Haile G wins Great Scottish Run!

Haile at 40 is still better then any American runner.

something fishy goin on with bekele and haile and hermens

i expect to see a similar resurgance with bekele

This is crazy. I've ben watching Haile for 22 years!!!.

heywhatsthis wrote:

something fishy goin on with bekele and haile and hermens

i expect to see a similar resurgance with bekele

resurgence??

resurgence: an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence.

Haile has ALWAYS been running at a high level. He's just slowly slowing down.

Fred Gwynne wrote:

Haile at 40 is still better then any American runner.

No no- what you're supposed to do is say that he isn't really 40, it's just like when there's an African 17 yr old and everyone says he's at least 25.

Remember the let'srun credo- Always doubt- age and performance.

runn wrote:

Fred Gwynne wrote:

Haile at 40 is still better then any American runner.

No no- what you're supposed to do is say that he isn't really 40, it's just like when there's an African 17 yr old and everyone says he's at least 25.

Remember the let'srun credo- Always doubt- age and performance.

Seriously, Geb set the marathon world record at 40, so he certainly was better than any American. Even now it's close.

The funny thing is Haile is actually 65.

heeheheheehhe wrote:

The funny thing is Haile is actually 65.

No, no, no, you're doing it wrong. When young Africans run fast, we claim they've underestimated their age and they're really like 25 or 28. When old Africans run fast, we claim they've overestimated their age and they're really like 33 or 35. Everyone knows that no one, not even Africans, can run that fast as a teenager or in their 40s.

And sure, some of you math whizzes will claim that means Geb only aged about 10 years in the past 22, but you forget that time moves more slowly in Africa. It has to. Otherwise that ruins all the American excuses.

the Murikan way wrote:

heeheheheehhe wrote:

The funny thing is Haile is actually 65.

No, no, no, you're doing it wrong. When young Africans run fast, we claim they've underestimated their age and they're really like 25 or 28. When old Africans run fast, we claim they've overestimated their age and they're really like 33 or 35. Everyone knows that no one, not even Africans, can run that fast as a teenager or in their 40s.

And sure, some of you math whizzes will claim that means Geb only aged about 10 years in the past 22, but you forget that time moves more slowly in Africa. It has to. Otherwise that ruins all the American excuses.

Well said!

I KNEW those dirty Africans were cheating but I just wasn't sure how. Now it is all so clear.

heeheheheehhe wrote:

The funny thing is Haile is actually 65.

the Murikan way wrote:

No, no, no, you're doing it wrong. When young Africans run fast, we claim they've underestimated their age and they're really like 25 or 28. When old Africans run fast, we claim they've overestimated their age and they're really like 33 or 35. Everyone knows that no one, not even Africans, can run that fast as a teenager or in their 40s.

And sure, some of you math whizzes will claim that means Geb only aged about 10 years in the past 22, but you forget that time moves more slowly in Africa. It has to. Otherwise that ruins all the American excuses.

Well put. I've been wanting to post a comment along these lines for a while but couldn't come up with good phrasing. Clearly this blatant African slowed time doping must be stopped!

Bump. How did Haile fall off page 1 so quick.

Maybe it has to do with the pretty weak field. Haile is great and his run was certainly very good (the course did not look easy, especially in the beginning when they climb their way to the motorway), but no one except Emmanuel Bett posed a real threat to him.

dkny64 wrote:

heeheheheehhe wrote:

The funny thing is Haile is actually 65.

the Murikan way wrote:

No, no, no, you're doing it wrong. When young Africans run fast, we claim they've underestimated their age and they're really like 25 or 28. When old Africans run fast, we claim they've overestimated their age and they're really like 33 or 35. Everyone knows that no one, not even Africans, can run that fast as a teenager or in their 40s.

And sure, some of you math whizzes will claim that means Geb only aged about 10 years in the past 22, but you forget that time moves more slowly in Africa. It has to. Otherwise that ruins all the American excuses.

Well put. I've been wanting to post a comment along these lines for a while but couldn't come up with good phrasing. Clearly this blatant African slowed time doping must be stopped!

There's an obvious explanation for all of this in Einstein's Theory of Relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity).

An object moving at high velocities, according to this well-known theory, will experience two important phenomena. The first, Lorentz contraction, means that the object will appear to an observer to be shorter (contracted) along its direction of motion. The second, time dilation, means that time will pass more slowly in the frame of reference of the moving object than it will in the frame of reference of a slower or stationary observer.

What on earth, you ask, does this have to do with East African runners? Evidently, the best Kenyans and Ethiopians are so good that they approach relativistic velocities while running: thus, to the Western observer, they are contracted in direction of their horizontal motion (which is why Asbel Kiprop appears so damned skinny), and time passes more slowly for them during their running careers, enabling them to be obviously too old as teenagers, yet plainly too young as masters runners.

heeheheheehhe wrote:

The funny thing is Haile is actually 65.

Not funny at all. He's only 54

dkny64 wrote:

And sure, some of you math whizzes will claim that means Geb only aged about 10 years in the past 22

That's just General Relativity. At Haile's pace, in his own reference frame he's aging much slower.

actually wrote:

heeheheheehhe wrote:

The funny thing is Haile is actually 65.

Not funny at all. He's only 54

And now he's 71. See his age fluctuates like that sometimes.

Fred Gwynne wrote:

Haile at 40 is still better then any American runner.

Than - a method of comparison

Then - indicating a moment in time

Next week, we'll go over the tricky subject of your and you're.

Looks like someone is back on the dope. I guess he's having trouble dealing with aging so he's juicing to make up for declining performance.

Screw the fact that he's 40 and ran faster than most people in the WORLD half his age... I just like him because he's nice guy!