What will his 40th year bring?
Age 9 - older sister wins 1984 African Championships at 3000m
Age 19 - graduated HS, started official training
Age 21 - goes to WSU, runs 3:37
Age 22-24 wins NCAA titles at indoor mile, 3000m, and outdoor 5000m, but never does as well as his brother
Age 24 - runs 3:30 summer after senior year. Calls his coach in Kenya, who is completely unsurprised.
Age 25 - 3:28 PR, Olympic bronze medal behind Ngeny, El G
Age 26 - 3:26 behind El G, still Kenyan NR and second-fastest performer all-time
Age 26 - is seen at shopping mall in Edmonton, wins silver medal later in the afternoon in WC 1500m
Age 27 - wins IAAF world cup 1500
Age 28 - World indoor champion 3000m, silver 1500m
Age 29 - becomes US citizen just before Olympics, competes for Kenya anyways, nearly upsets ElG again for gold. 1:46 final 800m for El G, Lagat, and Silva. SB 3:27
Age 30 - Sets American NR 1500 in 3:29, no WC due to allegiance change
Age 31 - runs 12:59 again, this time out-kicking Bekele with a 51 last lap!
Age 32 - WC 1500 / 5000m double gold
Age 33 - Beijing Olympics - knocked out in 1500 semis, Bekele easily gaps him in 5000m, says he's been hurt and sick but clearly starting to slow down to age, right?
Age 34 - 1500 bronze at WC
Age 35 - Sets American NR at 12:53 with ~53 final lap, beating Solinsky and losing to Farah
Age 36 - WC 5000m silver - possibly missed gold due to losing balance in final 100m
Age 37 - World Indoor championships 3000m gold - beats Farah. Olympic 5000m, makes a charge for Farah but nearly gets tripped at the end which probably cost a medal. 12:59 SB, loses to Rupp at USA's
Age 38 - Half marathon debut 62:33. WC 5000m 6th place, 12:58 SB and beats Rupp again!
Age 39????
Happy 39th birthday Bernard Lagat!
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People finally embrace him as a true American and forgive him for his false positive.
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I don't really care whether he's American. If he were still competing for Kenya or British or whatever, I would still think it's really cool that he is so good after so long.
SMJO wrote:
People finally embrace him as a true American and forgive him for his false positive. -
It's because of his different training.
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Hardloper wrote:
I don't really care whether he's American. If he were still competing for Kenya or British or whatever, I would still think it's really cool that he is so good after so long.
SMJO wrote:
People finally embrace him as a true American and forgive him for his false positive.
I wish to spend the night with Bernie. JK, he is not really my type, but it is what it is. -
He ran 12:53 when he was 36 (almost 37)
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mako wrote:
He ran 12:53 when he was 36 (almost 37)
You're right. The one where he beat Solinsky for the NR was only 12:54 at Oslo.
The first line was also wrong. He ran 3:37 in Kenya at age 21, moved to the US the next year. -
Compete through 2015. Rewrite masters WR's. 3:37 1500, 3:54 mile, 7:42 3000, 13:09 5000
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Remember that since 2009 he has been talking about moving up to the marathon. There was a long article about his "comeback" in Runner's World. Originally he said probably after 2012, then he said he would go through the 2013 season... it looks like he didn't realize how long he would stay competitive in the 5k.
CapnJack wrote:
Compete through 2015. Rewrite masters WR's. 3:37 1500, 3:54 mile, 7:42 3000, 13:09 5000 -
xenonscrearns wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
I don't really care whether he's American. If he were still competing for Kenya or British or whatever, I would still think it's really cool that he is so good after so long.
SMJO wrote:
People finally embrace him as a true American and forgive him for his false positive.
I wish to spend the night with Bernie. JK, he is not really my type, but it is what it is.
Hmmmmmmmm. -
Is this the guy that't not even an American? Or am I thinking about some other runner?
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The kenyan dopper gets busted and put on aship back to where he came from.
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Continue to bury your heads in the sand.
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srsly? brjos wrote:
The kenyan dopper gets busted and put on aship back to where he came from.
What are you even trying to say, little guy?
I take it English isn't your first language?
Pick an language and write in it coherently, OK? I will translate for you better than you can write in English. -
CapnJack wrote:
Compete through 2015. Rewrite masters WR's. 3:37 1500, 3:54 mile, 7:42 3000, 13:09 5000
Lagat does not not give a living sh!t about masters WRs. -
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
CapnJack wrote:
Compete through 2015. Rewrite masters WR's. 3:37 1500, 3:54 mile, 7:42 3000, 13:09 5000
Lagat does not not give a living sh!t about masters WRs.
Does he give a dead one? How about two? -
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
CapnJack wrote:
Compete through 2015. Rewrite masters WR's. 3:37 1500, 3:54 mile, 7:42 3000, 13:09 5000
Lagat does not not give a living sh!t about masters WRs.
he got an AR less than a year ago -
A heel injury my senior year of college forced me to end my competitive running. In my late 20s I had surgery on my heel so I could hike and jog. When I was 29 I joined a XC club and after 4 months of training I got into 30:xx shape on 10k XC courses. I started thinking about qualifying for the Olympic Trials in '92, but then thought who am I kidding I'm too old for this, so I gave it up to focus on my career (Running had NO support from wife #1 who I would later divorce. Wife 2.0 is awesome!).
If there was a 38-yr-old Bernie Lagat in '92 I would have been motivated not to give up so soon. At the time I thought 29-30 was too old. Yup, I was an idiot.
