Bekele took 3rd and I really hope that is because he is in a big training block for London marathon 3 weeks from now! The other guys are probably more fresh and also looking at Bekele's HM PR it is not impressive (considering he is the GOAT of running), but it's hard to tell if he is in 2019 shape...
I hope he destroys the field in London, but not banking on a WR yet.
He could beat Kiplimo if he wanted to. He was just using this as a training run to get in the racing mindset for London. Running a 59:30 to beat Kiplimo wouldn't be that great if it resulted in problems for London. I'm more interested in seeing destroy London. He will be chuckling at the masters WR.
He could beat Kiplimo if he wanted to. He was just using this as a training run to get in the racing mindset for London. Running a 59:30 to beat Kiplimo wouldn't be that great if it resulted in problems for London. I'm more interested in seeing destroy London. He will be chuckling at the masters WR.
I am not certain of this, but hope you are right. Quite good to be only 22 sec off Barega who won gold at olympics.. Bekele is back baby.
He could beat Kiplimo if he wanted to. He was just using this as a training run to get in the racing mindset for London. Running a 59:30 to beat Kiplimo wouldn't be that great if it resulted in problems for London. I'm more interested in seeing destroy London. He will be chuckling at the masters WR.
I am not certain of this, but hope you are right. Quite good to be only 22 sec off Barega who won gold at olympics.. Bekele is back baby.
I don't think this was a great result for Bekele time wise. The course is downhill to the tune of about 15 seconds and often wind aided. He went out in 61 flat pace for 10k and then ended up at 61 flat even though the second half of the course is the downhill portion.
I guess it's good just to see that he's healthy enough to run it and finish it. And i think it's good enough to go for a master WR. But that's not normally Bekele's mindset. If he's trying to go for the win, then he may need to run a similar effort to this the whole way in London.
Remember, Ritz ran 60:12 on this course in 2016 before dropping out of NYC in 2016 (admittely he led a lot of NYC in 2016 early).
Now if Bekele was going for a certain effor the whole way, then one could argue he did pretty good but i'd expected his 2nd half to be faster and for him to finish with Barega.
I am not certain of this, but hope you are right. Quite good to be only 22 sec off Barega who won gold at olympics.. Bekele is back baby.
I don't think this was a great result for Bekele time wise. The course is downhill to the tune of about 15 seconds and often wind aided. He went out in 61 flat pace for 10k and then ended up at 61 flat even though the second half of the course is the downhill portion.
I guess it's good just to see that he's healthy enough to run it and finish it. And i think it's good enough to go for a master WR. But that's not normally Bekele's mindset. If he's trying to go for the win, then he may need to run a similar effort to this the whole way in London.
Remember, Ritz ran 60:12 on this course in 2016 before dropping out of NYC in 2016 (admittely he led a lot of NYC in 2016 early).
Now if Bekele was going for a certain effor the whole way, then one could argue he did pretty good but i'd expected his 2nd half to be faster and for him to finish with Barega.
You don't know the GNR course to make those comments. And it was a headwind for 12 miles on Sunday.
I don't think this was a great result for Bekele time wise. The course is downhill to the tune of about 15 seconds and often wind aided. He went out in 61 flat pace for 10k and then ended up at 61 flat even though the second half of the course is the downhill portion.
I guess it's good just to see that he's healthy enough to run it and finish it. And i think it's good enough to go for a master WR. But that's not normally Bekele's mindset. If he's trying to go for the win, then he may need to run a similar effort to this the whole way in London.
Remember, Ritz ran 60:12 on this course in 2016 before dropping out of NYC in 2016 (admittely he led a lot of NYC in 2016 early).
Now if Bekele was going for a certain effor the whole way, then one could argue he did pretty good but i'd expected his 2nd half to be faster and for him to finish with Barega.
You don't know the GNR course to make those comments. And it was a headwind for 12 miles on Sunday.
Excactly. And Bekele doesn't even bother to think about masters WR:. He is going for the win in London.