Paul Chelimo 2:18:08

looks like I'm faster than Paul Chelimo.

As the saying goes, anyone faster than me is fast and anyone slower than me is talentless and rolled. So he must be the latter.

Ouch.

Clearly going to suffer the rest of his life.

Seems he really hit the wall after halfway or so since he was at around 2:09 pace halfway.

Unfortunately he seems cooked at age 34. Great career, and a long one too.

*feets

Dropping 13 minutes in his next race? I want what you’re smoking. If he races another marathon, it will be 2:15-2:17

He was never going to be a half/full-marathoner. The 5k is his event. He had an amazing run, so to speak.

His feets was too big

Unfortunately, you can't Tokyo drift your way to a sub-2:10.

Paul Chelimo!

Roads just aren't for everybody.......

Chelimo was a great kicker, but never actually posted elite times in time trial 5K-10K races.

Barely sub 13 and north of 27?

Not surprised he's not an elite marathoner, can't really rely on your ability to close in 51-52 in a marathon the way you can in a 5/10K

Paul Chelimo

If you need to take a toilet stop you will maybe also not be faster

A lot of guys have poor debut marathons. Paul Chelimo is going to run a lot faster. But it doesn't look like he's cut out for the marathon. The fact is that his whole career has been based on closing really well in mid to slower races and his training is all about the quicker lap times.

Bill Rodgers (younger though) went DNF, 2h28, 2h19, 2h36, 2h21, 2h09.55, So it is possible with Chelimo's speed (if Arop can run 1h11 for the half!!). But is he training properly for the Marathon? He may think he can train as he did for the 5000m, and just add long runs - won't work. Did Lagat ever run a fast marathon? It is a different beast. Mo Farah didn't run as fast as expected (the Kipchoge or Geb level), but did alright. I can see Chelimo (IF he gets the training right) going sub-2h10, maybe sub-2h08. But likely no better - is that worth it to him?

I find these days (intenet impatience) that people give up too easily, or at least the pundits (often on here) seem to trash development when unnecessary. I'm glad there was no internet and social media in my day - a bad day was written off as simply that (and something to learn from) , not the end of a career.