ventolin wrote:
4 guys ran quicker than him in that race
if this is the "mental faculty" of a "big boy" perhaps you shoud leaving the posting to your 5y ole nephew
Geezuz, grow up kids.
If he ran that TIME..TIME...T.I.M.E. (note how I did not say "race") two years earlier he would have been the WR holder. It just shows how much closer he was to the world's best than our current crop. He led the damn Olympic final for a bit only to fade to 6th. He was born and raised in flippin Ohio..OHIO.
I swear I think there are people (lots of them) who simply log on to try and argue with people.
BK's 5k record will stand for a very long time. Lagat won't get it (too old), Rupp won't get it (too slow). BK went and trained with those years ahead of him in terms of natural ability and he became a much faster runner because of it.
Not sure how accurate this is but here's some training of his from that time ('96):
http://www.dyestat.com/training/kennedy01.htmHere's a guy running a 3:40 1500 in prep for his 5k, ran an AR 7:31 3k as well. All he did was find people much faster than him and train with them.
Alan