Does being a Kip or a Gebr make you faster?

Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat is better than both Bekele and Rudisha.

Being from East Africa and living at altitude will make you faster. Having one of these names probably means that's where you are from.

Kipsang Geblitton

How fast could Geb run New York if he kipped the course?

It made me faster...

Change your name to Kip El Gebr. Then you will be Kip, Gebr and also El G at the same time. Success guaranteed.

Depends on your country. If you're an American, you're better off having a name that has exactly 4 letters, and the last two letters are the same. An ABCC pattern.

Alan WEBB

Ryan HALL

Brian SELL

Galen RUPP

Ryan HILL

Hardloper wrote:

Depends on your country. If you're an American, you're better off having a name that has exactly 4 letters, and the last two letters are the same. An ABCC pattern.

Alan WEBB

Ryan HALL

Brian SELL

Galen RUPP

Ryan HILL

No, not true.

Tegenkamp

Solinsky

Ritzenhein

Kennedy

Shorter

Prefontaine

Mills

Jager

Hardloper wrote:

Depends on your country. If you're an American, you're better off having a name that has exactly 4 letters, and the last two letters are the same. An ABCC pattern.

Alan WEBB

Ryan HALL

Brian SELL

Galen RUPP

Ryan HILL

jonesy johnson wrote:

No, not true.

Tegenkamp

Solinsky

Ritzenhein

Kennedy

Shorter

Prefontaine

Mills

Jager

Chris SOLY

Dathan RITZ

Ste PREE

Jager EVAN

I believe the kip or ki prefix is for men in Kalenjin, chep, jep, che, je for women. It means "born" apparently.

http://arapmurgor.blogspot.fr/2007/08/kalenjin-names.html

Gebre must be Amharic for "holy". So you get Gebreselassie: holy trinity, Gebremariam: holy Mary, Gebremeskel: holy cross, etc.

Let someone who knows any of these language confirm.

grox wrote:

I believe the kip or ki prefix is for men in Kalenjin, chep, jep, che, je for women. It means "born" apparently.

http://arapmurgor.blogspot.fr/2007/08/kalenjin-names.html

Gebre must be Amharic for "holy". So you get Gebreselassie: holy trinity, Gebremariam: holy Mary, Gebremeskel: holy cross, etc.

Let someone who knows any of these language confirm.

It means "servant", meaning "servant to Mary, servant to the trinity, servant to god", etc.

Left Said Fred wrote:

It means "servant", meaning "servant to Mary, servant to the trinity, servant to god", etc.

I'll change my name to Gebrewebb.

You seem to be right. I don't know where I got that idea. Thank you for correcting.

Make it Kipritzenhein Gebrewebb and no one can catch you. Kiprupp Gebrewebb would also be superfast.

Post of the year, in my opinion.

So there's thing thing "confounding." It means that when you think X and Y are related, really some factor Z is behind both of them. So eating ice cream is related to drowning!! when ice cream consumption goes up, so do drowning deaths!! Except that people tend to eat more ice cream at the beach, when it's hot, and that's when drowning deaths happen too. It's being at the beach that causes drowning deaths.

Being named Geb or Kip and being good at running means that common last names from fast areas are going to be overrepresented.

I don't know why I took the time to write this. I really have no idea.

Kip Litton wrote:

It made me faster...

You just made my day. Thank you.

ScottEvil wrote:

So there's thing thing "confounding." It means that when you think X and Y are related, really some factor Z is behind both of them. So eating ice cream is related to drowning!! when ice cream consumption goes up, so do drowning deaths!! Except that people tend to eat more ice cream at the beach, when it's hot, and that's when drowning deaths happen too. It's being at the beach that causes drowning deaths.

Being named Geb or Kip and being good at running means that common last names from fast areas are going to be overrepresented.

I don't know why I took the time to write this. I really have no idea.

What would we do if you hadn't come and posted this? I would probably change my name, thanks for stopping me.