Farah vs Mutai NYC 1/2

1000Island wrote:it's not just "show up and try your best Mo."

this doesn't inspire confidence

"I'm not thinking about the time I run on Sunday," Farah added.

"Training's been going well. I'm testing myself to see where I am. I will try to do well in the race rather than focus on the time"

that's not winner talk & he can bet geoffey is trying for a fast time & $20k prize & probably some bonus for a course record :

I just want to thank Mary Wittenberg and her 500k salary for making this all possible. How far running has come.

A girl wrote:

Mo was trying his damnedest and Bekele had his trademark smirk on his face...on it, then off it, letting Mo catch up just enough and then squeaking ahead for the win. He was playing with Mo. I like Mo and think he's a great British athlete but he is a nobody when it comes to people like Bekele and Mutai.

LM wrote:

KB won easily in some degree thanks to Mo being tactically a novice. Bekele took off on that hill, and Mo just casually let a massive gap build up. The fact that he came back at Bekele like that, making up 30+m over the final 800 suggests to me plenty in the tank.

He could have gone with Bekele. What we don't know is if Bekele could have kept ratcheting it up had Mo done that and managed to drop him.

Bekele right now isn't all that good. 12:55/26 high. Solid, but far from best in the world. Farah is certainly better now on the track than Bekele.

I do think Mo is no match for Mutai, especially not with his current line of PRs. I will be quite surprised if Mo stays within even 30s for Mutai, and wouldn't be surprised if he is over a minute back.

idiot we've been thru this

no

i'm really getting pretty excited about this race the more i think about it

the kenyans, apart from a coupla indoors in '12 have never really taken the race to mo

geoff has said he wants a course record, meaning he's planning to run against the clock

i hope so, because if the toughest & most indomitable of all kenyans hasn't the guts to proscribe another sh!t'n'kicker to mo, then kenyans shoud quit all races above 1500 & go back to herding oxen...

Have to renew my predictions. Winning time will be right around 60:1x.

I got Farah. 60:21

Now that was a trip

Al Sal must be going apoplectic

things i hate wrote:

can it really be a "decrease in endurance" when 2 months prior he was doing the training to run freaking 3:28. maybe another month of HM-specific prep and Mo blows KBs doors off.

Of course that can really be called a decrease in endurance. Was it an increase? No, then it had too be a decrease. That's the whole point - that he was training for a 3:28 and had to sacrifice much of his endurance to gain the speed. I'm not even sure what your point is. You're agreeing with me.

LM wrote:

Bekele picked it up just slightly at the end with about 30m to go when Mo was totally gassed.

He ran the last 400 slow because he had been hammering like mad to try and catch Bekele. You expect someone to blast 54 after making up a 30+m gap in less than a mile? He still ran 57-58 for the last 400 which isn't awful.

He was totally gassed and could only manage a 58 for the final 400m. That clearly shows he was not in good 10k shape last year. That's our whole point here. Someone who really is in 26:30 shape runs faster than 60:10 for tempo runs.

someone had to do it wrote:

idiot we've been thru this

no

Idiot we've been through this

Yes