Jacob Kiplimo is an Absolute Phenomenon : 57:31 completely solo in Lisbon

I'm mostly impressed that someone's body can survive such huge doses of drugs

Banana Bread wrote:

I'm mostly impressed that someone's body can survive such huge doses of drugs

You've become such a bore. Time to put you and your schtick out to pasture.

Exceptional talent, Jacob Kiplimo. I'm a fan. I wonder if this will mean moving to the roads full time.

Banana Bread wrote:

I'm mostly impressed that someone's body can survive such huge doses of drugs

Try a different routine Banana Bread, your shtick has become boring. Bekele is yesterday's man, and Kiplimo is today. Ethiopia and Kenya have had their day in the sun, now it's the turn of us proud Ugandans.

freekiprop wrote:

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""-""""--'-"--^' wrote:

Yeah what a beast. Epo works and the athletes are always a step ahead of the testers. The testing system is too easy to understand and predictable, so circumvention is easy, especially since it's so easy to rid your system of the remnants of the PED. He didn't look otherworldly at the Olympics. The testing was more stringent. He was free to reload after the Olympics and get ready to make bank off a wr on the roads. He did just that. Congrats because most off the others at the top are bent off PEDs too let's be real here.

Yes the olympics are perfectly akin to a time trial which is why the fastest man alive matthew centrowitz has a gold medal.

Lol

+1

Splits in these races aren't as meaningful but if that 10k split were meaningful (maybe it's downhill), it'd be something, all right. Kiplimo's 10000m track best is 26:33. So, he split 4 seconds slower in a half marathon???

zvcxzvxc wrote:

Splits in these races aren't as meaningful but if that 10k split were meaningful (maybe it's downhill), it'd be something, all right. Kiplimo's 10000m track best is 26:33. So, he split 4 seconds slower in a half marathon???

It's totally flat.

He may have had a nice breeze on his back from 10 to 17km.

People on letsrun just genuinely hate running.

Someone runs a great time: doper! This sport is such an embarrassment.

Someone runs a bad time: must be off the sauce/total loser/hang it up

Someone makes a video showing themselves having fun running with friends: cringe, totally embarrassing, shut up and run.

Someone shuts up and runs: robot, totally boring, this is why no one follows running, they have no personality

Someone runs a race and doesn’t win: why don’t they hang it up, can’t even break xx:xx, total loser trying to be a pro runner

Someone runs a race and wins: time isn’t impressive, doper, wait until they run against x.

Someone celebrates at the line: embarrassing, must be a doper to have that much energy

Someone runs aggressively: can’t stand them, dirty runner

Someone doesn’t run aggressively: total p——y, loser, embarrassment to the sport

Someone gets injured: their entire program sucks they should leave their coach, overtrainer/doper

Someone leaves their coach: whiner, diva, shut up and run

Someone doesn’t get injured: doper, suspicious

And so on and so on. The losers on this board are just constantly pressed about literally every runner, every performance, everything a runner does.

Just go watch another sport if you hate running so much.

ImpaIa31 wrote:

freekiprop wrote:

Yes the olympics are perfectly akin to a time trial which is why the fastest man alive matthew centrowitz has a gold medal.

Lol

+1

Why, then, can't the Olympics be more akin to a time trial? I still don't fully get it.

Kiplimo is capable of doing a nearly completely solo WR at half. Why not just run away with it in the Olympics?

Presumably because he thinks his chances are better to win if it's a slower race? If not that, then because he's too nervous to do so?

And by "him" I mean any of these guys who clearly are on a different planet than some guys who wind up winning medals in slower races.

And for the record, I'm not saying anything about drugs here, but rather race strategy

Really how is that even possible.

Rbyrne wrote:

Really how is that even possible.

Because the faster you race, the less energy you use.

Where are you getting this split?

Could that possibly be accurate? The splits on the website are only listed for odd distances (7k, 14k, 20k I think). I can't imagine he misjudged his effort to such a degree that he rolled a 26:3x en route and then slowed up precipitously to the finish. But i'm not sure. I watched some of the live stream and did see a time of under 40:30 for 15k, but then around 54:27 for 20k ( meaning he would have slowed tremendously from 13:30/5k to almost 14:00). But again i'm not sure the accuracy of these .

No matter what, he seems more than capable of challenging 57:00 in a couple years or sooner than that.

For reference:

Valencia 2020 Kandie 57:32 : 13:38 27:25 41:10 54:43

Lisbon 2021 Kiplimo 57:31 : Official results only give splits of

7.6k 20:44

14k 38:10

17k 45:53

20k 54:29

38:10 for 14k is 2:43.57/k , which would track with a 40:54 ish 15k split which makes much more sense than the sub 40:30 that appeared on screen

These splits cannot be accurate. 14-17k would be 7:43, which is of course not believable, even in the context of an absurd 57:31 performance.

17-20k would be 8:36, which would be 20+ seconds slower than expected, so probably the 17k split is just off by 20 seconds or so

quasilogarithm wrote:

For reference:

Valencia 2020 Kandie 57:32 : 13:38 27:25 41:10 54:43

Lisbon 2021 Kiplimo 57:31 : Official results only give splits of

7.6k 20:44

14k 38:10

17k 45:53

20k 54:29

38:10 for 14k is 2:43.57/k , which would track with a 40:54 ish 15k split which makes much more sense than the sub 40:30 that appeared on screen

Wow 20k in 54:29, breaking Kandie's world best by 14 seconds

He might be the one and only that could challenge Kipchoge’s WR. Sadly he wasn’t in good shape for the Tokyo Olympics due to injury. An absolute BEAST…

Good one.

Banana Bread wrote:

I'm mostly impressed that someone's body can survive such huge doses of drugs

Of course some of all elite runners over the world are dopers, but I hardly think Kiplimo , Kipchoge,Kamworor, Cheptengai are. I myself coach a Kenyan top contender and I could take poison on that he is not doped but an exceptional talent.

Where there were only two titans of distance running, Kenya and Ethiopia, you must now add Uganda as the third. Uganda has a stream of young runners being developed. Uganda is following the Kipchoge model of large training camp with lots of runners training and working together.