https://twitter.com/ryanhall3/status/444311834150338560
How many Westerners have done that?
https://twitter.com/ryanhall3/status/444311834150338560
How many Westerners have done that?
link that LetsRun will actually parse
I've lost respect for the man until he finishes a race. about 5 weeks to go, can he survive that long without an injury?
Like seriously, every time I see a training update from him I expect to read that he got injured again.
HardLoper wrote:
https://twitter.com/ryanhall3/status/444311834150338560How many Westerners have done that?
Good question. More importantly, how many have done so and met with resulting success? Ryan is a month or so out from Boston and traveled from Flag to Africa for altitude training. How does this make any sense?
Heartbreak Hall wrote: Ryan is a month or so out from Boston and traveled from Flag to Africa for altitude training. How does this make any sense?
Sadly, it'll never make sense to people raised in a western culture.
NotAustin18 wrote:
I've lost respect for the man until he finishes a race. about 5 weeks to go, can he survive that long without an injury?
Like seriously, every time I see a training update from him I expect to read that he got injured again.
A race or a marathon? He's finished 7 races in the last two years.
HardLoper wrote:
NotAustin18 wrote:I've lost respect for the man until he finishes a race. about 5 weeks to go, can he survive that long without an injury?
Like seriously, every time I see a training update from him I expect to read that he got injured again.
A race or a marathon? He's finished 7 races in the last two years.
I meant marathon. I didn't know he had finished those many races though.
Kenya has become very difficult to train since training gets interrupted with the introduction of out of competition testing this year.
Ethiopia is pretty much still "off the radar". Good quality "workouts" are possible over there.
The other guy! wrote:
Kenya has become very difficult to train since training gets interrupted with the introduction of out of competition testing this year.
Ethiopia is pretty much still "off the radar". Good quality "workouts" are possible over there.
Truth has been spoken.
Yaya Training village is run by Joseph Kibur. Joseph was a former Canadian National team member who ran at Simon Fraser University.
HardLoper wrote:
https://twitter.com/ryanhall3/status/444311834150338560How many Westerners have done that?
Actually, he is training in a an athletic village built by Joseph Kibur (partnered with Haile Gebrselassie) Joseph was an NAIA champion for Simon Fraser University and was the 1993 Canadian Cross Country Champion.
This village also supports a girls team, with the intent of helping girls in Ethiopia with education, work skills and of course, training and competition.
Julia Bleasdale also trained there as did Rebecca Wade prior to her win at the marathon in California.
"I've lost respect for the man until he finishes a race."
- 1) i'm sure he's crushed.
2) your analysis of what makes someone respected and disrespected is prett messed up
rob cunningham wrote:
Yaya Training village is run by Joseph Kibur. Joseph was a former Canadian National team member who ran at Simon Fraser University.
HardLoper wrote:https://twitter.com/ryanhall3/status/444311834150338560How many Westerners have done that?
Interesting. That is exactly what I was wondering. Seems like most people you hear about gravitate towards Kenya not Ethiopia, maybe because there are more English-speaking people there and more of an international community.
For the one who said (maybe jokingly) that Addis Ababa is "off the radar..." compared to Iten, that's ridiculous. Iten is a small rural town, Addis Ababa is a major capital city.
Canadian wrote:
Actually, he is training in a an athletic village built by Joseph Kibur (partnered with Haile Gebrselassie) Joseph was an NAIA champion for Simon Fraser University and was the 1993 Canadian Cross Country Champion.
This village also supports a girls team, with the intent of helping girls in Ethiopia with education, work skills and of course, training and competition.
http://www.yayavillage.comJulia Bleasdale also trained there as did Rebecca Wade prior to her win at the marathon in California.
http://beckyrunsaway.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/julia-bleasdale-olympic-runner-and-newest-yaya-villager/
Oh wow, it's right next to the track Kenenisa Bekele built and near the "forests..." Maybe he's there for the 50 km forest runs with Bekele.
Like RH couldn't find a similar spot in the US.Maybe he is "training in Albuquerque" just like Paula did?
HardLoper wrote:
Maybe he's there for the 50 km forest runs with Bekele.
mother clucker wrote:
Like RH couldn't find a similar spot in the US.
Maybe he is "training in Albuquerque" just like Paula did?
HardLoper wrote:Maybe he's there for the 50 km forest runs with Bekele.
I believe the idea is to train with the best distance runners in the world and maybe try to learn something from them.
mother clucker wrote:
Like RH couldn't find a similar spot in the US.
Maybe he is "training in Albuquerque" just like Paula did?
HardLoper wrote:Maybe he's there for the 50 km forest runs with Bekele.
Aside from the 50km forest run thing being a joke, no, you're not gonna find a place like Iten or Addis Ababa in the US.
He doesnt need to learn anything from them, his workouts are divinely inspired.
duck says what wrote:
and maybe try to learn something from them.
mother clucker wrote:
He doesnt need to learn anything from them, his workouts are divinely inspired.
duck says what wrote:and maybe try to learn something from them.
True.
Isn't the Garden of Eden supposedly in Ethiopia? Maybe he is trying to get back to his roots and train with the people more closely associated with Adam and Eve.
Whatever he does, I hope it works. I would like to see him run at least one more fast marathon before he retires.
Heartbreak Hall wrote:
HardLoper wrote:https://twitter.com/ryanhall3/status/444311834150338560How many Westerners have done that?
Good question. More importantly, how many have done so and met with resulting success? Ryan is a month or so out from Boston and traveled from Flag to Africa for altitude training. How does this make any sense?
Mo Farah much?