Bekela or Wanjiru

Obviously over the next few years Wanjiru...but after that Bekele. Wanjuru may be suited to the longer distances, but Bekele is getting faster and faster over shorter distances, and when he does eventually step up he will run sub 124

i don't think bekele will be as great at the marathon as many think. also, i don't think anyone will break 2:04... at least not in the next 20 years.

what does "sub 124" mean?

Less than 124 minutes for the marathon...

2:04 will definitely be broken. haile, bekele and wanjiru probably all have the tools to go 2:03, haile might be too old for it. Bekele might not get it just cuz he'll probably move up in his declining years like haile. so my guesss would be wanjiru runs 2:03 before all is said and done. the other two will probably run 2:04 and change though.

that's an odd way of saying 2:04

omurphy21 wrote:

that's an odd way of saying 2:04

I agree. Tis a rose by any other name.

sammy is already in near wr shape for 10k

he can wait another year for his 2"01

3wood wrote:

sammy is already in near wr shape for 10k

He didn't even make the Kenyan XC team. How do you figure?

u sure bout that? wrote:

He didn't even make the Kenyan XC team. How do you figure?

Probably because he's Japanese.

he didn't even try for it !

paraphrasing a recent article from ?iaaf :

" i'm not an x-country guy, i'm a road guy ( & by implication - a track guy ) "

there is no disgrace in admitting to not being an x-c guy - geb himself said the same ( ? something about his achilles tendons )

if sammy goes out & hammers a 26'10, you going to worry about x-c ?

ive always felt terget's sub 2:05 record may have been a bit short. being nobody has even come close to it since, and haile is still a minute off, i think its worth considering.

yeah it's not like it was the Berlin F***ing Marathon with IAAF F***ing Certification

dfa wrote:

ive always felt terget's sub 2:05 record may have been a bit short. being nobody has even come close to it since, and haile is still a minute off, i think its worth considering.

You're not the only person who thinks that. A number of people in the sport believe that something was off on the Berlin course that day. Not because of Tergat (we all knew that he had it in him) but because of Korir.

As for Haile being a minute off, he'd have done it if: 1) the wind hadn't kicked up in the last 7k and 2) he had a guy running with him the entire way, as in Tegat's WR. Both of those factors are invaluable.

korir was only supposed to be a pacer & supposed to be "dead" by 30k

so tergat "magically" gives everyone of his mere pacers an "extra 12k of distance" ?

No, I think that there's a good chance that the course was a bit off of 42.195km.

Prior to 2003, Korir's best was 2:08:02 from a 3rd place in Rotterdam, '97. Since '03, his best has been a 2:06:38 in winning Rotterdam 2006.

i thought wanjiru dnfed at kenyan cross trials

Tuone Udaina wrote:

No, I think that there's a good chance that the course was a bit off of 42.195km.

Prior to 2003, Korir's best was 2:08:02 from a 3rd place in Rotterdam, '97. Since '03, his best has been a 2:06:38 in winning Rotterdam 2006.

2:06:38...you say that like its slow

Tuone Udaina wrote:

No, I think that there's a good chance that the course was a bit off of 42.195km.

Prior to 2003, Korir's best was 2:08:02 from a 3rd place in Rotterdam, '97. Since '03, his best has been a 2:06:38 in winning Rotterdam 2006.

err...

like how much ???

if it was an incredulous 200m short, he still wouda had a time quicker than 2"05'38, the ole wr

so let's insult the most meticulous, precise nation on earth ( the people who make the best cars in the world ) - the germans :

how short was it ???