Running 27:45 for 10,000m and then Getting Smoked!

Ummm...unless you're from NZ, I think Aish also qualifies as a foreigner.

That's why running IS the hardest sport to be competetive in. He might have equal talent to Lance Armstrong or Michael Phelps or even better relative to his sport. But a sport that the poorest countries in the world can dominate must be the hardest.

Your words make you look like an ignorant ass:"Imagine running about 27:45 for 10,000m on the track, an absolutely phenomenal performance".

So 6 days later you expect him to be fully recovered from the fastest 10km he has ever run.

You are obviously a very average road runner that wants to make himself feel better. Track runners are the 'legitimate studs' because their times can be compared to any other athlete in the WORLD over the same distance as all tracks are 400m. Road race results can only be compared to the previous times on the same course!! Road races give the road racer the good old favourite excuse of "I ran slow because it was a hilly course" but then they will turn around and claim a fast time to be better than a track time if the course is downhill.

Again you are an ass.

You are right, John Yuda and John Korir are hack track wannabees.

u ass wrote:

Your words make you look like an ignorant ass:"Imagine running about 27:45 for 10,000m on the track, an absolutely phenomenal performance".

So 6 days later you expect him to be fully recovered from the fastest 10km he has ever run.

You are obviously a very average road runner that wants to make himself feel better. Track runners are the 'legitimate studs' because their times can be compared to any other athlete in the WORLD over the same distance as all tracks are 400m. Road race results can only be compared to the previous times on the same course!! Road races give the road racer the good old favourite excuse of "I ran slow because it was a hilly course" but then they will turn around and claim a fast time to be better than a track time if the course is downhill.

Again you are an ass.

I thought this was going to be about running fast and smokin doobies!

If I ran 27:45 I'd get drunk, but not smoked

Some things:

1) That 27:45 for Michael Aish was a PR I believe, so regardless of his ability to make a ton of money as an athlete, he's got to be happy with that.

2) I don't think the OP's intent was to bash Aish but rather to show how amazing the professional circuit is these days.

relax. he just said road runners are tough. and John Korir and Yuda are world class runners, road or track. but you could make the argument that the track has no variables like roads, and doesn't challenge the athlete as well as the roads

u ass wrote:

Your words make you look like an ignorant ass:"Imagine running about 27:45 for 10,000m on the track, an absolutely phenomenal performance".

So 6 days later you expect him to be fully recovered from the fastest 10km he has ever run.

You are obviously a very average road runner that wants to make himself feel better. Track runners are the 'legitimate studs' because their times can be compared to any other athlete in the WORLD over the same distance as all tracks are 400m. Road race results can only be compared to the previous times on the same course!! Road races give the road racer the good old favourite excuse of "I ran slow because it was a hilly course" but then they will turn around and claim a fast time to be better than a track time if the course is downhill.

Again you are an ass.

15. Mike Aish, New Zealand

"12K at Bloomsday and losing to 14 foreigners!!!"

Dumb remark wrote:

15. Mike Aish, New Zealand

"12K at Bloomsday and losing to 14 foreigners!!!"

he meant africans, on lrc white foreigners get more love - busta Buster!

Armstrong and Phelps would be 15minute 5k guys if they were runners. A decent level but their athletic ability pails into insignificance when compared to Geb or Bekele. There is no other sport except for perhaps soccer that comes anywhere near distance running in terms of depth of talent.

The Stanford track is short - the mounting evidence supporting this is overwhelming.

NY runner wrote:

Dumb remark wrote:

15. Mike Aish, New Zealand

"12K at Bloomsday and losing to 14 foreigners!!!"

he meant africans, on lrc white foreigners get more love - busta Buster!

If that's what he meant, he was wrong. Unless Matt Gonzalez from Vancouver, WA qualifies as African.

the guardian wrote:

Armstrong and Phelps would be 15minute 5k guys if they were runners. A decent level but their athletic ability pails into insignificance when compared to Geb or Bekele. There is no other sport except for perhaps soccer that comes anywhere near distance running in terms of depth of talent.

I've seen lance run and his form sucks.

Anyway in terms of depth of talent, distance running isn't even close. Besides soccer, you've got cricket - look at the populations of the nations where that sport is big. China and India that where the people are.

I'd say ping-pong and badmitton draw from larger pools. Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Basketball - yep.

distance running is dominated by east africans - its not that populous of a region to begin with. most kenyan runners come from one region.

Finally there isn't that much $$$ in distance running compared to other sports.

Flagpole Willy wrote:

Some things:

1) That 27:45 for Michael Aish was a PR I believe, so regardless of his ability to make a ton of money as an athlete, he's got to be happy with that.

2) I don't think the OP's intent was to bash Aish but rather to show how amazing the professional circuit is these days.

whether he needs to make money or not, running a road race so soon after a hard track 10 k seems to me a bad choice.

best to him anyway.

27:45 = $250 fug