May not have gotten the Geb part right, but the "unknown Ethiopian" took over. And I highly recommend his book.
Pete Pftizinger, 2-time Olympic marathoner/co-author of book you should buy several copies of
Geb’s place: 1st
Shalane Flanagan’s time: 2:28:30
First American man: Meb
Surprise: the unknown Ethiopian who finishes 2nd
Pfitz is the Man wrote:
May not have gotten the Geb part right, but the "unknown Ethiopian" took over. And I highly recommend his book.
Pete Pftizinger, 2-time Olympic marathoner/co-author of book you should buy several copies of
Geb’s place: 1st
Shalane Flanagan’s time: 2:28:30
First American man: Meb
Surprise: the unknown Ethiopian who finishes 2nd
http://wpblogs.runningtimes.com/blogs/talktest/?p=858
As far as I can tell, he was 2 for 4. Thats not exactly crushing it. Pfitz is awesome though.
gebre gebremarariam is not an unknown ethiopian, 2 x world cross champion (1 time as a junior, 1 time as a senior)
has track best's of 12:52 for 5k and 26:52 for 10k.
married to worknesh kidane 14:33 for 5k and 30:07 for 10k, they are the best distance couple that have children (tirunesh dibaba and sileshi sihine dont have kids yet).
but he was right almost to the second on flanagans time and his book is excellent and i would also strongly reccommend it.
Would that be Pete Pfitzinger, the Cornell man who beat AlSal in the 1984 trials?
Yep, you betcha. He was the closest of the predictors.