Jacob Kiplimo is such a talent his old Italian coach says he could have broken 60-flat for 13.1 at age 15!

rojo wrote:

This is an UNREAL read. Read it now.

Link:athleticsweekly.com/interviews/jacob-k...

Kiplimo and his brothers were so talented that Italian coach Giuseppe Giambrone who spotted them in Uganda thought about adopting all 4 brothers.

He didn't adopt them but Kiplimo and his two older brothers did move Italy to train with Giuseppe Giambrone and Kiplimo's talent quickly emerged from the pack (and please realize one of his older brother's won 2024 worlds in the marathon and has run 2:05).

George Mallet wrote:

A staple for the Italian is a one-hour progressive run, over a testing course which film fans will recognise from the original Gladiator movie. It features smooth rises and gentle falls on compacted trails and light tarmac, flanked by uninterrupted fields of wheat and olive trees.
With temperatures of at least 20 degrees centigrade all year round – and more like 28 in the summer – nothing about the setting or the run itself is easy.
Nevertheless, six months into his stay in April 2016, Kiplimo was making increasingly light work of it. Surrounded by athletes many years his senior, he began to drive the pace. The third of the brothers eased away.
With a four per cent gradient and at the end of the hour-long run, Kiplimo ran 3:01 for each of the final two kilometres. Adjusting for the hill, conservative estimates would have that equivalent to a flat 2:45 km, some would even put it closer to 2:40.
As was customary right after he finished, Giambrone took Kiplimo’s lactate measurement. The reading was 1.9 mmol/l. That figure will mean nothing to most people but, in simple terms, it suggested Kilplimo could clear out lactate at that pace quicker than it built up, and that he would be likely to sustain the effort for an hour.
At that pace, provided the conditions were flat, he would have covered more than a half marathon during that time – at the age of 15 and without the help of carbon shoes.

Incredible.

And if you think Kiplimo's age is a lie, the article states Giambrone had xrays done of his bones.

To those who question some of the supposed ages of athletes coming out of East Africa, Giambrone says he got doctors to confirm Kiplimo’s (he is now 24) through x-rays that can determine bone age, and the photos at the time show him as nothing but a baby-faced assassin.

As Jonathan Gault told me tongiht, only a MASSIVE talent could run 27:26 as a 15-year old but Kiplimo has since proven himself to be exactly that.

rojo wrote:

This is an UNREAL read. Read it now.

Link:athleticsweekly.com/interviews/jacob-k...

Kiplimo and his brothers were so talented that Italian coach Giuseppe Giambrone who spotted them in Uganda thought about adopting all 4 brothers.

He didn't adopt them but Kiplimo and his two older brothers did move Italy to train with Giuseppe Giambrone and Kiplimo's talent quickly emerged from the pack (and please realize one of his older brother's won 2024 worlds in the marathon and has run 2:05).

George Mallet wrote:

A staple for the Italian is a one-hour progressive run, over a testing course which film fans will recognise from the original Gladiator movie. It features smooth rises and gentle falls on compacted trails and light tarmac, flanked by uninterrupted fields of wheat and olive trees.
With temperatures of at least 20 degrees centigrade all year round – and more like 28 in the summer – nothing about the setting or the run itself is easy.
Nevertheless, six months into his stay in April 2016, Kiplimo was making increasingly light work of it. Surrounded by athletes many years his senior, he began to drive the pace. The third of the brothers eased away.
With a four per cent gradient and at the end of the hour-long run, Kiplimo ran 3:01 for each of the final two kilometres. Adjusting for the hill, conservative estimates would have that equivalent to a flat 2:45 km, some would even put it closer to 2:40.
As was customary right after he finished, Giambrone took Kiplimo’s lactate measurement. The reading was 1.9 mmol/l. That figure will mean nothing to most people but, in simple terms, it suggested Kilplimo could clear out lactate at that pace quicker than it built up, and that he would be likely to sustain the effort for an hour.
At that pace, provided the conditions were flat, he would have covered more than a half marathon during that time – at the age of 15 and without the help of carbon shoes.

Incredible.

And if you think Kiplimo's age is a lie, the article states Giambrone had xrays done of his bones.

To those who question some of the supposed ages of athletes coming out of East Africa, Giambrone says he got doctors to confirm Kiplimo’s (he is now 24) through x-rays that can determine bone age, and the photos at the time show him as nothing but a baby-faced assassin.

As Jonathan Gault told me tongiht, only a MASSIVE talent could run 27:26 as a 15-year old but Kiplimo has since proven himself to be exactly that.

rojo wrote:

This is an UNREAL read. Read it now.

Link:athleticsweekly.com/interviews/jacob-k...

Kiplimo and his brothers were so talented that Italian coach Giuseppe Giambrone who spotted them in Uganda thought about adopting all 4 brothers.

He didn't adopt them but Kiplimo and his two older brothers did move Italy to train with Giuseppe Giambrone and Kiplimo's talent quickly emerged from the pack (and please realize one of his older brother's won 2024 worlds in the marathon and has run 2:05).

George Mallet wrote:

A staple for the Italian is a one-hour progressive run, over a testing course which film fans will recognise from the original Gladiator movie. It features smooth rises and gentle falls on compacted trails and light tarmac, flanked by uninterrupted fields of wheat and olive trees.
With temperatures of at least 20 degrees centigrade all year round – and more like 28 in the summer – nothing about the setting or the run itself is easy.
Nevertheless, six months into his stay in April 2016, Kiplimo was making increasingly light work of it. Surrounded by athletes many years his senior, he began to drive the pace. The third of the brothers eased away.
With a four per cent gradient and at the end of the hour-long run, Kiplimo ran 3:01 for each of the final two kilometres. Adjusting for the hill, conservative estimates would have that equivalent to a flat 2:45 km, some would even put it closer to 2:40.
As was customary right after he finished, Giambrone took Kiplimo’s lactate measurement. The reading was 1.9 mmol/l. That figure will mean nothing to most people but, in simple terms, it suggested Kilplimo could clear out lactate at that pace quicker than it built up, and that he would be likely to sustain the effort for an hour.
At that pace, provided the conditions were flat, he would have covered more than a half marathon during that time – at the age of 15 and without the help of carbon shoes.

Incredible.

And if you think Kiplimo's age is a lie, the article states Giambrone had xrays done of his bones.

To those who question some of the supposed ages of athletes coming out of East Africa, Giambrone says he got doctors to confirm Kiplimo’s (he is now 24) through x-rays that can determine bone age, and the photos at the time show him as nothing but a baby-faced assassin.

As Jonathan Gault told me tongiht, only a MASSIVE talent could run 27:26 as a 15-year old but Kiplimo has since proven himself to be exactly that.

done&dusted wrote:

rojo wrote:

This is an UNREAL read. Read it now.

Link:athleticsweekly.com/interviews/jacob-k...

Kiplimo and his brothers were so talented that Italian coach Giuseppe Giambrone who spotted them in Uganda thought about adopting all 4 brothers.

He didn't adopt them but Kiplimo and his two older brothers did move Italy to train with Giuseppe Giambrone and Kiplimo's talent quickly emerged from the pack (and please realize one of his older brother's won 2024 worlds in the marathon and has run 2:05).

Incredible.

And if you think Kiplimo's age is a lie, the article states Giambrone had xrays done of his bones.

To those who question some of the supposed ages of athletes coming out of East Africa, Giambrone says he got doctors to confirm Kiplimo’s (he is now 24) through x-rays that can determine bone age, and the photos at the time show him as nothing but a baby-faced assassin.

As Jonathan Gault told me tongiht, only a MASSIVE talent could run 27:26 as a 15-year old but Kiplimo has since proven himself to be exactly that.

so a shifty Italian is adopting young afican boys and taking them back to his house - veryyy shady.

now im even more convinced hes on the magic kenyan smarties. 100% done and dusted. get his blood tested, this stinks

rojo wrote:

This is an UNREAL read. Read it now.

Link:athleticsweekly.com/interviews/jacob-k...

Kiplimo and his brothers were so talented that Italian coach Giuseppe Giambrone who spotted them in Uganda thought about adopting all 4 brothers.

He didn't adopt them but Kiplimo and his two older brothers did move Italy to train with Giuseppe Giambrone and Kiplimo's talent quickly emerged from the pack (and please realize one of his older brother's won 2024 worlds in the marathon and has run 2:05).

George Mallet wrote:

A staple for the Italian is a one-hour progressive run, over a testing course which film fans will recognise from the original Gladiator movie. It features smooth rises and gentle falls on compacted trails and light tarmac, flanked by uninterrupted fields of wheat and olive trees.
With temperatures of at least 20 degrees centigrade all year round – and more like 28 in the summer – nothing about the setting or the run itself is easy.
Nevertheless, six months into his stay in April 2016, Kiplimo was making increasingly light work of it. Surrounded by athletes many years his senior, he began to drive the pace. The third of the brothers eased away.
With a four per cent gradient and at the end of the hour-long run, Kiplimo ran 3:01 for each of the final two kilometres. Adjusting for the hill, conservative estimates would have that equivalent to a flat 2:45 km, some would even put it closer to 2:40.
As was customary right after he finished, Giambrone took Kiplimo’s lactate measurement. The reading was 1.9 mmol/l. That figure will mean nothing to most people but, in simple terms, it suggested Kilplimo could clear out lactate at that pace quicker than it built up, and that he would be likely to sustain the effort for an hour.
At that pace, provided the conditions were flat, he would have covered more than a half marathon during that time – at the age of 15 and without the help of carbon shoes.

Incredible.

And if you think Kiplimo's age is a lie, the article states Giambrone had xrays done of his bones.

To those who question some of the supposed ages of athletes coming out of East Africa, Giambrone says he got doctors to confirm Kiplimo’s (he is now 24) through x-rays that can determine bone age, and the photos at the time show him as nothing but a baby-faced assassin.

As Jonathan Gault told me tongiht, only a MASSIVE talent could run 27:26 as a 15-year old but Kiplimo has since proven himself to be exactly that.