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please?
Is a time like that humanly possible?? WTF! 4:32 pace for 15+ miles. The man is fit, but where was this race? Details?
Go Geb!
Naam Haile Gebrselassie
Woonplaats Ethiopië
Afstand 25 kilometer wedstrijd
Categorie 25 km
Totaal plaats 1 / 6
Categorie plaats 1 / 6
Snelheid 20,945 km/uur
15 kilometer 43:00
Bruto tijd 1:11:37
Netto tijd 1:11:37
1 1201 Haile Gebrselassie Ethiopië 1e 25 km 1:11:37 1:11:37
2 1207 Al Mustafa Riyadh Bahrein 2e 25 km 1:18:31 1:18:31
3 1203 Said Driss Marokko 3e 25 km 1:19:21 1:19:21
4 1204 Abdelatim Fakhreddine Frankrijk 4e 25 km 1:24:04 1:24:04
5 1205 Tarik Jallouli België 5e 25 km 1:33:21 1:33:21
6 1206 Khalid Choukoud Sparta 6e 25 km 1:33:22 1:33:22
That's #22
Holy crap
I'm sorry, my Dutch, or whatever that is is a little rusty. Was this track or road?
Also, opinions: Is this a better time than Tergat's marathon mark? I say it's a little better, but not much.
I would say it's equivalent to a 59 flat half marathon.
road
this beats Koskei's WR by 68sec!
trackhead wrote:
road
this beats Koskei's WR by 68sec!
yeah, but how many WR calibre guys run a 25k race in any given year?
Not interested in an EPO experiment. And no, but I didn't have proof on Regina Jacobs either.
What's also very impressive is that Geb is able to run these WR's like time-trial/tempo runs. I know I can hardly get my best effot out of myself, by myself, on the roads. Imagine if Geb had company for 3/4 of the race or more, what he would be capable of running. He is so amazing that he can push himself to these records absolutely solo for the majority of the run. Continues to boggle the mind. Great performance.
15.525 miles at 4:36.779 mile pace. Decent!
OK more accurately 15.534279805933348228563772863708436489105224609375 miles
at
4:36.614046720000018018088691029849 mile pace!
Wow! What was 20k / Half split? 5k/10k/15k ???
Darren Skuja
sorry, Geb's too good for ttc. Yep, doesn't matter if you're the most talented distance runner ever born, you do all the right training and put yourself out there.
If you're that much faster than the Americans who didn't live their whole life at altitude, didn't run 20km every day since their youth, and didn't eat only whole, unprocessed foods, well then there can't be any other reason of your vast superiority than drugs.
There just can't, right? I mean, I trained hard for 5 years and I ran 26 and change for 8km, so those that are 2min ahead of me must be doping, right?
Because I'm among the greatest athletes on the planet -- sure I didn't start running until I was 14, I ate crap all my life and even when I did start running it was 25mi/wk, but that doesn't mean that I'm not the most talented, hard working athlete in the world, right?
You know, I can't begin to tell you what an amazing human being Geb is. I had the opportunity to meet this man when he did his WR in Phoenix -- both Steve Scott and I were floored by kindness, humility and generosity. You know what he was doing before he ran his half WR in Phoenix? Shooting pool, relaxing. I was on the road when they started warming up -- some HS kids came with a big poster of 'Endurance' and some photos. Geb holds off his warmups, shakes their hands, says, "Wow! This is great -- thanks so much!", takes some photos, signs the posters and starts his warm up.
He is the greatest athlete of our sport and I can think of now greater representative of sport to the world. A champion competitor, and an honest and good man.
ttc, there is no doubt in my mind that Geb is nothing but the real deal, that he is simply talented and has done all the right training. That's how you get above everyone else. When started in the early 90s, there were very, very few E Africans who were training year round. They'd just jog during the offseason, or take it off all together. Geb was the first to train year round as the Americans do. Take his super talent and a good work ethic and his times are entirely realistic. Or do you want me to again repost the pubmed article where researches showed evidence that Ethiopians have unusually high O2 retention in the hemoglobin? Because I can post it again.
Don't be pissed that the Americans can't compete. You don't want Africans running so much faster than Americans? Work hard the UN and Toyota to supply a Camry to every family in Ethiopia -- within a generation they'll be within reach.
So you can go and make your claims and your comparisons with Regina (who, by the way NEVER made herself available for top global championships, avoided testing situations, ran well at home and not abroad and was beating her PB at short events at age 39 -- not so much of a good comparison, huh?) but the fact is that you lower your own character by attempting to put the cheating bitch and this amazing man and athlete in the same category.
Sorry your own short-sightedness limits your enjoyment of the sport.
this guy owns you. ^
Ouch
trackhead is god