“We have learned how to train harder and in our own programmes. When a foreigner gives you a training plan, it is according to how they see you can perform but that is not the case since we are different.”
From here:
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/2013/10/18/mutai-seeks-end-for-bridesmaid-jinx/
What do you think?
And...
Ciao Renato! Could you enlighten me/us?
The full quote:On why Kenyans, three who are in the top four all time list have set the bar in the 26.1 Mile race so high, Mutai explained that the country’s runners had ditched the supposed method to run the event that dictate loosely that the first half of a marathon should be quicker than the latter half.“We have learned how to train harder and in our own programmes. When a foreigner gives you a training plan, it is according to how they see you can perform but that is not the case since we are different,” he added.Seems pretty mild. He's probably referring to a training plan with more long hard runs than usual. Calm down.
yep. wrote:
They feel they are superior to western runners. Arrogant, really. Given that the only reason they can afford to travel and race at prestigious marathons is because of foreigners. Athletics Kenya isn't fronting the money.
We'll see what tune the africans will be singing as more races discontinue the elite runner perks. Farmer 3rd world hillbillies talking shit.
I thought our lifelong quest has always been to run negative splits in a marathon. Where has it been "dictate(d) loosely that the first half of a marathon should be quicker than the latter half"?
To the OP's question, how are they "different"?
Mutai is just saying, they understand themselves better than somebody who comes and watches them ran and based their training program on that. The "difference" means the coaches philosophy of training is different than their philosophy of training.
He means they are more gifted genetically. Call a spade a spade.
Runthemhillsboy wrote:
Mutai is just saying, they understand themselves better than somebody who comes and watches them ran and based their training program on that. The "difference" means the coaches philosophy of training is different than their philosophy of training.
This is what I understood as well but aren't many of these top Kenyan runners coached by non-Kenyan coaches?
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