Fun race with all of the top 3 hitting the wall, makes for some unique racing. Would have loved for Bekele to do better but still nice to see him back. Hopefully he can turn up strong for NY!
Fun race with all of the top 3 hitting the wall, makes for some unique racing. Would have loved for Bekele to do better but still nice to see him back. Hopefully he can turn up strong for NY!
ggwp
World record for a positive split in a Major Marathon win ? 60:47 / 64:58
This was worth staying up for. Nice to see Adola get his much deserved win and Bekele finish a race (maybe I shouldn't speak too soon...) and they certainly went for it, that first half was great to watch
Plus having that race to the end was fantastic. To respond like that despite having a 2+ minute faster HM split in your legs is incredible, maybe the tables could turn the next time he faces Kipchoge
i am pleased for Bekele to finish this. going 1:01/1:05xxx was probably a sort of hell for him.
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Dobyg wrote:
World record for a positive split in a Major Marathon win ? 60:47 / 64:58
I was going to say, that's a painful way of running almost a 2:06, lol.
2:06 marathon at age 39 nothing to sneeze at…future Masters stud??
well done Adola and Bekele still happy to see him finishing, maybe he just needed a race in him after 1.5 years. He should try again before he's 40
Wow!
Adola is quite strong. Congratulations to him for holding it together.
Age 40 WR is 2:07:50 by Mark Kiptoo, KB could put that out of reach forever if he stays in shape another year!
This race just shows that Bekele is probably past chasing the marathon world record. He could still do well, didn't DNF, and finish in the bronze spot. His coach was right, he didn't come to run 2:03, 2:04, he came to run 2:06!
Turns out the pharmacies in Ethiopia were not affected by the pandemic.
big daddy wrote:
Age 40 WR is 2:07:50 by Mark Kiptoo, KB could put that out of reach forever if he stays in shape another year!
Somehow I can't imagine him caring much about the Age 40 WR...
big daddy wrote:
Age 40 WR is 2:07:50 by Mark Kiptoo, KB could put that out of reach forever if he stays in shape another year!
Or until Kipchoge officially turns forty.
youth.in.revolt wrote:
big daddy wrote:
Age 40 WR is 2:07:50 by Mark Kiptoo, KB could put that out of reach forever if he stays in shape another year!
Somehow I can't imagine him caring much about the Age 40 WR...
Bekele is gonna dominate age group wins in local 5ks in his retirement
Post-race PC here, KB, walking pretty slow, no wonder ! Weird to that kind of PC to be honest...They also need to get a better Ethiopian/English translator.
Bekele may never reach his absolute peak again, but he just showed he’s still a force to be reckoned with, going out in 61 flat in slightly warm / definitely humid conditions at age 39 and still not being very far off the leader at the end. I’d like to see him win another major, whether that’s in NYC or elsewhere next year or the year after that. Better yet, it would be great to see him run the World Champs, but that seems like an extreme longshot.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it