record is extraordinarily inferior to the half marathon record. The current record would be 59:28 half marathon pace. 59:28 is currently tied for #80 all time. I would say that anything less than a 58:32 split for the half (just sneaking into #3 of all time) and he should feel ashamed for making a big deal over meaningless records.

This, essentially. Kipchoge's last hour of his 1:59:40 is almost identical to the one hour record.

Oops, that was supposed to quote the post about Kipchoge...

Anyone know what Haile's half marathon split was for that record?

Does anyone care if he gets it? wrote:

Does anyone really care if Farah gets this? The one hour record is extraordinarily inferior to the half marathon record. The current record would be 59:28 half marathon pace. 59:28 is currently tied for #80 all time. I would say that anything less than a 58:32 split for the half (just sneaking into #3 of all time) and he should feel ashamed for making a big deal over meaningless records.

You know Farah is just going to try to beat the record and run a fast last lap. He's not going to run as fast as he can and risk blowing up.

Does anyone care if he gets it? wrote:

Does anyone really care if Farah gets this? The one hour record is extraordinarily inferior to the half marathon record. The current record would be 59:28 half marathon pace. 59:28 is currently tied for #80 all time. I would say that anything less than a 58:32 split for the half (just sneaking into #3 of all time) and he should feel ashamed for making a big deal over meaningless records.

In your PR half-marathon could you have kept going at near the same pace for another 1/4 mile? If you could you were doing it wrong.

Track vs. road is another consideration I think you are missing. The current record holder for the 1 hour run also held the 1/2 marathon record (first sub 59 clocking) and is one of the all time distance running greats. I feel like you don't like Farah (I don't either) and you think he is going to beat this so you want to diminish the record ahead of time which is a slap in Haile G.'s face. If Farah beats it, fine, whatever. I don't have to like him and you don't either and this race may be rarely run but Haile is still an all-timer and beating any of his records deserves some kudos.

All that said I don't see any way Farah breaks this record.

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

Does anyone care if he gets it? wrote:

Does anyone really care if Farah gets this? The one hour record is extraordinarily inferior to the half marathon record. The current record would be 59:28 half marathon pace. 59:28 is currently tied for #80 all time. I would say that anything less than a 58:32 split for the half (just sneaking into #3 of all time) and he should feel ashamed for making a big deal over meaningless records.

You know Farah is just going to try to beat the record and run a fast last lap. He's not going to run as fast as he can and risk blowing up.

Exactly. And that makes it fairly meaningless. If he doesn't go for the best record he can get, he's just reinforcing the idea that he's not capable of actually running records.

You're right there's a difference between track and road. The track is faster, and that's why the track records are significantly faster than the road records at 5000 vs 5k and 10000 vs 10k. You're also right that I don't like Farah. The guy is a doped-up clown that is now on the record lying about substances he's taken. Haile ran substantially better at other distances and obviously just did what he needed to do to get this record. The main reason this one is still standing is that people don't contest it with any degree of regularity.

qwertytrewq wrote:

What a dick. Is he doing this because Geb kicked him out of his hotel for being a twat (I believe that's the proper British term)

Kenny B - You know what to do on Sept 3rd

I think you mean Rhonex Kipruto or Geoffrey Kamworwor

Jeez so much hate! You guys aren’t excited to see some track action? I wouldn’t care if we brought lance Armstrong back for a bike race! Entertainment is entertainment!