LONDON 2010 UPDATE THREAD

Cactus of the Black wrote:

Any one see Abdi in the live field - at the start, during, or finish? He was on the elite list pre-race, but haven't heard his name mentioned at all.

Pretty sure he became injured while running the NYC Half-Marathon, stepping on some metal grating, and had to pull out of London.

goomb wrote:

point wrote:

What happened to that Lawson kid who was running crazy miles?

He quit running rather publicly a few weeks ago. Something about too many people giving him flak over his training. I don't buy it, but either way, he is out of the sport.

Wrong answer. He dropped out of the VLM halfway after splitting 1:14

Kiptuchsuswek wrote:

To this date, yes, I agree Wanjiru is the best but I should say that he lost focus from last year. Someone spoke of how he started drinking with his home buddies. He also started to have weight problems and he started coaching himself.

Yes!

Wanjiru has taken to his tipple like a fish to water.

I was home for Christmas in December '08. I was walking with a friend of mine past a supermarket when a car with a lady in the passenger seat pulled up right infront of the supermarket. My friend told me 'this is Wanjiru'.

Wanjiru is a woman's name and to me, I didn't know of a fifty something year old woman by the name Wanjiru of any 'repute' or 'fame'. I asked him who Wanjiru is and he told me that she is Kamau's mother-the Olympics marathon Champion. I asked him who the young guy was who was chauffeuring her around and he told me that that was her chauffeur. She's always being chauffeured around.

We then started talking about the Olympics race and how Kamau (Wanjiru) was on to a successful career and the debate suddenly shifted to something that I didn't liek at all.

My friend owns a small business in Nyahururu town and so he knows Kamau and Njenga (Daniel) very well.

He told me that Kamau is just a 'hopeless' fellow. In Kenya, that is a word we throw around aimlessly whenever someone does something stupid. The guy told me that the guy loves his bottle, that he drinks beer until the wee hours of the night (midnight)and sometimes past midnight.

The guy told me that Kamau has a gang of drink buddies who are always hanging around him and who cause a lot of chaos and mayhem in pubs and in the various 'watering holes' in town. They form a ring around Kamau (a security ring) and woe unto you if you try to penetrate it. They'll pounce on you like the predators of the Masai Mara. According to my friend, they've engaged in very many unnecessary fights and most people just don't like them and by extension Kamau.

As a matter of ffact, he even has a police case at the Nyahururu police station for assault. He has beeen mentioned as having personally participated in beating up a guy together with his young layabouts.

They even assaulted a Kenya army officer who was part of a contingent that was camping in the area at the time. It is sad!

He told me many things about the guy and my main worry was that someone might just go crazy and break his leg and that would the end of his short but illustrious career.

Kamau is a stupid young man who needs to grow up. He is very indisciplined. PErhaps he might learn as he grows older.

LOL 2:16:38 makes the top ten. I had a buddy in about 1984 who ran 2:15:xx and who was outside the top 50.

Dorando wrote:

LOL 2:16:38 makes the top ten. I had a buddy in about 1984 who ran 2:15:xx and who was outside the top 50.

Dorando wrote:

LOL 2:16:38 makes the top ten. I had a buddy in about 1984 who ran 2:15:xx and who was outside the top 50.

Yeah, why are more people not talking about this? The race was slow as hell outside the top few. It may have been less competitive than Boston.

Who was the top American? The search says it was 2:29, I can't believe that!?

45678 wrote:

Who was the top American? The search says it was 2:29, I can't believe that!?

Americans don't need to go to London for a marathon with so many world class ones on their own shores. Most Americans looking for a spring marathon would prefer the prestigious Boston Marathon over an expensive trip to London.