Any ideas as to who it would be?
[The race director] went on to say that he has a massive announcement coming soon in the men’s race but due to embargo he can’t make any statement for at least another couple of weeks.
Also, he is eager to see how this athlete will perform over the half marathon distance against early entries, European record holder and Great North Run winner Marc Scott, and last year’s second placed athlete Tesfahun Akalnew.
Strictly a guess Jakob Ingebrightsen strictly a guess, have to see if Track Season especially World Champs is over by then, especially the World Champs in Eugene, If the Track Season is still going it will not be him or any other top Distance Runner still at a top level at any Track Distance
douglas burke wrote:
Strictly a guess Jakob Ingebrightsen strictly a guess, have to see if Track Season especially World Champs is over by then, especially the World Champs in Eugene, If the Track Season is still going it will not be him or any other top Distance Runner still at a top level at any Track Distance
Not a bad guess.
The line from the article “he is eager to see how this athlete will perform over the half marathon distance against early entries...” seems to imply that this runner might be debuting at the distance.
So working with what we “know”:
-Half Marathon debutant
-Top female entry is Yalemzerf Yehualaw from Ethiopia
-Event held in Northern Ireland
My two wild guesses are Selemon Barega, who last track season declared his intention to move to the roads in 2022, or Van Morrison, of Astral Weeks/Moondance fame.
Maybe Bekele. A little close to NYC but it would fit ‘massive’
If the RD has your vocabulary of only 4 adjectives, massive could mean Jarod Word.
Kipchoge
douglas burke wrote:
Strictly a guess Jakob Ingebrightsen strictly a guess, have to see if Track Season especially World Champs is over by then, especially the World Champs in Eugene, If the Track Season is still going it will not be him or any other top Distance Runner still at a top level at any Track Distance
"Massive" could definitely be used to describe Pillsbury Doughboy.
OozmaKappa wrote:
"Massive"
Josh Cox?
John Wesley Harding wrote:
My two wild guesses are Selemon Barega, who last track season declared his intention to move to the roads in 2022, or Van Morrison, of Astral Weeks/Moondance fame.
Would love to see Barega run the distance would be very interesting. By the way Astral Weeks is a desert island disc for me -- such a great album.
Jake Smith
or Cheptegei? lol idk, no idea
holomorphic wrote:
Jake Smith
or Cheptegei? lol idk, no idea
Cheptegei ran the 13.1 world champs where Kiplimo rocked everyone’s world, so he wouldn’t be a first timer. Jake smith wouldn’t be considered massive, but who knows?
Both good guesses…maybe we’re reading it wrong?
Mo Farah??