casual obsever wrote:
rekrunner wrote:
Maybe Kiprop was in great shape in May 2016, but was he in the "top" shape of 2015?
Stop right here. Your absurd claim was that Kiprop was not a top runner anymore, but instead of admitting that you were making stuff up as per usual, you are now moving the goal posts to "was he in the "top" shape of 2015?". Not interested, no thank you.
My evidence, that you of course had to write as ""evidence"", included Kiprop running exceptional workouts and winning the Bowerman Mile in a dominant fashion --> top athlete. All the rest is your classical obfuscation and deflection.
I'm happy to stop right here. I didn't go anywhere else.
Remind me again what my absurd claim was? Are you suggesting I said he wasn't a "top runner anymore"? Those don't look like my words.
Here's what I thought I said:
"Speaking of performance, what I did not forget is that Kiprop's "top times" peaked in 2015.
He regressed in the timeframe we "know" about: "at least in 2016 .. and finally ... in 2017"."
Those were my goalposts -- "top times". You didn't say "top times" in 2016, but "great shape". I'm wondering what this change in language from "top" to "great" means. Is "great" as great as "top" for you? I already talked about what "top" means to me. I think it is fair to ask how the "great shape" from 2016 compares to his all-time "top time" in 2015.
A lack of aerobic foundation could explain why he could run well in May, but burn out a few weeks later, before the grand finale in Monaco in July, where he toyed with the idea of going for the world record, only to finish 6th.