Somlier wrote:
He's an endurance based mid-distance guy who has benefitted from the trend of top talented distance runners moving to the marathon earlier in their careers.
If more of the marathon guys had stayed focused on the track he wouldn't have won any distance medals at world level.
Unbelievable. Mo falls in the middle of a race, and gets back up to only lose by 18 seconds to a runner with PR's of 58.55 for the 1/2 marathon, and 2:03 for the full. Only on these boards would anyone use this slow-starting race, to write a 5k/10k gold medalist off as "primarily a mid-distance runner".
It's true, Mo has not run a 26:40 10k, and is wayyyy back of that pace with the measly 26:46 PR that he ran in 2011.
Just keep telling yourself that he is a mid-D runner, we'll be sure to pull this thread up again when you are proved painfully wrong.