Josh MF'ing Cheptegei 25k

He’s showing progress on the roads. At the very least it seems like he may become a really good HM guy. Will he ever be a podium threat in a global major? Unsure because he hasn’t shown it yet.

Meh. Geb ran faster almost 20 years ago without super shoes.

It's running news, isn't it? It's better than dating advice posts by jamin

True. I just think the "MF" in the thread title was over the top. It made me think he did something spectacular. Then I saw his time.

Nah. Just being dumb that's all.

Maybe that's fast. Maybe it isn't. No hablo 25k!

“The greatest distance runner of all time ran faster once” still doesnt diminish that Chep had a good race lol

Not quite sure if this is a good result or an okay one; it’s in Dec in non-ideal conditions but folks have split faster thru the marathon itself.

He’s not a great road runner, end of story, and has never come close to his 5/10km WRs since those races either. Overrated.

Doesn’t he have as many World/Olympic 10k medals as anyone to exist?

Well it's LRC. Ppl who can't even win their Turkey Trot in 19:00 routinely bash WR holders and millionaire elite runners. 1:11 for 25K? Yeah that ain't that good, did you see my 16:30 Turkey Trot win?? This site is generally pretty pathetic.

we need to see his results for 15k, and also 30k. Not en route to marathon, but an all-out 30k effort.

As I told you, it's the misleading "MF" in the thread title that I took issue with. For athletes at Chep's level, the exciting attention-drawing MF designation should be reserved for major wins and records.

If you hadn't put "MF" in the title, I wouldn't have compared his time to Geb's.