So is Mo a world class half guy now?

Pajac wrote:

[3.1]Miles Davis wrote:

I am so sick of this "Mo is weak" BS. He was undefeated in championships for like 7 or 8 years. He's a top 3 racer all-time and he's run 26:4x twice. He's legit

2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.

5.

Oh, pardon me. Only 5 years plus a gold in the years on either side (2011 and 2017). He is a chump.

Here we go again wrote:

Mo ran 233 meters further than a half marathon in one hour flat on a track with pacers and wave lights. Cool run and WR to watch but how does it translate to the world of more commonly contested events against top runners. I doubt he can compete with Bekele or Kipchoge any time soon in the full marathon but could he be one of the world’s best half marathoners? Can’t really decide how this performance translates.

This is comparable to his half-marathon PR.

He was a world class half runner before.

[3.1]Miles Davis wrote:

I am so sick of this "Mo is weak" BS. He was undefeated in championships for like 7 or 8 years. He's a top 3 racer all-time and he's run 26:4x twice. He's legit

SloMo was a champion in events during a decade when competition was weak.

21 men have run the half marathon below 59min. Mo’s performance yesterday was weaker than that. So of course he is world class, but he is not one of the all time greats at the half marathon.

It is however very impressive that he is running these times at age 37. Of course, Bekele ran a 2:01 marathon at age 37. But he is impressive too (it does not take anything away from Mo).

Mo is certainly one of the greatest sub master half marathon runners of all time.

He is on the list of all-time greats. Not the top but very very good.

Obviously he’s world class in 5k-marathon right now, but I’m not sure if I see him getting another gold. I could see him snagging a silver or bronze in either the 10k or marathon since he still has a kick. Cheptegei will own the 5-10 for the next few years for sure. Plus, I’m 99% sure Kipchoge or Kamoror would have waxed him in that hour record.

you are actually stupid to think there is funny business going on under those sleeves. weather from yesterday shows 61 degrees in brussels at the absolute minimum, not cold enough for anything.

i rest my case.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/belgium/brussels/historic

hgjghjgjh wrote:

21 men have run the half marathon below 59min. Mo’s performance yesterday was weaker than that. So of course he is world class, but he is not one of the all time greats at the half marathon.

It is however very impressive that he is running these times at age 37. Of course, Bekele ran a 2:01 marathon at age 37. But he is impressive too (it does not take anything away from Mo).

Mo is certainly one of the greatest sub master half marathon runners of all time.

You cannot compare to a road half marathon as Farah was subject to the track shoe rules and couldn't run in alpha flys. You put him in alpha flys on the roads with those guys, he will also run 58:30.

rekrunner wrote:

[3.1]Miles Davis wrote:

I am so sick of this "Mo is weak" BS. He was undefeated in championships for like 7 or 8 years. He's a top 3 racer all-time and he's run 26:4x twice. He's legit

SloMo was a champion in events during a decade when competition was weak.

Only relative to the one that came before it. He was racing in an era following like 6 of the 10 best runners of all time. By comparison it seems weaker. Its like having to headline a show the Beatles opened. sub 13, 26, and 60 would be world class in any era.

haha mo again wrote:

you are actually stupid to think there is funny business going on under those sleeves. weather from yesterday shows 61 degrees in brussels at the absolute minimum, not cold enough for anything.

i rest my case.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/belgium/brussels/historic

1.) He always trains in them even in the summer. 2.) No one injects in their arms, idiot. 3.) No one races with testosterone cream on, idiot. 4.)They'd probably have him take them off for a test anyways, so its not hiding things very well then is it?

He just likes sleeves. There might be some circumstantial evidence to suggest he might've doped in the past, but the sleeves aren't even close to part of it.

Here is the final, complete, and whole picture of Mo Farah.

Anyone who has even once glimpsed any of Mo Farah’s social media will know that Mo is possibly the most vain and self / appearance-centered distance TF athlete we have ever seen. Mo weighs approximately 120lbs, yet his social media is littered with flexing shirtless photos, selfies taken w/ similar angles that you will see 18 y.o females use, and absolutely cringeworthy puppy-dog faced portraits of himself.

Despite his world beating history, this clearly paints the picture of a strangely unconfident adult male with childlike tendencies. He wears arm sleeves because his idea of a real man does not include baby biceps. He wants to be a man. He wants to WIN, and he is DEATHLY afraid of anything that would emasculate him.

This means that Mo will NOT chase a world record he is not confident he can beat and he will NOT enter races when he is unsure of his chances for victory. This deeply insecure man wants one thing and that is to feel “on top” in every which say.

Mo knows what kind of races are his niche, and has effectively exploited this. He is ABSOLUTELY an all-time great in the sense that the man can WIN and he knows how to do it. He knows that he is not a 13.1 time trialer, and that is ok. Mo’s strength is absolutely 1500m - 10,000m and he is not slow twitch enough to ever fully excel to the level of others at the marathon. He is the Greatest of an Era when it comes to WINNING long distance track races, though an admittedly weak era. Still a great runner.

That is all you need to know.

This may not be 100% exactly dead-on, but it is not bad. Probably the best explanation of this guy I have seen!

he is also the same age as two all-time greats who he contributed greatly to pushing off the track. I don't even need to say their names.

[3.1]Miles Davis wrote:

rekrunner wrote:

SloMo was a champion in events during a decade when competition was weak.

Only relative to the one that came before it. He was racing in an era following like 6 of the 10 best runners of all time. By comparison it seems weaker. Its like having to headline a show the Beatles opened. sub 13, 26, and 60 would be world class in any era.

Even in his own era, we can see from races like the 5000m in Paris 2012 and Brussels 2018, that Mo was rarely challenged by the best of his era, because they were running on the roads, as that's where the money was.

He could have done a Komen and run himself into history on the 5k and 10k all-time lists, with very little hardware, longeivity and little mention on Letsrun - or run even faster than Komen and been even more vilified for a positive test that never happened. ('They're all dirty if they could have beaten me in high school.') Only a shrewd, extremely capable, bemedalled athlete who ran according to his own agenda would inspire this much comment (and hate). Well done, Mo. My favorite performance of yours was 26:49 for the win, when you fell over early doors, took the lead with 640m to go and held it and closed with a 4:05 mile.

Oh Please wrote:

hgjghjgjh wrote:

21 men have run the half marathon below 59min. Mo’s performance yesterday was weaker than that. So of course he is world class, but he is not one of the all time greats at the half marathon.

It is however very impressive that he is running these times at age 37. Of course, Bekele ran a 2:01 marathon at age 37. But he is impressive too (it does not take anything away from Mo).

Mo is certainly one of the greatest sub master half marathon runners of all time.

You cannot compare to a road half marathon as Farah was subject to the track shoe rules and couldn't run in alpha flys. You put him in alpha flys on the roads with those guys, he will also run 58:30.

Test that this Saturday if he shows up and goes hard in Ireland.

When it's cold here, I can run shirtless but my hands and forearms are freezing because they don't generate the same heat that my core and chest do. I can understand why he would as long as it wasn't in the summer or something.

[3.1]Miles Davis wrote:

haha mo again wrote:

you are actually stupid to think there is funny business going on under those sleeves. weather from yesterday shows 61 degrees in brussels at the absolute minimum, not cold enough for anything.

i rest my case.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/belgium/brussels/historic

1.) He always trains in them even in the summer. 2.) No one injects in their arms, idiot. 3.) No one races with testosterone cream on, idiot. 4.)They'd probably have him take them off for a test anyways, so its not hiding things very well then is it?

He just likes sleeves. There might be some circumstantial evidence to suggest he might've doped in the past, but the sleeves aren't even close to part of it.

It’s like always running with a watch. You feel naked when you take it off.

Of all the “suspicious” things you can come up with on Mo I find it funny to focus on arm sleeves.

Pajac wrote:

[3.1]Miles Davis wrote:

I am so sick of this "Mo is weak" BS. He was undefeated in championships for like 7 or 8 years. He's a top 3 racer all-time and he's run 26:4x twice. He's legit

2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.

5.

Meh. In 2011, he won the 5k and got silver in the 10k. In 2017, he won the 10k and got silver in the 5k.

Dude dominated the decade. 7 years of dominance, 5 years of perfection. One of the best to ever do it.