Cheserek 14:19 at Counties

He is a kenyan, NOT AN AMERICAN, who is likely too old to be competing against school boys....THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE.

TheRealist wrote:

He is a kenyan, NOT AN AMERICAN, who is likely too old to be competing against school boys....THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE.

lol wasn't Lukas like the same thing...just last year

tell that boy bleach his skin. he need to be a white foreign american high schooler.

John C wrote:

Saw him after he crushed the record at Van Cortlandt and he does not appear to be more than 16-17. If he is older so be it, he is amazing non the less. He should dominate NXN and Footlocker if he runs both.

He can't run both - the qualifiers are held on the same day in the Northeast. So, it will presumably just be the Nike meet again this year.

Yeah, but he trained with Kenyans growing up right? That would explain it.

Sigh, but lukas had been in america for a long time, same with futsum, there age is verified, cheserak looks 25, i saw him last year at nxn and he came to america just a few years ago

i am from ga, we had erassa a few years back, same thing, but not quite as fast, he obviously wasn't of high school age, erassa's twin sister for gods sake said she was 2 years older then him...

i have run in this park for 46 years. this course is a road race. my girl's on my high school squad improved an average of over 1:30 from the branchbrook course we all run in essex county. i'm not that good of a coach for them to improve that much. milesplit rates the course as a -78 in terms of ease. cheserth is in a league of his own.

i have run in this park for 46 years. this course is a road race. my girl's on my high school squad improved an average of over 1:30 from the branchbrook course we all run in essex county. i'm not that good of a coach for them to improve that much. milesplit rates the course as a -78 in terms of ease. cheserth is in a league of his own.

Chesrerek could race anyone there or anywhere else and still beat them, only issue that anyone is concerned with is what his age is.

I would say this, after seeing Pac 10 results he would absolutely beat Elkaim for sure, who beat Lukas and Rosa

Would probably be Top 35 right now in NCAA, I have little doubt about that, he already had run 29.xx for 10 K last year and 8:42 and 4:02 AND 1:51

as you know, Ritz went on to take 3rd at World Junior XC and to run 13:44 on the track. Cheserek may do the latter this year but not the former.

It was the Essex county championship meet, why in the hell would there be other counties racing there...

Could Cheserek represent Kenya in World Junior XC or any other international meeting? I assume that he could but doubt that Kenya would select him for their team? Would he even make the Kenyan junior national team??

How are Kenyan athletes who run for US colleges viewed back at home?

trialswatcher wrote:

I would say this, after seeing Pac 10 results he would absolutely beat Elkaim for sure, who beat Lukas and Rosa

And Walden beat Elkaim. Just saying.

Pulling the black card....COOL MAN. Doesn't change the fact that no one is going to be rooting for this kid to break an AMERICAN high school record. Im being real. Stop living in la la land and thinking that the American running contingent is going to be 100% backing this kid to break our American Records which have stood as the bench marks to measure our young and up coming high school runners.

Track Fan 1979 wrote:

My friend told me a lot of the course is run on a paved bike path, so that also explains the fast time.

The article says that the second-place 15:04 was No. 6 all-time on the course.

Since Cheserek broke his own course record from last year, 15:04 is No. 4 ex-Cheserek. It does indeed sound a little fast for an old tool like myself...

Oh boo hoo. He's breaking CRs, not ARs. To the guy who said he looks 25: you're a moron.

I am glad that all the guys in their mom's basements have discovered the awesome ability to determine someone's exact age by the way they look....in pictures.

You geniuses have managed to do what modern science cannot - determine the age of something purely by remote viewing.

Congrats - screw the carbon 14 dating. To hell with bone age x-ray studies.

Lets just gather a bunch of letsrunners and advance the cause of science worldwide.

Kelly Tripuka wrote:

I am glad that all the guys in their mom's basements have discovered the awesome ability to determine someone's exact age by the way they look....in pictures.

You geniuses have managed to do what modern science cannot - determine the age of something purely by remote viewing.

Congrats - screw the carbon 14 dating. To hell with bone age x-ray studies.

Lets just gather a bunch of letsrunners and advance the cause of science worldwide.

The "he's 25" stuff is definitely over the top. However, the blind acceptance of the official story (that he'll turn 18 early next year) doesn't have to be taken at face value either, especially given the really poor record keeping in Kenya. He certainly could be about to turn 18 early next year, but would it be completely shocking if it turned out that he was a year or two older than that in reality?

Although the course is very fast, it is not insanely fast. Last year a 8:46 3200m runner ran 14:55. There is also a decent hill going up to the two mile mark.

They are likely viewed as not being good enough to go pro immediately and earn a living on the roads or on the track. But I imagine people laud their desire to get an education.