Saif Saaeed Shaheen should move to the Road!

Beat you to it a while ago

http://mzungofire.blogspot.com/2010/03/message-from-mzungo-shaheen-goes.html

His plan for the 2010 season was to run under 8 minutes for the steeplechase, and then said he'd take it from there, "half marathon and even marathon."

My guess is that a healthy Shaheen in 2011 will run maybe a couple indoor meets, World Cross, and steeple at the world championships mixed in with a few road races. If he gets injured, he'll likely try again for the 5000m at world's since that's his second favorite event. The plan for 2012 will likely not be determined until he performs at world's, but I'm assuming the move to the marathon would happen after the Olympics.

According to iaaf.org Shaheen will be participating at this years Bupa Great South Run (10miles) on Sunday.

http://www.iaaf.org/LRR10/news/newsid=58572.html

Very interested what he can do in his second roadrace of his career.

What could he do?

cheers

sub-26 10K on the road??

I'm confused about Sunday's race. Both the main page here and on runningtimes said Tadese was racing Sunday but he isn't on the start list. Plus, if he was just injured why would he race again?

As for Shaheen, I'm pretty sure that he said Belgrade was going to be the last race of the season for him.

Is Tadese running Sunday or Shaheen or both?

Shaheen will be running! Tadese withdraw because of an injury!

46:36min for 10miles is a good debut for Shaheen. But what does this mean? What can he do in the future? I dont know what he plans for this winter but in my opinion it would be better to concentrate on the roads and cross-country. Why running indoors? The time of indoormeetings is 2 month and if you want to be competitive you have to do a lot of speedwork. I think its better to build up a very good basic which means endurance and strength. Run some good xc races in europe and then go to the World XC and win a medal!

A Healthy,fit and motivated Shaheen will do very well in World XC.

I would really like to know what Renato Canova thinks all about it?! I mean what is the plan for the next year? Was it Shaheen who said: lets go and try it on the roads or was it Renato.

Hopefully Mr.Canova could tell us a little bit more about the current situation and the goals for the next month of shaheen.

cheers